Top Thriller Movies


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

191. The War of the Roses

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny DeVito
Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Sean Astin, Marianne Sägebrecht, Heather Fairfield
Plot: A couple's marriage falls apart as their story is told through the eyes of their lawyer.

192. Thai Warrior, The ( Ong-Bak )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Thai
Genre: Thriller/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Prachya Pinkaew
Actors: Petchtai Wongkamlao, Tony Jaa, Pumwaree Yodkamol, Suchao Pongwilai, Chumphorn Thepphithak, Cheathavuth Watcharakhun

193. Hanna

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joe Wright
Actors: Cate Blanchett, Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Olivia Williams, Anna Popplewell, Tom Hollander
Plot: Hanna was raised by her ex-CIA father in extreme conditions and tutelage in the wilds of Finland to be the perfect assassin. On the cusp of adolescence, her father sends her on a mission across Europe, chased by a rival agent, but as she nears her target the revelations make her question her entire life.

194. Police Story 2 ( Ging chaat goo si juk jaap )

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jackie Chan
Actors: Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung, Kwok-Hung Lam, Bill Tung, Charlie Cho, Yuen Chor
Plot: After being demoted from detective to traffic cop, a highly successful officer finds himself the target of a Triad member seeking revenge against him and his girlfriend.

195. Pusher

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Kim Bodnia, Zlatko Buric, Laura Drasbæk, Slavko Labovic, Mads Mikkelsen, Peter Andersson
Plot: A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

196. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, Gbenga Akinnagbe, John Turturro
Plot: A subway dispatcher's day is thrown into chaos when an armed gang holds a subway train hostage and demands a large ransom within the hour before they start killing people.

197. Undertow

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Gordon Green
Actors: Jamie Bell, Kristen Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Josh Lucas, Terry Loughlin, Devon Alan
Plot: A dramatic thriller about two brothers, Chris and Tom, who are forced to go on the run in order to guard a secret following the death of their father--and the arrival of their greedy, troubled uncle.

198. Wave, The ( Welle, Die )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dennis Gansel
Actors: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul, Jacob Matschenz
Plot: In an attempt to teach his students about dictatorship, a Rainer Wegner's week-long project spirals out-of-control when the students form their own society that bears a striking resemblance to Germany's fascist past.

199. Elle

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efira, Christian Berke
Plot: Successful as she is ruthless, Michèle runs her video game company with the same cut-throat attitude in her personal life. But an attack in her home by an unknown assailant changers her forever. She will stop at nothing to track down the man who raped her, but once she finds him it begins a new game of cat-and-mouse - one that gets more dangerous as things spiral out of control.

200. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Isela Vega, Warren Oates, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Donnie Fritts, Robert Webber
Plot: A wealthy Mexican rancher puts a $1 million bounty for the head of Alfredo
Garcia. With every bounty hunter on the trail, a piano-player is
questioned and, doing his own investigations, learns his girlfriend knows
the whereabouts of Garcia's place of burial. Striking out together, with
dreams of untold wealth - the two have no idea the misery they will
encounter.

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