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".
Love And Monsters (2020)
6.9/10
Starring: Dylan O'Brien, Michael Rooker, Dan Ewing
Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O'Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant cre... Read more
Wildland (2020)
5.8/10
Director: Jeanette Nordahl
Starring: Sidse Babett Knudsen
Ida moves in with her aunt and cousins after the tragic death of her mother in a car accident. The home is filled with love, but outside of the home,... Read more
The Dissident (2020)
7.9/10
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world piece together the clues to a murd... Read more
Reunion (2020)
4.4/10
Director: Jake Mahaffy
Starring: Julia Ormond, Cohen Holloway, John Bach
A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents' old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reun... Read more
Des (2020)
7.7/10
Starring: David Tennant, Daniel Mays, Jason Watkins, Ron Cook, Barry Ward
In 1983 Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen was arrested after the discovery of human remains which had blocked a drain near his London home. Read more
Walkaway Joe (2020)
5.6/10
Starring: David Strathairn, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, David Jensen
The story of an unlikely friendship between a young boy searching for his father, and a wandering loner hiding from his past. Read more
The Postcard Killings (2020)
5.8/10
Director: Danis Tanovic
Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Famke Janssen, Joachim Krol, Steven Mackintosh, Denis O'Har...
A New York detective investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon in London; he recruits the help of a Scandinavian... Read more
The Nest (2020)
6.3/10
Starring: Christine Bottomley, Martin Compston, David Hayman, Katie Leung
A teenage girl in Glasgow agrees to carry a baby for couple Dan and Emily. Read more
Pixie (2020)
5.8/10
Director: Barnaby Thompson
Starring: Olivia Cooke, Pat Shortt
To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destin... Read more
Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (2020)
A zombie virus has in the last 4 years spread to all South Korea. 4 Koreans in Hong Kong sail through the blockade to Incheon for USD20,000,000 on a t... Read more