The Lives of Others The winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 2007 Academy Awards is a rich and intriguing political mystery. Drama 2006 138 mins Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Elle Isabelle Huppert gives an unforgettable performance in Paul Verhoeven’s provocative thriller about one woman’s response to a violent attack. Drama Thriller 2015 131 mins Paul Verhoeven The Wages of Fear Henri-Georges Clouzot's classic, nail-biting suspense thriller won both The Golden Bear and the Palme d'Or in 1953. Crime Drama 1953 153 mins Henri-Georges Clouzot Revenge Coralie Fargeat's gloriously bloody tale of one woman's retribution; a razor-sharp feminist subversion of the revenge-thriller. Thriller Action and Adventure 2017 108 mins Coralie Fargeat You Were Never Really Here Lynne Ramsay journeys with Joaquin Phoenix into the mind of an ex-soldier gun-for-hire whose own demons are as brutal as the actions of his adversaries. Thriller 2017 90 mins Lynne Ramsay Iceman Revenge is served ice-cold in this visceral thriller, in which a neolithic hunter seeks vengeance against those who decimated his tribe. Thriller Period drama 2017 96 mins Felix Randau Funny Games U.S. Michael Haneke’s English-language remake of his earlier, Austrian film is both a shocking home-invasion thriller and a potent commentary on cinematic violence. Horror Thriller 2008 107 mins Michael Haneke United 93 Paul Greengrass' thrilling, chilling and deeply moving real-time drama about the heroes who derailed the terrorists' plans for the fourth jet on 9/11. Drama 2006 111 mins Paul Greengrass Touch of Evil Orson Welles’ final Hollywood film and the last great Film Noir, a sweat-drenched Mexican border saga with one of cinema’s most celebrated openings. Film noir 1958 111 mins Orson Welles Beast The hunt for a Jersey serial killer sparks a dangerous awakening in a young woman (Jessie Buckley, in her feature debut) in this astonishing psycho-sexual thriller, which sets all the senses aflame. Drama Thriller 2018 106 mins Michael Pearce Locke Tom Hardy commands the screen as the only star of Steven Knight’s bold, mesmeric drama, which is set entirely in a car and unfolds in real time. Drama 2014 85 mins Steven Knight Green Room A punk band becomes besieged in the backstage hideaway of a hideous neo-Nazi club, in this gloriously tense shocker from the director of Blue Ruin. Thriller 2015 95 mins Jeremy Saulnier The Game David Fincher's disorienting thriller posits Michael Douglas' complacent yuppie in the midst of an elaborate game that may or may not be staged. Crime Thriller 1997 129 mins David Fincher American Psycho Christian Bale slays his competition in this chilling satire set in ‘80s Wall Street. Drama 2000 102 mins Mary Harron Pi Darren Aronofsky’s magisterial monochrome mystery concerns a mathematician whose discovery of a powerful number leads to the dark side. Science Fiction Thriller 1997 84 mins Darren Aronofsky The Handmaiden Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker) channels Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, to create a sumptuous twisty psychological thriller full of erotic intrigue. Crime Period drama 2016 146 mins Park Chan-wook Lust, Caution Esteemed Taiwanese director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi) returned to Asia once more for this startlingly erotic tale of espionage and obsession. Drama 2007 158 mins Ang Lee The Third Murder A clear-cut murder case is revealed to be much more layered than it first appears, in this gripping and intelligent crime drama from Palme d'Or-winning director Hirokazu Koreeda. Crime Thriller 2017 125 mins Hirokazu Koreeda A Most Wanted Man In one of his final roles, Philip Seymour Hoffman excels as a German spy attempting to recruit Islamic informants, in Anton Corbijn’s sophisticated John le Carré adaptation. Thriller 2014 122 mins Anton Corbijn Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Gary Oldman leads an all-star cast, including Benedict Cumberbatch and Tom Hardy, in this acclaimed adaptation of John Le Carré's esteemed spy novel. Thriller 2011 127 mins Tomas Alfredson Dare I Weep Dare I Mourn James Mason plays a middle-aged businessman in this East-West Berlin thriller, based on a story by John Le Carre. 