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".
Ransom (Blu-ray) (1974)
6.6/10
Director: Casper Wrede
Starring: Ian McShane, Sean Connery
Sean Connery stars in this thrilling hostage melodrama, featuring lustrous cinematography by Sven Nykvist. A group of terrorists hijack an airplane an... Read more
Chinatown ( Blu-ray ) (1974)
8.2/10
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Burt Young, Faye Dunaway, Jack Nicholson, John Huston, John Hillerman, Perry Lop...
Roman Polanski's classic detective yarn sees murder and scandal emerge from the drought of 1930s Southern California. Private Eye Jake Gittes (Jack Ni... Read more
And Then There Were None (1974)
8/10
Director: Peter Collinson
Starring: Adolfo Celi, Charles Aznavour, Elke Sommer, Gert Frobe, Herbert Lom, Oliver Reed...
Ten international strangers are invited to stay in a luxurious, but isolated hotel in the Iranian desert. With their mysterious host absent from proce... Read more
Juggernaut (1974)
6.6/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Clifton James, David Hemmings, Ian Holm, Omar Sharif, Richard H...
The high seas have never been more terrifying than in this 'fascinating, hair-raising and nerve-tingling' adventure. Richard Harris and Omar Sharif he... Read more
Alain Delon: Vol. 2 ( Icy Flesh / The Gypsy / Boomerang / A Crime ) (1974)
Director: Georges Lautner, Jacques Deray, Jose Giovanni
Starring: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Carla Gravina, Charles Vanel, Manuel Blanc, Mireill...
A collection of four dramatic thrillers starring the debonair and handsome French superstar, Alain Delon. "Icy Flesh" (1974) - On a beach in Nice, Fra... Read more
The Man with the Golden Gun ( Blu-ray ) (1974)
6.8/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee, Roger Moore
James Bond (Roger Moore) may have met his ultimate foe in diabolical master assassin Scaramanga, played to perfection by Christopher Lee in this 007 t... Read more
Macon County Line (1974)
6.7/10
Director: Richard Compton
Starring: Alan Vint, Geoffrey Lewis, Jesse Vint, Joan Blackman, Max Baer
Terrific actioner about two brothers travelling through the South in the '50s. Suspected of murdering the wife of sheriff Max Baer, Jr., the siblings... Read more
Melissa (1974)
7.4/10
Director: Peter Moffatt
Starring: Peter Barkworth, Ronald Fraser
BBC drama from 1974, adapted from the classic Francis Durbridge novel. Journalist Guy Foster (Peter Barkworth) returns home to find that his wife has... Read more
The Black Windmill (1974)
6.3/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig, Clive Revill, Janet Suzman
"The Ultimate Exercise in Controlled Terror" proclaims the tag-line of this stylish '70s thriller. Michael Caine stars as a British spy who's son is k... Read more
Mr Majestyk (1974)
6.8/10
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell
Charles Bronson stars as Majestyk, an ex-con and Vietnam vet whose efforts to run a farm are thwarted by narrow-minded locals and corrupt cops. But wh... Read more