The Most Criminally Overlooked Thriller Movies of All Time

Thrillers are a Hollywood staple, prized for tension and pace, yet many mainstream entries fall back on a familiar template. Every so often a film takes risks and refuses to follow that pattern, only to be overshadowed by flashier releases. The following six films reward a second look.

Sidney Lumet’s Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead follows brothers Andy (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Hank (Ethan Hawke) as a jewelry-store robbery unravels into a nonlinear family tragedy; Hoffman’s volatile performance and Albert Finney’s quietly calculating Charles give the story its emotional center.

Gregory Hoblit’s Fracture stages a courtroom chess match after wealthy engineer Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) shoots his wife and confesses, while assistant district attorney Willy Beachum (Ryan Gosling) must cope as evidence and appearances begin to fray. Copycat places Sigourney Weaver’s agoraphobic criminal psychologist, Dr.

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