Genre: Thriller
Find the best movies, series, and documentaries in the Thriller genre. Discover the most popular titles among fans and critics.
The Wire (TV Series)
2002 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction David Simon · Joe Chappelle · Ernest R. Dickerson · Clark Johnson
Cast Dominic West · Lance Reddick · Sonja Sohn · Clarke Peters
Plot TV Series (2002-2008). 5 Seasons. 60 episodes. This unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of...
8.9
46K votes
8.9
46K votes
Breaking Bad (TV Series)
2008 · Series · 45 min. · United States
Direction Vince Gilligan · Michelle MacLaren · Adam Bernstein · Colin Bucksey
Cast Bryan Cranston · Aaron Paul · Anna Gunn · Dean Norris
Plot TV Series (2008-2013). 5 Seasons. 62 Episodes. Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn)...
8.8
99K votes
8.8
99K votes
Pulp Fiction
1994 · Movie · 153 min. · United States
Direction Quentin Tarantino
Cast John Travolta · Samuel L. Jackson · Uma Thurman · Bruce Willis
Plot The film interweaves three tales: the first story focuses on Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), two hit men on duty for "the big boss," Marsellus...
8.6
199K votes
8.6
199K votes
True Detective (TV Miniseries)
2014 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Nic Pizzolatto · Cary Joji Fukunaga
Cast Matthew McConaughey · Woody Harrelson · Michelle Monaghan · Michael Potts
Plot TV Series (2014). 8 Episodes. Two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, lives become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana... True Detective is a new...
8.5
62K votes
8.5
62K votes
The Sopranos (TV Series)
1999 · Series · 50 min. · United States
Direction David Chase · Timothy Van Patten · John Patterson · Allen Coulter
Cast James Gandolfini · Edie Falco · Lorraine Bracco · Michael Imperioli
Plot TV Series (1999-2007). 6 Seasons. 86 Episodes. The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano (James...
8.5
56K votes
8.5
56K votes
Goodfellas
1990 · Movie · 148 min. · United States
Direction Martin Scorsese
Cast Ray Liotta · Robert De Niro · Joe Pesci · Lorraine Bracco
Plot As a poor Irish-Italian growing up in 1950s New York City, Henry Hill rises through the ranks of his Brooklyn neighborhood's crime branch, and with money from the mob he...
8.4
110K votes
8.4
110K votes
High and Low
1963 · Movie · 143 min. · Japan
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yutaka Sada · Takashi Shimura
Plot It is the story of Gondo, a shoe company executive (Toshirô Mifune) planning a boardroom intrigue to gain control of the company. He has raised the capital for his plan,...
8.4
9K votes
8.4
9K votes
Psycho
1960 · Movie · 109 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Anthony Perkins · Janet Leigh · John Gavin · Vera Miles
Plot Office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. One Friday Marion is entrusted with $40,000 to take to the bank. Seeing the opportunity to...
8.4
106K votes
8.4
106K votes
Double Indemnity
1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United States
Direction Billy Wilder
Cast Fred MacMurray · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward G. Robinson · Tom Powers
Plot Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife (Barbara Stanwyck) encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent (Fred MacMurray)....
8.4
32K votes
8.4
32K votes
M
1931 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany
Direction Fritz Lang
Cast Peter Lorre · Otto Wernicke · Gustaf Gründgens · Theo Lingen
Plot In Fritz Langs startling and exquisite film M, fear stalks the streets of Berlin in the form of a serial child murderer whose grisly accomplishments are so heinous even the...
8.3
20K votes
8.3
20K votes
Seven
1995 · Movie · 127 min. · United States
Direction David Fincher
Cast Brad Pitt · Morgan Freeman · Gwyneth Paltrow · Kevin Spacey
Plot Set in a perpetually gloomy unnamed city, the film follows Somerset (Morgan Freeman), a retiring police detective, as he experiences his final week on the job, reluctantly working with assertive...
8.3
171K votes
8.3
171K votes
Romanzo Criminale (TV Series)
2008 · Series · 55 min. · Italy
Direction Stefano Sollima
Cast Francesco Montanari · Vinicio Marchioni · Alessandro Roja · Marco Bocci
Plot TV Series (2008-2010). 2 Seasons. 22 Episodes. A criminal known as Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts...
8.3
8K votes
8.3
8K votes
Dial M for Murder
1954 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Grace Kelly · Ray Milland · Robert Cummings · John Williams
Plot British tennis pro (Ray Milland) suspects that his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly) is fooling around with a handsome American (Robert Cummings). He blackmails a disgraced former army comrade (Anthony Dawson)...
8.2
27K votes
8.2
27K votes
Black Mirror (TV Series)
2011 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charlie Brooker · Owen Harris · Carl Tibbetts · Otto Bathurst
Cast Rory Kinnear · Lindsay Duncan · Lydia Wilson · Tom Goodman-Hill
Plot TV Series (2011-2019). 5 Seasons. 22 Episodes. A television anthology series that shows the dark side of life and technology.
8.2
30K votes
8.2
30K votes
Fargo (TV Miniseries)
2014 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Noah Hawley · Adam Bernstein · Randall Einhorn · Colin Bucksey
Cast Billy Bob Thornton · Martin Freeman · Allison Tolman · Colin Hanks
Plot TV Series (2014). 10 Episodes. In 2006, a drifter named Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) arrives in Bemidji, Minnesota and influences the population with his malice and violence, including put-upon...
8.2
37K votes
8.2
37K votes
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction Jonathan Demme
Cast Jodie Foster · Anthony Hopkins · Scott Glenn · Ted Levine
Plot Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster), a young and ambitious FBI agent, enlists the aid of criminally insane ex-psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to help track down a vicious serial killer...
8.2
171K votes
8.2
171K votes
Death Note (TV Series)
2006 · Series · 25 min. · Japan
Direction Tetsurō Araki
Plot TV Series (2006-2007). 37 Episodes. During just another normal day, Yagami Light stumbles upon a black notebook known as the Death Note. This notebook belongs to a shinigami, having the...
8.2
41K votes
8.2
41K votes
The Wages of Fear
1953 · Movie · 140 min. · France
Direction H.G. Clouzot
Cast Yves Montand · Charles Vanel · Véra Clouzot · Peter van Eyck
Plot In a wretched South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry...
8.2
9K votes
8.2
9K votes
Who Are You: School 2015 (TV Series)
2015 · Series · 60 min. · South Korea
Direction Sang-Hoon Baek · Sung-Yoon Kim
Cast Kim So-hyun · Nam Joo-Hyuk · Yook Sung-Jae · David Lee
8.2
24 votes
8.2
24 votes
Woman in the Dunes
1964 · Movie · 147 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara
Cast Eiji Okada · Kyôko Kishida · Hiroko Ito · Hideo Kanze
Plot An entomologist looking for insects in the desert accepts locals' offer to stay with a widow whose house is at the bottom of a sandpit, accessible only by a rope...
8.1
3K votes
8.1
3K votes