Top Thriller Movies


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

171. Air Force One

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Xander Berkeley
Plot: When Russian terrorists take over Air Force One, the President (Harrison Ford) fakes his own escape in order to strike from hiding and save his family.

172. 30 Days of Night

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Slade
Actors: Manu Bennett, Ben Foster, Mark Boone Junior, Craig Hall
Plot: The northern-most city in the United States, Barrow, Alaska is about to shut down for 30 days of darkness. Only a small group of citizens braves the cold and isolation, but they're about to be joined by a tribe of vampires who don't plan on leaving any survivors.

173. Bad Sleep Well, The ( Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru )

Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi

174. Missing

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea
Plot: In a coup, a junta, a young man goes missing. Fearing he is dead, his wife and his father use all their influence at the American embassy to find, him dead or alive.

175. Soylent Green

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Brock Peters, Chuck Connors
Plot: In the year 2022 a police detective in NYC is hunted down for murder when he uncovers a secret cover-up by the government.

176. The Bedford Incident

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James B. Harris
Actors: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam
Plot: A reporter is given access to the American destroyer the USS Bedford and the cold-war hardened Captain Finlander. But when a Soviet sub is discovered, things get entirely too real as the captain pursues the enemy at any cost.

177. Thief

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Tuesday Weld, James Caan, James Belushi, Dennis Farina
Plot: A safe cracker is trying to begin a normal life when the mob comes calling for one last job as he scrambles to protect the ones he loves.

178. Green Room

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Actors: Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart
Plot: A punk rock band on a tour in a secluded area of the Pacific Northwest come across a horrific act of violence. Because they are the only witnesses, they soon all become targets of the white power skinheads responsible, and soon find themselves on the run for their lives.

179. Sorry, Wrong Number

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Ed Begley
Plot: A woman, sick and confined to bed, picks up the phone only to overhear what she thinks is a plot to murder. She becomes increasingly desperate in her quest to find out who the victim is going to be and how to stop the plot from being carried out.

180. Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Renny Harlin
Actors: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, William Sadler
Plot: Waiting for his wife at Dulles International Airport, John McClane is once again in the right place at the wrong time. A group of terrorists are plotting to release a drug kingpin and hold the entire airport hostage, including all the planes in the air. If they had known one of the planes held McClane's wife Holly, they would have waited.

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