The kind of film that makes you cancel tomorrow.
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.
The end of each scene makes the next one feel necessary. That's the mechanism.
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
The end of each scene makes the next one feel necessary. That's the mechanism.
Hoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and murder. With the help of a former colleague, judge Irene, he attempts to make sense of the past.
Once it has you, it keeps you. Plan accordingly.
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Once it has you, it keeps you. Plan accordingly.
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
The end of each scene makes the next one feel necessary. That's the mechanism.
The impossible-to-stop quality is usually about stakes and pacing in equal measure. These have both.
The genre most precisely engineered for this. Stopping is structural failure.
Good paired viewing. Worth discussing afterward.
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
Once it has you, it keeps you. Plan accordingly.
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
The end of each scene makes the next one feel necessary. That's the mechanism.
A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison.
The end of each scene makes the next one feel necessary. That's the mechanism.
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
The end of each scene makes the next one feel necessary. That's the mechanism.
Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.
The end of each scene makes the next one feel necessary. That's the mechanism.
The right film for the right state is a specific thing. These are specific.