Top Thriller Movies


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

171. 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, Takashi Shimura, Kô Nishimura

172. Heretic

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Actors: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, Elle McKinnon, River Codack, Stephanie Lavigne

173. 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, Willie Nelson, Robert Prosky
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.

174. 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, Wally Cox, Michael Kane
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.

175. The Lookout

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Frank
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Alberta Watson

176. Safe House

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Vera Farmiga, Joel Kinnaman, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Patrick
Plot: A house under the protection of the CIA becomes a target and it is up to the facility's house sitter to extract the criminal in hiding and take him to a secure location.

177. 30 Days of Night

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 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, Josh Hartnett, Camille Keenan
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.

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, Mark Webber, Callum Turner
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. A Quiet Place Part II

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Krasinski
Actors: Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou, Millicent Simmonds, Wayne Duvall
Plot: The Abbott family is forced to leave their farmhouse road behind and venture out into the open world. They soon realize the dangers they face go well beyond the deadly creatures who hunt by sound.

180. 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, David Clennon, Charles Cioffi
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.

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