THRILLER - 2025, a list by Royce Bunn

75

/835/

78

/362/

4.2

/228999/

98

/172/

94

/26/

85

/39/

4.0

age 16+

Looking for a job? When a happy family man is dismissed after twenty-five years of loyal service at a paper company, he finds the perfect solution to land his next role: truly eliminate the competition.

85

IMDb 57

7.9

/10164/

78

/291/

79

/140/

3.9

/156794/

99

/150/

82

/42/

92

/34/

4.0

In 1977 Brazil, technology specialist Marcelo, fleeing a mysterious past, returns to Recife in search of peace, but realizes the city is far from the refuge he seeks.

85

IMDb 4

7.8

/266978/

74

/9643/

74

/2357/

4.2

/1758488/

94

/428/

85

/1999/

95

/63/

4.0

age 16+

Washed-up revolutionary Bob exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his spirited, self-reliant daughter, Willa. When his evil nemesis resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, father and daughter both battling the consequences of his past.

81

IMDb 6

7.4

/173346/

75

/9145/

72

/1729/

3.8

/1676886/

92

/326/

93

/257/

80

/59/

3.5

age 13+

When young priest Jud Duplenticy is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. After a sudden and seemingly impossible murder rocks the town, the lack of an obvious suspect prompts local police chief Geraldine Scott to join forces with renowned detective Benoit Blanc to unravel a mystery that defies all logic.

80

IMDb 11

7.5

/349631/

76

/16187/

74

/3192/

4.1

/3126357/

97

/425/

96

/9466/

84

/55/

2.5

age 16+

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

78

7.4

/55672/

75

/4471/

78

/1036/

3.8

/194266/

78

/18/

3.5

age 16+

While three of the fiercest warriors in human history—a Viking raider, a ninja in feudal Japan, and a WWII pilot—are killers in their own right, they are merely prey for their new opponent: the ultimate killer of killers.

77

7.1

/19999/

73

/1500/

67

/153/

3.7

/113618/

99

/92/

81

/179/

83

/21/

3.0

age 15+

Police bodycam footage reveals how a long-running neighborhood dispute turned fatal in this documentary about fear, prejudice and Stand Your Ground laws.

77

7.2

/1065/

58

/23/

75

/4/

3.7

/16617/

100

/91/

61

/107/

79

/20/

4.0

age 15+

A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.

77

6.8

/3857/

68

/208/

65

/26/

3.6

/48262/

95

/112/

85

/18/

78

/23/

3.5

When a twenty-something retail clerk meets a rising popstar, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

77

IMDb 87

6.7

/85384/

67

/5827/

63

/1050/

3.4

/355940/

96

/291/

70

/876/

85

/53/

4.0

age 15+

When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.

77

7.3

/1021/

66

/18/

71

/9/

3.8

/6836/

98

/54/

84

/16/

3.0

Cousins Chatila and Reda are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens. When Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.

76

8.2

/85/

100

/1/

100

/1/

1.0

A woman looking for an end to her suffering, checks in to the House of Abraham, home to a mysterious cult that promises a way out. She soon discovers all is not what it seems and must plan an escape before it's too late.

76

IMDb 85

6.7

/12444/

65

/638/

66

/100/

3.8

/102906/

91

/185/

79

/23/

77

/34/

3.5

age 15+

With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

76

6.7

/149687/

69

/11172/

70

/2538/

3.2

/1043233/

92

/234/

86

/1950/

73

/35/

3.5

age 16+

Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all.

75

7.2

/2046/

75

/107/

79

/25/

3.5

/3635/

83

/24/

96

/225/

2.0

age 13+

When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German.

75

6.6

/3039/

65

/166/

69

/56/

3.7

/21021/

95

/21/

87

/25/

3.0

age 15+

When hijackers seize a Japanese flight and demand to fly to Pyongyang, a mysterious mastermind hatches a zany scheme to reroute the plane to Seoul.

