Best thriller movies

In the following page, you will see a ranking of the best thriller movies of all time. We have gathered the ratings of Imdb, Metacritic, Filmaffinity and crafted our own algorithm and generated the following ratings.

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1. Parasite (2019)

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. read more

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Metacritic Rating 96 /100 IMDB Rating 8.5 /10 Bmoat Rating 9.1 /10

2. Psycho (1960)

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. read more

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.4 /10 Metacritic Rating 97 /100 IMDB Rating 8.5 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.9 /10

3. Rear Window (1954)

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend. read more

Genres: Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.2 /10 Metacritic Rating 100 /100 IMDB Rating 8.5 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.9 /10

4. Vertigo (1958)

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. read more

Genres: Mystery, Romance, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.2 /10 Metacritic Rating 100 /100 IMDB Rating 8.3 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.8 /10

5. North by Northwest (1959)

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt. read more

Genres: Adventure, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.2 /10 Metacritic Rating 98 /100 IMDB Rating 8.3 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.8 /10

6. The Third Man (1949)

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. read more

Genres: Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.2 /10 Metacritic Rating 97 /100 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.7 /10

7. The Kashmir Files (2022)

A heart-wrenching tale that captures the pain, suffering, and struggle of the Kashmiri Pandit community in 1990 and leads Krishna, a young college student, to set out on a quest to uncover the truth. read more

Genre: Thriller

IMDB Rating 8.6 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.6 /10

8. Das Boot (1981)

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth and sheer terror. read more

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Metacritic Rating 86 /100 IMDB Rating 8.4 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.5 /10

9. Yojimbo (1961)

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. read more

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.0 /10 Metacritic Rating 93 /100 IMDB Rating 8.2 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.5 /10

10. Battleship Potemkin (1925)

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre. read more

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.0 /10 Metacritic Rating 97 /100 IMDB Rating 7.9 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.5 /10

11. The Lives of Others (2006)

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. read more

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.0 /10 Metacritic Rating 89 /100 IMDB Rating 8.4 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.4 /10

12. Chinatown (1974)

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

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 7.9 /10 Metacritic Rating 92 /100 IMDB Rating 8.2 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.4 /10

13. On the Waterfront (1954)

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims. read more

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.1 /10 Metacritic Rating 91 /100 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.4 /10

14. The Departed (2006)

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. read more

Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 7.9 /10 Metacritic Rating 85 /100 IMDB Rating 8.5 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.3 /10

15. M (1931)

When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. read more

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.3 /10 IMDB Rating 8.3 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.3 /10

16. Vikram (2022)

A high-octane action film where a special investigator is assigned a case of serial Killings, he finds the case is not what it seems to be and leading down this path is only going to end in a war between everyone involved. read more

Genres: Action, Thriller

IMDB Rating 8.3 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.3 /10

17. The Wages of Fear (1953)

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. read more

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.1 /10 Metacritic Rating 85 /100 IMDB Rating 8.2 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.3 /10

18. Persona (1966)

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together. read more

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.1 /10 Metacritic Rating 86 /100 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.3 /10

19. High Noon (1952)

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train. read more

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Western

Filmaffinity Rating 8.1 /10 Metacritic Rating 89 /100 IMDB Rating 8.0 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.3 /10

20. Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. read more

Genres: Film-Noir, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 7.6 /10 Metacritic Rating 94 /100 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10 Bmoat Rating 8.3 /10

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