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Our Kind of Traitor (film)
Our Kind of Traitor (2016) is a British spy thriller directed by Susanna White, scripted by Hossein Amini from John le Carré's 2010 novel, starring Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Naomie Harris, and Damian Lewis; UK release 13 May 2016, 72% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Pet (film)
Pet (2016) is a psychological horror-thriller directed by Carles Torrens, written by Jeremy Slater, starring Dominic Monaghan and Ksenia Solo; SXSW premiere, Samuel Goldwyn Films release, 53% Tomatometer.
Ponyboi
Ponyboi is a 2025 American crime drama directed by Esteban Arango, written by and starring intersex actor River Gallo, expanded from a 2019 Tribeca short; it premiered at Sundance 2024 and opened in US theaters June 27, 2025.
Precious Cargo (film)
Precious Cargo (2016) is an American action thriller, Max Adams's directorial debut, starring Bruce Willis, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Claire Forlani in a diamond-heist betrayal plot. Released by Lionsgate Premiere April 22, 2016; grossed about $567,064 worldwide against a $10.5 million budget and holds 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Project Gutenberg (无双) (2018 film)
Project Gutenberg (無雙) is a 2018 Hong Kong counterfeiting crime thriller by Felix Chong, starring Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok; it grossed over RMB 1 billion and won 7 Hong Kong Film Awards including Best Film.
Rage (2016 film)
Rage (怒り, Ikari) is Lee Sang-il's 2016 Japanese drama-mystery adapted from Yoshida Shuichi's novel: a plastic-surgery-altered murderer and three suspects in Chiba, Tokyo, and Okinawa, starring Ken Watanabe, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
Regression (film)
Regression (Regresión) is a 2015 psychological thriller directed by Alejandro Amenábar, starring Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson as a detective and an abuse accuser in 1990 Minnesota.
Remember (2015 film)
Remember (2015 film), Atom Egoyan thriller written by Benjamin August, starring Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau; a dementia-stricken Auschwitz survivor hunts Nazi guard Otto Wallisch, living as Rudy Kurlander, with a twist ending; 94 min, Venice 2015.
Reptile (film)
Reptile is a 2023 Netflix neo-noir crime thriller, Grant Singer's feature debut, starring Benicio Del Toro as detective Tom Nichols investigating a real estate agent's murder; co-written with Benjamin Brewer and Del Toro, released September 2023.
Restless (2024 film)
Restless (2024) is a British psychological thriller, the feature debut of writer-director Jed Hart, starring Lyndsey Marshal as care worker Nicky, whose sleep and sanity unravel against nightmare neighbor Deano (Aston McAuley); premiered at Tribeca 2024, released UK April 2025.
Return to Sender (2015 film)
Return to Sender (2015 film), also marketed internationally as Représailles and Sede de Vingança, is an American psychological thriller directed by Fouad Mikati, starring Rosamund Pike as nurse Miranda Wells, who befriends and then takes revenge on her rapist (Shiloh Fernandez); released August 14, 2015, 95 minutes, 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Revenge (2017 film)
Revenge (2017) is Coralie Fargeat's French rape-revenge thriller debut, starring Matilda Lutz as Jen, who survives an assault by three men in a desert house and hunts them down; premiered at TIFF 2017, released 2018, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Running with the Devil
Running with the Devil (2019), also released as Caminando con el diablo, is a Jason Cabell crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage and Laurence Fishburne as cartel enforcers auditing a cocaine supply chain; it scored 25% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed $60,868 internationally.
Rust Creek
Rust Creek (2019 US release, produced 2018) is an American survival thriller directed by Jen McGowan, starring Hermione Corfield as a college senior hunted by meth dealers in rural Kentucky; IFC Midnight release, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Saving Zoë (film)
Saving Zoë (2019) is an American mystery thriller directed by Jeffrey G. Hunt, adapted from Alyson Noël's 2007 YA novel, starring real-life sisters Laura and Vanessa Marano as Echo and murdered Zoë; released July 12, 2019 by Blue Fox Entertainment.
Searching (film)
Searching (2018) is an American screenlife mystery thriller directed by Aneesh Chaganty, starring John Cho as a father who searches his missing daughter's laptop; also known simply as Searching, it grossed over $75 million on an $880,000 budget and spawned Missing (2023).
Seberg
Seberg (2019) is a political thriller by Benedict Andrews starring Kristen Stewart as Jean Seberg, the Breathless actress targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO over her Black Panther ties; premiered at Venice 2019, released by Amazon Studios.
Secret in Their Eyes
Secret in Their Eyes is a 2015 American crime thriller written and directed by Billy Ray, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, and Julia Roberts as investigators.
Secret Obsession
Secret Obsession is a 2019 Netflix psychological thriller directed by Peter Sullivan, starring Brenda Song, Mike Vogel, and Dennis Haysbert; an amnesia thriller watched by 40 million households but panned by critics (29% on Rotten Tomatoes).
Serenity (2019 film)
Serenity (2019) is a neo-noir thriller written and directed by Steven Knight, starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, about a fisherman offered $10 million to kill his ex-wife's husband; filmed entirely in Mauritius, it flopped critically and commercially.
Serpent's Path (2024 film)
Serpent's Path (Hebi no michi, 蛇の道; La voie du serpent) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2024 French-language self-remake of his 1998 thriller, set near Paris, starring Ko Shibasaki and Damien Bonnard, released in Japan June 14, 2024.
Sew Torn
Sew Torn (2024) is a darkly comic crime thriller directed by Freddy Macdonald, expanded from his 2019 Searchlight-acquired short; seamstress Barbara's three choices after a drug deal replay as branching stories, premiering at SXSW and Locarno.
Sharp Corner
Sharp Corner is a 2024 Canadian-Irish psychological thriller directed by Jason Buxton, adapted from a Russell Wangersky short story, starring Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders; it premiered at TIFF 2024 and was released by Vertical in May 2025.
Shock Wave (拆弹专家) (2017 film)
Shock Wave (拆弹专家) is a 2017 Hong Kong action thriller directed by Herman Yau, starring Andy Lau as a bomb disposal officer confronting a bomber who seizes the Cross-Harbour Tunnel.
Shot Caller (film)
Shot Caller (2017) is an American prison crime drama written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as stockbroker Jacob "Money" Harlon, who joins a white supremacist gang after a DUI manslaughter sentence and is later forced to arrange an arms deal; Saban Films released it August 18, 2017.
Siberia (2018 film)
Siberia (2018) is a romantic crime-thriller directed by Matthew Ross, written by Scott B. Smith, starring Keanu Reeves as diamond trader Lucas Hill and Ana Ularu as Katya; released by Saban Films in July 2018 to strongly negative reviews (12% Tomatometer, Metascore 34).
Sicario (2015 film)
Sicario (2015) is a Denis Villeneuve crime thriller written by Taylor Sheridan, starring Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, and Josh Brolin as an FBI agent drawn into a covert US task force against Mexican cartels; 121 minutes, Metascore 82, followed by Day of the Soldado (2018).
Skincare (film)
Skincare is a 2024 American psychological thriller, the narrative feature debut of director Austin Peters, starring Elizabeth Banks as aesthetician Hope Goldman. Loosely based on the Dawn DaLuise case, released by IFC Films August 16, 2024, Metascore 61, 67% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Sleeping Dogs (2024 film)
Sleeping Dogs (2024 film), an adaptation of E.O. Chirovici's novel The Book of Mirrors, is a crime thriller directed by Adam Cooper starring Russell Crowe as an amnesiac ex-detective; unrelated to the 2012 video game.
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.