180 Best Suspenseful Movies To Watch - A Good Movie To Watch

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Some movies are so enthralling they pull you to the edge of your seat, and there you stay. You won't feel the time pass with the following list of great suspenseful movies and shows to stream now.

The Conversation (1974)

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8.5

Francis Ford Coppola’s taut crime thriller is a timely tale about the dissolution of privacy

Leave the World Behind (2023)

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8.2

Shyamalan meets Black Mirror in this hugely entertaining, visually inventive apocalyptic thriller with a killer ending

The Teachers’ Lounge (2023)

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9.0

A tense classroom thriller that doubles as an allegory about the frightening complexity of our modern world

Rebel Ridge (2024)

7.5

A suspenseful, veristic crime story about abusive police with action film tropes to prevent you from dissociating

Mister Organ (2022)

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8.1

A filmmaker chases — and then struggles to escape — a shady figure in this fascinating and disturbing documentary

High Sierra (1941)

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8.0

A gangster returns for one last heist in this thrilling cliffside caper

Nightmare Alley (2021)

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8.4

A psychological thriller of the highest quality, masked as an adult fairytale, by the great Guillermo del Toro

Heretic (2024)

7.2

Though more philosophical than your typical horror film, Heretic still delivers the right amount of jump scares and thrills

Nitram (2021)

7.0

A gripping, restrained character study that doesn’t sensationalize real life tragedy

Wind River (2017)

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9.4

Sicario's screenwriter directs this story of murder in an Indigenous reserve

Lady Vengeance (2005)

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8.1

Truth-seeking and revenge fuel this Korean classic

Open Your Eyes (1997)

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8.0

The startlingly surreal Spanish psychothriller that inspired modern cult classic Vanilla Sky

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