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".
Dwight (Macon Blair), an outsider who lives out of his bullet-ridden Pontiac, is a man of few words whose parents were murdered when he was just a chi... Read more
Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and his wife Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) are actors in an amateur Tehran production of Arthur Millers Death of a Salesman. When... Read more
Stylish, tough-as-nails British gangster yarn features an acclaimed turn by Ben Kingsley as a short-fused London criminal sent to strong-arm retired s... Read more
Controversial, sexually-charged suspenser stars Michael Douglas as a burned-out San Francisco police detective investigating a brutal ice-pick murder... Read more
The eminently mustachioed Poirot becomes embroiled in a familial murder in this Agatha Christie instalment. Called in to investigate by family solicit... Read more
Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) returns to his outback home town to solve the murder of a teenage girl, whose body is found unde... Read more
Following 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', Guy Ritchie revisits that film's territory of London's criminal-ridden underbelly, with this labyrint... Read more
Peter Sellers, David Niven, Woody Allen, Orson Welles, Ursula Andress star in the film based on the first Fleming 007 novel: the farce begins when Bon... Read more
Intense thriller with Robin Williams as a lonely, troubled photo developer at a large discount department store whose obsession with a "perfect" subur... Read more
A mesmerizing performance by Laura Dern anchors David Lynch's mindbending tale of an actress who learns that her latest movie is a remake of a film th... Read more