24 Foreign Thrillers Vs. Their Hollywood Remakes
The 2010 Best Foreign Language Film winner The Secret in Their Eyes is being remade…as Secret in Their Eyes, a murder mystery starring Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. As Americans, we don’t need definite articles in our movie titles, but we do occasionally need help thinking up stories to shoot, prompting this week’s 24 Frames gallery of foreign thrillers versus their Hollywood counterparts.
Year: 2010
Tomatometer: 91%
Secret in Their Eyes
Year: 2015
Year: 1998
Tomatometer: 63%
Funny Games
Year: 2008
Tomatometer: 52%
Year: 2005
Tomatometer: 80%
Oldboy
Year: 2013
Tomatometer: 41%
Year: 2009
Tomatometer: 86%
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Year: 2011
Tomatometer: 86%
Year: 2002
Tomatometer: 95%
The Departed
Year: 2006
Tomatometer: 91%
Year: 1998
Tomatometer: 97%
Insomnia
Year: 2002
Tomatometer: 92%
Year: 2006
Tomatometer: 80%
Brick Mansions
Year: 2014
Tomatometer: 26%
Year: 2005
The Tourist
Year: 2010
Tomatometer: 20%
Year: 1991
True Lies
Year: 1994
Tomatometer: 72%
Year: 1988
Tomatometer: 100%
The Vanishing
Year: 1993
Tomatometer: 47%
Year: 1990
Tomatometer: 88%
Point of No Return
Year: 1993
Tomatometer: 48%
Year: 1999
Tomatometer: 85%
Vanilla Sky
Year: 2001
Tomatometer: 41%
Year: 1973
Tomatometer: 90%
The Wicker Man
Year: 2006
Tomatometer: 15%
Year: 1961
Tomatometer: 97%
Breathless
Year: 1983
Tomatometer: 67%
Year: 2005
Tomatometer: 84%
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Year: 2011
Tomatometer: 8%
Year: 1999
Tomatometer: 53%
Bangkok Dangerous Year: 2008 Tomatometer: 9%
Year: 1983
Eye of the Beholder
Year: 2000
Tomatometer: 9%
Year: 2008
Tomatometer: 79%
The Next Three Days
Year: 2010
Tomatometer: 52%
Year: 1962
Tomatometer: 92%
12 Monkeys
Year: 1995
Tomatometer: 88%
Year: 2004
Tomatometer: 89%
Brothers
Year: 2009
Tomatometer: 63%
Year: 1955
Tomatometer: 97%
Diabolique
Year: 1996
Tomatometer: 12%
Year: 1955
Tomatometer: 97%
The Good Thief
Year: 2003
Tomatometer: 77%
Year: 1931
Tomatometer: 100%
M
Year: 1951
Year: 1953
Tomatometer: 100%
Sorcerer
Year: 1977
Tomatometer: 80%
