Thrillers & Suspense
Thriller and Suspense Films promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension.
A genuine thriller is a film that relentlessly pursues a single-minded goal, to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging on the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. Plots of thrillers often involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the menace is sometimes abstract or shadowy.
Below is a grand line-up of the best in contemporary Thrillers & Suspense made since 1965. Following a similar theme, with generally a darker look is the "Film Noir" feature, well worth checking out. The exploits of "James Bond 007" may also be accessed stage left.
Right: Frances McDormand makes an arrest in the Coen Bros "Fargo".
Albino Alligator (1996)
6.1/10
Director: Kevin Spacey
Starring: Matt Dillon, Faye Dunaway, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner, Viggo Mortensen, John...
Kevin Spacey's directorial debut is this siege drama played out in an after hours drinking den with Matt Dillon, Gary Sinise and William Fichtner as t... Read more
Alex Cross (Blu-ray) (2012)
5.1/10
Director: Rob Cohen
Starring: Tyler Perry, Matthew Fox, Rachel Nichols
A homicide detective is pushed to the brink of his moral and physical limits as he tangles with a ferociously skilled hired killer who specializes in... Read more
Alien Outpost (2014)
4.7/10
Starring: Adrian Paul
A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion. Read more
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
7.5/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Keean Johnson, Mahershala Ali, Jennifer Connelly,...
Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unc... Read more
Alita: Battle Angel (Blu-Ray) (2019)
7.5/10
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Keean Johnson, Mahershala Ali, Jennifer Connelly,...
Set several centuries in the future, the abandoned Alita is found in the scrapyard of Iron City by Ido, a compassionate cyber-doctor who takes the unc... Read more
Alive (2002)
5.8/10
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Hideo Sakaki, Ryo , Koyuki , Shun Sugata, Erika Oda, Tak Sakaguchi, Jun Kunimura
Tenshu is imprisoned and sentenced to death for murdering the men who raped his girlfriend. However, he manages to survive his execution and is presen... Read more
All Good Things (2010)
6.3/10
Director: Andrew Jarecki
Starring: Frank Langella, Kirsten Dunst, Ryan Gosling
Tense film based on the 1982 disappearance of Kathie McCormack, the most notorious unsolved missing persons case in New York history, stars Ryan Gosli... Read more
All The Devil's Men (2018)
5.1/10
Starring: Sylvia Hoeks, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Joseph Millson, Elliot Cowan, William Fichtner
A battle-scarred War on Terror bounty hunter is forced to go to London on a manhunt for a disavowed CIA operative, which leads him into a deadly runni... Read more
Allied (2016)
7.1/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Brad Pitt, Jared Harris, Marion Cotillard, Lizzy Caplan, Simon McBurney
In the midst of World War II, an intelligence officer stationed in North Africa meets and fall in love with a member of the French Resistance on a dan... Read more
Allied (Blu-Ray) (2016)
7.1/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard
Max Vatan (Brad Pitt) and Marianne Beauséjour (Marion Cotillard) are World War II operatives who never reveal their true identities. After falling in... Read more