Friend WS is off to the Cape for a week and asked me for suggestions for recent movies - suspense or action - that they might enjoy watching with their (adult) kids. Here's my list of the top ten recent suspense movies (for intelligent viewers):
5 in English:
The Hurt Locker - definitely great suspense, keeps your attention start to finish
District 9 - a little weird and unconventional, comic at times, provocative, makes you think about racism and oppression in new, unexpected ways
Red Road - dark, serious, tense for every second, strains credibility if examined closely, but, still, well acted - does include highly graphic sex scene
Fish Tank - by same (Scottish) writer-director, very raw presentation of working-class British life, very well plotted, moving, surprising
Winter's Bone - meth dealers in the Ozarks, another great American indie movie with a strong, young protagonist struggling to keep her dysfunctional family intact
5 subtitled:
The Secret in their Eyes - Definitely one of the best movies I have seen in years. Complex, thoughtful, shocking (Argentine, I think)
Pan's Labyrinth - The most unusual, eccentric movie on this list, not sure suspense is the right word to describe it but it's full of drama, some exciting moments, totally its own world (Mexican, but set in Spain?)
Revanche - great little-noticed Austrian movie about an outsider, ex-con trying to get his life on the right track and making terrible decisions
Mother - Korean movie, a son accused of murder and a mother tries to find out the truth
Lantana - A little-known Australian movie that may remind you of Crash but it's far more true to life
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