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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.

The Corpse of Anna Fritz

1741. The Corpse of Anna Fritz

Drama Thriller Erotic Thriller Entertainment Industry Drama
5.9

20151h 16min

Spain

Director: Hèctor Hernández Vicens

Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.

Themes

Body as spectacle, Desire and risk, Actress status and judgment, Corpse commodification, Hotel context and risk, Corpse necrophilia implications

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Google Play Movies
YouTube
FlixHouse
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

1742. Kidnapping Mr. Heineken

Drama Action Crime Thriller Mystery
6.1

20151h 35min

Belgium, United Kingdom

Director: Daniel Alfredson

The true story of the kidnapping of Freddy Heineken, the grandson of the founder of the Heineken brewery, and his driver. They were released after a ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders was paid.

Themes

Group dynamics under pressure, Family involvement consequences, Abduction for payoff, Risk and exposure decisions, Ransom as leverage, Capture driven outcomes

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Amazon Prime Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Run All Night

1743. Run All Night

Action Crime Thriller One-Person Army Organized Crime
6.6

20151h 54min

United States, Spain

Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

Themes

Loyalty under threat, Cycles of violence, Power and coercion, Duty versus survival, Family vs crime allegiance, Vigilantism and accountability, Past crimes shaping present

Available on

Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Everly

1744. Everly

Thriller Action One-Person Army Revenge Thriller
5.1

20151h 33min

United States, Serbia

Director: Joe Lynch

After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.

Themes

Family under threat, Violence as currency, Survival through resistance, Betrayal under coercion, Autonomy under duress, Crime-world power dynamics

Available on

Amazon Video
Google Play Movies
YouTube
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Enter Nowhere

1745. Enter Nowhere

Mystery Thriller Science Fiction Whodunit Survival Thriller
6.5

20151h 30min

United States

Director: Jack Heller

Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious connection and realize what they have to do in order to get out of the woods alive.

Themes

Deception and misdirection, Survival under isolation, Intergenerational trauma, Time paradox tension, Family ties across generations, War memory and guilt

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Amazon Video
Apple TV
Google Play Movies
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Project Almanac

1746. Project Almanac

Science Fiction Thriller Time Travel Sci-Fi Mind Game Thriller
6.4

20151h 46min

United States

Director: Dean Israelite

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

Themes

Group dynamics under stress, Peer pressure drives risk, Deception erodes trust, Ambition vs safety, Consequences ripple outward, Technology tampering dangers

Available on

Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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Cyberbully

1747. Cyberbully

Drama Thriller TV Movie Computer Threat Thriller Thriller TV Movie
6.7

20151h 2min

United Kingdom

Director: Ben Chanan

A chilling real-time thriller featuring a teenager, Casey, battling with an anonymous cyber-stalker.

Themes

Privacy versus exposure, Anonymous accountability tension, Online reputation vulnerability, Vigilantism risks, Cyberbullying ethics, Digital harm escalation

Available on

Rakuten TV
Plex
Plex Channel
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Wild Card

1748. Wild Card

Thriller Crime Action Organized Crime Revenge Thriller
5.6

20151h 32min

United States

Director: Simon West

When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.

Themes

Money as leverage, Risk and consequence, Urban crime economy, Gambling addiction under pressure, Crime and protection dynamics, Autonomy versus coercion

Available on

Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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Blackhat

1749. Blackhat

Crime Thriller Action Organized Crime Computer Threat Thriller
5.5

20152h 13min

United States

Director: Michael Mann

Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.

Themes

Technology as weapon, Betrayal under pressure, Race against time, Cross border pursuit, Rogue networks, Conspiracy and deception

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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Video
Apple TV
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In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

Themes

Memory and trauma, Appearance vs reality, Parent-child tension, Isolation and control, Cosmetic surgery deception, Doppelgänger suspicion, Torture and coercion

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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Video
Google Play Movies
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