Cinema
Thriller films
Every film in the archive tagged Thriller.
No Country for Old Men
A welder takes money from a drug deal gone wrong and is followed by something implacable.
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Mr. Robot
A security engineer with severe social anxiety is recruited by an anarchist hacking collective.
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Drive
A stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway man breaks his own rule for a neighbour.
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Children of Men
Eighteen years into global infertility, one man is asked to move the only pregnant woman alive.
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Memento
A man who cannot form new memories hunts his wife's killer using notes and tattoos.
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Fight Club
An insomniac office worker and a soap salesman start a club that quickly stops being about fighting.
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Se7en
Two detectives track a killer staging murders around the seven deadly sins.
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The Usual Suspects
A conman explains a massacre to a customs agent, and the explanation is the trick.
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Léon: The Professional
A silent hitman takes in the orphaned girl next door, and neither of them knows how to stop.
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The Thing
An Antarctic research crew is infiltrated by something that can perfectly imitate any of them.
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The Dark Knight Rises
Eight years after taking the blame, a retired Batman faces a man who breaks him first.
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I Saw the Devil
An agent hunts his fiancée's killer and keeps letting him go so it can continue.
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The Chaser
A former detective turned pimp realises his missing women share one client.
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Eastern Promises
A London midwife's discovery pulls her into a Russian crime family and its driver.
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Blood Diamond
A smuggler, a fisherman and a journalist converge on one stone in wartime Sierra Leone.
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The Last King of Scotland
A young Scottish doctor becomes Idi Amin's personal physician and cannot get out.
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Insomnia
A detective in the Alaskan midnight sun cannot sleep, and cannot undo his own mistake.
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Training Day
A rookie narcotics officer spends one day with a detective who makes his own law.
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Eyes Wide Shut
A doctor spends one night following his wife's confession into places he should not be.
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Gattaca
In a society sorted by genetics, a man borrows another's DNA to reach space.
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The Game
A cold investment banker is given a birthday game that takes his life apart.
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Sleepers
Four boys abused in a juvenile facility engineer their revenge as adults, through the courts.
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Twelve Monkeys
A prisoner is sent back from a ruined future to find the source of a plague.
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Solace
A psychic doctor helps the FBI track a killer whose gift matches his own.
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The Double
A nonentity clerk meets his exact double, who is everything he is not.
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The Frozen Ground
An Alaska state trooper works with a teenage survivor to convict a serial killer.
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Trance
An auctioneer with amnesia is hypnotised to recover a painting he helped steal.
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Red Lights
Two debunkers of the paranormal take on a famous psychic returning after decades.
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The Mist
Shoppers trapped in a supermarket by a strange mist turn on each other faster than on it.
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Taking Lives
An FBI profiler hunts a killer who assumes the identities of the men he murders.
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Identity
Ten strangers stranded at a desert motel are killed off one at a time.
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The Faculty
Students at an Ohio high school work out that their teachers are no longer human.
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The Devil's Own
An IRA gunman hides in the home of a New York cop who does not know who he is.
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The Good Son
A boy sent to stay with relatives realises his young cousin is dangerous and no one believes him.
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