Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated September 09, 2025
Red White & Blue
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen aloof bed-hopper Erica (Amanda Fuller) takes a job at a hardware store in Austin, she crosses paths with Frankie (Marc Senter), a struggling musician, and Nate (Noah Taylor), a mysterious stranger with an ominous past. But their lives don't intersect in the way you might expect. British writer-director Simon Rumley steers this intense psychological revenge thriller that packs a surprising plot twist.
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Beneath the Dark
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsOn a road trip through the Mojave Desert, contented couple Paul (Josh Stewart) and Adrienne (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) stop at a time-forgotten motel to rest, but their peace is disturbed when nocturnal visits with ominous fellow guests stir a frightful secret that looms between them. As the walls begin to speak and the grim truth closes in on unsuspecting Adrienne, Paul is driven to desperate and violent action in this psychological thriller.
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Legacy
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsTaking refuge in a shabby Brooklyn motel after narrowly surviving a failed mission in Eastern Europe, Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray (Idris Elba) begins to disintegrate mentally as he broods over the legacy of his actions in this taut psychological thriller. Haunted by his demons while holed up in his room, Malcolm ponders the ascent of his brother (Eamonn Walker), an ambitious senator with designs on the presidency.
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Under Still Waters
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhile sorting out their relationship problems at a remote lake house, married couple Charlie (Lake Bell) and Andrew (Jason Clarke) cross paths with a mysterious stranger named Jacob (Clifton Collins Jr.), whose unexplained presence threatens to derail their progress and puts their lives at risk. Writer Carolyn Miller also directs this psychological thriller with a surprising twist. Frankie Ingrassia co-stars.
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7 Khoon Maaf
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsSpiced liberally with black comedy, this Bollywood drama from director Vishal Bhardwaj follows the lethal love life of Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes, who marries numerous men -- only to find them flawed. The solution? Death.
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Blood River
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsScratch beneath their smooth yuppie surface and a wealth of secrets emerges after husband and wife Clark (Ian Duncan) and Summer (Tess Panzer) encounter car trouble and find themselves injured and stranded in the Nevada desert. Salvation -- they think -- comes in the form of a ghost town named Blood River and the gospel-spewing itinerant they encounter there. But soon they realize that the helpful stranger might not be so helpful after all.
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Storage
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter his father's murder, grieving teen Jimmy (Matt Scully) goes to live with his uncle, who runs an underground storage facility. As he wanders through the mazelike corridors, Jimmy begins to suspect that one of the renters is hiding evidence of a vicious crime. Aided by his new friend Zia (Saskia Burmeister), Jimmy investigates, but as his search takes him further into the man's twisted life, he learns that he may be in too deep.
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Agnosia
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfflicted with agnosia -- a neuropsychological disorder that disrupts her perception of outside stimuli -- Joana attempts to protect a valuable secret that only she knows from mysterious forces conspiring to exploit her unreliable senses.
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Kidnapped
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsOn the day they're celebrating their move into a beautiful new house, a Madrid couple and their teenage daughter become the targets of a brutal home invasion by a masked -- and violently determined -- trio of criminals.
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Miss Bala
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsDetermined to escape the poverty of her hometown, Laura enters a beauty pageant. But after she inadvertently witnesses a gangland massacre, she becomes a pawn in a violent game between the gang's brutal leader, his rivals and American DEA agents.
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen a prince takes a mistress, his neglected wife takes up with her handsome young driver -- who just so happens to be a plant sent by a rival gang. But their mutual passion soon turns to bloodshed.
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Brake
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsSecret Service agent Jeremy Reins awakens in the trunk of a car driven by terrorists who are hunting for the president's secret bunker. For Reins, escaping means more than just his own survival: The nation's future hangs in the balance.
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Kiss of the Damned
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsStyled after the glossy vampire flicks of the 1960s, this thriller finds undead Djuna giving in to her lust for screenwriter Paulo. Enter Djuna's sister Mimi, whose own hunger for Paulo's blood turns the local vampire community on its pointed ear.
