Top Thriller Movies


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

341. Fragile ( Frágiles )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jaume Balagueró
Actors: Calista Flockhart, Richard Roxburgh, Elena Anaya, Gemma Jones, Yasmin Murphy
Plot: A young woman (Calista Flockhart) who has suffered a serious trauma is hired as a third shift nurse to help a hospital with very ill children as patients. A lot of them are terminal. The hospital is very run down. Most of the patients have already been moved to another hospital, and these kids are said to be moved from this hospital at some point. The children keep seeing someone in the shadows who terrifies them and who comes and goes at will without a trace. They believe it is someone they know who died in the hospital before. What they don't seem to know is what the someone wants.

342. Bringing Out the Dead

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames, John Goodman, Patricia Arquette, Marc Anthony
Plot: A paramedics driver who works the night shift in New York City has a difficult time with his job when he sees victim after victim on the street. He becomes delusional while he falls in love with a victims daughter.

343. Halloween II

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers, Jeffrey Kramer, Lance Guest, Leo Rossi
Plot: After surviving her ordeal, Laurie Strode is rushed to the hospital. While Sheriff Brackett and Dr. Loomis scour Haddonfield for Michael Myers, the killer has discovered Laurie's whereabouts and turns the hospital into his own killing field.

344. Syriana

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Actors: Matt Damon, George Clooney, Amanda Peet, Kayvan Novak, Amr Waked, Christopher Plummer
Plot: The political war of oil, the US and the rest of the world disputes its importance of keeping things under wraps.

345. The Howling

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joe Dante
Actors: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski, Kevin McCarthy
Plot: After a near-fatal encounter with a serial killer, a reporter decides to check into the small community he lived at. She discovers "the colony" has a dark secret to hide.

346. Act of Violence

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter, Berry Kroeger
Plot: War veteran Frank Enley seems to be a happily married small-town citizen until he realises Joe Parkson is in town. It seems Parkson is out for revenge because of something that happened in a German POW camp, and when a frightened Enley suddenly leaves for a convention in L.A., Parkson is close behind.

347. Housebound

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gerard Johnstone
Actors: Morgana O'Reilly, Rima Te Wiata, Glen-Paul Waru, Cameron Rhodes, Millen Baird, Ross Harper
Plot: After a series of crimes, Kylie Bucknell is forced to take house arrest in the most stable place the court can find - her childhood home. While she's there, Kylie's mom, Miriam, comes out and says that the house might be haunted. She brushes it off at first, but after having experiences of her own, she starts digging deeper into the house's past and uncovers the dark truth.

348. Remember

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Atom Egoyan
Actors: Dean Norris, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Henry Czerny, Jürgen Prochnow, Bruno Ganz
Plot: A man suffering from dementia, armed with a hand-written letter, relies on a fellow Auschwitz survivor in order to find the person responsible for the death of his family.

349. I Stand Alone ( Seul contre tous )

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gaspar Noé
Actors: Philippe Nahon, Olivier Doran, Blandine Lenoir, Jean-François Rauger, Gil Bertharion Jr.
Plot: A convicted butcher leaves his daughter in a mental institution only to live with his pregnant mistress which he is unhappy about. But, she promises a new horse meat butcher shop but will everything work out or will he become more depressed?

350. House of Usher

Year of Release: 1960
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe, Eleanor LeFaber, Ruth Oklander
Plot: Roderick Usher's cursed New England bloodline dooms him and his sister, Madeline, to madness and debauchery. When Philip Winthrop arrives at the grim Usher mansion with plans of marrying Madeline, Roderick attempts to dissuade him with the tales of the Usher curse.

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