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".
Cutter's Way (1981)
6.9/10
Director: Ivan Passer
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Nina Van Pallandt, Stephen Elliott
One of the most original American films of the last decade. Alex Cutter (John Heard) is the Vietnam veteran disfigured in the war. When his best frien... Read more
Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994)
3.4/10
Director: Michael Schroeder
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Zach Galligan, Khrystyne Haje, Richard Lynch
For 200 years the humans built cyborgs to be their friends and to fight their wars. But now the last of the great corporations is dead and humans hun... Read more
Cypher (2002)
6.8/10
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu
Morgan Sullivan (Jeremy Northam) is an out of work accountant, stuck in an unhappy suburban life. Seeking an escape, he joins the multinational corpor... Read more
D-Tox (2001)
Director: Jim Gillespie
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Tom Berenger, Charles S Dutton, Sean Patrick Flanery, Dina M...
Aka 'Eye See You'. This nasty little thriller begins with FBI agent Sylvester Stallone unable to stop the death of his girlfriend by a vicious serial... Read more
D.O.A. (1988)
6.1/10
Director: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan, Charlotte Rampling
A slick remake of the 1950 film noir classic about a man (Dennis Quaid) who spends his final hours of life looking for the person who slipped him a sl... Read more
Dalgliesh (2021)
7.6/10
Starring: Bertie Carvel, Jeremy Irvine
Follows Dalgliesh's crime-fighting career from 1970s England to the present day. Read more
Dallas 362 (2003)
6.2/10
Director: Scott Caan
Starring: Scott Caan, Shawn Hatosy, Kelly Lynch, Jeff Goldblum, Selma Blair, Marley Shelto...
Scott Caan makes his directorial debut with this psychological drama, which he also scripted and stars in, about two buddies living in the rundown und... Read more
Danger: Diabolik (1967)
6.5/10
Director: Mario Bava
Starring: Adolfo Celi, John Phillip Law, Michel Piccoli, Marisa Mell, Terry-Thomas
The suave, psychedelic-era thief, Diabolik, can't get enough of life's good - or glittery - things. Not when there are currency shipments to steal fro... Read more
Daniel Isn't Real (2019)
6/10
Director: Adam Mortimer
Starring: Patrick Schwarzenegger
When Luke decided to leave his mother's home and face emancipation, he never thought it would be so complicated. His social awkwardness and his divers... Read more
Dark Angel ( aka I Come in Peace ) (1990)
7.4/10
Director: Craig R Baxley
Starring: Betsy Brantley, Brian Benben, Dolph Lundgren
Aka "I Come in Peace". While making a drug bust, police detective Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) witnesses a drug dealer and his partner slaughtered by a... Read more