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Midnight in the Switchgrass
Midnight in the Switchgrass is a 2021 Lionsgate crime thriller, the directorial debut of producer Randall Emmett, starring Megan Fox, Bruce Willis, Emile Hirsch, and Machine Gun Kelly; based on the Truck Stop Killer case, it earned 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Night in Paradise (낙원의 밤)
Night in Paradise (낙원의 밤) is a 2020 South Korean crime noir by Park Hoon-jung, starring Uhm Tae-goo, Jeon Yeo-been, and Cha Seung-won; it premiered at Venice 2020 and streamed on Netflix from April 9, 2021.
No Sudden Move
No Sudden Move (No Sudden Move) is a 2021 American HBO Max crime thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh, written by Ed Solomon, starring Don Cheadle and Benicio del Toro as small-time criminals in 1954 Detroit whose document theft spirals into conspiracy.
Nobody (2021 film)
Nobody (2021) is an American action thriller directed by Ilya Naishuller, written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad, starring Bob Odenkirk as suburban dad and hidden assassin Hutch Mansell; released March 26, 2021, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, followed by Nobody 2 in 2025.
Old (film)
Old is a 2021 American thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, in which vacationers on a secluded tropical beach age rapidly, aging about two years per hour.
Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman (2020) is Emerald Fennell's Oscar-winning directorial debut, a black comedy thriller starring Carey Mulligan as Cassie, a med-school dropout avenging her friend's rape; released by Focus Features, it won Best Original Screenplay.
Queenpins
Queenpins (2021) is an American crime comedy written and directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, starring Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste as housewives running a counterfeit coupon scam inspired by a real $40 million Phoenix case, released by STXfilms and later a Netflix No. 1.
Raging Fire (怒火)
Raging Fire (怒火·重案) is Benny Chan's 2021 Hong Kong action crime film, his final work, starring Donnie Yen as a cop versus ex-officer Nicholas Tse; it passed RMB 1 billion in China and won four Hong Kong Film Awards.
Runt (2020 film)
Runt is a 2020 teenage thriller about bullying, the directorial debut of William Coakley, starring Cameron Boyce as a neglected senior in his final film role.
Sightless
Sightless (2020) is an American psychological thriller written and directed by Cooper Karl, adapted from his short film. Madelaine Petsch plays Ellen Ashland, a violinist blinded in an attack; 89 minutes, IMDb 5.5/10.
Silk Road (2021 film)
Silk Road (2021 film), also called Silk Road: Gebieter des Darknets, is Tiller Russell's Lionsgate crime thriller starring Nick Robinson as darknet drug-market founder Ross Ulbricht and Jason Clarke as a fictional DEA agent, adapted from David Kushner's Rolling Stone article, released February 19, 2021.
Stillwater (film)
Stillwater (2021) is a Tom McCarthy drama-thriller starring Matt Damon as an Oklahoma oil-rig worker seeking to free his daughter, imprisoned in Marseille for murder; loosely inspired by the Amanda Knox case, released by Focus Features July 30, 2021.
The Call (콜) (2020 South Korean film)
The Call (콜, Kol) is a 2020 South Korean time-crossing thriller directed by Lee Chung-hyun, starring Park Shin-hye and Jeon Jong-seo, released on Netflix November 27, 2020, remade from The Caller (2011).
The Comeback Trail (2020 film)
The Comeback Trail (2020) is a George Gallo crime comedy remake of Harry Hurwitz's 1982 film, starring Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Tommy Lee Jones as producers and a western star in an insurance-scam murder plot; shot in 2019, released internationally 2020-2021 and in US theaters February 2025.
The Forgiven (2021 film)
The Forgiven (2021 film), John Michael McDonagh's British drama adapted from Lawrence Osborne's 2012 novel, stars Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain as Londoners whose car kills a Moroccan boy; filmed in Erfoud, Morocco, premiered at TIFF 2021.
The Guilty (2021 film)
The Guilty (2021) is Antoine Fuqua's American remake of Gustav Möller's Danish thriller Den Skyldige (2018), starring Jake Gyllenhaal as demoted LAPD officer Joe Baylor in a 911 dispatch center; shot in 11 days during COVID, released by Netflix October 1, 2021.
