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".
Upon discovering that her once-kind husband has turned into an abusive monster, a young wife (Julia Roberts) fakes her death and begins a new life in... Read more
A suspenseful, sexy thriller set in the 1950s in which a sleazy divorce attorney makes his living by setting up phony adultery cases with his wife. Wh... Read more
Kathleen Turner stars as V.I. Warshawski, a tough-talking sexy private eye who knows how to use her two most lethal weapons - powerful charm and all t... Read more
Writer-director Quentin Tarantino makes a startling debut with this story of a diamond heist gone wrong. A brain-twisting array of unexpected plot tur... Read more
The gruesome murder of a Brooklyn Detective will turn the case into a personal vendetta when the deceased's best friend and fellow officer will unleas... Read more
If Lula (Laura Dern) knows one thing in this world, it's that she's destined to be with her ex-con boyfriend Sailor (Nicolas Cage) - no matter how man... Read more
Posted on each side of the Czech-West German border, US colonel Jack Knowles (Roy Scheider) and his Soviet counterpart Colonel Valachev (Jurgen Prochn... Read more
Director Alan Rudolph's ('Choose Me') well-crafted and offbeat tribute to '40s detective movies has Tom Berenger on the trail of the ruthless ex-lover... Read more
Stephen King's tale about a successful romance novelist who's nursed back to health after a car crash by his number one fan - who turns out to be a se... Read more
Bruce Willis is back as wisecracking Det. John McClane in this spectacular sequel. While awaiting the arrival of his wife's plane at Washington's Dull... Read more