
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.

1981. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
Action Science Fiction Thriller One-Person Army Revenge Thriller2012•1h 53min
United States
Director: John Hyams
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After his wife and daughter are murdered in a home invasion, a widower named John now finds himself up against an army of Universal Soldiers in relentless pursuit, led by a mysterious leader who promises to set UniSols free from their conditioning.
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1982. Chained
Horror Thriller Drama Psychological Horror Kidnapping & Captivity Thriller2012•1h 34min
Canada
Director: Jennifer Lynch
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A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
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1983. Taken 2
Action Crime Thriller One-Person Army Kidnapping & Captivity Thriller2012•1h 31min
France, Türkiye
Director: Olivier Megaton
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In Istanbul, retired CIA operative Bryan Mills and his wife are taken hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.
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1984. Looper
Action Thriller Science Fiction Time Travel Sci-Fi Mind Game Thriller2012•1h 58min
United States
Director: Rian Johnson
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In a future where time travel has been invented, a criminal organization gets rid of unwanted people by sending them into the past, where killers are already waiting for them. Joe is one of those assassins, but one day, instead of his next target, he is confronted with his future self.
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1985. In the House
Comedy Drama Mystery Thriller Coming-of-Age Drama2012•1h 45min
France
Director: François Ozon
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A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
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1986. House at the End of the Street
Horror Thriller Psychological Horror Mind Game Thriller2012•1h 41min
United States, Canada
Director: Mark Tonderai
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A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.
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1987. End of Watch
Crime Drama Thriller Police Procedural Investigation Suspense2012•1h 49min
United States
Director: David Ayer
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Two young officers are marked for death after confiscating a small cache of money and firearms from the members of a notorious cartel during a routine traffic stop.
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1988. Lore
Drama War Thriller Historical Drama World War II2012•1h 49min
Australia, Germany
Director: Cate Shortland
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After being abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country. Led by the eldest, 14 year-old Lore, the children are forced to confront their parents’ actions and the reality of a new world.
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1989. Arbitrage
Drama Thriller Professional Drama Cover-Up Thriller2012•1h 40min
United States
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
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A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.
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1990. The Paperboy
Thriller Drama Mystery Investigation Suspense Psychological Drama2012•1h 47min
United States
Director: Lee Daniels
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A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.