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 Imitation Game (2014)
8/10
Director: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Danc...
Academy Award-winning (Best Adapted Screenplay) historical drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turi... Read more
The Imitation Game ( Blu-ray ) (2014)
8/10
Director: Morten Tyldum
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Danc...
Academy Award-winning (Best Adapted Screenplay) historical drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as British codebreaker and computer scientist Alan Turi... Read more
The Infiltrator (2016)
7/10
Director: Brad Furman
Starring: John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt, Diane Kruger, Bryan Cranston, Joseph Gilgun
Based on a true story, Federal agent ROBERT BOB MAZUR (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's drug trafficking scene pla... Read more
The Infiltrator (Blu-ray) (2016)
7/10
Director: Brad Furman
Starring: John Leguizamo, Benjamin Bratt, Diane Kruger, Bryan Cranston, Joseph Gilgun
Based on a true story, Federal agent ROBERT BOB MAZUR (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's drug trafficking scene pla... Read more
The Informant! (2009)
6.5/10
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Matt Damon, Melanie Lynskey, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale
Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) has worked for a food processing conglomerate for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing... Read more
The Informer (2019)
6.5/10
Director: Andrea Di Stefano
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common
An ex-convict working undercover intentionally gets himself incarcerated again in order to infiltrate the mob at a maximum security prison. Read more
The Informers (2008)
5/10
Director: Gregor Jordan
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Jon Foster, Mickey Rourke, Austi...
Bret Easton Ellis ('Less Than Zero', 'American Psycho') adapts his own work for the screen, a characteristically chilling portrait of hedonism gone ma... Read more
The Innkeepers (2011)
5.5/10
Director: Ti West
Starring: Kelly McGillis, Sara Paxton, Pat Healy
After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees - Claire (Sara Paxton) and... Read more
The Innocent (2022)
6.7/10
Starring: Louis Garrel, Roschdy Zem, Anouk Grinberg
When Abel learns that his mother is about to marry a man in prison, he freaks out. With the help of his best friend, he will do whatever it takes to p... Read more
The Institute (2017)
4.2/10
Director: James Franco
Starring: James Franco, Scott Haze, Lori Singer
Subjected to bizarre, increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, Isabel must escap... Read more