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
14
3
1960
Alfred Hitchcock
Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
20
4
1976
Martin Scorsese
Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
USA
English
23
5
1974
Roman Polanski
Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
24
6
1931
Fritz Lang
Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke, Theodor Loos
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Pre-Noir / Cult
Germany
German
53
7
1944
Billy Wilder
Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather
Mystery / Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
62
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
67
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
73
10
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
75
11
1949
Carol Reed
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Spy
UK
English
77
12
1991
Jonathan Demme
Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Ted Levine
Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult / Horror
USA
English
80
13
1953
Kenji Mizoguchi
Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura
Drama / Thriller / Fantasy / Romance / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
82
14
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
87
15
1996
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Crime / Thriller / Comedy / Detective / Cult
USA / UK
English
89
16
1954
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr
Thriller / Mystery / Film-Noir / Romance
USA
English
93
17
1958
Orson Welles
Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Cult
USA
English
94
18
1955
Charles Laughton
Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
97
19
1975
Steven Spielberg
Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton
Adventure / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
102
20
1966
Michelangelo Antonioni
Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Cult
UK / Italy
English
104
21
1974
Francis Ford Coppola
Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
108
22
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
110
23
1946
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern, Leopoldine Konstantin
Film-Noir / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Mystery
USA
English
112
24
1962
John Frankenheimer
Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva
Drama / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
128
25
1986
David Lynch
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
130
26
1971
William Friedkin
Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi
Action / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Detective
USA
English
137
27
2002
Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino
Drama / Crime / Thriller / Period Film
Brazil / France / USA
Portuguese
148
28
1976
Alan J. Pakula
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
155
29
1953
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Antonio Centa, Folco Lulli
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama
France / Italy
French
175
30
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
190
31
1956
Don Siegel
Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
191
32
1957
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura
War / Drama / Action / Thriller / Period Film / Crime
Japan
Japanese
198
33
1955
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Film-Noir
France
French
200
34
1947
Jacques Tourneur
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Crime / Romance / Mystery / Cult
USA
English
205
35
1967
Jean-Pierre Melville
Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
France / Italy
French
207
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
209
37
1951
Alfred Hitchcock
Farley Granger, Robert Walker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
217
39
1975
Sidney Lumet
Al Pacino, John Cazale
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comedy
USA
English
221
40
1972
John Boorman
Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox, Ed Ramey
Adventure / Thriller / Drama / Cult
USA
English
227
41
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
228
42
1991
Ridley Scott
Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama / Comedy
USA
English
230
43
1964
Guy Hamilton
Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Harold Sakata, Bernard Lee
Action / Thriller / Adventure / Spy / Family / Cult
UK
English
230
43
2007
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
237
44
1973
Nicolas Roeg
Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato
Mystery / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Italy / UK
English
256
46
1965
Roman Polanski
Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Thriller / Horror / Drama
UK
English
259
47
1966
Mike Nichols
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
270
48
1950
John Huston
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Gangster
USA
English
271
49
1949
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Virginia Mayo
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Gangster / Thriller
USA
English
273
50
1970
Claude Chabrol
Stéphane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passalia, Pascal Ferone, Mario Beccara
Drama / Thriller / Horror
France / Italy
French
274
51
1939
Marcel Carné
Jean Gabin, Jules Berry, Arletty, Mady Berry, René Génin
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Romance
France
French
279
53
1944
Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian
Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Crime / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
281
54
1934
W.S. Van Dyke
William Powell, Myrna Loy
Crime / Romance / Comedy / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
288
55
1962
Roman Polanski
Leon Niemczyk, Jolanta Umecka
Drama / Thriller
Poland
Polish
289
56
1969
Costa-Gavras
Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
Algeria / France
French
290
57
2008
Kathryn Bigelow
Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes
Action / Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
292
58
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
299
59
1955
John Sturges
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Western
USA
English
301
60
1992
Neil Jordan
Forest Whitaker, Stephen Rea
Action / Drama / Romance / Thriller
UK / Japan
English
308
61
1968
George A. Romero
Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman
Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
316
62
1955
Jules Dassin
Jean Servais, Carl Mohner
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Gangster / Film-Noir
France
French
324
63
1980
Stanley Kubrick
Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
327
64
2006
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme
Drama / Thriller / Period Film
Germany
German
328
65
1968
Roman Polanski
Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer
Horror / Thriller / Drama / Cult
USA
English
335
66
1955
Robert Aldrich
Ralph Meeker, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers, Maxine Copper, Albert Dekker
Thriller / Film-Noir / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
347
67
1963
Alfred Hitchcock
Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
352
68
1995
Bryan Singer
Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Post-Noir / Caper / Cult
USA / Germany
English
359
69
1943
Alfred Hitchcock
Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
363
70
1947
Carol Reed
James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, Kathleen Ryan
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
377
71
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
384
72
1961
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tono, Tatsuya Nakadai
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Adventure
Japan
Japanese
393
74
1922
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen
Crime / Horror / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
Germany
German (Silent)
398
75
1999
Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA
English
399
76
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
403
77
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
