Top Thriller Movies


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

181. Die Hard 2: Die Harder

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Renny Harlin
Actors: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, William Sadler, Dennis Franz, Reginald VelJohnson
Plot: Waiting for his wife at Dulles International Airport, John McClane is once again in the right place at the wrong time. A group of terrorists are plotting to release a drug kingpin and hold the entire airport hostage, including all the planes in the air. If they had known one of the planes held McClane's wife Holly, they would have waited.

182. The Guard

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong, Fionnula Flanagan, David Wilmot
Plot: Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.

183. Green Room

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Actors: Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Anton Yelchin, Patrick Stewart, Mark Webber, Callum Turner
Plot: A punk rock band on a tour in a secluded area of the Pacific Northwest come across a horrific act of violence. Because they are the only witnesses, they soon all become targets of the white power skinheads responsible, and soon find themselves on the run for their lives.

184. Clear and Present Danger

Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny, Benjamin Bratt
Plot: An adaptation of the novel of the same title.

185. He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not... ( À la folie... pas du tout )

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Romance/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Laetitia Colombani
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré, Clément Sibony, Sophie Guillemin, Eric Savin

186. ...And Justice for All

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Norman Jewison
Actors: Al Pacino, Jack Warden, John Forsythe, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Lahti, Craig T. Nelson
Plot: A Baltimore defense lawyer is fed up with the corruption in the legal
system finds himself defending a judge against a rape charge - a man he
truly despises. Yet if he doesn't take the case, he will find himself
disbarred.

187. The Manchurian Candidate

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Wright, Dorian Missick, Pablo Schreiber, Meryl Streep
Plot: The remake to the 1960's classic, this one focuses on the gulf war and how soldiers are brainwashed to think different and do wrong things.

188. The Guest

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adam Wingard
Actors: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser, Lance Reddick
Plot: A soldier comes the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. But as a series of accidental deaths occurs, the welcomed man soon turns into a suspect.

189. Death Proof

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Zoe Bell, Rose McGowan, Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Plot: A demented stunt man follows and kills groups of women in his death proof car, but meets his match when he goes up against a group of stunt women with attitude.

190. Suspicion

Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty, Isabel Jeans
Plot: A would-be spinster is swept off her feet by a dashing stranger, only to suspect that he is a murderer. Is she his next intended victim, or is her overactive imagination getting the best of her?

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