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Solace (2015 film)
Solace is a 2015 American crime thriller directed by Afonso Poyart, starring Anthony Hopkins, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Abbie Cornish, and Colin Farrell, released in the United States in 2016.
Sons (2024 film)
Sons (Vogter), 2024 Danish-Swedish prison thriller by Gustav Möller, starring Sidse Babett Knudsen; premiered in Berlinale competition 22 February 2024, Golden Bear nominee.
Spinning Man
Spinning Man: 2018 psychological thriller by Swedish director Simon Kaijser, screenplay Matthew Aldrich, adapted from George Harrar's 2003 novel. Guy Pearce plays philosophy professor Evan Birch, prime suspect in a student's disappearance, opposite Pierce Brosnan's Detective Malloy; Lionsgate Premiere released it to $283,755 and mixed reviews.
Split (2016 American film)
Split (2016) is M. Night Shyamalan's psychological horror thriller starring James McAvoy as Kevin Wendell Crumb, a kidnapper with 23 DID personalities, and Anya Taylor-Joy. A stealth sequel to Unbreakable, it grossed $278.5 million on a small budget and drew criticism for stigmatizing dissociative identity disorder.
Standoff (film)
Standoff (2016) is a Canadian-American thriller, Adam Alleca's directorial debut, starring Thomas Jane, Laurence Fishburne, and Ella Ballentine; a veteran with a one-shell shotgun protects a girl who photographed an assassin. Not the 1998 cult thriller or the 2016 teen comedy The Standoff.
Strange but True (film)
Strange but True is a 2019 psychological thriller directed by Rowan Athale, adapted by Eric Garcia from John Searles' novel, starring Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, Amy Ryan, Brian Cox, and Blythe Danner; Metascore 55, $343,038 worldwide gross.
Strictly Confidential (2024 film)
Strictly Confidential is a 2024 erotic mystery thriller directed and written by Damian Hurley, his feature debut, starring Elizabeth Hurley, Georgia Lock, Lauren McQueen, Freddie Thorp, and Genevieve Gaunt; shot in St. Kitts, released April 5, 2024 by Lionsgate, and poorly received (17% Tomatometer).
Submergence (film)
Submergence (2017), Wim Wenders romantic thriller adapted by Erin Dignam from J.M. Ledgard's novel, starring James McAvoy and Alicia Vikander; premiered at TIFF, US release April 2018, 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Super Dark Times
Super Dark Times is a 2017 American coming-of-age thriller, Kevin Phillips's feature debut, written by Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski, starring Owen Campbell and Charlie Tahan as 1990s teens covering up an accidental killing.
Sympathy for the Devil (2023 film)
Sympathy for the Devil is a 2023 neo-noir thriller directed by Yuval Adler, written by Luke Paradise, starring Nicolas Cage as a gunman who forces Joel Kinnaman's expectant father to drive him out of Las Vegas; released July 28, 2023 by RLJE Films.
The Absence of Eden
The Absence of Eden (Beyond the Borders) is a 2024 border drama, Marco Perego's directorial debut, starring Zoe Saldaña as a migrant fleeing a cartel and Garrett Hedlund as an ICE agent; mixed reviews, 39% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Accountant (2016 film)
The Accountant is a 2016 American action thriller directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Bill Dubuque, starring Ben Affleck as a math savant who keeps the books for criminal organizations.
The Amateur (2024 film)
The Amateur (2024 film), released April 11, 2025, is a James Hawes spy thriller starring Rami Malek as CIA cryptographer Charlie Heller, adapted from Robert Littell's 1981 novel, with Rachel Brosnahan and Laurence Fishburne.
The Bad Batch (film)
The Bad Batch (2016) is Ana Lily Amirpour's 118-minute dystopian cannibal western starring Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Keanu Reeves, and Jim Carrey; it won the Venice Special Jury Award and earned a Metascore of 62.
The Bar (film)
The Bar (El bar, 2017) is a Spanish-Argentine black comedy thriller by Álex de la Iglesia: strangers trapped in a Madrid bar by a sniper, premiered at Berlinale 2017, Goya-nominated, Méliès d'argent winner.
