Best Thrillers by Rank
2
1
1958
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Romance / Film-Noir
USA
English
11
2
1950
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
15
3
1960
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
22
4
1976
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
USA
English
23
5
1931
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
27
6
1974
Roman Polanski
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
57
7
1944
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
65
8
1959
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll
Adventure / Thriller / Mystery / Spy / Romance / Family
USA
English
68
9
1997
Curtis Hanson
Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir / Period Film
USA
English
69
10
2001
David Lynch
Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya, Justin Theroux, Brent Briscoe
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Experimental / Post-Noir / Cult
France / USA
English
75
11
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura
Drama / Thriller / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
77
12
1991
Jonathan Demme
Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine
Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult / Horror
USA
English
78
13
1949
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
80
14
1933
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson
Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
81
15
1996
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Crime / Thriller / Comedy / Detective / Cult
USA / UK
English
91
16
1955
Charles Laughton
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
92
17
1954
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr
Thriller / Mystery / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
95
18
1958
Orson Welles
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
102
19
1975
Steven Spielberg
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton
Adventure / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
104
20
1966
Michelangelo Antonioni
Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Cult
UK / Italy
English
105
21
1974
Francis Ford Coppola
Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
110
22
2002
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Period Film
Brazil / France / USA
Portuguese
117
23
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
118
24
1946
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
123
25
1962
John Frankenheimer
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva
Drama / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
133
26
1971
William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi
Action / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Detective
USA
English
137
27
1986
David Lynch
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
148
28
1976
Alan J. Pakula
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
149
29
2006
Guillermo del Toro
Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ariadna Gil, Doug Jones
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / War / Period Film
Mexico / Spain / USA
Spanish
151
30
1953
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Antonio Centa, Folco Lulli
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama
France / Italy
French
179
31
2007
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
186
32
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
200
33
1955
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Film-Noir
France
French
204
34
1967
Jean-Pierre Melville
Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
France / Italy
French
206
35
2008
Kathryn Bigelow
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Action / Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
208
36
1973
William Friedkin
Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Linda Blair, Jason Miller, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Religion / Cult
USA
English
212
37
1956
Don Siegel
Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
213
38
1975
Sidney Lumet
Al Pacino, John Cazale
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
221
39
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
224
40
1973
Nicolas Roeg
Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Italy / UK
English
228
41
1947
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
229
42
1991
Ridley Scott
Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama
USA
English
232
43
1965
Roman Polanski
Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Thriller / Horror / Drama
UK
English
233
44
1972
John Boorman
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Ed Ramey
Adventure / Thriller / Drama / Cult
USA
English
237
45
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
244
46
1964
Guy Hamilton
Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee
Action / Thriller / Adventure / Spy / Family / Cult
UK
English
263
49
1970
Claude Chabrol
Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone, Mario Beccara
Drama / Thriller / Horror
France / Italy
French
268
50
1966
Mike Nichols
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
271
51
1939
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Romance
France
French
276
52
1950
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
277
53
1969
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
278
54
2006
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme
Drama / Thriller / Period Film
Germany
German
284
55
1962
Roman Polanski
Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka
Drama / Thriller
Poland
Polish
286
56
1934
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
289
57
1992
Neil Jordan
Forest Whitaker, Stephen Rea
Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
UK / Japan
English
292
58
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
297
59
1944
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
310
60
1955
Jules Dassin
Jean Servais, Carl Mohner
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir
France
French
314
61
1955
John Sturges
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Western
USA
English
315
62
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
320
63
2019
Joon Ho Bong
Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park, Woo-sik Choi, Sun-kyun Lee, Seo-joon Park
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
322
64
1980
Stanley Kubrick
Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
326
65
1968
George A. Romero
Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
327
66
2003
Chan-wook Park
Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang, Dae-han Ji, Dal-su Oh, Byeong-ok Kim
Action / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
South Korea
Korean
349
67
1968
Roman Polanski
Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Horror / Thriller / Drama / Cult
USA
English
360
68
1955
Robert Aldrich
Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Maxine Copper, Albert Dekker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
363
69
1995
Bryan Singer
Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Post-Noir / Caper / Cult
USA / Germany
English
382
71
1963
Alfred Hitchcock
Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
386
72
1943
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
387
73
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
390
74
1922
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen
Crime / Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
Germany
German (Silent)
398
75
1947
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
401
76
2000
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal
Thriller / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
410
77
1999
Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA
English
412
78
1991
Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers
Animation / Family / Musical / Romance / Fantasy / Thriller
USA
English
415
79
1998
Tom Tykwer
Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German
419
80
2010
Christopher Nolan
Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Fantasy
USA / UK
English
425
81
2005
Michael Haneke
Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Drama / Thriller
France / Austria / Germany / Italy
French
434
82
1971
Don Siegel
Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, John Vernon
Action / Crime / Thriller / Drama / Detective
USA
English
436
83
1960
Michael Powell
Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
440
84
1977
Wim Wenders
Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
West Germany / France
German
457
85
1978
John Carpenter
Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
458
86
1953
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
472
87
2000
Christopher Nolan
Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
USA
English
473
88
1968
Franklin J. Schaffner
Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore
Action / Drama / Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
474
89
2003
Lars von Trier
Nicole Kidman, Harriet Andersson, Lauren Bacall, Jean-Marc Barr, Paul Bettany
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Experimental / Period Film / Gangster
Denmark / Sweden / France / Norway / Netherlands / Finland / Germany / USA / UK
English
485
90
2012
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
490
91
1976
Carlos Saura
Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall, Florinda Chico
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Spain
Spanish
492
92
1991
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller / Drama
France / USA
English
496
93
2003
Clint Eastwood
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
500
94
1967
John Boorman
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor
Action / Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
501
95
1985
Peter Weir
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
517
96
2000
Steven Soderbergh
Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
Germany / USA
English
518
97
1953
Samuel Fuller
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye
Film-Noir / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
519
98
1973
Robert Altman
Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Mystery
USA
English
522
99
2015
George Miller
Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
Australia / USA
English
528
100
1984
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Cult / Tech-Noir
USA
English
536
101
2015
Tom McCarthy
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
539
102
1986
James Cameron
Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Lance Henriksen
Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller / Horror / Action
USA / UK
English
540
103
1962
Robert Aldrich
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
550
104
2008
Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
558
105
1971
Alan J. Pakula
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
576
106
1960
François Truffaut
Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime / Comedy / Post-Noir
France
French
578
107
2006
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
580
108
1999
M. Night Shyamalan
Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
582
109
1974
Tobe Hooper
Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn
Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
585
110
2009
James Cameron
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Epic
USA
English
597
111
2004
Paul Haggis
Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA / Germany
English
602
112
1942
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
604
113
1988
John McTiernan
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson
Action / Thriller
USA
English
614
114
1948
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
618
115
1943
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
635
116
1992
Quentin Tarantino
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
644
117
1991
Oliver Stone
Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA / France
English
647
118
1988
George Sluizer
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
Netherlands / France
Dutch
650
119
1950
Joseph H. Lewis
Peggy Cummins, John Dall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
656
120
1981
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Action / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Music / Gangster / Cult
France
French
659
121
1983
Paul Verhoeven
Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk
Thriller / Comedy / Drama
Netherlands
Dutch
667
122
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
668
123
2023
Justine Triet
Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France
French
669
124
1944
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
671
125
1960
Georges Franju
Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel
Horror / Thriller
France / Italy
French
680
126
1968
Peter Yates
Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland
Action / Drama / Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
686
127
1972
Alfred Hitchcock
Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen, Billie Whitelaw
Thriller / Crime / Detective
UK
English
693
128
2005
David Cronenberg
Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
705
129
1995
David Fincher
Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
711
130
1983
Brian De Palma
Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
712
131
1948
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
715
132
1946
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
723
133
1944
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
726
134
1932
Tod Browning
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
727
135
1990
Stephen Frears
Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
738
136
1971
Mike Hodges
Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne
Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Cult
UK
English
747
137
1995
Michael Mann
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Caper
USA
English
747
137
1945
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
749
138
1979
James Bridges
Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
755
139
1945
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
756
140
2012
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
756
140
1956
Stanley Kubrick
Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
757
141
1973
Fred Zinnemann
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair
Thriller
UK / France
English
759
142
1971
Sam Peckinpah
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK / USA
English
762
143
2013
Alfonso Cuarón
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Eric Michels, Basher Savage, Paul Sharma
Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA / UK
English
765
144
1961
Jack Clayton
Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave
Horror / Thriller
UK
English
769
145
1938
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
785
146
1973
Robin Hardy
Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt
Horror / Musical / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
UK
English
789
147
2009
Juan José Campanella
Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Argentina / Spain
Spanish
793
148
2010
Darren Aronofsky
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel, Janet Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
796
149
1973
Robert Clouse
Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Kien Shih, Ahna Capri
Action / Crime / Thriller / Cult
Hong Kong / USA
English
797
150
1946
