Top Thriller Movies


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

181. The Guard

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong, Fionnula Flanagan, David Wilmot
Plot: Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.

182. The Manchurian Candidate

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright, Dorian Missick, Pablo Schreiber, Meryl Streep
Plot: The remake to the 1960's classic, this one focuses on the gulf war and how soldiers are brainwashed to think different and do wrong things.

183. No Time to Die

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Actors: Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Jeffrey Wright, Ralph Fiennes
Plot: James Bond has left the service life behind, preferring a more peaceful life in Jamaica. But when old CIA contact Felix Leiter shows up, their reprieve is short-lived as Bond once again finds himself on the trail of a kidnapped scientist - and a new, powerful adversary with a dangerous technology at his disposal.

184. The Towering Inferno

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
Actors: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
Plot: At the gala premiere opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, architect Doug Roberts discovers builders have installed shoddy wiring. Sure enough, a fire breaks out during the celebration and the world's tallest building becomes the world's tallest death trap.

185. ...And Justice for All

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Craig T. Nelson
Plot: A Baltimore defense lawyer is fed up with the corruption in the legal
system finds himself defending a judge against a rape charge - a man he
truly despises. Yet if he doesn't take the case, he will find himself
disbarred.

186. The Last House on the Left

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Actors: Spencer Treat Clark, Joshua Cox, Garret Dillahunt, Tony Goldwyn, Riki Lindhome, Sara Paxton
Plot: Remake of the 1972 film that finds a gang of criminals getting a taste of their own medicine after running into the parents of one of the girls they brutally assaulted.

187. The Guest

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adam Wingard
Actors: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser, Lance Reddick
Plot: A soldier comes the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. But as a series of accidental deaths occurs, the welcomed man soon turns into a suspect.

188. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not... ( À la folie... pas du tout )

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Romance/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Laetitia Colombani
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré, Clément Sibony, Sophie Guillemin, Eric Savin

189. Clear and Present Danger

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny, Benjamin Bratt
Plot: An adaptation of the novel of the same title.

190. Suspicion

Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans
Plot: A would-be spinster is swept off her feet by a dashing stranger, only to suspect that he is a murderer. Is she his next intended victim, or is her overactive imagination getting the best of her?

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