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Mystery/suspense films - suggestions please

posted 8 years ago by benettfreeman
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I'm looking to find new mystery/suspense films that I haven't seen. Although I didn't like Gone Baby Gone the best of the ones I've seen, I'll post this here because I think it might attract the right kind of people to provide kind suggestions.

Here are films I have seen and liked, with some element of mystery or suspense (in no order):-

Gone Baby Gone *
Zodiac * (Gyllenhaal version)
Birth *
Paris, Texas
Womb
The Legend of 1900
In the Bedroom
The Lobster
Oldboy
Twelve Monkeys
The Next Three Days *
Amelie *
Slumdog Millionaire
Vertigo *
Chaotic Ana *
L'Appartement *
Romeo is Bleeding
The Tenant
Nine Queens
Upstream Color *
Ex Machina *
Fight Club
The Prestige
Leon
Moon
The Place Beyond the Pines *
The Secret in their Eyes
I Origins *
The Good Shepherd
The English Patient
Triangle * (I'm reluctant to asterisk this in case I get suggestions that are too steeped in the horror genre, which I do not like, but the actual way that this script is configured is absolute genius, IMO)
Changeling *
Knowing * (same caveat as Triangle, because this is kinda sci-fi, but I still really like it)
Sex and Lucia
Tzameti (2005) *
Intacto *
The Spanish Prisoner *
House of Games *
Heist *
(pretty much anything good by Mamet, really)
Sound of My Voice *
Gosford Park
The Life of David Gale
Michael Clayton
Volver
K-PAX
The East
Twice Born
Tell No One *
Conspiracy Theory
The Usual Suspects
Se7en *
Prisoners (2013) *
Shutter Island *
Incendies
The Constant Gardner
Liar (1997)
Angel Heart
The Whistleblower
Edge of Darkness
eXistenZ
The Pledge *
Triple 9
The Butterfly Effect
The Ghost (Polanski) *
State of Play

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* = Those films marked with asterisks are perhaps the best examples of what I'm looking for, but the suggested films don't have to be exactly like those, or even be that amazing, as long as they have a good story.

If any of you feel like taking the time to think of films that are not on my list, which means there is a chance I haven't seen it, I'd welcome your recommendations.

Thank you for reading :)

[–] TheSteve239 8 years ago

That's a good list of movies I'll have to check some of them out that I haven't seen
You've probably seen them but I'd suggest
Mystic River
Sleepers
The town

[–] TheSteve239 8 years ago

The drop

[–] PenSeven 8 years ago

Great list, will look into some of those. The Game is also a really good movie...if you haven't already seen it.

[–] rooster-rousseau 8 years ago

Changeling...The Changeling with george c scott? That was a great movie