Best American Thriller Movies of 2020

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Best American Thriller Movies of 2020
Best American Thriller Movies of 2020
TOP Movies: I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), Tenet (2020), Promising Young Woman (2020), Run (2020), Greenland (2020), The Old Guard (2020), Honest Thief (2020), Freaky (2020), Underwater (2020), Dangerous Lies (2020), Extraction (2020), Unhinged (2020), Fatale (2020), The Courier (2020), Dual Mania (2020), The Devil All the Time (2020), Bad Boys for Life (2020), Captors (2020), The Neighbor in the Window (2020).

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, psychological, surreal ...
Plot: dementia, suicide, high school, winter, farm, snow, relationships, estrangement, road trip, parents and children, haunted by the past, waitress ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: america
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, alien, creature, survival horror, deaf, silence, survival, monster, deafness, alien invasion, child in peril, macabre ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, near future
Place: new york, usa, new york state, atlantic ocean, america
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 7.3
 584K
Tenet (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Plot unknown. The project is described as an action epic revolving around international espionage.
Style: unusual plot structure, suspense, twist ending, mind blowing, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: time paradox, time travel, time, time loop, cia agent, alternate timeline, quantum physics, terrorism, save the world, espionage, propaganda, time traveler ...
Time: future, 2020s, 2010s
Place: mumbai india, los angeles, india, vietnam, london ...
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Promising Young Woman (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman haunted by a tragedy in her past takes revenge on the predatory men unlucky enough to cross her path.
Style: disturbing, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, rape, rape and revenge, revenge from beyond the grave, medical school, feminist, unpunished crime, violence, death of friend, chauvinism, sexual predator, oral sex ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ohio, nebraska, new york
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 6.7
 95K
Run (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: overprotective parent, mother daughter relationship, bad mother, kidnapping, revenge, teenage girl, single mother, disability, lie, teenage life, woman in a wheelchair, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2020s
Place: seattle, washington state
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 6.4
 132K
Greenland (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style: suspense, exciting, scenic, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, diabetic, comet, panic, mass destruction ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: greenland, canada, kentucky, atlanta georgia, beirut lebanon ...
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 6.7
 182K
The Old Guard (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Four immortal mercenaries who've secretly protected humanity for centuries become targeted for their mysterious powers just as they discover a new immortal.
Style: visually appealing, action adventure, exciting, captivating, futuristic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: immortality, strong female lead, immortal, superhero, black ops, female protagonist, female killer, female warrior, gay, tough girl, regeneration, assassination attempt ...
Time: middle ages, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, hawaii, london, france, morocco ...
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 6.0
 57K
Honest Thief (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bank robber tries to turn himself in because he's falling in love and wants to live an honest life...but when he realizes the Feds are more corrupt than him, he must fight back to clear his name.
Style: exciting, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: thief, bandit, bank robbery, safecracking, love, danger, fbi, breaking and entering, murder, chase, police, bank robber ...
Time: future, 2020s
Place: boston
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 6.3
 71K
Freaky (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.
Style: slasher, horror comedy, entertaining, humorous, not serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, body swapping, violence, body swap, switching roles, gender bending, switching bodies, body transformation, dark humor, blood, friendship between teens, masked killer ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 5.9
 96K
Underwater (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, lovecraft, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: underwater, creature, monster, giant monster, water, sea monster, creature feature, animal attack, earthquake, ocean, survival, destruction ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: pacific ocean
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 5.4
 19K
Dangerous Lies (2020)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After losing her waitressing job, Katie Franklin takes a job as a caretaker to a wealthy elderly man in his sprawling, empty Chicago estate. The two grow close, but when he unexpectedly passes away and names Katie as his sole heir, she and her ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, exciting, enigmatic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: evil, dishonesty, deception, wealth, suspicion, estate, lie, money, greed, manipulation, supernatural, fear ...
Time: 2020s, future
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 6.8
 260K
Extraction (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Tyler Rake, a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market, embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord…
Style: suspenseful, exciting, tense, action thriller, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: manly, chick flick
Plot: mercenary, rescue mission, one against many, kidnapping, one man army, ex special forces, machismo, tough guy, death threat, swat team, jungle, child ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: india, bangladesh, australia, mumbai india
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 6.0
 76K
Unhinged (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A case of road rage turns into full-blown terror when an unstable driver follows a woman and her son.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, road movie ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: psychopath, road rage, pursuit, driving, mentally unstable, maniac, survival, stalking, highway, woman in danger, stalker, brutality ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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 5.4
 14K
Fatale (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A married man is tricked into a murder scheme by a female police detective.
Style: suspense, intense, disturbing, psychological, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot: marital infidelity, seduction, extramarital affair, married man, sex scene, female psychopath, fraud, male objectification, seductress, sex, psychological manipulation, redemption ...
Time: 2020s
Place: las vegas
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 7.2
 73K
The Courier (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, scary, touching ...
Plot: cold war, spy, russian spy, cuban missile crisis, counter intelligence, agent, reconnaissance, espionage, politics, real life, secret agent, special agent ...
Time: 2020s, 1950s, year 1960, 60s, year 1962 ...
