15 Highly Recommended Mystery Thriller Movies

It is not uncommon to hear someone say that they were glued to the seat or stuck to the seat while watching a movie. And it is that within the so-called seventh art we can find great works that are capable of making us live a thousand lives, and that keep us in suspense and waiting to know what will happen to the characters that are reflected in them.

Perhaps the word we are looking for is suspense. And although a large number of films give us this feeling, there is a film genre that is especially focused on this aspect: suspense or thriller. (although very often it appears together with other genres and themes). Throughout this article we will see a small section of thrillers that they are going to leave us hooked to the chair.

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Suspenseful movies full of intrigue

Below we leave you with a brief compilation and description of some great suspense movies, all of them highly recommended. Among them we can find classics, more recent films, some feature films that have gone rather unnoticed.

1. Psycho (1960)

A Hitchcock classic. It tells us the story of Marion, who has stolen money from her boss and fled from her and later takes refuge in a roadside motel run by the Bates. The young woman is murdered while she is taking a shower. Her boyfriend and his sister, upon noticing her disappearance, begin their search.

2. Rear Window (1954)

In this film we are told the story of Jefferies, who must rest at home after breaking his leg. The protagonist is dedicated to looking through the window with binoculars at different residents of the building across the street so as not to get bored. However, he comes to observe a fight between one of his neighbors and his wife, who disappears. It makes him suspect that the neighbor has killed his wife, trying to investigate our protagonist (with the help of his girlfriend) the facts.

3. Basic Instinct (1992)

This film tells us about the investigation into the murder of a singer, the main suspect being her girlfriend, a writer. She will be interrogated due to the resemblance of the singer's murder with one of her novels, and little by little it is discovered that she is not the first time someone close to the author dies in similar circumstances, the woman having written books in which she narrated stories similar.

While the investigation is taking place, the writer is seducing the agent who is handling the case, in what is probably the most iconic crossing of legs in cinema.

4. The Name of the Rose (1986)

This film, based on the novel of the same name, tells us the investigation carried out by brother Guillermo de Baskerville and his assistant Adso de Melk to clarify several deaths in the abbey of the Order of San Benito, in the middle of the 14th century, although they originally went to said abbey to be part of a meeting between representatives of the Pope and the Franciscans (since they are in conflict).

5. Reservoir Dogs (1992)

Throughout this film we see the story of a gang of robbers preparing to rob a warehouse, but the police were already waiting for them. A confrontation ensues in which various people are killed, including several members of the band, and the rest of the band ends up fleeing. They hide in a warehouse, where it is concluded that there is some kind of infiltrator or traitor.

6. Shutter Island (2010)

This film, based on a novel of the same name, narrates how Inspector Daniels and Agent Aule arrive on an island where they finds a psychiatric hospital in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, who had been admitted after having drowned their children.

But right from the start, the agents see that the case hides something more sinister, encountering small details that alarm them and make them see that there is something strange going on. It also highlights the fact that Agent Daniels is experiencing flashbacks of the war and the death of his wife and his children, which caused an intern at the same sanatorium that they are investigating.

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7. Origin (2010)

Interesting suspense and science fiction film that tells us how Dom Cobb and his team, who have the ability to infiltrate the dreams of others while they sleep in an induced dream and obtain information, they are hired to convince the son of a rival businessman of the contracting party to end his company by implanting that idea.

But traveling through dreams has its risks, such as the possibility of not knowing if they are in a dream or in reality, and the possibility of entering an infinite limbo of sleep from which it is not possible to get out.

8. The Oxford Murders (2008)

The film shows us how a young Oxford student begins to stay at the house of a woman who participated in the deciphering of the Enigma Code. The woman is murdered, and the young man's logic teacher (who knew the woman) receives a note warning that this is the first of several murders. They both proceed to investigate the case, working from the different clues that the killer leaves with each crime.

9. The Others (2001)

Spanish film set in the moments after the Second World War, tells us how a woman named Grace lives with her children (who suffer from photosensitivity) in a large house Victorian while she waits for her husband to return from the war, providing them with a rigid religious upbringing and trying to maintain a high level of control over everything that happens In the home.

The woman decides to hire several people to work as domestic service, explaining to them the severe rules that he has in this regard. But strange phenomena begin to occur in the house.

10. Argo (2012)

Argo is a film based on true events that tells us about the difficult plan prepared by CIA specialist Tony Mendez (pretending to be making a fictional film in the country), to extract a group of American diplomats from Iran, after having escaped being kidnapped along with other diplomats at the embassy by a group of revolutionaries Iranians.

11. The Sixth Sense (1999)

Well-known suspense film, with an unexpected script twist, which tells us how Cole Sear has the gift of perceiving the dead and how the psychologist Malcolm Crowe tries to help him, with serious doubts about his own abilities due to an incident in which he was shot by a patient and subsequently left. committed suicide

Throughout the film we will see how Cole interact with different ghosts, he begins to accept his gift and even comes to confess it to his mother, as Malcolm helps him accept his gift as he suffers from a cooling of his relationship with his wife of the.

12. The Da Vinci Code

Based on Dan Brown's novel of the same name, The Da Vinci Code begins with the murder of a restaurateur by a monk in the Louvre, leaving behind a coded message before passing away. Professor and symbology expert Robert Langdon is summoned to the scene of the crime to help the police, and along with the granddaughter (also a cryptographer) of the murdered man will proceed to initiate an investigation that will lead them to search for the Holy Grail.

13. The Forest (2004)

This film, whose original title is "The Village", tells us the story of a small rural town that lives in fear of the presence of monsters in the forests that surround them, and that they must follow a series of rules in order to stay safe (including not going into the forest). But some of its inhabitants dream of what may be beyond the forest.

14. The Wave (2008)

Based on the well-known novel of the same name (which in turn is based on real events), this film tells us about an experiment carried out by a professor of history in order to make his students understand him, simulating the establishment of an autocratic regime known as The Third Wave that ends up escaping from his control.

15. I am not a serial killer (2016)

Little-known thriller about a young man with sociopathic tendencies and a taste for the morbid and macabre, who makes a series of rules in order to goal of not harming his loved ones at the idea that his behavior resembles that of a serial killer (over which he has great interest). In this context, a series of murders caused by a real serial killer begin to take place in the town.** The young man decides to start an investigation about it**.