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".
Antitrust (2000)
6.1/10
Director: Peter Howitt
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani, Tim Robbins, Richard Roundtr...
Stanford graduate and computer whiz Ryan Phillippe is lured away from his friend's startup company by a fantastic offer from billionaire software tyco... Read more
Anything for Her (2008)
7.2/10
Director: Fred Cavaye
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger
Lisa (Diane Kruger) and Julien (Vincent Lindon) are a happily married couple, still passionately in love, who lead a normal life together with their y... Read more
Apartment 143 (2011)
5/10
Starring: Kai Lennox, Fiona Glascott, Rick Gonzalez
A team of parapsychologists try to figure out a strange phenomenon occurring in an apartment building. Read more
Apocalypto (2006)
7.8/10
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead
Mel Gibson's Mayan epic was overshadowed by the director's personal antics, but this hugely-scaled mythological tale is a vivid and ferocious window o... Read more
Apocalypto ( Blu-ray ) (2006)
7.8/10
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Rudy Youngblood, Dalia Hernandez, Jonathan Brewer, Morris Birdyellowhead
Mel Gibson's Mayan epic was overshadowed by the director's personal antics, but this hugely-scaled mythological tale is a vivid and ferocious window o... Read more
Appearances (2020)
7/10
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Starring: Karin Viard
In this psychological thriller, a ridiculed French woman in Vienna seeks to avenge her honor while concealing her efforts from the bourgeois community... Read more
April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
7.3/10
Director: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Paul Giamatti, J K Simmons
Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them, l... Read more
Aquarius (2015)
7.1/10
Starring: David Duchovny
A gritty 1960s cop drama about LAPD detective Sam Hodiak and his trainee, who must deal with gangs, brutal crimes, changing times, family crises and u... Read more
Arabesque (1966)
6.6/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore
This Bondian adventure stars Gregory Peck as a language professor hired to decipher a secret code. He and Sophia Loren must outwit hired gunmen and cu... Read more
Arbitrage (2012)
6.6/10
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Starring: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling
Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is a New York hedge-fund magnate who appears to have it all - money, power, a loving wife (Susan Sarandon), and a devoted... Read more