You watch a movie as a way to escape from the real world for two hours. What better way to spice up the mundane activities of everyday life than with a pulse-racing, action-packed thriller film? The thriller genre offers a variety of picks for every film lover, and Netflix specifically has some great thriller options to watch and pick from, streaming right now.
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Good Time. Bird Box. The Hateful Eight. The Weinstein Company. This is the O. A Quiet Place. The Perfection. Secret Obsession. How well can you ever really know another person? You can love them, you can trust them, you can marry them - and they can still turn out to be the villain in your horror story. Such is the set-up for What Keeps You Alive , a clever survival thriller that drills into those universal fears. But after a run-in with Jackie's childhood friend, Jules begins to uncover dark truths about her wife's past and it's not long before she winds up in a fight for her life against the same woman she vowed to have and to hold.
It's "Trust Issues," the movie and it's extremely freaking effective - and I'm not just saying that because of my trust issues. Or am I? I guess you'll just have to trust me Looking for a journalistic thriller? Set in Washington D. The film is based on a British miniseries of the same name, but holds up quite well all its own as a journalistic crime thriller. What happens when a master filmmaker like Martin Scorsese decides to make a twisty little thriller?
Marshals who arrive on the titular island to investigate a disappearance at an enigmatic psychiatric facility. The film is the second directorial effort from Tom Ford after the critically acclaimed A Single Man and follows an art gallery owner Amy Adams as she reads the new novel written by her first husband Jake Gyllenhaal.
If you're looking for a straight-up, no-nonsense survival thriller , Rust Creek should get the job done. Hermione Corfield stars as Sawyer, a young woman who hits the road for a job interview, only to get lost in the woods and wind up on the run from a pair of attackers. While that "lost and on the run from local yokels" first act feels pretty familiar, Rust Creek takes a refreshing, engrossing turn after Sawyer passes out in the woods and winds up captive to an entirely unexpected, less familiar type of character.
A drug dealer who happens to be cousins and business partners with her assailants, Lowell Jay Paulson ultimately means her no harm, and the two strike up an unexpected bond while they try to survive their shared predicament.
Like I said, the first act is pretty familiar, but the strange dynamic that unfolds between Sawyer and Lowell gives this film a quiet nuance that makes it stand out from the plentiful pack of understated rural Americana thrillers.
Gore-phobes be warned though! If you don't mind a thriller that will give you the most anxiety as its central character keeps making bad decision after bad decision , check out the excellent Uncut Gems. It's a maddening and exhilarating time at the movies.
Before Tom Hardy was grunting his way through the desert and crushing tiny two-headed reptiles as Max Rockatansky, there was Mel Gibson.
George Miller's original introduces the iconic character and paints the maximum force of his dystopian mythology in a somewhat more grounded light—Australian police factions, communities, and glimmers of hope still in existence.
Badass homemade vehicles and chase scenes abound in this taut, minute romp. It's aged just fine. The world of lobbyists doesn't seem like the sexiest fodder for a movie, but this political thriller manages to make it so. Jessica Chastain plays the titular Miss Sloane, a fierce gun control lobbyist who tends to call the shots in DC, until a major misstep makes the opposition, and then all of the Senate, call her practices into question.
Chastain is the real draw here—her fast-talking, tough, and morally obsessed character verbally obliterating anyone who stands in her way, even if it means compromising her values. It's more of a character study than anything, but makes political corruption and intrigue feel as tense as ever. In the early s, director Clint Eastwood was cranking out Oscar bait like it was his job, which it was, and Mystic River actually delivers the goods not to mention actual Oscars for Sean Penn and Tim Robbins.
Part mystery, part revenge narrative, part meditation on grief and trauma, Mystic River 's complexity remains accessible as an exploration of the unbreakable links between childhood and adulthood. Even Sean Penn haters will be moved. Jake Gyllenhaal gives a career-best performance in this nocturnal noir, playing the haunted, single-minded Lou Bloom, a scavenger of human suffering whose motives are as twisted and opaque as the seedy LA underworld he inhabits.
