Harlan Coben's Top 10 Thrillers
The New Jersey native has written more than 25 books and is known for his mastery of twists of turns… but which TV and film thrillers inspire him?
- Laura Rutkowski
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1951
Crime/detective
Drama
PG
Classic Hitchcock thriller starring Farley Granger, Ruth Roman and Robert Walker. An obsessive playboy strikes up a conversation with a tennis player he encounters on a train. The playboy, who hates his father, reveals to the sportsman that he knows of his wife's refusal to grant him a divorce and proposes a double murder to solve both their problems.
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2009
Mystery
Crime/detective
18
Crime mystery starring Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil. A retired court investigator looks into an old murder as the possible basis for a novel. But as he delves into the case, he makes some unpleasant discoveries that lead him to rectify the mistakes of the past.
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2006
Crime/detective
Drama
15
Drama starring Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch and Martina Gedeck. In 1980s East Berlin, a devoted Stasi agent is ordered to bug the apartment of a socialist playwright who is suspected of disloyalty to the state.
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2013
Mystery
Crime/detective
12
Crime thriller from the director of Blade Runner 2049, starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Pennsylvania, USA: when two young girls go missing after a lunch party, one of their fathers decides to take matters into his own hands to find his missing daughter. But the detective in charge of the case refuses to agree to his extreme tactics.
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2016
Crime/detective
Mystery
12
Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.Spanish mystery thriller starring Mario Casas, Ana Wagener and Jose Coronado.
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2004
Crime/detective
Mystery
12
American teen drama with Kristen Bell. Veronica's world comes crashing down around her when her best friend Lilly is murdered and the victim's billionaire father is named the prime suspect.
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1971
Crime/detective
Drama
15
Los Angeles homicide detective, Lieutenant Columbo, uses his humble ways and ingenuous demeanor to root out even the most well-concealed crimes.
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2012
Crime/detective
Drama
15
Crime thriller with Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston and Vicky McClure about a police anti-corruption unit led by Superintendent Ted Hastings. Each series follows one multi-stranded inquiry.
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2005
Crime/detective
Drama
18
French police and legal drama following the tangled cases pursued by Paris police officers, lawyers and judges who work at the Palais de Justice, and their equally complex personal lives.
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2014
Comedy
Crime/detective
15
Black comedy crime drama inspired by the Coen brothers' film of the same name. It follows different chronicles of deception and murder that mysteriously lead back to Fargo, North Dakota.
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