Lady in the Water(2006) - English

This guy M. Night Shyamalan has got a unique skill in writing strange and different stories. Take any of his films, it will have a unique thread which no one else has ever tried.
Lady in the Water is another such movie that tells the story of a man Mr. Heeps who is a maintenance man in an apartment. One day he discovers a young lady in the swimming pool of the apartment. He learns that she is actually a water nymph who wants to return to her blue world in water. But she is threatened by a vicious animal that tries to kill her at any cost. Heeps learns from a Chinese woman in the apartment that there are people, who are yet to be identified, in the apartment who can save the life of the nymph. Mr. Heeps tries to identify those people and at last sends the sea lady to her world.
I must tell that the movie is boring at some points. But still it is worth spending a little time for.

The Prestige(2006) - English

This is a mystery-thriller which tells the story of two rival stage magicians, Angiers and Borden, of the 19th century. They both were assistants of a famous magician and later they split up and try to outwit each other as independent magicians. This blind competiton and rivalry leads into tragic results. The famous scientist, Nikola Tesla is portrayed in this story as the scientist who helps Angiers to perform teleportation on stage. The direction of this movie is marvellous and it is difficult to summarize the story in a few lines. I may have to tell scene by scene. Story takes sudden and frequent twists. The overall suspense is kept all along upto the climax.

The Village(2004) - English

 

The Village is an interesting suspense thriller movie directed by Manoj Night Shyamalan. It tells the story of a village where people live in constant fear of some nameless monsters which are supposed to inhabit in the surrounding forests. They had the borders of the village lined with oil lamps and nobody dared to cross the limits. They see skinned animal bodies which makes the children frightned and it is also seen that the adults keep some secrets from their own children. Story is centred on Lucius Hunt, a young man who seeks permision of the adults to go to the city to get medicines from there. But he is not permitted. When the story evolves, Lucius met with a mishap and get injured badly. Then Ivy, a blind girl who loves Lucius, at last decides to cross the forest to bring medicine from city. This venture of hers unreveals the key suspense of the movie.

The way of story telling of Shyamalan is very catching and background score needs special mention in it. Its a movie worth spending time for.

The Sixth Sense(1999) - English

 

Another Night Syamalan touch on the screen. Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osmant add attraction to this wonderfully picturized thriller movie. Dr. Malcome(Willis) is a children psychologist who keeps a regret for being unable to help a boy, Vincent, with hallucinations. Also he finds that his profession caused a distance between him and his wife Anna. After a long time of rest, he meets another boy, Cole(Haley) whose condition is much similar to that of Vincent. He decides to help Cole and thereby satisfying his regret for Vincent. Cole reveals to him that he can communicate with dead people. On Malcome's advice Cole helps a lot of ghosts to fulfill their desires. The end of the movie is really marvellous. Syamalan's style to keep such suspense upto the end is really something!

A must-watch movie.

The Silence of the Lambs(1991) - English

This is one one of my most favorite horror-crime thriller movies. A young lady police officer, Ms Starling is assigned to investigate a murder series where the killer is just known as Buffalo Bill. No one knows anything more about him. Ms. Starling decides to seek the help of an imprisoned cannibalistic killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter(Antony Hopkins) who was a brilliant psychiatrist too. Dr. Lecter agrees to help her if he is moved away from the prison  where he is now and where he dislikes. But Lecter is so dangerous a man and a transfer of him is very risky. Starling takes the risk. Now there are two equally dangerous people she has to take care of. 

This is one of the top five thrillers ever made. The sole role of Antony Hopkins as  'Hannibal the Cannibal' made me a fan of him.

El Laberinto del Fauno(2006) - Spanish

 

El laberinto del fauno, also called 'The Pan's Labyrinth', is a Mexican fantasy-thriller-drama genre movie and is my most favorite Spanish movie. The story is centred around a little girl Ofelia who is so fond of fairy tales. She, along with her pregnant mother is brought to a forest by her arrogant stepfather Captain Vidal. War against anarchists is going on in the forest, but Vidal wants his baby to be born where he is. Ofelia finds an abandoned labyrinth in that forest and meets a lot of fairy tale characters there. She becomes involved in the fairy world and the story develops to bringing down of the political anarchy and the end of civil war.

This movie has remarkable excellence in the technical and graphical perfection. The fairy tale world is beautifully incorporated into the political topic of Spanish civil war. It's full of thrill from beginning to end. A must-watch movie.

Signs(2002)

 

The film directed by Manoj Night Syamalan tells the story of an alien invasion in a different and attractive way. The most striking point I observed is that the overall time an alien appears on screen is less than 2 or 3 seconds, but it conveys the stunning effect of an alien invasion.

Mel Gibson is on the lead role. The movie is centred at him and his family. The entire story of alien attack on the planet is portrayed by five or six people living in a small house. The flash back of the family is attractively told in a parallel track. That is quite something! Mr. Syamalan also has performed a short but memorable role in the movie. The performance of the two little children is excellent. Really a good Director's movie

Primal Fear (1996)

 

This is the story of an attorney Martin Vail, who tries to save an altar boy Aron Stampler who is convicted to have murdered his beloved bishop. Vail finds his ex-wife in the defense and uses his shrewd intelligence to get the boy out of the case. The climax of the movie was really superb.

Its worth watching.