1966 49 mins Ted Kotcheff Hard Candy Elliot Page became an indie sensation as the teenage vigilante trying to trap a predatory older man, in David Slade's smart psychological thriller. 2005 100 mins David Slade Hanna Joe Wright's electric tale of a female assassin (Saoirse Ronan) trying to escape her destiny rocks to a propulsive Chemical Brothers soundtrack. Thriller 2011 111 mins Joe Wright The New Girlfriend Ruth Rendell provides the source novel for this delicious tale of deception and identity, from the master of mischievous melodrama, François Ozon. Melodrama 2014 108 mins François Ozon Double Indemnity Barbara Stanwyck is the housewife who dupes an insurance salesman into a devious murder plot, in this giant of American cinema - the archetypal Film Noir. Crime Film noir 1944 108 mins Billy Wilder Phantom Lady Robert Siodmak’s first Hollywood noir about an innocent man sentenced to death when the woman who can verify his alibi mysteriously vanishes. Film noir 1944 87 mins Robert Siodmak The Killers Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner star in Robert Siodmak’s gritty and muscular film noir, adapted from Hemingway’s short story. Crime Film noir 1946 102 mins Robert Siodmak Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow's masterful, meticulous account of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden is a thrilling account of contemporary history. Action and Adventure Thriller 2012 157 mins Kathryn Bigelow Detroit John Boyega excels as the security guard caught up in a violent conflagration during the riots of 1967, in Kathryn Bigelow's blistering thriller. Drama 2017 143 mins Kathryn Bigelow The Hurt Locker Kathryn Bigelow won the Best Director Academy Award in 2010 for this visceral, thrilling story of an American maverick bomb disarmer in Iraq. War 2008 131 mins Kathryn Bigelow '71 A young British squaddie is caught behind enemy lines in bomb-torn Belfast, in Yann Demange’s riveting suspense thriller. Thriller 2014 99 mins Yann Demange Harry Brown Michael Caine’s storming return to an action role finds him as a retired marine confronting local hoodlums on his housing estate. Crime 2009 103 mins Daniel Barber Kill List Ben Wheatley’s ultra-violent second feature, invoking both The Wicker Man and Apocalypse Now. Crime Horror 2011 92 mins Ben Wheatley Disorder A broken soldier guards a tycoon's family in this involving thriller with hints of Taxi Driver, starring Matthias Schoenaerts and Diane Kruger. Thriller 2015 98 mins Alice Winocour A Prophet [Un prophète] Jacques Audiard’s award-winning crime drama chronicles the rites of passage and eventual rise to power of a young French Arab. Tough, taut, truthful. Crime 2009 156 mins Jacques Audiard Dheepan Jacques Audiard’s soul-stirring Palme d’Or winner tells of a veteran Tamil Tiger guerrilla who finds fresh violence in his new life in Paris. Drama 2015 115 mins Jacques Audiard Nightcrawler Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a crime journalist scouring the streets of after-dark LA in a stylish thriller that examines the morals of mass media. Crime Drama 2014 118 mins Dan Gilroy Arlington Road Jeff Bridges suspects his neighbour of being a terrorist in this twitchy, paranoid thriller. Crime Thriller 1998 118 mins Mark Pellington Eye in the Sky Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman (in his last role) play the military commanders caught in the ethical crosshairs of drone warfare, in Gavin Hood’s gripping military thriller. Thriller War 2016 102 mins Gavin Hood Sicario Emily Blunt plays the FBI agent enlisted for a special operation against Mexican cartels, in this pulsatingly tense thriller from Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Prisoners). Crime Thriller 