| The Indian Story (2024) | 8.6 | |
| TURN: Washington's Spies (2014) | 8.1 | |
| Noir (2001) | 7.2 | |
| I Am God (2025) | 9.0 | |
| Blues (2012) | 9.0 |
Tension movies and TV shows – page 2
Best films
New films
| Premante (2025) | 6.2 | |
| Clika (2026) | 5.9 | |
| Kayikci (2025) | 6.0 | |
| Blind Sherlock (2026) | 6.6 | |
| Woodwalkers 2 (2026) | 5.7 |
List of tension movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
TV show
Story:
A story of two opposing women entangled and intertwined by love. Is there a way that one of them can accept exactly from where did they belong?
Style:
tension, soap opera, suspense
Plot:
criminal, insecurity, funeral, hysteria, restaurant, feud, swimming pool, controversy, love, betrayal, mansion, desperation ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sammy fights to survive.
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
alien, cat, alien invasion, survival, disaster, monster, silence, extraterrestrial, parents, eaten alive, pizza, survival horror ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york, harlem, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion ...
Style:
tension, cult classic, offbeat, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
fashion, rock, jazz, pop music, fashion show, dance, dancing, british, rock and roll, gay, musician, model ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, year 1958, post world war two ...
Place:
london, england, europe, mount everest, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Croatia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
With the mayoral election approaching, Emre, the newly-appointed state prosecutor of the small Turkish town of Yaniklar, which is suffering from a water supply crisis, gradually descends into trouble after a young local woman is raped.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
investigation, prosecutor, gay, water shortage, drugged, corruption, politics, cultural difference, violence, gay interest, small town, crime investigation ...
Place:
turkey, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
bomb squad, counter terrorism, terrorist, war on terror, terrorist attack, race against time, bomb, female protagonist, terrorism, police, women, workplace situations ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
london, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In an isolated family mansion, a group of rich 20-somethings decides to play Bodies Bodies Bodies, a game where one of them is secretly a "killer" while the rest tries to "escape". Things take a turn for the worse when real ...
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, suspense, minimal cast, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
party, rain, paranoia, whodunit, drug addict, lesbian, cocaine, sword, infidelity, mansion, satire, contest ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Swaying Waterlily
Style:
tension, suspense
Plot:
female friendship, bourgeoisie, envy, jealous woman, female writer, loveless marriage, everyday life, hypocrisy, shallowness, capitalism, foreplay, domestic drama ...
Place:
turkey
Is relevant?
104
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Story of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.
Style:
tension, realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching ...
Plot:
seaside, social relations, friends, couples, love and romance, couple relations, social differences, family life, single, nosy neighbor, store, dog ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A new Soviet nuclear missile sub (a Boomer) heading out on her maiden voyage that is being tracked by a Los Angeles class American submarine suddenly goes silent and "disappears". This focuses the attention of both U.S. Intelligence and ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, political, exciting, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
submarine, cold war, navy, espionage, spy, nuclear threat, politics, cold war era, water, cia, nuclear submarine, torpedo ...
Time:
80s, year 1990, year 1984, 20th century
Place:
russia, washington d.c., usa, atlantic ocean, maine ...
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Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Louisiana wedding of debutante Phoebe Ann Naylor to Don Andrea de Baldasar, El Duce de la Casala is stopped by the Cavalry over a matter of honor. Don Andrea flees across the river to Texas, where he meets up with Sam Hollis and his Indian ...
Style:
tension, slapstick, funny, parody, exciting ...
Plot:
male male relationship, snake, duel, indian war, nobleman, wild west, comanche indian, romantic rivalry, lonely, talk show host, native american, rivalry ...
Time:
year 1966, 19th century, 1840s
Place:
texas, austin texas, louisiana, usa, turkey
Is relevant?
26K
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, black and white, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
father son relationship, housekeeper, small town, dysfunctional family, redemption, rancher, womanizer, underage drinking, jukebox, sexual assault, rodeo cowboy, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 50s, 1950s
Place:
texas, midwest, austin texas, america, usa ...
Is relevant?
35K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four criminals from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of unstable nitroglycerin across dangerous jungle.
Style:
road movie, neo noir, political, existential, tension ...
Plot:
terrorist, survival, jungle adventure, driver, criminal, oil, existentialism, on the road, trucker, politics, expedition, road trip ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
south america, bolivia, central america, new jersey, paris france ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles District Attorney (Gene Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States from Canada to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hit men sent to ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, hitman, mafia, witness protection, testimony, police investigation, gangster, chase, organized crime, train travel, danger, district attorney ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, canada, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
cold war, submarine, navy, nuclear submarine, radiation, courage, underwater, radiation sickness, nuclear, radioactivity, sea, sea disaster ...