404
78
1971
Don Siegel
Clint Eastwood, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, John Vernon
Action / Crime / Thriller / Drama / Detective
USA
English
407
79
1978
John Carpenter
Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Nancy Kyes, P.J. Soles
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
419
80
1960
Michael Powell
Karlheinz Böhm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer, Maxine Audley
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
UK
English
426
81
1953
Fritz Lang
Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando, Alexander Scourby
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Detective
USA
English
427
82
2000
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal
Thriller / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
429
83
1998
Tom Tykwer
Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German
431
84
1968
Franklin J. Schaffner
Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore
Action / Drama / Adventure / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
469
85
1977
Wim Wenders
Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Gérard Blain
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir / Gangster
West Germany / France
German
474
86
1967
John Boorman
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor
Action / Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
475
87
1991
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller / Drama
France / USA
English
481
88
1953
Samuel Fuller
Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, Thelma Ritter, Murvyn Vye
Film-Noir / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
485
89
1984
James Cameron
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Cult / Tech-Noir
USA
English
488
90
1962
Robert Aldrich
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Wesley Addy
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
494
91
1973
Robert Altman
Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Mystery
USA
English
495
92
2000
Christopher Nolan
Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
USA
English
504
93
1971
Alan J. Pakula
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
509
94
1986
James Cameron
Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn, Lance Henriksen
Sci-Fi / Action / Thriller / Horror / Action
USA / UK
English
520
95
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
523
96
1960
François Truffaut
Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime / Comedy / Post-Noir
France
French
527
97
2010
Christopher Nolan
Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action / Fantasy
USA / UK
English
532
98
2003
Clint Eastwood
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
533
99
1976
Carlos Saura
Geraldine Chaplin, Mónica Randall, Florinda Chico
Drama / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Spain
Spanish
537
100
2005
Michael Haneke
Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
Drama / Thriller
France / Austria / Germany / Italy
French
545
101
1999
M. Night Shyamalan
Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
555
102
1985
Peter Weir
Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
557
103
1988
John McTiernan
Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson
Action / Thriller
USA
English
563
104
1950
Joseph H. Lewis
Peggy Cummins, John Dall
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
563
104
2000
Steven Soderbergh
Benicio Del Toro, Michael Douglas
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
Germany / USA
English
572
105
1944
Howard Hawks
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall
Thriller / War / Romance / Drama
USA
English
589
106
1942
Jacques Tourneur
Simone Simon, Tom Conway
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
598
107
1974
Tobe Hooper
Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Teri McMinn
Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
602
108
1943
Luchino Visconti
Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani, Elio Marcuzzo
Drama / Crime / Thriller
Italy
Italian
604
109
1951
Robert Wise
Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Family
USA
English
612
110
2006
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
614
111
1992
Quentin Tarantino
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi
Crime / Thriller / Mystery / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
623
112
1948
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
624
113
2004
Paul Haggis
Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA / Germany
English
635
114
1988
George Sluizer
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
Netherlands / France
Dutch
640
115
1991
Oliver Stone
Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Kevin Bacon
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA / France
English
644
116
2012
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
649
117
1932
Tod Browning
Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
651
118
1968
Peter Yates
Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland
Action / Drama / Thriller / Crime / Detective / Cult
USA
English
656
119
1981
Jean-Jacques Beineix
Frédéric Andréi, Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Action / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Music / Gangster / Cult
France
French
657
120
1972
Alfred Hitchcock
Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Alec McCowen, Billie Whitelaw
Thriller / Crime / Detective
UK
English
658
121
1946
Charles Vidor
Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
659
122
2009
James Cameron
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Epic
USA
English
661
123
2008
Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Fantasy / Comic
USA
English
664
124
1983
Paul Verhoeven
Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk
Thriller / Comedy / Drama
Netherlands
Dutch
673
125
1983
Brian De Palma
Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Cult
USA
English
675
126
1960
Georges Franju
Pierre Brasseur, Edith Scob, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel
Horror / Thriller
France / Italy
French
687
127
1946
Tay Garnett
Lana Turner, John Garfield
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
692
128
1948
Carol Reed
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel
Drama / Thriller
UK
English
692
128
2015
George Miller
Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Josh Helman
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
Australia / USA
English
695
129
1971
Sam Peckinpah
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Crime / Drama / Thriller
UK / USA
English
696
130
1995
David Fincher
Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey, R. Lee Ermey
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
699
131
1944
George Cukor
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
700
132
2015
Tom McCarthy
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
702
133
1945
Alfred Hitchcock
Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
704
134
1938
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
708
135
1995
Michael Mann
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Caper
USA
English
712
136
1971
Mike Hodges
Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne
Thriller / Action / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Cult
UK
English
719
137
1945
Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall, Googie Withers
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
724
138
1990
Stephen Frears
Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening, Jan Munroe
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
724
138
1956
Stanley Kubrick
Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Gangster
USA
English
733
139
1973
Robert Clouse
Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Kien Shih, Ahna Capri
Action / Crime / Thriller / Cult
Hong Kong / USA
English
736
140
1961
Jack Clayton
Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave
Horror / Thriller
UK
English
742
141
1973
Robin Hardy
Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland, Ingrid Pitt