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
800
151
1998
Hideo Nakata
Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
802
152
2017
Guillermo del Toro
Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller | War
USA
English
810
153
1992
Carl Franklin
Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams, Michael Beach
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
811
154
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
815
155
2006
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Gael García Bernal, Jamie McBride
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
834
156
1988
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda
Animation / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult / Comic
Japan
Japanese
839
157
1994
Peter Jackson
Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent
Drama / Romance / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror
UK / Germany / New Zealand
English
845
158
1987
Adrian Lyne
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
858
159
2016
Denis Villeneuve
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
881
160
1982
Tobe Hooper, Steven Spielberg
JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson
Horror / Thriller / Fantasy
USA
English
884
161
1947
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
885
162
1976
Brian De Palma
Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
893
163
1984
Wes Craven
Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
896
164
1929
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
897
165
2006
Joon Ho Bong
Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park, Du-na Bae, Ah-sung Ko
Action / Comedy / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
902
166
2024
Jacques Audiard
Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramírez
Comedy / Crime / Musical / Thriller / Drama
France / USA / Mexico
Spanish
906
167
1965
Sidney J. Furie
Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
917
168
1978
Alan Parker
Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Adventure / Biography
UK / USA
English
918
169
2020
Emerald Fennell
Carey Mulligan, Adam Brody, Ray Nicholson, Sam Richardson, Timothy E. Goodwin
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comedy
UK / USA
English
919
170
1944
Edward Dmytryk
Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki, Miles Mander
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
926
171
2005
Steven Spielberg
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
927
172
1965
Jean-Luc Godard
Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Drama / Romance / Thriller
France / Italy
French
929
173
1974
Alan J. Pakula
Warren Beatty, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn
Thriller
USA
English
936
174
1953
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
UK / USA / Italy
English
937
175
1957
Billy Wilder
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
938
176
1987
David Mamet
Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir / Cult
USA
English
941
177
1990
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden, Albert Finney
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
950
178
1989
John Woo
Yun-Fat Chow, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Kenneth Tsang, Fui-On Shing
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
Hong Kong
Cantonese
953
179
1994
John Dahl
Linda Fiorentino, Bill Pullman, Michael Raysses, Zack Phifer
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
USA
English
954
180
1933
James Whale
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
959
181
2019
Quentin Tarantino
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
UK / USA / China
English
963
182
1972
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews
Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
969
183
1971
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan
Drama / Action / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
971
184
1946
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
981
185
1941
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
984
186
2017
Christopher Nolan
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
UK / Netherlands / France / USA
English
988
187
1977
Paul Verhoeven
Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé
War / Drama / Thriller
Belgium / Netherlands
Dutch
1000
188
1969
Claude Chabrol
Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Ronet
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
Italy / France
French
1001
189
1997
Mike Newell
Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
USA
English
1004
190
1969
Claude Chabrol
Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac
Drama / Crime / Thriller
France / Italy
French
1005
191
1983
Mike Nichols
Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid
Thriller / Drama / Biography
USA
English
1007
192
2014
Morten Tyldum
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance
Biography / Drama / Thriller / War
UK / USA
English
1007
192
1987
Brian De Palma
Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster / Period Film
USA
English
1010
193
1964
John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Thriller / War / Action / Adventure
USA / France / Italy
English
1012
194
1993
Andrew Davis
Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore
Action / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1023
195
1975
Arthur Penn
Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Ed Binns
Thriller / Post-Noir / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1024
196
1999
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin, Jim King
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1026
197
1974
Sam Peckinpah
Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Comedy / Cult
Mexico / USA
English
1032
198
1984
Martin Brest
Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1033
199
1963
Robert Wise
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1044
200
2004
Pedro Almodóvar
Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Lluís Homar
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Post-Noir
Spain
Spanish
1053
201
1999
Takashi Miike
Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller
South Korea / Japan
Japanese
1056
202
1948
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1061
203
1981
Lawrence Kasdan
William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson
Crime / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
1061
203
1980
John Mackenzie
Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Dave King, Bryan Marshall
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
UK
English
1062
204
1983
David Cronenberg
James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
Canada / USA
English
1069
205
2007
Tony Gilroy
George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1082
206
1968
Peter Bogdanovich
Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis
Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1084
207
1994
Jan de Bont
Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck
Action / Thriller
USA
English
1085
208
2015
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Lukas Haas
Adventure / Drama / Western / Thriller / Epic / Biography
USA
English
1088
209
1995
Todd Haynes
Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Peter Friedman, Susan Norman
Thriller / Drama
UK / USA
English
1092
210
2019
Todd Phillips
Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comic
USA / Canada
English
1094
211
1965
Martin Ritt
Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1104
212
1981
John Landis
David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Lila Kaye
Comedy / Horror / Romance / Thriller
USA / UK
English
1108
213
2002
Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Eric Tsang, Kelly Chen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
