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".
Homefront (Blu-ray) (2013)
6.5/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Jason Statham, James Franco, Winona Ryder, Kate Bosworth
Phil Broker is a former DEA agent who has gone through a crisis after his actions against a biker gang went horribly wrong ,and it cost the life of hi... Read more
Homicide (1991)
7.1/10
Director: David Mamet
Starring: Joe Mantegna, William H Macy, Natalija Nogulich
Award winning playwright David Mamet's third outing as director is a gritty crime drama about a cop taken off the biggest case of his life into a seem... Read more
Honeymoon (2014)
5.7/10
Director: Leigh Janiak
Starring: Rose Leslie, Harry Treadaway
Young newlyweds Paul and Bea travel to remote lake country for their honeymoon. Shortly after arriving, Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in th... Read more
Honour (2014)
6/10
Starring: Paddy Considine
A story centered on a young woman who is targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job. Read more
Hoodwink (1981)
6.5/10
Director: Claude Whatham
Starring: Michael Caton, Max Cullen, Colin Friels, Wendy Hughes, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis
Combining thrilling crime caper with unexpected romance, 'Hoodwink' tells the extraordinary story of Martin Stang (John Hargreaves), a cunning bank ro... Read more
Horns (2013)
6.5/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: David Morse, Heather Graham, James Remar, Kathleen Quinlan, Daniel Radcliffe, Ke...
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to find strange horns sprouting from his temples. Even stranger are the eve... Read more
Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2009)
7.9/10
Director: Jonas Akerlund
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi, Lou Taylor Pucci, Clifton Collins Jr., Peter Stormare,...
Aka "Horsemen". Dennis Quaid is Aidan Breslin, a hard-boiled detective whose relationship with his sons has become strained since the death of his wif... Read more
Hostage (2005)
6.6/10
Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Starring: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jonathan Tucker, Ben Foster, Rumer Willis
Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) became Chief of Police in a sleepy town, to leave behind the traumas of his big city career as a hostage negotiator. But wh... Read more
Hot Fuzz (2007)
7.9/10
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Bill Bailey, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman, Paddy Considine, Steve Coogan, Kennet...
The lads that brought us zombie spoof 'Shaun of the Dead' turn their attentions to the British bobby in this cameo-packed mickey-take of the cops-and-... Read more
Hot Fuzz ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
7.9/10
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Billie Whitelaw, Edward Woodward, Jim Broadbent, Kenneth Cranham, Steve Coogan,...
The lads that brought us zombie spoof 'Shaun of the Dead' turn their attentions to the British bobby in this cameo-packed mickey-take of the cops-and-... Read more