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".
The Hunt (2020)
6.4/10
Director: Craig Zobel
Starring: Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specif... Read more
The Hunt (Blu-ray) (2020)
8.3/10
Director: Craig Zobel
Starring: Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Ethan Suplee, Emma Roberts
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specif... Read more
The Hunt For Red October (1990)
7.6/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill
An exciting, complex tale about a Soviet submarine captain who may (or may not) be planning to defect to the U.S. during the maiden voyage of a super... Read more
The Hunted (2003)
6/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen
Haunted by the nightmares of killing he experienced in Kosovo in the past, Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro) has turned into a top special-forces assass... Read more
The Hunter (1980)
6.4/10
Director: Buzz Kulik
Starring: Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold, LeVar Burton, Ben Johnson
The true story of Ralph 'Papa' Thorson, a modern day bounty hunter, stars legendary actor Steve McQueen in his final screen role. Thorson's exploits a... Read more
The Hunting Party (2007)
6.9/10
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: James Brolin, Jesse Eisenberg, Richard Gere, Ljubomir Kerekes, Terrence Howard
Hoping to make it back to the big time, a disgraced TV reporter (Richard Gere) recruits his old cameraman (Terrence Howard) and a naive young producer... Read more
The i Inside (2003)
6.1/10
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo, Stephen Rea, Robert Sean Leonard, St...
A time-hopping, psychological thriller with Ryan Phillippe as Simon, who wakes up in hospital with no memory of the previous two years. When he discov... Read more
The Ice Road (2021)
5.6/10
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Starring: Liam Neeson, Laurence Fishburne
After a remote diamond mine collapses in far northern Canada, a ‘big-rig’ ice road driver must lead an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean t... Read more
The Ice Runner (1993)
5.6/10
Director: Barry Samson
Starring: Victor Wong, Edward Albert
A U.S. spy stationed in the Soviet Union is betrayed by the CIA and sent to a prison camp. After assuming the identity of a dead thief he's transferre... Read more
The Idealist (2015)
7.6/10
Director: Christina Rosendahl
Starring: Jens Albinus, Arly Jover, Soren Malling, Thomas Bo Larsen, Peter Plaugborg
In the vein of a classic investigative journalism thriller, Christina Rosendahls gripping drama The Idealist unravels the deeply compromised relation... Read more