Best recent thrillers?

The Life of Others and The Departed are great films, haven't seen Internal Affairs yet, but it is in my plans though.

Some recent thrillers that I loved are: No Country for Old Men by the Coen brothers, Breaking and Entering by recentely deceased director Anthony Minghela and Zodiac by David Fincher, who, since Seven just makes great films.

'The Departed' is recent? lol

um, ok, i thought maybe you meant recent, as in last 6 months tops.

in which case, check out 'Michael Clayton'.

and if you loved 'The Departed', you MUST checked out 'American Gangster' - also deals with police/crook corruption.

And the ones Samira recommended, especially 'Zodiac'. Great taste in films, Samira. :)

"American Gangster" looks amazing. I need to add it to my want to watch.

"Zodiac" was ok. It was a little slow moving for me, not too much of a thriller if you ask me. But it was an ok movie.

No Country For Old Men is the most recent thriller I've seen, I thought it was amazing beyond belief. If you haven't already, you must check that out.

Michael Clayton seemed to me a completely different style to something like The Departed.. one of the reasons that I loved The Departed so much was because of not only the thriller aspect of it, but also the action.. shooting, explosions, that kinda stuff. Michael Clayton on the other hand is more of a drama kind of thriller... not edge of your seat thrills. Well, not for me anyway... but it was a good film.

Well I haven't seen Infernal Affairs yet, but I rated 'Departed' a 7/10 and 'Gangster' a 9/10 if that tells you what my tastes are like. I thought Departed got way more praise than it deserved. It was ok, but nothing spectacular.

Your typing is great. Its the Finnish humor we have to work on.

hm... seems like only the most well-known movies are discussed here. which i think is really a pity since there are probably quite a few other interesting ones as well out there.

and that's why i'd like to toss these two into the mix:
anamorph
the oxford murders

both don't exactly have great ratings at imdb but i thought that both were remarkable, even though not perfect - i rated them with 8/10

i was actually looking in here for recommendations of other recent (really recent - like weeks/months...) thrillers but oh well... i hope that maybe my posting inspires somebody to write about some recent thrillers he found interesting, even though they may not be as popular es e.g. the departed.

well one more rather recent one (it's already about one year old) i can mention is about in the same category as the ones mentioned above quality-wise (very good but nothing truly exceptional): fracture

@ release dates: yeah that's a problem but fortunately, there's online shopping nowadays and also you could just create a textfile on your desktop or something listing movies you want to buy in the near future, once they are released.

@ obscure: well that's exactly what communities like this are about for me. i don't care about reading about all those big movies that i read about on every second website anyway but here i think you have a good chance of finding hidden gems by looking at favorites of people who have a high compatibility rating or... yeah... posting stuff just like in here ;)

i just looked through my movie list... two more of my 8/10 thrillers in 2007 (unfortunately, i can't offer something i rated higher in 2007/2008 - there just isn't anything... except you count "inland empire". but i don't think that really fits in here) you have probably already heard about are: mr. brooks, the number 23

28 Weeks Later is an awesomely effective horror/thriller. I also liked Sunshine.

One of the best horror/thrillers of recent years would have to be The Descent. It was first released in 2005 so it's scarcely recent, but it's great.

It was made in 2003...but I have to mention Identity!