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.

Shadow Man (2006)

London Fields (2018)

Joker: Folie à Deux (2024)

Assassin's Bullet (2012)

I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998)

The Son of No One (2011)

Lucy in the Sky (2019)

The Pact II (2014)

Inside (2016)

They (2002)

The Bay of Silence (2020)

Lake Placid 3 (2010)

Emelie (2016)

Half Past Dead (2002)

I, Frankenstein (2014)

Lost Boys: The Tribe (2008)

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

2047: Sights of Death (2014)

Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)

Alien Apocalypse (2005)

Donkey Punch (2008)

Dog Eat Dog (2016)

Finders Keepers (2014)

Bushwick (2017)

Exit to Eden (1994)

The Kitchen (2023)

Between Worlds (2018)

The Drowning (2016)

Knock Knock (2015)

Wrong Place (2022)

Southland Tales (2007)

The Trust (2016)

The Titan (2018)

Apollo 18 (2011)

Hollywood Homicide (2003)

Jinn (2014)

Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

Wolves at the Door (2016)

Maximum Ride (2016)

Grizzly II: Revenge (2020)

Keep Watching (2017)

In the Cut (2003)

Rise of the Zombies (2012)

Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017)

The Institute (2017)

DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Top Dog (1995)

Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

Catch.44 (2011)

Get Carter (2000)

Chernobyl Diaries (2012)

Branded (2012)

The Mod Squad (1999)

The Lazarus Effect (2015)

Playback (2012)

Choose or Die (2022)

Force of Nature (2020)

Amnesiac (2015)

The Mangler (1995)