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".
Arne Dahl: Season 1 (2011)
6.8/10
Starring: Matias Varela, Frida Hallgren
Three Swedish financiers are murdered over three consecutive nights. Evidence suggests that the killings will continue and the world of finance is pan... Read more
Red Dragon (2002)
7.2/10
Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Mary...
The final film in the "Hannibal Lecter Trilogy" (though based on Thomas Harris' first Lecter novel) finds anthropophagous psychiatrist Anthony Hopkins... Read more
Captive (2015)
5.4/10
Director: Jerry Jameson
Starring: Kate Mara, David Oyelowo
A single mother struggling with drug addiction is taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run who has broken out of jail and murdered the j... Read more
Come and Find Me (2016)
5.7/10
Starring: Aaron Paul, Annabelle Wallis, Garret Dillahunt, Zachary Knighton, Enver Gjokaj
When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be. Read more
Greenland (Blu-ray) (2020)
6.3/10
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin
A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity (Gerard Butler), his estranged wife Allison (Morena Baccarin), and... Read more
Acts Of Violence (2018)
5.3/10
Starring: Bruce Willis, Cole Hauser, Shawn Ashmore, Ashton Holmes
At a bachelorette party in a nightclub, the bride tells 2 guys offering blow to go away. They abduct her. The groom's 2 big brothers looked after thei... Read more
Acts Of Vengeance (2017)
5.7/10
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Karl Urban, Paz Vega
A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his... Read more
Big Sky (2015)
4.4/10
Director: Jorge Michel Grau
Starring: Bella Thorne, Kyra Sedgwick, Frank Grillo, Francois Arnaud
A teen traveling with her mother to a treatment center for her agoraphobia has to fight for their lives against a gunman who attacks them. Read more
All The Devil's Men (2018)
5.1/10
Starring: Sylvia Hoeks, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Joseph Millson, Elliot Cowan, William Fichtner
A battle-scarred War on Terror bounty hunter is forced to go to London on a manhunt for a disavowed CIA operative, which leads him into a deadly runni... Read more
Penance (2020)
5.6/10
Starring: Julie Graham, Nico Mirallegro, Neil Morrissey, Art Malik, Wanda Ventham
The lives of grieving mother Rosalie and her daughter Maddie are changed forever when they meet Jed. A spark of hope for the future is rekindled withi... Read more