Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated September 09, 2025
Big Brother
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter a big-shot politician's son throws acid on his sister's face, a mild-mannered man decides to take action. His choice to seek justice makes him a hero to his family and to the public, who are thrilled to see an ordinary person take a stand.
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Dark Mirror
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter moving into a strange old house with her husband and son, Deborah (Lisa Vidal) discovers a mysterious mirror that does more than just cast a reflection. A door to an alternate reality, the mirror awakens a dark side in Deborah that she can't control. Co-starring David Chisum, Christine Lakin, Joshua Pelegrin and Lupe Ontiveros, this psychological thriller is directed and co-written by Pablo Proenza.
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Juncture
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsLearning that she has just months left to live, soft-spoken businesswoman Anna Carter transforms herself into a ruthless vigilante bent on hunting down rapists and other vile criminals who have somehow eluded justice ... until now.
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Acolytes
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter stumbling upon a freshly buried body and learning the murderer's identity, three high school students -- believing the killer can take out a bully who ruined their lives -- elect to blackmail the perpetrator in this taut thriller.
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Fear Me Not
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter moving to a suburb of Copenhagen with his wife (Paprika Steen) and teenage daughter, the uptight Michael (Ulrich Thomsen) tests a new drug designed to help him unwind. But the medication has unexpected consequences for Michael's relationships with everyone around him. Lars Brygmann and Stine Stengade also star in this disturbing psychological drama from Danish director Kristian Levring.
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Afterwards
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsHotshot New York attorney Nathan Del Amico (Romain Duris) is skeptical when the strange Doctor Kay (John Malkovich) claims that he can sense when someone is about to die -- until inexplicable events cause Nathan to change his mind. Now believing that he sees signs of his own death, Del Amico takes the doctor's advice and begins making amends with his ex-wife (Evangeline Lilly) before it's too late. Gilles Bourdos directs this stylish thriller.
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Deadline
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen Alice, a fragile scribe, seeks peace so she can complete her screenplay before a deadline, she moves to a remote country house. Soon, baffling noises ignite her imagination and and she tries to discover the force behind the mind games.
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Loft
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFive married men split the cost of renting an impressive loft, which they use for secret rendezvous with mistresses and one-night stands. But after discovering a woman's corpse in their apartment, the friends begin to turn against each other. This stylish and engrossing Belgian thriller from director Erik Van Looy stars Bruno Vanden Broucke, Matthias Schoenaerts, Filip Peeters, Koen De Graeve and Koen De Bouw.
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Tell Tale
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsA single father is kept alive by another man's heart, which suits him fine until he discovers that the organ's original owner was murdered. Worried that he might come to a similar end, he embarks on a desperate search for the donor's killer.
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The Tiger's Tail
2006 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFilmmaker John Boorman captures the uneasy mood of turn-of-the-millennium Dublin in this darkly comic thriller about a real-estate tycoon (Brendan Gleeson) whose life begins to unravel when a doppelganger steps in and takes over parts of his world. Liam O'Leary's wife (Kim Cattrall) and son (Briain Gleeson) think he's breaking down from a business deal gone sour, but when he confronts his double, O'Leary learns a secret that changes everything.
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Buried
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhile on a job in Iraq, civilian contractor Paul Conroy is attacked and kidnapped, then awakens to find himself buried alive in the middle of the desert with nothing but a lighter, a candle, a cell phone and a knife.
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Wild Things: Foursome
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this direct-to-video continuation of the Wild Things franchise, rebellious Carson Wheetly blames his wealthy father for his mother's death ... which only makes Carson look suspicious when Dad turns up dead in a boating accident.
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Sound of My Voice
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this psychological thriller, journalists Peter and Lorna undergo an elaborate preparation process in order to infiltrate a cult, leading from a desolate road to an unmarked location, but the mystery only deepens when their blindfolds are removed.
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Kill List
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this white-knuckle crime flick, out-of-work hit man Jay teams with his partner, Gal, for a three-contract job that rapidly turns from routine to obscene as the call of duty takes a twisted toll on Jay's sanity and sense of control.
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X
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis steamy thriller follows veteran call girl Holly Rowe and teen runaway turned hooker Shay Ryan, strangers who find themselves thrown together and running for their lives through the sinister world of Sydney, Australia's underground sex trade.
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Retreat
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen a young couple visiting a remote Scottish island finds an injured man at their door claiming that a lethal virus has spread through Europe, they must decide whether to believe the stranger -- and figure out how to survive.
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Revenge
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsReady for a comeback, Russian boxer Artem arrives in America for a heated rematch. But after sparring with one overly eager opponent, the ring soon becomes the last of his worries, and he must fight for his life against the Mexican mafia.
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Devil's Racecourse
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsDuring an annual hiking trip with friends, college student Wendy is abducted by an ex-FBI agent turned fugitive, and when his relentless pursuers appear, the man entrusts Wendy with vital data that could expose a shocking governmental conspiracy.
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Dangerous Ishhq
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFabulously wealthy Rohan is kidnapped, and police tell his supermodel girlfriend Sanjana that even the ransom won't assure his return. Compounding her helplessness, Sanjana starts having strange visions of them together in different historical eras.
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The Taste of Money
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this suspenseful erotic drama, the private male secretary and lover of Madam Baek, a Korean conglomerate's middle-aged matriarch, falls for her more genuine daughter. Meanwhile, Madam Baek's husband has an affair with the Filipino nanny.
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True Nature
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThe Pascal family has it all-- wealth, power, privilege-- but their lives change forever when their daughter disappears one night while running. She mysteriously returns a year later with no memory of what happened but haunted by strange visions.
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The Monk
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAbandoned as an infant and raised by Capucin monks, Ambrosio becomes a friar himself and also a beloved preacher whose sermons thrill the masses. But Satan decides to test Ambrosio's legendary piety, sending a masked female minion to tempt the monk.
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Snakes on a Plane
2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsTasked with transporting murder witness Sean Jones to Los Angeles, a badass FBI agent has to battle a horde of venomous snakes that were unleashed midflight to prevent Jones from taking the stand against the killer.
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Anamorph
2007 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsNYPD detective Stan Aubray (Willem Dafoe) is obsessed with catching a serial killer whose slayings resemble a case Aubray solved years earlier. But the bizarre crime scenes require Aubray to study everything -- including his own dark past -- in a new light. The intricately plotted psychological thriller also stars Scott Speedman as a young maverick detective and Clea DuVall as a woman with a mysterious history.
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80 Minutes
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAlex owes an angry creditor $15,000, and if he doesn't pay it back within the next 80 minutes, he's dead. Injected with a time-delayed poison, Alex frantically races all over Berlin looking for money but finds more problems instead.
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