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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 Numbers Station (2013)

5.6/10
Director: Kasper Barfoed
Starring: John Cusack, Liam Cunningham, Bryan Dick, Lucy Griffiths, Malin Akerman, Richard...

After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent (John Cusack) is given one last chance to prove he still ha... Read more

The Nun (2018)

5.7/10
Director: Corin Hardy
Starring: Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows... Read more

The Nun (Blu-Ray) (2018)

5.7/10
Director: Corin Hardy
Starring: Demian Bichir, Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows... Read more

The Objective (2008)

5.5/10
Director: Daniel Myrick
Starring: Jonas Ball, Matthew R Anderson, Jon Huertas, Michael C Williams, Sam Hunter, Jef...

A CIA operative based in the Middle East is on the look-out for suspicious activity in the wake of September 11th, when his instruments show a tremend... Read more

The Odessa File (1974)

7/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Mary Tamm, Derek Jacobi, Klaus Lowi...

From the best-selling novel by Frederick Forsyth comes this thriller set in 1963 Hamburg, Germany. Jon Voight plays a German journalist who launches a... Read more

The Omega Code (1999)

3.5/10
Director: Robert Marcarelli
Starring: Casper Van Dien, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael York, Michael Ironside

Evangelical cheese, financed by televangelist Paul Crouch of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, in which TV motovational guru Casper Van Dien is recrui... Read more

The Omen (2006)

5.5/10
Director: John Moore
Starring: Mia Farrow, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, David Thewli...

Aka 'The Omen 666'. In this chilling remake of 'The Omen' (1976) man's darkest fears are manifested as an unspeakable terror is unleashed on the world... Read more

The Omen ( Blu-ray ) (2006)

5.5/10
Director: John Moore
Starring: David Thewlis, Julia Stiles, Mia Farrow, Michael Gambon, Liev Schreiber, Seamus...

Aka 'The Omen 666'. In this chilling remake of 'The Omen' (1976) man's darkest fears are manifested as an unspeakable terror is unleashed on the world... Read more

The Onion Field (1979)

6.9/10
Director: Harold Becker
Starring: John Savage, James Woods, Ted Danson, Ronny Cox

Powerful film version of Joseph Wambaugh's fact-based novel about the killing of a policeman and his partner's eventual breakdown. James Wood's electr... Read more

The Orphanage (2007)

7.5/10
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Starring: Belen Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Roger Princep, Mabel Rivera

A gothic chiller featuring a woman returning to the now-closed orphanage where she was raised. Laura and her husband plan to reopen it as a home for d... Read more