We’ve listed 10 popcorn thrillers for you to watch. The options below encompass the best of the thriller genre, with electrifying films and many plot-twists.
10 – Original Sin (2001)
A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
9 – Insomnia (2002)
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn’t set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
8 – Diabolique (1996)
The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed attempt to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The strain starts to tell on the two women as a retired police investigator who is looking into the disappearance on a whim begins to think that they know more than they are telling, and their mental state is not helped when their victim is seen, apparently alive and well by one of the pupils.
7 – Unsane (2018)
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
6 – Unfaithful (2002)
Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.
5 – Disclosure (1994)
A computer specialist is sued for harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
4 – The Black Dahlia (2006)
Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.
3 – Deception (2008)
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York’s power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan’s introduction to The List, an underground club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.
2 – Side Effects (2013)
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband’s upcoming release from prison.
1 – The Pelican Brief (1993)
Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.