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".
A single phone call can change a man's life...or possibly end it. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly... Read more
A researcher (George C. Scott) teaches the aquatic mammals to talk, then faces a crisis when he learns they are also being trained as assassins. Read more
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
Somewhere a woman is buried alive and will run out of air in 24 hours. Her only chance for survival lies with a troubled female cop who must confront... Read more
Journalist Ji-won, (Ji-won Ha) changes her cellphone after an investigation into a scandal leads to her receiving threats â?? but things only get scar... Read more
Promoted as a sequel to 2003's 'Open Water', this is related in no other way except that it is also based on a terrible true story of being helplessly... Read more
A skilled team of professionals plot to steal an enormous cache of emeralds, but their daring get-rich-quick scheme lands them in the middle of the co... Read more
Believing he can leave his dangerous life in the special forces behind, Ajisawa (Ken Takakura) abandons his job as a soldier and adopts Yoriko (Hiroko... Read more
Jigsaw lives on. Once again he has eluded capture and this time the nefarious villain has a new apprentice (Shawnee Smith), and has kidnapped a docto... Read more
When an American nuclear sub is commandeered by terrorists who want a billion dollars in gold or else Washington will get nuked, Navy analyst Michael... Read more