Murderers, maniacs, criminals – society treats such people with contempt. However, in the cinema watching such anti-heroes is sometimes more interesting than watching exceptionally positive people. We offer you a list of worthy thrillers in 2018, which will not allow you to get bored at the screen in a quiet quiet evening.
Werk ohne Autor
- Rating IMDB – 7.7
- Genre: Biography, drama, military, melodrama
- Production Germany, Italy / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $6,193,234
- Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
- Cast: Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Behr, Saskia Roosendahl, Oliver Mazucci, Hanno Koffler, Kai Kors, Evgeny Sidikhin, Ulrike S. Charre, Jörg Schütauf
A beautiful film about the fact that German culture, in addition to rationalism, is also characterized by sentimentality and a longing for beauty. Kurt Barnert spent his childhood in Nazi Germany and his youth in the socialist GDR. Both countries strictly controlled art, restricting it within the strict framework of realism.
But Kurt, who wants to create freely, cannot be deterred by the Berlin Wall or the direct threat to his life. He escapes from East Germany to West Germany, falls in love with a girl, Elly, and encounters ghosts of the past in her home.
Oscar-winning director Donnersmarck’s drama focuses on the life and work of the successful German painter Gerhard Richter, who pioneered the “capitalist realism” movement. The artist himself found the film “offensive” and “distorting. However, the biopic won the Venice festival and was nominated for an Oscar in two categories.
Bad Samaritan
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Horror, thriller, crime
- US production / 2017
- Worldwide gross: $4,623,836
- Directed by Dean Devlin
- Cast: David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon, Carlito Olivero, Jacqueline Byers, Tracey Heggins, Rob Nagle, Lorraine Bahr, David Meyers
One night can change a life forever. Sean, a young photographer, moonlights as a valet at a restaurant and simultaneously robs the homes of gullible customers.
But one day he finds a beaten girl chained to the floor in the mansion of the owner of an expensive foreign car. Sean doesn’t have time to free her, but promises to return. After contacting the police, the guy finds no support and decides to act on his own.
The original title of the drama was The Bad Samaritan. The Samaritan in the Gospel parable is a good man who helped someone in trouble.
Rust Creek
- Rating IMDB – 5.9
- Genre: Thriller, drama, crime
- US production / 2018
- Budget: $750,000
- Directed by Jen McGowan
- Cast: Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Sean O’Brien, Mika Hauptman, Daniel R. Hill, Jeremy Glaser, John Marshall Jones, Mia Guzman, Virginia Schneider
Student Sawyer got lost in her own car in an unfamiliar area and decided to take a shortcut. Two men attacked the girl on a deserted road, but she managed to escape and escaped into the woods. In desperation, Sawyer wanders wherever she can see, loses consciousness, and regains consciousness in a cabin in the woods. The young woman has a lot to overcome and struggles to stay alive.
The low-budget drama was critically acclaimed and won two awards: at the San Diego International Film Festival in the Best Thriller category and at the Rhode Island International Film Festival the Grand Prize in the Director’s Discovery category.
Hotel Mumbai
- Rating IMDB – 7.6
- Genre: Action, thriller, drama, history
- Production USA, Australia / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $21,314,816
- Directed by Anthony Maras
- Cast: Armie Hammer, Jason Isaacs, Nazanin Boniadi, Dev Patel, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Anupam Kher, Angus McLaren, Amandeep Singh, Suhail Nayyar
India, Mumbai, 2008. Ten well-trained and armed terrorists infiltrate the city. Their task is to attack public facilities and destroy as many civilians as possible.
Some of the militants, along with a panicked crowd, infiltrate the luxurious five-star Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. The guests of the hotel, which positioned itself as a guarantor of security, find themselves in a death trap and try to survive by any means necessary. Without cinematic pathos, the heroes of the movie simply hide from the bandits in the hope of preserving life.
One of the best thrillers of 2018. Based on real events. In Mumbai, India, from November 26 to November 29, 2008, 166 people were killed by terrorists.
