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Birdeater
Birdeater is a 2023 Australian psychological thriller and debut feature of directors Jack Clark and Jim Weir, in which bride-to-be Irene joins her fiancé Louie's outback bucks party, which turns feral; it won the Sydney Film Festival Audience Award and the 2025 AACTA Best Indie Film award.
Black and Blue (2019 film)
Black and Blue is a 2019 American action thriller directed by Deon Taylor, starring Naomie Harris as a New Orleans officer on the run with incriminating body-camera footage.
Blackway
Blackway is a 2015 thriller directed by Daniel Alfredson and starring Julia Stiles. The film follows a young woman who returns to her Pacific Northwest logging town.
Blood Father
Blood Father (2016) is a Jean-François Richet action thriller starring Mel Gibson as ex-con John Link, protecting daughter Lydia (Erin Moriarty) from a cartel; based on Peter Craig's novel, Cannes 2016 Midnight Screening, 88 minutes.
Bodies at Rest (沉默的证人)
Bodies at Rest (沉默的证人) is a 2019 Hong Kong-China action crime thriller directed by Renny Harlin, starring Nick Cheung, Yang Zi, and Richie Jen, about criminals raiding a morgue for a bullet; it opened HKIFF43 and earned about 1.8亿元.
Bone Lake (film)
Bone Lake is a 2024 American erotic thriller directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan, written by Joshua Friedlander, starring Maddie Hasson, Marco Pigossi, Alex Roe, and Andra Nechita; two couples share a double-booked lakeside rental, released October 3, 2025.
Broken Horses
Broken Horses is a 2015 English-language crime thriller by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, reworking his 1989 Hindi film Parinda on the US-Mexico border, starring Anton Yelchin, Chris Marquette, and Vincent D'Onofrio; it flopped critically and commercially.
Calibre (film)
Calibre is a 2018 British psychological thriller, Matt Palmer's feature debut, starring Jack Lowden and Martin McCann as friends whose Highlands hunting trip turns fatal. It won the Michael Powell Award at Edinburgh and streams on Netflix.
Cat Person (film)
Cat Person (2023) is a psychological thriller directed by Susanna Fogel, written by Michelle Ashford, adapting Kristen Roupenian's viral 2017 New Yorker short story; stars Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun, Sundance premiere, 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Cellar Door (film)
Cellar Door is a 2024 American psychological thriller directed by Vaughn Stein, starring Jordana Brewster, Scott Speedman, and Laurence Fishburne, about a couple forbidden to open a cellar door.
Child 44 (film)
Child 44 is a 2015 thriller directed by Daniel Espinosa, based on Tom Rob Smith's novel, starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and Gary Oldman as Soviet investigators hunting a child killer in 1953; it was banned in Russia and flopped critically and commercially.
City of Dreams (film)
City of Dreams is a 2024 American drama, the directorial debut of Mohit Ramchandani, about Mexican boy Jesús (Ari López) trafficked into an LA sweatshop; released by Roadside Attractions, 50% Tomatometer, 91% audience score, $1.7M gross.
City of Lies
City of Lies (also LAbyrinth) is a 2018 Brad Furman crime thriller starring Johnny Depp as LAPD detective Russell Poole and Forest Whitaker as journalist Jack Jackson investigating the Notorious B.I.G. murder; delayed from 2018, released March 19, 2021.
City of Tiny Lights
City of Tiny Lights is a 2016 British neo-noir crime thriller directed by Pete Travis, adapted by Patrick Neate from his 2005 novel, starring Riz Ahmed as west London private eye Tommy Akhtar; premiered at TIFF 2016, released in UK cinemas 7 April 2017.
Clear Cut (2024 film)
Clear Cut (also released as Cold Deck) is a 2024 action thriller directed by Brian Skiba, starring Clive Standen, Alec Baldwin, and Stephen Dorff, about a logger hunted by drug traffickers after finding a meth lab; released July 19, 2024 by Lionsgate.
