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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 I Inside

2371. The I Inside

Thriller Mystery Drama Psychological Drama Mindbender Mystery
6.0

20041h 30min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Roland Suso Richter

When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and he's haunted by strange visions of the woman he loved.

Themes

Memory vs reality, Time loop, Guilt and accountability, Dual timelines, Paranoia and deception, Infidelity under strain

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Taking Lives

2372. Taking Lives

Thriller Investigation Suspense
6.2

20041h 43min

United States

Director: D.J. Caruso

Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

Themes

Investigative pressure, Self reinvention, Violent trauma, Identity impersonation, Blurred boundaries, Unreliable testimony

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Secret Window

2373. Secret Window

Mystery Thriller Unreliable Perspective Mystery Mind Game Thriller
6.5

20041h 36min

United States

Director: David Koepp

After writer Mort Rainey is betrayed by his wife, he moves to his country house to deal with a life crisis and finish his book. One day, an aggressive stranger shows up on his doorstep, claiming Mort has plagiarized his story.

Themes

Deception and misdirection, Isolation and paranoia, Jealousy and betrayal, Artistic vulnerability, Obsession and consequence, Reputation under siege

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Spartan

2374. Spartan

Mystery Action Drama Thriller Crime
6.5

20041h 42min

Germany, United States

Director: David Mamet

U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.

Themes

Loyalty under pressure, Sex trafficking networks, Deception within protection, Political coverups, Power and rule bending, Elite accountability

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Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

2375. Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed

Drama Horror Fantasy Thriller Werewolf Horror
6.4

20041h 34min

Canada

Director: Brett Sullivan

Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.

Themes

Deception and misperception, Dependency under treatment, Transformation under pressure, Hauntings as memory, Coercive exchanges for care, Therapy as confinement

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Maria Full of Grace

2376. Maria Full of Grace

Drama Thriller Crime Narcotics Crime Tragic Drama
7.4

20041h 41min

Ecuador, Colombia

Director: Joshua Marston

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.

Themes

Economic precarity, Exploitative labor conditions, Migration pressures, Trafficking risk, Pregnancy vulnerability, Family obligation

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The Butterfly Effect

2377. The Butterfly Effect

Science Fiction Thriller Time Travel Sci-Fi Mind Game Thriller
7.6

20041h 53min

Canada, United States

Director: Eric Bress

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 unexpected consequences.

Themes

Trauma-induced amnesia, Memory control, Abuse impact on youth, Time travel consequences, Peer bullying dynamics, Therapy and coping

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Paycheck

2378. Paycheck

Action Adventure Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
6.3

20031h 59min

Canada, United States

Director: John Woo

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

Themes

Memory manipulation corporate power, Trust under corporate manipulation, Future seeing technology risks, Ethical boundaries memory erasure, Weaponization of invention, Surveillance and escape dynamics

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Dead End

2379. Dead End

Mystery Horror Thriller Psychological Horror Survival Thriller
6.5

20031h 23min

France, United States

Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.

Themes

Fear as control, Deception under pressure, Family stress under danger, Isolation in remote setting, Consequences of shortcuts, Paranoia after trauma

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When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.

Themes

Frontier violence and survival, Intergenerational estrangement, Reluctant alliances, Abduction and rescue, Protection of captives, Distant border pressures

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