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".
Happy Death Day (2017)
6.5/10
Director: Christopher Landon
Starring: Israel Broussard, Jessica Rothe
Tree Gelbman is a blissfully self-centered collegian who wakes up on her birthday in the bed of a student named Carter. As the morning goes on, Tree g... Read more
Hard Candy (2005)
7.1/10
Director: David Slade
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae, Gilbert John
14-year-old Hayley (Ellen Page) agrees to meet dodgy, 30-something fashion photographer, Jeff (Patrick Wilson), after chatting online. Following a ren... Read more
Hard Candy ( Blu-ray ) (2005)
7.1/10
Director: David Slade
Starring: Sandra Oh, Gilbert John, Ellen Page, Odessa Rae, Patrick Wilson
14-year-old Hayley (Ellen Page) agrees to meet dodgy, 30-something fashion photographer, Jeff (Patrick Wilson), after chatting online. Following a ren... Read more
Hard Kill (2020)
4.1/10
Director: Matt Eskandari
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Bruce Willis
The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers (Willis) is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his d... Read more
Hard Kill (Blu-ray) (2020)
4.1/10
Director: Matt Eskandari
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Bruce Willis
The work of billionaire tech CEO Donovan Chalmers (Willis) is so valuable that he hires mercenaries to protect it, and a terrorist group kidnaps his d... Read more
Hard Luck (2006)
5.3/10
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Mario Van Peebles, Cybill Shepherd, Luis Guzman
From director Mario van Peebles ('New Jack City'), who also stars, this fast-paced thriller has the unlucky 'Lucky' (Wesley Snipes) as a drug dealer t... Read more
Hard Rain (1997)
5.8/10
Director: Mikael Salomon
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid
This routine, effects-soaked thriller about a bank heist complicated by massive flooding (the aborted pre-release title was 'The Flood') stars Christi... Read more
Hard Target (1993)
6.1/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen
Crashes, shoot-outs, massacres and explosions are the hallmark of John Woo's (ex Hong Kong cult filmmaker) outing in New Orleans. Jean-Claude Van Damm... Read more
Hardcore Henry (2015)
6.7/10
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Starring: Tim Roth, Haley Bennett, Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Andrei Dementiev
A man wakes up in a Moscow laboratory to learn that he's been brought back from the dead as a half-human, half-robotic hybrid. With no memory of his f... Read more
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man (1991)
6/10
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Tom Sizemore, Vanessa Williams
A futuristic comic-adventure starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson as cycle-riding rebels who plot a daring armoured car robbery in order to save the... Read more