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What Netflix thriller movies and tv series will get your pulse raising?
Here's our round up of the most binge-worthy and scariest thrillers on the streaming service sure to leave you nail-biting and on the edge of your seat.
1.Hush
76
The American slasher film, directed by Mike Flanagan, follows how a woman called Madison Young (Kate Siegel) escapes the murder of a man watching her from outside her home.
Madison lost her ability to hear and speak after catching bacterial meningitis as a teen and decided that living away from the city in the woods with her cat is the best option for her.
After a visit from her friend Sarah, a masked killer bumps into her on her way home in the woods and tries to kill her, so she runs back to Madison's cabin in fear.
Her pal screams and shouts for her help outside her home but Madison can't hear and she dies - and to the killer's advantage, he realises that Madison is unable to hear and he decides that he's his next victim.
The film, which premiered on the streaming site in 2016, is a cat and mouse chase between Madison and the killer... but will Madison be able to outlive her killer?
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 93%
2. I See You
76
The film starts with a man called Greg Harper who is made head of a case after a ten-year-old boy is abducted from his local park.
While he's doing well at work, in his private life Greg is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his wife Jackie has cheated on him with another man.
The married couple live in a beautiful house with their son Connor - who resents his mum for her infidelity - and they all start to realise that things are getting moved around the house, getting misplaced or going missing.
It is soon revealed that the people behind the weird goings-on are two people called Mindy and Alec, who have been hiding in their loft in secret to spy on them.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 78%
3. Contagion
76
This Steven Soderbergh flick is extremely close to home considering the past year we've all had whilst trying to fight the outbreak of Covid-19.
The film, which was released nine years ago, follows civilians and medics trying to deal with a killer virus outbreak of a fictional virus called MEV-1, which has a 72-hour incubation period and high fatality rate.
Many fans have claimed that Contagion predicted what has happened this year.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and Laurence Fishbourne star in the flick.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 85%
4. Zodiac
76
The 2007 American mystery thriller film starts with a couple who are shot at lovers' lane in Vallejo, California.
Soon after the crime, the San Francisco Chronicle receive various coded letters from a person named "Zodiac".
Political cartoonist Robert Graysmith, who works at the paper and specialises in drawing, soon realises that the are from the person who committed the crime.
They start to piece what the Zodiac sends over to them to figure out the identity of the killer.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 89%
5. The Guilty
76
This unique thriller takes place over the course of a single morning in a 911 dispatch call center. Call operator Joe Baylor (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) tries to save a caller in grave danger-but he soon discovers that nothing is as it seems, and facing the truth is the only way out.
It begins with an emergency call being answered from a kidnapped woman.
The call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins.
This 2021 crime thriller was directed by Antoine Fuqua and is based on Gustav's Moller's Danish drama.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 74%
6. The Stranger
The Stranger is a perfect binge watch in lockdown
Based on Harlan Coben's novel of the same name, the series will follow Adam Price, who seems to be living the perfect life - two great sons, a watertight marriage - until a stranger approaches him at a bar and reveals a shocking secret about Price's wife, Corinne.
You will never actually guess whodunnit in The Stranger, because with all the twists and turns the ending comes as quite a surprise.
It also stars Jennifer Saunders as a cake shop owner - who doesn't want to see that.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 83%
7. You
A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.
Penn Badgeley stars as the creepy stalker who might seem charming on the outside, but you don't want to see what's in his basement.
Set in New York and then Los Angeles, You follows Joe as he obsesses over a string of girls and has become one of the most popular shows on Netflix.
Based on Caroline Kepnes' best-selling novel of the same name, You is a 21st century love story that asks, "What would you do for love?".
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 90%
8. Mindhunter
Two FBI agents give birth to the science of psychological profiling to get into the minds of serial killers to try and catch them before their next kill.
Set in the late 1970s, the two FBI agents are tasked with interviewing serial killers to solve open cases.
Jonathan Groff gives a career defining performance, as the show recreates real interviews with some of the world's most famous serial killers.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 97%
9. Narcos
Narcos tells the true-life story of the growth and spread of cocaine drug cartels thanks to drug king pin Pablo Escobar.
It follows DEA agent Steve Murphy as he tries to take down the Colombian drug lord.
More recent series follow what happened to Colombia and the fight for control of the drug business after Escobar's downfall.
As efforts are made to control cocaine, one of the world's most valuable commodities, the many entities involved - legal, political, police, military and civilian - find themselves in conflict.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 89%
10. The Gift
The Turkish thriller follows a painter, Atiye, in Istanbul as she embarks on a personal journey to unearth universal secrets about an Anatolian archaeological site and its link to her past.
An archaeologist Erhan discovers a symbol in the region's oldest temple that reveals the mystical relationship between Atiye and the temple.
As she unravels more of the mystery, Atiye questions everything between the past and the future, between the reality and the unknown.
Google Audience Rating: 94% (it does not have a rating on Rotten Tomatoes)
11. Ex Machina
Caleb Smith, a young programmer, gets a chance to become a part of a strange scientific experiment where he is expected to assess artificial intelligence by interacting with a female robot.
But things get out of hand quickly on the remote property when the robot starts to game the system.
Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander give outstanding performances in this sci-fi thriller which has become a cult classic.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 92%
12. Hell or High Water
This gritty film starring Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges and Ben Foster is set in Texas.
After the death of his mother, the unemployed oil and gas worker Toby Howard (Pine) is losing his ranch to the Bank
He then teams up with his brother Tanner who has just been released from prison, to rob banks to pay off his debts.
But the whole time, Texas Ranger Marcus Hamilton (Bridge) who is near retirement are on their tail trying to guess their next move.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 97%
13. Bird Box
Starring Oscar winner Sandra Bullock and crowd favourite Sarah Paulson, Bird Box was a massive conversation starter when it first aired on Netflix.
More than 45 million watched the film which follows the events after an unknown global terror.
Malorie (Bullock) has to muster the strength to get her children to safety all while wearing a blindfold.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 63%
14. Apostle
Set in 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister on an isolated island battles it out with a sinister religious cult.
Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) travels to the island to rescue his sister but the mysterious religious cult demands a ransom for her safe return.
It soon becomes clear that the cult will regret the day it tried to tangle with Thomas, as he finds out more of the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 80%
15. Jinn
Jinn is about a group of teenagers who go on a field trip to Petra, which is known as home to ancient demons and strange phenomena. The group's lives are disrupted when a spiritual figure appears, accidentally summoned by one of them.
They must try and stop the Jinn - a supernatural creatures in Islamic mythology - from destroying the world.
The film caused controversy in Jordan, with some government agencies wanting to ban it for "immoral content".
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 83%
16. Berlin Syndrome
Aussie actress Teresa Palmer stars in this thriller about how a passionate holiday romance lead to an obsessive relationship, when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
She soon learns her lover has no intention of letting her out of his apartment.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 75%
17. Creep
Mark Duplass is usually known for his comedic roles, but now he's just creepy.
A young videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man.
When he notices the man's odd behaviour, he sees the job through, but when it's time to leave he can't find his keys.
But then he receives a strange phone call and discovers his client is not at all what he initially seemed to be.
Starring Mark Duplass who is usually known for his comedic chops in shows such as The Mindy Project.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 89%
18. Blue Ruin
A mysterious outsider's quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
The 2014 thriller is one of the rawest and emotionally intense thrillers you'll watch in a long time.
It's a slow paced film that fills the viewer with a sense of foreboding throughout.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 96%
19. Gerald's Game
Starring a creepy 'monster' who will haunt your dreams for months to come, this film follows the repercussions of a sex game gone wrong between a long-time married couple who are trying to spice things up.
Carla Gugino must fight for her life after her husband dies of a heart attack during the sex game which left her handcuffed to the bed.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 91%
20. The Chosen One
Three young doctors sent to a remote village in Pantanal to vaccinate the residents find themselves trapped in an isolated community that is shrouded in secrets.
The residents of the community are devotees of a mysterious leader, who has the gift of curing diseases in a supernatural way.
Google User Audience Rating: 88%
21. 60 Days In
76
Seven civilians take part in an experiment that sees them pose as prisoners in an Indiana prison for 60 days, in an attempt to expose internal issues and examine life behind bars.
The participants include mum of two Barbra, police officer Tami and eccentric teacher Robert.
Tension between the volunteers and inmates quickly escalates, and one participant even finds themselves victim of physical assault.
A harrowing look at the reality of life in prison.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 77%
22. Midsommar
76
A grieving woman accompanies her boyfriend and his grad-school colleagues to a remote Swedish village that isn't the idyllic commune it appears to be.
The young American couple, with their relationship foundering, travel to a fabled Swedish midsummer festival where a seemingly pastoral paradise transforms into a sinister, dread-soaked nightmare as the locals reveal their terrifying agenda.
Writer Ari Aster showcases his bizarre yet deep storytelling with Midsommar. Even though it's lengthy, visually the film grabs all senses and takes it into a psychedelic trip, while also conveying some disturbing and unsettling images and performances that make the film provoking.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 83%
23. Dark
76
A missing child sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations.
The first German original series produced for Netflix, Dark follows a web of curious characters, all who have a connection to their small town’s troubled history – whether they know it or not.
Catch up on the first two seasons of the German sci-fi thriller before Netflix releases its third and final instalment.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating 94%
24. Nightcrawler
76
Jake Gyllenhaal delivers an outstanding performance as young hustler Lou, a freelance videographer who trawls the streets of Los Angeles to film disasters and death.
But he soon discovers there’s a darker side to the trade.
Jake lost 14kg for his role in the crime thriller.
He told Deadline: “That hunger—that literal and figurative hunger—was a state that was really important for me to be in. It just drove the scenes.”
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating 85%
25. Prisoners
76
For those who can’t get enough of Jake Gyllenhaal, the actor also stars in 2013 thriller Prisoners alongside Hugh Jackman.
Described as ‘one of the most intense thrillers in recent years’, the plot kicks off when two young girls suddenly go missing outside their home.
Jackman plays the father who is prepared to do whatever it takes to find his daughter.
