Top Thriller Movies


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

261. The Pelican Brief

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn, William Atherton
Plot: A law student and her professor, with whom she is having an affair with, discover a conspiracy on the killings of two supreme court justices.

262. The Long Kiss Goodnight

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Renny Harlin
Actors: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko, Tom Amandes, Brian Cox
Plot: A woman with amnesia begins recalling her adventurous past.

263. The Invitation

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Karyn Kusama
Actors: Michiel Huisman, Logan Marshall-Green, John Carroll Lynch, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Tammy Blanchard, Mike Doyle
Plot: Will and Eden were once a loving couple but with the death of their son, Eden left everything behind. Two years later, she returns with a new husband and changed persona. Eager to reconnect with the people she left behind, she organizes a dinner. Will, still haunted by the past, hosts the party but as the night wears on, he can't help feel that she and her new husband have a sinister agenda.

264. Nobody

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Actors: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, J.P. Manoux, Humberly González, Gage Munroe
Plot: Hutch Mansell is the perfectly typical father and husband, in a perfectly overlooked life - your average nobody. But things change when he thwarts a home invasion and something inside of him, a simmering rage, finally snaps and causes him to push back. Now in the sights of a drug kingpin he will uncover long-buried secrets and dangerous skills in order to protect his family - and remind everyone he will be a nobody no more.

265. The Gift

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Edgerton
Actors: Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Beau Knapp, David Denman, Tim Griffin
Plot: A man and his wife looking to reinvigorate their relationship find their lives derailed when an old friend from school re-enters their lives and dredges up dangerous secrets from the past.

266. U.S. Marshals

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Stuart Baird
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey Jr., Joe Pantoliano, Daniel Roebuck, Tom Wood
Plot: Crack U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard and his crew are on the case when a planeload of convicts goes down and Mark Sheridan escapes. They soon realize Sheridan is no ordinary criminal and his incrimination may be part of an elaborate set up.

267. Kiss Me Deadly

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Aldrich
Actors: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Juano Hernandez, Cloris Leachman, Jack Elam
Plot: L.A. private eye Mike Hammer picks up a female hitchhiker only to become involved in a twisted plot after she is killed for information. It could mean a big payday, if he can figure out the mystery and survive to use it.

268. The Prophecy

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gregory Widen
Actors: Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Virginia Madsen, Eric Stoltz, Viggo Mortensen, Amanda Plummer
Plot: The Archangel Gabriel tries to win the war in heaven by killing a man on earth and taking his soul.

269. American Made

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Doug Liman
Actors: Tom Cruise, Sarah Wright, Domhnall Gleeson, Lola Kirke, Jesse Plemons, Jayma Mays
Plot: Based on the true story of Barry Seal - a pilot turned drug runner turned DEA informant who played each side to the high life, before paying the ultimate price.

270. Killer Elite

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gary McKendry
Actors: Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic Purcell, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Plot: A former member of Britain's Elite Special Air Service comes out of retirement in order to save his mentor and must face three highly-skilled assassins along the way.

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