Hong Kong
Cantonese
1112
214
2001
Ray Lawrence
Anthony LaPaglia, Rachael Blake, Kerry Armstrong, Jon Bennett, Melissa Martinez
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Australia / Germany
English
1113
215
2024
Edward Berger
Ralph Fiennes, Jacek Koman, Lucian Msamati, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow
Thriller / Religion / Drama / Mystery
UK / USA
English
1119
216
1950
Elia Kazan
Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1120
217
2024
Mohammad Rasoulof
Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi, Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Germany / France
Persian
1121
218
1991
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner
Drama / Thriller / Comedy / Cult
USA / UK
English
1124
219
1963
Stanley Donen
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1128
220
1992
John Woo
Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Philip Kwok
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
Hong Kong
Cantonese
1135
221
1915
Louis Feuillade
Musidora, Edouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Gangster / Serial / Horror / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
1139
222
1941
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1144
223
2006
Alfonso Cuarón
Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK / USA
English
1145
224
2008
Stephen Daldry
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Habich, David Kross, Susanne Lothar
Drama / History / Romance / Thriller / War / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
1149
225
2013
Paul Greengrass
Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus, Corey Johnson
Action / Adventure / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1150
226
1999
David Fincher
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Cult
Germany / USA
English
1158
227
1942
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1172
228
1984
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir / Cult
USA
English
1178
229
1939
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1180
230
1944
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
1181
231
1941
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
1184
232
2009
Neill Blomkamp
Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike, Elizabeth Mkandawie
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Adventure
South Africa / New Zealand
English
1190
233
1954
Ishirô Honda
Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Japan
Japanese
1201
234
2012
Tom Hooper
Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen
Drama / Musical / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
1210
235
2003
Quentin Tarantino
Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action
USA
English
1210
235
1964
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley
Adventure / Crime / Comedy / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1219
236
1971
Gordon Parks
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
1224
237
1964
Alfred Hitchcock
Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
1227
238
2016
Chan-wook Park
Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo, So-ri Moon, Hae-suk Kim
Drama / Romance / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
1239
239
1989
Patrice Leconte
Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
France
French
1241
240
2000
Kinji Fukasaku
Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Action / Sci-Fi / Sports / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
1243
241
2002
Gaspar Noé
Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia, Philippe Nahon
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Crime
France
French
1248
242
1995
Mamoru Oshii
Atsuko Tanaka, Richard Epcar, Akio Ôtsuka, Tamio Ôki, Iemasa Kayumi
Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Thriller
Japan / USA
Japanese
1253
243
1966
John Frankenheimer
Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey, Richard Anderson
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Mystery / Drama
USA
English
1257
244
1989
Tim Burton
Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl
Action / Thriller / Crime / Fantasy / Comic
USA / UK
English
1263
245
1970
Billy Wilder
Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page, Christopher Lee
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Adventure / Thriller
UK
English
1266
246
2016
Paul Verhoeven
Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efira
Drama / Thriller
France / Germany / Belgium
French
1271
247
2010
Olivier Assayas
Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
France / Germany
French
1271
247
2007
David Fincher
Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
1274
248
2004
Sam Raimi
Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
1275
249
1998
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1279
250
2007
David Cronenberg
Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Gangster
UK / Canada / USA
English
1284
251
1944
Frank Capra
Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey
Comedy / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1286
252
1980
Richard Rush
Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield
Action / Romance / Comedy / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1297
253
1968
François Truffaut
Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir
France / Italy
French
1302
254
1976
John Carpenter
Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton
Action / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1308
255
1933
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl, Wera Liessem
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Germany
German
1315
256
1985
Martin Scorsese
Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1318
257
1973
Don Siegel
Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Action
USA
English
1333
258
1985
Mike Newell
Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Biography
UK
English
1333
258
1962
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1338
259
1988
David Cronenberg
Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Drama / Thriller / Horror
Canada / USA
English
1340
260
1980
Nicolas Roeg
Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
1341
261
2007
Tim Burton
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen
Crime / Musical / Thriller / Comedy
USA
English
1352
262
2005
Fernando Meirelles
Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Daniele Harford
Drama / Thriller
USA / UK
English
1354
263
1941
Fritz Lang
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
USA
English
1356
264
2020
Aaron Sorkin
Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA / UK / India
English
1358
265
2001
Richard Kelly
Jake Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daveigh Chase, Mary McDonnell
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comedy / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English
1358
265
1986
John McNaughton
Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold, Rick Paul, Flo Spink, Waleed B. Ali
Crime / Thriller / Horror / Biography / Adult
USA
English
1360
266
1943
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1363
267
2017
Steven Spielberg
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1364
268
2002
Phillip Noyce
Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija
Drama / Thriller / Romance / War / Period Film
USA / Germany / Australia
English
1365
269
1975
Dick Richards
Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles
Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
1368
270
1997
Michael Haneke
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski
Horror / Drama / Thriller / Crime
Austria
German
1371
271
1994
Oliver Stone
Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Jr.
