Movies by Lists - Great Thrillers (77 [79]) 
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| ÁfricaWhen Nicole met David; handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into f... | 1996 | James Foley (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (51.3K votes) | 97 | 20230619 |
| After Dark, My SweetAn ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both into helping kidnap a rich boy for ransom m | 1990 | James Foley (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (3.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Angel HeartA private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn. | 1987 | Alan Parker | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (85.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Bad LieutenantWhile investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness and redemption. | 1992 | Abel Ferrara | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (42K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Basic InstinctA violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist. | 1992 | Paul Verhoeven (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (192.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Black RainbowA christian medium sees a vision of a hitman killing his target. The vision turns true, and the same hitman is assigned to kill her. Her drunk father/manager doesn't believe she got the gift, and a curious journalist tries to protect | 1989 | Mike Hodges (*) | Horror, Thriller | 5.9 (1.7K votes) | 103 | 20220414 |
| Blood SimpleThe owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered. | 1984 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (94K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Blow OutA movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger. | 1981 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (50.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Blue VelvetThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. | 1986 | David Lynch (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (192.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Body DoubleA young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences. | 1984 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (32.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Body HeatIn the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband. | 1981 | Lawrence Kasdan (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (34.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Cape FearA convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him. | 1991 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (187.1K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| ChinatownA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. | 1974 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (315K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Conversation, TheA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (108K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Crimes of PassionA mysterious woman, fashion designer by day and prostitute by night, is hounded by two men: a married father of two children and a sexually repressed preacher. | 1984 | Ken Russell (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.4 (7.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| CruisingA police detective goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men. | 1980 | William Friedkin (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (22.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Crush, TheA journalist becomes the unwanted center of attention for a 14-year-old girl, who proceeds to sabotage his life after he refuses her sexual advances. | 1993 | Alan Shapiro | Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (19.5K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Cutter's WayRichard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter. | 1981 | Ivan Passer | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (6.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Dead Mother, The [La madre muerta]A criminal, shoots and kills a painting restorer during a bungled burglary, and shoots her daughter as well. Twenty years later, the daughter has been left mute and with a mental age of a child, spending most of her time in a mental | 1993 | Juanma Bajo Ulloa | Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Death on the Beach [Muerte en la playa]The son of a wealthy businesswoman returns home from boarding school. His mother, always busy with business and with her ambitious lover, realizes that her son suffers for being a homosexual. Having killed a teacher who abused him... | 1991 | Enrique Gómez Vadillo | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 5.4 (30 votes) | 75 | 20240329 |
| Dressed to KillA mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder. | 1980 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (40K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| ExoticaA man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away. | 1994 | Atom Egoyan (*) | Drama | 7.1 (19.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Eyes Wide ShutA Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing. | 1999 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (325.6K votes) | 159 | 20211228 |
| Fallen AngelsThis Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner. | 1995 | Kar-Wai Wong | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (35.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Fan [Der Fan], TheThe hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her. | 1982 | Eckhart Schmidt | Drama, Horror, Music, Romance | 6.7 (1.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| FargoMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. | 1996 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Crime, Thriller | 8.1 (654.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Fatal AttractionA married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. | 1987 | Adrian Lyne (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (83K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| FearWhen Nicole met David; handsome, charming, affectionate, he was everything. It seemed perfect, but soon she sees that David has a darker side. And his adoration turns to obsession, their dream into a nightmare, and her love into fear | 1996 | James Foley (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (46.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. | 1971 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Game, TheAfter a wealthy San Francisco banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down as he begins to question if it might really be a concealed conspiracy to destroy him. | 1997 | David Fincher (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (377.6K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Get CarterWhen his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate. | 1971 | Mike Hodges (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (32.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| HeatA group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist. | 1995 | Michael Mann (*) | Action, Crime, Drama | 8.2 (623.4K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| Hitcher, TheA young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes. | 1986 | Robert Harmon | Action, Thriller | 7.2 (47K votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| Hunters, The [Jägarna]A Stockholm cop moves back home to his brother near Norway and Finland. He investigates out of control deer poaching. He confiscates rifles with no permits. Everybody, even his brother and local cops, are against him. Things escalate | 1996 | Kjell Sundvall | Crime, Thriller | 7.0 (8.5K votes) | 113 | 20220414 |
| I Start CountingA 15-year-old girl coming to terms with her sexuality suspects that her foster brother may be guilty of the recent murders of young women. | 1969 | David Greene | Thriller | 6.9 (809 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| I'm Not Scared [Io Non Ho Paura]A young boy accidentally discovers a deep hole in the ground, where another boy is kept prisoner. | 2003 | Gabriele Salvatores | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (14.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| In DreamsA suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again. | 1999 | Neil Jordan | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller | 5.5 (13.4K votes) | 100 | 20230806 |
| InsomniaIn a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting. | 1997 | Erik Skjoldbjærg | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (14K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| InsomniaIn a Norwegian city with a 24-hour daylight cycle a Swedish murder investigator has been brought in on a special case. Sleep deprived, he makes a horrible mistake which is discovered by the killer he has been hunting. | 1997 | Erik Skjoldbjærg | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (14K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Internal AffairsAn Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption. | 1990 | Mike Figgis | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (19.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Jennifer 8John Berlin, a former Los Angeles homicide detective, investigates a multiple murder case in San Diego. The only witness is a blind girl to whom he is immediately attracted. | 1992 | Bruce Robinson | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (16.6K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Killing of Bobby Greene, TheA tight group of High School friends (Ray, Dan, Christy, and Kelly) come up with the ultimate practical joke to play on their classmate Bobby Greene. What could possibly go wrong? (It's not a spoiler if it's in the title!) | 1994 | Mick McCleery | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (30 votes) | 90 | 20240319 |