Searching
- Rating IMDB – 7.6
- Genre: Detective, thriller, drama
- Production USA, Russia / 2018
- Budget: $880,000
- Worldwide gross: $75,462,037
- Directed by Anish Chaganti
- Cast: John Cho, Sara Sohn, Alex Jane Gow, Megan Liu, Kaya Dawn Lau, Michelle La, Joseph Lee, Dominic Hoffman, Sylvia Minasian, Melissa Disney
David Kim’s 16-year-old daughter, Margot, is missing. Having managed to regain access to his daughter’s private social media accounts, her father is surprised to learn that he does not know her at all. The fact is that Margot’s mother recently died, and the father and daughter are estranged from each other. The man is helped in his search by Detective Rosemary, who shares his despair, as she also has a teenage son.
The dramatic film is shot with screenwriting, that is, all the action of the motion picture unfolds on a computer screen. For the non-English versions of the film, the scenes showing the keyboard, computer screen, telephones were re-shot with captions in the proper languages.
Beoning
- Rating IMDB – 7.5
- Genre: Detective, thriller, drama
- Production South Korea / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $7,578,063
- Directed by Lee Chang-dong
- Cast: Yoo Ah-in, Jung Jong-seo, Steven Yang, Kim Soo-kyung, Choi Seung-ho, Moon Sung-geun, Min Bok-ki, Bang Hye-ra, Lee Bong-nyeon, Park Seung-tae
A slow and thoughtful psychological thriller about three young people. Poor boy Jonsu, who dreams of becoming a writer, falls in love with model Hae-mi. But the girl sends the guy into a deep frenzy, as she has a rich Ben on her radar. While Jones is overcome with anger, jealousy and hatred, the drama smoothly turns into a detective. Ben turns out to have a strange, frightening hobby, and He-mi disappears.
The film by South Korean director Lee Chang-dong is based on Haruko Murakami’s story Burn the Barn. The psychological drama won the FIPRESCI award at the 71st Cannes Film Festival.
The Mule
- Rating IMDB – 7.0
- Genre: Thriller, drama, crime
- Production USA, Canada / 2018
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $174,804,407
- Director Clint Eastwood
- Cast: Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, Dianne Wiest, Andy Garcia, Alison Eastwood, Taissa Farmiga, Ignacio Serricio, Lauren Dean
The business of the elderly American Earl Stone is going through hard times, and to save it, the old man resorts to an unexpected option. He becomes a drug courier.
The Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa has long been looking for carriers, far from the usual images of a drug dealer. A gray-haired, venerable pensioner, a veteran of the Korean War – who would suspect him of illegal activities?
The drama is based on real events. Leo Sharp was a World War II veteran and a well-known florist. He is considered the oldest drug mule in the world – at the time of his arrest he was 87 years old. In all, Sharp worked for a drug cartel for 10 years. He was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $500,000.
Todos lo saben
- Rating IMDB – 6.9
- Genre: Thriller, drama, crime, detective
- Production Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Germany / 2018
- Budget: €10,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $19,176,163
- Directed by Asghar Farhadi
- Cast: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darin, Edouard Fernandez, Barbara Lenny, Inma Cuesta, Elvira Minges, Ramon Barea, Carla Campra, Sarah Salamo
Laura, a Spanish woman married to Alejandro of Argentina, returns to her hometown for her sister’s wedding. In the midst of the festivities, her teenage daughter is kidnapped and ransomed for $300,000.
Laura turns to former lover Paco for help and asks him to sell the vineyard he owns. Laura has a compelling argument, and Paco, learning of Laura’s secret, cannot refuse her.
