Thriller Film Directors - Adrian Lyne and Robert Schwentke

Adrian Lyne

Adrian Lyne is an English film director and producer. He was born in 1941 in Peterborough. He is best known for directing films that involve sexually charged characters. He uses natural lighting in his films and often uses a fog machine. This is a way Lyne creates erotic atmosphere. He received a nomination for an 'Academy Award for Best Director' in 1988 for 'Fatal Attraction'.

Unfaithful
Unfaithful is a 2002 American erotic thriller film starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Olivier Martinez, directed by Adrian Lyne. It is about a couple living in the suburbs of New York City whose marriage goes dangerously wrong when the wife indulges in an adulterous fling with a stranger she randomly encounters in Manhattan.

Fatal Attraction
Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller film that stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer. It was directed by Adrian Lyne. It is about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him.

These two films are strongly influenced by sexual tension and have strong female characters.

Jacobs Ladder
Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 psychological thriller film directed by Adrian Lyne. It stars Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, and Jason Alexander. It is about A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds who finds out his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him.

This film by Adrian Lyne however, is not of the same genre and has a very different type of plot which is almost completely the opposite of the previous films mentioned.

Robert Schwentke

Robert Schwentke is a German film director born in 1968. He is best known for the films 'Tattoo' and 'Flightplan'. He wrote and directed for German TV before writing and directing his first feature film, 'Tattoo', which won a Special Mention at Fantasporto as well as Special Mention at the Swedish Fantastic Film Festival.He then directed 'Flightplan', a thriller about a woman whose daughter goes missing on an airplane in flight.

Tattoo
Tattoo is a 2002 German film directed by Robert Schwentke. Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered into traffic.

Flightplan
Flightplan is a 2005 thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke. Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a propulsion engineer based in Germany. Her husband David died and now Kyle and her six year-old daughter Julia are flying home to Long Island to bury him and stay with Kyle's parents. After falling asleep for a few hoursKyle wakes to find that Julia is missing.

These films both have an element of mystery in them which makes them exciting thrillers, as what you are expecting, is not always what actually happens.