15 Films · Collection

5 Unofficial Film Trilogies

The best trilogies were never planned. Five directors made three thematically connected films without calling them a trilogy.

Zodiac

2007 David Fincher

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In Zodiac, Gyllenhaal's cartoonist spends decades chasing a serial killer and destroys his relationships.

The Social Network

2010 David Fincher

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Eisenberg's Zuckerberg builds the world's most connected platform while becoming the loneliest person in the room.

Gone Girl

2014 David Fincher

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Ben Affleck's Nick Dunne discovers the person pursuing him is the one he thought he knew best.

Adaptation.

2002 Spike Jonze

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Adaptation fragments it through Kaufman's screenplay about a screenwriter trying to adapt a book.

Her

2013 Spike Jonze

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Her resolves it with unexpected tenderness - Phoenix falling in love with an OS, treated as serious.

There Will Be Blood

2007 Paul Thomas Anderson

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Daniel Plainview drills for oil and poisons every relationship he touches.

The Master

2012 Paul Thomas Anderson

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Freddie Quell returns from war and attaches himself to a charismatic cult leader.

Phantom Thread

2017 Paul Thomas Anderson

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The dinner scene in Phantom Thread is one of the finest endings in modern cinema.

Heat

1995 Michael Mann

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Heat turns LA into a neon-lit chess board where Pacino's detective and De Niro's thief orbit each other.

Collateral

2004 Michael Mann

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Collateral strips it down to one taxi, one night, and Tom Cruise as a silver-haired hitman.

Romeo + Juliet

1996 Baz Luhrmann

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Miami Vice pushes furthest into abstraction, turning the drug trade into a digital fever dream.

Badlands

1974 Terrence Malick

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Badlands follows a teenage couple on a murder spree, narrated with the dispassionate wonder of a diary.

Days of Heaven

1978 Terrence Malick

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Days of Heaven sets a love triangle against the Texas wheat fields and captures golden hour like no film ever has.

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