Meanwhile, Gyllenhaal plays an erratic, obsessive cop who is becoming increasingly frustrated at the crumbling investigation.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating 87%
26. The Silence of the Lambs
76
This 1991 is one of the few films to win the 'Big Five' at the Oscars; Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Screenplay.
Jodie Foster plays an FBI trainee who is tasked with interviewing Sir Anthony Hopkins' serial killer, Hannibal Lecter.
The cat and mouse game that follows is nothing short of chilling and will definitely send a shiver down your spine.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 95%
27. The Wicker Man
76
Seen by many as a true classic, the original 1975 version of The Wicker Man sees Edward Woodward's cop assigned to a remote Scottish island after a young girl is reported missing.
All is not as it seems once he arrives and he soon finds himself in the world of pagan rituals.
Christopher Lee is the town's leader Lord Summerisle which hints at the true horror which is to come in the iconic final scenes.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 82%
28. Minority Report
76
This 2002 sci-fi mystery thriller from Steven Spielberg stars Tom Cruise as the captain of a police department which predicts crimes before they happen.
However, his character is picked out as a future killer, sending him on a quest to try and prove his innocence, all while being hunted down by his former colleagues.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 80%
29. Cape Fear
76
Robert De Niro plays a convicted rapist in this 1991 Martin Scorcese remake who decides to terrorise the family of the lawyer who put him away.
De Niro nails the unhinged criminal, while Nick Nolte is a great co-star.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 77%
30. Drive
76
Not your typical thriller, but Drive is certainly gripping.
It follows Ryan Gosling's Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver.
However, things become complicated when he become friends with his neighbour, played by Carey Mulligan.
It's cool, it's violent, it's gripping. Check it out.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 79%
31. The Sinner
76
Detective Harry Ambrose as the only recurring character each series looks at why normal people commit horrific murders.
The first season stars Jessica Biel who stabs a man on a beach one day and her whole mysterious past is uncovered. There's a moment at the end of the last episode of the first season that will give you actual chills.
In series two and three are new cases that Ambrose has to solve. It's worth it alone just for the Bill Pullman screen time. Swoooon.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 95%
32. How to Get Away With Murder
76
The incredible Viola Davis stars as Annalise Keating, a law professor at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, with five of her students, becomes entwined in a murder plot.
It's currently up to its sixth season so plenty of content to binge watch during post-lockdown nights where the thought of going out doesn't sound as thrilling as what's on Netflix.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 88%
33. Dirty John
76
What's more chilling than fiction? Real life, which is exactly what Dirty John is.
Based on the based on the podcast of the same name by Christopher Goffard, it tells the story of Connie Britton who falls in love with the charismatic and manipulative John Meehan.
It spirals into secrets, denial, and ultimately, survival – with horrific consequences for an entire family.
Watch it and then listen to the podcast. You'll be hooked.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 79%
34. Unfriended: Dark Web
76
A group of 20-somethings are pulled into a lethal online game after logging onto a stolen laptop.
It's that whole 'Black Mirror' vibe mixed with 'Big Brother' where you get confused who you're rooting for in the end.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 67%
35. Gone Girl
76
Twists, turns, lies and deceit will make you question whose side you're on during this 2014 American psychological thriller film.
Based on the best-selling book by Gillian Flynn, it stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tyler Perry.
Set in Missouri, the story begins as a mystery that follows the events surrounding Nick Dunne (Affleck), who becomes the prime suspect in the sudden disappearance of his wife Amy (Pike).
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 87%
36. The Fall
76
Metropolitan Police Superintendent Stella Gibson, played by Gillian Anderson, is seconded to Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to help find the elusive Belfast Strangler.
Serial killer Paul Spector has already murdered two women and during the season claims the life of another.
50 Shades of Grey star Jamie Dornan is the evil Spector and the thrilling game of cat and mouse between him and Stella will have you on the edge of your seat.
Add in a healthy dose of police corruption and some teenage infatuation and you’ve got yourself a winner.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 84%
37. Hannibal
76
A prequel, of sorts, for Silence of the Lambs, the series follows FBI profiler Will Graham as he is recruited to help investigate a serial killer in Minnesota.
Graham’s senior officer decides to have him supervised by forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
Initially, Lecter—who is secretly a cannibalistic serial killer—works to manipulate the FBI from within, but the bond he builds with Graham begins to threaten his longevity.
Criminally underrated, this series dives headlong into the complex workings of Hannibal’s mind and his desire to kill.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 92%
38. Uncut Gems
76
Adam Sandler isn’t the first person you think of when it comes to casting for a thriller.
However, as Jewish-American jeweller and gambling addict Howard Ratner in New York City's Diamond District is well worth a watch.
Ratner must retrieve an expensive gem he purchased to pay off his debts losing it and getting killed.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 92%
39. No Country For Old Men
76
Starring Tommy Lee Miller, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin, NCFOM is written and directed by the Coen Brothers.
It sees a Texas welder and Vietnam War veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas.
Anton, played by Bardem, uses a coin toss to decide the fate of his victims as he attempts to recover money from a drug deal gone wrong.
Brolin stars as Llewelyn Moss, who has stolen the money, and is desperate to evade both Anton and Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, played by Tommy Lee Miller.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 93%
40. The Call
76
Jordan Turner is a 9-1-1 operator who is left guilt-ridden after taking a call from a woman in the middle of a home invasion and who subsequently dies.
