| Noir (2001) | 7.2 | |
| Eesha (2025) | 9.4 | |
| Kaithi (2019) | 8.4 | |
| Darts (2021) | 9.0 | |
| Blues (2012) | 9.0 |
Tension movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant tension movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out tension, suspense, tense, suspenseful, serious and interesting films and TV shows about / with murder, danger, violence, blood, dialogue, storytelling, survival, death, fear and macabre plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as tension: Cape Fear (1962), Duel (1971), The China Syndrome (1979), Marathon Man (1976), Noir (2001), 36 Ghante (1974), A Quiet Place (2018), Cube (1997), The Collector (1965), Pushing Tin (1999).
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34K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Style:
neo noir, tense, noir, disturbing, tension ...
Plot:
psychopath, stalking, revenge, lawyer, danger, manic, murder, obsession, stalker, serial killer, family in danger, swamp ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia
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86K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Style:
road movie, creepy, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
car chase, desert, chase, truck, road rage, psychopath, driving, truck driver, duel, mysterious villain, on the road, pursuit ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
california, persia, usa, los angeles, canada
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style:
suspense, tension, suspenseful, political, tense ...
Plot:
reporter, conspiracy, investigation, power plant, radiation, politics, journalism, nuclear power, whistleblower, disaster, murder, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, southern california, pennsylvania
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tension, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, dentist, paranoia, espionage, revenge, torture, murder, chase, world war two, attempted murder, nazi, violent ...
Time:
20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, uruguay, paris france, persia ...
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Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Noir is a tale of assassins, in particular one named Mireille Bouquet, a contract killer who receives a message from a young girl with no memory about herself, but is an incredibly efficient killing machine. The story takes us on a pilgrimage to the ...
Style:
anime, tension, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female warrior, friendship, amnesia, uncover truth, obsessive quest, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, deathtrap, identity crisis, escapades, dishonesty, master warrior ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
corsica, france, paris france, europe
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180
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Three jailed convicts, Himmat, his brother Ajit, and Dilawar Khan break out of prison and take over the household of Editor Ashok Rai. The convicts will continue to hold the family hostage until their associate, Kamini contacts them in person.
Style:
tension, crime drama, suspense, neo noir, remake of american film ...
Plot:
home invasion, hostage, kidnapping, prison break, anti hero, escape, confrontation, criminal gang, danger, police investigation, showdown, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
mumbai india
Is relevant?
651K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style:
suspense, scary, disturbing, visually stunning, frightening ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
creature, post apocalypse, sign language, monster, survival, creature feature, silence, survival horror, deafness, fear, alien invasion, self sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s, near future, distant future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york state
Is relevant?
260K
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, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, group of strangers, mathematics, maze, survival horror, death, fear, game of death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, collector, loneliness, confined, woman in danger, danger, mentally unstable, dangerous attraction, stockholm syndrome, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
Style:
humorous, tension, intense, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
air traffic controller, air traffic control, rivalry, workplace, stress, panic, marital reconciliation, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, one night stand, blonde, marital separation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colorado, long island, new york, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
401K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money ...
Style:
dark comedy, neo noir, tense, talky, tension ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
gangster, flight attendant, stewardess, ex convict, airport, robbery, bail bondsman, deception, blaxploitation, female protagonist, arrest, heist ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, africa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On their way to a sailing trip, an aging husband and wife invite along an emphatic young hitchhiker out of sheer patronization.
Style:
ambiguous ending, art house, road movie, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
sailing, hitchhiker, swimming, drowning, rivalry, sailboat, lake, jealousy, adultery, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, taunting ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe, poland, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern is to gratify their mutual passion - until the day when Marianne invites her former lover and his ...
Style:
sexy, tension, erotic, sexual, neo noir ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
swimming pool, murder by drowning, nudity, cemetery, father daughter relationship, vacation, death by drowning, sports car, sexual attraction, drunken man, jealousy, chess ...
Time:
60s
Place:
french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, riviera, south of france ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style:
bloody, cult classic, tense, splatter, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, living dead, virus, survival, violence, post apocalypse, mad scientist, gory, zombie attack, survival horror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, pittsburgh, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, gory, survival, torture, fear, rape, victim, human monster, brutality, stranded, danger ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, usa
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America’s fight for independence.
