Thrillers are always a welcome genre in most households.

Thrillers are great for both a quiet night in and a cinema outing with people.

Some thriller movies will never get old.

Hugh Jackman (left), Scarlett Johansson (middle) and Christian Bale (right)

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It’s also a pretty good feature.

If your date choosesFargoas the first movie to watch together, you have a real one right there.

Fargorevolves around several characters in Fargo, Minnesota.

Castor Troy and Sean Archer point pistols at one another in a gun fight in Face/Off

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Some of the best movies ever made have it, includingThe Fugitive.

Marshals, led by Sam Gerard (Jones).

The Departedfollows an undercover cop, Billy Cortigan (DiCaprio), infiltrating the Irish Mob in South Boston.

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Pulp Fictioncombines several stories, intertwining them in a bizarre but logically elaborated way.

but its popularity also gained it a franchise (although maybe not willingly).

He assembles a team of experts in their fields, such as a professional tracker and an explosives expert.

Harrison Ford as Dr. Kimble in The Fugitive

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Their mission is to rescue a cabinet minister whose helicopter was shot down over the rainforest.

Alienfollows the spaceship Nostromo traveling across space with seven crew members in stasis.

It also spawned a franchise, evenmerging at one point withPredatorfor a double-creature feature.

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Christian Bale as Alfred talks to Hugh Jackman as Robert on the streets of 1890s London in The Prestige.

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William Costigan Jr. has a tense conversation with mob boss Frank Costello in The Departed

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Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winfield aiming his gun at someone off-camera in Pulp Fiction (1994).

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Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer running with weapons down the middle of a street in Michael Mann’s Heat

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Arnold Schwarzenegger covered in mud and leaning on a tree trunk in Predator

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The shark appears as Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) throws chum into the water in ‘Jaws’

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The xenomorph coming out of the smoke in Alien.

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