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 Unsaid (2001)
6.7/10
Director: Tom McLoughlin
Starring: Andy Garcia, Sam Bottoms, Trevor Blumas, Linda Cardellini, Teri Polo, Vincent Ka...
Andy Garcia stars as Kansas psychologist Dr Michael Hunter who quits his practice following the suicide of his teenage son. Disturbed by the death, wi... Read more
The Untouchables (1987)
7.9/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Sean Connery, Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro
Federal agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) vows to bring down Prohibition-era mob warlord Al Capone (Robert De Niro) with the help of a Chicago cop (Sea... Read more
The Untouchables ( Blu-ray ) (1987)
7.9/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Sean Connery, Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro
Federal agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) vows to bring down Prohibition-era mob warlord Al Capone (Robert De Niro) with the help of a Chicago cop (Sea... Read more
The Usual Suspects (1995)
8.6/10
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Suzy Amis, Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Spacey, Kevin Pollak, Gian...
Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollak and Kevin Spacey star in this inventive, engrossing crime story as a bunch of guys brou... Read more
The Usual Suspects (Blu-Ray) (1995)
8.6/10
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Gabriel Byrne, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Pol...
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist," says con man Kint (Kevin Spacey), drawing a comparison to the mos... Read more
The Valachi Papers (Blu-ray) (1972)
6.4/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari, Joseph Wiseman, Gera...
Gangster Joe Valachi is a marked man in the same joint where mob boss Don Vito Genovese is imprisoned and he's forced to co-operate with the DA in exc... Read more
The Vanishing (2018)
5.8/10
Starring: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Gary Lewis
Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. Read more
The Vanishing (1993)
6.3/10
Director: George Sluizer
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Nancy Travis, Sandra Bullock
This Americanization of the 1988 Dutch classic is full of imbalances as the plot is spelt out leaving nothing to the imagination. However, the films t... Read more
The Vanishing (Blu-ray) (2018)
6.3/10
Starring: Peter Mullan, Gerard Butler, Gary Lewis
Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. Read more
The Village (2004)
6.5/10
Director: M Night Shyamalan
Starring: Adrien Brody, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt, Joaquin Phoenix, Sigourney Weaver,...
This mindbending M. Night Shyamalan thriller chronicles life in a 19th-century Pennsylvania community surrounded by woods inhabited by deadly creature... Read more