Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated August 10, 2025
Grandmaster
2012 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA dejected and withdrawn police chief is jolted into duty when a serial killer's grisly game turns personal. Anticipating the killer's next move, the chief realizes that the pattern makes his daughter and estranged wife the next likely victims.
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The Heineken Kidnapping
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsIn 1983, wealthy brewer Alfred Heineken is kidnapped by a gang of young hoodlums in Amsterdam and held for ransom. When the ransom is paid and Heineken is released, he sets out to exact revenge on his captors in this thriller based on a true story.
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Requiem for a Killer
2011 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA skilled assassin in search of a new life accepts a final hit job posing as a soprano for a Swiss opera company. Her mark: a handsome baritone whose business dealings threaten the interests of a powerful corporation. But things don't go as planned.
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Scenic Route
2013 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen car trouble strands old friends Mitchell and Carter in the California desert, friction surfaces as they try to deal with the situation, and a heated dialogue soon escalates into a violent struggle for survival.
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Drug War
2012 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen an illegal-drug manufacturer gets arrested after a wild attempt to evade capture, police captain Zhang Lei senses an opportunity. But after convincing the man to betray his own cronies, Zhang wonders if he's not the one being played.
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Paycheck
2003 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsPaid big money by high-tech firms for working on hush-hush projects, computer ace Michael Jennings then has his memory erased for security purposes -- which explains why he can't figure out the reason his most recent employer wants to kill him.
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Suspect Zero
2004 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsA killer is on the loose, and FBI agent Thomas Mackelway is on the case, sifting through clues to uncover the criminal's identity. But there's one unusual twist: The bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
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The Interpreter
2005 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsSilvia Broome is a linguist whose job is to translate for her assigned delegate the complex issues facing the United Nations. But her daily challenge turns perilous when she overhears a plot to assassinate a high-ranking government official.
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Blood & Chocolate
2007 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsAfter moving from America to Romania, a teenage werewolf finds herself torn between loyalty and love when she falls for a human and incurs the ire of the pack leader -- who's planning to make her his mate.
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Jekyll
2007 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsIn modern-day London, Dr. Jekyll's last living descendant believes he can control his dark side, but a secret society that's followed the Jekyll family line for a hundred years has plans for both halves of his personality.
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The Bothersome Man
2006 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsMysteriously deposited in a perfectly serene but colorless city where every need is met, Andreas soon realizes that not even a new lover can change the sterile banality drowning him. Is this placid life a dream come true or an inescapable hell?
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Monsieur Hire
1989 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsReclusive middle-aged bachelor Monsieur Hire spies on a woman through her undraped windows. She seems to welcome the attention until a 22-year-old woman's nude corpse turns up in the vicinity and suspicion quickly falls on the voyeuristic Hire.
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The Betrayed
2008 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsAfter surviving a terrible car crash, a young wife and mother regains consciousness only to discover that her real nightmare has just begun: She is now the prisoner of a deranged masked man who accuses her husband of stealing money from the mob. Can she get away from her captor -- and is there any truth to his story? Melissa George, Donald Adams and Christian Campbell co-star in this psychological thriller from director Amanda Gusack.
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The New Daughter
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsLuis Berdejo directs this supernatural thriller centered on John James (Kevin Costner), who moves to the country to get a new start -- only to be confronted by a new nightmare when his daughter, Louisa (Ivana Baquero), begins acting stranger by the minute. With unsettling events besetting the South Carolina home, John begins to believe that something on the edge of the forest nearby might have the answers he needs.
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Ca$h
2010 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsFeeling lucky when a satchel full of greenbacks lands in their lap, a cash-strapped Chicago couple discovers that their big bonanza has a hefty price attached when a nasty criminal shows up looking for his jailed brother's lost money.
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The Horde
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhen four corrupt policemen invade a gangster's hideout near Paris to avenge the death of their colleague, they quickly find themselves outmanned, outgunned and trapped. That is, until a legion of vicious zombies swarms through the building.
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsThinking they've cooked up the perfect crime, Vic (Eddie Marsan) and Danny (Martin Compston) abduct young heiress Alice Creed (Gemma Arterton), only to find their surefire plan unraveling as they attempt to negotiate a tidy ransom in director J Blakeson's twisty thriller. As the steely Alice lies tethered to a bed, an escalating battle of wills -- and wits -- ensues when setbacks shift the balance of power.
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Girl by the Lake
2007 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWinner of 10 Donatello Awards, this intricate crime thriller follows inspector Giovanni Sanzio (Toni Servillo) as he leaves the big city behind to investigate the murder of a young woman in an alpine country village where startling secrets are buried. Nearing retirement and burdened with family problems, Sanzio is distracted at first but soon finds himself drawn deeper into the web of lies spread by villagers intent on concealing the truth.
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The Housemaid
2010 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsA wealthy family's new maid, Eun-yi (Do-yeon Jeon), attracts the attention of Hoon (Jung-Jae Lee), the man of the house, and a fiery affair develops between them. But although Hoon signs Eun-yi's checks, he's not the one controlling the relationship. One secret leads to another, until Eun-yi threatens to destroy the entire family. This update of the 1960 chiller was an Official Selection of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
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Love Crime
2010 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsFrench director Alain Corneau delivers a chilling tale of two ambitious women -- a senior executive and her eager young assistant -- whose professional appetites grow dangerously personal as they jockey for power.
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The Debt
2007 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsAs a young woman, Rachel Berner (Gila Almagor) is assigned with two other Israeli Mossad agents to apprehend a man wanted for heinous crimes in a Nazi concentration camp. But after capturing their target, the team unintentionally lets him escape. To conceal their blunder, the agents claim their captive killed himself. A willing public believes the story and hails the trio heroes. Decades later, however, their shameful lie is about to be revealed.
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Red Hill
2010 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsAfter being shot on duty, cop Shane Cooper moves to the quiet Outback town of Red Hill, where he finds himself up against an escaped convict. Shane's first day on the job turns into the worst day of his life as he tries to track down the killer.
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Undocumented
2010 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsAs five idealistic graduate students are shooting a documentary about illegal immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, they're confronted by a sadistic band of American vigilantes who give the young filmmakers' movie a surprising twist.
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Rapt
2009 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhen corporate figurehead Stanislas Graff is kidnapped and held for an absurd ransom of 50 million Euros, the police and powerful business he represents are forced to debate whether one man's life is worth that much money.
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The Bat
1959 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhen mystery writer Cornelia van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) summons him to her home -- a remote country manor recently ravaged by a serial killer known as The Bat -- Dr. Malcolm Wells (Vincent Price) discovers that a stolen fortune is hidden on the estate. Before long, sundry locals begin their own search for the loot, just as The Bat revives his vicious killing spree. Gavin Gordon co-stars in this vintage thriller from director Crane Wilbur.
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