100 Top Thrillers (90+ titles)

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• A History of Violence (2005)
  Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is living a happy and quiet life with his lawyer wife (Maria Bello) and their two ...
  Starring: Viggo Mortensen,  Maria Bello,  William Hurt
  Directed by: David Cronenberg
  (64%)

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• All The President's Men (2 discs) (1976)
  Alan J. Pakula (KLUTE, THE PARALLAX VIEW) found a story worthy of his gift for conspiracy-driven drama in ...
  Starring: Robert Redford,  Dustin Hoffman,  Jason Robards
  Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
  (72%)

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• Along Came A Spider (2001)
  The redoubtable Morgan Freeman returns as Washington, DC police detective Alex Cross, the master profiler, in ...
  Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Monica Potter,  Dylan Baker
  Directed by: Lee Tamahori
  (67%)

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• Arlington Road (1999)
  George Washington University professor Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) teaches a course in terrorism, but ...
  Starring: Jeff Bridges,  Tim Robbins,  Joan Cusack
  Directed by: Mark Pellington
  (69%)

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• Audition (1999)
  AUDITION is an art-house cult horror film that will be talked about for a long time to come. Ryo Ishibashi ...
  Starring: Ryo Ishibashi,  Eihi Shiina,  Tetsu Sawaki
  Directed by: Takashi Miike
  (62%)

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• Below (2002)
  In 1943, the crew of the U.S.S. Tiger Shark, an American submarine in the Atlantic, rescues three survivors ...
  Starring: Bruce Greenwood,  Matthew Davis,  Olivia Williams
  Directed by: David N. Twohy
  (57%)

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• The Birds (1963)
  In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding followup to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous ...
  Starring: Rod Taylor,  Tippi Hedren,  Jessica Tandy
  Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
  (71%)

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• Blood Simple (1983)
  When a bar owner discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife, a complex web of ...
  Starring: M. Emmet Walsh,  Dan Hedaya,  John Getz
  Directed by: Joel Coen
  (65%)

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• Blue Velvet (2 discs) (1986)
  A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of ...
  Starring: Kyle MacLachlan,  Isabella Rossellini,  Dennis Hopper
  Directed by: David Lynch
  (67%)

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• Bonnie And Clyde (1967)
  Based on the true-life exploits of the notorious depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, ...
  Starring: Warren Beatty,  Faye Dunaway,  Gene Hackman
  Directed by: Arthur Penn
  (69%)

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• Cape Fear (2 discs) (1991)
  Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam ...
  Starring: Robert De Niro,  Nick Nolte,  Jessica Lange
  Directed by: Martin Scorsese
  (69%)

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• The China Syndrome (1981)
  An explosive thriller where a TV news crew inadvertently films a startling, controversial incident at a ...
  Starring: Jane Fonda,  Jack Lemmon,  Michael Douglas
  Directed by: James Bridges
  (65%)

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• Chinatown (1974)
  Director Roman Polanski's neo-noir detective story is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose ...
  Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Faye Dunaway,  John Huston
  Directed by: Roman Polanski
  (73%)

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• Cube (1997)
  Six Strangers awaken from their daily lives to find themselves trapped in a surreal prison - a seemingly ...
  Starring: Nicky Guadagni,  David Hewlett,  Wayne Robson
  Directed by: Vincenzo Natali
  (63%)

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• Day Of The Jackal (1973)
  This suspense thriller about a daring plot to murder Charles De Gaulle is based on Frederick Forsyth's best-...
  Starring: Edward Fox,  Cyril Cusack,  Ronald Pickup
  Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
  (71%)

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• Dead Ringers (1988)
  Though he's most famous for his portrayal of Victor Laszlo in 1942's Casablanca, actor Paul Henreid took a ...
  Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Genevieve Bujold,  Heidi Von Palleske
  Directed by: David Cronenberg
  (59%)

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• The Deer Hunter (2 discs) (1978)
  This epic look at the Vietnam War and its effects told through the lives of a tight knit group of friends ...
  Starring: Robert De Niro,  John Cazale,  John Savage
  Directed by: Michael Cimino
  (73%)

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• Deliverance (1972)
  Director John Boorman's adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel stars Burt Reynolds as the ...
  Starring: Jon Voight,  Burt Reynolds,  Ned Beatty
  Directed by: John Boorman
  (69%)

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• Dial M For Murder (1954)
  If a woman answers...hang on for dear life! ...
  Starring: Ray Milland,  Grace Kelly,  Robert Cummings
  Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
  (77%)

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• Die Hard (2 discs) (1988)
  On Christmas Eve, a New York cop comes to L.A. to see his estranged wife at her company's Christmas party, ...
  Starring: Bruce Willis,  Bonnie Bedelia,  Paul Gleason
  Directed by: John McTiernan
  (75%)

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• Dirty Harry (1971)
  A tremendously controversial film, both decried as an apologia for fascism and hailed as the solution to a ...
  Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Harry Guardino,  Reni Santoni
  Directed by: Don Siegel
  (73%)

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• Disclosure (1994)
  A thriller based around power, sex, ambition and corporate intrigue. An executive working for Digicom finds ...
  Starring: Michael Douglas,  Demi Moore,  Donald Sutherland
  Directed by: Barry Levinson
  (57%)

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• Dog Day Afternoon (2 discs) (1975)
  Before Peter Finch was 'mad as hell' in NETWORK, Sidney Lumet's scorching indictment of the American ...
  Starring: Al Pacino,  Charles Durning,  James Broderick
  Directed by: Sidney Lumet
  (72%)

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• Don't Say A Word (2001)
  When psychiatrist Nathan Conrad discovers that his daughter has been kidnapped, the only way he can get her ...
  Starring: Michael Douglas,  Sean Bean,  Brittany Murphy
  Directed by: Gary Fleder
  (62%)

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• Dragonflies (2001)
  A taut, psychological thriller, written by Nikolaj Frobenius (best known for writing INSOMNIA), in which a ...
  Starring: Maria Bonnevie,  Kim Bodnia,  Mikael Persbrandt
  Directed by: Marius Holst
  (52%)

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• Extreme Measures (1996)
  At New York's Gramercy Hospital, a homeless man under the care of English doctor Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant) dies ...
  Starring: Hugh Grant,  Gene Hackman,  Sarah Jessica Parker
  Directed by: Michael Apted
  (58%)

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• Face (1997)
  A thirty five year old villain gets set to score... big time. But the three million tally is well down and ...
  Starring: Robert Carlyle,  Ray Winstone,  Steven Waddington
  Directed by: Antonia Bird
  (63%)

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• Face/Off (1997)
  The ordeal of super-heroic, singularly dedicated FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta – BLOW OUT, SATURDAY ...
  Starring: John Travolta,  Nicolas Cage,  Joan Allen
  Directed by: John Woo
  (69%)

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• Fatal Attraction (1987)
  While his wife (Anne Archer) and daughter are out of town, successful attorney Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas)...
  Starring: Michael Douglas,  Glenn Close,  Anne Archer
  Directed by: Adrian Lyne
  (67%)

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• The Firm (1993)
  Sydney Pollack directs Tom Cruise in this legal thriller based on John Grisham's best-seller. Cruise plays ...
  Starring: Tom Cruise,  Jeanne Tripplehorn,  Ed Harris
  Directed by: Sydney Pollack
  (66%)