Feel like having your nerves utterly shredded by a god-tier filmmaker? Already seen "Inchon?" Then you need to experience the piano-wire-taut suspense of Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 masterpiece "The Wages of Fear," which currently holds the 209 spot on IMDb's Top 250 list (as voted on by users).

Henri-Georges Clouzot is considered by many cinephiles to be Alfred Hitchcock's French counterpart ( he swiped the rights to "Les Diaboliques" from the maestro), but Hitch never made anything as sweatily terrifying as "The Wages of Fear." Hitchcock's films could obviously be kinky, and, in the case of "Frenzy," downright sleazy, but there was almost always a pure cinematic polish to his work. I don't think he would've ever bothered with a white-knuckler like "The Wages of Fear" (not unless he

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