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".
Three Days of the Condor (Blu-ray) (1975)
7.4/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow, John Houseman
Robert Redford stars as a CIA agent (code name Condor) on the run from a mass slaughter in his CIA research office. Reporting the massacre to his supe... Read more
Three Film By Jia Zhangke (Blu-ray) (2013)
7.1/10
Director: Zhangke Jia
Starring: Zhao Tao, Wang Baoqiang, Wu Jiang, Lanshan Luo, Li Meng
Jia Zhangke has become widely regarded as one of world cinema s most accomplished filmmakers, and a leading figure of the Sixth Generation movement of... Read more
Three West (Transpecos) (2016)
5.7/10
Director: Greg Kwedar
Starring: Clifton Collins Jr., Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna
For three U.S. Border Patrol agents, the contents of one car reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks; the next 24 hours may cost them their li... Read more
Thriller: Series 1 and 2 (1973)
8.4/10
Starring: Dennis Waterman, Helen Mirren, Robert Powell, Jeremy Brett, Diana Dors, Denholm...
Following his immense success with 'The Avengers', British producer Brian Clemens made this spine-chillingly good series, with each episode a differen... Read more
Thumper (2017)
5.9/10
Director: Jordan Ross
Starring: Lena Headey, Eliza Taylor, Pablo Schreiber, Ben Feldman
Teens in a low-income neighbourhood are lured into working for a violent and dangerous drug dealer. When a new girl harbouring a dark secret arrives i... Read more
Thunderball (1965)
7/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Lois M...
Bond (Sean Connery) must thwart SPECTRE's most audacious plot to date, when its agents hijack a British bomber, armed with two nuclear warheads, and h... Read more
Thunderbolt (1995)
6.3/10
Starring: Jackie Chan, Anita Yuen, Michael Wong
In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic Chan Foh To (Jackie Chan) has to beat a supercriminal street racer. Read more
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
7.1/10
Director: Michael Cimino
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy
Vietnam vet and ex-thief Clint Eastwood teams up with shifty former partners George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis and drifter Jeff Bridges to pull off an el... Read more
Thunderheart (1992)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Fred Ward, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Val Kilmer
An engrossing thriller about a part-Sioux FBI agent sent to investigate a murder on an Indian reservation. Especially notable for its keen attention t... 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