10 Most Stressful Movie Scenes Of All Time

3. Hans Landa Enters The Farm - Inglourious Basterds

No film has ever grabbed audiences by the scruff of their necks and refused to let go during its opening few minutes quite like Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

Unleashing a masterclass in tension, the writer/director gets things started with the arrival of the iconic Colonel Hans Landa as the officer stops by the LaPadite farm for a glass of milk and a quick smoke.

If only that were the truth.

Instead, as the tension ever so slowly rises with the reveal of Landa being on the lookout for a Jewish family known as the Dreyfuses, it soon becomes clear that Denis Ménochet's Perrier LaPadite has been lying about what he knows about them.

They're actually sitting right beneath the floorboards as they speak, adding a whole new layer of intolerable stress to the interrogation.

After much deceptively charming and tense discussion, Landa finally offers LaPadite one last chance to confess in order to keep his own family safe. And as Perrier's silence grows more deafening, Landa precisely peels back the lies, asking his host to point out where they're hiding below them.

While you dare to believe there's a world where Perrier could outsmart such a ruthless and clinical SS officer throughout, Landa was simply waiting for his moment to strike during the stressful opening, likely knowing all along that what he was looking for was literally right under his nose.