Classic Thrillers, a list by Riz

6.7

/100434/

72

/2367/

66

/1043/

3.4

/61278/

41

/46/

Audience

67

/60458/

36

/15/

2.5

age 16+

The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he's more than capable -- busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot-spot. But Dalton's romance with the gorgeous Dr. Clay puts him on the bad side of cutthroat local big shot Brad Wesley.

72

7.5

/132423/

74

/2667/

73

/1925/

3.6

/107205/

84

/51/

Audience

80

/126227/

62

/11/

2.5

age 15+

Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.

86

8.4

/762843/

83

/19322/

79

/9046/

4.2

/420833/

98

/86/

Audience

94

/431177/

84

/22/

3.5

age 15+

When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story—all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.

82

8.1

/822909/

80

/26756/

79

/13289/

4.1

/865421/

89

/131/

Audience

91

/338977/

84

/15/

3.0

age 16+

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

84

8.4

/1106327/

81

/23201/

82

/16724/

4.2

/1556802/

83

/106/

Audience

93

/483832/

68

/26/

4.0

age 16+

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

74

7.8

/454682/

78

/13637/

75

/7674/

3.8

/315954/

80

/60/

Audience

87

/17050/

47

/17/

3.0

age 16+

A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.

84

8.1

/923949/

80

/22306/

77

/12391/

3.9

/506446/

100

/68/

Audience

89

/778168/

84

/21/

age 15+

In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st century mechanical hegemony. Meanwhile, the human-resistance movement dispatches a lone warrior to safeguard Sarah. Can he stop the virtually indestructible killing machine?

76

7.5

/193215/

77

/5988/

73

/2786/

3.7

/86719/

89

/54/

Audience

83

/110428/

62

/14/

age 15+

A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

64

6.7

/57224/

70

/1929/

66

/878/

3.2

/21904/

67

/36/

Audience

61

/25671/

53

/15/

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

91

8.5

/521951/

82

/7030/

83

/6045/

4.4

/408044/

98

/130/

Audience

95

/151369/

100

/18/

4.0

age 12+

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.

86

8.1

/659281/

78

/13395/

76

/9824/

4.0

/768069/

97

/101/

Audience

90

/946731/

87

/21/

4.0

age 13+

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.

82

8.1

/454841/

78

/10029/

77

/7585/

4.0

/536362/

78

/175/

Audience

87

/421538/

82

/22/

4.0

age 16+

When a charming 12-year-old girl takes on the characteristics and voices of others, doctors say there is nothing they can do. As people begin to die, the girl's mother realizes her daughter has been possessed by the devil--and that her daughter's only possible hope lies with two priests and the ancient rite of demonic exorcism.

78

7.6

/283018/

76

/9354/

73

/4794/

3.9

/238278/

92

/86/

Audience

84

/227184/

70

/17/

3.0

age 17+

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

88

8.1

/349758/

79

/4590/

79

/3559/

4.3

/271262/

99

/80/

Audience

93

/78383/

92

/23/

4.0

age 17+

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

79

8.2

/945409/

82

/26873/

77

/10699/

4.1

/634680/

94

/89/

Audience

94

/575763/

72

/14/

2.0

age 16+

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.

74

7.7

/215655/

76

/3687/

76

/3115/

4.1

/349872/

95

/83/

Audience

88

/77350/

75

/15/

1.0

age 18+

Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.

90

8.5

/718122/

83

/11232/

84

/9643/

4.3

/725740/

97

/115/

Audience

95

/241094/

97

/18/

4.0

age 15+

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

72

6.8

/222279/

69

/7603/

67

/4063/

3.4

/165097/

89

/65/

Audience

70

/142544/

73

/14/

age 16+

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.

79

7.6

/78373/

74

/1772/

74

/1745/

3.8

/74563/

89

/45/

Audience

84

/35705/

81

/15/

Traveling businessman David Mann angers the driver of a rusty tanker while crossing the California desert. A simple trip turns deadly, as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.

87

8.0

/235100/

78

/4608/

78

/3719/

4.2

/333230/

96

/84/

Audience

87

/74234/

96

/15/

4.0

age 16+

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

80

7.6

/193649/

75

/6344/

74

/3452/

3.9

/136215/

93

/58/

Audience

86

/84817/

77

/15/

3.5

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

80

7.7

/31878/

76

/486/

74

/537/

3.9

/21470/

96

/24/

Audience

86

/17806/

76

/5/

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

77

7.7

/119229/

75

/2137/

73

/1468/

3.9

/74146/

89

/66/

Audience

82

/49570/

80

/15/

2.5

age 18+

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

70

7.0

/116260/

71

/3577/

67

/1853/

3.5

/58388/

82

/60/

Audience

77

/61329/

55

/12/

age 14+

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.

