Top Thriller Movies


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

201. Wave, The ( Welle, Die )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dennis Gansel
Actors: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul, Jacob Matschenz
Plot: In an attempt to teach his students about dictatorship, a Rainer Wegner's week-long project spirals out-of-control when the students form their own society that bears a striking resemblance to Germany's fascist past.

202. Elle

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efira, Christian Berke
Plot: Successful as she is ruthless, Michèle runs her video game company with the same cut-throat attitude in her personal life. But an attack in her home by an unknown assailant changers her forever. She will stop at nothing to track down the man who raped her, but once she finds him it begins a new game of cat-and-mouse - one that gets more dangerous as things spiral out of control.

203. 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.

204. The Last Wave

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow, Vivean Gray, Nandjiwarra Amagula
Plot: A Sydney lawyer is called on to defend five Aboriginals in court over a ritualized murder. Determined to break their silence, he is drawn deeper into a prophesy that portends an Armageddon where all shall drown.

205. Hijacking, A ( Kapringen )

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tobias Lindholm
Actors: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim, Roland Møller, Gary Skjoldmose Porter, Amalie Ihle Alstrup
Plot: After Somali pirates take over a Danish cargo ship, they demand millions in ransom for the crew. As the negotiations with the mainland grow tense, the lives of the crew are threatened.

206. Miss Sloane

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Madden
Actors: Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alison Pill, Mark Strong, John Lithgow, Michael Stuhlbarg
Plot: Elizabeth Sloane is a ruthless and powerful political strategist. When gun control legislation gains traction in Congress, she becomes pivotal in the fight that shows both sides of the debate and pits her against powerful lobbying groups. But her desire to win at all costs may cost her more than votes - it may derail both her personal life and her highly-successful career.

207. 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.

208. 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.

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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