Top Thriller Movies


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211. Compliance

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Craig Zobel
Actors: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp
Plot: Based on actual events: a series of prank calls to a fast food manager leads him to interrogate a young, female employee to the point of abuse that leave no one unharmed.

212. No Way Out

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roger Donaldson
Actors: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton

213. The Firm

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sydney Pollack
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook
Plot: A brilliant young lawyer is recruited by "The Firm" and soon he is basking in his newfound wealth. However, he soon learns that his new company has its dark side, and when the FBI approaches him for help, he has to make his own decision on where he stands.

214. Pickup on South Street

Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye
Plot: When a pickpocket unwittingly steals top micro-film, he becomes a target for Communist agents.

215. The Client

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia
Plot: A young boy witnesses the suicide of a prominent mob lawyer, but not before learning a very big secret. He tracks down an attorney, Reggie Love, to help him through but soon they are both caught between the mob who wants the secret buried and a gruff federal prosecutor who wants the truth.

216. Breach

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Billy Ray
Actors: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Caroline Dhavernas
Plot: Based on a true story, senior FBI agent Robert Hanssen is suspected of years of spying. Computer specialist Eric O'Neill is assigned as his new clerk, with the added job of gathering information on Hanssen to out him as the worst spy in history.

217. No Time to Die

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Actors: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch
Plot: James Bond has left the service life behind, preferring a more peaceful life in Jamaica. But when old CIA contact Felix Leiter shows up, their reprieve is short-lived as Bond once again finds himself on the trail of a kidnapped scientist - and a new, powerful adversary with a dangerous technology at his disposal.

218. Storm of the Century

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Craig R. Baxley
Actors: Tim Daly, Colm Feore, Debrah Farentino, Casey Siemaszko

219. Targets

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis
Plot: An elderly horror film star who, while making a personal appearance at a drive in theater, confronts a psychotic Vietnam veteran who's turned into a mass murdering sniper.

220. Final Destination

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James Wong
Actors: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Seann William Scott
Plot: After a terrifying vision of a plane crash, a group of people are thrown off a flight... which explodes soon after. Having cheated death once, the friends find that cheating it a second time isn't so easy.

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