The Spanish drama by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
I Still See You
- Rating IMDB – 5.8
- Genre: Detective, fantasy, thriller
- US production / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $1,620,637
- Directed by Scott Speer
- Cast: Bella Thorne, Richard Harmon, Dermot Mulroney, Amy Price-Francis, Sean Benson, Louis Hertham, Thomas Elms, Sarah Thompson, David Brown, Hugh Dillon
In a world where dead men walk among the living, not even yourself can be trusted. After an explosion in a scientific laboratory in Chicago, the whole world is overrun by remnants – ghosts whose origins are unknown to mankind.
Scientists claim that they have no mind and cannot influence the world around them. Whether or not this is true is up to Veronica Calder, who is pursued by one of the remnants. Veronica learns that when he was alive, the guy’s name was Brian and he was involved in the deaths of several girls.
A young sci-fi movie based on the book Break My Heart 1,000 Times by Daniel Waters.
The Nun
- Rating IMDB – 5.3
- Genre: Horror, thriller, detective
- US production / 2018
- Budget: $22,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $365,550,119
- Directed by Corin Hardy
- Cast: Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Blocke, Bonnie Aarons, Ingrid Bisu, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Lili Taylor, Charlotte Hope, Sandra Teles
To investigate the suicide of a nun at St. Carth’s Abbey, the papacy sends priest Anthony Burke and a young novice, Irene, to Romania. When they arrive at the abbey, they discover that all the nuns in the abbey have long been dead. And waiting for them is the demon Valak, who is trapped in the monastery and cannot leave it.
Horror is a spin-off of the horror flick Spell 2, and is currently chronologically the first film in the film series. Taissa Farmiga, who plays the role of novice Irene, is the younger sister of actress Vera Farmiga, who played Lorraine Warren in The Spell 2013 and Spell 2 2016.
Bad Times at the El Royale
- Rating IMDB – 7.1
- Genre: Thriller, drama, crime, detective
- US production / 2018
- Budget: $32,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $31,882,724
- Directed by Drew Goddard
- Cast: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Chris Hemsworth, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pullman, Nick Offerman, Xavier Dolan, Shea Whigham
At the El Royale Hotel on the California-Nevada border, several very colorful guests arrive: a priest, a vacuum cleaner salesman, a black singer and a hippie girl. The guests are greeted by the hotel’s only employee, Miles.
The guests are very different, but they are not who they say they are. The priest turns out to be a fugitive criminal, the salesman turns out to be an FBI agent. Even Miles’ concierge has a terrible secret. Things get complicated when the super-sexy cult leader, Billy Lee, shows up at the hotel.
The filmmakers paid special attention to the visuals. Everything in California was yellow and orange, everything in Nevada was purple and blue. Objects of green appeared in the film only at the very end.
Dogman
- Rating IMDB – 7.2
- Genre: Thriller, drama, crime
- Production Italy, France / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $5,080,147
- Directed by Matteo Garrone
- Cast: Marcello Fonte, Edoardo Pesce, Nunzia Schiano, Adamo Dionisi, Francesco Aquaroli, Gianluca Gobbi, Alida Baldari Calabria, Laura Pizzirani, Giancarlo Porcaccia, Agnello Arena
The bandit Simone is a trouble to the whole neighborhood; he hooligans, fights and robs his neighbors. His only friend, the calm and quiet Marcello, constantly gets dragged into his evil deeds.
Together, the friends get into trouble, but only the uncomplaining Marcello is imprisoned. A year later, upon release, the man realizes that he has become an outcast in his hometown. Then Marcello decides to get even with his former friend.
The film is based on real events of 1988. Pietro de Negri, the owner of a dog-cutting salon, tortured and killed the former boxer Giancarlo Ricci. The murder was intended to rid the neighborhood of the troublemaker.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
- Rating IMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Thriller, drama, crime, biography
- US production / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $9,816,572
- Directed by Joe Berlinger
- Cast: Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, Jeffrey Donovan, Angela Sarafian, Haley Joel Osment, Terry Kinney, Brian Geraghty, Jim Parsons, John Malkovich
The story of the life and death of American serial killer Ted Bundy, told on behalf of his girlfriend, Liz. Single mother Liz met an attractive law student, Ted Bundy, in a coffee shop. A little fling turned into a long-term family relationship.