Action / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1384
272
2008
Clint Eastwood
Angelina Jolie, Gattlin Griffith, Michelle Martin, Jan Devereaux, Michael Kelly
Biography / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1386
273
1959
Richard Fleischer
Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1388
274
1946
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1399
275
1974
John Carpenter
Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon, Adam Beckenbaugh
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1400
276
2009
Niels Arden Oplev
Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber, Sven-Bertil Taube
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Sweden / Denmark / Germany / Norway
Swedish
1406
277
1982
John Carpenter
Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
1410
278
1945
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
1414
279
2005
Peter Jackson, Bryan Singer
Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi / Period Film / Horror
New Zealand / USA
English
1415
280
1934
Alfred Hitchcock
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1418
281
2016
Asghar Farhadi
Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati
Drama / Thriller
Iran / France
Persian
1418
281
1998
Sam Raimi
Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe
Crime / Thriller / Drama
France / UK / Germany / USA / Japan
English
1420
282
1972
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Chuck Norris, Ping-Ao Wei, Chung-Hsin Huang, Robert Wall
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller
Hong Kong
Mandarin
1424
283
1993
Woo-ping Yuen
Rongguang Yu, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang, Shi-Kwan Yen, James Wong
Action / Crime / Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Hong Kong
Cantonese
1425
284
2004
Timur Bekmambetov
Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Mariya Poroshina, Valeriy Zolotukhin
Action / Fantasy / Thriller
Russia
Russian
1430
285
1970
George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Helen Hayes
Drama / Thriller / Action
USA
English
1439
286
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock
Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1440
287
1950
Rudolph Maté
Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1448
288
1999
Anthony Minghella
Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Period Film
USA
English
1452
289
1963
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1458
290
1958
Louis Malle
Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Romance / Post-Noir
France
French
1460
291
1976
John Schlesinger
Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1461
292
1954
Alfred Hitchcock
Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Thriller / Crime / Mystery
USA
English
1463
293
1988
David Zucker
Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1469
294
1964
Sidney Lumet
Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Thriller
USA
English
1470
295
2002
Steven Spielberg
Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Tech-Noir
USA
English
1476
296
1996
Roland Emmerich
Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
1481
297
2022
Rian Johnson
Ethan Hawke, Daniel Craig, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Edward Norton
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1482
298
1988
Alan Parker
Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1496
299
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1497
300
1942
Frank Tuttle
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1501
301
1970
Elio Petri, Lee Kresel
Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Italy
Italian
1502
302
1975
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1512
303
2004
Joshua Marston
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guilied Lopez, Yenny Paola Vega
Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA / Colombia
Spanish
1515
304
1964
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom
Comedy / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
1517
305
2015
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / War / Spy
USA
English
1518
306
2007
Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon, David Strathairn, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, Scott Glenn
Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1518
306
2007
Ang Lee
Joan Chen, Chih-ying Chu, Anupam Kher, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Wei Tang
Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Spy / Period Film
USA / China
Mandarin
1520
307
1990
Paul Verhoeven
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir
USA
English
1521
308
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour
Drama / Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1524
309
1940
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
Thriller
UK
English
1526
310
1964
John Frankenheimer
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1529
311
1926
F.W. Murnau
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
1530
312
1996
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1533
313
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman
Adventure / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1538
314
1951
Henry Hathaway
Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1539
315
1999
Stanley Kubrick
Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madison Eginton, Jackie Sawiris
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA / UK
English
1542
316
1947
John Boulting
Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster
UK
English
1548
317
2014
Dan Gilroy
Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton, Michael Papajohn
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1549
318
1942
Alfred Hitchcock
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans
Thriller / Romance / Spy
USA
English
1554
319
2011
Nicolas Winding Refn
Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1554
319
1963
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
1557
320
2004
Michael Mann
Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1559
321
1990
Luc Besson
Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana
Thriller / Action
France / Italy
French
1562
322
1970
Jean-Pierre Melville
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Post-Noir / Detective
France / Italy
French
1564
323
1996
David Cronenberg
Holly Hunter, James Spader, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger
Drama / Thriller / Romance
Canada / USA
English
1565
324
2019
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett, The Weeknd, Idina Menzel
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1574
325
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
1577
326
1974
Joseph Sargent
Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Action
USA
English
1581
327
2014
Damián Szifrón