Six months later she receives another call from a girl who has been kidnapped and Jordan attempts to help her escape before they're disconnected and she decides to help the victim herself.
Featuring a stellar cast of Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin, this thriller will have you on the edge of your seat as Halle's Jordan tries to save her from the serial killer.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 45%
41. Misery
76
Based on Stephen King’s incredible book of the same name, the film follows novelist Paul Sheldon, played by James Caan, who is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, Kathy Bates.
Everything seems alright, albeit a little intense as Annie claims to be his biggest fan but things go wrong when she discovers the author is about to kill off her favourite character from his novels.
Kathy Bates is creepy AF as obsessed Annie and the bit with the sledgehammer? Ouch.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 90%
42. Velvet Buzzsaw
76
Jake Gyllenhaal stars as the gloriously showy art critic Morf Vandewalt, who can literally make or break an artist’s career with his buzz-generating reviews.
However, after paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.
Striking visuals combined with a streak of black humour will keep viewers on the edge of their toes.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 61%
43. Inheritance
76
Starring eyebrow queen Lily Collins, Inheritance follows the story of wealthy and powerful patriarch Archer Monrow who suddenly dies.
At the reading of his will the family learn that they have not been treated equally and Archer has left $20 million to his son William, played by Chase Crawford, but (just) $1 million to his daughter Lauren [Lily Collins].
However, Lauren is left something much more significant in the form of the family’s deepest, darkest secrets.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 25%
44. Killer Women with Piers Morgan
76
Broadcaster and journalist Piers Morgan travels across the US, meeting some of the country's most notorious female killers.
Throughout the series, Piers meets with the women face to face and asks them to recount the crime and explain what drove them to kill in the first place.
Among those interviewed over the three series are Rebecca Fenton, who murdered her husband, and Amber Wright, who took part in the murder of her teenage boyfriend.
45. I Am A Killer
76
I Am A Killer follows several convicted murderers sitting on death row in America who are interviewed about their cold-blooded crimes.
Each episode of the ten-part series profiles a different prisoner as they recount the events that led up to them being banged up behind bars.
The show has access to such killers as 54 year-old James Robertson, who is awaiting being put to death in Florida for killing his cell mate Frank Hart.
In his interview, James reveals he deliberately murdered his fellow prisoner while serving time for various thefts because he wanted to get out of solitary confinement and onto death row instead.
46. His House
An unmissable thriller stars some of the most talented actors in Britain today, including Matt Smith, Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku.
The former Doctor Who plays the burnt out case worker of South Sudanese refugees Bol (Dirisu) and Rial (Mosaku) as they try to make a new start in England.
As they try to get their British citizenship they can't not ignore the growing horrors that happens to each of them in their new home, including seeing their dead child haunt them in a twisted ghost form.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 100%
47. The Handmaiden
This Korean film has a cult following and a swag of awards for a reason.
It premiered in 2016 and remains a reference for sexy, period dramas.
The Handmaiden follows a woman who is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 95%
48. The Nightingale
This film is not for the faint hearted and depicts some pretty gruesome scenes of violence.
Set in a colonial Australia in 1825, the moody film follows Clare, a young Irish convict woman, who chases a British officer through the rugged Australian wilderness.
Clare is hell bent on revenge for the unspeakable violence the officer committed against her husband and newborn baby.
On her journey of retribution, she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who has his own trauma and demons to deal with.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 86%
49. The Black Spot
This noir thriller is Netflix's first original commission in Belgium and it does not disappoint.
Set in a remote village without internet, phone coverage or even a church to protect locals from the creepy spirits that live in the dense forest.
Things definitely don't bode well when the town's tradition is to leave outgoing high school students alone in the forest for the night.
So the police chief and an eccentric new prosecutor investigate the string of grisly crimes and eerie phenomena in the isolated town at the edge of a forest.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: N/A
50. Elite
Not your typical murder mystery, this Spanish thriller TV drama, shows the loves of three working-class students enrolled in a private school through a scholarship.
However, their wealthy classmates make life anything but easy. Life is made even harder when a student is murdered and her classmates are potential suspects.
It could be described as a Spanish version of 13 Reasons Why.
English subtitles and dubbing are available.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 88%
51. The Invitation
76
The Invitation sees a man bring his new girlfriend to a dinner party after being invited by his ex-wife.
Most people would realise that maybe wasn't a good idea to start with, but when the man starts to relive the trauma of their child's death, he begins to wonder if his ex had an ulterior motive for inviting them over.
The film stars Logan Marshall-Green, Tammy Blanchard, Michiel Huisman, and Emayatzy Corinealdi.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 69%
52. Seven
76
Brad Pitt stars alongside Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey in this classic psychological crime thriller from 1995.
Brad's character - detective David Mills - partners with the retiring William Somerset (Morgan) to track down a serial killer, played by Kevin.
The killer is using the seven deadly sins as a motif for his crimes, and with a strong cast and script, it's a gripping watch.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 95%
53. Snowpiercer
76
Snowpiercer is a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller series based on both the 2013 South Korean-Czech film of the same name and the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, from which the film was adapted.
