'90s Thrillers

I'm looking for suggestions on great '90s thriller movies to watch.

I'm really looking for films from the 90's that are similar to;

The Game
A Perfect Murder
The Net

Movies like that. Feel free to make long lists if you like. Thanks.

Might not be exactly the type of thriller you're looking for, but you should really watch The Talented Mr. Ripley. It's a 1999 release.

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Is there a reason you're limiting this to a single decade? There are great thrillers in every decade of cinema. Oh, well: so be it. If thems the parameters...



La femme Nikita (1990), After Dark, My Sweet (1990), Misery (1990), Blue Steel (1990), Internal Affairs (1990), Narrow Margin (1990), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Dead Again (1991), Cape Fear (1991), One False Move (1992), Red Rock West (1992), Patriot Games (1992), A Perfect World (1993), In the Line of Fire (1993), The Fugitive (1993), Carlito's Way (1993), The Firm (1993), Shallow Grave (1994), Léon: The Professional (1994), Fresh (1994), Nattevagten (1994), Romeo is Bleeding (1994), The Last Seduction (1994), The Getaway (1994), Mute Witness (1994), SE7EN (1995), 12 Monkeys (1995), Heat (1995), The Usual Suspects (1995), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Insomnia (1997), CopLand (1997), The Edge (1997), Out of Sight (1998), A Simple Plan (1998), Fallen (1998), Fight Club (1999), The Limey (1999), Croupier (1999), Payback (1999), Ravenous (1999) and Run Lola Run (1999).

For starters.

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Se7en came to mind for me immediately too, but for some reason I just assumed he had seen it. You should check out Fargo (1996) too.

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Well, seeing as Holden already named a good chunk of the better thrillers from the 90's, go with those, then branch out. You can't go wrong with a recommendation from Holden.

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Considering the first poster listed two Michael Douglas flicks, I'd have to add Basic Instinct, Disclosure, Falling Down and The Ghost and the Darkness. Of course, that opens the door to drift back to the '80s with Fatal Attraction, Black Rain, Romancing the Stone, and The Star Chamber... and back....

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technically a horror film but Silence of The Lambs is a good one or The Hand that Rocks the cradle

Really? Always thought it was a rather poor film myself.

Not a horror film.

And the Sandra Bullock as Richard Kimble flick The Net is a masterpiece?!? Consider what the original poster was asking for, yeah. Mark didn't claim all of those Michael Douglas movies were amazing, just that if they grooved to Fincher's The Game and the Hitchcock remake A Perfect Murder and wanted other genre fare starring the same actor, there are certainly more to be had. Of varying quality.

That's true, Holden. That said, I'd rather watch The Net than Black Rain, but you're absolutely right, it's not a masterpiece.

I love After Dark, My Sweet. I don't think most film-watchers liked the pace of this film. Hell, the first time I viewed this I was hammered and nothing else was on. I really loved the ending. Great performances by Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, and Bruce Dern.

its not your typical horror or slasher but it is very scary

Yeah, After Dark, My Sweet (1990) is a terrific flick, great performances by Jason Patric, Bruce Dern and Rachel Ward at her sexiest (if that's even possible to determine such a thing). For my money it is the second-best adaptation of pulp icon Jim Thompson's hard-boiled work, behind Stephen Frears' The Grifters (1990) and ahead of both the 1972 Peckinpah original The Getaway with Steve McQueen and Bernard Tavernier's Coup de Torchon (1981), which is a relocated adaptation of my favorite Thompson novel, Pop. 1280. Then I'd slot the 1994 Baldwin & Basinger remake of The Getaway ahead of The Killer Inside Me (1976), which is an amazing book and even though the movie has a perfectly cast Stacy Keach the low-rent and hamfisted production really drags it down.

Though obviously the two best movies Thompson was involved with weren't adaptations of his material at all but his contributions as a screenwriter to Kubrick's The Killing (1956) and Paths of Glory (1957).

Love The Grifters, one of my favorites. I saw it the first time at a cool old theater in Astoria. I see Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) is available on Netflix.

My personal favorite:

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Watch all of these and you'll be off to a good start.

Great list.

True Romance hasn't been mentioned so I would also check that out. Action thriller but thriller nonetheless.

I thought Mute Witness from thr mid-'90s was pretty good.

Probably everyone already watched this classic but still it is one of 90's monsters.
Se7en - (by David Fincher acts: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey)

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Got to check out Coup de Torchon the other day. The way the film started out, I thought it would be typical. Didn't end up that way.