Horror / Musical / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Cult
UK
English
748
142
1973
Fred Zinnemann
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair
Thriller
UK / France
English
753
143
1979
James Bridges
Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
763
144
2023
Justine Triet
Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France
French
771
145
1998
Hideo Nakata
Nanako Matsushima, Miki Nakatani, Hiroyuki Sanada, Yuko Takeuchi, Hitomi Sato
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
780
146
1940
Alfred Hitchcock
Joel McCrea, Laraine Day
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
785
147
1992
Carl Franklin
Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Cynda Williams, Michael Beach
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
792
148
1982
Tobe Hooper, Steven Spielberg
JoBeth Williams, Heather O'Rourke, Craig T. Nelson
Horror / Thriller / Fantasy
USA
English
807
149
2005
David Cronenberg
Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Ashton Holmes
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
812
150
1947
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
816
151
1994
Peter Jackson
Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent
Drama / Romance / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Horror
UK / Germany / New Zealand
English
818
152
1987
Adrian Lyne
Michael Douglas, Glenn Close
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
819
153
1988
Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama, Tesshô Genda
Animation / Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult / Comic
Japan
Japanese
820
154
1929
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
843
155
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
849
156
2010
Darren Aronofsky
Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Vincent Cassel, Janet Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
853
157
2012
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
854
158
1976
Brian De Palma
Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, William Katt
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
857
159
1974
Alan J. Pakula
Warren Beatty, William Daniels, Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn
Thriller
USA
English
860
160
2013
Alfonso Cuarón
Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Eric Michels, Basher Savage, Paul Sharma
Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA / UK
English
875
161
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
878
162
1984
Wes Craven
Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
879
163
2006
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cate Blanchett, Brad Pitt, Gael García Bernal, Jamie McBride
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
886
164
1972
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne, John Matthews
Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
892
165
1965
Sidney J. Furie
Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
894
166
1987
Brian De Palma
Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster / Period Film
USA
English
900
167
1946
Robert Siodmak
Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith
Thriller / Drama / Mystery / Film-Noir
USA
English
906
169
2017
Guillermo del Toro
Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller | War
USA
English
907
170
1953
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones
Adventure / Comedy / Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
UK / USA / Italy
English
909
171
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
916
172
1987
David Mamet
Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir / Cult
USA
English
922
173
1971
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan
Drama / Action / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
925
174
1990
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Gabriel Byrne, John Turturro, Marcia Gay Harden, Albert Finney
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Period Film / Cult
USA
English
926
175
1957
Billy Wilder
Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
927
176
1994
John Dahl
Linda Fiorentino, Bill Pullman, Michael Raysses, Zack Phifer
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
USA
English
933
177
1941
Raoul Walsh
Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Drama / Pre-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Gangster / Caper
USA
English
938
178
1933
James Whale
Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, Una O'Connor
Comedy / Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
944
179
1974
Sam Peckinpah
Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / Comedy / Cult
Mexico / USA
English
946
180
1978
Alan Parker
Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Adventure / Biography
UK / USA
English
952
181
1965
Jean-Luc Godard
Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Mystery / Sci-Fi / Drama / Romance / Thriller
France / Italy
French
953
182
1977
Paul Verhoeven
Rutger Hauer, Jeroen Krabbé
War / Drama / Thriller
Belgium / Netherlands
Dutch
956
183
1975
Arthur Penn
Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Ed Binns
Thriller / Post-Noir / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
958
184
1999
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Bob Griffin, Jim King
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
961
185
1968
Peter Bogdanovich
Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis
Thriller / Crime
USA
English
966
186
1969
Claude Chabrol
Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Ronet
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir
Italy / France
French
967
187
1983
Mike Nichols
Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher, Craig T. Nelson, Diana Scarwid
Thriller / Drama / Biography
USA
English
968
188
1964
John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Thriller / War / Action / Adventure
USA / France / Italy
English
970
189
1948
John Huston
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
971
190
2016
Denis Villeneuve
Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA
English
974
191
1984
Martin Brest
Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton, Lisa Eilbacher
Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
980
192
1963
Robert Wise
Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
983
193
1997
Mike Newell
Al Pacino, Johnny Depp, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster / Detective
USA
English
985
194
2009
Juan José Campanella
Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
Argentina / Spain
Spanish
992
195
1983
David Cronenberg
James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky
Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller
Canada / USA
English
999
196
1993
Andrew Davis
Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore
Action / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1002
197
1969
Claude Chabrol
Michel Duchaussoy, Caroline Cellier, Jean Yanne, Anouk Ferjac
Drama / Crime / Thriller
France / Italy
French
1005
198
1999
Takashi Miike
Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi
Drama / Horror / Romance / Thriller
South Korea / Japan
Japanese
1008
199
1995
Todd Haynes
Julianne Moore, Xander Berkeley, Peter Friedman, Susan Norman
Thriller / Drama
UK / USA
English
1016
200
2005
Steven Spielberg
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1042
201
1999
David Fincher
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Cult
Germany / USA
English
1043
202
2020
Emerald Fennell
Carey Mulligan, Adam Brody, Ray Nicholson, Sam Richardson, Timothy E. Goodwin
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comedy
UK / USA
English
1046
203
1980
John Mackenzie
Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Dave King, Bryan Marshall
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
UK
English
1051
204
2001
Ray Lawrence
Anthony LaPaglia, Rachael Blake, Kerry Armstrong, Jon Bennett, Melissa Martinez
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Australia / Germany
English
1055
205
1981
Lawrence Kasdan
William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson
Crime / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
