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".
Double Lover (L'Amant double) (2017)
6.2/10
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset
Chloé, a woman with a fragile mental state, falls for her psychoanalyst, Paul. But after moving in with him a few months later, she discovers a part o... Read more
Double Lover (L'Amant double) (Blu-ray) (2017)
7.6/10
Director: Francois Ozon
Starring: Marine Vacth, Jeremie Renier, Jacqueline Bisset
Chloé, a woman with a fragile mental state, falls for her psychoanalyst, Paul. But after moving in with him a few months later, she discovers a part o... Read more
Down By The Riverside (2007)
5.4/10
Director: Brad Davison, Marama Killen
Set in the Waikato, two historians begin investigating a series of unsolved murders perpetrated some 20 years earlier in a home for unwed pregnant gir... Read more
Down Terrace (2009)
6.5/10
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Julia Deakin, Kali Peacock, Mark Kempner, Tony Way, Kerry Peacock, Robin Hill, R...
Father and son, Bill and Karl (real-life father and son, Robert and Robin Hill), have just been released from jail, but all is not well in Down Terrac... Read more
Dr No (1962)
7.3/10
Director: Terence Young
Starring: Ursula Andress, Sean Connery, Bernard Lee, Jack Lord, Joseph Wiseman, Lois Maxwe...
The first of the phenomenally successful Bond movies. 007's mission takes him to the steamy island of Jamaica, where another agent has been murdered,... Read more
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
6.6/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Adriana Barra...
Sam Raimi returns triumphantly to his horror roots with this camp frightener about a good-hearted Southern girl who attracts a nasty curse. Christine... Read more
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
7/10
Director: S. Craig Zahler
Starring: Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, L...
Police partners descend into the criminal underworld after they are suspended for assaulting a suspect on video. Read more
Dragonfly (2002)
6.1/10
Director: Tom Shadyac
Starring: Kevin Costner, Susanna Thompson, Kathy Bates, Linda Hunt
After his pregnant doctor wife dies in an accident in Venezuela, Chicago physician Kevin Costner is haunted by a series of occurrences that make him t... Read more
Dream House (2011)
6/10
Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Daniel Craig, Elias Koteas, Jane Alexander, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz star in this unsettling thriller, playing a couple that moves from New York City to a "dream house" in New England to ra... Read more
Dreamland (2019)
5.8/10
Director: Miles Joris-Peyrafitte
Starring: Margot Robbie
A teen bounty hunter is torn between helping or capturing a seductive fugitive bank robber hiding in his small town during the Great Depression. Read more