Best British Thriller Movies of 2020

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Best British Thriller Movies of 2020
Best British Thriller Movies of 2020
TOP Movies: Tenet (2020), Promising Young Woman (2020), Greenland (2020), Surge (2020), His House (2020), Caveat (2020), Six Minutes to Midnight (2020), The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), The Northern Paradigm (2020), The Unfamiliar (2020), Unhinged (2020), Ghosts of War (2020), The Night House (2020), Tribal Get Out Alive (2020), Villain (2020), The Banishing (2020), Possessor (2020), Silent Night (2020), I Care a Lot (2020), Death Ranch (2020).

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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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 6.4
 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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 6.1
 4K
Surge (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation through London. After he robs a bank he releases a wilder version of himself, ultimately experiencing what it feels like to be alive.
Style: suspense, dramatic
Plot: self harm, mental disorder, mental illness, nervous breakdown, insanity, joyride, bazaar, breakdown, robbery, sex scene, chase, punched in the face ...
Place: london
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 6.5
 48K
His House (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, ghost, refugee, haunted, diaspora, folklore, haunted house, female warrior, husband wife relationship, death of daughter, stereotypes, survival ...
Time: 2020s
Place: africa, england
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 5.9
 7K
Caveat (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A lone drifter suffering from partial memory loss accepts a job to look after a psychologically troubled woman in an abandoned house on an isolated island.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: island, schizophrenia, suicide, memory loss, captivity, basement, memory, secret, supernatural horror, evil spirit, woman in danger, runaway ...
Time: 2020s
Place: ireland
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Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is ...
Style: political, suspense, disturbing, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: world war two, escape plan, against humanity, british secret service, nazism, danger, controversy, ideology, courage, political unrest, allies, world war ...
Time: 2020s, 1930s, year 1939
Place: england, europe, united kingdom, germany
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest — including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale ...
Style: political, factual, suspense, historical drama, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: courtroom drama, activist, hippie, injustice, riot, political repression, political protest, courtroom, jury, political persecution, court, legal ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, 2020s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: chicago, ohio, mississippi, oakland california, washington d.c. ...
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The Northern Paradigm (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Political thriller about an Iraq war veteran seeking the truth about his brother's death.
Style: thrilling, captivating, political thriller, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, political intrigue, murder investigation, political unrest, life is a bitch, politics, iraq war veteran, social problems, iraq veteran, war veteran, social issues, robbery ...
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The Unfamiliar (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A British Army doctor comes back from a war, thinking that she has PTSD only to discover that there is a more daunting malevolence at work making the life that she knew unfamiliar.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure, psychological
Plot: doctor, army, husband wife relationship, family relations, hallucination, relationship problems, post traumatic stress disorder, paranoia, fear, twists and turns, getting home, post traumatic stress ...
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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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 5.6
 12K
Ghosts of War (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of World War II American soldiers encounter a supernatural enemy as they occupy a French castle previously under Nazi control.
Style: captivating, mystical, suspense, exciting, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, wartime, military, ghost, vengeful ghost, puzzle, mysticism, supernatural, military life, supernatural power, soldier, american soldier ...
Time: 2020s, year 1944
Place: france
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The Night House (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Style: dark, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: occult, demonic possession, afterlife, grief, forest, depressed woman, suicide, ghost, widow, high school student, female protagonist, invisibility ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york state
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Tribal Get Out Alive (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After retiring from active duty, former elite military operative Caitlin Ross now runs a private security firm. She, however, becomes the target when her private security firm accepts a contract from a young millionaire.
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, tense, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, murder, danger, brutality, heist, robbery, fight, police officer, criminal, gunfight, investigation, law enforcement ...
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 5.9
 4K
Villain (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, rivalry, police, murder, debt, society, violence, escapades, family relations, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place: london
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The Banishing (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the 1930s, a young reverend and his family are forced to confront their worst fears when they discover their new home holds a horrifying secret.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted, occult, priest, paranormal investigation, paranormal investigator, paranormal activity, family in danger, husband wife relationship, partner, evil force ...
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 6.5
 45K
Possessor (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.
Style: tech noir, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, slasher ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, sociopath, murder, brutality, corporation, hallucination, mind control, virtual reality, sadism, technology, assassination attempt, suicide by cop ...
