20 undervalued film trends of the decade, according to connoisseurs of the genre
Critics of the crime fiction site Crimereads have compiled a list of the best, in their opinion, paintings that the mass audience missed. Including you! And that's why we say right away that the cinema here is very diverse, for the most part very authorial. If you don't like any one detective from the list, stop watching it and immediately move on to the next one. The attempt is worth it! And yet: there are no European and Asian films here, only modern American detectives shot in 2010-2019.
After an armed attack on a police funeral, the local militia, consisting of seven restless people, gathered in a secluded headquarters to wait out the massacre. There they discovered that the shooter could be one of their own. Rating on imdb: 6.2 (quite normal for a budget thriller).
The new work of director David Robert Mitchell ("It Follows") turned out to be much harder to sell than his horror breakthrough in 2014. But this baggy surreal odyssey in the dark and sinister surroundings of hipster Los Angeles was destined to become a cult favorite from the very beginning. Rating on imdb: 6.5
As in Daniel Scheinert's previous film, the bizarre indie hit "The Swiss Knife Man" (which he shot together with Daniel Kwan), there is a corpse in the center of the film "The Death of Dick Long". But, unlike that movie, the corpse "hangs" on two best friends, members of a rock band, forcing them to take desperate measures to hide the circumstances of his death. Rating on imdb: 6.3
"A Simple Request" directed by Paul Feig was one of the secret hits of 2018. Built on the powerful performance of actresses Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, the film combines the proud perversity of the "Basic Instinct" with the steely intelligence of the "Disappeared". Rating on imdb: 6.8 (the film was received very well by the Russian public)
A hyper-violent crime drama about Los Angeles with a fragmented narrative, of course, suggests comparisons with "Pulp Fiction". Although enough time has passed since the days of Tarantino to feel like such a refreshing return, and not a useless fake. Rating on imdb: 6.2
This noir western is an adaptation of the popular 2011 novel by Patrick De Witta — follows a ruthless pair of brothers-in-arms, bounty hunters, on a brutal journey of self-discovery in the era of the Wild West. Rating on imdb: 7.0
It's a pity that the film about an experienced hunter-tracker, who gets entangled in a series of increasingly violent events after the death of several children in a remote Alaskan village, suddenly met with such a silent response from the audience. Rating on imdb: 5.6
After her house is robbed, a quiet, depressed nurse's aide Melanie Lynskey decides she's tired of being weak and teams up with her frustrated neighbor (Elijah Wood) to track down the criminals. It resembles the sinister threat and black humor of the best dark comic thrillers of the Cohens. Rating on imdb: 6.9
The project that brought Steven Soderbergh out of a short retirement, Logan's Luck, was probably always too modest a film to gain popularity with the audience, despite its stellar cast and an advertising campaign selling it as a Redneck version of Ocean's Friends. Rating on imdb: 7.0
On the day of her sixtieth birthday, the owner of a strip club, Mary, is forced to pay long-standing debts to bandits or at least lose her club. Rating on imdb: 4.5
Always Shine, an intense psychological thriller directed by Sofia Takal about a pair of actress friends whose story of professional jealousy and personal resentment boils over during a tense and frightening vacation in a secluded house. Rating on imdb: 5.6
An adaptation of Edward Bunker's 1996 novel about three ex-prisoners who want to succeed in kidnapping. It's easy to see why the film was overlooked: it contains one of the most horrific opening scenes of recent times and only gets angrier and angrier. Rating on imdb: 4.7
One of the best films of the #MeToo category, shot three years before this movement arose. Rating on imdb: 5.4
Now there is renewed interest in the subgenre of thrillers about strangers invading the lives of others. Maybe you can point to the "Gift" — a film about a married couple who is being pursued by a mysterious loner from her husband's past — as responsible for the revival of the genre. Rating on imdb: 7.0
What begins as a straightforward revenge thriller (a Texas family resident, defending himself, kills a robber, suddenly changes direction when the father of the murdered man appears on the threshold. Rating on imdb: 6.8
The film is already on its way to cult classic status. It's about a couple of old penniless friends created to compete with each other in a game with increasing stakes (from alcoholism to mutilation) until everything collapses in an unexpectedly devastating finale. Rating on imdb: 6.7
An unsuccessful mind control expert gets a chance to restore his tarnished reputation if he can deprogram a young woman who has fallen under the influence of a mysterious cult. Rating on imdb: 6.7
Ridley Scott's thriller, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, was met with deafening scorn and ridicule after its release. Of course, the film is almost depressingly nasty and nihilistic. Rating on imdb: 5.3 (of course, he does not deserve such a low rating)
A couple of lovers are driving through south Florida with a body in the trunk of their car. They try to get to the evergreen forests, where they can dump the corpse into the swamp, but their general distrust and despair ensure that they are going towards a guaranteed death. Rating on imdb: 6.0
A recently paroled gangster is hatching a brilliant theme: he and three other former prisoners will go to Rome and kidnap the pope. Their ransom demands? One dollar from every Catholic in the world. Rating on imdb: 6.4
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