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".
Focus (2015)
6.6/10
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Starring: Gerald McRaney, Margot Robbie, Rodrigo Santoro, Will Smith
Nicky (Will Smith) is a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes involved with novice con artist Jess (Margot Robbie). As he's teaching her the tri... Read more
Follow Me (2020)
5.5/10
A social media personality travels with his friends to Moscow to capture new content for his successful VLOG. Always pushing the limits and catering t... Read more
Following (1988)
7.5/10
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Lucy Russell
An older man listens to Bill's story about being a callow writer who likes to follow strangers around London, observing them. One day, a glib and self... Read more
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
6.8/10
Director: John Glen
Starring: Carole Bouquet, Roger Moore, Chaim Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Julian Glover, Des...
When a British spy ship is sunk, taking with it a high-tech encryption device, Agent 007 (Roger Moore) is sent to retrieve it. However, the Soviets a... Read more
Forever Mine (1999)
5.3/10
Director: Paul Schrader
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol, Vincent Laresca
Writer/director Paul Schrader explores his passion for film noir with this modern-day crime story starring Joseph Fiennes as Manuel, a disfigured man... Read more
Formula 51 ( aka The 51st State ) (2001)
6.3/10
Director: Ronny Yu
Starring: Samuel L Jackson, Robert Carlyle, Emily Mortimer, Sean Pertwee, Ricky Tomlinson,...
Entertaining action yarn with Samuel L. Jackson as a kilt-wearing renegade chemist who has invented an illegal drug 51 times more potent than any othe... Read more
Foxfire (1996)
6.2/10
Director: Annette Haywood-Carter
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Hedy Burress, Jenny Shimizu
The Joyce Carol Oates story is turned into a provocative film centered on four affluent but troubled teenage girls who are liberated by Legs Sadovsky,... Read more
Fracture (2007)
7.2/10
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz,...
Ryan Gosling plays ambitious young Southern attorney to Anthony Hopkins' cunning loop-hole seeking wife-killer in this courtroom thriller that is elev... Read more
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Fragile (2005)
6.1/10
Director: Jaume Balaguero
Starring: Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh, Elena Anaya, Gemma Jones
Calista Flockhart stars as a troubled nurse who takes a job at a remote orphanage that's about to be shut down. But the last remaining children are p... Read more
Franklyn (2008)
6.2/10
Director: Gerald McMorrow
Starring: Bernard Hill, Kika Markham, Ryan Phillippe, Susannah York, James Faulkner, Art M...
Four souls bound by fate, romance and tragedy collide in the parallel worlds of London and the futuristic Meanwhile City, where a single bullet will a... Read more