Best Thriller Movies of 2022
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Best Thriller Movies of 2022
TOP Movies: Fall (2022), Watcher (2022), All the Old Knives (2022), Shattered (2022), The Ledge (2022), The Weekend Away (2022), No Exit (2022), The Outfit (2022), Smile (2022), The 355 (2022), Kimi (2022), Scream (2022), Speak No Evil (2022), Shut In (2022), Deep Water (2022), Windfall (2022), Echoes (2022), Barbarian (2022), The Good Neighbor (2022), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022).
List of Best Movies
65K
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
For best friends Becky and Hunter, life is all about conquering fears and pushing limits. But after they climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower, they find themselves stranded with no way down. Now Becky and Hunter’s expert ...
Style:
dramatic, touching, disturbing
Plot:
friendship, suspense, sport, survival, twists and turns, apocalypse, disaster, female friendship, remote location, waking up from a nightmare, husband, wife ...
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29K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
Style:
dark, scary, psychological, disturbing, slasher ...
Plot:
stalker, voyeurism, serial killer, strip club, suspense, paranoia, women, vampire, house, home invasion, woman, murder ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
romania, bucharest
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When the CIA discovers one of its agents leaked information that cost more than 100 people their lives, veteran operative Henry Pelham is assigned to root out the mole with his former lover and colleague Celia Harrison.
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing, thrilling ...
Plot:
conspiracy, suspense, investigation, spy, espionage, cia, cia agent, secret agents, undercover, mole, suspicion, secret past ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 2020s
Place:
vienna, california, dublin ireland, london, moscow russia
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Chris, a wealthy divorcee, lives in a high-tech house of his own design in Montana. His life changes when he meets Sky, a mysterious young woman who draws him out of his shell and moves in after Chris is injured.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense, psycho film
Plot:
rich, mysterious woman, trap, struggle for survival, family relations, relationships, husband wife relationship, suspense, rich man, love triangle, family in danger, marital problem ...
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Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A rock climbing adventure between two friends turns into a terrifying nightmare. After Kelly captures the murder of her best friend on camera, she becomes the next target of a tight-knit group of friends who will stop at nothing to destroy the ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological
Plot:
murder, mountain, survival, mountain climbing, struggle for survival, rock climbing, murder witness, death threat, threat to kill, climbing, murderer, witness ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When her best friend vanishes during a girls' trip to Croatia, Beth races to figure out what happened. But each clue yields another unsettling deception.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, weekend, murder investigation, murder mystery, disappearance, investigation, mysterious disappearance, accused of murder, girlfriend, framed for murder, suspense, travel ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
croatia, london
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27K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Stranded at a rest stop in the mountains during a blizzard, a recovering addict discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside the building which sets her on a terrifying struggle to identify who among them is the ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, slasher, dark
Plot:
snow, winter, suspense, isolation, kidnapping, trapped, escape, snowstorm, threat, trap, runaway, kidnapped child ...
Place:
sacramento california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town where he makes beautiful clothes for the only ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, slasher, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gangsters, tailor, gang, organized crime, mafia, suspense, mafioso, mob hit, criminal gang, changing lives, fighting crime, corruption ...
Time:
50s, year 1956
Place:
chicago illinois, london
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111K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past ...
Style:
psychological, scary, disturbing, mysterious, enigmatic ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
curse, supernatural power, murder, female protagonist, supernatural, going insane, suspense, demon, evil wins, fear, psychiatric ward, unhappy ending ...
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32K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A group of top female agents from American, British, Chinese, Columbian and German government agencies are drawn together to try and stop an organization from acquiring a deadly weapon to send the world into chaos.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, neo noir, surprise ending
Plot:
suspense, female agent, female protagonist, female spy, spy, secret agents, female assassin, female warrior, woman with a gun, mission, fight, undercover agent ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Place:
montmartre paris, berlin germany, paris france, shanghai, london ...
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34K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: she must leave her apartment.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, weird
Plot:
suspense, political conspiracy, pandemic, phobia, secret, murder investigation, murder, female protagonist, fear, assassination, agoraphobia, disaster ...
Place:
seattle, romania
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125K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
Style:
slasher, bleak, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, whodunit, sister sister relationship, psychopath, homicidal maniac, killing spree, sadistic psychopath, threatening telephone call, murder mystery, characters killed one by one, gory violence ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, disturbing
Audience:
date night
Plot:
male nudity, nanny, friendship, kidnapping, sex scene, travel, bus, fear, suspense, vacation gone wrong, bully, toxic masculinity ...
Place:
denmark, italy, netherlands
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young single mother is held captive along with her two children by a violent ex and must plot their escape before it’s too late.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, slasher
Plot:
suspense, escape, problem, locked in, locked in a room, locked door, jealousy, relationship problems, jealous man, female protagonist, struggle for survival, escape plan ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers ...
