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Movies for Usual Suspects Fans

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005 | The Usual Suspects |

So you’ve seen The Usual Suspects. Maybe you’ve seen it more than once. If you’re like me, you’ve seen it dozens of times. Now what? Here are some other movies you may like if you’re a Suspects fan.

Best Bet - The Way of the Gun

Just about everyone who likes The Usual Suspects also likes The Way of the Gun. Scripted by Suspects writer Chris McQuarrie and starring Benicio Del Toro, this crime movie is also told from the perspective of the criminals. There are plenty of strong, conflicting characters to enhance the drama. James Caan stars as Joe Sarno, a self-described worn-out old man who still has a few tricks up his sleeve.

There isn’t a twist ending, but there is a connection in the movie that’s never stated, but is strongly alluded to. I didn’t notice it myself, but someone commenting on the blog told me to look for it. I eventually had to listen to the commentary track to get it.

Crime Movies with the Same Actors

Miller’s Crossing - Fantastic Coen brothers gangster film starring Gabriel Byrne.

LA Confidential - Cops and robbers noir starring Kevin Spacey. Almost everyone has seen it, but this really is an oustanding movie with a remarkable cast, and it also has a twist when the villain’s identity is revealed.

Se7en - Serial killer thriller starring Kevin Spacey as the demented mind behind a series of gruesome murders. One of the two roles - along with his part in The Usual Suspects - that earned Kevin Spacey two places on the American Film Institute’s list of top movie villains.

Traffic and 21 Grams both feature Benicio Del Toro. I really like Del Toro, even though I’ve seen just a few of his many films. If you can recommend other good films of his, post in comments.

Movies with a Plot Twist or Twist Ending

Malice - One of my favorite movies. Stars Bill Pullman, a young Nicole Kidman, and Alec Baldwin, whose huge ego is perfect for the role of a surgeon who thinks he’s God.

The Spanish Prisoner - David Mamet film starring Steve Martin in a serious role. It’s been so long since I’ve seen it that I don’t even remember the plot, but I remember liking it quite a bit.

The Sixth Sense - Another movie that almost everyone has seen, but with one of the great horror movie twist endings.

The Crying Game - Another classic twist movie.

Identity - Odd things start happening early in this film, which has one foot in the horror genre. Stars John Cusack and Ray Liotta.

I can’t find it locally, but The Last of Sheila is supposed to be a good twist movie. I’m including it here as a reminder to myself to buy a copy from Amazon.

Any others you like with twist endings or actors from the Suspects? Post in comments.

10 Comments to Movies for Usual Suspects Fans

Stormy Dragon
February 2, 2005

Other good twist-ending movies:

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Twelve Monkeys
The Others

countertop
February 2, 2005

Other good Benicio movies -

Snatch and Big Top Pee Wee

Les Jones
February 2, 2005

Good movies, Stormy.

Countertop: I always forget that Del Toro was in Snatch. I need to watch that again. There’s another Guy Ritchie movie I really, really like - Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. I’ll have to check out Big Top Pee Wee.

countertop
February 2, 2005

Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels is great.

he’s also in the Jeff Bridge’s movie Fearless.

Zendo Deb
February 2, 2005

Signs - by the director of Sixth Sense - also has a great ending.

Though the one real problem with Signs is it could have all been ended with a good 12 gauge, or a decent handgun…even so….

Zendo Deb
February 2, 2005

John Carpenter’s Vampires has a bit of a twist at the end…and it is just plain fun

So is “From Dusk Until Dawn” - but then anything Quentin Tarrantino wrote is bound to be twisted. On that note, “Pulp Fiction” doesn’t so much have a twist at the end as it is completely twisted.

In the non-horror section, both “Hero” and “Bulletproof Monk” have interesting twists at the end. (Hero is wonderful, and Yes the DVD does come with it dubbed in English, but read the damn subtitles. It is an action movie - there isn’t that much dialogue anyway.)

Zendo Deb
February 2, 2005

Oh, and how could I forget, “Unbreakable” also by M. Night Shyamalan (Signs, Sixth Sense) - really great twist ending, and not a bad movie overall.

Les Jones
February 2, 2005

Deb: I was curious about Hero before. Now I’ll have to see it for sure.

Ron
February 25, 2005

watch the The Vanishing…( original dutch version.not the american one(whose ending has been changed and it sucks))
without reading about it…
the ending will stay with you forever.
I assure you!