Best Thriller Movies: Gripping, Tense, Until the Very End
Great thriller movies don't let you go. This page shows films that build real tension through clever plots and unexpected twists – not through noise or violence. From psychological chamber pieces to high-end spy thrillers. Filter by streaming service to start immediately.
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Synchronicity
2015
101 Min
MOVIE
A daring physicist travels into the past to stop a mysterious woman from stealing his invention. But once there, he uncovers a surprising truth about the machine, the woman, and his own fractured reality.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Jurassic World
2015
124 Min
MOVIE
Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.
Project Almanac
2015
106 Min
MOVIE
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.
Available on: Paramount+
The Imitation Game
2014
113 Min
MOVIE
Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchle…
Available on: Magenta TV
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
112 Min
MOVIE
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Available on: Prime Video
Nightcrawler
John Wick
Before I Go to Sleep
Predestination
2014
98 Min
MOVIE
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal …
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Time Lapse
2014
104 Min
MOVIE
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Transcendence
2014
119 Min
MOVIE
Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.
Available on: Prime Video
Coherence
2014
89 Min
MOVIE
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
Enemy
2014
91 Min
MOVIE
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Available on: Magenta TV
Elysium
2013
109 Min
MOVIE
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will…
Available on: Netflix
Trance
Total Recall
2012
118 Min
MOVIE
Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fight…
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The Hunger Games
2012
142 Min
MOVIE
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defianc…
Available on: Netflix
Chronicle
2012
84 Min
MOVIE
Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of cont…
Available on: Disney+
In Time
2011
109 Min
MOVIE
In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate…
Available on: Disney+ Prime Video
Margin Call
2011
107 Min
MOVIE
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. An entry-level analyst unlocks information that co…
Available on: Magenta TV
Kill List
The Guard
Source Code
2011
93 Min
MOVIE
When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.
Available on: Prime Video
Limitless
2011
106 Min
MOVIE
The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.
Available on: Prime Video
Machete
악마를 보았다
2010
144 Min
MOVIE
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even …
Available on: Prime Video
The Expendables
2010
103 Min
MOVIE
Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When t…
Available on: Prime Video Sky Magenta TV
아저씨
The Perfect Host
Shutter Island
Zero 2
The Book of Eli
2010
118 Min
MOVIE
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind.
Surrogates
2009
89 Min
MOVIE
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others' surrogates.
Available on: Disney+
Dorian Gray
Pandorum
2009
108 Min
MOVIE
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying…
Available on: Prime Video
Gamer
2009
95 Min
MOVIE
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge be…
9
2009
79 Min
MOVIE
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent …
Inglourious Basterds
2009
153 Min
MOVIE
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Al…
Available on: Netflix Disney+ Prime Video Magenta TV