Top Thriller Movies


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

291. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Actors: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds
Plot: George Smiley, an expert in espionage, is brought out of semi-retirement
during the height of the Cold War in order to sniff out a Soviet agent who
has infiltrated the ranks of MI6.

292. Everest

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Vanessa Kirby, Michael Kelly
Plot: A group of climbers tackling Mt. Everest must fight to survive after a devastating snow storm leaves them stranded.

293. Dracula ( Horror of Dracula )

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Terence Fisher
Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, Carol Marsh
Plot: After Dr. Van Helsing's partner, Jonathan Harker, fails to kill Dracula at his castle. Dracula seeks revenge on Jonathan's fiancé Lucy and her family.

294. Lore

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cate Shortland
Actors: Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, André Frid, Mika Seidel, Kai-Peter Malina, Ursina Lardi
Plot: The Nazi regime has fallen. As the allies sweep across Germany, Lore and her siblings trek across the country as refugees and learn first-hand the truth they have been told is all a front. Faced with the aftermath of WWII they will have to rely on people - including those they have been told are enemies - in order to survive.

295. Thoroughbreds

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cory Finley
Actors: Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks, Francie Swift, Kaili Vernoff
Plot: A pair of upper-class teenage girls rekindle a friendship that had grown apart years earlier. But the circumstances that bring them together involve their mutual disdain for their parents... and way to get rid of this problem by any means necessary.

296. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Rupert Davies, Sam Wanamaker, Cyril Cusack
Plot: Alec Leamas is a British agent who refuses to come out of the Cold War. Sent to East Germany, supposedly as a defector, but really to sow disinformation - he realizes that he is a pawn in a much bigger game and struggles to find his humanity before it's too late.

297. Salem's Lot

Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Julie Cobb
Plot: A writer returns to his home town to investigate the eerie mansion that
haunted him as a child. Meanwhile, a supernatural illness plagues the
town, leaving the victims weak and bloodless. Based on the Stephen King
novel.

298. Night Moves

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Arthur Penn
Actors: Gene Hackman, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Ed Binns

299. The Woman in the Window

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, Thomas E. Jackson
Plot: A college professor and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in a nearby men's club. When admiring the picture, the actual subject of the painting shows up and he winds up in her apartment. When her boyfriend shows up, he thinks something sinister is going on and attempts to rough up the professor but, fighting back, the boyfriend winds up dead. He and the woman agree to cover up the death by dumping the body - but the police come closer the the truth as they lean on the woman.

300. Salvador

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo, Cynthia Gibb
Plot: A out of work photographer goes to El Salvador to chronicle the war going
on and ends up finding more...

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