Top Thriller Movies


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

201. The Last Wave

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray, Nandjiwarra Amagula
Plot: A Sydney lawyer is called on to defend five Aboriginals in court over a ritualized murder. Determined to break their silence, he is drawn deeper into a prophesy that portends an Armageddon where all shall drown.

202. Seven Days in May

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam
Plot: An unpopular president has passed a nuclear disarmament treaty through the
Senate, but finds popular opinion swiftly turning on him. A friendly
Marine Colonel informs him that current Joint Chiefs head General Scott
(and certain future presidential candidate) plans to kill the treaty,
fearing a Soviet sneak attack. Thus the intrigue begins, and the president
must figure out who he can trust and who he must fear.

203. Hijacking, A ( Kapringen )

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tobias Lindholm
Actors: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Møller, Gary Skjoldmose Porter, Amalie Ihle Alstrup
Plot: After Somali pirates take over a Danish cargo ship, they demand millions in ransom for the crew. As the negotiations with the mainland grow tense, the lives of the crew are threatened.

204. Miss Sloane

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Madden
Actors: Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alison Pill, Mark Strong, John Lithgow, Michael Stuhlbarg
Plot: Elizabeth Sloane is a ruthless and powerful political strategist. When gun control legislation gains traction in Congress, she becomes pivotal in the fight that shows both sides of the debate and pits her against powerful lobbying groups. But her desire to win at all costs may cost her more than votes - it may derail both her personal life and her highly-successful career.

205. Predestination

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Noah Taylor, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby, Madeleine West, Freya Stafford
Plot: In order to ensure his law enforcement career for all time, a temporal agent must navigate an intricate set of time-travel journeys. But his final assignment pits him against the one man who has eluded him in all times - but to protect his future, he will finally have to stop him.

206. 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.

207. Targets

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis, Peter Bogdanovich, Nancy Hsueh
Plot: An elderly horror film star who, while making a personal appearance at a drive in theater, confronts a psychotic Vietnam veteran who's turned into a mass murdering sniper.

208. Compliance

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Craig Zobel
Actors: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger, James McCaffrey
Plot: Based on actual events: a series of prank calls to a fast food manager leads him to interrogate a young, female employee to the point of abuse that leave no one unharmed.

209. The Mist

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Frank Darabont
Actors: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Andre Braugher, Laurie Holden, Nathan Gamble, William Sadler
Plot: After a mysterious crash a mysterious storm passes through in which a clan of creatures rise up to take over a small town with only the citizens to protect themselves.

210. The Client

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joel Schumacher
Actors: Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia, J.T. Walsh, Anthony Edwards
Plot: A young boy witnesses the suicide of a prominent mob lawyer, but not before learning a very big secret. He tracks down an attorney, Reggie Love, to help him through but soon they are both caught between the mob who wants the secret buried and a gruff federal prosecutor who wants the truth.

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