Top Thriller Movies


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

401. Martha

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Actors: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel, Gisela Fackeldey, Adrian Hoven
Plot: A woman falls in love with a man, only to find out his is dangerously sadistic.

402. Rumble in the Bronx ( Hung fan kui )

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Tong
Actors: Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Marc Akerstream, Garvin Cross
Plot: A young man from Hong Kong is visiting his uncle in New York, who is about to get married. He decides to run his market while he attends his honeymoon only to find himself at the center of a local gang and the mob and with the cops failing to help, takes matters into his own hands.

403. Pursued

Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Teresa Wright, Robert Mitchum, Judith Anderson, Dean Jagger, Alan Hale, Harry Carey Jr.
Plot: An orphaned boy is raised by the Callum family after his own family is brutally murdered. Constantly facing the trauma from this past - he connects with some members of the family, while others shun him.

404. Hannibal

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ridley Scott
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Gary Oldman, Ray Liotta, Giancarlo Giannini, Frankie Faison
Plot: Ten years after escaping the asylum, Hannibal Lector returns to America when one of his former victims uses Clarice Starling as leverage to exact his revenge.

405. The International

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Clive Owen, Naomi Watts, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Ulrich Thomsen, James Rebhorn, Jack McGee
Plot: An Interpol agent and an assistant DA find themselves on a globe-spanning missions and fight for survival after uncovering a massive bank's illegal activities to destabilize governments and finance terrorism.

406. Along Came a Spider

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lee Tamahori
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Anton Yelchin
Plot: After his partner is killed, Detective Dr. Alex Cross decides to stop working. His break is short-lived when a senator's daughter is kidnapped and the kidnapper wants to talk to only Cross.

407. This Gun for Hire

Year of Release: 1942
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Frank Tuttle
Actors: Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall, Marc Lawrence
Plot: A hitman with his own code kills a blackmailer for William Gates - who turns traitor by paying him off with marked bills. Seeking revenge, he happens to meet Ellen Graham - girlfriend of a police lieutenant who is on his case and who happens to be investigating Gates for the Senate. The two form an uneasy alliance to take down a common enemy.

408. The Awakening

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nick Murphy
Actors: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu, John Shrapnel, Richard Durden
Plot: Following WWI, England slowly recovers as the grief and loss threaten to overwhelm the population. Into the miasma Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart is called to investigate the sighting of ghost child at a boarding house, but this is no simple hoax - and everything she thought she knew about life and death comes crashing down.

409. Wrath of Man

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guy Ritchie
Actors: Jason Statham, Holt McCallany, Scott Eastwood, Josh Hartnett, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso
Plot: H goes to work for a cash truck company that moves millions around the L.A. area. After a series of robberies, H proves he can handle the pressure and a gun - but he has his own agenda as well - tracking down those responsible for the death of his son and he will let no man stand in his way.

410. The Raven

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: James McTeigue
Actors: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson, Alice Eve, Kevin McNally, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Plot: During the final days of Edgar Allen Poe's life, he chases a serial killer whose murder's mirror the stories of Poe.

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