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 Barber (2002)
5.7/10
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Brenda James
Town barber Dexter Miles is surprised to overhear, while cutting the hair of police chief Vance Corgan, that the body of a woman he murdered a few day... Read more
The Batman (2022)
8/10
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, John Tu...
When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and quest... Read more
The Batman (4K Ultra HD) (2022)
8/10
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, John Tu...
When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and quest... Read more
The Batman (Blu-ray) (2022)
8/10
Director: Matt Reeves
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoe Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Colin Farrell, Paul Dano, John Tu...
When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and quest... Read more
The Bedroom Window (1987)
6.4/10
Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Elizabeth McGovern, Paul Shenar
Steve Guttenberg learns his affair with Isabelle Huppert, as a boss's wife, can cost him more than his present job, when he volunteers to be a proxy w... Read more
The Beguiled (1970)
6.3/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
A rewarding, off-beat tale set in the Civil War about a wounded soldier (Clint Eastwood) bought to a girls' school to recuperate but becomes the catal... Read more
The Beguiled (Blu-Ray) (1970)
6.3/10
Director: Don Siegel
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Geraldine Page, Elizabeth Hartman
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war,... Read more
The Believers (1987)
6.1/10
Director: John Schlesinger
Starring: Martin Sheen, Helen Shaver, Robert Loggia
Suspenseful occult thriller with Sheen as a New York therapist whose counselling of a disturbed policeman leads him into a series of bizarre and gory... Read more
The Belko Experiment (2016)
6.1/10
Director: Greg McLean
Starring: John C McGinley, Michael Rooker, Tony Goldwyn, Sean Gunn, John Gallagher Jr., Da...
An ordinary day at the office becomes a horrific quest for survival when 80 employees (John Gallagher Jr., Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjona) at the Belko Co... Read more
The Big Easy (1986)
6.6/10
Director: Jim McBride
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty, John Goodman
This scintillating thriller stars Dennis Quaid as a New Orleans detective who becomes involved with sexy district attorney Ellen Barkin, who is invest... Read more