The show consists of ten episodes and stars Jennifer Connelly and Daveed Diggs.
The plot follows the passengers of the Snowpiercer, a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe carrying the remnants of humanity seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland.
The series questions class warfare, social injustice, and the politics of survival.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 94%
54. Shutter Island
76
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorcese team up once again for this adaptation of the novel of the same name by Dennis Lehane.
Set in 1954 as World War II veteran and federal marshal Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) and his new partner Chuck (Mark Ruffalo) jump on a ferry to Shutter Island.
The water-bound mental hospital houses the criminally insane and they need to investigate the disappearance of Rachel Solando (Emily Mortimer).
The convict was admitted after she murdered her three children, however there’s many secrets to unravel on this spooky island.
Mystery and intrigue, that will leave viewers shocked with unexpected twists.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 76%
55. Hush
76
This heart-pounding thriller by director Mike Flanagan follows the story of a deaf woman living alone in the woods.
Secluded and existing in a silent world, this young woman has to fight her way to safety after a psychotic killer appears outside her window. With no one around for miles, it proves to be a bloody battle for survival.
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Rating: 73 %.
56. Red Dot
In the vein of Wolf Creek and The Ritual, Red Dot is a Swedish action thriller set in the Swedish mountains and follows David (Anastasios Soulis) and Nadja (Nanna Blondell) who go on a remote camping trip with their beloved dog.
But after what started as a quarrel with two local hunters, their romantic trip slowly turns into a nightmare.
Soon, a red laser dot appears in their tent and they are quickly forced to flee into the cold, unforgiving wilderness.
Totally isolated in the mountains, they are now being pursued by reckless shooters.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 83%
57. The Hater
This Polish film tells the story of an ambitious young man starts working in the dark world of social media smear tactics, and learns that virtual vitriol has dire real-life consequences.
In a society grappling with its communist past and European present, both the cultural elite and disenfranchised young men see forces of darkness descending over Europe. And then there are those who benefit from the inevitable clashes and ensuing chaos, like disgraced law student Tomek (Maciej Musiałowski) who’s desperately trying to get the attention of childhood friend Gabi (Vanessa Aleksander) and the respect of her progressive family.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 82%
58. Rebecca
After a whirlwind romance in Monte Carlo with handsome widower Maxim de Winter (Armie Hammer), a newly married young woman (Lily James) arrives at Manderley, her new husband’s imposing family estate on a windswept English coast.
Naive and inexperienced, she begins to settle into the trappings of her new life, but finds herself battling the shadow of Maxim’s first wife, the elegant and urbane Rebecca, whose haunting legacy is kept alive by Manderley’s sinister housekeeper Mrs. Danvers (Kristin Scott Thomas). Directed by Ben Wheatley (High Rise, Free Fire), Rebecca is a mesmerising and gorgeously rendered psychological thriller based on Daphne du Maurier’s beloved 1938 gothic novel.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 39%
59. 1922
1922 is based on Stephen King's 131-page story telling of a man's confession of his wife's murder. The tale is told from from the perspective of Wilfred James, the story's unreliable narrator who admits to killing his wife, Arlette, with his son in Nebraska. But after he buries her body, he finds himself terrorised by rats and, as his life begins to unravel, becomes convinced his wife is haunting him.
The very creepy film stars Thomas Jane and is directed by: Zak Hilditch Produced by: Ross M. Dinerstein
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 91%
60. The Bad Batch
This film stars some pretty big Hollywood stars including Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey and Jason Momoa, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festical.
The Bad Batch is the story of Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) who is banished to a wasteland of undesirables, as she struggles to find her feet among a drug-soaked desert society and an enclave of cannibals.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 47%
61. Braven
76
Jason Momoa fans - hold onto your hats as you're about to hop on for a wild ride.
Braven sees the hunky actor and his on-screen father, played by Don't Breathe actor Stephen Lang, head to their hunting cabin for a quiet boys-only weekend - but it doesn't go their way.
Instead, the pair are found in a kill-or-be-killed situation as they fight for survival against a drug trafficking gang.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 77%
62. Calibre
76
Hunting trips seem like a definite no go as another pair are tested out in the woods in this British-made and directed film.
Best pals Vaughn (Jack Lowden) and Marcus (Martin McCann) travel to a remote area of the Scottish Highlands for a weekend trip.
While all seems well at first, the pair are tested to their limit after accidentally shooting a young boy, and then murdering his father to cover it up.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 95%
63. Cam
76
This American psychological horror film is by Daniel Goldhaber and written by Isa Mazzei.
It draws on Mazzei's own past experiences of being a camgirl, with Madeline Brewer playing the lead Alice, a sex worker for a website called FreeGirlsLive.
While she initially has her principles, a mysterious woman, who looks identical to Alice, takes over the channel and throws all the rules out the window.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 93%
64. The Departed
76
Featuring a star studded cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg - The Departed is a crime thriller classic.
It follows an undercover agent and a spy in a constant battle of counter-attacks in order to save themselves from exposure.