2015 121 mins Denis Villeneuve Sicario 2: Soldado Pulsating sequel to the acclaimed drug-cartel thriller, which sees federal agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) re-teaming with the enigmatic Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro). Action and Adventure 2018 122 mins Stefano Sollima Triple 9 Chiwetel Ejiofor, Casey Affleck, Kate Winslet and Woody Harrelson make up the heavyweight cast for John Hillcoat’s (The Proposition) stunning heist thriller. Crime 2015 115 mins John Hillcoat The Bourne Identity The spy thriller that overturned the genre stars Matt Damon as the amnesiac searching for his true identity. Action and Adventure Crime 2002 118 mins Doug Liman The Bourne Supremacy Britain’s Paul Greengrass takes the helms for the spy sequel, shaping the series with his penchant for documentary-style realism. Action and Adventure Crime 2004 108 mins Paul Greengrass The Bourne Ultimatum Director Paul Greengrass returns for the third Bourne film, famed for its incredibly tense opening sequence in London Waterloo station. Action and Adventure Crime 2007 115 mins Paul Greengrass Jackie Brown Tarantino's third film is arguably his most serious and studied; a soulful crime saga with Pam Grier as the flight attendant in the midst of a money-laundering scam. Crime Thriller 1997 154 mins Quentin Tarantino Kill Bill Vol. 1 The first instalment of Tarantino's epic, blood-soaked opus sees Uma Thurman's betrayed bride set out for revenge against her former assassination crew. Martial arts 2003 111 mins Quentin Tarantino Kill Bill Vol. 2 The conclusion of Tarantino's kung fu epic follows the Bride's (Uma Thurman) fateful encounter with her former fiance (David Carradine). Action and Adventure Drama 2004 137 mins Quentin Tarantino The Man Between Carol Reed follows Odd Man Out and The Third Man with this thriller starring James Mason and Claire Bloom set in post-war Berlin. Drama 1953 102 mins Carol Reed Mine Own Executioner Burgess Meredith stars in this powerful psychological drama, as a psychiatrist struggling with his own inner demons who's enlisted to treat a traumatised WWII veteran. Drama 1948 109 mins Anthony Kimmins The Glass Cage Like a 1950s David Blaine, The Great Sepolio starves in a glass tomb while a murderer is on the loose. Thriller 1955 59 mins Montgomery Tully Vertigo Hitchcock’s timeless thriller about a former detective with a fear of heights who is hired to follow a woman who seems possessed by the past. Thriller 1958 128 mins Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock’s masterly thriller stars James Stewart as an invalided photographer who spots something fishy outside his rear window. Thriller 1954 112 mins Alfred Hitchcock The Birds Birds inexplicably turn against man and begin attacking the small community of Bodega Bay, in Alfred Hitchcock’s suspense classic. Horror 1963 119 mins Alfred Hitchcock Saboteur A factory worker is framed for sabotage and forced on the run in Hitchcock’s fast-moving thriller, with its famous finale atop the Statue of Liberty. War 1942 109 mins Alfred Hitchcock Shadow of a Doubt Hitchcock’s personal favourite from his own films is a brilliantly suspenseful drama about a teenage girl whose uncle may be a murderer. Drama 1943 108 mins Alfred Hitchcock Torn Curtain Paul Newman stars in Hitchcock’s spy thriller, as a scientist who pretends to defect to East Germany in order to steal a secret formula. 