The Best Suspense and Thriller Movies

Via the British Film Institute (Unranked)

IMDb (by Rating)

  1. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
  2. Inception (2010) 8.8
  3. Fight Club (1999)
  4. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  5. Se7en (1995) 8.6
  6. The Green Mile (1999)
  7. The Departed (2006)
  8. The Prestige (2006)
  9. Psycho (1960)
  10. The Usual Suspects (1995)
  11. American History X (1998)
  12. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  13. Memento (2000)
  14. Rear Window (1954)
  15. American Beauty (1999)
  16. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
  17. Snatch (2000)
  18. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
  19. Citizen Kane (1941) 8.3
  20. Vertigo (1958)
  21. Incendies (2010)
  22. North by Northwest (1959)
  23. Double Indemnity (1944) 8.3
  24. Shutter Island (2010)
  25. A Beautiful Mind (2001) 8.2
  26. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  27. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
  28. The Great Escape (1963) 8.2
  29. Prisoners (2013)
  30. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  31. The Sixth Sense (1999)
  32. Chinatown (1974)
  33. 12 Monkeys (1995)
  34. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) 8
  35. True Romance (1993) 7.9
  36. Mystic River (2003) 7.9
  37. District 9 (2009)
  38. The Bourne Identity (2002)
  39. Carlito’s Way (1993)
  40. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
  41. Taken (I) (2008)
  42. The Game (1997) 7.8
  43. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
  44. The Insider (1999)
  45. Zodiac (2007)
  46. Man on Fire (2004)
  47. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
  48. Training Day (2001) 7.7
  49. Argo (2012) 7.7
  50. Blue Velvet (1986)
  51. Changeling (2008)
  52. The Bourne Supremacy (2004) 7.7
  53. Road to Perdition (2002)
  54. Black Book (2006)
  55. Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
  56. American Psycho (2000)
  57. The Others (2001)
  58. Inside Man (2006)
  59. The Butterfly Effect (2004) 7.6
  60. The Butterfly Effect (2004) 7.6
  61. Minority Report (2002)
  62. The Hurt Locker (2008)
  63. Eastern Promises (2007) 7.6
  64. Gone Baby Gone (2007)
  65. Traffic (2000)
  66. Lord of War (2005)
  67. The Illusionist (2006)
  68. Run Lola Run (1998) 7.6
  69. The Town (2010) 7.5
  70. The Devil’s Advocate (1997) 7.5
  71. Collateral (2004)
  72. Jacob’s Ladder (I) (1990)
  73. 127 Hours (2010)
  74. Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters (2011)
  75. Looper (2012)
  76. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
  77. Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
  78. Equilibrium (2002)
  79. Take Shelter (2011) 7.4
  80. The Constant Gardener (2005)
  81. The Constant Gardener (2005)
  82. The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
  83. Identity (2003) 7.3
  84. RocknRolla (2008)
  85. Unbreakable (2000)
  86. Enemy of the State (1998)
  87. Angel Heart (1987)
  88. The Negotiator (1998)
  89. The Negotiator (1998)
  90. Mr. Brooks (2007)
  91. Matchstick Men (2003)
  92. Fracture (2007) 7.2
  93. The Bank Job (2008) 7.2
  94. Gosford Park (2001) 7.2
  95. Michael Clayton (2007)
  96. The Rainmaker (1997)
  97. The Ghost Writer (2010) 7.2
  98. The Ghost Writer (2010) 7.2
  99. The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
  100. Arlington Road (1999)

Rotten Tomatoes (by TomatoMeter Rating)

  1. Us (2019)
  2. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
  3. Citizen Kane (1941)
  4. The Irishman (2019)
  5. Get Out (2017)
  6. The Third Man (1949)
  7. A Quiet Place (2018)
  8. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) (1920)
  9. Spotlight (2015)
  10. Arrival (2016)
  11. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
  12. Laura (1944)
  13. Argo (2012)
  14. Alien (1979)
  15. Psycho (1960)
  16. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  17. Rebecca (1940)
  18. M (1931)
  19. North by Northwest (1959)
  20. Hell or High Water (2016)
  21. Jaws (1975)
  22. The Godfather, Part II (1974)
  23. Chinatown (1974)
  24. Rear Window (1954)
  25. The Babadook (2014)
  26. High Noon (1952)
  27. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
  28. The 39 Steps (1935)
  29. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)
  30. Touch of Evil (1958)
  31. Skyfall (2012)
  32. RashĂ´mon (1951)
  33. Vertigo (1958)
  34. The Big Sleep (1946)
  35. Taxi Driver (1976)
  36. L.A. Confidential (1997)
  37. The Wages of Fear (1953)
  38. Nightcrawler (2014)
  39. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
  40. Goldfinger (1964)
  41. Strangers on a Train (1951)
  42. The Post (2018)
  43. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
  44. The Night of the Hunter (1955)
  45. In a Lonely Place (1950)
  46. Freaks (1932)
  47. Notorious (1946)
  48. Badlands (1974)
  49. Casino Royale (2006)
  50. The Salesman (Forushande) (2017)
  51. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  52. Halloween (1978)
  53. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
  54. Eyes Without a Face (1962)
  55. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
  56. Repulsion (1965)
  57. Eye In The Sky (2016)
  58. 101 Dalmatians (1961)
  59. The Killing (1956)
  60. All Is Lost (2013)
  61. Looper (2012)
  62. Stalker (1979)
  63. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
  64. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
  65. The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
  66. No Country for Old Men (2007)
  67. Burning (Beoning) (2018)
  68. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
  69. Ex Machina (2015)
  70. Blood Simple (1984)
  71. Sicario (2015)
  72. To Catch a Thief (1955)
  73. Searching (2018)
  74. Peeping Tom (1960)
  75. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
  76. Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
  77. The Fugitive (1993)
  78. Bridge of Spies (2015)
  79. The Conversation (1974)
  80. Forbidden Planet (1956)
  81. Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011)
  82. Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955)
  83. Border (Gräns) (2018)
  84. Gone Girl (2014)
  85. Jurassic Park (1993)
  86. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
  87. The Birds (1963)
  88. The Guilty (Den skyldige) (2018)
  89. Don’t Look Now (1973)
  90. The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
  91. Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l’Ă©chafaud) (1958)
  92. The Imitation Game (2014)
  93. It (2017)
  94. Blue Ruin (2014)
  95. Mandy (2018)
  96. Blue Velvet (1986)
  97. In the Line of Fire (1993)
  98. Three Colors: Blue (Trois Couleurs: Bleu) (1993)
  99. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
  100. Dr. No (1962)

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