Hollywood thriller movies are held for the most courageous of movies enthusiasts. Rather than the violence of numerous blood and horror movies, thrillers are brimming with twists, unforeseen turns, and energy that will toss you to the edge of your seat.
Even better, the anxiety, terror, and uncertainty imposed on viewers by thrillers force them to question themselves, their surroundings, and even their reality. It is true that in the best psychological thrillers, they give us nightmares. That is the reason we’ve arranged top notch of the best thriller movies Hollywood to ensure you bite over your nails.
30 Best Thriller Movies Hollywood [Awesome List]
Knock Knock (I) (2015)
When the devoted husband and father go home alone on the weekends, the two trapped young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. Starting as a pose is a dangerous temptation and comes in the deadly game of cat and mouse.
It is a sexy new thriller by director Eli Roth and written for the screens of Eli Roth and Nicholas LaPage and Guillermo Amoido, and stars Anthony Overman and Michael Ronald, starring KNOC as Keanu Reeves, tempted as a family man, and Lorenza E. Armas as the rebel who wreaked havoc on her life and turned the dark imagination of the married man into her worst nightmare.
- Director: Eli Roth
- Writer: Eli Roth, Nicolás López
- Stars: Keanu Reeves, Lorenza Izzo, Ana de Armas
- Running Time: 99 minute
The Trial of The Chicago 7 (2020)
The 1968 Democratic Party convention in Chicago was met with shows by pioneers, for example, the Democratic Society drove by Tom Hayden and the assailant Ippis drove by Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, which prompted violent clashes with nearby specialists.
Thus, seven of the denounced instigators were captured on trick charges by the enemy Nixon organization, including Black Panthers Bobby Seal, who was not engaged with the occurrence. What followed was an uncalled for preliminary, managed by anti-war judge Hoffman and prosecuted by a hesitant yet loyal Richard Schultz.
As their pro-bono lawyers face controversy, Hayden and his followers are frustrated that these outrageous protests by the Eppies undermine their defenses against the fight against the system even after the seals have been denied the opportunity to defend their way.
Chicago 7 In the clash of their political philosophies, they have even learned that they need each other in this fight.
- Director: Aaron Sorkin
- Writer: Aaron Sorkin
- Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen
- Running Time: 129 minute
Freaky (2020)
After swapping corpses with the blocked serial killer, a young high school girl discovers that this change has less than 24 hours to last.
- Director: Christopher Landon
- Writer: Michael Kennedy, Christopher Landon
- Stars: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Celeste O’Connor
- Running Time: 102 minute
The Impossible (2012)
A regular family – Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Evan McGregor) and their three children – travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get a move up to a manor on the coast.. After settling down and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool like many other tourists.
A proper heavenly vacation until the distant sound becomes a roar. There is no time to escape the tsunami; Maria and her eldest flowed on one side, Henry and the youngest flowed on the other. Who will survive in the end and what will happen to them?
- Director: J.A. Bayona
- Writer: Sergio G. Sánchez, María Belón
- Stars: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland
- Running Time: 114 minute
Greenland (2020)
A family struggles to survive as a planet-killing comet race on Earth. John Garretty (Gerard Butler), his divorced wife Alison (Morena Bakerin), and young son Nathan make the perilous journey for their sanctuary’s only hope.
By pulling a piece of the comet, the Garrites gain the highest and worst humanity experience as they fight the growing panic and injustice around them. As the global count approaches zero, their incredible trek reaches for a haven and arrives on a last-minute flight.
- Director: Ric Roman Waugh
- Writer: Chris Sparling
- Stars: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd
- Running Time: 119 minute
His House (2020)
A refugee couple desperately escapes from war-torn South Sudan, but they fight to adjust to their new life in the English city, one of the undefeated under the surface.
- Director: Remi Weekes
- Writer: Remi Weekes, Felicity Evans
- Stars: Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba
- Running Time: 99 minute
Let Him Go (2020)
The retired sheriff and his wife mourned the death of their son and found their only grandson.