Ted is always caring and attentive and treats his daughter Liz well. A complete surprise for the young woman turns out to be the arrest of Bundy and his accusation of serial murders.
The biopic is a fairly accurate account of Ted Bundy’s crimes. The maniac confessed to a total of 36 murders, although the actual number of his victims could be in the hundreds. He was executed in the electric chair in 1989.
Upgrade
- Rating IMDB – 7.5
- Genre: Fiction, action, thriller, detective, crime
- Production Australia, USA / 2018
- Budget: $5,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $16,593,554
- Directed by Leigh Whannell
- Cast: Logan Marshall-Green, Melanie Vallejo, Steve Danielsen, Abby Craden, Harrison Gilbertson, Benedict Hardy, Richard Cawthorne, Christopher Kirby, Richard Anastasios, Kenny Lowe
A thriller about the confrontation between artificial intelligence and man. The distant future. Everything in the world is controlled by the latest technology. Grey Trace, a car mechanic, gets into an accident and becomes disabled.
The owner of a giant technology corporation offers to illegally implant him with a Stam chip, which does not have the necessary government approvals. Gray agrees and becomes totally dependent on Stam, who now controls his body and actions.
The action movie scenario resembles the plot of another novelty of 2018 – the movie Venom. Heroes of the movies are endowed with superpowers after the introduction of an alien object into the body. In addition, the lead actors, Tom Hardy and Logan Marshall-Green, look very similar to each other.
Dragged Across Concrete
- Rating IMDB – 6.9
- Genre: Action, thriller, drama, crime
- Production Canada, UK, USA / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $660,132
- Directed by S. Craig Zahler
- Cast: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tori Kittles, Michael Jai White, Thomas Kretschmann, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, Don Johnson, Udo Kier, Fred Melamed
The cop partners, Brett Ridgeman and Anthony Lurasetti, have very questionable methods of work. The cops were suspended for six months without pay for their overzealous apprehension of a Mexican drug dealer.
Ridgeman is soon sixty, has an ailing wife and teenage daughter, and desperately needs money to move to a quieter neighborhood. To make some extra money, Ridgeman offers his partner a not-so-legitimate deal.
An uncompromisingly masculine film from director S. Craig Zahler, consistently ranking as a good thriller in 2018. The director has made only four films, but he has already established his distinct authorial style. In Zahler’s films, men who are stingy with words bring order by currently unpopular methods of force.
A Simple Favor
- Rating IMDB – 6.8
- Genre: Thriller, comedy, crime, detective
- Production USA, Canada / 2018
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $97,644,617
- Directed by Paul Feig
- Cast: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding, Andrew Rannells, Ian Ho, Joshua Satine, Dustin Milligan, Rupert Friend, Linda Cardellini, Jean Smart
Stephanie, a young housewife, is one of those “right” moms that makes your teeth hurt. She never yells at her child, her house is in order, and she runs a cooking blog.
One day Emily meets her son’s classmate’s mother, a successful businesswoman named Emily. Completely different women get closer. However, Stephanie’s new friend disappears, leaving her son to her. The young woman begins to look for Emily, and in the course of the search some very unexpected facts about her and her husband come to light.
A light crime comedy based on the book of the same name by the writer Darcy Bell. Over the course of the film, actress Anna Kendrick, who plays Stephanie, changes outfits 39 times. And as she learns the truth about the character of Emily, they become darker and darker.
Durante la tormenta
- Rating IMDB – 7.4
- Genre: Thriller, drama, fantasy, detective
- Production Spain / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $17,325,485
- Directed by Oriol Paolo
- Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Chino Darin, Javier Gutierrez, Alvaro Morte, Nora Navas, Mikel Fernandez, Clara Segura, Mima Riera, Aina Clotet, Albert Perez
A fantastic Spanish film about time shifts and the effect they can have. Vera, a nurse, is happily married and has a daughter with her husband. After moving into a new house, a woman finds an old TV set with a video camera and a lot of old video tapes.
