Top Thriller Movies


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

281. The Recruit

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Roger Donaldson
Actors: Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan, Gabriel Macht, Kenneth Mitchell, Mike Realba
Plot: Fresh CIA recruit James Clayton is on the fast track to become a top agent thanks to his quick thinking, unconventional methods and mentor, veteran agent Walter Burke. As Clayton begins to question his trust, Burke assigns him the task of rooting out a mole in the agency.

282. Don't Breathe

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fede Alvarez
Actors: Jane Levy, Stephen Lang, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Jane May Graves, Sergej Onopko
Plot: A trio of teenage thieves think they have found the perfect mark in the home of wealthy, blind man but breaking in is the easy part, getting out alive is another matter.

283. Cop Car

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jon Watts
Actors: Kevin Bacon, Shea Whigham, Camryn Manheim, James Freedson-Jackson, Hays Wellford, Kathleen Bentley
Plot: Two ten years old boys find a cop car and ride it for innocent fun, but the car has a dark secret to reveal that it will change their lives forever.

284. Tenet

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Pattinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John David Washington, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine
Plot: An unnamed CIA operative dubbed The Protagonist finds himself recruited into the mysterious organization known as Tenet. Operating outside of the constraints of time itself, their goal is to stop Andrei Sator, a Russian oligarch with precognition abilities whose aim is to start World War III. Utilizing the art of "time inversion" Tenet will stop at nothing to counter this threat.

285. Thoroughbreds

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cory Finley
Actors: Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks, Francie Swift, Kaili Vernoff
Plot: A pair of upper-class teenage girls rekindle a friendship that had grown apart years earlier. But the circumstances that bring them together involve their mutual disdain for their parents... and way to get rid of this problem by any means necessary.

286. The Woman in the Window

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, Thomas E. Jackson
Plot: A college professor and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in a nearby men's club. When admiring the picture, the actual subject of the painting shows up and he winds up in her apartment. When her boyfriend shows up, he thinks something sinister is going on and attempts to rough up the professor but, fighting back, the boyfriend winds up dead. He and the woman agree to cover up the death by dumping the body - but the police come closer the the truth as they lean on the woman.

287. Lore

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cate Shortland
Actors: Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, André Frid, Mika Seidel, Kai-Peter Malina, Ursina Lardi
Plot: The Nazi regime has fallen. As the allies sweep across Germany, Lore and her siblings trek across the country as refugees and learn first-hand the truth they have been told is all a front. Faced with the aftermath of WWII they will have to rely on people - including those they have been told are enemies - in order to survive.

288. Supercop ( Ging chaat goo si 3: Chiu kap ging chaat )

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Tong
Actors: Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, Kenneth Tsang, Bill Tung, Philip Chan
Plot: A Hong Kong police officer and Chinese agent team up to bring down a drug syndicate. When one of their sources is about to be executed, they plan a jailbreak to get the information they need.

289. Salem's Lot

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Julie Cobb
Plot: A writer returns to his home town to investigate the eerie mansion that
haunted him as a child. Meanwhile, a supernatural illness plagues the
town, leaving the victims weak and bloodless. Based on the Stephen King
novel.

290. A Perfect Getaway

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Twohy
Actors: Milla Jovovich, Timothy Olyphant, Marley Shelton, Steve Zahn, Kiele Sanchez, Chris Hemsworth
Plot: A couple enjoying their honeymoon by exploring a remote Hawaiian paradise come across a terrified group of people who discuss a gruesome murder of another couple. Deciding not to turn back, they seek out two other couples, but soon find there is not safety in numbers as they fight for survival.

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