Top Thriller Movies


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

451. The Shallows

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Actors: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Sedona Legge, Brett Cullen
Plot: Nancy is looking forward to secluded surfing experience, but 200 feet from shore, she is attacked by a great white shark. Alone, she beings the ultimate battle of survival and will as she tries everything to make it back to the beach alive.

452. Surrogates

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Actors: James Francis Ginty, Michael O'Toole, Bruce Willis, Rosamund Pike, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames
Plot: A future where humanity is isolated, pain-free and docile - because instead of venturing out themselves, they send surrogates, perfect mechanical counterparts, to do the work. But when a murder shatters this perfect world, an FBI agent will discover a conspiracy behind this perfect world and will have to abandon his own surrogate and risk his own life to find the truth.

453. Sudden Fear

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Miller
Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Mike Connors, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston
Plot: Ambitious actor Lester Blaine seems destined to be the star in Myra Hudson's new play, until the woman dashes his hopes by proclaiming is his not romantic enough. Seeing opportunity, he romances Myra himself - all the while plotting with his mistress to murder her.

454. eXistenZ

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley
Plot: A state-of-the-art virtual reality game becomes all too real for its creator and her naive PR man as reality and fantasy shift and collide in a deadly serious game.

455. Night Moves

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Actors: Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, Alia Shawkat, Peter Sarsgaard, James Le Gros, Lew Temple
Plot: Follows the lives of three environmentalists as they make a plan to destroy a dam.

456. Rendition

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gavin Hood
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Omar Metwally, Yigal Naor
Plot: A CIA analyst witnesses an unlawful interrogation of a prisoner in a secret location outside the United States. He now questions his position in the government.

457. Devil

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Drew Dowdle, John Erick Dowdle
Actors: Chris Messina, Joshua Peace, Geoffrey Arend, Matt Craven, Jenny O'Hara, Jacob Vargas
Plot: A group of people trapped in an elevator come to believe the devil is
amongst them.

458. The Mean Season

Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Phillip Borsos
Actors: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan, Richard Masur, Joe Pantoliano, Andy Garcia
Plot: A reporter in Miami is fed up with writing about local murders and promises his girlfriend they will move away. But before he leaves, he begins receiving calls from a man claiming to be the latest murdered he has been reporting on. He promises to kill more and call again. As the murders and calls both keep coming, the reporter realizes he's in far deeper than ever before.

459. Shattered

Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi, Joanne Whalley, Corbin Bernsen, Debi A. Monahan
Plot: A wife tries to convince her husband, who has amnesia from a car accident,
that he is her husband and everything is normal... until he starts to
remember the truth.

460. Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Actors: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Abbie Cornish, Jordi Mollà, Aimee King, Geoffrey Rush
Plot: The story of Elizabeth and Sir Walter Raleigh - the relationship between the queen and the explorer.

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