Top Thriller Movies


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

201. Heretic

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Beck, Bryan Woods
Actors: Hugh Grant, Sophie Thatcher, Chloe East, Elle McKinnon, River Codack, Stephanie Lavigne

202. 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.

203. The War of the Roses

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny DeVito
Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Sean Astin, Marianne Sägebrecht, Heather Fairfield
Plot: A couple's marriage falls apart as their story is told through the eyes of their lawyer.

204. The Last House on the Left

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Dennis Iliadis
Actors: Spencer Treat Clark, Joshua Cox, Garret Dillahunt, Tony Goldwyn, Riki Lindhome, Sara Paxton
Plot: Remake of the 1972 film that finds a gang of criminals getting a taste of their own medicine after running into the parents of one of the girls they brutally assaulted.

205. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Isela Vega, Warren Oates, Gig Young, Kris Kristofferson, Donnie Fritts, Robert Webber
Plot: A wealthy Mexican rancher puts a $1 million bounty for the head of Alfredo
Garcia. With every bounty hunter on the trail, a piano-player is
questioned and, doing his own investigations, learns his girlfriend knows
the whereabouts of Garcia's place of burial. Striking out together, with
dreams of untold wealth - the two have no idea the misery they will
encounter.

206. Predestination

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Noah Taylor, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby, Madeleine West, Freya Stafford
Plot: In order to ensure his law enforcement career for all time, a temporal agent must navigate an intricate set of time-travel journeys. But his final assignment pits him against the one man who has eluded him in all times - but to protect his future, he will finally have to stop him.

207. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Scott
Actors: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, Gbenga Akinnagbe, John Turturro
Plot: A subway dispatcher's day is thrown into chaos when an armed gang holds a subway train hostage and demands a large ransom within the hour before they start killing people.

208. Seven Days in May

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam
Plot: An unpopular president has passed a nuclear disarmament treaty through the
Senate, but finds popular opinion swiftly turning on him. A friendly
Marine Colonel informs him that current Joint Chiefs head General Scott
(and certain future presidential candidate) plans to kill the treaty,
fearing a Soviet sneak attack. Thus the intrigue begins, and the president
must figure out who he can trust and who he must fear.

209. Targets

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Actors: Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis, Peter Bogdanovich, Nancy Hsueh
Plot: An elderly horror film star who, while making a personal appearance at a
drive in theater, confronts a psychotic Vietnam veteran who's turned into
a mass murdering sniper.

210. Sorry, Wrong Number

Year of Release: 1948
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Ann Richards, Ed Begley, William Conrad, Wendell Corey
Plot: A woman, sick and confined to bed, picks up the phone only to overhear
what she thinks is a plot to murder. She becomes increasingly desperate in
her quest to find out who the victim is going to be and how to stop the
plot from being carried out.

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