76

7.7

/275495/

77

/8608/

74

/5902/

3.8

/170565/

86

/50/

Audience

86

/139716/

61

/15/

3.0

age 16+

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

77

7.8

/330743/

78

/6496/

77

/5363/

3.8

/178988/

83

/75/

Audience

89

/218057/

79

/16/

2.5

age 16+

Young Treasury Agent Eliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jim Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.

70

7.3

/5875/

72

/110/

67

/87/

3.5

/2922/

86

/14/

Audience

79

/1658/

64

/12/

2.0

A group of men are on safari. One of the party refuses to give a gift to a tribe they encounter. The tribe is offended, seizes the party, and one-by-one, kills all but one of the safari members in various creative and horrifying ways. The last surviving member is given "The Lion's Chance" by the tribal leader to be hunted down by a party of tribal warriors.

74

7.5

/110661/

76

/2806/

76

/1994/

3.8

/101118/

88

/51/

Audience

88

/76394/

65

/16/

2.0

age 16+

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

62

6.6

/167617/

70

/4395/

65

/2219/

3.2

/70592/

66

/47/

Audience

61

/81038/

45

/12/

2.5

By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and U.S. society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight for their lives, including the gladiator-style The Running Man, hosted by the ruthless Damon Killian, where “runners” attempt to evade “stalkers” and certain death for a chance to be pardoned and set free.

82

7.9

/83536/

78

/1337/

76

/992/

4.0

/56841/

96

/90/

Audience

92

/23329/

76

/15/

age 15+

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

80

7.4

/206619/

74

/4828/

73

/3592/

3.9

/415080/

93

/76/

Audience

77

/353620/

86

/21/

3.5

age 15+

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.

84

7.7

/306732/

75

/8781/

75

/5279/

3.8

/624882/

96

/85/

Audience

89

/304805/

90

/21/

4.0

age 17+

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

89

8.3

/426804/

80

/6359/

81

/5477/

4.2

/444981/

92

/93/

Audience

93

/103088/

100

/32/

4.0

age 13+

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

85

7.7

/121824/

75

/1932/

75

/1577/

4.2

/126445/

97

/71/

Audience

89

/35404/

87

/17/

4.0

age 16+

Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple is in danger.

65

6.7

/174837/

71

/4499/

66

/2649/

3.4

/77139/

67

/36/

Audience

68

/138435/

51

/7/

age 14+

John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.

85

8.0

/20074/

77

/755/

75

/279/

4.1

/32016/

100

/12/

Audience

92

/2863/

92

/5/

Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

63

6.1

/73127/

67

/2519/

60

/1350/

2.7

/31767/

71

/55/

Audience

37

/52693/

68

/15/

3.5

age 14+

James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for nuclear blackmail. But Bond has an ally in Largo's girlfriend, the willowy Domino, who falls for Bond and seeks revenge.

83

7.5

/105220/

74

/1827/

72

/1313/

3.9

/120731/

94

/109/

Audience

88

/39322/

84

/33/

4.0

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

76

7.3

/179527/

74

/5192/

71

/2815/

3.5

/223912/

88

/76/

Audience

79

/182819/

79

/16/

3.0

age 13+

Upon realizing that something truly evil haunts his home, Steve Freeling calls in a team of parapsychologists to help before it's too late.

77

73

7.5

/14111/

75

/232/

74

/221/

3.8

/9677/

82

/28/

Audience

82

/3168/

Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police but the mob as well.

61

6.9

/140480/

70

/4193/

68

/2361/

3.5

/223641/

70

/53/

Audience

73

/70188/

56

/17/

0.5

age 18+

Hedonist Frank Cotton finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons the Cenobites, who open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

79

7.5

/92249/

74

/1907/

73

/1279/

4.0

/156674/

91

/64/

Audience

82

/43511/

age 18+

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

69

57

7.1

/4974/

70

/52/

68

/37/

3.3

/1536/

80

/5/

Audience

63

/615/

On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.

77

7.7

/27607/

76

/796/

74

/477/

4.2

/71287/

82

/51/

Audience

84

/3893/

68

/13/

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

69

6.9

/97071/

70

/1708/

68

/1351/

3.5

/59521/

74

/61/

Audience

72

/53190/

67

/16/

2.5

age 17+

For Dan Gallagher, life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth, and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex, everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.

72

64

6.8

/6656/

77

/121/

66

/105/

3.5

/6567/

89

/9/

Audience

66

/2128/

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

76

7.2

/80908/

71

/1836/

70

/1241/

3.9

/89722/

94

/49/

Audience

77

/53467/

75

/22/

age 15+

FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.

85

8.2

/258845/

81

/3834/

79

/2374/

4.1

/83698/

94

/54/

Audience

95

/103718/