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 Man from Nowhere (2010)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
Taken (2008)
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
American Psycho (2000)
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
The Wave (2008)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Wind River (2017)
Dark Waters (2019)
Sicario (2015)
Bullet Train (2022)
The Godfather Part III (1990)
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
War Machine (2026)
Bad Genius (2017)
Inside Man (2006)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
The Impossible (2012)
Now You See Me (2013)
Lady Vengeance (2005)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Match Point (2005)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Raid (2012)
The French Connection (1971)
Falling Down (1993)
Promising Young Woman (2020)
The Last Duel (2021)
Mad Max 2 (1981)
Hotel Mumbai (2019)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Disclosure Day (2026)
A Perfect World (1993)
Bacurau (2019)
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Insider (1999)
A Time to Kill (1996)
After Hours (1985)
Serenity (2005)
The Equalizer (2014)
The Tenant (1976)
Goldfinger (1964)
End of Watch (2012)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Hereditary (2018)
The Life of David Gale (2003)
Barton Fink (1991)
No Time to Die (2021)
Argo (2012)
Eastern Promises (2007)
One Battle After Another (2025)
The Abyss (1989)