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The Image of You (film)

The Image of You is a 2024 American erotic thriller directed by Jeff Fisher, adapted from Adele Parks' novel, starring Sasha Pieterse as identical twins Anna and Zoe, with Parker Young, Nestor Carbonell, and Mira Sorvino; released digitally in May 2024.

The Informer (2019 film)

The Informer (2019) is a British crime thriller directed by Andrea Di Stefano, adapted from Roslund and Hellstrom's novel Three Seconds, starring Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common, Ana de Armas, and Clive Owen; released UK August 2019, US November 2020.

The Intruder (2019 film)

The Intruder is a 2019 American psychological thriller directed by Deon Taylor and starring Dennis Quaid, Michael Ealy, and Meagan Good, released by Screen Gems in May 2019.

The Invisible Guardian

The Invisible Guardian (El guardián invisible) is a 2013 Dolores Redondo novel, first of the Baztán Trilogy, and its 2017 film adaptation: inspector Amaia Salazar investigates ritualistic murders in Navarre's Baztán valley tied to the Basque basajaun myth.

The Invisible Guest

The Invisible Guest (Contratiempo) is a 2016 Spanish mystery thriller by Oriol Paulo, starring Mario Casas and Ana Wagener, about a businessman building a murder defense; it earned about $30.8 million worldwide and spawned remakes in Italian, Hindi, Telugu, and Korean.

The Journalist (新聞記者)

The Journalist (新聞記者, Shinbun Kisha) is a 2019 Japanese political thriller by Michihito Fujii, inspired by Isoko Mochizuki's book, starring Shim Eun-kyung and Tori Matsuzaka; it won three Japan Academy Prizes including Best Picture and spawned a 2022 Netflix series.

The Kill Room

The Kill Room is a 2023 American crime comedy thriller directed by Nicol Paone, starring Uma Thurman, Joe Manganiello, and Samuel L. Jackson as an art dealer, hitman, and boss whose money laundering scheme makes the hitman an avant-garde art star; released September 29, 2023, grossing $139,358 domestically.

The Limehouse Golem

The Limehouse Golem is a 2016 British gothic murder mystery directed by Juan Carlos Medina, written by Jane Goldman from Peter Ackroyd's novel, starring Bill Nighy and Olivia Cooke as a detective and accused music-hall star in 1880 London.

The Man in the White Van

The Man in the White Van is a 2024 American thriller directed by Warren Skeels, starring Madison Wolfe, loosely based on Florida serial killer Billy Mansfield Jr.; released December 13, 2024 by Relativity Media.

The Negotiation (협상) (film)

The Negotiation (협상) is a 2018 South Korean crime thriller, the first feature directed by Lee Jong-suk, in which Son Ye-jin's police negotiator confronts Hyun Bin's hostage-taker through phone and video talks, released in September 2018.

The Outsider (2018 film)

The Outsider (2018 film): Netflix crime drama directed by Martin Zandvliet, starring Jared Leto as American POW Nick Lowell who joins the yakuza in post-WWII Osaka; released March 9, 2018; 13% on Rotten Tomatoes, Metascore 30. Not the 2018 Nobu Su documentary or the HBO Stephen King series.

The Perfect Guy (2015 film)

The Perfect Guy is a 2015 American thriller directed by David M. Rosenthal and starring Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, and Morris Chestnut, released by Screen Gems in September 2015.

The Plot (설계자) (film)

The Plot (설계자, Seolgyeja) is a 2024 South Korean crime thriller directed by Lee Yo-sup, a remake of Hong Kong's Accident (2009), starring Gang Dong-won as a hitman who stages murders as accidents; it drew 525,369 admissions.

The Poison Rose

The Poison Rose is a 2019 Italian-American crime mystery thriller directed by George Gallo, starring John Travolta as a private detective drawn into a web of crimes in Galveston, Texas.

The Purity of Vengeance

The Purity of Vengeance (Journal 64) is a 2018 Danish Department Q thriller directed by Christoffer Boe, starring Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Fares Fares, linking mummified bodies in Copenhagen to the Sprogø institution; it set a Danish opening record.