Meanwhile, both are trying to be the first to infiltrate an Irish gang and claim their victory.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 90%
65. I Am Mother
76
If you love a suspenseful film, Australian science fiction thriller I Am Mother is worth watching.
It follows teenage girl Daughter as she is raised by a robot designed to repopulate Earth following an apocalypse.
While everything seems peaceful, their bond is tested when a stranger arrives at their post-apocalyptic bunker to share alarming news
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66. My Teacher, My Obsession
Teenager Riley is struggling to fit in - and it’s made worse that her father is an English teacher at her high school.
Thankfully, she finally seems to catch a break when she meets Kyla, and together they soon become besties.
However, Kyla is actually harbouring a secret… she’s obsessed with Riley’s dad.
Soon Riley is in a horror chase to protect her father and keep Kyla away from him.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 26%
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67. Greta
Frances, a young twenty something in New York, does her good deed for the day by returning a lost handbag to its owner.
Greta, a lonely piano player, is eternally grateful for the kindness, and soon befriends Frances as she teachers her how to socialise and keeps her company.
However, the friendship soon turns into obsession, and Frances becomes stuck in Greta’s uncomfortable presence, unable to shake her off.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 60%
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68. Run
Sarah Paulson stars as Diane Sherman, a woman who is fiercely protective of her teenage daughter Chloe.
Chloe needs a wheelchair and has spent her life with a series of ailments that requires her to be looked after.
But as Chloe reaches an age where she starts preparing for university, she begins to discover that not everything is as it seems with her mother, and suspects foul play could be involved.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 88%
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69. House At The End of The Street
Jennifer Lawrence stars as Elissa in this thriller, who moves with her mother to a new town.
They quickly discover that one of their neighbouring houses was home to a gruesome murder - with both parents being killed by their daughter, who fled.
The sole survivor is Ryan, a troubled young man who remains in the house despite what happened, and who has been shunned by his neighbours for his odd behaviour.
Elissa soon feels sorry for him and befriends him, but maybe she should’ve listened to her neighbours…
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 13%
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70. Secret Obsession
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A woman named Jennifer wakes up in hospital after being hit by a car, with no recollection about who she is or how she got there.
Thankfully, she isn’t alone, with her husband Russell standing alongside her as she tries to regain her memories.
Taking them home, Russell’s protectiveness soon borders on the creepy and Jennifer begins to panic that not all is at it seems.
Is she in trouble? Or are her feelings down to the confusion of suffering a head injury?
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 29%
71. The Woman in the Window
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Brand new to Netflix in 2021, The Woman in the Window features a star-studded cast including Amy Adams, Julieanne Moore and Gary Oldman.
It follows agoraphobic Dr. Anna Fox, who finds herself keeping tabs on the picture-perfect family across the street from her New York apartment.
She befriends family matriarch Jane, who she watched through the windows - but her life is turned upside down when she witnesses a brutal crime.
Nothing and no-one are as they seem, however, as secrets begin to be uncovered.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 35%
72. Double Jeopardy
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When her husband is tragically murdered, Libby Parsons - played by American actress Ashley Judd - is wrongly served a six-year prison sentence.
While she serves, she is consumed by two desires - finding her son and solving the mystery that ripped apart her once very happy life.
However, when her parole officer, Travis Lehman - played by Tommy Lee Jones - starts to stand in her way, she poses a challenge to him.
The officer is pitted against law enforcement to help Libby find out the truth.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 61%
73. Ava
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Released to Netflix last year, Ava is one of the newest thrillers to be released by the streaming service.
Starring Jessica Chastain and John Malkovich, Ava is an assassin who becomes marked for death by her own black ops organisation.
Having questioned orders and breaking protocol, she scrambles to protect herself and her estranged family as the organisation chases her down.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 29%
74. See You Yesterday
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See You Yesterday follows teenage science prodigies Claudette and Calvin as they work hard on their homemade invention - time-travel back packs.
Working on the invention for every spare minute of time, they are forced to put their project to the test before it is fully finished.
When one of their brothers is killed, they have no choice but to use the invention to save him.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 40%
75. 93 Days
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The film follows events in 2014, when a Liberian-American diplomat arrived in Lagos, Nigeria.
With worsening symptoms of a mystery illness, there is concerned he may have Ebola - and he is forced to be quarantined as staff tend to him.
When it is confirmed he has Ebola, news organisations around the world start broadcasting the news of him being the first case in Nigeria.
The story follows the lives of the men and women fighting then on on the front line of the life-threatening epidemic.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 63%
76. Taking Lives
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This American psychological thriller film, directed by D.J Caruso, stars Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawk.
It is loosely based on Michael Pye's book of the same name about a man who goes on a killing spree and later pretends to be his victims.
At the start of the film, evil Martin Asher pushes his friend Matt Soulsby in front of a bus and kills him. He then decides to put on his clothes and take on his identity.
Fast forward two decades and the FBI start investigating a serial killer who is in fact Martin.
Will he be caught out?
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 55%
77. Thriller
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This American slasher film was released on the streaming service back in 2019.
The blockbuster is written by Jackson and Ken Rance and directed by Dallas Jackson.
It follows a group of teens who live in South Central LA who are terrorised by someone who wants pay back after doing something wrong when they were children.
