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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".

Timecrimes (2007)

7.2/10
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Starring: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernandez, Barbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo, Juan Inciar...

Aka "Los Cronocrimenes". Fiendishly clever and stylishly crafted, this low-budget Spanish sci-fi thriller ably demonstrates the value of a great idea... Read more

Timelock (1957)

2.8/10
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Robert Ayres, Robert Beatty, Betty McDowell, Lee Patterson, Sean Connery

A textbook example of how a talented director and cast can do a lot with a little. Lensed in Canada, the story gets under way when a child is accident... Read more

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)

7.1/10
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Kathy Burke, Mark Strong, Sim...

There is a mole in MI6. When British agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) discovers, courtesy of an affair, that there may be a Russian agent operating at a h... Read more

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ( Blu-ray ) (2011)

7.1/10
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Ciaran Hinds, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, John Hurt, Kathy Burke, Mark Strong, Sim...

There is a mole in MI6. When British agent Ricki Tarr (Tom Hardy) discovers, courtesy of an affair, that there may be a Russian agent operating at a h... Read more

To Catch a Thief (1955)

7.5/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, Jessie Royce Landis

Cary Grant is John "the Cat" Robie, a suave ex-burglar whose life of ease along the French Riviera is torn asunder when a new string of robberies is c... Read more

To Catch a Thief ( Blu-ray ) (1955)

7.5/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis

Cary Grant is John "the Cat" Robie, a suave ex-burglar whose life of ease along the French Riviera is torn asunder when a new string of robberies is c... Read more

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)

7.3/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: William L Petersen, Willem Dafoe, John Pankow, Debra Feuer, John Turturro, Darla...

Gritty, fast-paced police thriller with William Petersen as a Secret Service agent who will stop at nothing to capture slimy counterfeiter Willem Dafo... Read more

Tomb Raider (2018)

6.4/10
Director: Roar Uthaug
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Walton Goggins, Dominic West, Daniel Wu, Nic...

Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished years earlier. Hoping to solve the mystery of her father's dis... Read more

Tomb Raider (Blu-Ray) (2018)

6.4/10
Director: Roar Uthaug
Starring: Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Walton Goggins, Dominic West, Nick Frost, Al...

Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished years earlier. Hoping to solve the mystery of her father's dis... Read more

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

6.5/10
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Joe Don Baker, Judi...

Pierce Brosnan leaps into action as James Bond when a deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against e... Read more