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".
Bad Influence (1990)
6.2/10
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane, David Duchovny
A moody and erotic modern 'film noir' starring Rob Lowe as a creepy drifter who befriends repressed Los Angeles yuppie James Spader, then leads him in... Read more
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
7.3/10
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pull...
The El Royale is a run-down hotel that sits on the border between California and Nevada. It soon becomes a seedy battleground when seven strangers --... Read more
Bad Times at the El Royale (Blu-Ray) (2018)
7.3/10
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Jon Hamm, Cailee Spaeny, Lewis Pull...
The El Royale is a run-down hotel that sits on the border between California and Nevada. It soon becomes a seedy battleground when seven strangers --... Read more
Bad Turn Worse (2013)
5.5/10
Director: Zeke Hawkins, Simon Hawkins
Starring: Mackenzie Davis, Logan Huffman, Jeremy Allen White, William Devane, Jon Gries, M...
With only weeks left until his girlfriend Sue and best friend Bobby leave their dead-end hometown for college, B.J. robs his workplace safe of all its... Read more
Baffled! (1972)
5.9/10
Director: Philip Leacock
Starring: Leonard Nimoy, Susan Hampshire, Vera Miles
Years ahead of its time before series about strange phenomenon became a cult, this feature-length pilot to a series that never was mixes ESP with myst... Read more
Baise-Moi (2000)
4.5/10
Director: Virginie Despentes
Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men - and shattering the complacenc... Read more
Balibo (2009)
7.1/10
Director: Robert Connolly
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia, Oscar Isaac
As Indonesia prepares to invade the tiny nation of East Timor, five Australian-based journalists go missing. Four weeks later, veteran foreign corresp... Read more
Ballerina (2025)
6.9/10
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Ana de Armas, Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Keanu Reeves, Ian M...
Trained in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma, Eve Macarro takes on an army of killers as she seeks revenge against those responsible for the d... Read more
Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever (2002)
3.6/10
Director: Wych Kaosayananda
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Lucy Liu, Gregg Henry, Ray Park, Talisa Soto
It's the ultimate in infiltration. The maximum in lethalness. Super-operatives Ecks and Sever both want to get their hands on a newly developed, micro... Read more
Bandits (2001)
6.5/10
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity
Blending elements of "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Natural Born Killers," director Barry Levinson's action-filled caper comedy stars Bruce... Read more