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Displaying Search Results: 111 Best Movies in Genre Thriller

Maharaja ( 2024 )

Genre:   Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  141

Country:  India

Language:  Tamil

Director:  Nithilan Saminathan

Writer:   Nithilan Saminathan

Stars:   Vijay Sethupathi | Anurag Kashyap | Mamta Mohandas | Natarajan Subramaniam

Plot:    A barber seeks vengeance after his home is burglarized, cryptically telling police his "lakshmi" has been taken, leaving them uncertain if it\'s a person or object. His quest to recover the elusive "lakshmi" unfolds.

Aliens ( 1986 )

Genre:   Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Runtime:  137

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  James Cameron

Writer:   James Cameron | David Giler | Walter Hill | Dan O'Bannon | Ronald Shusett | James Cameron

Stars:   Sigourney Weaver | Carrie Henn | Michael Biehn | Paul Reiser

Plot:    Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Idi i smotri ( 1985 )

Genre:   Drama | Thriller | War

Runtime:  142

Country:  Soviet Union

Language:  Belarusian | Russian | German

Director:  Elem Klimov

Writer:   Ales Adamovich | Elem Klimov

Stars:   Aleksey Kravchenko | Olga Mironova | Liubomiras Laucevicius | Vladas Bagdonas

Plot:    After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Die Hard ( 1988 )

Genre:   Action | Thriller

Runtime:  132

Country:  United States

Language:  English | German | Italian

Director:  John McTiernan

Writer:   Roderick Thorp | Jeb Stuart | Steven E. de Souza

Stars:   Bruce Willis | Bonnie Bedelia | Reginald VelJohnson | Paul Gleason

Plot:    A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Jaws ( 1975 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Runtime:  124

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Steven Spielberg

Writer:   Peter Benchley | Carl Gottlieb | Peter Benchley

Stars:   Roy Scheider | Robert Shaw | Richard Dreyfuss | Lorraine Gary

Plot:    When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Chinatown ( 1974 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  130

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Cantonese | Spanish

Director:  Roman Polanski

Writer:   Robert Towne | Roman Polanski

Stars:   Jack Nicholson | Faye Dunaway | John Huston | Perry Lopez

Plot:    A private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder.

Blade Runner ( 1982 )

Genre:   Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Runtime:  117

Country:  United States | United Kingdom

Language:  English | German | Cantonese

Director:  Ridley Scott

Writer:   Hampton Fancher | David Webb Peoples | Philip K. Dick

Stars:   Harrison Ford | Sean Young | Rutger Hauer | Edward James Olmos

Plot:    A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 )

Genre:   Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  125

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Sidney Lumet

Writer:   Frank Pierson | P.F. Kluge | Thomas Moore

Stars:   Penelope Allen | Sully Boyar | John Cazale | Beulah Garrick

Plot:    Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.

All the President's Men ( 1976 )

Genre:   Drama | History | Thriller

Runtime:  138

Country:  United States

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  Alan J. Pakula

Writer:   Carl Bernstein | Bob Woodward | William Goldman

Stars:   Dustin Hoffman | Robert Redford | Jack Warden | Martin Balsam

Plot:    "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon\'s resignation.

Sleuth ( 1972 )

Genre:   Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  138

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English | Italian

Director:  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Writer:   Anthony Shaffer | Anthony Shaffer

Stars:   Laurence Olivier | Michael Caine | Alec Cawthorne | John Matthews

Plot:    A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.

Threads ( 1984 )

Genre:   Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Runtime:  112

Country:  United Kingdom | Australia

Language:  English

Director:  Mick Jackson

Writer:   Barry Hines

Stars:   Karen Meagher | Reece Dinsdale | David Brierly | Rita May

Plot:    The effects of a nuclear holocaust on the working class city of Sheffield, England and the eventual long-term effects of nuclear war on civilization.

Dawn of the Dead ( 1978 )

Genre:   Horror | Thriller

Runtime:  127

Country:  United States | Italy

Language:  English | Spanish

Director:  George A. Romero

Writer:   George A. Romero

Stars:   David Emge | Ken Foree | Scott H. Reiniger | Gaylen Ross

Plot:    During an escalating zombie epidemic, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter and his TV executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

The Day of the Jackal ( 1973 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  143

Country:  United Kingdom | France

Language:  English | Italian | French

Director:  Fred Zinnemann

Writer:   Frederick Forsyth | Kenneth Ross

Stars:   Edward Fox | Terence Alexander | Michel Auclair | Alan Badel

Plot:    In the aftermath of France allowing Algeria\'s independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle.

Mississippi Burning ( 1988 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  128

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Alan Parker

Writer:   Chris Gerolmo

Stars:   Gene Hackman | Willem Dafoe | Frances McDormand | Brad Dourif

Plot:    Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists.

The Untouchables ( 1987 )

Genre:   Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  119

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Brian De Palma

Writer:   David Mamet | Oscar Fraley | Eliot Ness | Paul Robsky | Chip Miller

Stars:   Kevin Costner | Sean Connery | Charles Martin Smith | Andy Garcia

Plot:    During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.

Brazil ( 1985 )

Genre:   Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Runtime:  132

Country:  United Kingdom | United States

Language:  English

Director:  Terry Gilliam

Writer:   Terry Gilliam | Tom Stoppard | Charles McKeown | Charles Alverson

Stars:   Jonathan Pryce | Robert De Niro | Katherine Helmond | Ian Holm

Plot:    A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.

The King of Comedy ( 1982 )

Genre:   Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  109

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Martin Scorsese

Writer:   Paul D. Zimmerman

Stars:   Robert De Niro | Jerry Lewis | Diahnne Abbott | Sandra Bernhard

Plot:    Rupert is an aspiring stand-up comedian, who is willing to go the extra mile in his attempt to appear in the late night show hosted by his idol.

Halloween ( 1978 )

Genre:   Horror | Thriller

Runtime:  91

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  John Carpenter

Writer:   John Carpenter | Debra Hill

Stars:   Donald Pleasence | Jamie Lee Curtis | Nancy Kyes | P.J. Soles

Plot:    Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois, to kill again.

Sorcerer ( 1977 )

Genre:   Adventure | Drama | Thriller

Runtime:  121

Country:  United States | Mexico

Language:  English | Spanish | French

Director:  William Friedkin

Writer:   Walon Green | Georges Arnaud | William Friedkin

Stars:   Roy Scheider | Bruno Cremer | Francisco Rabal | Amidou

Plot:    Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.

3 Women ( 1977 )

Genre:   Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Runtime:  124

Country:  United States

Language:  English

Director:  Robert Altman

Writer:   Robert Altman | Patricia Resnick

Stars:   Shelley Duvall | Sissy Spacek | Janice Rule | Robert Fortier

Plot:    Two roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship.

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