Thriller stars Jessica Allain, Luke Tennie, Tequan Richmond and Mykelti Williamson.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 40%
78. Level 16
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Filmmaker Danishka Esterhazy produced Level 16 - a film focused on a group of girls who live in a creepy academy.
The girls start in the "school" as babies on level zero, and work their way up as they get older each year.
They are completely controlled in every way - they're not allowed to go outside, are forced to take dodgy medication and haven't been caught to read or write.
Soon two girls named Olivia and Vivien realise that something doesn't add up.
After they decide to stop taking their pills the true (and creepy) meaning behind why they're in the academy seeps out...
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 83%
79. A Cure For Wellness
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This 2016 psychological thriller is based on the 1924 book The Magic Mountain, written by Thomas Mann.
An executive from a financial firm in New York called Lockhart is asked by his company to bring back the CEO of his company who is staying at a "wellness retreat".
On his arrival he is told by Dr. Heinreich Volmer that he cannot leave, so Lockhart decides to go home.
However he wakes back up in the centre with a broken leg after a sudden car crash.
As he explores his surroundings he founds out some worrying information about where he is and tries to escape.
Will he make it out of the evil place with CEO Roland Pembroke?
80. Fractured
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This American physiological thriller is written by Alan B. McElroy and directed by Brad Anderson.
As Ray Monroe, his wife Joanne and their daughter Peri are driving home from seeing the in-laws disaster strikes.
Peri is in need of some batteries for her headphones and Joanne wants a bottle of coke, so they stop off at a service station.
Things turn ugly when the youngster manages to fall down a hole when she wonders away from the car and they decide to take her into hospital.
The doctors want to take Peri for a scan to see if she has a head injury and put her broken arm in a cast, so Joanne goes with her.
Hours later Ray returns to the hospital and the doctors say that his daughter was never a patient at A&E.
Will Ray find his daughter Peri?
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 49%
81. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House
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Lily (Ruth Wilson) is a live-in nurse who moves into the remote New England mansion owned by her patient, an elderly horror novelist who suffers from dementia.
Soon Lily starts to question if the unsettling things that are taking place in this house came straight from one of her patient's books.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 58%
82. Gerald's Game
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Gerald's Game is a 2017 American psychological horror thriller film.
A woman accidentally kills her husband during a kinky game. Handcuffed to her bed with no hope of rescue, she begins hearing voices and seeing strange visions.
It kicks off with a married couple who arrive at an isolated house for a holiday. When the husband dies of a sudden heart attack his wife, left handcuffed to the bed without the key and with little hope of rescue, must find a way to survive, all while battling her inner demons.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 91%
83. Hush
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A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears in her window.
Maddie Young is a deaf horror author who lost her abilities to hear and speak after contracting bacterial meningitis at age 13.
From the disease she suffered permanent hearing loss and temporary vocal cord paresis. Hoping to advance her writing career following her publishing release of "Midnight Mass" and receiving international critical acclaim, she leaves New York City and lives an isolated life in the woods with her cat. But Maddie is left fighting for her life against a serial killer.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 73%
84. The Invitation
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A man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, an unsettling affair that reopens old wounds and creates new tensions.
Starring Logan Marshall-Green, Tammy Blanchard, Michiel Huisman.
Will drives his girlfriend Kira to the Hollywood Hills home of his ex-wife Eden, who is hosting a dinner party with her new husband David.
Will and Eden divorced after the accidental death of their young son Ty; Eden met David at a grief support group in Mexico.
Their other dinner guests are Tommy, Tommy's boyfriend Miguel, and friends Ben, Claire, and Gina. It’s the first time this group has been together in over two years. Gina mentions that her boyfriend Choi is running late. Eden introduces Sadie, a girl she and David met in Mexico who is now staying with them.
David and Eden tell their guests about a cult-like group they joined, along with Pruitt and Sadie, called "The Invitation", which helps people work through their grief. But it's not all it seems...
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 89%
85. The Perfection
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In this twisty horror-thriller, a once-promising music prodigy reconnects with her former mentors, only to find them taken with a talented new pupil.
Charlotte Willmore is a talented young cellist who was forced to leave Bachoff, a prestigious music school in Boston, to care for her terminally ill mother.
After her mother's death years later, Charlotte reaches out to Anton, the head of the academy, and travels to Shanghai to join him, his wife Paloma, and teachers Geoffrey and Theis in selecting a new student.
Charlotte befriends Lizzie, Anton's star pupil who replaced Charlotte at Bachoff. After a night of clubbing, they return to Lizzie's hotel room and have sex.
However, this psychological thriller might not have a happy ending for everyone.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 72%
86. The Platform
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Set far into the future, The Platform sees prisoners housed in vertical cells one above the other.
Inmates on the upper cells are first to receive the platform, a banquet table overflowing with food and drink for them to take their fill.
But as the levels count down, those down below begin to starve as they are given the leftovers of the prisoners above.
The Spanish film, which was released in March 2020, sees a rebellion begin to stir in the prison underbelly. But who will survive, and who will die?
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 79%
87. Oxygen
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Director Alexandra Aje teamed with iconic actress Melanie Laurent for this must-watch thriller.
