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".
Midway (2019)
6.7/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quai...
MIDWAY centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the... Read more
Midway (Blu-ray) (2019)
6.7/10
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quai...
MIDWAY centers on the Battle of Midway, a clash between the American fleet and the Imperial Japanese Navy which marked a pivotal turning point in the... Read more
Midwinter Of The Spirit (2015)
6.2/10
Starring: Anna Maxwell Martin, Kate Dickie
This series follows country vicar Merrily Watkins, who is one of the few women priests working as an exorcist in the UK. When a grisly murder takes pl... Read more
Mile 22 (2018)
6.1/10
Director: Peter Berg
Starring: John Malkovich, Mark Wahlberg, Peter Berg, Iko Uwais, Lauren Cohan, Ronda Rousey
CIA operative James Silva leads a small but lethal paramilitary team on an urgent and dangerous mission. They must transport a foreign intelligence as... Read more
Mindscape (2013)
8.1/10
Director: Jorge Dorado
Starring: Brian Cox, Indira Varma, Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Jessica Barden
AKA "Anna" In the near future, an elite group of private 'memory detectives' have the ability to enter people's minds and recall the events in their p... Read more
Mindscape (Blu-ray) (2013)
8.1/10
Director: Jorge Dorado
Starring: Brian Cox, Indira Varma, Mark Strong, Taissa Farmiga, Jessica Barden
AKA "Anna" In the near future, an elite group of private 'memory detectives' have the ability to enter people's minds and recall the events in their p... Read more
Minette Walters: The Dark Room (1999)
Director: Graham Theakston
Starring: Paul Freeman, Dervla Kirwan, James Wilby
In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elop... Read more
Minette Walters: The Echo (1998)
7.5/10
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Starring: Joely Richardson, Clive Owen
Mike Deacon, a tough, lone-wolf reporter discovers that things are not quite what they seem when a tramp is found dead in the garage of a beautiful wo... Read more
Minette Walters: The Ice House (1997)
7.5/10
Director: Tim Fywell
Starring: Corin Redgrave, Kitty Aldridge, Frances Barber, Daniel Craig
The peaceful, secluded, country hideaway of three diverse, lonely, supposedly lesbian, women is suddenly shattered when their gardener discovers a par... Read more
Minette Walters: The Scold's Bridle (1998)
7.5/10
Director: David Thacker
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Bob Peck, Virginia McKenna
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle. Read more