Liliana Ackerman, Luis Manuel Altamirano García, Alejandro Angelini
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Argentina / Spain
Spanish
1584
328
1944
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1589
329
1950
John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Barry Jones, André Morell, Hugh Cross, Sheila Manahan
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1591
330
1980
Paul Schrader
Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1593
331
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1594
332
1977
Robert Benton
Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy
Crime / Mystery / Comedy / Drama / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
1598
333
1964
John Huston
Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1600
334
2005
Woody Allen
Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode
Drama / Romance / Thriller
UK / USA / Luxembourg
English
1601
335
1998
John Boorman
Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Jon Voight, Sean McGinley
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Biography / Gangster
UK / Ireland
English
1602
336
2009
Pedro Almodóvar
Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Comedy / Post-Noir
Spain
Spanish
1620
337
1981
Ivan Passer
Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry
Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1620
337
2012
Rian Johnson
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir
USA / China
English
1625
338
2005
Stephen Gaghan
George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Chris Cooper, Christopher Plummer
Drama / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1627
339
1988
Martin Brest
Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1640
340
2000
Jonathan Glazer
Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Thriller / Caper
UK / Spain
English
1645
341
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1645
341
1953
Henry Hathaway
Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1646
342
2011
George Clooney
Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1646
342
2019
Rian Johnson
Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1651
343
2015
Denis Villeneuve
Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1654
344
1943
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Drama / War / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1658
345
1952
Fritz Lang
Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry, William Frawley
Drama / Western / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
1668
346
1960
Jacques Becker
Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Marc Michel
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France / Italy
French
1671
347
2011
Tomas Alfredson
Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong
Drama / Spy / Thriller
France / UK / Germany
English
1672
348
1999
Atom Egoyan
Bob Hoskins, Arsinée Khanjian, Elaine Cassidy, Sheila Reid, Nizwar Karanj
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Canada / UK
English
1674
349
1966
Roman Polanski
Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander
Thriller / Drama / Comedy / Crime
UK
English
1676
350
2010
Danny Boyle
James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger, Treat Williams
Adventure / Biography / Drama / Thriller
USA / UK
English
1677
351
2024
Coralie Fargeat
Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Edward Hamilton-Clark, Gore Abrams
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK / France
English
1683
352
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
1699
353
1995
Terry Gilliam
Joseph Melito, Bruce Willis, Jon Seda, Michael Chance, Vernon Campbell
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1700
354
1947
Henry Hathaway
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1701
355
1977
Peter Weir
Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
Australia
English
1702
356
1986
Neil Jordan
Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
Comedy / Thriller / Drama / Crime
UK
English
1718
357
1932
Walter Forde
Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Detective
UK
English
1723
358
2008
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Brian Haley
Action / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1723
358
2010
Gareth Edwards
Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Kevon Kane
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK
English
1725
359
1967
Peter Brook
Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
1749
360
1952
Richard Fleischer
Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
1751
361
1990
Jerry Zucker
Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn
Romance / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
1751
361
1974
Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Action / Thriller / Drama / Family
USA
English
1753
362
1949
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Cyril Cusack
Drama / Thriller / War / Film-Noir
UK
English
1760
363
1930
George W. Hill
Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1762
364
1924
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
1766
365
2010
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Slaine
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1767
366
2004
Quentin Tarantino
Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Action / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1772
367
2001
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts
Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
1778
368
1945
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1782
369
2022
Park Chan-wook
Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Lee Jung-hyun, Go Kyung-Pyo, Shin-Young Kim
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
1789
370
2005
Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman
Action / Adventure / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
1791
371
1929
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
1793
372
2018
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci
Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
Germany / Italy
German
1793
372
1961
Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, Cate Bauer, Lisa Daniels, Ben Wright
Family / Animation / Comedy / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
1796
373
2017
Edgar Wright
Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Eiza González, Jon Hamm
Action / Crime / Music / Thriller / Drama
UK / USA
English
1805
374
1950
Basil Dearden
Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
UK
English
1807
375
1951
Anatole Litvak
Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner
Drama / War / Thriller / Spy / Action
USA
English
1807
375
1982
Walter Hill
Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1813
376
1964
Don Siegel
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins
Crime / Drama / Post-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1820
