Suspenseful + Thrilling Movies
Dressed to Kill (1980) RT 84% / Audience 74%
DVD release: Aug 2001
A mysterious, tall, blonde woman, wearing sunglasses murders one of a psychiatrist's patients, and now she's after the prostitute who witnessed it. (more)
GENRES: Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Brian De Palma
CAST: Michael Caine • Angie Dickinson • Nancy Allen • Keith Gordon
The November Man (2014) RT 34% / Audience 46%
DVD release: Nov 2014
An ex- CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Crime • Thriller
DIRECTION: Roger Donaldson
CAST: Pierce Brosnan • Luke Bracey • Olga Kurylenko • Bill Smitrovich
Outbreak (1995)
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Wolfgang Petersen
CAST: Dustin Hoffman • Rene Russo • Morgan Freeman • Kevin Spacey
The Next Three Days (2010) RT 52% / Audience 66%
DVD release: Mar 2011
A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Romance • Thriller
DIRECTION: Paul Haggis
CAST: Russell Crowe • Brian Dennehy • RZA • Moran Atias
Coma (1978)
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Michael Crichton
CAST: Geneviève Bujold • Michael Douglas • Elizabeth Ashley • Richard Widmark
Cloverfield (2008) RT 77% / Audience 68%
DVD release: Apr 2008
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Matt Reeves
CAST: Lizzy Caplan • Jessica Lucas • Odette Annable • Michael Stahl-David
Live and Let Die (1973) RT 66% / Audience 65%
DVD release: Oct 1999
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big. (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Thriller
DIRECTION: Guy Hamilton
CAST: Roger Moore • Yaphet Kotto • Jane Seymour • Clifton James
Europa Report (2013) RT 80% / Audience 57%
DVD release: Oct 2013
A crew of international astronauts are sent on a private mission to Jupiter's fourth moon. (more)
GENRES: Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Sebastián Cordero
CAST: Sharlto Copley • Daniel Wu • Michael Nyqvist • Christian Camargo
The Fugitive (1993) RT 96% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Nov 1998
Wrongfully accused of murdering his wife, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find her killer and clear his name. Pursuing him is a team of U.S. marshals led ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Crime • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Andrew Davis
CAST: Harrison Ford • Tommy Lee Jones • Sela Ward • Julianne Moore
88 Minutes (2007) RT 5% / Audience 44%
DVD release: Sep 2008
"88 Minutes" focuses on a college professor (Pacino) who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI and receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live. (more)
GENRES: Crime • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Jon Avnet
CAST: Al Pacino • Alicia Witt • Leelee Sobieski • Amy Brenneman
Signs (2002)
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: M. Night Shyamalan
CAST: Mel Gibson • Joaquin Phoenix • Rory Culkin • Abigail Breslin
Jaws (1975)
An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast. (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Horror • Thriller
DIRECTION: Steven Spielberg
CAST: Roy Scheider • Robert Shaw • Richard Dreyfuss • Lorraine Gary
The Guest (2014) RT 90% / Audience 69%
DVD release: Jan 2015
A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Adam Wingard
CAST: Dan Stevens • Maika Monroe • Sheila Kelley • Ethan Embry
North by Northwest (1959) RT 100% / Audience 94%
DVD release: Aug 2000
Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip ... (more)
GENRES: Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Alfred Hitchcock
CAST: Cary Grant • Eva Marie Saint • James Mason • Jessie Royce Landis
Mission: Impossible (1996) RT 63% / Audience 71%
DVD release: Jan 1998
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Thriller
DIRECTION: Brian De Palma
CAST: Tom Cruise • Jon Voight • Emmanuelle Béart • Henry Czerny
Halloween (1978) RT 92% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Oct 1997
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her ... (more)
GENRES: Horror • Thriller
DIRECTION: John Carpenter
CAST: Donald Pleasence • Jamie Lee Curtis • Nancy Kyes • P. J. Soles
Collateral (2004) RT 86% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Dec 2004
A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in LA. He must find a way to save both himself ... (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Michael Mann
CAST: Tom Cruise • Jamie Foxx • Jada Pinkett Smith • Mark Ruffalo
Disturbia (2007) RT 69% / Audience 77%
DVD release: Aug 2007
Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: D.J. Caruso
CAST: Shia LaBeouf • Sarah Roemer • Carrie-Anne Moss • David Morse
Die Hard 2 (1990) RT 69% / Audience 70%
DVD release: Mar 1999
John McClane is an off-duty cop gripped with a feeling of déjà vu when on a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capital, terrorists seize a major international airport, ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Thriller
DIRECTION: Renny Harlin
CAST: Bruce Willis • Bonnie Bedelia • William Sadler • Franco Nero
Vertigo (1958) RT 97% / Audience 93%
DVD release: Mar 1998
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. (more)