75

7.1

/2978/

72

/161/

77

/23/

3.8

/19365/

83

/89/

88

/28/

65

/13/

3.0

age 15+

In 1990s New York, an undercover police officer receives an assignment to lure and arrest gay men. However, he's surprised to discover a scintillating connection with one of his targets. As their secret connection deepens and internal pressure to deliver arrests intensifies, he finds himself torn between duty and desire.

75

6.6

/1408/

62

/33/

68

/10/

3.5

/7531/

95

/43/

80

/13/

3.5

Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning with the darkness lurking within us all.

74

6.5

/5799/

71

/577/

61

/62/

3.3

/12471/

89

/95/

94

/59/

74

/19/

3.0

age 16+

Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.

74

IMDb 80

6.9

/63261/

69

/3823/

69

/672/

3.4

/442830/

85

/254/

83

/541/

65

/47/

3.5

age 16+

Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of late 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.

74

6.8

/42926/

71

/3847/

70

/560/

3.3

/67632/

88

/136/

95

/43/

64

/28/

age 14+

A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.

74

IMDb 53

6.7

/90090/

68

/5758/

69

/1029/

3.5

/685382/

88

/291/

85

/939/

71

/34/

3.0

age 16+

In a dystopian near-future America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

73

6.5

/11291/

69

/1135/

71

/197/

3.4

/18646/

88

/73/

92

/35/

74

/12/

2.5

age 15+

Newly released from prison and marked for death by unrelenting enemies, Nate must now protect his estranged 11-year-old daughter, Polly, at all costs. With scant resources and no one to trust, Nate and Polly forge a bond under fire as he shows her how to fight and survive—and she teaches him the true meaning of unconditional love.

73

6.9

/162371/

70

/10927/

70

/1986/

3.4

/1291462/

93

/261/

88

/531/

70

/40/

2.5

age 16+

During a weekend getaway at a secluded lakeside estate, a group of friends finds themselves entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and advanced technology. As tensions rise and loyalties are tested, they uncover unsettling truths about themselves and the world around them.

73

6.9

/1927/

72

/68/

65

/15/

3.3

/9339/

84

/103/

82

/50/

73

/15/

3.0

age 14+

Ten-year-old Aurora asks her hitman neighbor to kill the monster she believes ate her entire family. To protect her, he'll need to battle an onslaught of assassins while accepting the fact that some monsters are real.

73

IMDb 71

7.2

/208331/

73

/12472/

72

/2395/

3.5

/693672/

80

/428/

88

/6532/

67

/57/

2.5

age 13+

Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail. Joined by new allies and armed with the means to shut the Entity down for good, Hunt is in a race against time to prevent the world as we know it from changing forever.

72

6.6

/21305/

66

/1477/

68

/366/

3.5

/100237/

84

/79/

91

/17/

62

/19/

3.0

age 15+

In a climate change-ravaged world, a utopian society optimizes life, including parenthood assessments. A successful couple faces scrutiny by an evaluator over seven days to determine their fitness for childbearing.

72

9.2

/8770/

64

/13/

80

/1/

3.4

/1633/

72

/18/

82

/63/

2.0

A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.

72

6.2

/684/

60

/48/

57

/7/

3.5

/5465/

98

/51/

82

/10/

3.0

Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can't stay hidden for long.

72

6.5

/7062/

67

/939/

67

/88/

3.4

/16556/

95

/74/

75

/90/

67

/15/

3.0

age 15+

Struggling single father Jerry indoctrinates his son Joe into the sovereign citizen movement, teaching him that laws are mere illusions and freedom is something you take. But, as Jerry’s ideology consumes them, they are set on a collision course with a police chief who has spent his life upholding the rules that Jerry has spent his tearing down.

72

IMDb 34

6.6

/178893/

64

/10653/

66

/1981/

3.4

/1030438/

89

/395/

63

/2019/

77

/56/

3.5

age 16+

Twenty-eight years since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. One such group lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily-defended causeway. When one member departs on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.

