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.

Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)

Kill Chain (2020)

The Secret Village (2013)

Feast II: Sloppy Seconds (2008)

Pulse 3 (2008)

Lost Time (2014)

Octopus (2000)

Karen (2021)

Gwendoline (1984)

Armed Response (2017)

Mothman (2010)

Hellbound (1994)

Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys (2014)

Elevator (2013)

The Super (2018)

Penance (2009)

Raze (2013)

The Black Hole (2006)

Locked Down (2010)

The Babysitter (1995)

Blue Demon (2004)

Sparks (2013)

Drone (2017)

Vile (2011)

Black Rose (2014)

Tamara (2005)

Eden Log (2007)

Dead Tone (2007)

Edison (2005)

A Force of One (1979)

Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009)

Abominable (2006)

See No Evil (2006)

The Isle (2019)

The Shadow Effect (2017)

Bent (2018)

Home Sweet Hell (2015)

Turistas (2006)

The Girl in the Photographs (2015)

Vigilante Diaries (2016)

Wander (2020)

Blue (2009)

Stag Night (2008)

Knock Off (1998)

The Stranger (2010)

The Haunting (1999)

Red Sky (2014)

Decoys (2004)

Monolith (2016)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

The Silence of the Marsh (2019)

The Block Island Sound (2021)

The Bag Man (2014)

Hope Lost (2015)

Rites of Spring (2012)

Boiling Point (1993)

Fahrenheit 451 (2018)

The Grudge 3 (2009)

Torment (2013)

Suddenly (2013)