21 Thriller Films You Could Not Have Seen

Director William Friedkin adopted The Exorcist with a nerve-racking movie about 4 determined males who’re tasked with escorting extraordinarily unstable nitroglycerin throughout 200 miles of harmful and unforgiving South American jungle.  

Nicole Kidman will get in contact along with her savage aspect on this spellbinding thriller a few vengeful and bitter detective who’s pressured to revisit a devastating botched undercover case from her previous.

Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis headline this white-knuckle street thriller wherein a charismatic trucker suspects that he might have stumbled upon the path of a serial killer focusing on hitchhikers throughout the Australian Outback.

Orson Oblowitz’s fashionable and brooding crime flick surrounds a haunted LA strip membership proprietor who should reconcile an unpaid 25-year-old mafia debt that threatens to destroy her life and her family members on the eve of her sixtieth birthday.

This intense crime thriller based mostly on the Lee Wells’ novel of the identical identify follows a Las Vegas cab driver who picks up a person that has stolen one million {dollars} from the mafia, setting off a sequence of suspenseful and shockingly violent occasions.

This unnerving slow-burn home thriller from Korean filmmaking nice, Park Chan-wook, tells the story of a distant teenager who meets her seductive but mysterious long-lost uncle after the sudden dying of her father.

13 years previous to Stoker, Park Chan-wook put himself on the map with Joint Safety Space (aka JSA), a surprising and twisty thriller a few mysterious homicide within the demilitarized zone of Korea.

Oscar Isaac is nothing in need of compelling on this pensive drama a few haunted ex-military veteran who bonds with a troubled younger man and a assured financier when a determine from his previous casts a shadow on his aggressive playing habits.

Brendan Fraser delivers an odd but highly effective efficiency as a former cultist whose ultra-conservative upbringing clashes along with his repressed wishes for the married girl that nursed him from the brink of dying.

A distant VFW corridor is below siege by violent mutant drug addicts after a gaggle of aged veterans vow to guard the younger girl that stole their stash on this pulse-pounding and relentlessly badass throwback action-thriller.

The late nice filmmaking legends, Sidney Lumet and Larry Cohen, teamed up for this riveting but underrated authorized thriller a few promising legal professional (Rebecca De Mornay) who will get spun into the online of a manipulative debonair who was accused of murdering his spouse (Don Johnson).

Advised in a collection of lengthy takes introduced out of chronological order, Too Late is an distinctive crime thriller that locations uncooked emotion and elegance over flashy storytelling, permitting the finally heartbreaking puzzle to return collectively via smaller and extra necessary particulars despite the fact that you already know the movie’s tragic end line.

On this edge-of-your-seat thriller from The Hitcher author, Eric Purple, two ruthless hitmen are tasked with bringing a 9-year-old homicide witness from Oklahoma to their boss in Texas. Nonetheless, the kid takes benefit of the lengthy drive by slowly pitting the killers towards each other, planting the seeds of mistrust between them at each alternative.

A widow touring alone finds herself within the struggle of her life on this shape-shifting thriller that bounces from paranoia-laced psychological drama to full-fledged survival horror, all of which works successfully because of the superb performances and top-tier route from lauded motion director, John Hyams.

No person fairly does thrillers like Brian De Palma, who brings his A recreation to this twisted cult basic a few struggling actor whose housesitting gig permits his voyeuristic tendencies, which find yourself sending him down a rabbit gap involving thoughts video games, porn stars, and, after all, homicide.

On this breathtakingly suspenseful Georgian movie from Géla Babluani, a disgruntled and destitute building employee steals a secretive job invitation from a lately deceased consumer, solely to find the “job” is participation in a lethal recreation held earlier than high-rolling spectators.

’70s and ’80s thriller maestro, Walter Hill, assembles a unprecedented forged for this high-tension thriller a few Nationwide Guard squadron that falls sufferer to antagonized locals and hostilities amongst each other whereas maneuvering via the Louisiana bayou.

This transgressive thriller was a serious change of tempo for filmmaker Stuart Gordon, who traded his regular ventures into the supernatural for a extra human horror story a few poor younger man who reluctantly accepts a murder-for-hire job solely to be taken captive by his misleading employers.

Gus Van Sant proved his artwork home sensibilities might work wonders within the confines of a standard mainstream thriller with To Die For, which follows a fame-obsessed journalist (performed by a career-best Nicole Kidman) who makes an attempt to persuade the teenage topics of her seemingly harmless documentary to commit an unspeakable act.

Primarily based on a real story, At Shut Vary surrounds a rural profession prison (Christopher Walken) who lures the sons that he deserted (Sean and Chris Penn) into a lifetime of crime, solely to show towards them when a botched theft threatens his enterprise. 

Although he could also be higher recognized now because the steward of the Mission: Unimaginable franchise, Christopher McQuarrie killed it along with his directorial debut, an excellent neo-noir motion thriller a few pair of low-rent criminals (Ryan Phillippe and Benicio del Toro) who discover themselves dealing with a revolving door of employed weapons and diverse lowlifes after kidnapping a pregnant surrogate (Juliette Lewis) allegedly carrying the kid of a rich cash launderer (Scott Wilson).