Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.
← Find more movies

Thrillers movies

Explore suspense, danger and tense conflicts.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 351.

Incident at Raven's Gate (1988)

Drama

At Raven's Gate, a farming property, enthusiastic hydroponicist Richard Cleary (Ritchie Singer) is trying innovative farming practices. He is also trying to accommodate his brother Eddie (Steven Vidler), newly out of jail and more interested in Richard's wife Rachel (Celine Griffin) than in working on the property. Strange events on the property and a minor crime in the town attract policeman Taylor (Max Cullen) and Special Branch investigator Cummings (Terry Camilleri).

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Swindle (2002)

Action, Crime, Drama, girls with guns, thriller film

Sophie Zen has master-minded a bank robbery. What she doesn't know is that one of her crew, Seth George, is an undercover cop. George is a maverick; even his police bosses don't know whether he's still on their side, and the undercover man is starting to fall for Sophie...

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

The Name of the Game Is Kill! (1968)

thriller film

A man resting in a rural southwest setting is bludgeoned with a replica Venus de Milo statue and his body dragged to an open fire. Symcha Lipa (Jack Lord), a Hungarian born and raised drifter, is resting at the side of a dusty Arizona road. He is picked up by Mickey Terry (Susan Strasberg), who drives him to her home and offers him a shower before he goes on his way.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Papertrail (1998)

thriller film

Jason Enola is an obsessive FBI agent who is almost losing his mind after ten years on the tail of an elusive serial killer whose hallmark is the "paper trail" of notes left along with the victims. Brad Abraham is the agent buddy who is watching Enola's back. As the film begins, a new wave of killings start after four years of silence, and the psychiatrist Dr.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Nothing So Strange (2002)

mockumentary

At the very beginning of the film, Bill Gates (played by Gates double Steve Sires) walks onto the stage of the pavilion in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, California on Thursday, December 2, 1999, to give a check for one million dollars to "Literacy For Life" as part of the "Bill Gates Foundation." (The filmmakers intentionally avoided mentioning Gates' family members in the film; thus, they refrain from naming the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.) Upon reaching the stage, Gates is shot dead by a sniper, first in the right shoulder, then the head. While chasing after the unknown sniper through an abandoned building, a rookie police officer…

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

The Elevator (1974)

Psychological Thriller, thriller film

An elevator carrying a diverse group of people and stuck between floors in a high-rise office building. The tension inside the stalled elevator is exacerbated by one passenger: a claustrophobic armed robber trying to flee from his latest hit.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

The Crypt (2009)

Horror, thriller film

The movie begins with a sole grave robber in 1979, who steals his way into the crypt in order to find jewelry. He is killed by the undead after he finds some jewelry and is trying to get more. Decades later, a man is shown getting out of prison.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Killing Blue (1988)

Crime, thriller film

The film, which has many humorous moments, is set in Berlin, and concerns a burnt-out (and somewhat corrupt) police detective Alex Glass (Armin Mueller-Stahl), and his glamorous new assistant, Shirley May (), who are on the trail of a drug ring, the leader of which, Miskowski (Frank Stallone), is suspected of several murders. First is a 16-year old ballet dancer Ines Berger (Constanze Rahn) who has been killed with a heroin overdose. The second is Monica (Allegra Curtis), stepdaughter of his old friend, police prosecutor Michael Carstens (Michael York).

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Rhinoceros Eyes (2003)

Drama, thriller film

Chep is a reclusive, awkward young man who lives in a prop warehouse. He becomes infatuated with Fran, a set designer who asks him to get her various esoteric items for the movie she's working on. Chep loses his already tenuous grip on reality as he resorts to increasingly unhinged methods to procure these props for her, ending up with detective Phil Barbara on his trail.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Affair in Havana (1957)

crime thriller film, Drama, Noir

Mallabee is a millionaire sugar-cane grower in Cuba who blames his wife, Lorna, for an accident that has left him in a wheelchair. Lorna has been having an affair with Nick, a piano player in a Havana nightclub. Mallabee secretly is aware of this affair, having hired a private investigator to follow his wife.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Danger Beneath the Sea (2001)

Action, thriller film

This is a nightmare scenario, true for many Cold War submarine veterans. After a North Korean nuclear missile test goes wrong, the American nuclear attack submarine USS Lansing is cut off from communications. Detecting radioactivity in the air and believing the world to be at nuclear war, the executive officer takes command of the ship from the captain and prepares to fire the submarine's nuclear missiles at targets in Russia.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Firehead (1991)

Action, Political Thriller, Science fiction

In 1988, a telekinetic Soviet agent known as "Firehead" (Brett Porter) defects to the west after refusing to use his powers against Estonian protesters. Two years later, he begins blowing up American munitions factories for unknown reasons. An NIH chemist (Chris Lemmon) and a government assassin (Gretchen Becker) are ordered to track him down.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Nowhere to Hide (1994)

Drama, thriller film

A woman in a witness protection program falls in love with the agent charged with protecting her. The agent turns out to be someone hired by her soon-to-be-ex-husband to make it look as if she is on the run so that he can defame her in court in order to get custody of their son.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence

Double Vision (1992)

Crime, Drama, mystery film

The telepathy between identical twins: conventional Caroline lives with her father and is engaged; Lisa is hard-drinking, devil-may-care, and lives in London as a high-class call girl. Caroline has horrid dreams of Lisa's untimely demise, so she flies to London to help. To find out what befell Lisa, Caroline submerges herself in Lisa's dangerous milieu, seeking help from an East Indian cabdriver who loved Lisa, and continuing to have dreams and visions.

Plot source · Reuse with credit and the same licence