Style:
dark, disturbing, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
cheating wife, suspense, murder, infidelity, cuckold, sex scene, relationships, dysfunctional marriage, marriage, oral sex, small town, erotica ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
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24K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man breaks into a tech billionaire's empty vacation home, but things go sideways when the arrogant mogul and his wife arrive for a last-minute getaway.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thrilling, dark, neo noir ...
Plot:
vacation, money, thief, suspense, problem, escapades, privacy invasion, uninvited guest, rich man, marriage, billionaire, criminal ...
Time:
2020s
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513
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Julián Lemar, a best-selling suspense writer, goes on vacation with his family to a cabin in the woods. During a strong storm, the power goes out and a woman shows up desperately asking for help: her husband killed her son and now he wants to kill ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating
Plot:
cabin in the woods, family in danger, survival, threat, struggle for survival, trap, suspense, writers, killer, psychopath, night, rainstorm ...
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137K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style:
scary, slasher, psychological, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
basement, fear, female protagonist, kidnapping, psychopath, suspense, plot twist, locked in a basement, locked in a room, secret passageway, serial killer, house ...
Time:
80s, 2020s
Place:
detroit, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Latvia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A nightmarish evening unfolds for David, a former New York Times journalist, when he and his strange new neighbor Robert, accidentally hit a girl on her bike. Buzzed and disoriented, David lets Robert convince him to flee the scene and leave the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot:
suspense, murderer, neighbor, unlikely friendships, nosy neighbor, friendship between men, tragic event, life is a bitch, problem, neighbor neighbor relationship, friendship, murder ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
Story:
Twelve years after exploring Pandora and joining the Na’vi, Jake Sully has since raised a family with Neytiri and established himself within the clans of the new world. Of course, peace can only last so long. Especially when the military ...
Style:
breathtaking, futuristic, exciting, colourful, epic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
fantasy world, fight, heroes, alien, escapades, good versus evil, ocean, planet, mother son relationship, hopes, battles, disney ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, distant future
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317K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Unlucky assassin Ladybug is determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the ...
Style:
funny, tense, captivating, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
train, assassin, mission, fight, hitman, russian, tough guy, assignment, crew, passenger, luck, suspense ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan, kyoto japan, tokyo, mexico, johannesburg south africa ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The true story of the pursuit and capture of Charles Cullen, one of the most prolific serial killers in history, who is suspected of having murdered up to 400 patients during his 16-year career as a nurse, earning him the moniker "The Angel of ...
Style:
dramatic, psychological, dark
Plot:
serial killer, criminal, suspense, doctor, psychopath, investigation, killer, judiciary, mother daughter relationship, sport, nurse, murder of wife ...
Time:
year 2003, year 1998
Place:
pennsylvania, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Travis Block is a shadowy Government agent who specializes in removing operatives whose covers have been exposed. He then has to uncover a deadly conspiracy within his own ranks that reaches the highest echelons of power.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending ...
Plot:
hitman, fbi, one against many, blackmail, suspense, spy, fbi agent, abuse of power, political conspiracy, whistleblower, federal agent, covert operation ...
Time:
future, 2020s
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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206K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Plot unknown.
Style:
disturbing, scary, splatter, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, brother sister relationship, massacre, chimpanzee, monster, horse, african american, death of father, eaten alive, loss of father, suspense, ranch ...
Time:
future, year 1998, 2020s, year 1996, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, ...
Style:
psychological, serious, futuristic, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot:
housewife, oral sex, suspense, husband wife sex, feminism, women, bus, corruption, cult, post war, social satire, woman ...
Time:
50s, 2020s
Place:
california
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209K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, perverse, mysterious ...
Plot:
cia, hitman, assassin, gunfight, spy, agent, fight, murder, mission, killer, murderer, suspense ...
Time:
future, year 2003, 2000s, 2020s
Place:
prague, central europe, europe, china, bangkok thailand ...
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265K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A couple travels to a coastal island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Style:
atmospheric, splatter, art house, slasher, dark ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
food, perfectionist, food critic, obsession, restaurant, suspense, revenge, loyalty, burned alive, isolation, murder, travel ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Jordan, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Style:
dramatic
Plot:
serial killer, police, journalist, sex worker, serial murder, murder of a prostitute, prostitution, nude, street prostitution, true crime, corpse, hotel ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
iran
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940
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.
Style:
erotic, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, lesbian couple, lesbian seduction, forbidden love, love story, cheating wife, lgbt, lesbianism, lesbian lover ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological
Plot:
cave, soccer, suspense, rescue mission, survival, drowned, trap, saving a life, struggle for survival, trapped, deathtrap, daring rescue ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
thailand
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