72

IMDb 74

7.0

/25907/

72

/2173/

69

/273/

3.3

/56725/

82

/146/

89

/141/

70

/28/

2.5

age 14+

A broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive.

72

6.0

/809/

72

/125/

67

/19/

3.3

/466/

75

/24/

89

/26/

63

/7/

3.5

age 15+

World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a local print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields and exposing Russian state corruption under Vladimir Putin. She refused to give up reporting on the war in Chechnya despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence, including being poisoned. She was ultimately murdered in the elevator of her block of flats and it remains unclear who paid for the contract killing.

74

7.3

/267/

60

/1/

70

/1/

3.5

/2357/

89

/44/

88

/31/

72

/8/

3.0

In a race against time, an ailing woman discovers her teenage son's violent obsessions and must go to great lengths to protect him, and possibly others, in this portrait of a Chinese American family. Inspired by true events.

71

6.1

/25132/

62

/1940/

67

/443/

3.0

/176026/

91

/183/

81

/365/

73

/23/

3.0

age 14+

A loyal dog moves to a rural family home with his owner Todd, only to discover supernatural forces lurking in the shadows. As dark entities threaten his human companion, the brave pup must fight to protect the one he loves most.

71

IMDb 70

6.4

/104151/

65

/6109/

63

/1022/

2.8

/244430/

75

/259/

77

/38/

75

/51/

4.0

age 14+

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

70

5.9

/3334/

62

/190/

64

/36/

3.1

/9341/

96

/45/

71

/21/

75

/7/

3.0

age 16+

In the picturesque landscapes of Southern France, a young woman's chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.

70

IMDb 2

7.0

/28331/

72

/881/

72

/314/

3.1

/395249/

72

/185/

92

/1517/

65

/35/

2.5

age 17+

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

70

6.5

/82022/

68

/8261/

68

/1378/

3.1

/389292/

81

/221/

84

/481/

58

/38/

3.0

age 16+

When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.

74

70

7.0

/13116/

61

/953/

69

/312/

3.6

/130354/

93

/112/

73

/23/

81

/22/

A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.

70

6.0

/2412/

63

/233/

67

/17/

3.2

/5983/

95

/41/

70

/44/

3.0

age 15+

A seamstress gets tangled in her own thread after stealing a briefcase from a drug deal gone bad. In an escalating game of cat and mouse, her different choices lead to drastically different outcomes along the way.

70

6.3

/1615/

60

/77/

60

/56/

3.6

/16550/

84

/44/

77

/7/

3.0

When the mysterious woman in the room next door disappears, a debonair 70-year-old ex-spy living in a luxury hotel on the Côte d'Azur is confronted by the demons and darlings of a lurid past in which moviemaking, memories and madness collide.

70

6.6

/34928/

69

/3297/

69

/547/

3.1

/79835/

79

/141/

91

/548/

65

/33/

2.5

age 13+

Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.

70

IMDb 62

6.8

/130260/

72

/10876/

73

/2171/

3.3

/414950/

75

/306/

92

/2183/

59

/49/

2.5

age 16+

Taking place during the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Eve Macarro begins her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma.

69

6.4

/29422/

66

/2228/

65

/418/

3.0

/119037/

87

/181/

74

/123/

65

/24/

3.0

age 16+

A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.

69

5.9

/4307/

59

/464/

57

/77/

3.0

/9076/

92

/50/

49

/43/

76

/6/

4.0

age 15+

A dedicated family man becomes obsessed with saving the lives of the car accident victims on the sharp corner in front of his house – an obsession that could cost him everything.

69

5.5

/30012/

61

/2690/

55

/404/

2.8

/118753/

83

/231/

83

/580/

74

/47/

3.5

age 15+

When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

69

6.7

/5840/

68

/353/

67

/63/

3.1

/16401/

66

/64/

78

/42/

57

/13/