1966 128 mins Alfred Hitchcock Psycho Blood! Blood! Hitchcock’s masterpiece was his most successful film; a sensation in its time that continues to terrify. Horror Thriller 1960 109 mins Alfred Hitchcock 78/52 This superb, in-depth documentary devotes 90 minutes to analysing one of cinema’s most famous sequences – the shower scene in Psycho. Documentary 2017 92 mins Alexandre O. Philippe Rope Hitchcock’s stage adaptation about two murderers who hide a body during a dinner party is famously constructed from 10 unbroken ten-minute takes. Crime Thriller 1948 81 mins Alfred Hitchcock The Wave Seismic rumblings in the Norwegian fjords threaten to start a chain reaction that will destroy the local area. Can it be stopped in time? Disaster Thriller 2015 105 mins Roar Uthaug Deepwater Horizon Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell and John Malkovich bring to life the devastating oil-rig disaster in this intelligent and incendiary eco-thriller. Action and Adventure Disaster 2016 107 mins Peter Berg Patriots Day A nerve-shreddingly intense, multi-stranded account of the Boston marathon bombings of 2013 and the race-against-time to find the perpetrators. Thriller 2016 133 mins Peter Berg Swimming Pool A crime novelist seeks peace but gets a dangerous muse in this twisted bilingual thriller from François Ozon. Drama 2003 102 mins François Ozon The Skin I Live In Pedro Almodóvar's excursion into hysterical horror is a perverse and unsettling drama about a disturbed surgeon who keeps a woman hostage. Drama 2011 120 mins Pedro Almodóvar Phoenix Nina Hoss is superb as concentration camp survivor who assumes a new identity, in Christian Petzold’s intricate post-WWII thriller. Drama 2014 98 mins Christian Petzold Tom at the Farm Dark psychosexual thriller from prodigious Canadian director Xavier Dolan, following a young man who finds himself embroiled in a dangerous game of deception. Drama 2013 103 mins Xavier Dolan-Tadros Stranger by the Lake A young man witnesses a violent crime at a gay cruising ground and becomes obsessed with the killer in Alain Guiraudie’s acclaimed mystery-thriller. Drama 2013 100 mins Alain Guiraudie Eastern Boys A gay pick-up turns into a dangerous game of betrayal and violence in this slyly subversive and compelling thriller. Drama 2012 124 mins Robin Campillo The Ghoul A British indie crime film of great style and ingenuity, executive produced by Ben Wheatley and starring Tom Meeten and Alice Lowe. Crime Thriller 2017 82 mins Gareth Tunley Remainder Omer Fast’s gripping puzzle-box thriller about an amnesiac reconstructing his elusive past. Drama Thriller 2016 103 mins Omer Fast Heartless Philip Ridley’s stunning comeback film charts a lonely photographer’s battles with demons amid a haunting East London. Horror 2010 114 mins Philip Ridley The Small World of Sammy Lee Seedy Soho strip-club compere Sammy (Anthony Newley) races to escape the heavies who hunt him in this gritty, engrossing 1960s London thriller. Drama 1963 107 mins Ken Hughes The Green Cockatoo From an original scenario by Graham Greene, this is a neat crime thriller about a girl (René Ray) who witnesses a murder, becomes a suspect herself, and gets mixed up with a sleazy Soho gangster (John Mills). Action and Adventure 1940 64 mins William Cameron Menzies Poison Pen The rural idyll of a small English village is torn apart by slanderous letters Drama 1939 79 mins Paul L. Stein Hyena In this stylish, dark crime thriller, a policeman’s complex web of underworld relationships is threatened by an internal affairs investigator. Crime Thriller 2015 112 mins Gerard Johnson Parker Thrilling crime drama about a businessman who survives a kidnapping and seeks out those who captured him. Crime 1985 97 mins Jim Goddard Play Misty for Me Clint Eastwood's directorial debut is tautly wound psycho-thriller about a DJ tormented by an obsessive fan. Drama 1971 102 mins Clint Eastwood The October Man Roy Ward Baker directs John Mills and Joan Greenwood in this mystery noir about an amnesiac implicated in the murder of a young woman. Drama 1947 95 mins Roy Ward Baker Kill Me A man tries to arrange his own murder in a tense episode from the Blackmail series 1965 46 mins Marc Miller The Long Dark Hall This British noir delivers a disquieting story of obsession and manipulation, with Rex Harrison as a man accused of murdering his mistress. Crime Thriller 1951 88 mins Anthony Bushell and Reginald Beck The Blue Lamp Dirk Bogarde stars as a loose-cannon crook with Dixon of Dock Green (Jack Warner) on his tail, in the classic Ealing policier. Police drama 1950 