Top Thriller Movies


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

431. Brute Force

Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines
Plot: Prison inmates revolt against a sadistic guard.

432. Surrogates

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Actors: James Francis Ginty, Michael O'Toole, Bruce Willis, Rosamund Pike, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames
Plot: A future where humanity is isolated, pain-free and docile - because instead of venturing out themselves, they send surrogates, perfect mechanical counterparts, to do the work. But when a murder shatters this perfect world, an FBI agent will discover a conspiracy behind this perfect world and will have to abandon his own surrogate and risk his own life to find the truth.

433. eXistenZ

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley
Plot: A state-of-the-art virtual reality game becomes all too real for its creator and her naive PR man as reality and fantasy shift and collide in a deadly serious game.

434. Devil

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle
Actors: Chris Messina, Joshua Peace, Geoffrey Arend, Matt Craven, Jenny O'Hara, Jacob Vargas
Plot: A group of people trapped in an elevator come to believe the devil is
amongst them.

435. The Beekeeper

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Ayer
Actors: Jason Statham, Josh Hutcherson, Jeremy Irons, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Taylor James, David Witts
Plot: When a phishing scheme results in the death of the person he most trusts, Adam Clay will stop at nothing to root out the corruption - no matter how high it goes. Clay is no ordinary vigilante, however, he was once a Beekeeper - an operative for a highly clandestine and brutally efficient special forces unit - and now he will use all his skills to take down everyone who goes up against him or stands in his way.

436. Rendition

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gavin Hood
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Omar Metwally, Yigal Naor
Plot: A CIA analyst witnesses an unlawful interrogation of a prisoner in a secret location outside the United States. He now questions his position in the government.

437. The Shallows

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Actors: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Sedona Legge, Brett Cullen
Plot: Nancy is looking forward to secluded surfing experience, but 200 feet from shore, she is attacked by a great white shark. Alone, she beings the ultimate battle of survival and will as she tries everything to make it back to the beach alive.

438. The Hills Have Eyes

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.5 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.

439. Sudden Fear

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Miller
Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Mike Connors, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston
Plot: Ambitious actor Lester Blaine seems destined to be the star in Myra Hudson's new play, until the woman dashes his hopes by proclaiming is his not romantic enough. Seeing opportunity, he romances Myra himself - all the while plotting with his mistress to murder her.

440. Death Weekend

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: William Fruet
Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Richard Ayres, Kyle Edwards, Don Granberry

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