If you're a fan of movies that keep you on the edge of your seat, you're in the right place. The world of thriller movies offers an array of suspense, intrigue, and unexpected twists. Based on your preferences for films like "Get Out," "A Quiet Place," and "Us," we've compiled a list of 25 thriller movies that capture a similar essence while avoiding overly raunchy or gory elements. Dive in and discover your next favorite movie night pick!
- Memento (2000) - A gripping tale of a man with short-term memory loss who uses notes and tattoos to hunt for his wife's murderer.
- Shutter Island (2010) - Two U.S. marshals are sent to an asylum on a remote island to investigate a disappearance.
- Gone Girl (2014) - When his wife disappears, media focus surrounds a man as he's suspected of wrongdoing.
- The Sixth Sense (1999) - A young boy who can see and communicate with the dead seeks the help of a disillusioned child psychologist.
- The Others (2001) - A woman believes her darkened, old family home is haunted. But is it?
- Seven (1995) - Two detectives hunt for a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as motives.
- Prisoners (2013) - A father takes matters into his own hands after his daughter and her friend go missing.
- Nightcrawler (2014) - A driven man navigates the dark world of crime journalism in LA.
- The Gift (2015) - A young married couple's life is thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband's past brings mysterious gifts.
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) - After a car accident, a woman wakes up in a shelter with two men who claim the outside world is affected by a chemical attack.
- Rear Window (1954) - A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) - A journalist teams up with a hacker to solve a decades-old disappearance.
- Zodiac (2007) - The hunt for the notorious Zodiac Killer in San Francisco during the late 1960s.
- The Prestige (2006) - Two magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship, leading to dangerous consequences.
- Fractured (2019) - After his daughter's disappearance from a hospital, a man becomes convinced the hospital is hiding something.
- The Invisible Man (2020) - A woman believes she is being stalked and tormented by her abusive and wealthy ex-boyfriend—even after his apparent suicide.
- Wind River (2017) - An FBI agent teams up with a local tracker to solve a murder on a Native American reservation.
- The Game (1997) - A wealthy banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game that turns his life upside down.
- The Conjuring (2013) - Paranormal investigators work to help a family being terrorized by a dark presence.
- Identity (2003) - Strangers find themselves isolated by a summer storm and discover they are being killed off one by one.
- Don't Breathe (2016) - Thieves break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect heist, only to find themselves in a deadly situation.
- Misery (1990) - A famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, but quickly learns she has a dark side.
- The Ring (2002) - A journalist investigates a mysterious videotape that causes anyone who watches it to die seven days later.
- Secret Window (2004) - A writer goes through a tough period after a bitter divorce, only to be stalked by a stranger claiming he stole his story.
- Disturbia (2007) - While under house arrest, a teenager becomes convinced his neighbor is a serial killer.
These recommendations were generated based on the preferences provided and with the knowledge bank of GPT-4, aiming to offer a mix of classic and modern films, while avoiding excessive gore or discomfort.
Curated by OpenAI's GPT-4.
For those curious, here is the prompt that generated this Gist.
Let's make a GitHub Gist that recommends 25 thriller movies. Provide me with a lowercase hyphenated markdown filename that indicates that gpt 4 was used, a description (also, indicate gpt 4 was used) as well as Gist content that consists of 25 enumerated thriller movies which brief in-line description and context. As far as which thrillers to recommend, I'll tell you a few that I really enjoy and a couple of other limitations. I enjoyed the recent Get Out, A Quiet Place, and Us thrillers. I don't care for raunchy or overly gory (especially death of children). Provide a lead in paragraph with an overview of what we are doing here and provide a sentence after the list where you explain how you came up with the recommendations. Credit yourself at the very end. Oh, and do all of this in non-parsed text markdown so I can easily paste it into a Gist.