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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Postal

2007
100 Min
MOVIE
ComedyActionAdventureCrimeThriller
The story begins with a regular Joe who tries desperately to seek employment, but embarks on a violent rampage when he teams up with cult leader Uncle Dave. Their first act is to heist an amusement park, only to learn that the Taliban are …
Available on: Prime Video

The Death and Life of Bobby Z

2007
97 Min
MOVIE
DramaActionThrillerCrime
A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son i…

Grindhouse

2007
191 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerActionHorror
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women wit…
Available on: Disney+

Smokin' Aces

2006
109 Min
MOVIE
ActionComedyCrimeThriller
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.

The Departed

2006
151 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerCrime
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises t…

Children of Men

2006
109 Min
MOVIE
DramaActionThrillerScience Fiction
In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child's birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

Crank

2006
88 Min
MOVIE
ActionThrillerCrime
Chev Chelios, a hit man wanting to go straight, lets his latest target slip away. Then he awakes the next morning to a phone call that informs him he has been poisoned and has only an hour to live unless he keeps adrenaline coursing throug…

Lucky Number Slevin

2006
110 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerCrimeMystery
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current …

V for Vendetta

2006
132 Min
MOVIE
ActionThrillerScience Fiction
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her a…

Underworld: Evolution

2006
106 Min
MOVIE
FantasyActionThriller
As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the …

Lord of War

2005
122 Min
MOVIE
CrimeDramaThriller
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's …

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

2005
102 Min
MOVIE
ComedyCrimeMysteryThriller
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming ro…

Revolver

2005
115 Min
MOVIE
DramaThrillerCrimeMystery
Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his acc…

친절한 금자씨

2005
115 Min
MOVIE
DramaThriller
Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.

The Island

2005
136 Min
MOVIE
ActionThrillerScience FictionAdventure
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last uncontamina…

Primer

2004
77 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionDramaThriller
A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

Collateral

2004
120 Min
MOVIE
DramaCrimeThriller
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

Man on Fire

2004
146 Min
MOVIE
ActionDramaThriller
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save …
Available on: Netflix Disney+ Prime Video

The Butterfly Effect

2004
113 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionThriller
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpe…
Available on: HBO Max

Out of Time

2003
105 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerCrimeDrama
Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trust…

Underworld

2003
122 Min
MOVIE
FantasyActionThriller
Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a peace-…

Once Upon a Time in Mexico

2003
102 Min
MOVIE
ActionCrimeThriller
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état of the President of Mexico.

Phone Booth

2003
81 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerCrime
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
Available on: Disney+

Equilibrium

2002
107 Min
MOVIE
ActionScience FictionThriller
In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

Minority Report

2002
145 Min
MOVIE
Science FictionActionThriller
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
Available on: Paramount+

복수는 나의 것

2002
129 Min
MOVIE
ActionDramaThriller
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.

Ocean's Eleven

2001
116 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerCrime
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to…

The Fast and the Furious

2001
106 Min
MOVIE
ActionCrimeThriller
Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the …
Available on: Netflix Prime Video

Hannibal

2001
131 Min
MOVIE
CrimeDramaThriller
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to …

Memento

2000
113 Min
MOVIE
MysteryThriller
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he …

American Psycho

2000
102 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerDramaCrime
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Available on: Netflix

Romeo Must Die

2000
115 Min
MOVIE
ActionCrimeThriller
Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California, docks. Hang Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring factions dead … or wors…

The Talented Mr. Ripley

1999
140 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerCrimeDrama
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. R…
Available on: Paramount+

Fight Club

1999
139 Min
MOVIE
DramaThriller
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the w…
Available on: Disney+ Prime Video

The Thirteenth Floor

1999
101 Min
MOVIE
ThrillerScience FictionMystery
In Los Angeles, a wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.

Payback

1999
100 Min
MOVIE
ActionDramaCrimeThriller
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness l…

The Boondock Saints

1999
108 Min
MOVIE
ActionThrillerCrime
Tired of the crime overrunning the streets of Boston, Irish Catholic twin brothers Conner and Murphy are inspired by their faith to cleanse their hometown of evil with their own brand of zealous vigilante justice. As they hunt down and kil…

Enemy of the State

1998
132 Min
MOVIE
ActionDramaThriller
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the mysterious Brill, Dean attempts to throw the…
Available on: Disney+

Lola rennt

1998
81 Min
MOVIE
ActionDramaThriller
Lola receives a phone call from her boyfriend Manni. He lost 100,000 DM in a subway train that belongs to a very bad guy. She has 20 minutes to raise this amount and meet Manni. Otherwise, he will rob a store to get the money. Three differ…
Available on: Netflix Magenta TV

Jackie Brown

1997
154 Min
MOVIE
CrimeDramaThriller
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep t…

Starship Troopers

1997
129 Min
MOVIE
AdventureActionThrillerScience Fiction
Set in the future, the story follows a young soldier named Johnny Rico and his exploits in the Mobile Infantry. Rico's military career progresses from recruit to non-commissioned officer and finally to officer against the backdrop of an in…
Available on: Disney+

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