The Last Days of American Crime
The Last Days of American Crime: 2020 Netflix action thriller directed by Olivier Megaton, based on Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini's graphic novel, starring Édgar Ramírez; holds a 0% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Last Thing He Wanted (film)
The Last Thing He Wanted is Dee Rees' 2020 Netflix political thriller adapted from Joan Didion's 1996 novel, starring Anne Hathaway, Ben Affleck, Willem Dafoe, and Rosie Perez; released February 21, 2020, it premiered at Sundance and earned 5% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Little Things (2021 film)
The Little Things (2021) is an American crime thriller written and directed by John Lee Hancock, starring Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto as detectives and suspect hunting a serial killer in 1990 Los Angeles; released January 29, 2021 in theaters and on HBO Max.
The Man Standing Next (남산의 부장들)
The Man Standing Next (남산의 부장들) is a 2020 South Korean political thriller by Woo Min-ho, starring Lee Byung-hun as KCIA chief Kim Gyu-pyeong, dramatizing the 40 days before Park Chung-hee's 1979 assassination; based on Kim Ch'ung-sik's book, it drew 4.75 million admissions and was South Korea's 93rd Academy Awards entry.
The Night Clerk
The Night Clerk (2020) is an American thriller directed and written by Michael Cristofer, starring Tye Sheridan as autistic hotel night clerk Bart Bromley, a murder suspect, with Ana de Armas, John Leguizamo, and Helen Hunt; released February 21, 2020, Metascore 44.
The Postcard Killings
The Postcard Killings (2020) is a crime thriller directed by Danis Tanović, based on James Patterson and Liza Marklund's novel The Postcard Killers, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan as an NYPD detective hunting serial killers across Europe; released March 13, 2020, 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Rhythm Section
The Rhythm Section is a 2020 action thriller directed by Reed Morano, starring Blake Lively as Stephanie Patrick, adapted from Mark Burnell's 1999 novel and produced by EON's Broccoli and Wilson; it grossed about $6 million worldwide on a $50 million budget.
The Secrets We Keep
The Secrets We Keep is a 2020 American thriller directed by Yuval Adler, starring Noomi Rapace, Joel Kinnaman, and Chris Messina, about a Roma Holocaust survivor who kidnaps her 1950s suburban neighbor; released by Bleecker Street, 62% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Silencing
The Silencing (2020) is an American-Canadian thriller directed by Robin Pront, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Annabelle Wallis as a hunter and sheriff tracking a serial killer; Saban Films released it in August 2020.
The Tax Collector
The Tax Collector is a 2020 crime drama written and directed by David Ayer, starring Bobby Soto, Shia LaBeouf, and George Lopez. Released August 7, 2020 by RLJE, it topped a pandemic box office weekend with $309,694 but earned 17% on Rotten Tomatoes and drew brownface and Latino-stereotype criticism.
The Vanished (2020 film)
The Vanished (2020), formerly Hour of Lead, is an American psychological thriller written and directed by Peter Facinelli, starring Thomas Jane, Anne Heche, and Jason Patric as parents searching for their missing daughter at an RV park; released August 21, 2020, scoring 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Vault (2021 film)
The Vault (original title Way Down) is a 2021 Spanish heist thriller directed by Jaume Balagueró, starring Freddie Highmore, about thieves robbing Francis Drake's treasure from the Bank of Spain vault during the 2010 World Cup final.
Time to Hunt (사냥의 시간) (film)
Time to Hunt (사냥의 시간) is Yoon Sung-hyun's 2020 Korean dystopian heist thriller starring Lee Je-hoon, Choi Woo-sik, and Park Hae-soo; a Berlinale Special Gala film that skipped theaters for Netflix after a COVID-19 delay and a court injunction over overseas sales rights.
Wander (film)
Wander is a 2020 Canadian-American conspiracy thriller directed by April Mullen, written by Tim Doiron, starring Aaron Eckhart, Tommy Lee Jones, Katheryn Winnick, and Heather Graham, released December 4, 2020 by Saban Films.