10 Thrillers To Watch If You Love David Fincher’s The Game

The Game might just be David Fincher’s most underrated thriller, and that’s saying a lot as the filmmaker has been at the helm of several amazing movies that underperformed at the box office. The 1997 movie should have been a hit, as it stars Michael Douglas at the height of his power, it has an incredible twist, and it was coming off the heels of Fincher’s first massive hit, Seven.

Though The Game was at first unsuccessful, it has since found an audience and gained a cult following in the years following. And being one of the more unconventional thrillers released in the 90s, it leaves viewers pleading for more like it.

10 Fight Club (1999)

Though the movie was a massive box office bomb upon release, with hoards of negative reviews, Fight Club has since become David Fincher’s best movie, in the top 10 of IMDb’s 250 list, and the subject of many fan theories.

Fight Club is now embedded in pop culture, thanks to its nihilistic plot, Brad Pitt’s shredded figure, and those first two rules of Fight Club that everybody keeps breaking. And, like The Game, it features one of the most satisfying twists in cinema history.

9 Memento (2000)

Christopher Nolan’s first full-length movie, Memento is massively different from the Nolan movies we know today. It doesn’t have any overwhelmingly powerful compositions, there’s no high concept about time travel or space travel, and the camera remains fairly stable.

The result is a very grounded in reality mystery thriller in which a man with dementia tracks down his wife’s killer, and it has inspired a ton of memes.

8 The Conversation (1974)

Francis Ford Coppola had been developing The Conversation for years, even before he started work on The Godfather, with it originally being planned as a full-blown horror movie.

But after Coppola told the studio that he’d only make The Godfather Part II if he could make this first, it evolved into a thriller movie, and like Michael Douglas in The Game, The Conversation follows Gene Hackman wandering from one place to another, trying to understand what’s going on.

7 Fargo (1996)

Fargo follows Frances McDormand’s Marge Gunderson as she tries to get to the bottom of a car salesman’s constant lies.

The movie is one of Martin Scorsese’s favorite movies of the 1990s, but if that isn’t enough of an accolade, it has also been endlessly praised for featuring one of the most memorable scenes in a Coen brothers movie, in which a murderer disposes of a body by shoving it through a wood chipper.

6 Seven (1995)

If The Game’s gobsmacking ending left an impression on viewers, Seven, being the first of many collaborations between David Fincher and Brad Pitt, features one of the most disturbing final movie scenes.

With John Doe, one of the most sadistic serial killers ever seen in a thriller movie, Seven is a great movie from the start, but it’s ending is what makes the film a classic, just like The Game.

5 The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

The Talented Mr. Ripley is based on the 1955 novel of the same name, in which a man attempts to steal his best friend’s identity.

There have been several novels about Thomas Ripley, with many adapted into movies, but TheTalented Mr. Ripley is an exciting thriller, has some of the most stunning visuals with it being set in Italy, and it features one of the best Matt Damon performances of all time.

4 Phone Booth (2002)

In another movie in which the protagonist is thrown into the middle of a problem and has to think outside of the box in order to resolve it, Colin Farrell answers a payphone and spends the whole movie trying to decipher who the caller is, all while trying not to get murdered.

It’s a great, underrated thriller movie directed by Joel Schumacher, even if the ending was annoyingly revealed in the poster, which is just one of the times marketing annoyingly spoiled the movie.

3 Panic Room (2002)

Being another David Fincher movie, Panic Room is much more of a popcorn flick than any of his other movies, as the film is fairly straight forward without any mysteries or conspiracy theories that can be concocted from it.

Though The Game is similar to movies like Fight Club and Seven in its narrative and plot twist, it’s much more of a light affair than those movies. And Panic Room is an exciting left-field option for fans who don’t have the attention span for his more common nihilistic themes and lengthy runtimes.

2 Triangle (2009)

Easily one of the most underrated and overlooked movies of the 21st century, Triangle is an Australian production that finds Jess trying to uncover the secrets of a derelict oceanliner.

The movie treads the line between thriller and horror, and though the scares are weak, the mystery is where Triangle really shines. And like The Game, the movie features some mind-bending surprises with an absolutely shocking payoff.

1 Basic Instinct (1992)

With Michael Douglas turning in another terrific role in The Game, the movie wasn’t his first rodeo when it comes to thriller movies.

Though Basic Instinct is only remembered for that one scene, the erotic thriller is actually one of the most compelling movies of the early 90s and it kicked off Douglas’ incredibly successful decade, making him the go-to star for seemingly every thriller movie released.