Best Thriller Movies of All Time
#1 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle (2025) · ★ 8.8 · 2,230 votes · 2h 36m · action, fantasy, thrillerThe Demon Slayer Corps are drawn into the Infinity Castle, where Tanjiro, Nezuko, and the Hashira face terrifying Upper Rank demons in a desperate fight as the final battle against…
#2 Facing El Chapo (2026) · ★ 8.8 · 786 votes · 1h 31m · action, thriller, crimeTwo Mexican officers must survive the final hours of their shift after crossing a ruthless cartel boss.…
#3 The Dark Knight (2008) · ★ 8.5 · 36,822 votes · 2h 32m · action, thriller, dramaBatman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations t…
#4 Pulp Fiction (1994) · ★ 8.5 · 30,904 votes · 2h 34m · comedy, thriller, dramaA burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in…
#5 Parasite (2019) · ★ 8.5 · 21,363 votes · 2h 13m · comedy, thriller, dramaAll unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.…
#6 Twin Peaks (1989) · ★ 8.5 · 677 votes · 1h 56m · tv-movie, thriller, dramaAn idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for…
#7 Fight Club (1999) · ★ 8.4 · 32,949 votes · 2h 19m · thriller, dramaA ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clu…
#8 Se7en (1995) · ★ 8.4 · 23,805 votes · 2h 7m · thriller, crime, mysteryTwo homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tor…
#9 Whiplash (2014) · ★ 8.4 · 17,153 votes · 1h 47m · thriller, drama, musicUnder the direction of a ruthless instructor, a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost, even his humanity.…
#10 Psycho (1960) · ★ 8.4 · 11,281 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horror, mysteryWhen larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Ba…
#11 High and Low (1963) · ★ 8.4 · 1,201 votes · 2h 22m · thriller, drama, crimeA Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.…
#12 Protector (2026) · ★ 8.4 · 602 votes · 1h 30m · action, thrillerNikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.…
#13 The Silence of the Lambs (1991) · ★ 8.3 · 18,541 votes · 1h 59m · thriller, drama, crimeClarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psych…
#14 Rear Window (1954) · ★ 8.3 · 7,347 votes · 1h 53m · thriller, drama, mysteryA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.…
#15 Perfect Blue (1998) · ★ 8.3 · 3,376 votes · 1h 21m · thriller, animationRising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up…
#16 The Shadow's Edge (2025) · ★ 8.3 · 1,497 votes · 2h 22m · action, thriller, dramaMacau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.…
#17 Counterattack (2025) · ★ 8.3 · 863 votes · 1h 25m · action, adventure, thrillerWhen a hostage rescue mission creates a new enemy, Capt. Guerrero and his elite soldiers must face an ambush by a criminal group.…
#18 Michael Jackson's Thriller (1983) · ★ 8.3 · 804 votes · 0h 14m · thriller, horror, musicA night at the movies turns terrifying when Michael and his date are attacked by zombies. Released at the height of Thriller’s success, the short film redefined the music video, br…
#19 Shutter Island (2010) · ★ 8.2 · 26,482 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, mysteryWorld War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro…
#20 Inglourious Basterds (2009) · ★ 8.2 · 24,844 votes · 2h 33m · thriller, drama, warIn Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalpi…
#21 The Shining (1980) · ★ 8.2 · 19,368 votes · 2h 24m · thriller, horrorJack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter.…
#22 Memento (2000) · ★ 8.2 · 16,816 votes · 1h 53m · thriller, mysteryLeonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rar…
#23 The Departed (2006) · ★ 8.2 · 16,699 votes · 2h 31m · thriller, drama, crimeTo take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop cu…
#24 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) · ★ 8.2 · 14,833 votes · 2h 17m · action, thriller, science-fictionTen years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, h…
#25 The Usual Suspects (1995) · ★ 8.2 · 11,788 votes · 1h 46m · thriller, drama, crimeHeld in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and h…
#26 Oldboy (2003) · ★ 8.2 · 10,241 votes · 2h 0m · action, thriller, dramaWith no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.…
#27 Obsession (2026) · ★ 8.2 · 5,702 votes · 1h 49m · thriller, horrorAfter breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires c…
#28 Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020) · ★ 8.2 · 4,698 votes · 1h 57m · action, fantasy, adventureTanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards t…
#29 The Handmaiden (2016) · ★ 8.2 · 4,503 votes · 2h 25m · thriller, romance, drama1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside es…
#30 Bound by Honor (1993) · ★ 8.2 · 1,643 votes · 3h 10m · action, thriller, dramaBased on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three ar…
#31 Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) · ★ 8.2 · 900 votes · 1h 51m · thriller, dramaRome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and t…
#32 The Furious (2026) · ★ 8.2 · 753 votes · 1h 53m · action, thriller, crimeAfter a criminal network kidnaps Wang Wei's daughter and the corrupt police refuse to assist him, Wei sets out on his own to locate her. Navin, a tenacious journalist whose wife ha…
#33 Le Trou (1960) · ★ 8.2 · 602 votes · 2h 12m · thriller, drama, crimeFour prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan wi…
#34 Woman in the Dunes (1964) · ★ 8.2 · 538 votes · 2h 27m · thriller, dramaA vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whos…
#35 Joker (2019) · ★ 8.1 · 28,423 votes · 2h 2m · thriller, drama, crimeDuring the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.…
#36 Reservoir Dogs (1992) · ★ 8.1 · 15,865 votes · 1h 39m · thriller, crimeA botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. O…
#37 Prisoners (2013) · ★ 8.1 · 13,565 votes · 2h 33m · thriller, drama, crimeAfter his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on…
#38 Vertigo (1958) · ★ 8.1 · 6,517 votes · 2h 8m · thriller, romance, mysteryA retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.…
#39 The Invisible Guest (2017) · ★ 8.1 · 5,123 votes · 1h 47m · thriller, drama, mysteryBarcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a de…
#40 Memories of Murder (2003) · ★ 8.1 · 4,846 votes · 2h 11m · thriller, drama, crimeA sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with confl…