Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated January 22, 2025
Suspect
1987 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen a Supreme Court justice commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all signs point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But the public defender assigned to his case soon begins to believe Anderson may be innocent.
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Next
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsLas Vegas magician Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) can see a few minutes into the future, a talent he uses to enhance his shows -- and to win at blackjack. But when an FBI agent (Julianne Moore) wants his help thwarting a nuclear attack, Cris finds his psychic skills put to the test. Jessica Biel, Peter Falk and Thomas Kretschmann also star in this sci-fi thriller based on Philip K. Dick's short story "The Golden Man."
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Chain Reaction
1996 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen a team of scientists discovers a clean, low-cost energy alternative, their lab is destroyed, the research head is killed, and student machinist Eddie Kasalivich gets framed for both crimes. With the police and FBI chasing him down, Eddie turns to mentor Paul Shannon to save his revolutionary hydrogen-power discovery and himself.
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The House on Telegraph Hill
1951 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRobert Wise's tense drama tells the story of a Nazi concentration camp survivor who assumes the identity of her dead best friend when the war ends. She moves to San Francisco, where she finds herself godmother to a young boy and heir to a fortune.
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The Manchurian Candidate
2004 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn this remake of the 1962 political thriller, two U.S. soldiers are taken captive during the first Gulf War and brainwashed so they're programmed to rebel once they return home. Several years later, one of them lands on the vice presidential ticket.
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Black Widow
1987 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDirector Bob Rafelson's superbly crafted thriller stars Debra Winger as Alexandra Barnes, an inquiring federal investigator who becomes intrigued -- then fixated -- when she stumbles across an unusual pattern of deaths by seemingly natural causes. The common bond among the victims? They're all rich, reclusive and leave behind the same sultry young widow (Theresa Russell). Can Alexandra crack the case without getting tangled in a web of murder?
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A History of Violence
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAs operators of a small-town diner, Tom Stall and his wife are the picture of normality. But when Tom foils a robbery and becomes a hero in the media, he attracts the wrong kind of attention from mobsters who think he's someone else.
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The Skeleton Key
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsSent to New Orleans to care for a stroke victim who lies bedridden and speechless, hospice worker Caroline finds a key that unlocks ancient secrets. Lonely in the patient's mansion, Caroline eventually opens up a Pandora's box of voodoo and danger.
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The Vanishing
1993 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsBarney (Jeff Bridges) is a deranged man who plans to abduct a woman, but despite his careful design and numerous run-throughs, things never go quite right. He's finally successful when Diane (Sandra Bullock) makes herself an obvious target after a fight with her boyfriend, Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland). Jeff spends years trying to figure out what happened to Diane, almost destroying his own life. Director George Sluizer remakes his own 1988 film.
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The Ninth Gate
1999 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsAn international search for a rare copy of a demonic tome, "The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom," brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and Satanic worship in director Roman Polanski's gothic mystery.
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Rebellion
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsFrench freedom fighters kill four and take 30 hostages on an island, instigating a political crisis. Special forces captain Philippe dives into negotiations as the French presidential election -- and lives -- are on the line.
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Contagion
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsDirector Steven Soderbergh steers an array of stars through this big-screen disaster thriller about a global team of doctors tasked with tamping down a deadly outbreak of infectious disease before it annihilates mankind.
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The Caller
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThis spooky thriller tracks the private nightmare of Mary Kee, a divorcée who begins receiving disturbing telephone calls from a woman she doesn't know. After engaging the stranger initially, Mary tries to extricate herself -- with horrific results.
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Red Riding Hood
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn this horror-fantasy reimagining of the classic tale, young Valerie juggles a difficult romantic decision with feelings of fear and grief as her town is terrorized by a legendary werewolf, which has killed her sister and hungers to feast again.
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Red Eye
2005 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsOn a red-eye flight bound for Miami, Lisa learns that a fellow passenger has plans to murder the deputy secretary of Homeland Security -- and that he wants to use her as part of the plot.
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Sexy Beast
2001 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsBen Kingsley is unforgettably menacing in this intense crime drama as sociopathic gangster Don Logan, who tries to recruit an ex-partner for a high-stakes heist and won't take no for an answer -- even when the retired criminal refuses.
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Caught in the Crossfire
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsTino (50 Cent) is a gang member on the horns of a major dilemma when he is forced to turn informant for a pair of homicide detectives investigating a gang-related murder on the mean streets of an American city. Meanwhile, the cops have their own hands full as the case lands them in the crossfire of hostile gangbangers and some very nasty fellow police officers. Chris Klein and Adam Rodriguez also star in this tense urban thriller.
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The Fourth Kind
2009 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen Alaskan psychiatrist Dr. Abigail Tyler begins videotaping her therapy sessions with clients, she uncovers petrifying evidence that they have experienced the fourth level of alien encounter: abduction.
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The Ward
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsMaster of horror John Carpenter returns to form -- and to the director's chair -- for this chilling thriller in which a young woman, Kristen (Amber Heard), is sent to a mental institution with a past as dark and haunted as her own. Terrorized by a ghost, each of the other patients in Kristen's ward begin to disappear, and that's just the beginning of her long nightmare. Jared Harris ("Mad Men") and Danielle Panabaker (Friday the 13th) also star.
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Mother's Day
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsThe new owners of a home pick the wrong day to host a birthday party when their bash is crashed by the house's previous occupants: three fugitive bank robber brothers; their sister; and their shrewd, protective and psychotic mother.
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Bless the Child
2000 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsKim Basinger stars as psychiatric nurse Maggie O'Connor, whose ordinary life becomes anything but routine as she gets swept up in a murder mystery involving the supernatural after a satanic cult leader kidnaps her 6-year-old niece.
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Dressed to Kill
1941 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsPrivate detective Michael Shayne is back for another whodunit. This time, the bodies of an actress and a Broadway producer turn up at the site of Michael's wedding, much to the dismay of his bride-to-be.
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Ticking Clock
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsCuba Gooding Jr. stars as Lewis Hicks, a crime reporter who's investigating a spate of gory serial killings -- a task that hits close to home when his new girlfriend is brutally murdered in this fast-paced thriller.
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Transfer
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA loving elderly couple (Hans-Michael Rehberg and Ingrid Andree) decides to undergo an astonishingly advanced but ethically dubious medical procedure to extend their lives in this thought-provoking sci-fi thriller about privilege, race and exploitation of the Third World. The two have their spirits transferred into the bodies of African refugees, but the young people acting as their hosts regain custody of their bodies for four hours every day.
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Viva Riva!
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsHustler Riva hopes to make a fortune by smuggling large quantities of gasoline and selling it for high prices in fuel-starved Kinshasa, but his plan gets complicated when he falls for the girlfriend of a local crime kingpin.
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