The Realm

The Realm (El reino) is a 2018 Spanish-French political thriller by Rodrigo Sorogoyen starring Antonio de la Torre as a corrupt politician scapegoated by his party; it won seven Goya Awards.

The Red Sea Diving Resort

The Red Sea Diving Resort is a 2019 Netflix spy thriller by Gideon Raff starring Chris Evans, dramatizing Mossad's Operation Brothers, which used a fake Sudanese diving resort to smuggle Ethiopian Jews to Israel.

The Royal Hotel (film)

The Royal Hotel is a 2023 Kitty Green thriller, also known as an adaptation of Hotel Coolgardie, starring Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick as backpackers bar-working in a remote Australian Outback mining pub.

The Sense of an Ending (film)

The Sense of an Ending (2017) is Ritesh Batra's drama adapting Julian Barnes's Booker-winning novel, starring Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling; Nick Payne's screenplay reworks the unreliable first-person narration into a story told through relationships.

The Silence of the Marsh

The Silence of the Marsh (El silencio del pantano) is a 2019 Spanish psychological thriller directed by Marc Vigil, adapting Juanjo Braulio's novel. Pedro Alonso plays Q, a crime novelist whose murders may be real; released January 2020 in Spain, on Netflix April 2020.

The Snowman (2017 film)

The Snowman (2017) is Tomas Alfredson's crime thriller adapting Jo Nesbø's Snømannen, starring Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole; a rushed production left 10–15% of the script unfilmed, and the film earned 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Soul Eater (film)

The Soul Eater (Le Mangeur d'âmes) is a 2024 French horror thriller by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, adapted from Alexis Laipsker's novel, starring Virginie Ledoyen and Paul Hamy as investigators in the Vosges; released 24 April 2024, distinct from the Japanese manga Soul Eater.

The Spy Gone North (北風)

The Spy Gone North (공작, 北風) is Yoon Jong-bin's 2018 South Korean espionage drama based on real agent Park Chae-seo, code name Black Venus, who infiltrated North Korean leadership in 1993 over its nuclear program.

The Surfer (2024 film)

The Surfer (2024) is an Australian-Irish psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan, starring Nicolas Cage as a man barred from his childhood beach by local surfers; premiered at Cannes 2024, released 2025.

The Third Murder (三度目の殺人)

The Third Murder (三度目の殺人, Sandome no satsujin) is Hirokazu Kore-eda's 2017 Japanese legal thriller, his first crime film, starring Masaharu Fukuyama and Koji Yakusho; Venice Golden Lion nominee and six-time 2018 Japan Academy Prize winner including Best Film.

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017) is an A24 drama directed by Shawn Christensen, starring Logan Lerman as a novelist who vanishes after his bestselling debut, with Elle Fanning and Kyle Chandler; Metascore 18, RT 12%.

The Wedding Guest (2018 film)

The Wedding Guest (2018 film): Michael Winterbottom thriller starring Dev Patel, Radhika Apte, Jim Sarbh; a hired man abducts a bride from an arranged wedding in Pakistan; TIFF 2018 premiere, UK release 19 July 2019. Distinct from the 2018 Cobie Smulders romantic comedy of the same name.

The Whole Truth (2016 film)

The Whole Truth (2016) is an American courtroom thriller directed by Courtney Hunt, starring Keanu Reeves, Renée Zellweger, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Gabriel Basso, and Jim Belushi; a defense attorney defends a silent teen accused of murdering his father. Critically panned (35% Tomatometer), limited release.

The Wolf's Call

The Wolf's Call (Le Chant du Loup) is a 2019 French submarine thriller, Antonin Baudry's first feature, starring François Civil, Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz, and Reda Kateb aboard a French nuclear submarine; it won the César for Best Sound.

Them That Follow

Them That Follow is a 2019 American drama-thriller and debut feature of Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage, premiered at Sundance, about a pastor's daughter in an Appalachian Pentecostal snake-handling church, starring Walton Goggins, Alice Englert, and Olivia Colman.