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".
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
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight unlikely teenagers band together to fight. Read more
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight unlikely teenagers band together to fight. Read more
A thriller centered on a serial killer in a rundown London suburb. Read more
When the beautiful daughter of a prominent businessman is found drunk and unconscious in a hotel room, private detective Tony Rome (Frank Sinatra) is... Read more
Aka "Trop Tard". Dumitru Costa (Razvan Vasilescu), a young trainee Public Prosecutor, is given his first investigation - the suspicious death of a min... Read more
Based on Leon Uris' spy novel and features John Forsythe as a CIA Agent who learns of the Cuban missiles from a defecting Russian. He enlists the aid... Read more
Kylie Winters, a bullied and self-loathing teen, reluctantly agrees to babysit at an isolated country mansion on Halloween night. When a small boy in... Read more
Alfred Hitchcock's tale of international intrigue involves a world-famous scientist who may (or may not) be defecting to East Berlin. Paul Newman, Jul... Read more
Music video director Joseph Kahn's debut feature stars Kiwi Martin Henderson as a biker who gets set up to take the fall for the murder of motorcycle... Read more