1057
206
1994
Jan de Bont
Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock, Joe Morton, Jeff Daniels, Alan Ruck
Action / Thriller
USA
English
1067
207
1915
Louis Feuillade
Musidora, Edouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy / Mystery / Gangster / Serial / Horror / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
1068
208
1981
John Landis
David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne, John Woodvine, Lila Kaye
Comedy / Horror / Romance / Thriller
USA / UK
English
1072
209
1965
Martin Ritt
Richard Burton, Oskar Werner, Claire Bloom, Sam Wanamaker
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1091
210
2019
Quentin Tarantino
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley
Comedy / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
UK / USA / China
English
1107
211
1941
Alfred Hitchcock
Joan Fontaine, Cary Grant, Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce
Pre-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1111
212
1944
Fritz Lang
Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
USA
English
1113
213
2017
Christopher Nolan
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
UK / Netherlands / France / USA
English
1114
214
1963
Stanley Donen
Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau, James Coburn, George Kennedy
Comedy / Mystery / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1120
215
1950
Elia Kazan
Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes
Crime / Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1123
216
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
1128
217
1942
George Stevens
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan
Drama / Comedy / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1133
218
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
1136
219
2014
Morten Tyldum
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Mark Strong, Charles Dance
Biography / Drama / Thriller / War
UK / USA
English
1137
220
2004
Pedro Almodóvar
Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Lluís Homar
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Post-Noir
Spain
Spanish
1145
221
1991
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner
Drama / Thriller / Comedy / Cult
USA / UK
English
1158
222
1941
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
1173
223
1964
Alfred Hitchcock
Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel
Drama / Thriller / Mystery / Romance
USA
English
1174
224
1989
Tim Burton
Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl
Action / Thriller / Crime / Fantasy / Comic
USA / UK
English
1179
225
1970
Billy Wilder
Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page, Christopher Lee
Comedy / Drama / Mystery / Romance / Adventure / Thriller
UK
English
1181
226
1971
Gordon Parks
Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
1193
227
2007
Tony Gilroy
George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton, Sydney Pollack, Michael O'Keefe
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1194
228
1964
Jules Dassin
Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell, Robert Morley
Adventure / Crime / Comedy / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1196
229
1966
John Frankenheimer
Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Will Geer, Jeff Corey, Richard Anderson
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Mystery / Drama
USA
English
1200
230
1939
Raoul Walsh
James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1201
231
1944
Frank Capra
Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey
Comedy / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1205
232
2015
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Lukas Haas
Adventure / Drama / Western / Thriller / Epic / Biography
USA
English
1212
233
1933
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Gustav Diessl, Wera Liessem
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Germany
German
1218
234
2003
Quentin Tarantino
Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action
USA
English
1220
235
1976
John Carpenter
Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton
Action / Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1222
236
2019
Todd Phillips
Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Comic
USA / Canada
English
1223
237
1954
Ishirô Honda
Akira Takarada, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata, Takashi Shimura
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror / Cult
Japan
Japanese
1231
238
1989
Patrice Leconte
Michel Blanc, Sandrine Bonnaire, Luc Thuillier
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
France
French
1237
239
1984
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Post-Noir / Cult
USA
English
1243
240
2009
Neill Blomkamp
Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike, Elizabeth Mkandawie
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Adventure
South Africa / New Zealand
English
1251
241
2002
Gaspar Noé
Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Jo Prestia, Philippe Nahon
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Crime
France
French
1254
242
2000
Kinji Fukasaku
Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto
Action / Sci-Fi / Sports / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
1258
243
1980
Richard Rush
Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield
Action / Romance / Comedy / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1261
244
1995
Mamoru Oshii
Atsuko Tanaka, Richard Epcar, Akio Ôtsuka, Tamio Ôki, Iemasa Kayumi
Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Thriller
Japan / USA
Japanese
1262
245
2004
Sam Raimi
Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
1265
246
2024
Jacques Audiard
Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramírez
Comedy / Crime / Musical / Thriller / Drama
France / USA / Mexico
Spanish
1273
247
2008
Stephen Daldry
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Habich, David Kross, Susanne Lothar
Drama / History / Romance / Thriller / War / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
1276
248
2013
Paul Greengrass
Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus, Corey Johnson
Action / Adventure / Biography / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1282
249
1941
Fritz Lang
Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine
Thriller
USA
English
1297
250
1985
Mike Newell
Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm, Stratford Johns
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Biography
UK
English
1301
251
1973
Don Siegel
Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Action
USA
English
1302
252
1988
David Cronenberg
Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske
Drama / Thriller / Horror
Canada / USA
English
1311
253
1998
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1314
254
1968
François Truffaut
Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet, Charles Denner, Claude Rich
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Post-Noir
France / Italy
French
1316
255
1962
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1324
256
1985
Martin Scorsese
Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong
Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1329
257
1943
Billy Wilder
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Erich von Stroheim, Peter van Eyck
Thriller / War / Spy / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
1332
258
1980
Nicolas Roeg
Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
UK
English
1335
259
2012
Tom Hooper
Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Sacha Baron Cohen
Drama / Musical / Romance / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
1339
260
1986
John McNaughton
Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, Tracy Arnold, Rick Paul, Flo Spink, Waleed B. Ali
Crime / Thriller / Horror / Biography / Adult
USA
English
1343
261
1997
Michael Haneke
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering, Stefan Clapczynski
Horror / Drama / Thriller / Crime
Austria
German
1347
262
1963
Terence Young
Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Pedro Armendáriz, Robert Shaw
