Top Thriller Movies


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

341. J.S.A.: Joint Security Area ( Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA )

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chan-wook Park
Actors: Yeong-ae Lee, Byung-hun Lee, Kang-ho Song, Tae-woo Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Christoph Hofrichter
Plot: When two North Korean soldiers are found dead in the Joint Security Area -- a border region guarded by both North and South Korea -- the incident sparks a political firestorm that threatens to turn into an all-out war.

342. 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.

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. Disclosure

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Barry Levinson
Actors: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall, Roma Maffia, Dylan Baker
Plot: An employee (Michael Douglas) gets sexually harassed by his boss (Demi Moore) and finds it difficult to challenge her on it, when he has no proof.

345. The Entity

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actors: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, Margaret Blye, David Labiosa, Allan Rich, George Coe
Plot: Supposedly based on actual events: a woman awakens on night to find herself the victim of assault and rape by an invisible force. With friends and family shunning her, and possibly thinking of committing her, she turns to parapsychologists who in turn find an evil presence that is drawn to her and must somehow figure out how to stop it.

346. 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.

347. 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.

348. 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.

349. 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.

350. 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.

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