- Director: Thomas Bezucha
- Writer: Thomas Bezucha, Larry Watson
- Stars: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Lesley Manville
- Running Time: 113 minute
The Devil All the Time (2020)
Set in the rural areas of southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All Time follows an actor of obedient and bizarre characters from World War II to the 1960s.
There is Willard Russell, an accomplished veteran of this homicide in the South Pacific, who can’t spare his wonderful spouse Charlotte from failing of cancer. Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband & wife of serial killers who savage America’s roadways to look for and expel appropriate models.
The law includes Roy, the preacher of spider management, and his disabled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore. And in the midst of all this was caught the orphaned son of Ervin Eugene Russell, Willard, and Charlotte, who had grown up to be a good but violent man like himself.
- Director: Antonio Campos
- Writer: Antonio Campos, Paulo Campos
- Stars: Donald Ray Pollock, Bill Skarsgård, Tom Holland
- Running Time: 138 minute
Possessor Uncut (2020)
Tasya Vos is a corporate agent who uses brain-implant technology to live in another person’s corpse and drives them to kill for the organization’s convenience.
Even when he has a special gift for work, his experiences on this work have made a dramatic change in him, and in his own life, he continues to struggle to suppress violent memories and urges.
As his pressure heightens, he starts to lose control and before long winds up caught in the mind of a man whose personality takes steps to clear him out.
- Director: Brandon Cronenberg
- Writer: Brandon Cronenberg
- Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Running Time: 108 minute
Parasite (2019)
Kims – mother and father Chung-suk and Ki-taik, and their young adult child, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-Jung – a low-income family.
Who is living in a shabby family and confined basement apartment in a busy lower-class commercial business? Even without knowing it, they, especially Mr. and Mrs. Kim, literally smell poverty.
Often as a combination, they get minor scandals to get these, and they do the minimum necessary work even after their job. One day, Ki-woo dreamed of getting out of poverty by going to university.
Despite not attending university, Ki-woo chose his university student friend Min to take his tutoring job at Park Da-Hai on the way to school.
Min is planning to date after returning to Sylhet, and he has gone to university himself. Parks is a wealthy family who has lived in their modernist home for four years and is the former residence of the famous architect Namgong.
- Director: Bong Joon Ho
- Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Bong Joon Ho
- Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
- Running Time: 132 minute
Unhinged (2020)
Academy Award winner Russell Crowe is the star of Unhinged. nhinged is a psychological thriller that we as a whole encounter road rage that leads to an uncertain and alarming end. Rachel will work late as she encounters a stranger (crow) at a traffic light.
Soon, Rachel loves herself and everyone else the goal of a man who feels invisible and wants to give the world one last sign by teaching him one deadly lesson after another. This is a risky game of cats and mouse that verify that no one can tell who you are going to.
- Director: Derrick Borte
- Writer: Carl Ellsworth
- Stars: Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman
- Running Time: 90 minute
Mile 22 (2018)
In a spectacular modern thriller obtained from the director of Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg plays James Silva, an operative of the CIA’s extremely high-value and low-burden unit.
Silver must retrieve and transport a resource that holds deadly information at Mile 22 for retrieval with the top-secret strategic command team’s help before the enemy closes.
- Director: Peter Berg
- Writer: Graham Roland, Lea Carpenter
- Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohan, Iko Uwais
- Running Time: 94 minute
No Time To Die (2021)
Bond has left active service, and Jamaica is enjoying a quiet life. His peace was fleeting when his old friend Felix Letter advanced for help from the CIA.
The mission to save the kidnapped researcher has proven to be definitely more tricky than anticipated, driving Bond to the way of a mysterious villain furnished with dangerous new innovation.
- Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
- Writer: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
- Stars: Ana de Armas, Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux
- Running Time: 163 minute
Joker (2019)
Arthur Flake acts like a clown and is an aspiring stand-up comic. He has mental health issues, part of which includes wild laughter. The Times is tough, and Arthur has had a worse time than most because of his problems and career.