Time:
60s, year 1989, year 2002, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
soviet union, nova scotia, russia, moscow russia, atlantic ocean ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A father on vacation wakes up separated from his family and races through the woods to find them.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
woods, danger, violence, memory loss, murder, chase, forceful separation, serial killer, holiday horror, hidden truth, violent content, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indonesia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel, UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.
Style:
erotic, sentimental, touching, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
child prodigy, teacher, kindergarten, poetry, mission, little boy, genius, female warrior, student, art, husband wife relationship, talent ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Moscow. High rise. Here, on the 12th floor, is the office of the call center "Online Store for Adults". One morning, twelve people who are in the office suddenly find out that there is a bomb in the room. The voices of the unknowns who ...
Style:
psychological, tension, mysterious, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot:
psychological abuse, call center, trapped in a building, fear, sadistic psychopath, sadist, trauma, insane, sexual humiliation, sexual torture, terror, torture ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Is relevant?
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a true story.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, fog, cabin in the woods, conversation, haunted by the past, death, drunkenness, ghost, zombie, man killed, all male cast ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, georgian era
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Style:
realistic, hood, psychological, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
police, gang, gangster, hip hop, buddy cop, chase, gunfight, mafia, urban, cop, gang member, partner ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, venice beach california ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
A film about the life and career of the African American abolitionist and slave escape leader, Harriet Tubman.
Style:
tension, political, suspense
Plot:
slavery, african american, civil war, racism, black, abolitionist, underground railroad, black history, black cast, american civil war, liberation theology, civil rights ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
maryland, america, africa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
Style:
slasher, tension, suspense, twisted, controversial ...
Plot:
home invasion, sexual humiliation, female nudity, oral sex, female victim, forced sexual contact, serial killer, exploitation, killing spree, ira, violence, money ...
Place:
ireland, belfast, northern ireland
Is relevant?
146
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.
Style:
tension, reflective, suspense
Plot:
blaxploitation, rape, death, doctor, love, murder, revenge, african american, interracial relations, amateur sleuth, cross cultural relations, confrontation ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The somewhat frigid Marie falls in love with a man who, as it turns out, seems to have an unhealthy obsession with nuns. Could a childhood trauma have something to do with it?
Style:
tension, slasher, independent film, psycho sexual, suspense
Plot:
nun, wedding, exploitation, mother child relationship, first sex, killer, nudity, mother daughter relationship, driving, church wedding, bachelor, parents daughter relationship ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A successful career woman is raped by a prominent lawyer. However, when she takes the case to court, it results in a hung jury. When the DA's office declines to retry the case, the lawyer opts to sue the woman for malicious prosecution and ...
Style:
realistic, intense, suspense, tension
Plot:
rape, trauma, legal battle, courtroom drama, sexual assault, anger, female protagonist, psychological abuse, testimony, sexism, courtroom, public humiliation ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The fate of everyone onboard a stricken airplane depends on not only finding someone who can fly the plane, but also someone who DIDN'T have fish for dinner.
Style:
tense, suspense, period piece, tension
Plot:
airplane, air disaster, survival, crash landing, heroism, claustrophobia, food poisoning, panic, ethical dilemma, rescue, airport, suspicion ...
Time:
60s
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The exciting adventures of an 11-year-old tomboy growing up in the Wisconsin frontier of the 1860s. Based on the children's book.
Style:
tension, suspense
Audience:
kids
Plot:
girl dog relationship, father daughter relationship, dog, prank, girl, mother daughter relationship, boy, massacre, horse, flowers, family relations, boy and dog ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century, 1800s
Place:
wisconsin, boston
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Victor is a struggling playwright and theater director and his girlfriend Mary is expecting their first child. He has a temporary job in construction to make ends meet, but the dusty, dirty job exhausts him. Across town, Mary is a manager in a tony ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, sincere, contemplative, tension
Plot:
husband wife relationship, couples, double life, suburbs, secret relationship, pregnancy, suffering, urban setting, twists and turns, resentment, theatre director, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
Style:
captivating, suspense, touching, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
subconscious, escape, desert, escape attempt, time paradox, mind game, plot twist, man versus machine, father son relationship, prisoner, computer, political prisoner ...
Time:
near future
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel ...
Style:
gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, gothic, tension ...
Plot:
jekyll and hyde, mad scientist, serial killer, gender bending, femme fatale, split personality, gender bender, alter ego, brother sister relationship, transformation, experiment, evil woman ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1880s, year 1971, 70s
Place:
london, europe, england
Is relevant?
528
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A hiker finds shelter in a mountain lodge inhabited by two strange women.
Style:
tension, thrilling, suspenseful, mystical, psychological
Plot:
insanity, lesbian rape, cruelty, fear, mysticism, women, forced orgasm, rape, assault, rage, bare butt, female nudity ...
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