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".
Depraved (2019)
5.3/10
Director: Larry Fessenden
Starring: David Call, Joshua Leonard, Maria Dizzia
A disillusioned field surgeon suffering from PTSD makes a man out of body parts and brings him to life in a Brooklyn loft. Read more
Monster Hunters (2020)
2.1/10
Starring: Tom Sizemore
When an alien prison ship crash lands and unleashes creature after creature in the California desert, the Prisoners make quick work of the dozen that... Read more
Homefront (2013)
6.5/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth
Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his actions against a biker gang went horribly wrong ,and it cost the life of hi... Read more
Night Train To Venice (1993)
2.2/10
Director: Carlo U Quinterio
Starring: Hugh Grant, Malcolm McDowell, Tahnee Welch
A young man on his way to Venice to deliver his book exposing the neo-Nazi movement is suddenly stalked by a stranger, trialed by a pack of wild dogs... Read more
The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
6.6/10
Starring: Dylan McDermott, Charlie Plummer, Samantha Mathis
A shocking revelation turns a teenage boy's world upside down in this chilling look at the evil that can lurk below even the most wholesome surface. T... Read more
Braven (2018)
5.9/10
Starring: Jason Momoa, Garret Dillahunt, Jill Wagner, Stephen Lang
Joe Braven is a logging company owner who lives with his family in Canada. Joe's father, Linden, suffering from dementia, mistakes a woman in a bar fo... Read more
The Night of the Sunflowers (2006)
7.1/10
Director: Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo
Starring: Carmelo Gomez, Celso Bugallo
The discovery of a young woman's dead body in the middle of a sunflower field near a quiet village will lead to a tragic string of events, and a vicio... Read more
Passion (Blu-ray) (2012)
5.3/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Noomi Rapace, Karoline Herfurth, Paul Anderson
Brian De Palma directs this stylish remake of French thriller "Love Crime", delivering an erotic corporate thriller fueled by sex, ambition, image, en... Read more
The Valachi Papers (Blu-ray) (1972)
6.4/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman, Gera...
Gangster Joe Valachi is a marked man in the same joint where mob boss Don Vito Genovese is imprisoned and he's forced to co-operate with the DA in exc... Read more
The Gambler (Blu-ray) (1974)
7.2/10
Director: Karel Reisz
Starring: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes, B...
Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, an... Read more