Thriller
Basic instinct
The most famous film scene of the nineties. Nick Curran and Catherine Tramell play deadly mind games.
Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone.
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The exorcist
An little girl is inhabited by a malevolent entity and a dedicated Jesuit attempts to banish it
Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow and Linda Blair.
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Halloween
A psychotic murderer institutionalized since childhood escapes on a mindless rampage while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis.
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The night of the living dead
A group of people is trapped in a farm house where they fight off the growing army of flesh-eating zombies
Directed by George A. Romero. Starring Duane Jones.
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North by northwest
Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy named Kaplan. It becomes an identity which Thornhill cannot shake and one that drags him across the country in the face of death.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint.
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Psycho
A woman, on the run with $40,000 stolen from the company for whom she works ends up staying the night at a motel run by Norman Bates and his mother.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh.
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Rear window
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly.
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The shining
Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel so that he can write in peace. His son Danny discovers that the hotel is haunted.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall
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The silence of the lambs
The serial killer Buffalo Bill has taken another woman. Novice FBI agent Clarice Starling must try to compile a profile from a professional…Hannibal -the Cannibal- Lector.
Directed by Jonathan Demme. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster.
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Vertigo
An acrophobia detective is hired to trail a friend's suicidal wife, but after rescuing her from a leap into the San Francisco Bay, he finds himself obsessed.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring James Stewart and Kim Novak
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Spotlight
Jodie Foster
If I fail, at least I will have failed my way
Remarkable:
John Hinckley watched Taxi driver over fifteen times. He began stalking Foster to save her. In 1981 he tried to murder Ronald Reagan to show his love for her.
Born:
November 19, 1962Born as:
Alicia Christian FosterPerforming professionally from age three, Jodie appeared in many Disney TV productions. In 1976, Foster made the film that changed her life, Taxi Driver, directed by Martin Scorsese. Her portrayal made Foster the object of obsessive fixation for John Hinckley, who attempted to assassinate President Reagan on her behalf. She continued performing in films while earning her degree in literature at Yale university. In 1988 Foster finally gained respect as an adult actress for her portrayal of the victim of a brutal gang rape in The accused. But she became a big star with her role of federal agent Clarice Starling in the megahit thriller The silence of the lambs. Her directorial debut came in 1991 with Little man Tate. Jodie carefully selects films like Contact (1997), Anna and the king (1999) and Panic room (2002) but turned down the opportunity to reteam with Hopkins in Hannibal.
Academy awards
1995 Nominated Leading Role for: Nell (1994)1992 Won Oscar Leading Role for: The Silence of the lambs (1991)
1989 Won Oscar Leading Role for: The accused (1988)
1977 Nominated Supporting Role for: Taxi driver (1976)
Selected movies:
- The silence of the lambs (1991)
- Taxi driver (1976)
- Contact (1997)
- The dangerous lives of altar boys (2002)
- Panic room (2002)
- The accused (1988)