Top Thriller Movies


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441. Phantom

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.7 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.

442. Night Moves

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Actors: Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, Alia Shawkat, Peter Sarsgaard, James Le Gros, Lew Temple
Plot: Follows the lives of three environmentalists as they make a plan to destroy a dam.

443. Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Actors: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Abbie Cornish, Jordi MollĂ , Aimee King, Geoffrey Rush
Plot: The story of Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh - the relationship between the queen and the explorer.

444. Sorcerer

Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: William Friedkin
Actors: Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Amidou, Ramon Bieri, Peter Capell
Plot: Through chance and (mis)fortune - a group of outcasts find themselves
working on an oil drilling campaign in South America. A raging fire leads
four of the members on a task that may spell their freedom - if they can
survive: transport six crates of unstable dynamite through the jungle with
a couple of ancient trucks.

445. The Mean Season

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phillip Borsos
Actors: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, Andy Garcia
Plot: A reporter in Miami is fed up with writing about local murders and promises his girlfriend they will move away. But before he leaves, he begins receiving calls from a man claiming to be the latest murdered he has been reporting on. He promises to kill more and call again. As the murders and calls both keep coming, the reporter realizes he's in far deeper than ever before.

446. Shattered

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen, Debi A. Monahan
Plot: A wife tries to convince her husband, who has amnesia from a car accident,
that he is her husband and everything is normal... until he starts to
remember the truth.

447. The Boys from Brazil

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Actors: Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Gregory Peck, Steve Guttenberg, Rosemary Harris, Lilli Palmer
Plot: A Nazi hunter locates Dr. Mengele and uncovers his plan to resurrect Adolf Hitler and lead the Nazis back to power.

448. The Quiet American

Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija, Tzi Ma, Robert Stanton
Plot: An Englishman and an American vie for the heart of the same woman amidst the chaos of 1950s Vietnam.

449. Nick of Time

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Badham
Actors: Johnny Depp, Courtney Chase, Charles S. Dutton, Christopher Walken, Roma Maffia, Peter Strauss
Plot: A man is given exactly 1:15 minutes to kill a prominent person or his daughter will be killed.

450. Race 2

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Abbas Alibhai Burmawalla, Mastan Alibhai Burmawalla
Actors: Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Jacqueline Fernandez, Ameesha Patel

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