A woman wakes up in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got in there.
Elizabeth Hansen - who is struggling to remember who she is - has to fight to survive before her oxygen runs out.
The last she can remember she was with her boyfriend, but are her memories as real as she thinks they are? And can she rebuild them in time?
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 88%
88. What Keeps You Alive
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What Keeps You Alive was released to thriller-loving audiences in 2018.
It follows couple Jackie and Jules, as they head to a secluded cabin in the woods owned by family members to celebrate their anniversary.
But from the moment they arrive, something in Jack begins to change, and her dark side is revealed.
Instead of the loving break Jackie had expected, she's now pitted to fight to survive against the woman she loves the most.
The pair will fight to the death in the wilderness - and only one of them will make it out alive.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 80%
89. Nocturnal Animals
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A successful Los Angeles art gallery owner is living an idyllic life, but the constant travelling of her husband is sending her perfect life off balance.
While he is away, she is left shaken by a letter sent to her from her first husband, who she hasn't seen in many years.
The long manuscript tells the story of a teacher who finds himself and his family stuck in a nightmare.
As protagonist Susan reads her way through, she is met with dark truths from her own past.
If that wasn't enough to entice you - the incredible film features Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 73%
90. Rust Creek
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Rust Creek sees Hermione Corfield transform into Sawyer - a university student with a bright future.
But while son her way to a job interview, a wrong turn finds her lost and stranded deep within a forest.
Pursued by a band of gun-wielding outlaws, the young girl has to fight for her life as she looks for a way out of the woods and back home.
But with nowhere left to run, she has no choice but to form an alliance with another loner she finds stumbling through the woods.
Will she make it out alive? Thriller fans will have to watch and see.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 84%
91. Jaws
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Jaws nearly came 50 years ago, but it's still a primary reason why kids don't want to go swimming in the sea.
As of right now, we live in an age of stellar productions that go boom, however, all Jaws needed to do to keep you on the edge of your seat was the threat of something gargantuan - yet out of sight most of the time.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 90%
92. Uncut Gems
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Sometimes the most terrifying thrillers come in the shape of the ones that feel like they could legitimately happen.
Adam Sander stars as Howard Ratner, a jeweller who makes a big bet that could either reset him financially or put his life on the line. But what will be the outcome?
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 52
93. I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House
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Ruth Wilson stars as a live-in nurse who moves into the remote New England mansion owned by her patient, an elderly horror novelist who suffers from dementia.
Soon, she starts to question if the unsettling things taking place in the home are coming straight from one of her patient's books. Make of that what you will.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 60%
94. The Invitation
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A gathering of friends at a swanky Hollywood Hills mansion soon turns deadly in this chilling and upsetting thriller, which sees a seemingly innocuous dinner party erupt into a cult-inspired killing spree.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 69%
95. Calibre
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Going on vacation with more than two men in a horror film is never a good idea.
This horror tale follows two childhood friends on a hunting trip in the Scottish Highlands and is a clever, yet tense, entry in this long tradition of male bonding gone wrong.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 75%
96. Level 16
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Fans of The Handmaid's Tale should find plenty to love in this smart and slick indie thriller.
Tackling similar themes through a distinct lens, Level 16 follows the teenage girls at The Vestalis Academy, a dreary and seemingly inescapable boarding school where they're taught the so-called virtues of femininity - obedience, cleanliness, patience, and humility.
As the extremist ideology is violently drilled into their minds day-in and day-out, the young women near the end of their studies begin to suspect something sinister is waiting on the other side of their graduation.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 83%
97. The Platform
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A fabulous high-concept thriller that toes the line between genres, The Platform is set within the confines of an impossibly tall building where residents either feast or famine depending on which floor they're on.
Every day, a massive table is stuffed with a banquet of food and slowly dropped through the building, one floor to the next, with the folks on top thriving in gluttony while those far below them starve to death - but there's a catch.
Every once in a while, the inhabitants are gassed, reshuffled - and they never know which floor they're going to wake up on next.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 80%
98. Oxygen
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From High Tension to The Hills Have Eyes to Crawl, Alexandre Aja is responsible for some of the most pulse-pounding, skin-crawling, relentlessly intense movies of the 21st Century.
With his 2021 Netflix original Oxygen, the filmmaker steps back from the horror and leans all the way in on the thrills.
It follows a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with no memory of who she is, how she got there, or - her biggest problem - what to do about her rapidly dwindling supply of oxygen.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 88%
99. Operation Finale
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Operation Finale is based on the real-life story of how Israeli Mossad officers captured Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi war criminal and one of the key figures involved in the Holocaust.
The film is based on a number of historical accounts, especially Eichmann in My Hands, the memoir of Israeli officer Peter Malkin.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 61%
100. Apostle
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Brace yourself for some bloody, brutal thrills with Apostle, the horror-thriller from The Raid director Gareth Evans, who turns his attentions from breathless action to stomach-churning tension.
Legion star Dan Stevens delivers another swing-for-the-fences performance as a man who infiltrates a rural cult that’s taken his sister hostage and discovers some deeply disturbing truths behind the utopian facade.
Rotten Tomatoes audience rating: 79%
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