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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.
Nocebo (film)
Nocebo (2022) is a Filipino-Irish supernatural horror-thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan, starring Eva Green, Mark Strong, and Chai Fonacier, about a fashion designer's mysterious illness and her caregiver's revenge.
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.
On the Line (2022 film)
On the Line (2022) is a thriller directed and written by Romuald Boulanger, starring Mel Gibson as radio host Elvis Cooney, forced live on air into a survival game by a caller holding his family hostage; released by Saban Films, 104 minutes, 17% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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.
Resurrection (2022 film)
Resurrection (2022) is Andrew Semans's psychological horror thriller starring Rebecca Hall as Margaret and Tim Roth as David; Sundance 2022 premiere, IFC Films release July 29, 2022, 82% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from Bi Gan's 2025 film of the same name.
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.
Sanctuary (2022 film)
Sanctuary (2022) is an American psychological thriller directed by Zachary Wigon, written by Micah Bloomberg, starring Margaret Qualley and Christopher Abbott as a dominatrix and her hotel-heir client in a one-night hotel-room power struggle; premiered at TIFF 2022, released by NEON in May 2023.
See How They Run (2022 film)
See How They Run is a 2022 comic murder mystery directed by Tom George, starring Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan as detectives investigating a backstage killing in 1953 London.
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.
Sugar (2022 film)
Sugar (2022 film) refers chiefly to Vic Sarin's Canadian-Mexican crime drama, also titled Danger Below Deck, starring Katherine McNamara and Jasmine Sky Sarin as influencers caught in drug smuggling aboard a cruise, inspired by the Cocaine Cowgirls case; a separate 2022 Sugar Movie by Jermaine Quick also exists.
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 Good Neighbor (2022 film)
The Good Neighbor (2022) is an American psychological thriller directed by Stephan Rick, a remake of his 2011 German film Unter Nachbarn, starring Luke Kleintank and Jonathan Rhys Meyers as neighbors covering up a hit-and-run in Riga, Latvia.
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 Immaculate Room
The Immaculate Room is a 2022 psychological thriller written and directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil, starring Emile Hirsch and Kate Bosworth as a couple competing for $5 million by enduring 50 days isolated in a white room; released August 19, 2022 by Screen Media Films.
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 Outfit (2022 film)
The Outfit (2022) is Graham Moore's directorial debut crime thriller, co-written with Johnathan McClain, starring Mark Rylance as Savile Row tailor Leonard Burling in 1956 Chicago; single-location mob thriller, Focus Features, $3.3M box office, 86% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Pale Blue Eye
The Pale Blue Eye is a 2022 Scott Cooper gothic mystery film, adapted from Louis Bayard's novel, in which detective Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) and cadet Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) investigate murders at West Point in 1830.
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.