85 mins Basil Dearden The Riverside Murder Ingeniously plotted and twisting whodunit that leaves Alastair Sim baffled as to the identity of the killer. Police drama Thriller 1935 65 mins Albert Parker Temptation Harbour Dark thriller based on a novel by Georges Simenon Crime Thriller 1947 102 mins Lance Comfort Mask of Dust Rev up your engines for high-octane thrills and spills with this oil-spattered motor racing drama from Hammer Films Drama 1954 79 mins Terence Fisher Hidden City Charles Dance stars in Stephen Poliakoff’s debut feature film about a writer whose research uncovers a conspiracy of hidden artefacts. Thriller 1987 108 mins Stephen Poliakoff Hummingbird An alcoholic ex-special forces soldier (Jason Statham), down on his luck, assumes another man’s identity and pursues redemption. Thriller 2013 100 mins Steve Knight Catch Me Daddy A young couple whose relationship has divided a community are forced on the run through the streets and moors of nocturnal Yorkshire. Thriller 2015 112 mins Daniel Wolfe and Matthew Wolfe Champagne Rose Is Dead This far-out late 60s international espionage sci-fi oddity will exhilarate all connoisseurs of strange cinema Thriller 1968 88 mins Calvin Floyd Get Out Satirical horror and astute social commentary combine in Jordan Peele’s seat-gripping suspense thriller, starring Daniel Kaaluuya. Horror 2017 104 mins Jordan Peele The Day of the Jackal The race is on to find ‘the Jackal’ before he undertakes a momentous political assassination, in this compelling adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s bestseller. Police drama Thriller 1973 142 mins Fred Zinnemann The Crying Game Neil Jordan's acclaimed 1992 drama-mystery tells the story of Fergus (Stephen Rea), who looks after the lover (Jaye Davidson) of a British soldier he once knew. But what is Dil hiding? Drama 1992 112 mins Neil Jordan Torment A mad mystery novelist decides to murder his long-suffering secretary in this macabre British B Picture from distinguished director John Guillermin. Crime Drama 1950 68 mins John Guillermin Brighton Rock Richard Attenborough’s unforgettably sinister turn as ‘Pinkie’ pervades this classic adaptation of the Graham Greene novel. Thriller 1948 93 mins John Boulting Discreet From the director of Interior. Leather Bar. comes this eerie and powerful psychological thriller that offers a disturbing insight into the dark heart of Trump’s America. Crime Drama 2017 80 mins Travis Mathews B&B In this deliciously entertaining thriller, a gay couple return to a B&B to bait its Christian owner, only to run into trouble when an altogether more imposing guest arrives. Thriller 2017 87 mins Joe Ahearne The Villainess Jung Byung-gil's superb, hyper-kinetic action thriller follows a female assassin who takes a new identity but finds her past life inescapable. Thriller Action and Adventure 2017 124 mins Jung Byung-gil The Age of Shadows Kim Jee-woon’s stunning, seductive and serpentine action thriller set during Japan’s occupation of Korea. Action and Adventure Thriller 2016 140 mins Kim Jee-woon Racer and the Jailbird Adèle Exarchopoulos (Blue is the Warmest Colour) and Matthias Schoenaerts (A Bigger Splash) are lovers entangled in a world of crime in this tough, twisty thriller-romance Thriller 2017 130 mins Michaël R. Roskam Cape Fear Scorsese’s remake of J Lee Thompson’s 1962 thriller stars Robert De Niro as a psychotic rapist out to avenge the lawyer he blames for his conviction (Nick Nolte). Drama Legal and Courtroom drama 1991 128 mins Martin Scorsese Hounds of Love A young woman tries to escape her sadistic kidnappers, in this bold and brutal Australian thriller. Horror Crime 2016 108 mins Ben Young The Nile Hilton Incident A murder investigation is mired by bureaucratic corruption in this dark Egyptian thriller, where everyone is on the make. Crime Thriller 2017 111 mins Tarik Saleh More from Thriller in our Subscription collection. Explore Subscription Left More from Thriller in our Free collection Explore Free Left
