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".
A remake of Marcel Carne's French film 'Le Jour Se Leve', this noir thriller keeps you on the edge of your seat with great performances from Henry Fon... Read more
Based on the best-selling novel by John Le Carre, this gripping Cold War espionage-thriller, stars Christopher Jones as Polish defector Leiser who, in... Read more
Writer Scott Frank ('Out of Sight', 'Minority Report') makes his directorial debut with this successful young noir-thriller. Handicapped ex-athlete J... Read more
An explosive action tale of betrayal and revenge, 'The Losers' centers around the members of an elite Special Forces unit sent to the Bolivian jungle... Read more
Based on the novel by Jack Ketchum, this horror/thriller is set in the late '60s when the youth of America were either getting their heads down at sch... Read more
Lombard (Daniel Auteuil), once a Paris police detective, now lives alone in London. He is contracted by an old colleague to trace his adult son Leon.... Read more
While searching for a legendary lost tribe in the dense New Zealand jungle, renowned anthropologist Maxwell Scarry (John Bach) disappears without a tr... Read more
Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller set in 1970s New England is the extraordinary story about one girl's life, and everything that... Read more
Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller set in 1970s New England is the extraordinary story about one girl's life, and everything that... Read more
When gangsters murder her brother, and hack off her left arm, sweet Japanese schoolgirl Ami takes matters into her own...er, hand, and gets her stump... Read more