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".
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)
6.1/10
Director: Stewart Raffill
Starring: Michael Pare, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas
An intriguing sci-fi thriller about two W.W. II sailors who are catapulted into the 1980s. Nancy Allen brings a nice no-nonsense sensibility to the mo... Read more
Tightrope (1984)
6.3/10
Director: Richard Tuggle
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood
Clint Eastwood stars as a New Orleans cop who, while hunting down a vicious sex murderer, suffers his own descent into sexual darkness. This razor-sha... Read more
Corrupt (1983)
5.9/10
Director: Roberto Faenza
Starring: Harvey Keitel, John Lydon, Nicole Garcia
A pair of corrupt cops spend their illegal cash on an uptown New York City apartment. Read more
High Road To China (Blu-ray) (1983)
6.1/10
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Starring: Tom Selleck, Bess Armstrong
During WW1, an alcoholic American biplane pilot is hired by the spoiled daughter of an industrialist to find her father who disappeared in Asia, that... Read more
Octopussy ( Blu-ray ) (1983)
6.6/10
Director: John Glen
Starring: Louis Jourdan, Maud Adams, Roger Moore, Steven Berkoff, Kabir Bedi, Desmond Llew...
Agent 009 has been killed over an art object stolen from Moscow, and 007 must investigate. His hunt leads him across Cuba, India and Germany, to the s... Read more
The Lost Tribe (1983)
5.5/10
Director: John Laing
Starring: Darien Takle, Don Selwyn, Ian Watkin, John Bach, Martyn Sanderson
While searching for a legendary lost tribe in the dense New Zealand jungle, renowned anthropologist Maxwell Scarry (John Bach) disappears without a tr... Read more
The Star Chamber (1983)
6.3/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless
Michael Douglas is an idealistic judge who's fed up with having to release rapists and murderers due to legal loopholes and technicalities until he di... Read more
Sudden Impact (Blu-ray) (1983)
6.7/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Paul Drake
Clint Eastwood's fourth go-around as San Francisco detective 'Dirty' Harry Callahan puts him on the trail of a woman (Sondra Locke) who is getting rev... Read more
Sudden Impact (1983)
6.6/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Paul Drake
Clint Eastwood's fourth go-around as San Francisco detective 'Dirty' Harry Callahan puts him on the trail of a woman (Sondra Locke) who is getting rev... Read more
Finally Sunday! ( Confidentially Yours ) (1983)
7.4/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fanny Ardant
A.k.a. 'Confidentially Yours'. A wife and her lover are found murdered. Suspicion falls on her estate agent husband whose loyal secretary tries to pro... Read more