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 Asphalt Quartet (1998)
Starring: Paul Ben-Victor, Daniel Benzali, James Russo, Glenn Plummer, Robert Pastorelli,...
Four career felons are brought together by desperation and greed in the most devious attempt to double-cross a rival crime boss Read more
The Assassin (1993)
6.3/10
Director: John Badham
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Anne Bancroft
Aka 'Point Of No Return'. Hollywood's remake of Luc Besson's fabulous chic thriller 'Nikita' with Bridget Fonda stepping into Anne Parillaud's little... Read more
The Assassin Next Door (2009)
Starring: Olga Kurylenko, Liron Levo
A woman forced to work for the Russian Mafia as an assassin agrees to help her next-door neighbor kill her abusive husband. Read more
The Assignment (1997)
6.9/10
Director: Christian Duguay
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley
Convinced by the CIA and Mossad (Israeli Secret Service) that he closely resembles international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, U.S. naval officer Aidan... Read more
The Astronaut's Wife (1999)
5.3/10
Director: Rand Ravich
Starring: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Clea DuVall
On a routine space shuttle mission a pair of astronauts leave their spacecraft to repair a satellite... there's an explosion and NASA loses contact fo... Read more
The Aura (2004)
7.2/10
Director: Fabian Bielinsky
Starring: Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi, Alejandro Awada, Pablo Cedron, Jorge D'Elia, Nahue...
A spell-binding and richly textured heist film centred around an epileptic taxidermist who leads an isolated existence, harbouring fantasies of pullin... Read more
The Avengers (1998)
3.7/10
Director: Jeremiah S Chechik
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent
Set in a surreal 1999 London where scientist Ms. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) teams up with dapper secret agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) to defeat a maxi... Read more
The Avengers (2012)
8.1/10
Director: Joss Whedon
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Stellan Sk...
The Marvel Comics superhero team comes together in this ambitious blockbuster from writer/director Joss Whedon. When an unexpected enemy emerges that... Read more
The Avengers ( Blu-ray ) (2012)
8.1/10
Director: Joss Whedon
Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr, Samuel L Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, Stellan Sk...
The Marvel Comics superhero team comes together in this ambitious blockbuster from writer/director Joss Whedon. When an unexpected enemy emerges that... Read more
The Avengers: The Complete Series 2 (Volume 1) (1961)
5.4/10
Starring: Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, Ian Hendry
John Steed (Patrick Macnee) works for British Intelligence and works with various partners, notably: Dr. David Keel (Ian Hendry) (season one), Cathy G... Read more