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Best Thriller Movies of the 2020s
#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 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.…
#4 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.…
#5 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.…
#6 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…
#7 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…
#8 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…
#9 Colony (2026) · ★ 8.1 · 893 votes · 2h 3m · action, thriller, horrorProfessor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside…
#10 Nobody (2021) · ★ 7.9 · 8,747 votes · 1h 31m · action, thrillerHutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a "nobody." When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch's unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and…
#11 The Count of Monte Cristo (2024) · ★ 7.9 · 2,131 votes · 2h 58m · action, adventure, thrillerEdmond Dantès becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manage…
#12 I'm Still Here (2024) · ★ 7.9 · 1,172 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama, historyA woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbit…
#13 Monster (2023) · ★ 7.9 · 967 votes · 2h 5m · thriller, drama, mysteryAfter an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.…
#14 Tetris (2023) · ★ 7.8 · 2,036 votes · 1h 58m · thriller, drama, historyIn 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption…
#15 Shelter (2026) · ★ 7.8 · 1,919 votes · 1h 47m · action, thriller, crimeA man living in self-imposed exile on a remote island rescues a young girl from a violent storm, setting off a chain of events that forces him out of seclusion to protect her from…
#16 Thirteen Lives (2022) · ★ 7.8 · 1,581 votes · 2h 27m · thriller, drama, historyBased on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them…
#17 Evil Dead Burn (2026) · ★ 7.8 · 1,376 votes · 1h 50m · thriller, horrorAfter her husband's abrupt death, Alice seeks solace with his remaining family — descendants of a leading researcher on demonic possession. As her in-laws transform one by one into…
#18 Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) · ★ 7.8 · 1,347 votes · 1h 25m · action, thriller, science-fictionWhile three of the fiercest warriors in human history—a Viking raider, a ninja in feudal Japan, and a WWII pilot—are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new…
#19 The Batman (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 12,582 votes · 2h 57m · thriller, crime, mysteryIn his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.…
#20 John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) · ★ 7.7 · 8,285 votes · 2h 50m · action, thriller, crimeWith the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with p…
#21 The Gorge (2025) · ★ 7.7 · 4,254 votes · 2h 8m · action, thriller, romanceTwo highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to surv…
#22 My Fault (2023) · ★ 7.7 · 4,172 votes · 1h 56m · thriller, romance, dramaNoah must leave her city, boyfriend, and friends to move into William Leister's mansion, the flashy and wealthy husband of her mother Rafaela. As a proud and independent 17 year ol…
#23 Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) · ★ 7.7 · 3,384 votes · 2h 3m · action, thriller, warAfter an ambush, Afghan interpreter Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save US Army Sergeant John Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe pa…
#24 STRAW (2025) · ★ 7.7 · 1,011 votes · 1h 45m · thriller, drama, crimeWhat will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the breaking point — and into a shocking act of desperation.…
#25 The Heist of the Century (2020) · ★ 7.7 · 863 votes · 1h 54m · comedy, thriller, crimeIn 2006, a group of thieves performed what is considered one of the most famous and smart bank heists in the history of Argentina. How they robbed the Rio bank is as surprising as…
#26 Exhuma (2024) · ★ 7.7 · 826 votes · 2h 14m · thriller, horror, mysteryAfter tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers wh…
#27 Prey (2022) · ★ 7.6 · 8,025 votes · 1h 40m · action, thriller, science-fictionWhen danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien p…
#28 Wrath of Man (2021) · ★ 7.6 · 6,335 votes · 1h 59m · action, thriller, dramaA cold and mysterious new security guard for a Los Angeles cash truck company surprises his co-workers when he unleashes precision skills during a heist. The crew is left wondering…
#29 Nuremberg (2025) · ★ 7.6 · 1,437 votes · 2h 29m · thriller, drama, historyIn postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and eth…
#30 In the Grey (2026) · ★ 7.6 · 1,007 votes · 1h 37m · action, thriller, dramaA covert team of elite operatives are living in the shadows. When a ruthless despot steals a billion-dollar fortune, they're sent to take it back—an impossible heist that erupts in…
#31 Girl in the Basement (2021) · ★ 7.6 · 894 votes · 1h 28m · tv-movie, thriller, crimeSara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in t…
#32 Tuner (2026) · ★ 7.6 · 512 votes · 1h 48m · comedy, thriller, dramaA gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.…
#33 Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) · ★ 7.5 · 10,849 votes · 1h 54m · action, fantasy, adventureIn a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the pla…
#34 The Black Phone (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 6,117 votes · 1h 43m · thriller, drama, horrorFinney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on…
#35 Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) · ★ 7.5 · 5,399 votes · 2h 44m · action, adventure, thrillerEthan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. W…
#36 Sinners (2025) · ★ 7.5 · 5,221 votes · 2h 18m · action, fantasy, thrillerTrying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.…
#37 Anatomy of a Fall (2023) · ★ 7.5 · 3,500 votes · 2h 31m · thriller, crime, mysteryA woman is suspected of her husband's murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness.…
#38 Disclosure Day (2026) · ★ 7.5 · 3,129 votes · 2h 26m · action, thriller, science-fictionA cybersecurity expert becomes a whistleblower after uncovering secrets about aliens, putting him on the run from a corporation. Meanwhile, a meteorologist experiencing strange phe…
#39 War Machine (2026) · ★ 7.5 · 2,518 votes · 1h 50m · action, thriller, science-fictionOn one last grueling mission during Army Ranger training, a combat engineer must lead his unit in a fight against a giant otherworldly killing machine.…
#40 Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026) · ★ 7.5 · 1,680 votes · 1h 48m · comedy, thriller, horrorMoments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister F…