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 Haunted Strangler (1957)
6.3/10
Director: Robert Day
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jean Kent, Elizabeth Allan, Anthony Dawson
Aka 'Grip of the Strangler'. Set against the backdrop of Victorian society in London, this atmospheric horror features Boris Karloff as a novelist inv... Read more
The Haunting (1999)
4.9/10
Director: Jan De Bont
Starring: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lili Taylor, Owen Wilson
This state-of-the-art supernatural thriller stars Liam Neeson, a professor who recruits three people for experiments which he claims will cure their i... Read more
The Hills Run Red (2009)
5.5/10
Director: Dave Parker
Starring: William Sadler, Alex Wyndham, Janet Montgomery, Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrinck
Nasty shocker about a group of young horror fans who try to track down a print of a legendary but mysteriously lost '80s slasher film. Their search le... Read more
The Hindenburg (1975)
6.2/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: George C Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess...
The interior of the doomed airship was meticulously recreated by director Robert Wise, unfortunately the same careful attention was not paid to the sc... Read more
The Hit (1984)
7.1/10
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Bill Hunter, Fernando Rey, John Hurt, Laura Del Sol, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth
Terence Stamp is Willie, a gangster's henchman turned supergrass (informer) trying to live in peaceful hiding in a remote Spanish village. Sun-dappl... Read more
The Hitcher (1986)
7.3/10
Director: Robert Harmon
Starring: C Thomas Howell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rutger Hauer, Jeffrey DeMunn
Rutger Hauer is evil personified in this taut thriller about a young man who is terrorized by a maniacal hitchhiker. Howell, in what may easily be his... Read more
The Hitcher (2007)
5.6/10
Director: Dave Meyers
Starring: Neal McDonough, Sean Bean, Sophia Bush, Zachary Knighton
The open road becomes a suspenseful, action-packed battleground of blood and metal as Grace Andrews (Sophia Bush) and Jim Halsey (Zachary Knighton), a... Read more
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
6.9/10
Director: Patrick Hughes
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Elodie Yung, Richard E Grant, Gary Oldman
The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Criminal Court. They must put their differences aside and... Read more
The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (Blu-ray) (2021)
6.9/10
Director: Patrick Hughes
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Elodie Yung, Richard E Grant, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Antonio B...
The bodyguard, Michael Bryce, continues his friendship with assassin, Darius Kincaid, as they try to save Darius' wife Sonia. Read more
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
5.7/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Michael Caine, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer, Mario Adorf, Mic...
Noel Holcroft (Michael Caine) is a New York architect who receives an unexpected inheritance from his ex-Nazi father; $40 billion in funds stolen from... Read more