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".
Colombiana (2011)
6.4/10
Director: Olivier Megaton
Starring: Lennie James, Michael Vartan, Cliff Curtis, Zoe Saldana, Jordi Molla
This exotic thriller from co-writer/producer Luc Besson ("La Femme Nikita") stars Zoe Saldana as the sexy and lethal Cataleya, a professional assassin... Read more
Color of Night (1994)
5.1/10
Director: Richard Rush
Starring: Bruce Willis, Jane March, Ruben Blades, Jeff Corey
In this steamy suspenser, Bruce Willis is a distraught New York psychiatrist who takes over a Los Angeles group therapy session in order to find the k... Read more
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
7.2/10
Director: Joseph Sargent
Starring: Gordon Pinsent, Susan Clark, Eric Braeden
The granddaddy of all "computer run amok" films, 'Colossus: The Forbin Project' concerns a huge electronic brain designed to control the American miss... Read more
Coma (1978)
6.9/10
Director: Michael Crichton
Starring: Genevieve Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Widmark
Someone is killing and stealing patients from a big city hospital, and a woman doctor bucks male superiors to pursue her suspicions. A film of almost... Read more
Come and Find Me (2016)
5.7/10
Starring: Aaron Paul, Annabelle Wallis, Garret Dillahunt, Zachary Knighton, Enver Gjokaj
When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be. Read more
Come to Daddy (2019)
6/10
Starring: Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Martin Donovan
Norval's life has been, to put it lightly, difficult. Currently living home with his mother, the troubled young man is coming off alcohol-related stru... Read more
Come to Daddy (Blu-ray) (2019)
6/10
Starring: Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Martin Donovan
Norval's life has been, to put it lightly, difficult. Currently living home with his mother, the troubled young man is coming off alcohol-related stru... Read more
Comes a Bright Day (2012)
6.1/10
Director: Simon Aboud
Starring: Kevin McKidd, Timothy Spall, Imogen Poots, Craig Roberts
A British thriller with romantic undertones, "Comes a Bright Day" finds a working class London bellboy thrown into a hostage situation with the girl o... Read more
Coming Home in the Dark (2021)
5.7/10
Director: James Ashcroft
Starring: Daniel Gillies, Miriama McDowell, Erik Thomson, Matthias Luafutu
A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip. Read more
Coming Home in the Dark (Blu-ray) (2021)
5.7/10
Director: James Ashcroft
Starring: Daniel Gillies, Miriama McDowell, Erik Thomson, Matthias Luafutu
A school teacher is forced to confront a brutal act from his past when a pair of ruthless drifters takes him and his family on a nightmare road-trip. Read more