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".
Bruce Willis reprises his role as Detective John McClane in the fifth instalment of the enduring action franchise. This time around, McClane travels t... Read more
Bruce Willis reprises his role as Detective John McClane in the fifth instalment of the enduring action franchise. This time around, McClane travels t... Read more
As a sadistic serial killer is spreading fear across the Northeast, taunting the police as his victims pile up, Darcy Anderson (Joan Allen) and her hu... Read more
The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbour when it is hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Amongst the men on board are the ship's cook... Read more
Adapted from a graphic novel, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is a quiet man living a quiet life in Indiana. A quiet shattered when a pair of fugitives wa... Read more
Adapted from a graphic novel, Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is a quiet man living a quiet life in Indiana. A quiet shattered when a pair of fugitives wa... Read more
In this gripping remake of the 1956 thriller, Matt Dillon plays a psychotic yuppie who kills his girlfriend and then marries her twin sister (Sean You... Read more
Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur's English-language debut is a black humour-tinged noir that stars Forest Whitaker as an insurance investigator lo... Read more
A quintet of hikers rock-climbing in the Scottish Highlands is shocked when they chance upon a frightened, starving 8-year-old Serbian girl sequestere... Read more
Kirk Douglas stars as Jim Schuyler, an ex New York cop who turned in his badge after roughing up a crook or two in the cause of justice. Schuyler is h... Read more