As the film progresses, he begins to find himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

The film focuses on a married couple terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.

LikeThe Lives of Others, it explores themes of surveillance and voyeurism.

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It is alsoan unexpectedly queer movie.The Lives of Others' Ulrich Muhe stars.

It is certainly a powerful movie and one of the most remarkable entries in the genre.

Its influence on subsequent thrillers, namelyAlfred Hitchcock’s legendary feature,Psycho, is undeniable.

Mima laying in a bed of leaves, toys, and various objects in ‘Perfect Blue.'

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Not only isParasitevisually phenomenal, but it also counts on a unique narrative that will stick with audiences.

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Ulrich Mühe with headphones on in ‘The Lives of Others’

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Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche as Georges and Anne on the street in Caché

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Arno Frisch next to a person with covered face in the 1997 ‘Funny Games’.

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Kyng-Chul sitting down and looking intensily to his left in ‘I Saw the Devil’

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A detective and his partner hold up a gruesome image of a murder victim to a suspect who looks off into the distance.

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Johanna ter Steege and Gene Bervouts in ‘The Vanishing’ (1988)

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Vera Clouzot and Simone Signoret as Christina and Nicole standing close to each other in Diabolique

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Cho Min-sik as Dae-su Oh holding a weapon in Oldboy.

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The Kim family lounges about in the backyard of the house of the Park family in a cropped closeup from the poster for Parasite. There is a sinister redacted line superimposed over every person’s eyes.

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