Top Thriller Movies


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

121. Lost Highway

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Richard Pryor, Henry Rollins, Gary Busey
Plot: A man with Dissociative Fugue disorder is accused of murder. He wouldn't kill the one he loves, would he?

122. The Day of the Jackal

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Denis Carey
Plot: In early 1960s France, the disbanded members of the former French Foreign Legion want to kill current president Charles DeGaulle - turning him into one of the most guarded men in the world. In desperation they turn to "The Jackal", codename of a notorious assassin who agrees to take the job for half-a-million in payment. As he plans the perfect assassination, the police desperately try to track him down.

123. Lifeboat

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, Henry Hull
Plot: Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.

124. Mission: Impossible

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Henry Czerny
Plot: A super American spy agent must uncover the mystery why he was set up and what parties were involved with his team of spies.

125. Pi

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Actors: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ajay Naidu, Lauren Fox, Ben Shenkman
Plot: A paranoid, genius mathmatician thinks he has discovered the key to all the universal patterns in nature. Soon he is pursued by a Hasidic Jewish sect looking to decode the 216-digit number of God's true name to Wall Street brokers hoping to crack the stock market. What he decides to do with the knowledge is the true shocker.

126. The Equalizer

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Actors: Denzel Washington, Chloë Grace Moretz, Haley Bennett, Marton Csokas, Melissa Leo, Robert Wahlberg
Plot: A former black ops commander has settled down in Boston - having faked his own death in order to enjoy a normal life. But when a young girl gets herself in trouble, his need for justice brings him out of retirement - even if it means going up against a group of dangerous Russian gangsters.

127. Assault on Precinct 13

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton, Charles Cyphers
Plot: A police precinct in a less than desirable part of L.A. is shutting down, so there is only a skeleton crew on duty... they find themselves under siege by a gang, and must fight to survive the night.

128. Repulsion

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roman Polanski
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark, Renee Houston
Plot: A mentally unbalanced young woman descends into madness when she is left alone in her flat when her sister goes on vacation.

129. Forbidden Planet

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, Richard Anderson, Robby the Robot
Plot: A space crew travels to a distant planet when it is silence for unknown
reasons. When they arrive only two survivors and a robot are left while
neither of them understands what has happened how what caused the
disappearances until a terrifying secret is discovered.

130. Disturbia

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: D.J. Caruso
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Matt Craven, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Aaron Yoo
Plot: A teenager who is confined to his parents home due to house arrest develops a habit of spying on people when he notices a girl and a possible serial killer as he tries to convince those around him what he witnesses.

Are you sure you want to delete this comment?