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Everybody Has a Plan
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsViggo Mortensen stars in this thriller as twin brothers Agustín, a doctor living a comfortable but mundane life, and Pedro, who has a criminal past. When Pedro dies, Agustín adopts his identity and gets a taste of Argentina's underworld.
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Tower Block
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsMonths after witnessing a brutal murder in their condemned London high-rise, a handful of tenants find themselves marked for death by a mysterious sniper. Despite escalating tensions, can they band together long enough to make an escape?
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Blood Pressure
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsDiscontent with her family life and career, a woman begins receiving letters from a secret admirer. Intrigued by this mystery figure, she agrees to continue accepting the correspondence, which contains increasingly strange messages and instructions.
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Obsession
1976 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhile vacationing in Italy, Michael Courtland (Cliff Robinson) spots a mysterious woman (Genevive Bujold) bearing an eerie resemblance to his late wife -- who, along with his daughter, was killed 15 years earlier. Blinded by grief, Michael pursues the beautiful doppelganger, but winning her heart turns out to be a dubious prize. Brian De Palma helmed this unabashed homage to director Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo.
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Hanky Panky
1982 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhile searching for her brother's killers and being pursued by a dangerous foe (Richard Widmark), Kate Hellman (Gilda Radner) and Michael Jordan (Gene Wilder) embark on a harried cross-country journey that takes them everywhere from the Grand Canyon to New York City. The two can't help but find themselves in myriad hilarious quandaries in director Sidney Poitier's quixotic, Hitchcock-inspired thriller. Robert Prosky and Josef Sommer co-star.
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No Good Deed
2002 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this film based on a Dashiell Hammett story, Samuel L. Jackson is Jack, a cop who, while chasing down a runaway, stumbles upon a mob robbing a bank and is abducted by the criminals. They keep Jack at a hideaway with only the ringleader's girlfriend, Erin (Milla Jovovich), to keep watch. Soon, the two begin to play on each other's weaknesses, trying to figure out who's manipulating whom, and later make a connection that trumps all others.
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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
1990 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsComic Andrew Dice Clay stars as a private investigator trying to make sense of a rash of murders that has left a string of music-industry victims in its wake. The most recent casualty: a disc jockey with a penchant for verbal attacks.
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As Tears Go By
1988 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsHong Kong gangster Ah Wah (Andy Lau) does all he can to keep his friend and fellow mobster Fly (Jackie Cheung) out of trouble, but Fly continues to wind up in hot water. Ah Wah's crime boss has had about as much as he can stand of Fly, but Ah Wah continues to stand by his friend. To complicate matters, Ah Wah begins to fall for his cousin (Maggie Cheung) but can't find the time to start a relationship and keep Fly out of trouble at the same time.
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D
2005 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsCarving his way through Mumbai's seedy underbelly, Deshu eventually establishes his own criminal empire. But the sons of Deshu's mentor aren't so happy about his success -- so much so that they begin killing those he loves.
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The Fog
2005 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsSelma Blair, Tom Welling and Maggie Grace star in this creepy thriller about an island town off the coast of Oregon that's forced to contend with some unwelcome visitors from its past: the spirits of lepers and sailors aboard a ship that the hamlet's forefathers had steered astray on purpose. Those aboard the doomed vessel all wound up lost in the fog forever. Now, they're back from the mist, eager to exact revenge on the descendants of their murderers.
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Freedomland
2006 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen a single mother reports that her infant son was murdered by a black man from the projects, an intrepid African-American detective and a white journalist team up to dig for details but what they unearth is hard to believe.
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House of 9
2005 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsNine unsuspecting victims are trapped in a mansion and their every move is being filmed. Promising $5 million to the player who emerges victorious, their unseen captor uses them as pawns in a horrifying and demented "game."
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