movies to watch while in quarantine: a thread

1. the silence of the lambs (1991)

from imdb: a young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims

2. nightcrawler (2014)

from imdb: when louis bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story

3. rosemary's baby (1968)

imdb: a young couple moves in to a fancy apartment surrounded by peculiar neighbors.when the timid and passive wife becomes mysteriously pregnant while the actor husband becomes successful, the safety of her fetus begins to control her life.

4. crimson peak (2015)

in the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider.trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and remembers.

5. the grand budapest hotel (2014)

a writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge

6. the talented mr. ripley (1999)

in late 1950s new york, tom ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to italy to retrieve dickie greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. but when the errand fails, ripley takes extreme measures.

7. young frankenstein (1974)

an american grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.

8. the wave (die welle), (2008)

a high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own

9. the thing (1982)

a research team in antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims

10. spotlight (2015)

the true story of how the boston globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local catholic archdiocese, shaking the entire catholic church to its core.

11. the intouchables (2011)

after he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver

12. monty python's life of brian (1979)

born on the original christmas in the stable next door to jesus christ, brian of nazareth (graham chapman) spends his life being mistaken for a messiah

13. run lola run (1998)

after a botched money delivery, lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 deutschmarks