Style:
period piece, captivating, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
american revolution, spy, colonial america, american history, george washington, espionage, political unrest, treason, rebelliousness, ambition, undercover, rivalry ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s, 1770s, georgian era
Place:
usa, new jersey, america, new york, connecticut
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted and believed in to ...
Style:
costume drama, exciting, historical drama, realistic, period piece ...
Plot:
musketeer, swords and armor, heroic mission, sword fight, danger, state affairs, partner, escapades, good versus evil, king, three musketeers, chivalry ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
france, paris france
Is relevant?
170K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, cerebral, confusing ...
Plot:
twists and turns, alternate reality, parallel world, parallel universe, time loop, quantum physics, disorder, friends, paranoia, paradox, isolation, dinner party ...
Time:
near future, year 2013, future, distant future, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
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197K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and ...
Style:
historical drama, stylized, exciting, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
time travel, fall in love, couples, love affair, true love, danger, life turned upside down, love and romance, battles, rivalry, escapades, couple relations ...
Time:
18th century, year 1945, 20th century, 1940s, georgian era
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands, britain, syria, europe ...
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296K
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:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, macabre, being followed, evil, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, supernatural being, peeping tom, swimming pool, death ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying ...
Style:
scary, suspense, bad ending, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, witch, supernatural horror, autopsy, morgue, witchcraft, nudity, mutilation, corpse, dead woman, supernatural power, mysterious death ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
new england, salem massachusetts, london
Is relevant?
162K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Adventurer James Keziah Delaney returns to London from Africa in 1814 along with fourteen stolen diamonds to seek vengeance after the death of his father.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, serious, rough, period piece ...
Plot:
british empire, family business, incest overtones, murder, brother sister incest, witchcraft, greed, adventurer, investigation, conspiracy, incest, dark secret ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom, syria, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, dark, emotional, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, pandemic, survival, virus, apocalypse, train, epidemic, zombie attack, survival horror, zombie apocalypse, living dead, undead ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, busan, china, indiana ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When terrorists try to seize control of a Berlin-Paris flight, a soft-spoken young American co-pilot struggles to save the lives of the passengers and crew while forging a surprising connection with one of the hijackers.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tension, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, flying, pilot, terrorist, empathy, violence, murder, airplane trip, save the day, capture, terrorist group, heroes ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
persia, berlin germany
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A tortured ex-Negotiator, once pride of the Boston Police Department is taken hostage in his home. A psychological confrontation takes place while the kidnappers demand that he completes a mysterious mission for them.
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological thriller, crime thriller, neo noir ...
Plot:
hostage, home invasion, kidnapping, redemption, manipulation, confrontation, coercion, survival, cat and mouse, trauma, moral ambiguity, mistrust ...
Place:
boston
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a deadly battle for survival, four women are hunted by a ruthless group of killers they accidentally stumble upon while camping.
Style:
tension, suspense, tense, dark, psychological terror
Plot:
survival, wilderness, mountain, manhunt, violence, cat and mouse, isolation, backpacking, camping, racism, revenge, thrill ride ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister ...
Style:
neo noir, intense, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, mafia, organized crime, st. patrick's day, undercover, irish gangster, homecoming, friendship, working undercover, irish mob, gunfight ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, ireland, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, usa ...
Is relevant?
472
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The daughter of an international tycoon is kidnapped by a trio of abductors who seek to mold her to their lifestyle.
Style:
tension, suspense, detective
Plot:
captivity, captive, brainwashing, hostage, kidnapping, mogul, unrequited love, daughter, shootout, nudity, sadism, death ...
Time:
year 1986
Place:
london
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Pilot Amelia Wren and scientist James Glaisher find themselves in an epic fight for survival while attempting to make discoveries in a hot air balloon.
Style:
tense, costume drama, exciting, period piece, suspense ...
Plot:
balloon, twists and turns, science, scientist, saving a life, weather, experiment, survival, scientific discovery, snow, victorian england, aviation ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1860s, future
Place:
england, britain, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic ...
Style:
tension, sexual, sexy, suspense
Plot:
accidental incest, vacation, brother sister sex, woman seduces a man, older man younger woman marriage, sex scene, female nudity, forbidden love, sea, brother sister incest, outdoor sex, nudity ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
Is relevant?
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