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".
Hidden ( Cache ) (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Benichou, Annie Girardot
George (Daniel Auteuil) and his wife Anne (Juliette Binoche) seem to have the perfect middle-class lifestyle until one day mysterious videotapes and d... Read more
Hidden (BBC) (2018)
6.4/10
Director: Andy Newbery, Eric Styles
Detective Inspector Cadi John (Sian Reese-Williams) returns to North Wales to care for her ailing father, but when a young woman's body is found in a... Read more
Hidden Agenda (1990)
7/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Frances McDormand, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Mai Zetterling
Paul Sullivan, an American lawyer with an international reputation, has been shot in Northern Ireland. Police say he failed to stop at a roadblock. De... Read more
Hide and Seek (2004)
5.9/10
Director: John Polson
Starring: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue, Amy Irving
At their new home in Upstate New York, newly widowed psychologist David Callaway (Robert De Niro) tries desperately to help his traumatised daughter E... Read more
High Crimes (2002)
6.3/10
Director: Carl Franklin
Starring: Amanda Peet, Adam Scott, Bruce Davidson, Jim Caviezel, Morgan Freeman, Ashley Ju...
This tense courtroom drama boasts Ashley Judd as an attorney who has to defend craftsman husband Jim Caviezel for his part in a secret 1988 Marine Cor... 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
High Tension (2003)
6.8/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Cecile De France, Maiwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun, Andrei Fint...
This stalk-and-slash fright-fest from French director Alexandre Aja starts with two friends, Marie and Alexa, visiting family in the country. When ni... Read more
Highwaymen (2003)
5.7/10
Director: Robert Harmon
Starring: Jim Caviezel, Rhona Mitra, Frankie Faison, Colm Feore
It's road rage to the extreme for Jim Caviezel in this breakneck tale of murder on the interstate. When his wife is mowed down by the psychotic driver... Read more
Hitman (2007)
6.3/10
Director: Xavier Gens
Starring: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Ulrich Thomsen, Robert Knepper
Stamped with a bar code and assigned to use his genetically perfected talents to lethal effect, bold (and bald) assassin Agent 47 (Timothy Olyphant) i... Read more
Hollow Man (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin, William Devane, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Dickens
Paul Verhoeven's nasty, high-tech variation on "The Invisible Man" stars Kevin Bacon as a self-absorbed scientist working on a government invisibility... Read more