Thriller / Adventure / Action / Drama / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1348
263
2001
Richard Kelly
Jake Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daveigh Chase, Mary McDonnell
Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comedy / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English
1354
264
2007
David Cronenberg
Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl
Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Gangster
UK / Canada / USA
English
1361
265
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
1368
266
2006
Alfonso Cuarón
Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam
Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK / USA
English
1377
267
1945
Henry Hathaway
William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll
Film-Noir / Drama / Spy / Thriller / War
USA
English
1381
268
1958
Louis Malle
Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Yori Bertin, Jean Wall
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Romance / Post-Noir
France
French
1385
269
1950
Rudolph Maté
Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler, Beverly Campbell
Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Romance
USA
English
1388
270
1946
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1407
271
1959
Richard Fleischer
Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1409
272
2016
Paul Verhoeven
Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling, Virginie Efira
Drama / Thriller
France / Germany / Belgium
French
1413
273
1974
John Carpenter
Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich, Dan O'Bannon, Adam Beckenbaugh
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1422
274
1948
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke
Thriller / Crime / Cult
USA
English
1426
275
1976
John Schlesinger
Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1430
276
2007
Tim Burton
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen
Crime / Musical / Thriller / Comedy
USA
English
1433
277
2002
Phillip Noyce
Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Do Thi Hai Yen, Rade Serbedzija
Drama / Thriller / Romance / War / Period Film
USA / Germany / Australia
English
1437
278
1964
Sidney Lumet
Dan O'Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Frank Overton, Ed Binns, Fritz Weaver, Henry Fonda
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Thriller
USA
English
1437
278
1934
Alfred Hitchcock
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1438
279
1975
Dick Richards
Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles
Thriller / Mystery / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
1443
280
1988
David Zucker
Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1444
281
1996
Roland Emmerich
Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Will Smith, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
1454
282
1970
George Seaton, Henry Hathaway
Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Jean Seberg, Helen Hayes
Drama / Thriller / Action
USA
English
1457
283
2024
Mohammad Rasoulof
Mahsa Rostami, Setareh Maleki, Niousha Akhshi, Missagh Zareh, Soheila Golestani
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Germany / France
Persian
1476
284
1954
Alfred Hitchcock
Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Thriller / Crime / Mystery
USA
English
1480
285
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock
Mystery / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1482
286
1964
Blake Edwards
Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, George Sanders, Herbert Lom
Comedy / Mystery / Crime / Thriller / Detective / Family
UK / USA
English
1483
287
2024
Edward Berger
Ralph Fiennes, Jacek Koman, Lucian Msamati, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow
Thriller / Religion / Drama / Mystery
UK / USA
English
1489
288
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
1493
289
1993
Woo-ping Yuen
Rongguang Yu, Donnie Yen, Jean Wang, Shi-Kwan Yen, James Wong
Action / Crime / Drama / Adventure / Thriller
Hong Kong
Cantonese
1494
290
2004
Timur Bekmambetov
Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Mariya Poroshina, Valeriy Zolotukhin
Action / Fantasy / Thriller
Russia
Russian
1497
291
1982
John Carpenter
Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Keith David
Action / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
USA
English
1498
292
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
1501
293
2005
Fernando Meirelles
Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Daniele Harford
Drama / Thriller
USA / UK
English
1501
293
1940
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
Thriller
UK
English
1502
294
1947
John Boulting
Richard Attenborough, Carol Marsh, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Gangster
UK
English
1505
295
1944
Robert Siodmak
Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda, Thomas Gomez, Fay Helm
Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1506
296
1942
Frank Tuttle
Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar, Alan Ladd, Tully Marshall
Film-Noir / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1506
296
2007
David Fincher
Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards, Robert Downey Jr., Brian Cox
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film / Detective
USA
English
1509
297
2020
Aaron Sorkin
Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA / UK / India
English
1511
298
1956
Alfred Hitchcock
James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman
Adventure / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1515
299
2017
Steven Spielberg
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1516
300
1998
Sam Raimi
Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe
Crime / Thriller / Drama
France / UK / Germany / USA / Japan
English
1520
301
1974
Joseph Sargent
Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Action
USA
English
1523
302
1990
Paul Verhoeven
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Ronny Cox
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir
USA
English
1524
303
1926
F.W. Murnau
Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
1534
304
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour
Drama / Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1535
305
1999
Anthony Minghella
Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Period Film
USA
English
1536
306
2008
Clint Eastwood
Angelina Jolie, Gattlin Griffith, Michelle Martin, Jan Devereaux, Michael Kelly
Biography / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1537
307
1999
Stanley Kubrick
Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Madison Eginton, Jackie Sawiris
Thriller / Drama / Mystery
USA / UK
English
1540
308
2002
Steven Spielberg
Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Tech-Noir
USA
English
1541
309
1964
John Frankenheimer
Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien
Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1553
310
2009
Niels Arden Oplev
Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber, Sven-Bertil Taube
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Sweden / Denmark / Germany / Norway
Swedish
1555
311
1980
Paul Schrader
Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
USA
English
1559
312
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
1559
312
1942
Alfred Hitchcock
Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans
Thriller / Romance / Spy
USA
English
1560
313
1975
Sydney Pollack
Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, Max von Sydow
Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1564
314
1952
Fritz Lang
Marlene Dietrich, Arthur Kennedy, Mel Ferrer, Gloria Henry, William Frawley
Drama / Western / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
1566
315
2010
Olivier Assayas
Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
France / Germany
French
1569
316
2016
Asghar Farhadi
Taraneh Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini, Babak Karimi, Mina Sadati
Drama / Thriller
Iran / France
Persian
1570
317
1994
Oliver Stone
Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey, Jr.
