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Best Thriller Movies of the 2000s
#1 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…
#2 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…
#3 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…
#4 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…
#5 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.…
#6 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…
#7 No Country for Old Men (2007) · ★ 8.0 · 13,842 votes · 2h 2m · thriller, drama, westernLlewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bel…
#8 The Lives of Others (2006) · ★ 8.0 · 4,249 votes · 2h 17m · thriller, dramaIn 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the…
#9 The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) · ★ 8.0 · 2,947 votes · 2h 10m · thriller, drama, mysteryHoping to put to rest years of unease concerning a past case, retired criminal investigator Benjamín begins writing a novel based on the unsolved mystery of a newlywed’s rape and m…
#10 V for Vendetta (2006) · ★ 7.9 · 15,954 votes · 2h 12m · action, thriller, science-fictionIn a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V resc…
#11 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) · ★ 7.9 · 15,285 votes · 2h 16m · action, thriller, crimeThe Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former assoc…
#12 Mulholland Drive (2001) · ★ 7.8 · 7,326 votes · 2h 27m · thriller, drama, mysteryBlonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second wom…
#13 Paprika (2006) · ★ 7.8 · 3,001 votes · 1h 30m · thriller, science-fiction, animationDr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stole…
#14 Infernal Affairs (2002) · ★ 7.8 · 1,938 votes · 1h 41m · action, thriller, dramaChan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their o…
#15 The Chaser (2008) · ★ 7.8 · 1,641 votes · 2h 5m · action, thriller, crimeJoong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them dow…
#16 Joint Security Area (2000) · ★ 7.8 · 882 votes · 1h 48m · action, thriller, dramaTwo North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead inves…
#17 Nine Queens (2000) · ★ 7.8 · 861 votes · 1h 54m · thriller, drama, crimeTwo con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps, the "nine queens".…
#18 Mystic River (2003) · ★ 7.7 · 7,693 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, crimeThe lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.…
#19 Dogville (2003) · ★ 7.7 · 2,791 votes · 2h 58m · thriller, drama, crimeA woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a…
#20 The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) · ★ 7.7 · 2,121 votes · 2h 11m · action, adventure, thrillerYoung sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.…
#21 Casino Royale (2006) · ★ 7.6 · 12,033 votes · 2h 24m · action, adventure, thrillerLe Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financi…
#22 Blood Diamond (2006) · ★ 7.6 · 8,574 votes · 2h 23m · action, thriller, dramaAn ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink dia…
#23 The Butterfly Effect (2004) · ★ 7.6 · 8,544 votes · 1h 53m · thriller, science-fictionA young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. H…
#24 Children of Men (2006) · ★ 7.6 · 8,105 votes · 1h 49m · action, thriller, dramaIn 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child…
#25 The Others (2001) · ★ 7.6 · 7,406 votes · 1h 41m · thriller, horror, mysteryGrace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is h…
#26 Amores Perros (2000) · ★ 7.6 · 3,016 votes · 2h 34m · thriller, dramaA fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless m…
#27 Sin Nombre (2009) · ★ 7.6 · 806 votes · 1h 36m · action, thriller, dramaSayra, an Indigenous Latina American teenage girl from Honduras, Central America, hungers for a better life. Her chance for one comes when she is reunited with her long-estranged f…
#28 Ocean's Eleven (2001) · ★ 7.5 · 12,882 votes · 1h 56m · thriller, crimeLess than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal…
#29 Zodiac (2007) · ★ 7.5 · 11,884 votes · 2h 37m · thriller, drama, crimeThe story follows the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters,…
#30 The Bourne Identity (2002) · ★ 7.5 · 10,412 votes · 1h 59m · action, thriller, dramaWounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisherman. With nothing to go on but a Swiss bank account number, he starts to reconst…
#31 Sin City (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 9,081 votes · 2h 4m · action, thriller, crimeWelcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dame…
#32 The Machinist (2004) · ★ 7.5 · 6,331 votes · 1h 42m · thriller, dramaTrevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.…
#33 Man on Fire (2004) · ★ 7.5 · 5,915 votes · 2h 26m · action, thriller, dramaJaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnap…
#34 Lucky Number Slevin (2006) · ★ 7.5 · 4,638 votes · 1h 50m · thriller, drama, crimeSlevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin…
#35 The Wave (2008) · ★ 7.5 · 3,707 votes · 1h 47m · thriller, dramaA school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be esta…
#36 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) · ★ 7.5 · 3,333 votes · 2h 32m · thriller, drama, crimeSwedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the ma…
#37 Lady Vengeance (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 2,043 votes · 1h 55m · thriller, dramaReleased after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.…
#38 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) · ★ 7.5 · 1,785 votes · 2h 9m · action, thriller, dramaA deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a c…
#39 The Consequences of Love (2004) · ★ 7.5 · 923 votes · 1h 40m · thriller, dramaLugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently w…
#40 Prison Break: The Final Break (2009) · ★ 7.5 · 752 votes · 1h 29m · action, thriller, dramaMichael and Sara wed, but the happiness is short-lived when the Feds apprehend her for the murder of Michael's mother, Christina. Once a hit is ordered on Sara, the team reunite to…