377
1970
Dario Argento
Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Italy / West Germany
Italian
1823
378
1980
Brian De Palma
Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon
Horror / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1825
379
1940
Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1830
380
2024
George Miller
Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne, George Shevtsov
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
Australia / USA
English
1832
381
1979
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Japan
Japanese
1834
382
1998
Darren Aronofsky
Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman
Thriller / Sci-Fi / Experimental / Cult
USA
English
1839
383
2008
Lucrecia Martel
Maria Onetto, Claudia Cantero, Ines Efron, Daniel Genoud, Cesar Bordon
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Argentina / France / Italy / Spain
Spanish
1840
384
1974
Sidney Lumet
Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Detective
UK
English
1842
385
2008
Jon Favreau
Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges
Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic / Family
USA
English
1844
386
2023
J.A. Bayona
Enzo Vogrincic, Simon Hempe, Rafael Federman, Matías Recalt, Andy Pruss
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller
Spain / USA / Uruguay / Chile
Spanish
1855
387
1972
Ronald Neame
Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley
Adventure / Thriller / Action / Drama / Family
USA
English
1857
388
2007
Ridley Scott
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin, Lymari Nadal
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
1861
389
2014
David Fincher
Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1861
389
2018
John Krasinski
Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cade Woodward
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1862
390
1978
Walter Hill
Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley, Matt Clark
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Gangster / Detective
USA
English
1864
391
1980
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, John Adames
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
1864
391
2021
Guillermo del Toro
Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Mary Steenburgen, Willem Dafoe
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA / Mexico / Canada
English
1872
392
1981
Brian De Palma
John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden, Curt May
Mystery / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1877
393
1974
Claude Chabrol
Fabio Testi, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato, Michel Aumont, Michel Duchaussoy
Thriller
France / Italy
French
1879
394
1986
Michael Mann
William L. Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina
Drama / Thriller / Horror / Detective / Post-Noir / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1880
395
1960
René Clément
Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore
Crime / Thriller / Drama
France / Italy
French
1889
396
1969
Alfred Hitchcock
John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Spy
USA
English
1890
397
1976
Alfred Hitchcock
Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane
Comedy / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1891
398
1992
Rob Reiner
Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon
Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1896
399
2012
Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway
Action / Drama / Thriller / Comic
USA / UK
English
1900
400
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
1901
401
2009
Joon Ho Bong
Hye-ja Kim, Bin Won, Ku Jin, Yoon Jae-Moon, Mi-sun Jun, Young-Suck Lee
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
South Korea
Korean
1904
402
1979
Walter Hill
Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler
Crime / Drama / Action / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1908
403
1962
J. Lee Thompson
Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
1908
403
1944
Fritz Lang
Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Spy / War / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
1909
404
1959
Carol Reed
Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward
Drama / Thriller / Comedy / Spy
UK
English
1920
405
2012
Sam Mendes
Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris
Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Spy / Cult
UK / USA
English
1927
406
1986
Jon Amiel
Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, Lyndon Davies
Drama / Musical / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Australia / UK
English
1932
407
1940
Carol Reed
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
1939
408
1950
Jules Dassin
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
UK
English
1942
409
2021
Asghar Farhadi
Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Sarina Farhadi
Drama / Thriller
France / Iran
Persian
1945
410
2011
John Michael McDonagh
Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan
Comedy / Thriller / Detective
Ireland
English
1953
411
1993
Wolfgang Petersen
Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole
Drama / Thriller / Action
USA
English
1956
412
1971
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch
Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1958
413
1947
Jules Dassin
Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
1958
413
1955
William Wyler
Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin
Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1958
413
1942
Stuart Heisler
Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
1960
414
1997
Quentin Tarantino
Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1960
414
2011
Sean Durkin
Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1961
415
2010
Roman Polanski
Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
France / Germany / UK
English
1962
416
1997
Paul Verhoeven
Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War
USA
English
1963
417
1952
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden
Drama / Thriller / Spy / War
USA
English
1972
418
1994
Boaz Yakin
Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France / USA
English
1973
419
1978
Reinhard Hauff
Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech
Drama / Thriller
West Germany
German
1979
420
2006
Paul Verhoeven
Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Carice van Houten, Thom Hoffman, Sebastian Koch
Thriller / War / Drama
Netherlands / UK / Germany
Dutch
1980
421
1943
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
France
French
1980
421
1977
Lewis Gilbert
Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Romance / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1983
422
1967
Theodore J. Flicker
James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington Jr.
