100+ Good Suspenseful Movies & Shows to Watch

Big Mistakes

When a petty theft leads to a never-ending list of favors the leads have to fulfill for a gangster, this…

DTF St. Louis

At first glance, DTF St. Louis seemed to be a nonchalant comedy that would poke fun at domestic dissatisfaction. David…

Steal

Dir. Hettie Macdonald

As financial systems update for the digital age, so do the related crimes. This crime thriller series starts out with…

Death by Lightning

Out of all the presidents in American history, you’ll be hard pressed to remember James A. Garfield. That’s because the…

Sound of Falling

Dir. Mascha Schilinski

Previous depictions of provincial living tend to paint the pastoral experience as idyllic, simple, and much more innocent compared to…

The Eternaut

Dir. Bruno Stagnaro

After decades of copyright disputes, The Eternaut finally makes its way on screen, right in time to echo certain worldwide…

The Beast in Me

What makes crime thrillers exciting isn’t necessarily the crime itself– it’s when the leads meet their match. The Beast in…

Paradise

You’ll have to trust us on this: it’s best to know absolutely nothing about this show before you start watching.…

Sirens

Sirens is a psychological drama that follows Devon (Fahy) as she retrieves her sister from the grasp of her cultish,…

Plainclothes

Dir. Carmen Emmi

The strength of Plainclothes is the way it captures a memory. Fitting, for a film primarily set on New Year’s…

Murder Before Evensong

If I had a nickel for 2025 church-set murder mysteries solved by priests portrayed by handsome English actors, I’d have…

The Count of Monte Cristo

With a movie adaptation released earlier in the same year, this miniseries version of the classic French novel was overlooked.…

Black Warrant

With the fresh-faced cast and the sleek camerawork, Black Warrant, at first, didn’t seem to be the gritty adaptation of…

Bring Her Back

Dir. Danny Philippou & Michael Philippou

At the heart of Bring Her Back is grief. It’s already painful to lose a family member, but this supernatural…

All Her Fault

When a mix-up in the school pick-up line turns out to be a kidnapping, it’s the beginning of the nightmare…

One Hundred Years of Solitude

It’s a tall order to depict One Hundred Years of Solitude. Considered to be one of the world’s most important…

The Girl with the Needle

Dir. Magnus von Horn

Given the original real-life story behind it, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that The Girl with the Needle was so…

Nosferatu

Dir. Robert Eggers

Nosferatu is impressive on all counts. On the acting front, you have Skarsgård performing a career-best—he’s been many monsters, but…

Exhuma

Dir. Jang Jae-hyun

For the longest time, land was where people formed strength in community, where people were born, lived, died, and was…

Sweetpea

Dir. Ella Jones

In Sweetpea, every element comes together to make an addictive watch. The premise is amusing on its own—a shy girl…

The Gentlemen

After the successful release of The Gentlemen (2019), it would have been easy to just continue the story with the…

Pyramid Game

Dir. Park So-yeon

High school can be an incredibly cruel place, but it’s not as systematically cruel as the Baekyeon Girls’ High School…

Kübra

Saints used to be given divine messages, but in the modern age, what if God, or any higher power, communicated…

Criminal Record

With the various police procedurals available online, it can feel like an oversaturated genre, at best. At worst, with the…

The Bequeathed

Dir. Min Hong-nam

Succession, whether that be of family assets or of job titles, is always a tricky situation to navigate– often, those…

Dexter: Original Sin

Given the seven year success of the original serial killer show, it’s no wonder that Showtime wanted to continue the…

Presumed Innocent

You can tell showrunner David E. Kelley, who played a part in legal dramas and mysteries like Boston Legal, Ally…

The Last Stop in Yuma County

Dir. Francis Galluppi

Shot for only 20 days with a budget of a million dollars, The Last Stop in Yuma County is a…

Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer

Dir. Abigail Fuller

Before the documentary, I knew very little about Dr. Ann Burgess, and as I watched it, I realized it’s not…

Sunny

By now, it’s pretty clear that Apple TV+ follows a less-is-more philosophy when it comes to content. Sure, it doesn’t…

Mary & George

After the likes of The Favourite six years ago, modern historical portrayals have now become more interested in the salacious…

Under the Bridge

Dir. Geeta Patel

When it comes to true crime series, it’s rare to hear of teenage girls participating in murder. But it does…

Death and Other Details

With the number of murder mysteries popping up since Knives Out, Death and Other Details can seem like a copy.…