Top Thriller Movies


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

111. Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The ( Luftslottet som sprängdes )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Actors: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Anders Ahlbom
Plot: Based on the third book of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy - Lisbeth Salandar finally leaves the hospital only to be faced with three murder charges. As journalist Mikael Blomkvist works to clear her name, Lisbeth plots revenge against the people responsible for her ordeal.

112. Vanishing, The ( Spoorloos )

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sluizer
Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus
Plot: After his girlfriend disappears from a road-side gas station, a man will stop at nothing to learn what became of her.

113. Never Let Me Go

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark Romanek
Actors: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling
Plot: Three children who have spent their lives together at the same English boarding school must come to terms with their relationship and the harsh reality of life.

114. Signs

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Mel Gibson, Joaquin Phoenix, Rory Culkin, Abigail Breslin
Plot: The appearance of a crop circle on a Pennsylvania farm is the beginning of a journey for a tight-knit family that will test faith in more ways than one.

115. Ghost

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jerry Zucker
Actors: Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze, Whoopi Goldberg, Vincent Schiavelli
Plot: Sam promises Molly he will always love and protect when he is mugged and killed he is allowed to stay on earth in a supernatural form to discover the truth about his murder.

116. Disconnect

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Henry Alex Rubin
Actors: Jason Bateman, Max Thieriot, Andrea Riseborough, Paula Patton
Plot: As the world becomes more connected digitally - do we lose human connection in the process? This series of interconnected stories concerns a lawyer who is more attached to his cell phone than his own family, a couple dealing with their secrets being exposed online, an ex-cop with a cyber-bullying son and a journalist looking for scoop found in a teen working on an adult internet site.

117. First Reformed

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Schrader
Actors: Amanda Seyfried, Ethan Hawke, Michael Gaston, Cedric the Entertainer
Plot: Reverend Ernst Toller presides over a dwindling congregation in the historic First Reformed Church in upstate New York. As the church prepares for a 250th anniversary celebration, Toller, who struggles with depression and loneliness, finds his life slipping out of control when he tries to help a pregnant parishioner.

118. The Cabin in the Woods

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Drew Goddard
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Kristen Connolly, Amy Acker
Plot: A twist on the classic horror setup of a group of friends going to a cabin retreat in the dark woods and uncovering something unexpected and horrific.

119. The China Syndrome

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Bridges
Actors: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady
Plot: Kimberly Wells, an inquisitive reporter working on an alternative energy story, oversees an accident at the nuclear power plant. Wanting the break the story immediately, she suddenly finds herself caught in a web of conspiracy, and those in power will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.

120. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Yates
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Alex Rocco
Plot: Eddie Coyle is a small-time hood looking at a long sentence for repeat offenses. In order to avoid jail time he decides to turn on his "friends" providing information to the feds. But he is still supplying guns to his bank-robbing buddies - and he may not be the only one turning snitch.

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