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".
My Cousin Rachel (2017)
6/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Iain Glen, Rachel Weisz, Holliday Grainger, Sam Claflin
Philip is a young Englishman who finds his cousin Ambrose dead after traveling to Florence, Italy. He vows revenge against Ambrose's missing wife Rach... Read more
My Cousin Rachel (Blu-ray) (2017)
6/10
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Iain Glen, Rachel Weisz, Holliday Grainger, Sam Claflin
Philip is a young Englishman who finds his cousin Ambrose dead after traveling to Florence, Italy. He vows revenge against Ambrose's missing wife Rach... Read more
My Name is Modesty (2004)
4.6/10
Director: Scott Spiegel
Starring: Raymond Cruz, Eugenia Yuan, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Alexandra Staden, Fred Pearso...
The early years of Peter O'Donnell's beloved pulp heroine Modesty Blaise are chronicled in this thrilling actioner. Following her escape from a Balkan... Read more
My Sweet Audrina (2016)
5.5/10
Starring: India Eisley, William Moseley, James Tupper
Living in her family's secluded mansion, Audrina is kept alone and out of sight and is haunted by nightmares of her older sister, First Audrina, who w... Read more
Mystery Road (2013)
6.5/10
Director: Ivan Sen
Starring: Bruce Spence, David Field, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Tony Barry, Zoe Carides,...
Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) returns to his outback home town to solve the murder of a teenage girl, whose body is found unde... Read more
Naked Youth (1960)
7/10
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Starring: Yoshiko Kuga
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men. Read more
Nancy Drew (2007)
5.9/10
Director: Andrew Fleming
Starring: Emma Roberts, Josh Flitter, Max Thieriot, Rachael Leigh Cook, Tate Donovan, Caro...
Appearing in more than 170 mysteries over 78 years of crime-solving in books and TV, teen sleuth Nancy Drew is still a preppy 17 years old! Emma Robe... Read more
Naqaab: Disguised Intentions (2007)
5.4/10
Director: Abbas Burmawalla, Mustan Burmawalla
Starring: Bobby Deol, Akshaye Khanna, Urvashi Sharma, Vishal Malhotra, Vikaas Kalantri, Ra...
Bobby Deol stars in this Bollywood thriller as a millioniare who has fallen in love with a girl who works in Burger King (Urvashi Sharma). All is hun... Read more
Narrow Margin (1990)
6.6/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B Sikking, J T Walsh, M Emmet Walsh
Gene Hackman is superb as an assistant D.A. guarding an important murder witness (Anne Archer) on an eventful train ride through the Canadian Rockies.... Read more
National Treasure (2004)
6.9/10
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Harvey Keitel, Jon Voight, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Justin Bartha,...
Ben Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage), an archaeologist and adventurer, is looking for the legendary lost treasure of the Knights Templar, spurred on by t... Read more