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 Vanishing (1993)
6.3/10
Director: George Sluizer
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock
This Americanization of the 1988 Dutch classic is full of imbalances as the plot is spelt out leaving nothing to the imagination. However, the films t... Read more
The Vanishing (2018)
5.8/10
Starring: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Gary Lewis
Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. Read more
The Vanishing (Blu-ray) (2018)
6.3/10
Starring: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Gary Lewis
Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. Read more
The Village (2004)
6.5/10
Director: M Night Shyamalan
Starring: Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver,...
This mindbending M. Night Shyamalan thriller chronicles life in a 19th-century Pennsylvania community surrounded by woods inhabited by deadly creature... Read more
The Visit (2015)
6.2/10
Director: M Night Shyamalan
Starring: Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn, Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan
When Becca and Tyler are sent to their grandparents' secluded Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong stay, they quickly discover something is not right with... Read more
The Visit (Blu-ray) (2015)
6.2/10
Director: M Night Shyamalan
Starring: Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn, Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan
When Becca and Tyler are sent to their grandparents' secluded Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong stay, they quickly discover something is not right with... Read more
The Visit (Blu-ray) (2015)
6.2/10
Director: M Night Shyamalan
Starring: Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn, Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan
When Becca and Tyler are sent to their grandparents' secluded Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong stay, they quickly discover something is not right with... Read more
The Waiting Place (2001)
5.5/10
Director: Cristobal Araus Lobos
Starring: Dave Perrett, Dane Giraud, Vadim Ledogorov, Michelle Langstone
The unsetting story of two escaped convicts who hold up in a desolate psychiatric hospital while they await their ride to freedom. With nothing left t... Read more
The Walker (2007)
5.9/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Ned Beatty, Moritz Bleibtr...
Woody Harrelson is Carter Page, a popular and overtly gay socialite who mingles with the wives of America's most powerful men. When his good friend Ly... Read more
The Wall (2017)
6.2/10
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John Cena
U.S. soldiers Allan "Ize" Isaac and Shane Matthews answer a distress call in the desert of postwar Iraq. Suddenly, gunshots erupt, leaving Shane badly... Read more