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40. Saw Series
Director – James Wan
Cast – Danny Glover, Leigh Whannell, Michael Emerson, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 49%
Release Date – 1 October 2004
Box Office – $103.9 million
Genre – Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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39. Cube
Director – Vincenzo Natali
Cast – Julian Richings, Nicole de Boer, David Hewlett, Wayne Robson, Nicky Guadagni
IMDB Rating – 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 63%
Release Date – 9 September 1997
Box Office – $9 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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38. Phone booth
Director – Joel Schumacher
Cast – Radha Mitchell, Colin Farrell, Katie Holmes, Forest Whitaker
IMDB Rating – 7.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 72%
Release Date – 4 April 2003
Box Office – $97.8 million
Genre – Crime, Thriller
Awards – None
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37. The others
Director – Alejandro Amenábar
Cast – Christopher Eccleston, Nicole Kidman, Elaine Cassidy, Fionnula Flanagan
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 83%
Release Date – 2 August 2001
Box Office – $209.9 million
Genre – Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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36. The Night of the hunter
Director – Charles Laughton
Cast – Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Robert Mitchum, Billy Chapin
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 99%
Release Date – 1 January 1955
Box Office – $795,000
Genre – Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Awards – None
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35. The Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons
Director – Ron Howard
Cast – Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Hanks, Pierfrancesco Favino, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor
IMDB Rating – 6.7
Rotten Tomatoes – 37%
Release Date – May 15, 2009
Box Office – $485.9 million
Genre – Mystery, Thriller
Awards – None
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34. The Manchurian Candidate
Director – Jonathan Demme
Cast – Kimberly Elise, Denzel Washington, Jon Voight, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber
IMDB Rating – 6.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 80%
Release Date – 30 July 2004
Box Office – $96.1 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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33. Looper
Director – Rian Johnson
Cast – Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
IMDB Rating – 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Release Date – September 28, 2012
Box Office – $176.5 million
Genre – Action, Crime, Drama
Awards – None
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32. Twelve Monkeys
Director – Terry Gilliam
Cast – Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Willis
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 89%
Release Date – 27 December 1995
Box Office – $168.8 million
Genre – Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Awards – None
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31. Heat
Director – Michael Mann
Cast – Diane Venora, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Amy Brenneman, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore
IMDB Rating – 8.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 15 December 1995
Box Office – $187.4 million
Genre – Crime, Drama, Thriller
Awards – None
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30. Taken
Director – Pierre Morel
Cast – Katie Cassidy, David Warshofsky, Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Jon Gries, Leland Orser
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 58%
Release Date – 27 February 2008
Box Office – $226.8 million
Genre – Action, Thriller
Awards – None
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29. 28 days Later
Director – Danny Boyle
Cast – Megan Burns, Christopher Eccleston, Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris
IMDB Rating – 7.6
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 1 November 2002
Box Office – $82.7 million
Genre – Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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28. Chinatown
Director – Roman Polanski
Cast – John Hillerman, Faye Dunaway, Perry Lopez, Jack Nicholson, Burt Young
IMDB Rating – 8.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 99%
Release Date – 20 June 1974
Box Office – $29.2 million
Genre – Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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27. Double Indemnity
Director – Billy Wilder
Cast – Edward G. Robinson, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Heather, Porter Hall, Fred MacMurray
IMDB Rating – 8.3
Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
Release Date – 24 April 1944
Box Office – $5 million
Genre – Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Awards – None
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26. The Thing
Director – John Carpenter
Cast – Kurt Russell
IMDB Rating – 8.1
Rotten Tomatoes – 84%
Release Date – June 25, 1982
Box Office – $19.6 million
Genre – Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Awards – None
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25. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Director – David Fincher
Cast – Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgård, Daniel Craig, Christopher Plummer, Robin Wright
IMDB Rating – 7.8
Rotten Tomatoes – 86%
Release Date – 12 December 2011
Box Office – $232.6 million
Genre – Crime, Drama, Mystery
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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24. Dial M for Murder
Director – Alfred Hitchcock
Cast – John Williams, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, Ray Milland
IMDB Rating – 8.2
Rotten Tomatoes – 88%
Release Date – 28 May 1954
Box Office – $6 million
Genre – Crime, Thriller
Awards – None
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23. Touch of Evil
Director – Orson Welles
Cast – Joseph Calleia, Charlton Heston, Marlene Dietrich, Janet Leigh, Akim Tamiroff, Orson Welles
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 96%
Release Date – 23 April 1958
Box Office – $2.2 million
Genre – Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Awards – None
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22. Mystic River
Director – Clint Eastwood
Cast – Kevin Bacon, Laurence Fishburne, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn,
IMDB Rating – 8
Rotten Tomatoes – 88%
Release Date – 3 October 2003
Box Office – $16.8 million
Genre – Crime, Drama, Mystery
Awards – Won 2 Oscars
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21. Alien Series
Director – Ridley Scott
Cast – Veronica Cartwright, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Skerritt
IMDB Rating – 8.5
Rotten Tomatoes – 97%
Release Date – June 22, 1979
Box Office – $104.9–203.6 million
Genre – Horror, Sci-Fi
Awards – Won 1 Oscar
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