It turns out that they were used to record a boy, the son of the former owners of the house, playing the guitar. Later, Vera learns that the boy died twenty years ago. During a thunderstorm, the television is turned on, and the boy sees and hears Vera. The woman warns him of the danger. In the morning, Vera wakes up in a parallel reality, in which she is already a completely different person.
The multi-layered crime thriller came out with the tagline, “Who would you stop time for?”
London Fields
- Rating IMDB – 3.9
- Genre: Thriller, crime, detective
- Production UK, USA / 2018
- Budget: $8,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $487,420
- Director Matthew Cullen
- Cast: Amber Heard, Jim Sturgess, Theo James, Billy Bob Thornton, Jamie Alexander, Cara Delevingne, Gemma Chan, Jason Isaacs, Lily Cole, Alexandra Evans
American writer Samson Young, in a long-term creative crisis, goes to London for inspiration. His luck is good and he meets the femme fatale Nicola.
Nicola has the gift of foresight and knows that she will soon become a murder victim. But the only thing is who will end her life, the beauty does not know, and she visits the night pubs of London in search of the killer. Young asks the girl for permission to observe her life and death.
The post-noir drama starred Johnny Depp, although his name is not mentioned in the credits. The actor did it out of love for the lead character, Amber Heard, with whom the actor was in a loving relationship at the time.
Abgeschnitten
- Rating IMDB – 6.5
- Genre: Detective, thriller, crime
- Production Germany / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $1,228,051
- Directed by Christian Alvart
- Cast: Moritz Bleibtreu, Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Lars Eidinger, Fahri Yardym, Enno Hesse, Christian Kuchenbuch, Urs Uecker, Barbara Prakopenka, Stephanie Amarelle
The daughter of pathologist Paul Herzfeld falls into the hands of a serial maniac who intends to play a cruel game with the man. The criminal leaves messages on the corpses that fall into Herzfeld’s hands. Each one contains a clue, and Paul follows the trail of corpses, hoping to save his daughter. The second mystery for the pathologist is why the maniac chose him.
This shockingly realistic German thriller is based on the novel The Severed by writers Sebastian Fitzek and Michael Tsokos. Tsokos owes the story’s particular verisimilitude to the fact that the writer worked as a forensic scientist for a long time.
The Commuter
- Rating IMDB – 6.3
- Genre: Action, thriller, detective
- Production USA, UK, France, China, Canada / 2018
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $119,942,387
- Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra
- Cast: Liam Neeson, Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Jonathan Banks, Sam Neill, Elizabeth McGovern, Killian Scott, Shazad Latif, Andy Nyman, Clara Lago
Just one request can endanger a man’s life and well-being. A woman who introduces herself as Joan makes a very unusual proposal to former police officer Michael McCauley. The point is that Michael has been taking the same route to work in New York for ten years. Joan offers, for an impressive sum of money, to identify a random passenger in the carriage who is a witness to a crime.
Michael refuses, but Joan threatens reprisals against the McCauley family. The former policeman must solve a difficult moral problem: Is he willing to save someone else’s life at the cost of the lives of his family?
One of the highest-rated thrillers of 2018. The second film after Source Code (2011), in which the performer of the role of Joana, Vera Farmiga, is involved in a crime plot on a commuter train.
Unsane
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Thriller, detective
- US production / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $14,293,601
- Director Steven Soderbergh
- Cast: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Amy Irving, Aimee Mullins, Sarah Styles, Zach Cherry, Mark Kadish, Colin Woodell
Bank analyst Valentini Sawyer is haunted by a stalker. Neither a phone change, nor a restraining order, nor a move to another city help the girl get rid of him. Sawyer is psychologically exhausted, life is slipping away from her. Sometimes the girl does not understand where reality is and where the tortured imagination throws up unpleasant images.
