Top Thriller Movies


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

61. Michael Clayton

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Gilroy
Actors: George Clooney, Pamela Gray, Sydney Pollack, Tom Wilkinson
Plot: Michael Clayton is a "Clean up man" or a "Fixer" at a law firm that fixes people's legal problems by pulling strings of politicians and powerful people.

He gets involved in a case that wreaks of corruption. He tries desperately to get to the bottom of why the lead attorney has quit the case and gone missing.

62. Miller's Crossing

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Coen
Actors: Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden
Plot: During prohibition, crime bosses rage ware against each other as loyal and betrayal often occur.

63. Wait Until Dark

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Terence Young
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Plot: A blind woman is terrorized by a group of con-men who come up with an elaborate scheme to steal back a doll containing drugs.

64. Run Lola Run ( Lola rennt )

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
Plot: A women in Germany has 20 minutes to rob 100,00 Deutschmarks as each possible scenario runs through her head.

65. Perfect Blue

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Satoshi Kon
Actors: Bridget Hoffman, Wendee Lee, R. Martin Klein, Michael Lindsay
Plot: A retired pop idol begins a new career as a risque actress, but when she finds a website that has intimate details of her life, she begins to question her own life.

66. Cape Fear

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro, Juliette Lewis
Plot: Fourteen years ago public defender Sam Bowden his evidence from his client Max Cady, a rapist, that could have acquitted him. Now, a just-released Cady, smarter, stronger and more psychotic, is ready to take revenge against the attorney and his family.

67. Godson, The ( Samouraï, Le )

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: François Périer, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Michel Boisrond
Plot: An expert hitman, living a meticulously planned existence, finds himself in a web of intrigue after he is witnessed leaving his latest assignment.

68. Audition ( Ôdishon )

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura
Plot: When a widower decides to hold a fake movie audition to find the pefect replacement, what starts out as the pefect dream relationship turns into a nightmare.

69. Salesman, The ( Forushande )

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Actors: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati
Plot: An Iranian couple are forced out of their crumbling apartment and must find new accommodations. Both are also rehearsing for an upcoming production of Death of a Salesman. Their new apartment, unknown to them, was the former home of a lady of the night - one with many clients. When the wife is alone and a client comes calling - it has a chilling affect on their lives and relationship.

70. Witness

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover
Plot: A young, Amish boy is witness to a crime in Philadelphia and in order to protect him before trail and officer is sent to go undercover to protect him. While adjusting to this new life, and feelings for the boy's mother, he has to be on the lookout of the killers who will stop at nothing to keep the boy silent.

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