Action / Crime / Romance / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1575
318
1981
Ivan Passer
Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Ann Dusenberry
Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1586
319
1970
Elio Petri, Lee Kresel
Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Italy
Italian
1588
320
1950
John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Barry Jones, André Morell, Hugh Cross, Sheila Manahan
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1592
321
1970
Jean-Pierre Melville
Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet
Crime / Thriller / Caper / Post-Noir / Detective
France / Italy
French
1596
322
1955
Alfred Hitchcock
Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams
Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Crime / Caper
USA
English
1597
323
2004
Joshua Marston
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Guilied Lopez, Yenny Paola Vega
Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA / Colombia
Spanish
1608
324
2000
Jonathan Glazer
Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane, Amanda Redman
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Thriller / Caper
UK / Spain
English
1613
325
1990
Luc Besson
Anne Parillaud, Marc Duret, Patrick Fontana
Thriller / Action
France / Italy
French
1617
326
1996
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1618
327
1945
Robert Wise
Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater, Russell Wade
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1619
328
2004
Michael Mann
Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1630
329
1977
Robert Benton
Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy
Crime / Mystery / Comedy / Drama / Detective / Thriller
USA
English
1634
330
1988
Martin Brest
Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton
Action / Adventure / Comedy / Thriller
USA
English
1635
331
2022
Rian Johnson
Ethan Hawke, Daniel Craig, Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Edward Norton
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1637
332
1963
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa
Thriller / Drama / Post-Noir
Japan
Japanese
1637
332
1988
Alan Parker
Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1642
333
1951
Henry Hathaway
Paul Douglas, Richard Basehart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Debra Paget
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
1644
334
1953
Henry Hathaway
Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters, Max Showalter, Denis O'Dea
Film-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1653
335
1960
Jacques Becker
Michel Constantin, Jean Keraudy, Philippe Leroy, Raymond Meunier, Marc Michel
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France / Italy
French
1654
336
1943
Norman Foster, Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead
Film-Noir / Drama / War / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1655
337
1964
John Huston
Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, Sue Lyon
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1663
338
1977
Peter Weir
Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Fantasy / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
Australia
English
1669
339
1967
Peter Brook
Patrick Magee, Ian Richardson, Michael Williams, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Period Film
UK
English
1671
340
1947
Henry Hathaway
Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray, Richard Widmark, Taylor Holmes
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
USA
English
1672
341
1998
John Boorman
Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Jon Voight, Sean McGinley
Crime / Thriller / Drama / Biography / Gangster
UK / Ireland
English
1677
342
2015
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / War / Spy
USA
English
1678
343
2007
Paul Greengrass
Matt Damon, David Strathairn, Joan Allen, Julia Stiles, Scott Glenn
Action / Adventure / Drama / Mystery / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1678
343
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
1683
344
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
1690
345
1960
René Clément
Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore
Crime / Thriller / Drama
France / Italy
French
1702
346
2005
Stephen Gaghan
George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Chris Cooper, Christopher Plummer
Drama / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1703
347
1996
David Cronenberg
Holly Hunter, James Spader, Elias Koteas, Deborah Kara Unger
Drama / Thriller / Romance
Canada / USA
English
1703
347
2014
Dan Gilroy
Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton, Michael Papajohn
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1704
348
1952
Richard Fleischer
Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert
Crime / Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Cult
USA
English
1709
349
2011
Nicolas Winding Refn
Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston, Albert Brooks, Oscar Isaac
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1713
350
1999
Atom Egoyan
Bob Hoskins, Arsinée Khanjian, Elaine Cassidy, Sheila Reid, Nizwar Karanj
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Canada / UK
English
1720
351
2019
Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett, The Weeknd, Idina Menzel
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1723
352
1995
Terry Gilliam
Joseph Melito, Bruce Willis, Jon Seda, Michael Chance, Vernon Campbell
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1737
353
2014
Damián Szifrón
Liliana Ackerman, Luis Manuel Altamirano García, Alejandro Angelini
Comedy / Drama / Thriller
Argentina / Spain
Spanish
1738
354
1949
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Milton Rosmer, Cyril Cusack
Drama / Thriller / War / Film-Noir
UK
English
1750
355
1940
Raoul Walsh
George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale
Drama / Thriller / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1757
356
2005
Woody Allen
Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode
Drama / Romance / Thriller
UK / USA / Luxembourg
English
1760
357
2009
Pedro Almodóvar
Penélope Cruz, Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo
Drama / Romance / Thriller / Comedy / Post-Noir
Spain
Spanish
1760
357
1982
Walter Hill
Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar
Action / Comedy / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
1765
358
1932
Walter Forde
Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Detective
UK
English
1774
359
2010
Gareth Edwards
Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Kevon Kane
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK
English
1776
360
1924
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
1776
360
2012
Rian Johnson
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan
Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Tech-Noir
USA / China
English
1790
361
1990
Jerry Zucker
Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn
Romance / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
1790
361
1945
John M. Stahl
Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Mary Philips
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1795
362
2011
George Clooney
Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1795
362
2019
Rian Johnson
Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1796
363
1998
Darren Aronofsky
Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman
Thriller / Sci-Fi / Experimental / Cult
USA
English
1798
364
1930
George W. Hill
Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1801
365
2015
Denis Villeneuve
Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1804
366
1950
Basil Dearden
Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng
Action / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective / Thriller
UK
English
1805
367
1929
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
1806
368
1970
Dario Argento
Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi, Umberto Raho
Crime / Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Italy / West Germany
Italian
1808
369
1964
Don Siegel
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins
Crime / Drama / Post-Noir / Thriller
USA
English
1809
370
1980
Brian De Palma
Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, Keith Gordon