Cloud (film)
Cloud (クラウド, Kuraudo) is a 2024 Japanese thriller by Kiyoshi Kurosawa starring Masaki Suda as online reseller Ryosuke Yoshii, alias Ratel, whose cheated customers turn to violent revenge; Venice 2024, Japan's 97th Oscars submission.
Cold Meat (film)
Cold Meat is a 2023 psychological survival thriller, also called Cold Meat (2024 release), directed by Sébastien Drouin, starring Allen Leech, Nina Bergman, and Yan Tual; a driver crashes in a Colorado blizzard and is stalked by a Wendigo-like beast.
Cold Road
Cold Road is a 2023 Canadian survival thriller, the directorial debut of Dene filmmaker Kelvin Redvers, starring Roseanne Supernault as an Indigenous woman and her dog hunted by a semi-truck driver on a frozen northern highway; released theatrically in Canada in January 2024.
Colors of Evil: Red
Colors of Evil: Red (Kolory zła: Czerwień) is a 2024 Polish Netflix crime thriller directed by Adrian Panek, based on Małgorzata Oliwia Sobczak's 2019 novel, starring Jakub Gierszał and Maja Ostaszewska investigating a beach murder in the Tricity.
Come and Find Me
Come and Find Me is Zack Whedon's 2016 directorial-debut thriller starring Aaron Paul and Annabelle Wallis, from a 2012 Black List script; Saban Films released it November 11, 2016, distinct from the 2023 film, Miranda novel, and 2024 short of similar names.
Compulsion (2024 film)
Compulsion (2024) is a British erotic thriller directed and co-written by Neil Marshall, starring Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Charlotte Kirk, and Zach McGowan. Set in Malta, it follows con artists and the "Maltese Phantom" murders; Saban Films released it September 19, 2025.
Control (2023 film)
Control (2023) is a British action thriller directed and written by Gene Fallaize, starring Kevin Spacey in a voice-only role as a man who remotely hijacks Home Secretary Stella Simmons's self-driving car; released December 15, 2023, distinct from other films titled Control.
Cop Car (film)
Cop Car is a 2015 American independent thriller directed by Jon Watts, written with Christopher Ford, starring Kevin Bacon as a corrupt sheriff chasing two boys who steal his abandoned cruiser. Premiered at Sundance 2015, $800,000 budget, 82% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Creepy (クリーピー 偽りの隣人)
Creepy (クリーピー 偽りの隣人) is a 2016 Japanese suspense thriller by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, adapted from Yutaka Maekawa's award-winning novel, starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yūko Takeuchi, and Teruyuki Kagawa as an unsettling neighbor; released June 18, 2016, 130 minutes, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Crooked House (film)
Crooked House (2017) is a Gilles Paquet-Brenner mystery film adapting Agatha Christie's 1949 novel, with screenplay by Julian Fellowes, starring Max Irons, Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, and Christina Hendricks.
Dard (দরদ) (2024 film)
Dard (দরদ, Dorod), 2024 Bangladesh-India psychological romantic thriller directed and written by Anonno Mamun, starring Shakib Khan as auto driver Dulu Mia and Sonal Chauhan; released 15 November 2024, budget ৳10 crore.
Depravity (film)
Depravity (formerly Sic) is a 2024 American crime thriller, Paul Tamasy's directorial debut, starring Victoria Justice, Devon Ross, Taylor John Smith, and Dermot Mulroney; Paramount released it digitally October 15, 2024.
Detective Chinatown (唐人街探案)
Detective Chinatown (唐人街探案) is a 2015 Chinese comedy-mystery film directed and co-written by Chen Sicheng, starring Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran as amateur detectives solving a murder in Bangkok's Chinatown.
Disappearance at Clifton Hill
Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2019) is a Canadian neo-noir thriller by Albert Shin, starring Tuppence Middleton, about a woman investigating a childhood kidnapping memory in Niagara Falls; premiered at TIFF 2019, released February 28, 2020.
Domino (2019 film)
Domino (2019) is Brian De Palma's crime thriller, written by Petter Skavlan, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten, and Guy Pearce; 89 minutes, Saban Films, 34% on Rotten Tomatoes, $317,776 gross.