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".
Red Lights (Blu-ray) (2012)
6.2/10
Director: Rodrigo Cortes
Starring: Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Toby Jones, Elizabeth Olsen
Expert at exposing charlatan psychics, two professional skeptics (Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver) have a harder time discerning how popular mentalis... Read more
Breaking and Entering (Blu-ray) (2006)
6.5/10
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Jude Law, Juliette Binoche, Ray Winstone, Robin Wright, Martin Freeman, Vera Far...
Written and directed by Anthony Minghella, this suspenseful drama stars Jude Law as a successful landscape architect whose office has been broken into... Read more
Le Guetteur 'The Lookout' (Blu-ray) (2012)
Director: Michele Placido
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet
Chief Inspector Mattei and his team identifies bank robbers In Paris. They keep the group under surveillance and when they heist a bank, they are read... Read more
Little Nikita (1988)
6/10
Director: Richard Benjamin
Starring: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins
An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son. Read more
The Pack (Blu-ray) (2015)
5/10
Director: Nick Robertson
Starring: Anna Lise Phillips
A farmer and his family must fight for survival after a ferocious pack of wild dogs infiltrates their isolated farmhouse. Through a series of frighten... Read more
Sushi Girl (Blu-ray) (2012)
6/10
Director: Kern Saxton
Starring: James Duval, Jeff Fahey, Mark Hamill, Noah Hathaway, Sonny Chiba, Tony Todd, Dan...
Fish (Noah Hathaway) has spent six years in jail. Six years alone. Six years keeping his mouth shut about the robbery and about the other men involved... Read more
In Fear (Blu-ray) (2013)
5.4/10
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Starring: Iain De Caestecker, Alice Englert
Driving to a music festival in Ireland, a new couple become lost and are then set upon by a tormentor with an unknown motive. Read more
Tormented (Blu-ray) (2014)
4.8/10
Kylie Winters, a bullied and self-loathing teen, reluctantly agrees to babysit at an isolated country mansion on Halloween night. When a small boy in... Read more
Doghouse (Blu-ray) (2009)
6/10
Director: Jake West
Starring: Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke
Vince is handling his divorce badly. He's depressed. Gone to pieces. But his mates aren't giving up on him. Struggling with their own women troubles,... Read more
The Perfect Score (2004)
5.7/10
Director: Brian Robbins
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans
Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfec... Read more