Top Thriller Movies


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

171. 30 Days of Night

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 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.

172. 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.

173. 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.

174. 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.

175. Soylent Green

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Brock Peters, Chuck Connors, Edward G Robinson
Plot: In the year 2022 a police detective in NYC is hunted down for murder when
he uncovers a secret cover-up by the government.

176. 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.

177. Sorry, Wrong Number

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Ed Begley, William Conrad, Wendell Corey
Plot: A woman, sick and confined to bed, picks up the phone only to overhear what she thinks is a plot to murder. She becomes increasingly desperate in her quest to find out who the victim is going to be and how to stop the plot from being carried out.

178. 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.

179. Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Renny Harlin
Actors: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, William Sadler, Dennis Franz, Reginald VelJohnson
Plot: Waiting for his wife at Dulles International Airport, John McClane is once again in the right place at the wrong time. A group of terrorists are plotting to release a drug kingpin and hold the entire airport hostage, including all the planes in the air. If they had known one of the planes held McClane's wife Holly, they would have waited.

180. Death Proof

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Zoe Bell, Rose McGowan, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Plot: A demented stunt man follows and kills groups of women in his death proof car, but meets his match when he goes up against a group of stunt women with attitude.

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