Top Thriller Movies


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

411. 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.

412. Outland

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Hyams
Actors: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking, John Ratzenberger, Kika Markham
Plot: Futuristic "High Noon" in outer space. The marshal of an orbiting space colony must face hired gunslingers to rid miners from a bad mine boss.

413. 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.

414. Coma

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Crichton
Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Elizabeth Ashley, Richard Widmark, Tom Selleck
Plot: A young doctor stumbles on a horrific conspiracy in her hospital after noticing a series of unnatural comas and patients that wind up at another facility.

415. Edge of Darkness

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Campbell
Actors: Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Shawn Roberts, Denis O'Hare, Bojana Novakovic
Plot: When his daughter is killed, a homicide detective delves into her activist life and discovers a cover up being instigated by a corporation and the government.

416. Hours

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Eric Heisserer
Actors: Paul Walker, Genesis Rodriguez, Judd Lormand, Christopher Matthew Cook, Nick Gomez, Kerry Cahill
Plot: Nolan (Paul Walker) tries to survive a horrendous situation brought upon by Hurricane Katrina and tries to keep his new born daughter alive and away from danger.

417. A Perfect Murder

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Davis
Actors: Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen, David Suchet, Sarita Choudhury, Michael P. Moran
Plot: The most prized possession of millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is his wife, but all the money in the world cannot buy her love or fidelity. After she becomes involved with an artist, he devises the perfect way to be rid of her and inherit her trust fund in the process.

418. Twilight Zone: The Movie

Year of Release: 1983
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Landis
Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Vic Morrow, Kathleen Quinlan, Jeremy Licht, John Lithgow, Kevin McCarthy
Plot: 4 totally unrelated stories are told by 4 different directors that encompass the same feeling as the popular 60's television show.

419. A Dangerous Method

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke
Plot: Examines the relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and how their animosity gave rise to psychoanalysis.

420. Vanilla Sky

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Jason Lee, Penélope Cruz, Kurt Russell, Ivana Milicevic
Plot: A spoiled inheritor finds his life is turned upside down after a mutilating car crash with is friend. He struggles to adjust to the imperfect life.

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