Seven years after A Single Man , his directorial debut, fashion designer Tom Ford stepped back behind the camera to construct a relationship thriller that rings of Cormac McCarthy. Only Ford could put together a movie this stylish and gritty about a woman Amy Adams haunted by her ex-husband's Jake Gyllenhaal latest revenge novel that unfolds on the screen with every page turn. It'll leave you wondering, "What the hell did I just watch?
This wild ride, written and directed by Bong Joon-ho Parasite , Snowpiercer , is part action heist, part Miyazaki-like travelogue, and part scathing satire. It's fueled by fairy tale whimsy—but the Grimm kind, where there are smiles and spilled blood.
Ahn Seo-hyun plays Mija, the young keeper of a "super-pig," bred by a food manufacturer to be the next step in human-consumption evolution. When the corporate overlords come for her roly-poly pal, Mija hightails it from the farm to the big city to break him out, crossing environmental terrorists, a zany Steve Irwin-type Jake Gyllenhaal , and the icy psychos at the top of the food chain including Swinton's childlike CEO along the way.
Okja won't pluck your heartstrings like E. Gina Prince-Bythewood 's adaptation of Greg Rucka's comic series is a superhero movie with a soul.
It stars Charlize Theron as Andy, aka Andromache, a warrior who has lived for six millennia and doesn't really see the point anymore. But she and her team of fellow immortals are drawn back into conflict when they start being hunted by a pharmaceutical brat who wants to use them as test subjects.
At the same time, a new member joins their ranks, Nile KiKi Layne , who survives a throat-slitting and is inducted into this strange club.
Prince-Bythewood melds immensely fun fight sequences—it's a joy to watch Theron throw a punch—with groundbreaking moments of quietude, including a gay romance that's like nothing you've seen before in an action movie. It's not even the best action movie about machine-gun-wielding bad guys taking over the White House released in So, what makes Olympus Has Fallen w orth watching? It's an essential introduction to Mike Banning, a ferocious Secret Service Agent played by Gerard Butler who appears in the sequels London Has Fallen and Angel Has Fallen , and the movie is key, in all its goofy brutality, to understanding Butler's mid-career resurgence as an action star.
The Banning-verse starts here. The Pelican Brief is a legal thriller with an ambitious scope, incorporating Supreme Court Justice assassinations, a scheming president looking to reshape the court, and an environmental conspiracy involving an evil oil tycoon.
It's also completely bizarre—Julia Roberts plays a law student who writes a paper with a theory about the assassinations that falls into the wrong hands—but the glossy execution, with a brightly lit and oddly soft-spoken paranoid style courtesy of All the President's Men director Alan J.
Pakula, makes it compelling even in its many dull stretches. Sometimes the consequences of a split-second mistake unfold into a series of events that change your life forever.
After taking a plea deal for manslaughter, Harlon finds himself caught up in kill-or-be-killed prison gang violence, ultimately getting sucked into the Aryan Brotherhood, where this former family man must make decisions he never would have considered possible in his previous life. Director Ric Roman Waugh Angel Has Fallen brings a sensitive touch to this sturdy prison drama of bloodshed and redemption.
In his haunted adaptation of Dennis Lehane's pulpy gothic novel, director Martin Scorsese uses visceral horror imagery to convey despair. Leonardo DiCaprio's terrified mug is the film's spookiest special effect. With every grimace, furrowed brow, and anguished sob, he brings you into the tortured psyche of Edward Daniels, a man who cannot escape his past no matter how hard he tries.
It's a carefully modulated performance that helps sell the film's occasionally wonky twists. While Shutter Island is more of a psychological thriller than a horrifying spook, DiCaprio will have you feeling as if you're thrown right into Daniels' mind—which is just as scary.
More than anything, it makes you wish DiCaprio will return to the horror genre in the future. It's always a little discombobulating to see your favorite Game of Thrones actors in movies that don't call on them to fight dragons, swing swords, or at least wear some armor.
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