1. The Sixth Sense
Obviously, right? The film that put Shyamalan on the map is still, surely, his best. In later films, he’d spread his wings and make stories that were bigger, more intense, and just as surprising, but the quiet, creepy nature of this story—about a boy (Haley Joel Osment) who could see dead people—was already a winner before the twist ending that changed the filmmaker’s career. To this day it remains a shockingly restrained and expertly crafted rumination on death, regret, and more.
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