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".
The Agatha Christie Collection: The Mirror Crack'd / Death on the Nile / Murder on the Orient Express / Evil Under the Sun / Endless Night (2008)
Director: Guy Hamilton, John Guillermin, Sidney Gilliat, Sidney Lumet
Starring: Albert Finney, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, David Niven, Elizabeth Taylor, Hayl...
A box set containing 5 theatrical movies and bonus documentary. 'The Mirror Crack'd': A colony of Hollywood ex-patriots arrive in England only to find... Read more
The Age of Shadows (2016)
7.2/10
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
Starring: Gong Yoo, Kang-ho Song, Byung-hun Lee
Korea in the late 1920s is under Japanese occupation. Lee Jung-chool (Song Kang-ho, Snowpiercer), a Korean-born police captain in the Japanese police... Read more
The Alibi (2006)
6.9/10
Director: Matt Checkowski, Kurt Mattila
Starring: Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Selma Blair, Sam Elliott, James Brolin, Hen...
AKA 'Lies and Alibis'. The confidence man gets a slick makeover with Steve Coogan revealing yet another side of his engaging screen presence as Ray E... Read more
The Ambulance (1990)
5.9/10
Director: Larry Cohen
Starring: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher, Red Buttons, Janine Turner, Eri...
This paranoid thriller begins as Eric Roberts' girlfriend (Janine Turner) is taken away in an ambulance and he can't find her. She's been taken prison... Read more
The American (2010)
6.3/10
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Thekla Reuten, Violante Placido
Suspense thriller from director Anton Corbijn stars George Clooney as Jack, an American assassin who ventures to the Italian countryside for one last... Read more
The Americans: Season 4 (2016)
8.4/10
Starring: Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell
The events of the fourth season begin immediately after the events of the last episode of the third season in March 1983 and end on the night of Super... Read more
The Anomaly (2014)
4.7/10
Director: Noel Clarke
Starring: Noel Clarke, Ian Somerhalder, Brian Cox, Alexis Knapp
An ex-soldier named Ryan Reeve is taken captive by the "Anomaly" organization where he learns that he only has 9:47 minutes/seconds to find out why th... Read more
The Art of Self Defense (2019)
6.7/10
Director: Riley Stearns
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots
After being attacked on the street, a young man enlists at a local dojo, led by a charismatic and mysterious sensei, in an effort to learn how to defe... Read more
The Art of War (2000)
5.7/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Marie Matiko, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, M...
Set up as the fall guy in the assassination of a Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, covert UN agent Wesley Snipes has to clear his name in orde... Read more
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
7.9/10
Director: John Huston
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Marilyn Monroe
One of director Huston's most memorable efforts, this taut drama is a brilliantly stylized crime story about a group of hoods plotting a major heist.... Read more