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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.
Cleveland Abduction
Cleveland Abduction (2015) is a Lifetime crime drama directed by Alex Kalymnios, starring Taryn Manning as Michelle Knight and Raymond Cruz as Ariel Castro, based on Knight's memoir Finding Me about her 11-year captivity.
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.
Coin Locker Girl (중국인의 고민)
Coin Locker Girl (차이나타운, Chinatown) is a 2015 South Korean noir thriller and Han Jun-hee's debut feature, starring Kim Hye-soo and Kim Go-eun, screened at Cannes Critics' Week 2015.
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.
Dark Crimes
Dark Crimes (2016), originally titled True Crimes, is a US-Poland thriller directed by Alexandros Avranas, starring Jim Carrey as detective Tadek; adapted from David Grann's 2008 New Yorker article, it holds a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score and grossed $21,216.
Dark Figure of Crime (암수살인) (2018 film)
Dark Figure of Crime (암수살인) is a 2018 South Korean crime thriller directed by Kim Tae-gyun, starring Kim Yun-seok and Ju Ji-hoon, based on a real case of a prisoner confessing seven unreported murders; released by Showbox October 3, 2018.
Den of Thieves (film)
Den of Thieves is a 2018 American heist crime film, Christian Gudegast's directorial debut, starring Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., and 50 Cent, about LA deputies pursuing a crew robbing the Federal Reserve; released by STX, grossing $44.9M, with a 2025 sequel Pantera.
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.
Destroyer (2018 film)
Destroyer (2018 film), also known simply as Destroyer, is a Karyn Kusama neo-noir crime thriller starring Nicole Kidman as LAPD detective Erin Bell, who hunts gang leader Silas seventeen years after a failed undercover operation; released December 25, 2018 by Annapurna Pictures.
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.
Detroit (film)
Detroit is a 2017 American historical drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal, dramatizing the 1967 Detroit riot and the Algiers Motel killings.
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.
Don't Buy the Seller
Don't Buy the Seller (타겟, Target) is a 2023 South Korean thriller directed by Park Hee-gon, starring Shin Hye-sun as a woman whose broken second-hand washing machine purchase leads a serial-killer seller to target her.
Dragged Across Concrete
Dragged Across Concrete: 2018 neo-noir crime thriller written and directed by S. Craig Zahler, starring Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn as suspended Bulwark detectives who turn to crime; released March 22, 2019, 158 minutes.
Drawn Together (film)
Drawn Together (Enfrentados: Marfil) is a 2026 Spanish romantic thriller on Prime Video, directed by Óscar Pedraza, starring Ester Expósito and Hugo Diego García, adapted from Mercedes Ron's novel Marfil, first of the Enfrentados duology, released September 9, 2026.
Driven (2018 film)
Driven (2018) is a Nick Hamm comedy-crime drama, also called a DeLorean biopic, starring Jason Sudeikis as FBI informant Jim Hoffman and Lee Pace as John DeLorean; premiered Venice 2018, released US 2019, grossed $147,172.
Earthquake Bird
Earthquake Bird is a 2019 Netflix psychological thriller directed by Wash Westmoreland, adapted from Susanna Jones's 2001 novel, starring Alicia Vikander as translator Lucy Fly, suspected in her friend Lily Bridges's disappearance in 1989 Tokyo.