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".
Winter's Bone (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Debra Granik
Starring: John Hawkes, Jennifer Lawrence
With the threat of her family being evicted from their home in the Ozarks if her bail-jumping father isn't caught within the week, 17-year-old Ree Dol... Read more
Winter's Bone ( Blu-ray ) (2010)
7.2/10
Director: Debra Granik
Starring: John Hawkes, Jennifer Lawrence
With the threat of her family being evicted from their home in the Ozarks if her bail-jumping father isn't caught within the week, 17-year-old Ree Dol... Read more
Wintersleepers (1997)
Director: Tom Tykwer
Starring: Ulrich Matthers, Marie-Lou Sellem, Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch
From the director of 'Run Lola Run', focusing on the lives of five people caught in a snowbound mountain town. "Disturbing, scary and erotic... Tom Ty... Read more
Witness (1985)
7.4/10
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Harrison Ford, Lukas Haas, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Jan Rubes, Alexander Go...
Harrison Ford is the cop who runs head-on into the non-violent world of the Amish community in this Academy Award-winning struggle of life and death i... Read more
Witness ( Blu-ray ) (1985)
7.4/10
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Danny Glover, Harrison Ford, Jan Rubes, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Viggo Morten...
Harrison Ford is the cop who runs head-on into the non-violent world of the Amish community in this Academy Award-winning struggle of life and death i... Read more
Wolf Creek 2 (2013)
6.1/10
Director: Greg McLean
Starring: John Jarratt, Philippe Klaus, Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn
The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-hunter Mick Taylor. Read more
Woman at War (2018)
7.5/10
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Halla is a 50-year-old environmental activist who crusades against the local aluminium industry in Iceland. As her actions grow bolder, her life chang... Read more
Woman of the Dunes (1964)
Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Starring: Eiji Okuda, Kyoko Kishida, Koji Mitsui, Hiroko Ito
When teacher Junpei Niki misses his last bus home after a day out collecting insects on a remote stretch of coast, he is invited by a local villager t... Read more
World War Z (2013)
7/10
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Brad Pitt, Matthew Fox, James Badge Dale, Mireille Enos
Starring Brad Pitt and very loosely based on the best-selling and wildly popular novel, "World War Z" is a fast-paced, pulse-pounding epic which follo... Read more
World War Z ( Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D ) (2013)
7/10
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Brad Pitt, Matthew Fox, James Badge Dale, Mireille Enos
Starring Brad Pitt and very loosely based on the best-selling and wildly popular novel, "World War Z" is a fast-paced, pulse-pounding epic which follo... Read more