To recover, Sawyer decides to see specialists, but ends up in a psychiatric hospital against her will. But even in the asylum the stalker finds his victim, or is this just a figment of her sick fantasy?
The experimental psychological thriller was shot entirely in just ten days with an iPhone 7 Plus camera.
Hereditary
- Rating IMDB – 6.4
- Genre: Thriller, detective
- US production / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $14,293,601
- Director Steven Soderbergh
- Cast: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Amy Irving, Aimee Mullins, Sarah Styles, Zach Cherry, Mark Kadish, Colin Woodell
Absolute inevitability – this family has no power to change anything. The Graham family begins to be haunted by terrible events after the death of Grandmother Ellen. Since the deceased was a rather unpleasant and secretive person, none of the household pines for her.
But as it turns out, the woman was a follower of the evil demon Paymon, the “king of Hell.” Gradually, all members of the family are drawn into the deadly game of this evil spirit.
In Australia, the trailer for this chilling horror film was mistakenly shown before the screening of the children’s film Peter Rabbit.
Uma Vida Sublime
- Rating IMDB – 6.2
- Genre: Thriller
- Production Portugal / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $12,751
- Directed by Luis Diogo
- Cast: Eric Da Silva, Suzy Filipe, Rui Oliveira, Paulo Calatre, Valdemar Santos, Mafalda, Jorge Rolla, Thiago Moreira, Angela Marcus, Teresa Chavez
Is it possible to make people happy by force? Dr. Ivan Morua specializes in such cases. He has two methods: he first gives some patients lethal diagnoses and then confesses his mistake. With others, he deals more radically. He kidnaps them and temporarily shuts down two of their five senses so that the “clients” get a taste for life.
The psychological thriller was critically acclaimed, participated in more than 30 festivals and won 25 awards of various levels.
Dans la brume
- Rating IMDB – 5.9
- Genre: Fiction, thriller, adventure
- Production France, Canada / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $2,842,040
- Directed by Daniel Roby
- Cast: Romain Duris, Olga Kurylenko, Fantine Arduin, Michel Robin, Anna Gaylor, Refael Grenassia, Erja Malatje, Alexis Manenti, Maurice Antony, Robin Bard
The 11-year-old daughter of Parisians Anne and Mathieu has a rare disease and is forced to spend her life in a baroque chamber. Due to a natural cataclysm, Paris is covered with a thick fog that brings death to all living things.
Anna and Mathieu, who have escaped the poisonous gas on the upper floors of the building, must find a way out and save their daughter while the barocage’s batteries hold a charge.
A 2018 thriller about the horrors Mother Nature has in store for us. The daughter of the characters in the disaster movie is sick with Stimberger’s syndrome or “boy-in-the-bubble” syndrome. This is a severe immunodeficiency of the combined type. The most famous patient with such a disease was David Vetter, who lived in a sterile isolation ward from birth.
Calibre
- Rating IMDB – 6.8
- Genre: Thriller, drama
- Production UK / 2017
- Director Matt Palmer
- Cast: Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran, Ian Peary, George Anton, Kate Bracken, Teresa Bradley, Joe Cassidy, Cameron Jack, Kitty Lovett
Two cronies, Marcus and Vaughn, decide to have one last outing, since Vaughn is about to have a baby. The guys go to the Scottish countryside, on a hunting trip. In the woods, the pair accidentally kill a boy and, not coincidentally, his father, who witnessed the accident. After getting rid of the corpse, the boys try to escape the furious locals.
The film won best British film of 2018 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Jack Lowden won the Best Actor in a Motion Picture Award from the British Academy of Scotland for his role as Vaughan.
