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".
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)
7.1/10
Director: Dominic Sena
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Duvall
Nicolas Cage stars as a legendary car thief who returns to Southern California, after calling it quits, to save brother Giovanni Ribisi, who will be b... Read more
Gone In 60 Seconds (1974)
6.5/10
Director: H B Halicki
Starring: H B Halicki, Marion Busia, George Cole, James McIntyre
Maindrian Pace is a professional car thief who's just been double-crossed leaving him headed on a crash course with the police. What follows is trail... Read more
Gone With The West (1974)
3.1/10
Starring: James Caan, Stefanie Powers, Aldo Ray, Barbara Werle, Sammy Davis Jr, Robert Wal...
After being framed, a cowboy is sent to jail. After his time is served, he leaves with vengeance in his heart. Soon he meets a young Native American w... Read more
Good Kill (2014)
6.4/10
Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Bruce Greenwood, Zoe Kravitz, Jake Abel, January Jones
A Las Vegas-based fighter pilot turned drone pilot fights the Taliban by remote control for 12 hours a day, then goes home to the suburbs and feuds wi... Read more
Good Time (2017)
7.3/10
Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Pattinson, Barkhad Abdi, Benny Safdie
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Constantine "Connie" Nikas (Robert Pattinson) embarks on a twisted odyssey through t... Read more
Goodbye Lover (1999)
5.7/10
Director: Roland Joffe
Starring: Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Ellen DeGeneres, Mary-Louise Parker, Don Joh...
A twisty-turvy, blackly comic thriller about a sultry philandering wife's manipulative games. Naughty fun for neo-noir fans looking for visually styli... Read more
Goodnight Mommy (2014)
6.7/10
Director: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Starring: Susanne Wuest, Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Hans Escher
In a lonesome house in the countryside in the heat of mid-summer, nine-year-old twin brothers await their mother's return from the hospital. When she... Read more
Gorky Park (1983)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Lee Marvin, William Hurt
Three mutilated bodies are found in a Moscow park, and its up to a Russian policeman (William Hurt) to find the maniacal killer. Based on the best-sel... Read more
Gosford Park (2001)
7.3/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Gambon, Bob Balaban, Jeremy Northam, Stephen Fry,...
Robert Altman's acclaimed mix of British period drama and Agatha Christie-styled mystery is set at an English estate in 1932, where home owner Michael... Read more
Gosnell (2018)
6.7/10
Starring: Nick Searcy, Janine Turner, Michael Beach, Dean Cain, Sarah Jane Morris
A movie about the crimes and trial of Kermit Gosnell, an American doctor and abortion provider who was convicted of killing three fetuses and the invo... Read more