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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.
Stockholm (2018 film)
Stockholm (2018) is Robert Budreau's comedy-drama-crime film starring Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace, based on the failed 1973 Swedish bank robbery that coined "Stockholm syndrome"; Metascore 54, 70% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from the 2013 Spanish film of the same name.
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.
Suburbicon
Suburbicon is a 2017 American black comedy crime thriller directed by George Clooney, starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, and Oscar Isaac; it was released by Paramount Pictures.
Suburra (film)
Suburra (2015) is Stefano Sollima's Italian crime film, adapted from the De Cataldo–Bonini novel, about gangster Samurai's plan to turn Rome's coast into a gambling resort; it spawned Netflix's first Italian original series.
Summer of Changsha
Summer of Changsha (Liu Yu Tian, 六欲天) is a 2019 Chinese crime drama, the directorial debut of actor Zu Feng, who stars as a depressed detective investigating a dismemberment case; it premiered in Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2019 amid censorship controversy.
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.
Superfly (2018 film)
Superfly (2018) is Director X's remake of the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly, starring Trevor Jackson as Atlanta cocaine dealer Youngblood Priest, produced by Joel Silver and Future, released by Columbia Pictures June 15, 2018.
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 Adventurers
The Adventurers (侠盗联盟) is a 2017 Hong Kong and Chinese action-heist film directed by Stephen Fung, starring Andy Lau, Shu Qi, Zhang Jingchu, and Jean Reno.
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 Blood of Wolves (孤狼の血)
The Blood of Wolves (孤狼の血, Korō no Chi) is a 2018 Toei yakuza thriller directed by Kazuya Shiraishi, adapted from Yuko Yuzuki's Mystery Writers of Japan Award-winning novel, starring Koji Yakusho as a dirty-cop detective in 1988 Hiroshima; it won 12 Japan Academy Prize categories and spawned the 2021 sequel LEVEL2.
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 Classified File (극비수사)
The Classified File (극비수사) is a 2015 South Korean crime drama film directed by Kwak Kyung-taek, starring Kim Yun-seok and Yoo Hae-jin in a real 1978 Busan kidnapping case.
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 Dead End (烈日灼心)
The Dead End (烈日灼心), also known as Sunspots, is a 2015 Chinese crime-suspense film by Cao Baoping, adapted from Xu Yigua's novel, about three fugitives raising an orphan; it won three shared Best Actor awards at the Shanghai festival.