Freaks
- Rating IMDB – 6.7
- Genre: Fantasy, drama
- Production USA, Canada / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $335,050
- Director Zach Lipowski, Adam B. Stein
- Cast: Lexi Kolker, Emile Hirsch, Bruce Dern, Grace Pack, Amanda Crew, Ava Telek, Michelle Harrison, Matty Finochio, Alex Paunovich, RJ Featherstonho
A little girl Chloe and her father Henry live in a world where mutants are outlawed. There are banners everywhere about how an ordinary person can recognize a different one. Upon discovering a mutant, the police immediately open fire to kill.
Under these conditions, Henry protects Chloe, not allowed to leave the house or even go near the windows. Every day an ice cream truck arrives at Chloe’s house, and one day the girl can’t stand it and leaves the house.
The horror has appeared in more than 40 film festivals around the world, winning the Audience Award at the International Fantastic Film Festival in Paris, the Grand Prize at the Science Fiction Festival in Trieste and the Jury Prize at the Brussels International Film Festival of Fantastic Films.
Journal 64
- Rating IMDB – 7.4
- Genre: Detective, crime, thriller
- Production Denmark, Germany / 2018
- Budget: DKK 39 000 000
- Worldwide gross: $470,308
- Directed by Christoffer Boe
- Cast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Johann Louise Schmidt, Søren Pilmark, Fanny Bornedal, Clara Rosager, Louise Skou, Amanda Radelak, Anders Howe, Nicholas Bro
Part four of a series of detective films about Karl Merck and his partner Assad dealing with unsolved unsolved criminal cases. This time, a secret room with an installation of three mummies is found in a house. The investigation leads the detectives to the events of the 1960s and to a closed women’s institution where girls of “easy” behavior were kept many years ago.
The Mysterium Detective Series consists of five parts. In addition to Journal 64, the series includes: Inception (2013), Pheasant Hunters (2014), Darkness in a Bottle (2016) and The Marco Effect (2021).
Climax
- Rating IMDB – 7.0
- Genre: Thriller, drama
- Production France, Belgium / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $2,036,044
- Directed by Gaspar Noé
- Cast: Sophia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude-Emmanuel Gayan-Moll, Giselle Palmer, Taylor Castle, Tea Carla Schott, Sherlyn Temple, Lea Vlamos
A Franco-Belgian thriller about a murderous party. A group of dancers of different races, genders, and sexual preferences participate in the production of a dance show. In the evening, they start a party at a secluded boarding school. But an unknown person adds LSD to the wine, and chaos reigns in the hall to the growing rhythm of the music. Not everyone will survive the night.
According to the director of the drama, Gaspar Noé, he wanted to make a film with the best dancers in France. Except for the first choreographic scene, the rest were improvised by the dancers involved.
Truth or Dare
- Rating IMDB – 5.2
- Genre: Horror, thriller
- US production / 2018
- Budget: $3,500,000
- Worldwide gross: $95 330 493
- Director Jeff Wadlow
- Cast: Lucy Hale, Tyler Posey, Violet Bean, Hayden Szeto, Sofia Taylor Ali, Nolan Gerard Funk, Landon Liboiron, Sam Lerner, Tom Choi, Aurora Perrino
College students go on vacation to Mexico and party at a bar the night before they leave. A young guy named Carter, whom the company meets at the bar, suggests they continue the party. He leads the friends to an abandoned church, where he proposes a game of Truth or Dare. During the game, Carter announces to the students that they are trapped and the game is real. If you lie or refuse to act, you die.
The game Truth or Action has been around for hundreds of years. It was first mentioned in literature in 1712 and is reminiscent of the ancient Greek game Vasilinda.
Greta
- Rating IMDB – 6.0
- Genre: Thriller, drama, detective
- Production Ireland, USA / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $18,653,107
- Director Neil Jordan
- Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Chloe Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Jane Perry, Jeff Hiller, Parker Sawyers, Brandon Lee Sears, Arthur Lee, Rosa Escoda, Jessica Preddy
Young waitress Frances McCullen is very vulnerable – her mother has just recently died, and she misses her very much. So when she meets the pleasant elderly Greta, Frances immediately bonds with her.
