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".
Imperium (Blu-ray) (2016)
6.5/10
Director: Daniel Ragussis
Starring: Toni Collette, Daniel Radcliffe, Nestor Carbonell, Sam Trammell, Tracy Letts, De...
Radcliffe is Nate Foster, a quiet classical-music fan and loner of an FBI agent who was instrumental in getting an Islamic extremist to open up about... Read more
In Bruges (2008)
7.9/10
Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clemence Poesy, Jeremie Renier, T...
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are two hitmen whose last job didn't go so well, prompting their boss (Ralph Fiennes) to send them to the beautiful... Read more
In Bruges ( Blu-ray ) (2008)
7.9/10
Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Farrell, Jeremie Renier, Clemence Poesy
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are two hitmen whose last job didn't go so well, prompting their boss (Ralph Fiennes) to send them to the beautiful... Read more
In Darkness (2018)
5.7/10
Director: Anthony Byrne
Starring: Joely Richardson, Neil Maskell, James Cosmo, Natalie Dormer, Ed Skrein, Jan Bijv...
Blind pianist Sofia overhears a struggle in the apartment on the floor above her, and it leads to the death of her neighbor Veronique. It is the start... Read more
In Darkness (Blu-Ray) (2018)
5.7/10
Director: Anthony Byrne
Starring: Joely Richardson, Neil Maskell, James Cosmo, Natalie Dormer, Ed Skrein, Jan Bijv...
Blind pianist Sofia overhears a struggle in the apartment on the floor above her, and it leads to the death of her neighbor Veronique. It is the start... Read more
In Dreams (1999)
5.5/10
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Stephen Rea, Robert Downey Jr, Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn
This eerie thriller stars Annette Bening as a wife and mother haunted by disturbing visions of children being abducted and killed by psychopath Robert... Read more
In Fear (Blu-ray) (2013)
5.4/10
Director: Jeremy Lovering
Starring: Iain De Caestecker, Alice Englert
Driving to a music festival in Ireland, a new couple become lost and are then set upon by a tormentor with an unknown motive. Read more
In Like Flint (1967)
6.2/10
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: James Coburn, Lee J Cobb, Jean Hale
Super-suave super spy James Coburn returns, this time he must fight a group of powerful female tycoons who have developed a way of brainwashing women... Read more
In Order of Disappearance (2014)
7.2/10
Director: Hans Petter Moland
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Stellan Skarsgard, Birgitte Hjort Sorensen, Kristofer Hivju
Nils snow ploughs the wild winter mountains of Norway, and is recently awarded Citizen of the Year. When his son is murdered for something he did not... Read more
In the Electric Mist (2009)
6.1/10
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Starring: James Gammon, John Goodman, Kelly Macdonald, Mary Steenburgen, Ned Beatty, Tommy...
While investigating a series of grisly murders, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and... Read more