Over time these matters put compel on him. Shapes his activities, eventually making him accept that person. He is better known as the Joker.
- Director: Todd Phillips
- Writer: Todd Phillips, Scott Silver
- Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz
- Running Time: 122 minute
Prospect (2018)
A young girl and her father tour to the moon on a rich alien. They have reached an agreement to collect a large deposit of elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon’s poisonous forest, but again many are wandering in the desert, and the work is quickly drowned out in the struggle for survival.
Not only is she forced to fight with other ruthless inhabitants of the forest, but by her own father’s greed-involved judgment, the girl finds herself having to dig her way to escape.
- Director: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl
- Writer: Christopher Caldwell, Zeek Earl
- Stars: Sophie Thatcher, Jay Duplass, Pedro Pascal
- Running Time: 100 minute
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Danny Ocean wants to score the biggest heir in history. He has put together a team of eleven members, including Frank Caton, Rusty Ryan, and Linus Caldwell. Their objective?
Bellagio, Meraj, and MGM Grand. All club claimed by Terry Benedict. But it is not going to be easy, as they are secretly planning to raise 150 million.
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Writer: George Clayton Johnson, Jack Golden Russell
- Stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts
- Running Time: 116 minute
Split (IX) (2016)
In spite of the fact that Kevin (James McAvoy) has given 23 character evidences to his confided in psychiatrist Dr. Fletcher (Betty Buckley), he is as yet immersed in actualizing and overwhelming every other person.
Purposely, the observer is compelled to steal three young ladies drove by Casey. Kevin has reached the battle of survival as he breaks down the walls in his sections between everyone in him and everyone around him.
- Director: M. Night Shyamalan
- Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
- Stars: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson
- Running Time: 117 minute
I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Despite a second thought about their relationship, a young woman (Jesse Buckley) travels a road with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plains) to her family’s farm. Trapped on a homestead during a snowstorm with Jack’s mom (Tony Colette) and father (David Thelis), the young lady starts to question the idea of what she knew or comprehended about herboyfriend, herself, and the world.
It is written by Charlie Kaufman (The Eternal Sun of The Spotless Mind), award-winning research on the fragility of aspirations and human consciousness, the management of IMM Thinking of Ending Things, and the Academy Award. Ian Red’s best-selling naming novel inspires this thriller movie.
- Director: Charlie Kaufman
- Writer: Charlie Kaufman, Iain Reid
- Stars: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette
- Running Time: 134 minute
The Informer (2019)
A former convict who worked in disguise to break into a crowd at the most secure prison deliberately turned himself back into prison.
- Director: Andrea Di Stefano
- Writer: Matt Cook, Rowan Joffe
- Stars: Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common
- Running Time: 113 minute
The Departed (2006)
In this crime-action Tour de Force, the state police force in South Boston is fighting against Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan has been tasked with infiltrating the mob syndicate led by gangland chief Frank Costello.
When Billy quickly gained Costello’s confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardcore young criminal. Who infiltrated the state police as an informant for the syndicate and rose to power in the Special Investigation Unit.
Every human being is deeply engrossed by their double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans they have entered into.
But when it became clear to both the crowd and the police that there was a mole between them, Billy and Colin were suddenly at risk of being caught and confronted by the enemy – and everyone must run to uncover the other person’s identity.
- Director: Martin Scorsese
- Writer: William Monahan, Alan Mak
- Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson
- Running Time: 151 minute
Fargo (1996)
Jerry works at his father-in-law’s car dealership and gets himself into financial trouble.
That’s why he tries various projects to bring in the necessary money, which is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his massive money from the dealership will be discovered from the embezzled in-laws.
When everything else happened, he planned that he offered two men to kidnap his wife for a ransom from his wealthy father.
