Top Thriller Movies


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

81. Wailing, The ( Goksung )

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hong-jin Na
Actors: Woo-hee Chun, Jung-min Hwang, So-yeon Jang, Han-Cheol Jo
Plot: A goofy local police man's daughter is under the spell of a demon/demons after the people of his village tell terrifying stories following the arrival of a strange Japanese man.

82. Experiment, The ( Experiment, Das )

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Plot: Based on the "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971 - a group of 20 ordinary males are asked to take part in paid study. One group will be "prisoners" the others will be "guards" - the set of rules to follow are mild, anyone can quit at any time - yet what starts off as an amicable study soon devolves into a struggle for power as those in authority take things ever farther.

83. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance ( Boksuneun naui geot )

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Chan-wook Park
Actors: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Du-na Bae, Ji-Eun Lim
Plot: A man desperately wants to save his sister from dying of kidney failure - but he goes from being conned in a black market operation to kidnaping the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. As things go from bad to worse, anger and revenge take over.

84. A Place in the Sun

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor, Shepperd Strudwick
Plot: A blue collar worker is quickly promoted in his uncle's business where he meets a beautiful girl of upper class and dumps his lower class girlfriend.

85. The Accused

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jodie Foster, Leo Rossi, Bernie Coulson
Plot: A young woman is raped, and no one seems to care.

86. Changeling

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore
Plot: Based on a true story, a woman's son is kidnapped and returned to her months later. Unfortunately, it's not her son and the corrupt LA police department refuse to admit the mistake.

87. Fatal Attraction

Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adrian Lyne
Actors: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Hamilton Latzen
Plot: Despite having a beautiful wife and child, Douglas, a New York city lawyer puts his perfect life in jeopardy by having a one-night stand with a woman (Close) he just met.

88. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rian Johnson
Actors: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monáe
Plot: At the height of the lockdown and going sitr-crazy, the world's premier detective Benoit Blanc, finds himself receiving an invitation to an island paradise owned by Miles Bron, tech billionaire - who is putting on a murder mystery for his closest friends. When Blanc is informed he actually wasn't invited, it opens up more questions - and this game takes a decidedly serious tone, especially when it becomes apparent there is more than one murder to be solved.

89. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Actors: Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin
Plot: Ethan Hunt and his team face their biggest and most dangerous threat yet - The Syndicate, an international rogue group that are as skilled as they are deadly - and their number one goal is to eliminate the IMF.

90. Knife in the Water ( Nóz w wodzie )

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka, Zygmunt Malanowicz
Plot: A man and his wife almost hit a young student on the road and invite him to their yacht. The two men suddenly find themselves in a rivalry - and as the tension slowly increases, there will be consequences.

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