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".
In April 1980, a half-dozen armed Arab separatists stormed the Iranian embassy in London and took 26 of the occupants hostage. The tense hours that fo... Read more
After a terrifyingly tense opening of a slope-shouldered youth perusing a gun store, Gabriel Ripsteins 600 Miles charts the unlikely alliance of a Me... Read more
A.k.a. "7 cajas". It's Friday night in Asunción, Paraguay and the temperature is sweltering. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow delivery boy, dreams of... Read more
In this unnerving French Canadian thriller, a vengeance-crazed doctor (Claude Legault) first does considerable harm to the rapist who violated his dau... Read more
In July 1976, four terrorists hijack an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris and force the flight crew to land in Entebbe, Uganda. There, the Jewi... Read more
Three high school friends are forced to commit a brazen robbery which quickly goes horribly wrong. Read more
Kevin Pollack is Harlan, a veteran grifter on a losing streak. When he gambles away a wad of cash that belonged to his boss, he's desperate to get th... Read more
Al Pacino is a university professor and renowned forensic psychiatrist who occasionally assists the police, and his latest testimony has earned him a... Read more
A dark thriller about a private detective's investigation into whether or not a "snuff" film in which a girl apparently dies is genuine. The twisted s... Read more