From the moment of the abduction, things went wrong, and the non-violent thing was thought to be that more blood was added at the moment and became bloody.
Jerry is devastated by the bleeding, which leaves a pregnant sheriff in Bernard, MN, desperate to solve the three murders in his jurisdiction.
- Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Stars: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
- Running Time: 98 minute
The Town (2010)
The Charlestown neighborhood of Boston is famous for churning out many armed robbers from generation to generation. These robbers never leave Chartstown life at their own will, a local where there is an unwritten code to ensure that way of life.
Such robbers include Doug McRae, James Coughlin, Albert ‘Gloncy’ Maglan, and Desmond Alden. James’s single mother, sister, drug addict Krista Kafflin and Doug had casual sex.
The four most successful bank robberies took place, but due to the circumstances, the bank manager, Claire Casey, was held hostage for a short time before being released without causing any physical harm.
They found out that Claire lived in Charlestown, so they wanted to make sure she didn’t see anything that could cause damage. Specifically, Doug and James treat each other like family since Doug’s mom got away and Doug’s dad, Stephen McRae, was sent off jail.
- Director: Ben Affleck
- Writer: Peter Craig, Ben Affleck
- Stars: Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm
- Running Time: 125 minute
Get Out (I) (2017)
Chris and his girlfriend Rose, go to visit her parents over the weekend. At first, Chris did the family’s overly cohesive behavior to reconcile the family’s daughter’s interracial relationships.
Still, as the weekend progressed, the increasingly annoying discovery led him to a truth he could never have imagined.
- Director: Jordan Peele
- Writer: Jordan Peele
- Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford
- Running Time: 104 minute
Shallow Grave (1994)
Three friends in Edinburgh, Scotland, choose a new roommate by interview. They found him dead in his house. A moral dilemma arises when they discover that he has a lot of cash.
Things got worse when people searched and found out about the money, and the three friends began to suspect each other.
- Director: Danny Boyle
- Writer: John Hodge
- Stars: Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor
- Running Time: 89 minute
Deep Cover (1992)
The designer hires a black uniform police officer to infiltrate a smuggling agency trying to expand into drugs. This ‘revolting part of the battle on medications’ investigates the setting of race, identity, and fraud in a ruthless and confined investigation.
- Director: Bill Duke
- Writer: Michael Tolkin
- Stars: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Lira Angel
- Running Time: 107 minute
The Bay of Silence (2020)
Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of the suspicious murder of their son. Just discovering the destructive truth of his past has linked him to another unsolved crime.
- Director: Paula van der Oest
- Writer: Caroline Goodall, Lisa St Aubin de Terán
- Stars: Claes Bang, Olga Kurylenko, Brian Cox
- Running Time: 93 minute
Shirley (2020)
A famous horror writer and her husband find inspiration for her next book after embracing a young couple. Famous for his horror sci-fi, such as his Muros nature.
Author Shirley Jackson arrives with Fred and Rose’s newlyweds when her creative process and marriage with literary critics are interrupted – and Philandering Professor – Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlberg).
Stanley, for example, has struggled to maintain academic dominance over his predecessor, Fred. Likewise, Rose tried to fade her ambitions and reconcile married life while living under the roof of their fiery, intelligent host with Quisilver’s loyalty and countless neuroses.
At the point when Shirley’s artistic motives demonstrate elusive, Rose’s curiosity and the idea of her confidence make her a delicate victim for a shining composer whose lone faithfulness is to her work.
- Director: Josephine Decker
- Writer: Sarah Gubbins, Susan Scarf Merrell
- Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg
- Running Time: 107 minute
The Old Guard (2020)
Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a secret team of tenants with a mysterious disability after his death has been fighting for many centuries to save the mortal world.
But when the team is assigned to take on an emergency mission, and suddenly their extraordinary skills are revealed, the team relies on new soldiers, Andy and Neil (Kiki Lane), to help them overcome their threat. To monetize their energy in any way.
- Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
- Writer: Greg Rucka
- Stars: Charlize Theron, KiKi Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts
- Running Time: 125 minute
The Hunt (2020)
Twelve strangers woke up in a clearing. They didn’t know where they were or how they arrived. In shadowing a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gathered in a remote place to hunt people down for sports. But as their masterplan was about to derail, a hunter-turned-crystal turned the tables on his followers.
- Director: Craig Zobel
- Writer: Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof
- Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz
- Running Time: 90 minute
Vivarium (2019)
A youthful couple is contemplating purchasing their starter home. What’s more, to this end, they visit a land office where an odd sales specialist takes them.
Who went on to develop a new, mysterious, strange dwelling to show them single-family home. There they are trapped in a surreal, labyrinthine nightmare.
- Director: Lorcan Finnegan
- Writer: Lorcan Finnegan, Garret Shanley
- Stars: Imogen Poots, Danielle Ryan, Molly McCann
- Running Time: 97 minute
Differences Between Horror Film and Thriller Films
Film as a form of art has been around for more than a hundred years, yet there are still genres that have not been discovered. One such genre would be the horror film.
A well-known type of movie that is related to this type of film is a thriller. Many people do not know the difference between these two types of movies, yet there is a slight difference.
Firstly, let’s define what horror films are. The definition of this particular film type is that it contains content that will scare or startle you, thrillers on the other hand do not contain scary content but they still frighten the audience in an entertaining manner.
This genre also incorporates subgenres such as slasher, psychological thriller, crime, mystery, etc. The main difference between the two genres are the nature of content that is being expressed to the viewers.
Thrillers portray a sense of danger or threat to characters in an entertaining way which compels the audience to watch on with suspense.
Horror films have a different approach in that the content that they present is designed to scare or startle audiences that may contain gore and even jump scares throughout.
Both these genres are different in the fact that horror films tend to rely more on shocking rather than telling a story where as thrillers can also have a combination of both.
However if you take a closer look, there is a subgenre of thriller films called psychological thrillers. Psychological thrillers are similar to horror films in the way that they portray the same concepts, however there are no real life antagonists or monsters that appear within these movies.
Instead these types of films focus on normal characters that deal with abnormal circumstances which makes them come across as being creepy to audiences.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Is There Such A Thing As A Thriller?
Ans: I don’t think so. I’ve watch a few thrillers and see no connection between them, other than words like “plot”, “mystery” and “suspense”. By those standards, as long as there is plot, mystery and suspense in any story then it must be a thriller.
2. Who Is The Greatest Thriller Of All Time?
Ans: That’s rather subjective, but I’m going to assume you mean the best known thriller. The most famous thriller writer is Stephen King , which would make “The Shining” his best thriller.
3. Who Are The Actors In The New Thriller?
Ans: I’m not sure if there is a new thriller out with known actors, but I can give you some names of those involved in the making of “The Shining” (which happens to be my favorite thriller).
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance Shelley Duvall as Wendy Torrance Danny Lloyd as Danny Torrance Scatman Crothers.
4. What Are The Main Themes Of Thriller Movies?
Ans: The main theme of a thriller movie is that it be thrilling. Beyond that, there are no themes.
5. What Is The Definition Of A Thriller?
Ans: A story with plot, mystery and suspense. Something as simple as an action film can be considered a thriller if those three things are present in it.
Final Verdict
Thrillers sometimes don’t go out of fashion. Audiences always want a movie that races their heart, regardless of what else is going on in the movie.
We are never likely to be bothered by rush, suspense, and drama. But the thing that viewers often forget is that thrillers are the most innovative and unique writers and directors do their best work.
After all, thrillers live or die to arouse the audience’s interest, so filmmakers are always looking for new ways to spread stress.
Hollywood is the best thriller movie about that thrill and release, ultimately the essential joy of cinema. To choose a thriller of more than a century, you need a guide for the genre. So we bring you the best Thriller Movies Hollywood of the century.