Horror / Thriller / Mystery
USA
English
1818
371
1979
Shohei Imamura
Ken Ogata, Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho
Drama / Thriller / Crime
Japan
Japanese
1819
372
1974
Irwin Allen, John Guillermin
Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Action / Thriller / Drama / Family
USA
English
1825
373
2011
Tomas Alfredson
Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Toby Jones, Mark Strong
Drama / Spy / Thriller
France / UK / Germany
English
1826
374
1986
Neil Jordan
Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
Comedy / Thriller / Drama / Crime
UK
English
1830
375
1980
John Cassavetes
Gena Rowlands, Buck Henry, Julie Carmen, John Adames
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Gangster
USA
English
1831
376
2010
Danny Boyle
James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Sean Bott, Koleman Stinger, Treat Williams
Adventure / Biography / Drama / Thriller
USA / UK
English
1835
377
2001
Steven Soderbergh
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, Julia Roberts
Comedy / Thriller / Crime / Drama / Caper
USA
English
1836
378
1949
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Awaji, Eiko Miyoshi
Drama / Thriller / Film-Noir / Detective
Japan
Japanese
1846
379
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
1848
380
1950
Jules Dassin
Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime / Drama
UK
English
1855
381
1962
J. Lee Thompson
Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir
USA
English
1855
381
1944
Fritz Lang
Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, Carl Esmond, Hillary Brooke, Percy Waram
Film-Noir / Thriller / Drama / Spy / War / Romance / Mystery
USA
English
1861
382
1976
Alfred Hitchcock
Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane
Comedy / Thriller / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1869
383
1974
Claude Chabrol
Fabio Testi, Lou Castel, Mariangela Melato, Michel Aumont, Michel Duchaussoy
Thriller
France / Italy
French
1870
384
2008
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Christopher Carley, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Brian Haley
Action / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1871
385
1972
Ronald Neame
Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley
Adventure / Thriller / Action / Drama / Family
USA
English
1875
386
1979
Walter Hill
Michael Beck, James Remar, Dorsey Wright, Brian Tyler
Crime / Drama / Action / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1883
387
1978
Walter Hill
Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani, Ronee Blakley, Matt Clark
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Post-Noir / Gangster / Detective
USA
English
1886
388
1951
Anatole Litvak
Richard Basehart, Gary Merrill, Oskar Werner
Drama / War / Thriller / Spy / Action
USA
English
1890
389
1966
Roman Polanski
Donald Pleasence, Françoise Dorléac, Lionel Stander
Thriller / Drama / Comedy / Crime
UK
English
1895
390
1943
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Pierre Fresnay, Ginette Leclerc, Micheline Francey, Héléna Manson
Drama / Thriller / Crime / Mystery
France
French
1895
390
1977
Lewis Gilbert
Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro
Action / Adventure / Thriller / Spy / Romance / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
1899
391
1947
Jules Dassin
Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
1899
391
1955
William Wyler
Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin
Film-Noir / Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
1899
391
1942
Stuart Heisler
Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd, Bonita Granville, Richard Denning
Drama / Film-Noir / Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
1904
392
2010
Ben Affleck
Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Slaine
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper
USA
English
1905
393
2004
Quentin Tarantino
Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Action / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1907
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
1913
395
1986
Jon Amiel
Michael Gambon, Patrick Malahide, Joanne Whalley, Lyndon Davies
Drama / Musical / Mystery / Thriller / Detective
Australia / UK
English
1914
396
1981
Brian De Palma
John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden, Curt May
Mystery / Thriller / Cult
USA
English
1919
397
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
1926
398
2005
Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman
Action / Adventure / Crime / Fantasy / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
1929
399
1974
Sidney Lumet
Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery
Crime / Mystery / Drama / Thriller / Detective
UK
English
1930
400
2018
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci
Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
Germany / Italy
German
1931
401
2017
Edgar Wright
Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Eiza González, Jon Hamm
Action / Crime / Music / Thriller / Drama
UK / USA
English
1937
402
1959
Carol Reed
Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward
Drama / Thriller / Comedy / Spy
UK
English
1938
403
1969
Alfred Hitchcock
John Forsythe, Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, Claude Jade, Michel Subor
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Spy
USA
English
1943
404
1940
Carol Reed
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
1949
405
1997
Paul Verhoeven
Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer, Denise Richards, Jake Busey, Neil Patrick Harris
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / War
USA
English
1954
406
1990
Abel Ferrara
Christopher Walken, David Caruso, Laurence Fishburne, Victor Argo, Wesley Snipes
Action / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
Italy / USA / UK
English
1954
406
1996
Wes Craven
David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Comedy
USA
English
1955
407
1973
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging
Western / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
1957
408
1986
Oliver Stone
James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo
Drama / Thriller / War
USA
English
1962
409
1978
Reinhard Hauff
Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech
Drama / Thriller
West Germany
German
1967
410
1967
Theodore J. Flicker
James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden, Joan Delaney, Pat Harrington Jr.
Comedy / Thriller / Spy
USA
English
1970
411
2024
George Miller
Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, Alyla Browne, George Shevtsov
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Cult
Australia / USA
English
1972
412
1982
Carl Reiner
Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Romance / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
1979
413
2008
Jon Favreau
Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges
Action / Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic / Family
USA
English
1981
414
2023
J.A. Bayona
Enzo Vogrincic, Simon Hempe, Rafael Federman, Matías Recalt, Andy Pruss
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller
Spain / USA / Uruguay / Chile
Spanish
1990
415
1955
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff
Thriller / Crime / Mystery / Drama
France / Spain / Switzerland
English
1992
416
2002
Sam Raimi
Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson
Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
1993
417
2007
Ridley Scott
Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Josh Brolin, Lymari Nadal
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
1994
418
1977
Derek Jarman
Jenny Runacre, Nell Campbell, Toyah Willcox, Jordan, Hermine Demoriane
Experimental / Fantasy / Crime / Music / Thriller / Horror / Comedy
UK
English
1995
419
2014
David Fincher
Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
1995
419
2018
John Krasinski
Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Cade Woodward
Drama / Horror / Thriller
USA
English
1996
420
1993
Wolfgang Petersen
Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo, Dylan McDermott, Gary Cole
Drama / Thriller / Action
USA
English
1997
421
1962
Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Serge Reggiani, Jean Desailly, René Lefèvre
Crime / Thriller / Post-Noir / Gangster
France / Italy
French
