thriller The Stanford Prison Experiment 26th February 202113th March 2021 "You have no right to mess with my head" ★★★★★ Kyle Patrick Alvarez's American thriller film The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) unearths the 1971 social psychology experiment led by Philip…
thriller Dukhtar 19th February 202113th March 2021 "This state of war is like a sickness. It consumed me." ★★★★ Written and directed by Afia Nathaniel, the Pakistani thriller-drama film Dukhtar (Translation from Urdu: Daughter, 2014) struggled to…
thriller Escape from Pretoria 29th January 202113th March 2021 "Freedom is a very simple idea, which is perhaps why it can be so easily lost" ★★★★★ Francis Annan's Australian thriller Escape from Pretoria (2020) is based on the real-life…
thriller Time to Hunt 30th December 202013th March 2021 "If we continue on this path, nothing will change" ★★★ The recent sweeping rise of South Korean films in the West could not leave this year’s Berlin International Film Festival…
thriller Mother 2nd December 202013th March 2021 "You and me are one. We've only got each other." ★★★★★ The late 2000s saw a rise in mother-centred suspense films in South Korea. Released after the box office success…
thriller The Usual Suspects 23rd November 202013th March 2021 "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" ★★★★ Bryan Singer's (the director of Bohemian Rhapsody, 2018) neo-noir thriller film The Usual Suspects (1995)…
thriller The Girl in the Fog 16th November 202013th March 2021 "The devil's greatest flaw is his vanity" ★★★★★ Donato Carrisi not only penned the 2015 novel that inspired the Italian psychological thriller film The Girl in the Fog (Italian: La…
thriller Eastern Promises 19th October 202013th March 2021 "Anger is dangerous. It makes people do stupid things." ★★★★ Congruent with David Cronenberg's other projects, such as The Fly (1986) or Dead Ringers (1988), the 2007 British-Canadian thriller film…
thriller The 9th Precinct 31st August 202013th March 2021 "One gets confused when one has just died" ★★★★ Ding-Lin Wang's Taiwanese fantasy thriller film The 9th Precinct (2019) embraces the theme of wandering ghosts. Though also present in the…
thriller Children of Men 18th August 202013th March 2021 "Everything is a cosmic battle between faith and chance" ★★★ Alfonso Cuarón's dystopian thriller film Children of Men (2006), based on P. D. James' The Children of Men (1992), presents…
thriller The Model 28th July 202012th March 2021 "I need you to be real bitches on this one" ★★★★ In the Danish thriller drama film The Model (2016), director Mads Matthiesen takes a nosedive into the generally glamourised…
thriller Open Your Eyes 29th June 202012th March 2021 “It’s not important what you see, but what I see. It’s my dream.” ★★★★★ Everyone seems to know Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001), starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz, but what about the…
thriller The Invisible Guest 15th June 202012th March 2021 "There will be no salvation without suffering" ★★★★ Picking up from where he left off in The Body (2012), Oriol Paolo directed the mystery thriller film The Invisible Guest (Spanish:…
thriller The Man from Nowhere 7th May 202012th March 2021 "The ones that live for tomorrow get f***** by the ones living for today" ★★★★★ Long before John Wick restored action films to their former glory in the West, Lee…
thriller The Platform 5th May 202012th March 2021 "Hunger unleashes the madman in us" ★★★ Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s debut sci-fi horror film The Platform (2019) was released on Netflix a few days before the quarantine started. Now, if this…
thriller The Son 2nd May 202012th March 2021 "I'm a stranger in my own house" ★★★★ Sebastián Schindel's Argentine psychological thriller film The Son (2019) is based on Guillermo Martínez’s 2013 novel A Protective Mother (Spanish: Una madre protectora).…
thriller The Plagues of Breslau 26th April 202012th March 2021 "According to one definition, a terrorist is someone, who wasn't able to negotiate to get what they wanted" ★ Patryk Vega's Polish crime thriller film Plagues of Breslau (2018) introduces…