Comedy / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1985
423
1973
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging
Western / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1985
423
2019
Jayro Bustamante
María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kenéfic
Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller / War
Guatemala / France
Spanish
1991
424
2011
David Fincher
Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård
Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA / Sweden / UK / Germany
English
1992
425
1986
Oliver Stone
James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo
Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
1995
426
1954
Jacques Becker
Jean Gabin, René Dary, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Caper
France / Italy
French
1999
427
1962
Herk Harvey
Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt
Thriller / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2006
428
2002
Sam Raimi
Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
2010
429
1996
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Richard Attenborough, Julie Christie
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2010
429
1933
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2019
430
1977
Derek Jarman
Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Hermine Demoriane
Experimental / Fantasy / Crime / Music / Thriller / Horror / Comedy
UK
English
2022
431
1990
Abel Ferrara
Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
Italy / USA / UK
English
2022
431
1996
Wes Craven
David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Comedy
USA
English
2022
431
1950
Alfred Hitchcock
Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd
Mystery / Thriller / Crime
UK
English
2023
432
2011
Pedro Almodóvar
Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes
Drama / Thriller
Spain
Spanish
2027
433
2001
Jacques Audiard
Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier, Olivia Bonamy
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France
French
2028
434
2002
Christopher Nolan
Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
2031
435
2017
James Mangold
Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
2040
436
2021
Julia Ducournau
Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Mara Cisse
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror
France / Belgium
French
2040
436
2021
Joel Coen
Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel, Brendan Gleeson
Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
2041
437
2004
Kerry Conran
Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Michael Gambon
Action / Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Period Film / Tech-Noir
USA / UK / Italy
English
2042
438
1982
Carl Reiner
Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2048
439
1997
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2049
440
2014
J.C. Chandor
Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Alessandro Nivola, Albert Brooks
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2052
441
1962
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre
Crime / Thriller / Post-Noir / Gangster
France / Italy
French
2054
442
1994
Luc Besson
Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello, Peter Appel
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Gangster
France
English
2058
443
1976
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
France / USA
French
2060
444
2001
Alejandro Amenábar
Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Period Film
Spain / France / USA
English
2062
445
2007
Oren Peli
Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong, Ashley Palmer
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2064
446
1973
Herbert Ross
Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2070
447
1955
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff
Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Drama
France / Spain / Switzerland
English
2072
448
2004
Shane Carruth
Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2073
449
2009
Cary Fukunaga
Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejía
Thriller / Drama / Adventure
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2075
450
2002
Stephen Frears
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Audrey Tautou, Sergi López, Benedict Wong
Drama / Thriller / Crime
UK
English
2075
450
1971
Ted Kotcheff
Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson
Drama / Thriller
Australia / USA
English
2076
451
2017
Paul Schrader
Amanda Seyfried, Ethan Hawke, Michael Gaston, Cedric the Entertainer
Drama | Thriller
USA
English
2079
452
1989
Phillip Noyce
Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar
Horror / Thriller
Australia / USA
English
2079
452
1997
David Fincher
Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
2079
452
1978
Claude Chabrol
Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
France / Canada
French
2083
453
2008
Uli Edel
Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / War
Germany / France / Czech Republic
German
2084
454
1980
William Peter Blatty
Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2085
455
2017
Denis Villeneuve
Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright
Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller / Tech-Noir / Cult / Action
USA / UK / Canada
English
2089
456
2023
Ilker Çatak
Leonie Benesch, Leonard Stettnisch, Eva Löbau, Michael Klammer
Drama / Thriller
Germany
German
2090
457
1928
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph
Thriller / Spy
Germany
English (Silent)
2092
458
2023
Bertrand Bonello
Léa Seydoux, George MacKay, Guslagie Malanda, Dasha Nekrasova
Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller
France / Canada
French
2093
459
1958
Youssef Chahine
Farid Shawqi, Hind Rostom, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi
Drama / Thriller
Egypt
Arabic
2096
460
2008
Götz Spielmann
Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko, Ursula Strauss, Andreas Lust, Johannes Thanheiser
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Austria
German
2098
461
2006
Edward Zwick
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Sheen, Arnold Vosloo
Adventure / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2098
461
2006
Martin Campbell
Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Cult
USA / UK / Czech Republic
English
2099
462
2012
David Ayer
Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Natalie Martinez, Anna Kendrick
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action
USA
English
2099
462
1990
Adrian Lyne
Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2102
463
2003
Ridley Scott
Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Alison Lohman, Bruce Altman, Bruce McGill
Comedy / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
2109
464
2005
Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller, Quentin Tarantino
Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, Rosario Dawson, Benicio Del Toro
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Comic
USA
English
