Top Thriller Movies


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

421. 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.

422. The Hills Have Eyes

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace, Russ Grieve, James Whitworth
Plot: A family takes an ill-advised shortcut through an old air testing range in the California desert. When their car breaks down they are hunted by mutant cannibals.

423. 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.

424. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Curtis Hanson
Actors: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Ernie Hudson, Julianne Moore, Matt McCoy, Madeline Zima
Plot: Claire Bartels thinks she has found the perfect nanny but new hire Peyton Flanders has secretly been plotting her revenge, and it will threaten the entire family.

425. Phantom

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Todd Robinson
Actors: Ed Harris, David Duchovny, William Fichtner, Lance Henriksen, Johnathon Schaech, Sean Patrick Flanery
Plot: A Soviet submarine captain with a long, haunted history leaves his family behind to take on a covert mission and soon realizes the fate of the world rests in his hands.

426. 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.

427. 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.

428. 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.

429. The Gauntlet

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney, Michael Cavanaugh

430. 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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