A little while later, the girl finds evidence that her meeting with Greta did not happen by accident. This frightens the girl and she ends all relations with her new acquaintance. However, the older woman begins to pursue Frances, and her attention becomes less and less harmless.
Despite the fact that the action thriller takes place in New York, the film was shot in Dublin (Ireland).
The Perfection
- Rating IMDB – 6.1
- Genre: Thriller, drama
- Production USA, Canada / 2018
- Directed by Richard Shepard
- Cast: Allison Williams, Logan Browning, Stephen Weber, Elaina Huffman, Kristina Yastrzhembska, Glynis Davies, Molly Grace, Mila Thompson
A beautiful cellist, Lizzie, is the star of a prestigious music school in Boston, and previously the modest Charlotte had shown great promise. But Charlotte was forced to stop classes at the school and left to care for her sick mother.
After her death, the girl wants to be the school’s top star student again, but the place is already taken. Charlotte manages to become friends with Lizzie, and together they go on a trip. On the road, Lizzie gets sick, very sick.
The 2018 thriller was produced by Miramax, and the distribution rights were acquired by streaming platform Netflix.
L’Empereur de Paris
- Rating IMDB – 6.3
- Genre: Thriller, crime, adventure, history
- Production France / 2018
- Worldwide gross: $7,611,035
- Directed by Jean-Francois Richet
- Cast: Vincent Cassel, Patrick Chenet, August Diehl, Olga Kurylenko, Denis Lavant, Freya Mavor, Denis Menoche, Jérôme Pooley, James Thierre, Fabrice Luchini
Only a criminal can defeat crime. This time, France’s most cunning and daring criminal, Eugène Vidocq, faces the guillotine. In exchange for his freedom, Vidocq decides to give up his crimes and begin to serve his native country.
While Napoleon strengthens France’s position in foreign campaigns, Vidocq must restore order to the streets of Paris. As the best of criminals, it is easy for Vidocq to become the most successful detective of his time.
Eugène François Vidocq, former criminal and “father” of modern criminal investigation. He contributed to the birth of trasology and criminology, developed a system of operational record-keeping, widely implemented the covert involvement of criminal elements. After his retirement he organized the world’s first private detective agency.
The Boat
- Rating IMDB – 5.7
- Genre: Horror, thriller, detective
- Production UK, Malta / 2018
- Budget: $5,000,000
- Worldwide gross: $98,559
- Directed by Winston Azzopardi
- Cast: Joe Azzopardi
What secrets can a yacht on the high seas with no one on board? It was just such a vessel that a lone fisherman stumbled upon. As he wandered around the ship, his tightly tied boat disappeared, and he found himself trapped in one of the yacht’s rooms. To his horror, the young man realizes that the vessel is trying to kill him.
For many years now, stories of ghost ships have troubled the minds of mankind. The most famous of these is the Flying Dutchman, a ship belonging to the East India Company. It is a legendary sailing ship, which can’t come ashore and is forced to sail the seas and oceans forever.
Delirium
- Rating IMDB – 5.7
- Genre: Horror, thriller
- US production / 2016
- Worldwide gross: $251,456
- Directed by Dennis Iliadis
- Cast: Topher Grace, Patricia Clarkson, Genesis Rodriguez, Callan Mulvey, Harry Groner, Robin Thomas, Daisy McCrackin, Cody Sullivan, Jorge Paglio, Braden Fitzgerald
A young boy, Tom, returns to his home after twenty years in a mental institution. He is on probation and is forced to spend thirty days alone without leaving the mansion.
The big abandoned house is not conducive to maintaining mental equilibrium, especially since Tom has many traumatic memories associated with it. Gradually, strange things start to happen in the house, but maybe it all just seems to the guy?
The horror script has been on the Black List of Best Screenplays for several years. This is a list of the most liked by the heads of the studios of the material on which the films have not yet been made. Leonardo DiCaprio was one of the producers of the film.
