The best Peter Bogdanovich’s thriller movies
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Peter Bogdanovich (born July 30, 1939 - January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian. He was part of the wave of "New Hollywood" directors, and his most critically acclaimed and well-known film is the drama The Last Picture Show (1971). Bogdanovich also directed Targets (1968), What's Up, Doc? (1972), Paper Moon (1973), They All Laughed (1981), Mask (1985), The Cat's Meow (2001), and She's Funny That Way (2014).
Abandoned
5/10
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
Targets
7.3/10
Peter Bogdanovich’s startling debut feature is both a brilliantly constructed thriller and a disturbingly prescient look at the rise of mass shootings in America. In his last serious dramatic role, Boris Karloff plays a version of himself: a washed-up horror actor whose fate intersects with a psychotic sniper (Tim O’Kelly) on a killing spree.
Los Angeles Overnight
5.2/10
A struggling actress inherits a bevy of colorful villains after desperation (with a touch of femme fatale) drives her and her gullible boyfriend to steal big from the Los Angeles underworld.
The Tell-Tale Heart
3.4/10
A haunting account of a tormented man, haunted by the heart of a man he murdered, who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness.
The Fifth Patient
5/10
John Reilly wakes up in an African Hospital with only fragments of his memory in tact. An officer of the local regime, Mugambe, accuses him of being an American spy.
