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".
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
5.4/10
Director: Danny Pang, Oxide Pang
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Charlie Yeung, Shahkrit Yamnarm, Panward Hemmanee
The Pang Brothers remake their own film from 2000 for the American market, with Nic Cage as the professional hitman, on assignment in Bangkok to kill... Read more
Banished (2015)
7.4/10
Starring: David Wenham, Orla Brady, Ewen Bremner, MyAnna Buring, Ryan Corr, David Dawson,...
British convicts have been sent to Australia as punishment for their crimes. As they try to live their new lives, they have to live with the new rules... Read more
Basic (2003)
6.5/10
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Connie Nielsen, Giovanni Ribisi, John Travolta, Brian Van Holt...
"Rashomon" meets "A Few Good Men" in this military thriller from director John McTiernan ("Die Hard"). After abrasive sergeant Samuel L. Jackson's tra... Read more
Basic Instinct (1992)
6.9/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Michael Douglas, George Dzundza, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Controversial, sexually-charged suspenser stars Michael Douglas as a burned-out San Francisco police detective investigating a brutal ice-pick murder... Read more
Basic Instinct ( Blu-ray ) (1992)
6.9/10
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Controversial, sexually-charged suspenser stars Michael Douglas as a burned-out San Francisco police detective investigating a brutal ice-pick murder... Read more
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
4.3/10
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, Charlotte Rampling, Hugh Dancy
Shazzer finds herself once more on the wrong side of the law, this time in the UK where expert psychiatrist Michael Glass (David Morrissey) has been b... Read more
Beast (2017)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Pearce
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsi... Read more
Beautiful Creatures (2000)
5.9/10
Director: Bill Eagles
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Susan Lynch, Iain Glen, Maurice Roeves, Tom Mannion, Alex Norton
Kinky and disturbing thriller set in Glasgow, where Susan Lynch, a woman abused by her junkie lover, comes to the aid of fellow victim Rachel Weisz by... Read more
BECK (1997)
7.4/10
Starring: Ingvar Hirdwall, Mikael Persbrandt
Commissioner Martin Beck and his eccentric partner Gunvald Larsson investigate murders in Stockholm, center of criminality in Eastern Europe. Read more
Becky (2020)
5.8/10
Starring: Kevin James, Joel McHale
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives. Read more