1998
422
1994
Boaz Yakin
Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France / USA
English
2000
423
2021
Guillermo del Toro
Bradley Cooper, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Mary Steenburgen, Willem Dafoe
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery
USA / Mexico / Canada
English
2000
423
1971
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood, Jessica Walter, Donna Mills, John Larch
Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2005
424
1997
Quentin Tarantino
Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda
Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2009
425
1928
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph
Thriller / Spy
Germany
English (Silent)
2012
426
1933
Michael Curtiz
Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Allen Vincent
Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2020
427
1992
Rob Reiner
Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon
Drama / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2026
428
2012
Christopher Nolan
Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway
Action / Drama / Thriller / Comic
USA / UK
English
2029
429
1962
Herk Harvey
Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison, Stan Levitt
Thriller / Horror / Cult
USA
English
2033
430
1980
William Peter Blatty
Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comedy / Cult
USA
English
2038
431
1952
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Walter Hampden
Drama / Thriller / Spy / War
USA
English
2038
431
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
2038
431
1950
Alfred Hitchcock
Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd
Mystery / Thriller / Crime
UK
English
2039
432
1954
Jacques Becker
Jean Gabin, René Dary, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll
Thriller / Crime / Drama / Gangster / Caper
France / Italy
French
2049
433
1973
Herbert Ross
Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, Joan Hackett, James Mason
Crime / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2049
433
1976
Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
Thriller / Mystery / Horror
France / USA
French
2053
434
2012
Sam Mendes
Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris
Action / Adventure / Crime / Thriller / Spy / Cult
UK / USA
English
2057
435
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
2062
436
1996
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Kate Winslet, Richard Attenborough, Julie Christie
Drama / Crime / Romance / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2063
437
2002
Christopher Nolan
Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Maura Tierney, Martin Donovan
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Post-Noir
USA
English
2072
438
1989
Phillip Noyce
Nicole Kidman, Sam Neill, Billy Zane, Rod Mullinar
Horror / Thriller
Australia / USA
English
2072
438
1978
Claude Chabrol
Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Period Film
France / Canada
French
2073
439
2007
Oren Peli
Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong, Ashley Palmer
Horror / Thriller
USA
English
2074
440
2011
John Michael McDonagh
Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Rory Keenan
Comedy / Thriller / Detective
Ireland
English
2083
441
2001
Jacques Audiard
Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet, Olivier Perrier, Olivia Bonamy
Crime / Drama / Thriller
France
French
2089
442
2011
Sean Durkin
Elizabeth Olsen, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, Maria Dizzia
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2089
442
1994
Luc Besson
Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello, Peter Appel
Action / Crime / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Gangster
France
English
2090
443
2010
Roman Polanski
Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
France / Germany / UK
English
2095
444
1954
Lewis Allen
Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Kim Charney
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2096
445
2001
Alejandro Amenábar
Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Period Film
Spain / France / USA
English
2097
446
2021
Asghar Farhadi
Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Sarina Farhadi
Drama / Thriller
France / Iran
Persian
2100
447
1983
John Badham
Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama / War
USA
English
2106
448
1990
Adrian Lyne
Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2108
449
2004
Shane Carruth
Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
Drama / Thriller / Sci-Fi
USA
English
2110
450
2006
Paul Verhoeven
Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Carice van Houten, Thom Hoffman, Sebastian Koch
Thriller / War / Drama
Netherlands / UK / Germany
Dutch
2111
451
1958
Youssef Chahine
Farid Shawqi, Hind Rostom, Youssef Chahine, Hassan el Baroudi
Drama / Thriller
Egypt
Arabic
2116
452
2019
Jayro Bustamante
María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Margarita Kenéfic
Crime / Drama / Horror / Thriller / War
Guatemala / France
Spanish
2119
453
1997
Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2121
454
2011
David Fincher
Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Robin Wright, Stellan Skarsgård
Drama / Thriller / Detective
USA / Sweden / UK / Germany
English
2128
455
2024
Coralie Fargeat
Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Edward Hamilton-Clark, Gore Abrams
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller
UK / France
English
2132
456
1997
David Fincher
Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure
USA
English
2136
457
1930
Alfred Hitchcock
Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Drama
UK
English
2136
457
1945
George Marshall
Fred MacMurray, Helen Walker, Marjorie Main, Jean Heather, Porter Hall
Comedy / Crime / Thriller
USA
English
2146
458
2011
Pedro Almodóvar
Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Blanca Suárez, Jan Cornet, Marisa Paredes
Drama / Thriller
Spain
Spanish
2152
459
2017
James Mangold
Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant
Action / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comic
USA
English
2158
460
2021
Joel Coen
Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel, Brendan Gleeson
Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
2160
461
1982
Bob Swaim
Nathalie Baye, Philippe Léotard, Richard Berry, Maurice Ronet
Drama / Action / Crime / Thriller / Gangster
France
French
2160
461
1969
Peter R. Hunt
George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / Spy / Family / Cult
UK / USA
English
2163
462
2007
Paul Haggis
Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, Kathy Lamkin, Brad William Henke, Brent Briscoe
Drama / Mystery / Thriller
USA
English
2165
463
2021
Julia Ducournau
Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Mara Cisse
Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror
France / Belgium
French
2167
464
2014
J.C. Chandor
Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Alessandro Nivola, Albert Brooks
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
2171
465
1955
Joseph H. Lewis
Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde, Brian Donlevy, Robert Middleton
Film-Noir / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2172
466
1956
Mervyn LeRoy
Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack, Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart, Evelyn Varden
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2174
467
1948
Akira Kurosawa
Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune, Reisaburo Yamamoto, Michiyo Kogure
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Gangster
Japan
Japanese
2174
467
1959
Robert Wise
Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Caper / Film-Noir
USA
English
2175
468
2000
Fabián Bielinsky
Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Caper / Thriller
Argentina
Spanish
2182
469
1985
Andrei Konchalovsky
Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, Kyle T. Heffner
Action / Adventure / Drama / Thriller
USA / Israel
English
2187
470
1949
Ted Tetzlaff
Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman
Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2192
471
1953
Byron Haskin
Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Robert Cornthwaite
Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
