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".
We Own The Night (2007)
6.9/10
Director: James Gray
Starring: Robert Duvall, Eva Mendes, Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, Alex Veadov
Brooklyn nightclub manager Bobby Green (Joaquin Phoenix) gets an offer to join the drug trade from a pusher working inside his club. Because Bobby has... Read more
Welcome to the Jungle (Blu-ray) (2007)
4.4/10
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Two young couples head into the New Guinea wilderness in an effort to find Michael Rockefeller, the heir to the Rockefeller fortune who disappeared in... Read more
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
6.1/10
Director: Eran Creevy
Starring: Mark Strong, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey, James McAvoy, Daniel Mays, Andrea Ri...
Three years ago, master criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) escaped London during a daring robbery that left detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy)... Read more
Welcome to the Punch (Blu-ray) (2013)
6.1/10
Director: Eran Creevy
Starring: Mark Strong, Peter Mullan, David Morrissey, James McAvoy, Daniel Mays, Andrea Ri...
Three years ago, master criminal Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) escaped London during a daring robbery that left detective Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy)... Read more
West of Sunshine (2017)
7.3/10
Director: Jason Raftopoulos
Starring: Arthur Angel, Ty Perham, Damian Hill
Separated from his family and caught in a cycle of gambling and debt, Jim has less than a day to repay a violent loan shark. His day is turned upside... Read more
What Doesn't Kill You (2008)
6.6/10
Director: Brian Goodman
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Peet, Will Lyman, Brian Goodman, Donnie Wahlbe...
A tough-talking crime drama that follows the journey of two childhood friends as they attempt to sever their powerful ties to the underworld. Mark Ruf... Read more
What Happened To Monday? (2017)
6.9/10
Director: Tommy Wirkola
Starring: Glenn Close, Willem Dafoe, Noomi Rapace, Christian Rubeck
In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the go... Read more
What Lies Beneath (2000)
6.6/10
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid
This creepy suspenser stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Harrison Ford as a married couple who live in a large house near a Vermont lake. While Ford, a unive... Read more
What No One Knows (2008)
6.2/10
Director: Soren Kragh-Jacobsen
Starring: Anders W Berthelsen, Maria Bonnevie, Ghita Norby, Marie Louise Wille, Sarah Juel...
Engrossing political thriller about a middle-aged man, whose unhappy marriage and distant father-daughter relationship, are in sharp contrast to his d... Read more
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
6.5/10
Director: Fred Walton
Starring: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst
A crazed killer who was incarcerated seven years earlier when he murdered two children and terrorised their babysitter, escapes from his asylum with t... Read more