Top 71 films in Thriller
Vertigo
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | Rated PG | 128 min | 1958
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Chinatown
Directed by Roman Polanski | Rated R | 130 min | 1974
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption and murder.
Psycho
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | Rated R | 109 min | 1960
A Phoenix secretary steals $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
The Third Man
Directed by Carol Reed | 93 min | 1949
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Jaws
Directed by Steven Spielberg | Rated PG | 124 min | 1975
When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and a grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
The Hurt Locker
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow | Rated R | 131 min | 2008
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Rear Window
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 112 min | 1954
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Blade Runner
Directed by Ridley Scott | Rated R | 117 min | 1982
A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Fargo
Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Rated R | 98 min | 1996
Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Mulholland Drive
Directed by David Lynch | Rated R | 147 min | 2001
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Persona
Directed by Ingmar Bergman | 83 min | 1966
A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.
Blue Velvet
Directed by David Lynch | Rated R | 120 min | 1986
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
No Country for Old Men
Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Rated R | 122 min | 2007
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
The Conversation
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola | Rated PG | 113 min | 1974
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
The 39 Steps
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 86 min | 1935
A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
Zero Dark Thirty
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow | Rated R | 157 min | 2012
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
High Noon
Directed by Fred Zinnemann | Rated PG | 85 min | 1952
A marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds that his own town refuses to help him.
Greed
Directed by Erich von Stroheim | 140 min | 1924
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
Goldfinger
Directed by Guy Hamilton | 110 min | 1964
Investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.
The Wages of Fear
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot | 131 min | 1953
In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
The Lives of Others
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Rated R | 137 min | 2006
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
The Manchurian Candidate
Directed by John Frankenheimer | 126 min | 1962
A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Léon: The Professional
Directed by Luc Besson | Rated R | 110 min | 1994
Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
Memento
Directed by Christopher Nolan | Rated R | 113 min | 2000
A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle.
Repulsion
Directed by Roman Polanski | 105 min | 1965
A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.
Parasite
Directed by Bong Joon Ho | Rated R | 132 min | 2019
All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident.
The Departed
Directed by Martin Scorsese | Rated R | 151 min | 2006
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Blow-Up
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni | 111 min | 1966
A mod London photographer finds something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park.
Reservoir Dogs
Directed by Quentin Tarantino | Rated R | 99 min | 1992
After a simple jewelry heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
The Lady Vanishes
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | 96 min | 1938
While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Jurassic Park
Directed by Steven Spielberg | Rated PG-13 | 127 min | 1993
During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.
Don't Look Now
Directed by Nicolas Roeg | Rated R | 110 min | 1973
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Traffic
Directed by Steven Soderbergh | Rated R | 147 min | 2000
A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife attempts to carry on the family business.
United 93
Directed by Paul Greengrass | Rated R | 111 min | 2006
A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Get Carter
Directed by Mike Hodges | Rated R | 112 min | 1971
When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate.
Shaft
Directed by Gordon Parks | Rated R | 100 min | 1971
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Directed by Melvin Van Peebles | Rated R | 97 min | 1971
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
The Revenant
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Rated R | 156 min | 2015
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Die Hard
Directed by John McTiernan | Rated R | 131 min | 1988
John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Hidden
Directed by Tim McLachlan | Rated N/A | 93 min | 2005
Deep within a dark, twisted forest, at a faraway adventure camp, a group of young 'camp leaders' play a fast and furious game of 'hide and seek'. The atmosphere is strange and thick with ...
Eyes Wide Shut
Directed by Stanley Kubrick | Rated R | 159 min | 1999
A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
Dr. No
Directed by Terence Young | 110 min | 1962
A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.
Rome, Open City
Directed by Roberto Rossellini | 103 min | 1945
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is chased by Nazis and he seeks refuge and escape.
Betrayal
Directed by David Hugh Jones | Rated R | 95 min | 1983
Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best ...
Night Must Fall
Directed by Richard Thorpe | 116 min | 1937
When a rich but cantankerous dowager on an isolated estates hires an engaging handyman, her niece/companion becomes suspicious of his motives.
Crash
Directed by Paul Haggis | Rated R | 112 min | 2004
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
The Ipcress File
Directed by Sidney J. Furie | 109 min | 1965
In London, a counter espionage agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.
The Day of the Jackal
Directed by Fred Zinnemann | Rated PG | 143 min | 1973
A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
Peeping Tom
Directed by Michael Powell | 101 min | 1960
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
The Dark Knight Rises
Directed by Christopher Nolan | Rated PG-13 | 164 min | 2012
Eight years after the Joker's reign of anarchy, the Dark Knight, with the help of the enigmatic Catwoman, is forced from his imposed exile to save Gotham City, now on the edge of total annihilation, from the brutal guerrilla terrorist Bane.
Oldboy
Directed by Chan-wook Park | Rated R | 120 min | 2003
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days.
Das Boot
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen | Rated R | 149 min | 1981
The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.
District 9
Directed by Neill Blomkamp | Rated R | 112 min | 2009
An extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth suddenly finds a kindred spirit in a government agent who is exposed to their biotechnology.
Black Swan
Directed by Darren Aronofsky | Rated R | 108 min | 2010
A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity.
Get Out
Directed by Jordan Peele | Rated R | 104 min | 2017
It's time for a young African-American to meet with his white girlfriend's parents for a weekend in their secluded estate in the woods, but before long, the friendly and polite ambience will give way to a nightmare.
Dirty Pretty Things
Directed by Stephen Frears | Rated R | 97 min | 2002
An illegal Nigerian immigrant discovers the unpalatable side of London life.
Marathon Man
Directed by John Schlesinger | Rated R | 125 min | 1976
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
Sorcerer
Directed by William Friedkin | Rated PG | 121 min | 1977
Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.
The Train
Directed by John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn | 133 min | 1964
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Yojimbo
Directed by Akira Kurosawa | 110 min | 1961
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Children of Men
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón | Rated R | 109 min | 2006
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
Hidden (Caché)
Directed by Michael Haneke | Rated R | 117 min | 2005
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.
The Ghost Writer
Directed by Roman Polanski | Rated PG-13 | 128 min | 2010
A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
The Grifters
Directed by Stephen Frears | Rated R | 110 min | 1990
A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend--both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
The Insider
Directed by Michael Mann | Rated R | 157 min | 1999
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a "60 Minutes" expose on Big Tobacco.
Sunshine
Directed by Danny Boyle | Rated R | 107 min | 2007
A team of international astronauts are sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
Primer
Directed by Shane Carruth | Rated PG-13 | 77 min | 2004
Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
A History of Violence
Directed by David Cronenberg | Rated R | 96 min | 2005
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
First Reformed
Directed by Paul Schrader | Rated R | 113 min | 2017
A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.
Gattaca
Directed by Andrew Niccol | Rated PG-13 | 106 min | 1997
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
Midnight Express
Directed by Alan Parker | Rated R | 121 min | 1978
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
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7. Hollywood's 100 Favorite Films by The Hollywood Reporter
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8. The 100 best movies of all time by Time Out
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10. Best Picture by New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC)
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12. The 50 Greatest Films by The One-Line Review
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15. Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics
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22. 12 Greatest Films of All Time by Quentin Tarantino
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