Thriller movies when nothing feels right from the 2010s. Includes Parasite, Whiplash, Shutter Island and more, curated by Moviepiq.
Nothing sounds good. Pick one anyway. It might surprise you.
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
When the mood is off, the film needs to be better than usual. These can carry it.
The forward momentum helps when you're feeling stuck.
Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.
Reliable in a way that matters. Even when nothing sounds good, this one tends to hold.
As the deceased soul Ja-hong and his three afterlife guardians prepare for their remaining trials for reincarnation, the guardians soon come face to face with the truth of their tragic time on Earth 1,000 years earlier.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Having died unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by 3 afterlife guardians. Only when he passes 7 trials over 49 days and proves he was innocent in human life, he's able to reincarnate, and his 3 afterlife guardians are by his side to defend him in trial.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
It doesn't ask you to be in the right mood for it. It adjusts.
These films work because they match where you actually are, not where you think you should be.
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