The Mist (2007) | 7.1 | |
Alien (1979) | 8.5 | |
Scream (1996) | 7.4 | |
Halloween (1978) | 7.7 | |
The Sixth Sense (1999) | 8.2 |
Suspenseful movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant suspenseful movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, serious and dark films and TV shows about / with blood, twists and turns, death, murder, danger, macabre, fear, supernatural, survival and violence plots mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as suspenseful: Gone Girl (2014), Identity (2003), It Follows (2014), The Call (2013), Prisoners (2013), Misery (1990), Eden Lake (2008), The Game (1997), No Escape (2015), Snowpiercer (2013).
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1.1M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
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266K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, mental disorder, investigation, psychology, murderer, mental illness, motel, split personality, psychopath, rainstorm ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
nevada, usa, florida
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267K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, macabre, evil, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, sex, supernatural being, supernatural horror, peeping tom ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa
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129K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, danger, woman in danger, 911, psycho, murder, youth, chase, child abduction, panic ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Is relevant ?
800K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
Is relevant ?
234K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
insanity, obsession, psychopath, hostage, stephen king, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, isolation, torture, writers, obsessed fan ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa
Is relevant ?
94K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style:
suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
england, united kingdom, britain
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426K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
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92K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Style:
exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary ...
Plot:
survival, family in danger, coup d'etat, execution, riot, rebellion, violence, race against time, american abroad, revolution, danger, wrong place wrong time ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
asia, southeast asia, thailand, vietnam
Is relevant ?
387K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, thought provoking, allegory, philosophical ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, train, survival, distopia, dystopia, revolution, rebellion, end of the world, social differences, winter, capitalism, snow ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014 ...
Place:
britain, south korea, east asia
Is relevant ?
250K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
Is relevant ?
129K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, suspense, scary ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
time loop, twists and turns, ship, time travel, supernatural, ghost ship, isolation, ocean, insanity, gory, time paradox, macabre ...
Time:
year 2009, 1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1932 ...
Place:
oceania, miami, florida, caribbean
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383K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, emotional, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, epidemic, end of the world, post apocalypse, creature, blindness, fear, pursuit, survival horror, suicide, parents and children, characters murdered one by one ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant ?
47K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
domestic violence, abusive relationship, violence against women, self defense, violent husband, strong female character, abusive husband, life is a bitch, woman in danger, husband wife relationship, revenge, stalking ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, seattle, los angeles
Is relevant ?
171K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
airplane, twists and turns, kidnapping, missing child, conspiracy, female protagonist, family relations, flight attendant, little girl, mother daughter relationship, airplane accident, grief ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, persia, newfoundland, new york, germany
Is relevant ?
93K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Plot:
supernatural, evil child, demon, social worker, supernatural horror, twists and turns, child abuse, creepy child, uncover truth, mental institution, mysterious character, murder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
obsession, nanny, vengeance, sexual abuse, psychopath, malice, suicide, female psychopath, breast feeding, rivalry, haunted by the past, femme fatale ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, washington state, persia, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, uncover truth, life turned upside down, investigation, psychology, power relations, doctors and patients, false identity, domestic violence ...
Time:
90s, year 2014, year 2000, year 2007, year 2013 ...
Place:
london, england
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
lawyer, devil, supernatural, satan, deal with the devil, law firm, courtroom, greed, demon, law, courtroom drama, ambition ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant ?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
time travel, destiny, alternate reality, time loop, memory loss, parallel world, dealing with death, life & death, foreknowledge, deja vu, death, family problems ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant ?
246K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style:
psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Is relevant ?
74K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
psychic, mental illness, investigation, clairvoyant, small town, extrasensory perception, psychic power, murder, tarot card, fortune teller, violence, macabre ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Style:
suspense, scary, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, catacomb, underground, survival, archaeology, treasure hunt, claustrophobia, ancient mystery, confined, tunnel, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, iran
Is relevant ?
80K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, stranded, snow, survival horror, frostbite, ski resort, animal attack, winter, mountain, youth, danger ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
utah, antarctic
Is relevant ?
196K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, scary, lovecraft, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, outer space, supernatural, space station, spaceship, trapped in space, insanity, space and aliens, cosmic horror, hallucination, nightmare, rescue team ...
Time:
future, 90s, year 1997, 2040s, 21st century
Is relevant ?
1.8M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.
Style:
suspense, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
disappearance, infidelity, missing person, twists and turns, couples, social isolation, jealousy, captive, bunker, missing woman, strong sexual content, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, south america
Is relevant ?
263K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.
Style:
suspenseful, bad ending, harsh, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, animal attack, snow, hunting, wolf, dangerous animal, stranded, forces of nature, air disaster, struggle for survival, wolf attack ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
Is relevant ?
150K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, elderly, danger, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, sibling relationship, farm, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, basement ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, hacker, investigation, rape, murder mystery, sexual abuse, missing person, journalist, strong female character, twists and turns, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 60s, year 1966, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe, london
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