Top Thriller Movies


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

291. 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.

292. 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.

293. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Rupert Davies, Sam Wanamaker, Cyril Cusack
Plot: Alec Leamas is a British agent who refuses to come out of the Cold War. Sent to East Germany, supposedly as a defector, but really to sow disinformation - he realizes that he is a pawn in a much bigger game and struggles to find his humanity before it's too late.

294. Sabotage

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour, Matthew Boulton
Plot: A cinema owner is suspected of being a saboteur in a terrorist gang launching attacks throughout London. As an undercover Scotland Yard detective investigates, he begins to fall in love with the suspect's beautiful young wife.

295. 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.

296. Firestarter

Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark L. Lester
Actors: David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Heather Locklear, Freddie Jones, Martin Sheen, George C. Scott
Plot: Andy and Vicky participated in some medical experiments in college. It is 9 years later and their 9-year-old daughter, Charlene "Charlie" McGee, can start fire with her mind. The government wants to study her even if it kills her.

297. Body Heat

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Actors: William Hurt, Richard Crenna, Kathleen Turner, Mickey Rourke, J.A. Preston, Ted Danson
Plot: During the hottest time of the year, a man is convinced by his girlfriend to murder her husband - make it look accidental - so that they can be together. Will she turn on him in the end?

298. Child's Play

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Holland
Actors: Catherine Hicks, Brad Dourif, Chris Sarandon, Tommy Swerdlow, Dinah Manoff, Alex Vincent
Plot: Charles Lee Ray, a serial killer on the run, is shot and dying when he performs a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul to a children's doll. This doll is then given to a small boy who fights for his life as the doll returns to Charles Lee Ray's killing ways.

299. Barbarian

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Zach Cregger
Actors: Georgina Campbell, Bill SkarsgÄrd, Justin Long, Kurt Braunohler, Jaymes Butler, Matthew Patrick Davis
Plot: After arriving in town for a job interview, a young woman discovers the Airbnb she has reserved has been double-booked. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay with the young man but discovers the house holds a far deadlier secret down below than anything she might be afraid of up above.

300. Nightmare Alley

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Paul Anderson, Bradley Cooper, Mary Steenburgen, Toni Collette
Plot: A carney with a talent for manipulation leaves the sideshow behind for the big city - but not before leaving a wake of chaos behind. Using the talents he's learned to swindle millionaires - he finds his match in a brilliant, devious psychologist - who becomes his greatest challenge and ultimate downfall.

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