Top Thriller Movies


The Top Thriller Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Thriller List". Lists are calculated daily.

151. After Hours

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
Plot: A typical, everyday guy who works as a word processor impulsively decides to visit Soho in order to meet up with a young woman he met in a coffee shop. That's the first bad decision he made, but the night is about to get oh so much worse for him.

152. Bad Day at Black Rock

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Sturges
Actors: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger
Plot: A one-handed man steps off the train in the small town of Black Rock, where the locals are less than helpful with strangers. Being refused a hotel room and a rental car - he knows the town is hiding a secret. When he mentions his purpose is to speak to a Japanese-American farmer, Kamoko, it opens up old wounds the town would rather forget - even if it means taking care of the problem with extreme force.

153. The Collector

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore
Plot: Freddie, a withdrawn, socially awkward bank clerk decides collecting butterflies isn't enough and starts collecting humans. Yet art student Miranda Grey isn't afraid to match wits with him in order to win back her freedom.

154. Red Dragon

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brett Ratner
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Mary-Louise Parker
Plot: A retired FBI agent with a pychological talent, is brought back to track down "the Tooth Fairy". However, he is forced to get help from Hannibal Lector - the man he put away and who almost killed him.

155. Salt

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Zoe Lister Jones
Plot: When a CIA agent is accused of being a Russian spy, she goes on the run, using all her training and talents to elude capture and clear her name.

156. Man from Nowhere, The ( Ajeossi )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeong-beom Lee
Actors: Bin Won, Sae-ron Kim, Hyo-seo Kim

157. Straw Dogs

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T. P. McKenna
Plot: A meek American mathmatician goes to England on sabbatical to the small town where his young, liberated wife grew up. As his wife becomes the object of desire for a group of local toughs, he finds a violent reserve deep inside.

158. Stir of Echoes

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Koepp
Actors: Kevin Bacon, Illeana Douglas, Zachary David Cope, Kathryn Erbe
Plot: Working-class man Tom Witzky has a son and pregnant wife and hangs out with the same group of friends - one night his sister-in-law convinces him to get hypnotized where she plants the simple suggestion to "open your mind." What nobody would suspect is that Tom is soon treated to visions of the ghost of a young woman who went missing from the neighborhood years ago.

159. Locke

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Knight
Actors: Tom Hardy, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Tom Holland
Plot: Ivan Locke is a building site manager who has spent the last nine years building up his life. But in one 90-minute drive, on the eve of the biggest contract of his life, we watch as his carefully built life crumbles down around him.

160. The Guest

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adam Wingard
Actors: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley
Plot: A soldier comes the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. But as a series of accidental deaths occurs, the welcomed man soon turns into a suspect.

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