Time: 2020s, near future
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 5.0
 445
Silent Night (2020)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Mark, a low end South London hitman recently released from prison, tries to go straight for his daughter, but gets drawn back in by Alan, his former cellmate, to do one final job.
Style: intense, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: hitman, father daughter relationship, murder, rise and fall, redemption, prodigy, chases and races, friendship, loneliness, partners in crime, life philosophy, runaway ...
Place: london
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 6.4
 145K
I Care a Lot (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
Style: dark comedy, suspense, semi serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, con artists, con woman, guardian, lesbian love, female protagonist, lesbian relationship, manipulative woman, fraud, lgbt, escapades, diamonds ...
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 4.7
 538
Death Ranch (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: In 1970s America, three African-American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on the hunting grounds of a cannibalistic Ku Klux Klan cult. Trapped and tortured, the three must ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, bleak, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: ku klux klan, racism, revenge, refugee, african american, violent, psychopath, danger, brutality, characters killed one by one, serial murder, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa
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 4.9
 3K
Sacrifice (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Isaac and his pregnant wife visit a remote Norwegian village to claim an unexpected inheritance. The couple finds themselves caught in a nightmare when they encounter a sinister cult that worships a sea-dwelling deity.
Style: suspense, mystical, lovecraft, mysterious, enigmatic ...
Plot: island, occult, supernatural, lake, inheritance, family secret, homecoming, supernatural horror, family relations, dark past, mysticism, secret past ...
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 6.3
 18K
The Nest (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into ...
Style: suspense, serious, talky, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, husband wife sex, family relations, hidden money, mother daughter conflict, family life, ambition, husband wife conflict, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, american abroad, wealth ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, london
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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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Edge of Extinction (2020)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story: 15 years after a global apocalypse, mankind is on the verge of extinction. Civilisation no longer exists, food is scarce and most eke out a living by stealing and killing. One boy clings onto life in the desolate British countryside, where staying ...
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: post apocalypse, apocalypse, survivalist, end of the world, survivor, survival horror, characters in danger, survival, dystopian future, virus, society, panic ...
Time: future
Place: europe
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 3.5
 2K
Solitary (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse - his cell mate Alana is hell bent on destroying everything.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: prisoner, survival, stranded, peril, left for dead, struggle for survival, space and aliens, danger, escapades, couples, male protagonist, rescue ...
Time: future
Place: europe
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 5.2
 712
The Droving (2020)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A man returns from the military in search for his lost sister, who mysteriously went missing around the time of a strange traditional festival.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, scary, disturbing, bleak
Plot: occult, military, missing sister, soldier, loss of sister, festival, homecoming, strange person, strange behavior, mysterious disappearance, brother sister relationship
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 3.6
 2K
Dune Drifter (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When the trainee pilot and her mortally wounded gunner are shot down, they crash land on a nearby planet. An enemy craft offers the chance of spare parts to fix her ship, but then she spots another survivor - an enemy alien soldier with no intention ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot: distant planet, rescue, struggle for survival, danger, chase, survival, escapades, peril, youth, astronaut, chases and races, left for dead ...
Time: future
Place: europe
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 6.0
 46K
Rebecca (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
Style: suspense, psychological, gothic, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: estate, widower, second wife, investigation, manipulation, haunted by the past, obsession, incest, incestuous relationship, housekeeper, mansion, aristocrat ...
Time: 20th century, 2020s, victorian era, 1930s
Place: cornwall, england, french riviera, monte carlo
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You Should Have Left (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear ...
Style: suspense, mystical, splatter, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murderer, drowning, house, family life, time loop, jealous husband, nightmare, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, missing child, husband wife conflict, countryside ...
Time: 2020s
Place: wales, london, mexico, new york
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 3.6
 565
Playhouse (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Reckless Jack Travis is an irreverent horror writer notorious for scaring audiences. But as he obsesses over creating a new theatre show set in a haunted Scottish castle, demonic disturbances from deep within the walls begin to prey on his troubled ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, rough, scary
Plot: supernatural, writers, writer's life, house warming, life & death, danger, legend, brutality, unfulfillment, obsession, novelist, deal with the devil ...
Place: scotland
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