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".
Arabesque (1966)
6.6/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore
This Bondian adventure stars Gregory Peck as a language professor hired to decipher a secret code. He and Sophia Loren must outwit hired gunmen and cu... Read more
Arbitrage (2012)
6.6/10
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Starring: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling
Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is a New York hedge-fund magnate who appears to have it all - money, power, a loving wife (Susan Sarandon), and a devoted... Read more
Archenemy (2020)
5/10
Director: Adam Mortimer
Starring: Joe Manganiello
Max Fist claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories exce... Read more
Argo (2012)
7.7/10
Director: Ben Affleck
Starring: Alan Arkin, Ben Affleck, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston
Ben Affleck directs and stars in this gripping political thriller based on real events that took place during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. In Novembe... Read more
Argo ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
7.7/10
Director: Ben Affleck
Starring: Alan Arkin, Ben Affleck, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston
Ben Affleck directs and stars in this gripping political thriller based on real events that took place during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. In Novembe... Read more
Arlington Road (1999)
7.2/10
Director: Mark Pellington
Starring: Tim Robbins, Jeff Bridges, Joan Cusack
Suburban America, the perfect place to hide a secret. Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges), a college history professor, is still trying to come to terms wi... Read more
Armored (2009)
5.7/10
Director: Nimrod Antal
Starring: Fred Ward, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne, Matt Dillon, Skeet Ulrich, Milo Ventim...
Crime thriller in which a group of armoured transport security employees decide to stage a heist against their own company. Cochrone (Matt Dillon), Qu... Read more
Arne Dahl: Season 1 (2011)
6.8/10
Starring: Matias Varela, Frida Hallgren
Three Swedish financiers are murdered over three consecutive nights. Evidence suggests that the killings will continue and the world of finance is pan... Read more
As Above, So Below (2014)
6.2/10
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Starring: Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of... Read more
Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud ( Lift to the Scaffold ) (1957)
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Amedee , Lino Ventura
Celebrated director Louis Malle's debut film was a post-modern film noir, starring Jeanne Moreau as a woman who plots with her young lover (Maurice Ro... Read more