Movies: suggested double bills?

Question

Do you think any of these pairs would be suitable to see back to back?

Criterion: similar, but not like watching Rocky, Rocky 2 or other series sequels.

Pair 1, theme - hustles and twists

House of Games (dir. David Mamet 1987) starring Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna

The Music of Chance (Philip Haas 1993) James Spader, Mandy Patinkin

Pair 2, whimsical sci-fi

Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull 1971) Bruce Dern

Dark Star (John Carpenter 1973)

Pair 3, UK revenge dramas

Dead Man's Shoes (Shane Meadows 2004) Paddy Considine

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (Mike Hodges 2003) Clive Owen

Any other thoughts about thematic two-of-a-kind?

Answer 1

theme- destruction as creation

fight club

donnie darko

Answer 2

here are some I wouldn't mind seeing back-to-back:

Genre: Early Period - Romance

Memoris of a Geisha and Vanity Fair

1. MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA: Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.

2. VANITY FAIR: The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement.

Genre: Action

Man on Fire and Road to Perdition

1. MAN ON FIRE: In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect.

2. ROAD TO PERDITION (2002): About Irish-American gangsters in early '30s Illinois; features Tom Hanks as a hit man for mob boss Paul Newman. When Hanks' oldest son witnesses a murder in which his father and Newman's hot-tempered own son (Daniel Craig) are involved, a series of terrible circumstances sends Hanks and son on the lam, with hired killer Jude Law on their trail. With Tyler Hoechlin, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Stanley Tucci.

Genre: Drama

Swordfish and The Kingdom

1. SWORDFISH: A secretive renegade counter-terrorist co-opts the world's greatest hacker (who is trying to stay clean) to steal billions in US Government dirty money.

2. THE KINGDOM: A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the terrorist bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.

Genre: Multiple Plots

Grand Canyon and Crash

1. GRAND CANYON: Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles.

2. CRASH: Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters.

Genre: Suspense

The Secret Window and Frailty

1. THE SECRET WINDOW: Johnny Depp is fabulous as a writer accused of plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice."

2. FRAILTY: Fenton Meeks (Matthew McConaughey), comes forth to tell the FBI that his brother Adam may be the serial killer who calls himself God's Hands, who the FBI has been searching for. The film uses flashbacks to show Meeks' childhood with a father (Bill Paxton) who believed he was on a mission from God to destroy demons that inhabit human bodies. Fenton saw his dad as evil, while Adam saw him as a hero.

Genre: Military

The Hunted and Shooter

1. THE HUNTED: An FBI deep-woods tracker captures a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans. Stars Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro.

2. SHOOTER (A marksman - Mark Wahlberg - living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why.)