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 intense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, serious, psychological and clever films and TV shows about / with storytelling, suspense, blood, dialogue, death, twists and turns, mentor, chase, police investigation and catastrophe plots mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
suspenseful
TOP 10 movies tagged as suspenseful: Gone Girl (2014), Prisoners (2013), A Perfect Getaway (2009), Enough (2002), The Call (2013), The Gift (2000), The Game (1997), Dream House (2011), Misery (1990), Identity (2003).
Best films
List of suspenseful movies
998K
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, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, suspense, missing person, investigation, infidelity, murder mystery, marriage, manipulation, psychology, adultery, missing wife, disappearance ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york, missouri, st. louis missouri
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733K
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, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, revenge, police investigation, torture, vigilantism, brutality, serial killer, police, vengeance, twists and turns, missing child ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, boston, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, murderous pair, psychopath, honeymoon, wilderness, island, twists and turns, suspense, paranoia, murder, deception, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania
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45K
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, psychological, serious, intense, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
domestic violence, abusive relationship, self defense, violence against women, violent husband, strong female character, abusive husband, life is a bitch, woman in danger, husband wife relationship, revenge, stalking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, seattle, los angeles
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125K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 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:
suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, tense, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, suspense, investigation, 911, woman in danger, psycho, murder, youth, chase, child abduction, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Is relevant ?
71K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 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, twist ending, scary, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, extrasensory perception, mental illness, psychic, suspense, murder, psychic power, clairvoyant, fortune teller, tarot card, foreknowledge ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
georgia, usa, southern usa
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405K
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, twist ending, suspenseful, intellectual ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, manipulation, suspense, mind game, game, uncover truth, scheme, life turned upside down, life philosophy, existentialism, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, mexico, seattle
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twists and turns, haunted house, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, suspense, murder, mental patient, ghost, nervous breakdown, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
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218K
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, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
insanity, obsession, psychopath, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, hostage, female psychopath, isolation, obsessed fan, torture, rage ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
colorado, usa
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254K
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, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, mental disorder, suspense, murder mystery, psychology, investigation, murderer, murder, stranded, twists and turns, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
nevada, usa, florida
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, War
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same ...
Style:
futuristic, mind bending, exciting, suspenseful, heroic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, alien invasion, alien, soldier, military, battles, invasion, repeated event, changing the past or future, time paradox, evil alien ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
france, paris france, united kingdom, europe, big ben london ...
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76K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, 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, scary, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
survival, isolation, suspense, snow, stranded, ski resort, frostbite, survival horror, winter, sole survivor, mountain, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant ?
120K
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:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
time loop, twists and turns, ship, suspense, time travel, supernatural, ocean, ghost ship, isolation, insanity, macabre, castaway ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1932, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, caribbean
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1.7M
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:
suspenseful, surprise ending, disturbing, scary, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, insanity, police investigation, murder, suspense, killings, sin ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, dark ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, suspense, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, murder investigation, mind game, brutality, fbi ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, maryland, chicago illinois, memphis, baltimore ...
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279K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, confusing, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, suspense, hotel, haunted house, supernatural, isolation, fear, survival, evil, insanity, trapped, writers ...
Time:
15th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city
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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, suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, suspense, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, memory, life turned upside down, investigation, uncover truth, psychology, doctors and patients, domestic violence ...
Time:
90s, year 2013, year 1999, year 2007, 2000s ...
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
scary, suspenseful, dark, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, underground, survival, catacomb, archaeology, ghost, ancient mystery, cult, treasure hunt, confined, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, iran
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236K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, 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:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
orphan, suspense, adoption, killer child, murder, twists and turns, female psychopath, mysterious character, parents and children, fear, serial killer, family in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
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163K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, scary, surprise ending, depressing ...
Plot:
survival, trapped, suspense, confined, buried alive, isolation, terrorist, captivity, claustrophobia, deathtrap, twists and turns, characters in danger ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
iraq, middle east
Is relevant ?
88K
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:
disturbing, scary, slasher, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, kids, boys' night
Plot:
survival, torture, suspense, forest, fear, youth, camping, chase, gang, murder, strong violent content, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, united kingdom
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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, tense, serious, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, suspense, psychopath, nanny, vengeance, twists and turns, manipulation, sexual abuse, malice, domestic disturbance, home invasion, suicide ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, washington state, san francisco, usa, new york
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, investigation, mental illness, insanity, suspense, plot twist, psychology, paranoia, psychiatrist, mental institution, memory, isolation ...
Time:
year 1954, 1940s, year 1945, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place:
boston
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
ghost, twists and turns, supernatural, afterlife, suspense, psychology, death, psychiatrist, life & death, plot twist, child, boy ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
Is relevant ?
186K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, scary, futuristic, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, supernatural, trapped in space, space, insanity, space station, hallucination, space and aliens, nightmare, rescue team, survival, astronaut ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 21st century
Is relevant ?
165K
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:
psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, exciting, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
airplane, suspense, kidnapping, missing child, twists and turns, conspiracy, female protagonist, disappearance, family relations, child, pilot, rain ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, newfoundland, new york
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617K
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
survival, alien, space travel, distant planet, space, androids, space and aliens, mission, spacecraft, alien life-form, mysterious planet, monster ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Is relevant ?
89K
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 ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, evil child, supernatural horror, social worker, mysterious character, demon, child abuse, uncover truth, twists and turns, murder, mental institution, evil force ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, gothic, mysterious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, plot twist, occult, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural horror, twists and turns, suspense, ritual, black magic, macabre, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
survival, nature, camping, wilderness, forest, dangerous animal, suspense, bear, isolation, bear attack, lost, lost in the woods ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
canada, ontario canada
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