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".
Cloak and Dagger (1984)
6.7/10
Director: Richard Franklin
Starring: Dabney Coleman, Henry Thomas, Michael Murphy
Davey Osborne (Henry Thomas from "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial") is an imaginative youngster who loves role-playing games and who often enlists the aid... Read more
Club Zero (2023)
5.9/10
Director: Jessica Hausner
Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Sidse Babett Knudsen
Nutrition teacher Miss Novak accepts a job at an elite school and forms a close bond with five students, but a relationship ends up taking a dangerous... Read more
Clubbed (2008)
6.9/10
Director: Neil Thompson
Starring: Mel Raido, Colin Salmon, Shaun Parkes, Maxine Peake, Scot Williams, Ronnie Fox
Set firmly in 1980s industrial England where Danny is a down-trodden factory worker with less than nothing going for him. Even his kids think he's a l... Read more
Cobra (1986)
5.7/10
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen, David Rasche
This vigilante drama stars Sly as a two-fisted, quick-triggered LA cop nicknamed Cobra who shoots, blasts, punches and mauls his way through the ranks... Read more
Cocaine Bear (2023)
6/10
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Starring: Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr, Ray Liotta, Brooklynn Prince,...
An oddball group of cops, criminals, tourists and teens converge on a Georgia forest where a huge black bear goes on a murderous rampage after uninten... Read more
Cocaine Godmother (2017)
5.7/10
Director: Guillermo Navarro
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Raul Mendez
The real life of Colombian drug lord, Griselda Blanco, who reportedly masterminded more than 200 murders. This film presents her life story from the t... Read more
Code 46 (2003)
6.2/10
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Starring: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Jeanne Balibar, Om Puri
In the near future, privileged classes live 'inside' cities, while non-citizens barely exist in the vast desert, 'outside'. Travel is restricted to th... Read more
Code of Silence (1985)
6/10
Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen
Eddie Cusack (Chuck Norris) is a Chicago detective who plays by his own rules - a dangerous habit, especially when he breaks the force's "code of sile... Read more
Coherence (2013)
7.2/10
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Starring: Hugo Armstrong, Nicholas Brendon, Emily Foxler, Elizabeth Gracen, Lauren Maher,...
On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality-bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi... Read more
Cold Comes the Night (2013)
5.7/10
Starring: Alice Eve, Logan Marshall-Green, Ashlie Atkinson, Bryan Cranston
A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash packa... Read more