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".
Fail Safe (blu-ray) (1964)
8/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Dan O'Herlihy, Henry Fonda, Larry Hagman, Walter Matthau
One of the greatest anti-war thrillers ever. This tense Cold War offering is about a squad of American bombers that are accidentally sent to deliver a... Read more
Fair Game (1995)
4.2/10
Director: Andrew Sipes
Starring: William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford, Steven Berkoff, Christopher McDonald
Acting more with the variety of T-shirts she wears than with her emotions, Cindy Crawford makes her acting debut as a divorce lawyer who is hunted by... Read more
Fall (2002)
7.2/10
Director: Scott Mann
Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Drowning in a sea of grief, 51 painful weeks after the life-altering incident that scarred her for life, emotionally fragile rock climber Becky reluct... Read more
Fallen (1998)
7/10
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandol...
When homicide cop Denzel Washington begins to investigate some brutal copycat murders, he starts to realise that there may be an explanation beyond th... Read more
Fallen Angel (2006)
8.1/10
Director: David Drury
Starring: Charles Dance, Emilia Fox
Emilia Fox stars as Rosemary, the beautiful but disturbed daughter of an English vicar (Charles Dance). Part family saga, part crime drama, 'Fallen An... Read more
Family Plot (1976)
6.8/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris
Hitchcock's last movie is a diabolically funny search for a missing heir, starring Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, and Karen Black. Read more
Fanny Lye Deliver'd (2019)
Starring: Charles Dance, Maxine Peake
Fanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive. When the sheriff arrives, things... Read more
Far North (2007)
6.2/10
Director: Asif Kapadia
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Michelle Krusiec, Sean Bean
An eerie and disturbing thriller set in the majestic frozen wastes of the Arctic Circle. Michelle Yeoh stars as Saiva, a determined survivor who has b... Read more
Farewell (2009)
7/10
Director: Christian Carion
Starring: David Soul, Fred Ward, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Niels Arestrup, Willem Dafoe, Guill...
Based on an incredible true story, 'Farewell' is an espionage film about events that changed world history. In Moscow 1981, Colonel Sergei Gregoriev (... Read more
Farewell My Lovely (1975)
7.1/10
Director: Dick Richards
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, a former dancer at a seedy nightclub. Read more