Se7en

Veteran detective Somerset days from retirement and young hothead Mills are partnered on a series of murders where each victim has been killed in a manner representing one of the seven deadly sins. The killer John Doe is meticulous precise and has a plan that extends beyond the murders themselves. David Fincher’s pitch-black thriller builds toward a climax that Somerset anticipates and cannot stop — one of cinema’s most devastating and precisely executed endings. The film remains a landmark of both crime cinema and of what studio filmmaking can achieve when it refuses to flinch.