Best Thriller Movies
Thrillers are engineering: tension built, held and released on schedule. Conspiracies, cat-and-mouse games, ticking clocks and ordinary people in over their heads, ranked by audience rating. See where each is streaming and track how many have actually made you check the door.
The Substitute
1996
Runaway Train
1985
'71
2014
Peninsula
2020
Crank
2006
Le Doulos
1962
Leave Her to Heaven
1945
I Confess
1953
Unfaithful
2002
Thelma
2017
The Swimming Pool
1969
Fury
1936
Point Blank
1967
September 5
2024
The Running Man
2025
Memory
2022
The Age of Shadows
2016
The Score
2001
The Purge: Anarchy
2014
One Hour Photo
2002
Get Carter
1971
The American Friend
1977
The Beguiled
1971
The Unknown Woman
2006
Thunderball
1965
Heart of Stone
2023
11:14
2004
The Good Son
1993
A Working Man
2025
Animals
2026
Let Him Go
2020
Freaks
2019
The Infiltrator
2016
Body of Lies
2008
Patriot Games
1992
Foxcatcher
2014
An Inspector Calls
2015
Hwayi: A Monster Boy
2013
Om Shanti Om
2007
Angel Has Fallen
2019
Candyman
1992
Knox Goes Away
2024
War of the Worlds
2005
28 Weeks Later
2007
Stoker
2013
Black and Blue
2019
We Own the Night
2007
Street Kings
2008