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".
Notorious writer Bret Easton Ellis ("American Psycho") and acclaimed director Paul Schrader ("Auto Focus") join forces for this explicitly erotic thri... Read more
In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man qu... Read more
In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man qu... Read more
Oscar-nominated Director Atom Egoyan's psycho thriller The Captive unravels the most extreme example of dissociation and child abduction. Starring fel... Read more
A.k.a. "Il Cartaio". The possibilities are limitless for blackmail when horrified police and detectives are forced to witness "live", the gruesome vid... Read more
An all-star spectacular telling of a terrorist infected with a deadly virus who boards the Stockholm to Geneva Express exposing all aboard to the dise... Read more
"A dangerous criminal has escaped. He is described as a man with sharp teeth, nails resembling claws, who imagines himself to be a cat and tears his v... Read more
One of Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mysteries is the basis for this vibrant film from Peter Bogdanovich. A party hosted by newspaper mogul Will... Read more
Directed by Kasi Lemmons ("Eve's Bayou"), this intriguing thriller stars Samuel L Jackson as a schizophrenic recluse who lives in a cave in a New York... Read more
Psychotherapist Jennifer Lopez, who uses experimental virtual reality technology to enter the minds of her patients, is recruited by the FBI to delve... Read more