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".
Femme Fatale (2002)
6.3/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Peter Coyote, Gregg Henry
A $10-million diamond ripoff set against the Cannes Film Festival, a stolen identity, a new life married to a wealthy U.S. diplomat. Laure Ash has ris... Read more
Fermat's Room (2007)
6.7/10
Director: Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopena
Starring: Lluis Homar, Alejo Saurus, Elena Ballesteros, Santi Millan, Federico Luppi, Hele...
A mind-bending Spanish thriller in which four mathematicians who have never met are gathered together on the pretext of solving some great mathematica... Read more
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
6.9/10
Director: Kari Skogland
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan, Natalie Press, Tom Collins, Kevin Zegers, Jim Sturge...
Inspired by Martin McGartland's shocking real life story, Martin is a young lad from West Belfast in the late 1980s who is recruited by the British po... Read more
Final Analysis (1992)
5.8/10
Director: Phil Joanou
Starring: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts
A stylish thriller about a psychiatrist who becomes involved with a patient's unhappily married sister - only to find himself enmeshed in an elaborate... Read more
Final Score (2018)
5.6/10
Director: Scott Mann
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Ralph Brown, Ray Stevenson, Dave Bautista
After deadly terrorists abduct his niece at a soccer match, an ex-soldier with lethal fighting skills wages a one-man war to save her and prevent mass... Read more
Finally Sunday! ( Confidentially Yours ) (1983)
7.4/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Fanny Ardant
A.k.a. 'Confidentially Yours'. A wife and her lover are found murdered. Suspicion falls on her estate agent husband whose loyal secretary tries to pro... Read more
Fire of Conscience (2009)
6.2/10
Director: Dante Lam
Starring: Leon Lai, Richie Ren, Baoqiang Wang, Vivian Hsu
Leon Lai and Richie Jen headline this hardboiled crime actioner as opposing cops with dark pasts that build to even darker consequences. Ill-tempered,... Read more
Firefox (1982)
5.9/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Freddie Jones, David Huffman
Clint Eastwood, an ex-US pilot, is persuaded to undertake a mission to the USSR to steal a supersonic jet fighter that is invisible to radar and contr... Read more
Firewall (2006)
5.8/10
Director: Richard Loncraine
Starring: Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Robert Patrick, Mary Lynn Rajskub,...
Jack Stanfield (Harrison Ford) is a high-powered technology executive overseeing security for a large bank. He thinks he's thought of everything unti... Read more
First Blood ( Rambo ) (1982)
7.7/10
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy
John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is an ex-Green Beret haunted by his memories of Vietnam. Harassed and jailed by the locals in a Northwest town, he mak... Read more