Top Thriller Movies


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

161. Queen of Earth

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alex Ross Perry
Actors: Elisabeth Moss, Patrick Fugit, Katherine Waterston, Kate Lyn Sheil

162. Guilty, The ( Den skyldige )

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gustav Möller
Actors: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Olsen
Plot: A former police officer who now works as an emergency call operator receives a desperate call from a woman who has been kidnapped. When the call is abruptly cut off, he races to find the woman, with the phone as his only tool and soon comes to realize this crime is a part of something much bigger than he could imagine.

163. The Train

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Plot: A railroad boss and the French Resistance join forces in Paris during the German occupation, to thwart the Germans' plan.

164. Last House on the Left

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln
Plot: Two teens go to the city to see their favorite band and score some drugs. But instead they run into escaped convict Krug and his sadistic group. After having their way with the two girls the gang unknowingly seeks refuge at the house of one of the girl's parents who realize what's happened and plan the ultimate revenge.

165. Night and the City

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Plot: Harry Fabian is a London hustler whose plans never seem to work out as planned. Spying a world-famous Greco-Roman wrestler as his son's restaurant, he comes up with his most audacious plan yet. He does his best to con everyone around him, but in the end, really only winds up conning himself as his dreams crumble around him.

166. Bad Education ( mala educación, La )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar
Plot: A man impersonates his brother in order to convince said brother's director friend to take up his script, which was based on their childhood. The story triggers the director's emotions and his love for the impostor. The writer claims that the ending was fictional but is it really fictional? Will the director finally figure out who was he dealing with? Where is his first love? Can the director ever believe what he sees again?

167. The Constant Gardener

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite
Plot: After his wife dies in Africa, a quiet diplomat begins to investigate her death and uncovers a conspiracy by the British government and a powerful drug company.

168. Safe House

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Vera Farmiga, Joel Kinnaman
Plot: A house under the protection of the CIA becomes a target and it is up to the facility's house sitter to extract the criminal in hiding and take him to a secure location.

169. Talk to Me

Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
Actors: Sophie Wilde, Joe Bird, Alexandra Jensen, Otis Dhanji
Plot: A group of friends learn that an embalmed hand holds the key to conjuring spirits - and the ability to do so becomes like a drug, a rush to find out how far they can go... until they go too far an unleash an unspeakable horror that seeks to destroy them.

170. The Lookout

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Frank
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Jeff Daniels

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