Place: germany, london, cuba, moscow russia, langley virginia ...
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 8.1
 36
Dual Mania (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A psychological suspense thriller dealing with the dual persona a young man possesses and attempts to conceal throughout his ongoing sessions with his therapist.
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: dark hero, schizophrenia, good versus evil, violence, sexual murder, disturbed individual, doctors and patients, psychology, split personality, family problems, dissociative identity disorder, psychotherapy ...
Place: chicago
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The Devil All the Time (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In the 1960s after World War II in Southern Ohio, bizarre, compelling and mentally disturbed people suffer from the war's psychological damages.
Style: suspense, neo noir, gothic, southern gothic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, post war, murder, stepbrother stepsister relationship, psycho, small town, sheriff, violence, boy, reverend, suicide, world war two ...
Time: year 1957, 2020s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: west virginia, ohio
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Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Marcus Burnett is now a police inspector and Mike Lowery is in a midlife crisis. They unite again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother they killed, promises them an important bonus.
Style: buddy comedy, humorous, action comedy, tense, captivating ...
Plot: buddy cop, police, police detective, police partner, chase, buddy, police chase, investigation, tough guy, murder, friendship between men, drug lord ...
Time: 2020s, year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, north america, mexico city, mexico
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Captors (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapped, survival, threat, kidnapped woman, deathtrap, murderer, trapped, trap, kidnapping, struggle for survival, paranoid ...
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The Neighbor in the Window (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A suburban wife who finds herself and the security of her family threatened by another seemingly friendly neighborhood mom.
Style: disturbing, dark, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: couple relations, fear, family relations, twists and turns, neighbor, nightmare comes true, lifestyle, family life, trapped, parents and children, characters in danger, surveillance ...
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 5.6
 818
What We Found (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Close friends Marcus and Holly begin their freshman year at a tough public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland. When Cassie, a well liked senior at the school, disappears suspiciously, both of their lives change forever. Together, will they ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense, psychological
Plot: best friend, bullying, friendship, friends, gossip and rumors, youth, parent child relationship, haunted by the past, twists and turns, small town, suburbs, dark secret ...
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We Still Say Grace (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The teenage daughter of a religious fanatic attempts to escape her twisted family life when three strangers break down near their remote farmhouse and interrupt her father's delusional family suicide pact.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: suicide, religions or cults, religious fanaticism, problem, faith, father daughter relationship, mass suicide, religious cult, family relations, religious fanatic, religion, stranger ...
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 6.3
 6K
Rent-A-Pal (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother. While seeking a partner through a video dating service, he discovers a strange VHS tape called Rent-A-Pal. Hosted by the ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, technology, past, 40 year old, bachelor, caregiver, dying man, mental illness, missing mother, man with glasses, mental breakdown, loneliness ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 2020s, year 1976
Place: denver colorado
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Grandma Dearest (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Barbara wants nothing more than to be a grandmother. When her son, Ethan, meets Kendall, a divorced mother of two, Barbara quickly becomes an ever-present force in their lives. Unannounced visits escalate to murder, and Barbara will do anything to ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: grandmother, mentally unstable, mother in law daughter in law relationship, dysfunctional family, psychopath, female psychopath, family problems, mental institution, mental illness, kids and family, mental patient, grandmother grandson relationship ...
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Sniper: Assassin's End (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Special Ops sniper Brandon Beckett is set up as the primary suspect for the murder of a foreign dignitary on the eve of signing a high-profile trade agreement with the United States. Narrowly escaping death, Beckett realizes that there may be a dark ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sniper, cia agent, intelligence agency, gunslinger, mercenary, murder suspect, father son relationship, fight for justice, killer, assassin, murder witness, gang ...
Place: vancouver, langley virginia
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 6.0
 97K
Project Power (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An ex-soldier, a teen and a cop collide in New Orleans as they hunt for the source behind a dangerous new pill that grants users temporary superpowers.
Style: suspense, psychotronic, action thriller, suspenseful, intellectual ...
Plot: experimental drug, superpower, superhuman powers, drug lord, super powers, mad scientist, police, superhero, evolution, strength, alligator, police officer ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: mississippi, new orleans
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Chronicle of a Serial Killer (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: What goes through the mind of a serial killer as he meticulously plots his crimes, researching his victims and entrapping them while they are none the wiser?
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: serial killer, killer, murder investigation, murderer, female victim, deathtrap, criminal, murder victim, murder, trap, crime investigation, serial murder ...
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The Au Pair Nightmare (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: secret, family relations, family problems, housewife, dark past, dysfunctional family, family secret, female protagonist, babysitter, couples, tied feet
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The Midnight Sky (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: space travel, space station, astronaut, survival, post apocalypse, nuclear radiation, space colony, scientist, spaceship, space exploration, snow, space ...
Time: 2020s, 2040s, 21st century
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 6.7
 35K
Let Him Go (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
Style: suspense, emotional, brutal, tense, rough ...
Plot: horse, grief, grandson, father in law daughter in law relationship, husband wife relationship, brutality, abusive husband, death, sheriff, retired, fight, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1952
Place: north dakota, montana
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