The Beguiled (2017 film)
The Beguiled is a 2017 American drama-thriller directed by Sofia Coppola, set in 1864 Virginia at a Southern girls' boarding school that takes in a wounded Union soldier.
The Chase (반드시 잡는다) (2017 film)
The Chase (반드시 잡는다) is a 2017 South Korean thriller directed by Kim Hong-sun, in which a retired detective and a landlord pursue a serial killer.
The Circle (2017 film)
The Circle is a 2017 American techno-thriller directed by James Ponsoldt, adapted from Dave Eggers's 2013 novel, in which Emma Watson's character joins a powerful tech company's surveillance experiment.
The Clovehitch Killer
The Clovehitch Killer is a 2018 American thriller directed by Duncan Skiles, written by Christopher Ford, starring Charlie Plummer and Dylan McDermott, about a teen suspecting his father of being a serial killer; released by IFC Midnight, inspired by BTK research.
The Coldest Game
The Coldest Game (Ukryta gra) is a 2019 Polish spy thriller, Łukasz Kośmicki's directing debut, starring Bill Pullman as alcoholic chess champion Joshua Mansky in a 1962 Warsaw match during the Cuban Missile Crisis; released on Netflix February 8, 2020.
The Contract (2024 film)
The Contract (2024) is an Italian psychological thriller directed by Massimo Paolucci, starring Kevin Spacey as The Devil, Eric Roberts, and Vincent Spano; 105 minutes, English, shot in Rome, premiered at Cairo 2024.
The Cut (2024 film)
The Cut (2024) is a boxing psychological thriller directed by Sean Ellis, starring Orlando Bloom, Caitríona Balfe, and John Turturro. Premiered at TIFF 2024; US release September 5, 2025; follows a boxer cutting dangerous weight in six days.
The Dinner (2017 film)
The Dinner (2017), Oren Moverman's American drama adapted from Herman Koch's novel Het diner, stars Richard Gere, Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, and Rebecca Hall as couples discussing their sons' crime over a restaurant meal; 120 minutes, $1.3M US gross, 46% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (악인전)
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (악인전) is a 2019 South Korean crime action thriller by Lee Won-tae starring Don Lee, Kim Mu-yeol, and Kim Sung-kyu; it screened at Cannes Midnight Screenings, grossed over $21 million in Korea, and is being remade by James Wan for Paramount.
The Gift (2015 American film)
The Gift (2015) is an American psychological thriller, the directorial debut of Joel Edgerton, who wrote, co-produced, and stars as Gordo opposite Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall; released August 7, 2015 by STX, it earned $43.8M domestic on a $5M budget.
The Girl in the Pool
The Girl in the Pool is a 2024 American mystery thriller directed by Dakota Gorman, written by Jackson Reid Williams, starring Freddie Prinze Jr., Monica Potter, and Kevin Pollak; a man hides his mistress's corpse during his surprise birthday party. Released July 26, 2024 by Quiver Distribution.
The Girl in the Spider's Web (film)
The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) is Fede Alvarez's action thriller adapting David Lagercrantz's fourth Millennium novel, starring Claire Foy as hacker Lisbeth Salander; it earned $35.2 million worldwide on a $43 million budget and scored 38% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Good Liar
The Good Liar is a 2019 British thriller directed by Bill Condon, adapted from Nicholas Searle's 2015 novel, starring Ian McKellen as conman Roy Courtnay and Helen Mirren as widow Betty McLeish in their first film together.
The Handmaiden (아가씨)
The Handmaiden (아가씨) is Park Chan-wook's 2016 Korean erotic thriller adapting Sarah Waters's Fingersmith to 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea; Cannes competitor, Vulcain Prize winner, 2018 BAFTA Best Film Not in the English Language, sold to 175 countries.
The Hummingbird Project
The Hummingbird Project is a 2018 Canadian-Belgian drama by Kim Nguyen starring Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård, and Salma Hayek as high-frequency traders building a Kansas-to-New Jersey fiber-optic cable; fictional, TIFF 2018, released 2019 by The Orchard.