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".
6 Days (2017)
6.2/10
Director: Toa Fraser
Starring: Mark Strong, Martin Shaw, Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish
In April 1980, a half-dozen armed Arab separatists stormed the Iranian embassy in London and took 26 of the occupants hostage. The tense hours that fo... Read more
600 Miles (2015)
5.5/10
Director: Gabriel Ripstein
Starring: Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Monica Del Carmen, Craig Hensley, Harris Kendall
After a terrifyingly tense opening of a slope-shouldered youth perusing a gun store, Gabriel Ripsteins 600 Miles charts the unlikely alliance of a Me... Read more
65 (2023)
5.4/10
Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Starring: Adam Driver
An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone. After a catastrophic crash, pilot Mills quickly discovers he's act... Read more
7 Boxes (2012)
7.2/10
Director: Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori
Starring: Celso Franco, Victor Sosa, Lali Gonzalez
A.k.a. "7 cajas". It's Friday night in Asunción, Paraguay and the temperature is sweltering. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow delivery boy, dreams of... Read more
7 Days (2010)
6.5/10
Director: Daniel Grou
Starring: Remy Girard, Claude Legault, Fanny Mallette
In this unnerving French Canadian thriller, a vengeance-crazed doctor (Claude Legault) first does considerable harm to the rapist who violated his dau... Read more
7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
5.8/10
Director: Jose Padilha
Starring: Brontis Jodorowsky, Rosamund Pike, Daniel Bruhl, Lior Ashkenazi, Eddie Marsan, D...
In July 1976, four terrorists hijack an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris and force the flight crew to land in Entebbe, Uganda. There, the Jewi... Read more
7 minutes (Blu-ray) (2014)
5/10
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Jason Ritter
Three high school friends are forced to commit a brazen robbery which quickly goes horribly wrong. Read more
7 Times Lucky (2004)
Director: G. B. Yates
Starring: Kevin Pollak, Liane Balaban
Kevin Pollack is Harlan, a veteran grifter on a losing streak. When he gambles away a wad of cash that belonged to his boss, he's desperate to get th... Read more
88 Minutes (2007)
5.9/10
Director: Jon Avnet
Starring: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, William Forsythe, Debora...
Al Pacino is a university professor and renowned forensic psychiatrist who occasionally assists the police, and his latest testimony has earned him a... Read more
8mm (1998)
6.5/10
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini
A dark thriller about a private detective's investigation into whether or not a "snuff" film in which a girl apparently dies is genuine. The twisted s... Read more