Top Thriller Movies


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101. Play Misty for Me

Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jack Ging, Don Siegel
Plot: Clint Eastwood stars and directs the original crazy ex-girlfriend flick.
When a popular California Jazz DJ gets mixed up with his stalker, things
go terribly wrong.

102. To Have and Have Not

Year of Release: 1945
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Howard Hawks
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Hoagy Carmichael, Walter Szurovy, Dolores Moran
Plot: A man, a boat, and an island - all ready for hire. Romance.

103. Maria Full of Grace

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joshua Marston
Actors: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Virgina Ariza, Yenny Paola Vega, Rodrigo Sánchez Borhorquez, Charles Albert Patiño, Wilson Guerrero
Plot: A young woman living in Mexico becomes pregnant and has no one to turn to.
In desperation, she becomes a drug mule and smuggles drugs over the
border.

104. The Hunt for Red October

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John McTiernan
Actors: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Joss Ackland
Plot: When Marko Ramius goes rogue and takes a revolutionary nuclear submarie to
the U.S. the government is quick to judge him a threat, but CIA analyst
Jack Ryan believes he is defecting. With the Russian and American navy
both after the sub, it's only a matter of time before tough decisions will
have to made on everyone's part.

105. Unbreakable

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard
Plot: After being the sole survivor of a horrific train crash, and with nary a scratch, a man is approached by a stranger with a rare bone disease who deduces that he is a real-life super hero.

106. In the Line of Fire

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole, Fred Dalton Thompson
Plot: A U.S. Secret Service agent, who was part of the team responsible for protecting JFK in Dallas, goes after a man who has threatened the life of the current president.

As the agent, who is paired up with a female agent, goes after the would-be assassin, the fugitive teases him with his failed attempt at saving JFK's life on that tragic day in November.

107. Now You See Me

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Louis Leterrier
Actors: Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman, Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Mélanie Laurent
Plot: The FBI are after a thieving group of illusionists who pull off spectacular heists during their show and give audiences the loot.

108. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John McNaughton
Actors: Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold, David Katz, Erzsebet Sziky, Ray Atherton
Plot: FIlm based on real-life serial killer Henry Lee Lucas and his relationship
with Otis and his sister.

109. Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The ( Luftslottet som sprängdes )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Actors: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Anders Ahlbom, Alexandra Eisenstein, Lena Endre
Plot: Based on the third book of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy - Lisbeth Salandar finally leaves the hospital only to be faced with three murder charges. As journalist Mikael Blomkvist works to clear her name, Lisbeth plots revenge against the people responsible for her ordeal.

110. Vanishing, The ( Spoorloos )

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Sluizer
Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege, Gwen Eckhaus, Bernadette Le Saché, Tania Latarjet
Plot: After his girlfriend disappears from a road-side gas station, a man will stop at nothing to learn what became of her.

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