| L.A. ConfidentialAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. | 1997 | Curtis Hanson (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (563.7K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Last Seduction, TheA devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme. | 1994 | John Dahl | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (22.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Last Wave, TheA Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions. | 1977 | Peter Weir (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (9.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Leave Her to HeavenA writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them. | 1945 | John M. Stahl | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (12.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Leon [The Professional]12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade. | 1994 | Luc Besson (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.5 (1.1M votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Light SleeperA drug dealer reconsiders his profession when his boss plans to go straight and an old flame reappears. | 1992 | Paul Schrader (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (7.1K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Lord of IllusionsA private detective gets more than he bargains for when he encounters Philip Swan, a performer whose amazing illusions captivate the world, but they are not really what everyone thinks. | 1995 | Clive Barker | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (17.5K votes) | 109 | 20220315 |
| Lost HighwayAnonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray. | 1997 | David Lynch (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (138.4K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Man Behind the Scissors, The [Hasami otoko]A psychological thriller about a series of murders committed using scissors, the people who carried out the murders, and the police who are trying to catch them. | 2005 | Toshiharu Ikeda | Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (191 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Man on the Roof [Mannen på taket]When a police inspector is murdered in hospital, the investigation led by detective Martin Beck uncovers reports of police misconduct and a possible revenge motive. | 1976 | Bo Widerberg | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (4.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| ManhunterFormer FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media. | 1986 | Michael Mann (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (71.5K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Miller's CrossingTom Reagan, an advisor to a Prohibition-era crime boss, tries to keep the peace between warring mobs but gets caught in divided loyalties. | 1990 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (132.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| MiseryAfter a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse. | 1990 | Rob Reiner (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (200.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Mulholland DrAfter a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. | 2001 | David Lynch (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (343.7K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Mystic RiverThe lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy. | 2003 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (444.2K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Night MovesLos Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister. | 1975 | Arthur Penn (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (14.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| ObsessionA wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his wife. | 1976 | Brian De Palma (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (10K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| One False MoveA small town police chief awaits the arrival of a gang of killers. | 1992 | Carl Franklin | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (11.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Perfect Blue [Pafekuto buru]A pop singer gives up her career to become an actress, but she slowly goes insane when she starts being stalked by an obsessed fan and what seems to be a ghost of her past. | 1997 | Satoshi Kon | Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.0 (69K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| PrisonersWhen Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (675K votes) | 153 | 20220414 |
| PusherA drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord. | 1996 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (38.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Pusher 2Tonny is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done. | 2004 | Nicolas Winding Refn | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.4 (21.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| RampageLiberal district attorney decides to seek the death penalty for a man who slaughtered a family at Christmastime, then drank their blood. He escapes, though, and starts killing again. | 1987 | William Friedkin (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (2.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| ScissorsA woman trying to recover from a sexual attack is locked in a posh apartment with a corpse of the very man she's been dreaming would murder her. She tries to hang on to reality when objects around her seem to come to life. | 1991 | Frank De Felitta | Horror, Thriller | 5.2 (2.9K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| SevenTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. | 1995 | David Fincher (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.6 (1.6M votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Silence of the Lambs, TheA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. | 1991 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.6 (1.4M votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Single White FemaleA woman advertising for a new roommate finds that something very strange is going on with the tenant who decides to move in. | 1992 | Barbet Schroeder | Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (35.8K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Skin I Live In [La piel que habito], TheA brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession. | 2011 | Pedro Almodóvar (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.6 (147.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| SliverA woman moves into an exclusive New York City apartment building, which she soon discovers houses tenants with all manner of shocking secrets. | 1993 | Phillip Noyce | Drama, Thriller | 5.1 (30.7K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| SutureAfter his brother tries to kill him, a man survives only to find himself in another man's body. | 1993 | Scott McGehee, David Siegel | Drama, Thriller | 6.6 (1.9K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Thesis [Tesis]While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty... | 1996 | Alejandro Amenábar | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (38K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| ThiefAn ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight. | 1981 | Michael Mann (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (29.5K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Unlawful EntryA burglar holds a knife to Karen's throat while her husband does nothing. The couple ends up befriending the cop that comes. The friendship ends when the cop beats up the culprit. Karen isn't ready to end it. Things get ugly with the | 1992 | Jonathan Kaplan | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.3 (16.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Usual Suspects, TheA sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup. | 1995 | Bryan Singer (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (1M votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Vanishing, TheRex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia is abducted. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from the abductor. | 1988 | George Sluizer | Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (37.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Diversion | 1979 | James Dearden | Short, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Monster | 2022 | nan | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |