Transcript: Christian Movie Recommendations: Top 7 Faith-Based Thrillers

Greetings to classic cinema and TV fans. This is Pastor Jay here on Retrograde's top seven releases. This time we're talking the top seven thriller movies of all time. Be sure to like, share, and subscribe to these videos and we would appreciate it. Let's jump into the list. Harrison Ford, The Fugitive based off of the original TV series this is, I usually don't put TV movies or movies that are remade from TV shows on my list, but this one was just done so well that it has to be on there the train scene the chase scene through the St. Patrick's Day parade Just so many chases in this thing is just amazing. This film, The Fugitive, is just so amazing. It has to land on the list. And so we put it at number seven. The Fugitive, Harrison Ford, it is so good. Check it out. It deserves number seven on the list. The Great Escape. This is an amazing film that has one amazing chase scene. And it is probably one of the best chase scenes from a motorcycle standpoint of all time collected on film. It is that good. It still holds up to this day. And it basically was all done by Steve McQueen himself because nobody else would be willing to do the scene. And so he would do the one scene, and then he'd dress up in the soldier regalia and all that type of stuff, jump on the thing and take off. And so basically he played not only the guy being chased, but the chaser as well. Amazing. Such an amazing film. The Great Escape is so thrilling, and it deserves to be seen. If you've never seen it, definitely check out The Great Escape, coming in at number six on the top seven. The Manchurian Candidate. This is a very low-key thriller. Not so much in the chasing and the stuff like that, but it's a thrilling, head-scratching kind of thriller. And it is just done so well. You're always guessing through this thing to find out what happens. And we don want to spoil this if you never seen The Manchurian Candidate but it is so good Frank Sinatra plays an amazing part in this thing and if you never seen Frank Sinatra as an actor I don know what you watching You should see Frank Sinatra in some things. He is amazing. But Frank Sinatra really does a tremendous job in this. It's a political thriller about a guy that is having these nightmares, and are these nightmares real or not? And it is such, I don't want to spoil it. I just want you to check it out. So if you've never checked it out, definitely check it out. Manchurian Candidate, it is so good. It is thrilling. It's not the chase thriller, but it is so good. It definitely needs to be checked out. Definitely check out the Manchurian Candidate. Kind of almost feels very today, if you will. And we won't go into why, but you can check that out. Manchurian Candidate comes in at number five. This is Double Indemnity. Barbara Stanwyck was an amazing actress, and so was Fred McMurray. Fred McMurray was amazing. Many people only think of Fred McMurray as the father on My Three Sons, but that is not true. He was an amazing film actor. He played some of the most iconic films in film history, and one of them is Double Indemnity. It's basically about Fred McBury is a life insurance salesman, and Stanwyck plays this wife, and they begin to have a relationship, and they decide to have her sign her husband up for a double indemnity clause and then see what they can do to eliminate him and then maybe just take the money and run. It is thrilling, it's a mystery, and it is so well played off. Even to this day, it really is well done. And it definitely deserves to be checked out. If you've never seen Double Indemnity, check it out. It's very well done. Film noir, thriller, mystery, it's got a little bit of everything in it. Something for everybody. Double Indemnity comes in at number four. Now, easily, we could be doing Alfred Hitchcock through this whole thing because Hitchcock's films are so thrilling, but we couldn't do that because it would be very unfair to other films. So we didn do all Hitchcock but we had to put two in and that where number three and number two comes in Number three coming in at number three is Rear Window This is probably one of Hitchcock best There something so amazing about this. You get Jimmy Stewart. Who doesn't love Jimmy Stewart? And you also get Perry Mason. Raymond Burr is amazing. You get Grace Kelly in this. It's just an amazing character study about a man whose broken leg has caused him to just be stuck in a wheelchair, and all he's got is some binoculars and some people to look at. Voyeurism, yeah, a little bit, But it's a thrilling thing in the fact that he sees somebody kill some, a man kill his wife, and he's got to try to do something. But wait a minute. Is this going to happen? Is this right? Should I be doing this? Shouldn't I be doing this? Should? All the things are told they're up to a crescendo. It is so amazing. If you've never seen this film, Rear Window, you definitely need to check it out. It is so thrilling and so good. That's why it has to be number three on the top seven. Another Hitchcock film. This is another Jimmy Stewart Hitchcock film. It is Vertigo. Probably so many iconic shots in this film. So amazing, so good. Deals with fear, fears of heights, vertigo, all kinds of stuff. And the shots that Hitchcock did were stellar, amazing. It really takes you into the fear of vertigo, of having vertigo and what it is. And you really are drawn in there. It's so cool. I don't want to give this away. I don't want to give what this film is away. But we'll just say that it's all about a mystery about a detective that is trying to unravel this crime that has happened and what it's all about. And we just don't want to go into it because we'll give it away. But definitely check it out. The San Francisco detective has a fear of heights, and yet he has to go after the answers by defeating his fear of heights. Amazing, thrilling, great. That's why it comes in at number two on the top seven. Wait Until Dark probably the most thrilling of all of thrillers I don know why this one affects me so much but it just does This is the most this is the film that affects me the most Every time I watch it it does something to me It affects me. It takes me on this ride, and I've watched it so many times, and yet I still get drawn into the story, and it's almost like I forget what happened, and I'm waiting to see what's going to happen. Maybe something's going to happen different. It's that affecting. It's so amazing. Basically, it's about a group of guys that find out that there's a doll that has got drugs in it. And a lady gave this doll to a man in an airport, and the man brought the doll home. She said she'd come up later and pick it up, and he gives it to his blind wife to hide it. And then these guys come in trying to find the doll. And they're not going to leave until they get what they came for. And the crescendo of this thing is it all comes down to one man and the blind girl fighting in the dark to see who's going to survive. It is so thrilling. It's so iconic. It is so amazing. and Warner Archive released this on Blu-ray. Thankfully, oh, I'm so excited to finally have it on Blu-ray. It is so cool. It is definitely worth checking out. If you've never seen Audrey Hepburn in Wait Until Dark, you have missed out. You need to watch it. It's that good. It's that thrilling. It's that amazing. It is definitely worth checking out. Wait Until Dark comes in at number one on the top thrillers. So do you agree with the list that we've given you? What is your favorite thrilling film in cinema history? Let us know in the comments below. We'd appreciate it. 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