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".
Radio Flash (2019)
Starring: Dominic Monaghan, Will Patton, Fionnula Flanagan, Miles Anderson
When a nuclear device causes an electromagnetic pulse that kills power to more than 200 million people, a teenage girl must help lead her family to su... Read more
Radius (2017)
6.2/10
Director: Caroline Labreche, Steeve Leonard
Starring: Charlotte Sullivan, Diego Klattenhoff, Brett Donahue
When he wakes up after a car accident and doesn't have a memory, a man makes his way into town to look for help. As he heads to town to look for help,... Read more
Raid on Entebbe (1976)
6.8/10
Director: Irvin Kershner
Starring: Charles Bronson, Eddie Constantine, Horst Buchholz, Jack Warden, John Saxon, Mar...
Mere months after the fact came the release of two rival "Entebbe" movies ("Victory at Entebbe" being the other, released a month earlier) which recou... Read more
Railroaded (1947)
6.7/10
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, Jane Randolph
In the crime-ridden jungle of an inner city where mobsters rule, a lone police detective begins a search for a killer on the lam who, in a desperate f... Read more
Raise The Titanic! (1980)
4.8/10
Director: Jerry Jameson
Starring: Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby
An expensively made but huge loss making production about the biggest salvage job of all time. Adapted from Clive Cussler's best-seller and stars Jaso... Read more
Raising Cain (1992)
6/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer
A tour-de-force performance by John Lithgow as a psychologist who is coerced into joining his disturbed father (Lithgow again) in conducting sadistic... Read more
Rambo (2007)
7/10
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish
AKA 'John Rambo'. Sylvester Stallone co-wrote, directed and (of course) stars in the fourth film in the legendary action franchise. Living in Thailand... Read more
Rambo ( Blu-ray ) (2007)
7/10
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Paul Schulze, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish
AKA 'John Rambo'. Sylvester Stallone co-wrote, directed and (of course) stars in the fourth film in the legendary action franchise. Living in Thailand... Read more
Rambo III (1988)
5.8/10
Director: Peter MacDonald
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Marc De Jonge
Sylvester Stallone is the one-man fighting machine who heads to Afghanistan to rescue his former Army Commander (Richard Crenna) from Russian captivit... Read more
Rambo III ( Blu-ray ) (1988)
5.8/10
Director: Peter MacDonald
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna
Sylvester Stallone is the one-man fighting machine who heads to Afghanistan to rescue his former Army Commander (Richard Crenna) from Russian captivit... Read more