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Thriller movies

Edge-of-your-seat suspense and psychological tension that keeps your heart racing from start to finish.

Subgenres include: Mind Game Thriller, Domestic Thriller, Cover-Up Thriller.

Bound to Vengeance

1711. Bound to Vengeance

Thriller Horror Kidnapping & Captivity Thriller Psychological Horror
5.6

20151h 20min

United States

Director: José Manuel Cravioto

A young woman, Eve, fights back and manages to escape a malicious abductor. However, after discovering she may not be the only victim, Eve unravels a darker truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor.

Themes

Deception and manipulation, Revenge and survival, Agency under duress, Resilience amid violence, Kidnapping and captivity

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Terminator Genisys

1712. Terminator Genisys

Science Fiction Action Thriller Adventure Time Travel Sci-Fi
6.3

20152h 6min

United States, Canada

Director: Alan Taylor

The year is 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. At the Los Angeles offensive, John's fears of the unknown future begin to emerge when TECOM spies reveal a new plot by SkyNet that will attack him from both fronts; past and future, and will ultimately change warfare forever.

Themes

Deception and disguise, Time travel ethics, Human-machine resistance, Sacrifice and protection, Dystopian system control, Causal paradox

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Intruders

1713. Intruders

Drama Thriller Horror Psychological Horror Domestic Thriller
5.7

20151h 30min

United States

Director: Adam Schindler

Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.

Themes

Deception and betrayal, Surveillance and control, Trauma and retaliation, Power vs vulnerability, Family violence legacy, Spatial confinement

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Google Play Movies
YouTube
Hoopla
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Victoria

1714. Victoria

Crime Thriller Romance Heist Mind Game Thriller
7.6

20152h 18min

Germany, United States

Director: Sebastian Schipper

One reckless Berlin night turns a chance flirtation into a real-time heist. A young Spanish woman falls in with four streetwise guys, and a mob boss forces them into a drug-fueled bank job. Now every turn, every siren, and every choice drags her deeper into a city she no longer recognizes.

Themes

Crime under pressure, Loyalty under threat, Romance amid danger, Deception under duress, Urban anonymity, Poverty and aspiration

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Google Play Movies
YouTube
Kanopy
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Son of Saul

1715. Son of Saul

War Drama Thriller World War II Historical Drama
7.4

20151h 47min

Hungary

Director: László Nemes

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.

Themes

Disguise and deception, Resistance under oppression, Survival under atrocity, Duty vs kin, Rituals under duress, Sonderkommando role

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Jurassic World

1716. Jurassic World

Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller Epic Action
6.9

20152h 4min

United States

Director: Colin Trevorrow

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.

Themes

Genetic engineering ethics, Scientific hubris, Conservation vs exploitation, Public sentiment and policy, Government oversight vs autonomy, Coexistence with wildlife

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Pressure

1717. Pressure

Drama Thriller Survival Thriller
5.6

20151h 31min

United Kingdom

Director: Ron Scalpello

Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?

Themes

Survival under pressure, Leadership under crisis, Isolation and dependence, Resource scarcity under duress, Ethical decision making, Human vulnerability under extremes

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Amazon Video
The Roku Channel
Hoopla
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Return to Sender

1718. Return to Sender

Drama Thriller Revenge Thriller Tragic Drama
5.1

20151h 35min

United States

Director: Fouad Mikati

A nurse mistakes a stranger who pays her a visit for her blind date and soon, the man rapes her and turns her life upside down. The woman works to reclaim her life and exact revenge on her assailant after he's paroled from prison.

Themes

Control and autonomy, Revenge and consequence, Manipulation in relationships, Boundaries under duress, Power dynamics after trauma, Deception and attachment

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The Club

1719. The Club

Drama Mystery Thriller Psychological Drama Whodunit
7.2

20151h 37min

Chile

Director: Pablo Larraín

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

Themes

Moral ambiguity, Isolation and control, Institutional secrecy, Ritual restraint, Trauma and complicity, Surveillance and discipline

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Apple TV
fuboTV
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Insidious: Chapter 3

1720. Insidious: Chapter 3

Horror Thriller Supernatural Horror Kidnapping & Captivity Thriller
6.1

20151h 37min

Canada, United States

Director: Leigh Whannell

A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm, 'The Further'.

Themes

Grief and memory, Family resilience under threat, Deception by online investigators, Contact with the dead, Life-force exploitation, Boundaries between worlds

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Apple TV
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