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Movies that feel like Illustrious Corpses (1976)

If you loved Illustrious Corpses, the closest films we have are Fracture (2007), Buried (2010) and Fall (2022). All three share Illustrious Corpses's tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Lionsgate+ Amazon Channels, Howdy Amazon Channel and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

7.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Francesco Rositense

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Fracture
2007 · dir. Gregory Hoblit
🍅 72%7.2thriller

Thriller built on tension, twice over

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 2000s show

A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.

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Buried
2010 · dir. Rodrigo Cortés
🍅 87%7thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

As an American civilian truck driver working in Iraq, Paul Conroy's convoy is attacked by a group of Iraqi insurgents. Some time later, Paul awakes in a coffin with only a lighter, a cell phone, and his ever-growing anxiety. Faced with a dwindling oxygen supply and a dying battery, he must fight panic, despair, and delirium as he races against time to escape the claustrophobic death trap.

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Fall
2022 · dir. Scott Mann
🍅 79%6.4thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter's expert climbing skills will be put to the ultimate test as they desperately fight to survive the elements, a lack of supplies, and vertigo-inducing heights.

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Sorcerer
1977 · dir. William Friedkin
🍅 84%7.7thriller · adventure

Both are thriller through and through

The difference: Plays it as adventure more than Illustrious Corpses does

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

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Caliber 9
1972 · dir. Fernando Di Leo
7.4crime · thriller

The same thriller instincts

The difference: Leans crime where Illustrious Corpses does not

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

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Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 · dir. Joseph Sargent
🍅 90%7.1science fiction · thriller

Thriller approached the same way

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

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Die Hard 2
1990 · dir. Renny Harlin
🍅 68%7.2action · thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead.

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No Way Out
1987 · dir. Roger Donaldson
🍅 92%7.1thriller · drama

Both are thriller through and through

Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell, and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.

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Speed
1994 · dir. Jan de Bont
🍅 95%7.3action · thriller

Thriller approached the same way

Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.

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Brainstorm
1983 · dir. Douglas Trumbull
🍅 57%6.4science fiction · thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.

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True Lies
1994 · dir. James Cameron
🍅 77%7.3action · thriller

Both are thriller through and through

A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.

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Die Hard: With a Vengeance
1995 · dir. John McTiernan
🍅 60%7.6action · thriller

Cut from the same thriller cloth

New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration.

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