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.

Death House (2018)

Mimic: Sentinel (2003)

The Face of an Angel (2014)

And Soon the Darkness (2010)

Eloise (2016)

Freedomland (2006)

Breakout (2013)

Apartment 143 (2011)

Mom and Dad (2018)

Bones (2001)

A Good Marriage (2014)

Infini (2015)

Demonic (2015)

The Roommate (2011)

Left Behind: World at War (2005)

Ratter (2015)

The Cold Light of Day (2012)

The Day the Earth Stopped (2008)

Evils of the Night (1985)

Tekken (2010)

Lies & Illusions (2009)

Hangman (2015)

Silent Night (2012)

Diablo (2016)

Stratton (2017)

Compulsion (2013)

House of the Dead 2 (2006)

Lavalantula (2015)

Larceny (2017)

Passion (2013)

Gotti (2018)

Little Deaths (2011)

Airborne (2012)

Camp Hell (2010)

Operation: Endgame (2010)

Choose (2011)

Abandon (2002)

Precious Cargo (2016)

Hold Your Breath (2012)

Kill Switch (2008)

The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

Among the Shadows (2019)

Aftershock (2012)

Poison Ivy 2: Lily (1996)

Submerged (2005)

All Cheerleaders Die (2013)

Boxing Helena (1993)

Picking Up the Pieces (2000)

Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011)

The Shortcut (2009)

Are You Scared (2006)

Poltergeist III (1988)

Great White (2021)

Feast III: The Happy Finish (2009)

Mercenary for Justice (2006)

The King of Fighters (2009)

The Silence of the Hams (1994)

Mockingbird (2014)

Grace (2014)

Autopsy (2008)