| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1990 |
| Bad Influence |
Curtis Hanson |
Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane |
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Psychological thriller |
| Bullet in the Head |
John Woo |
Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung |
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Action thriller |
| Desperate Hours |
Michael Cimino |
Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers |
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| Die Hard 2 |
Renny Harlin |
Bruce Willis |
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Action thriller |
| La Femme Nikita |
Luc Besson |
Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo |
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Action thriller |
| The Godfather Part III |
Francis Ford Coppola |
Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire |
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Crime thriller |
| Hidden Agenda |
Ken Loach |
Frances McDormand, Brian Cox |
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Political thriller |
| The Hunt for Red October |
John McTiernan |
Sean Connery |
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Political thriller |
| Jacob's Ladder |
Adrian Lyne |
Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello |
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Supernatural thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Kindergarten Cop |
Ivan Reitman |
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed |
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Comedy thriller |
| Lionheart |
Sheldon Lettich |
Jean-Claude Van Damme |
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Action thriller |
| Miller's Crossing |
Joel Coen |
Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden |
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Crime thriller |
| Misery |
Rob Reiner |
James Caan, Kathy Bates |
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Psychological thriller |
| Narrow Margin |
Peter Hyams |
Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B. Sikking |
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| Pacific Heights |
John Schlesinger |
Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine |
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| 1991 |
| Backdraft |
Ron Howard |
Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Robert De Niro |
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Action thriller, crime thriller |
| Cape Fear |
Martin Scorsese |
Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange |
|
Psychological thriller, crime thriller |
| Dead Again |
Kenneth Branagh |
Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia |
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| JFK |
Oliver Stone |
Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek |
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Political thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| One False Move |
Carl Franklin |
Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Jim Metzler |
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Crime thriller |
| Point Break |
Kathryn Bigelow |
Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves |
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Action thriller |
| Popcorn |
Mark Herrier |
Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, Dee Wallace-Stone, Tony Roberts |
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| Shadows and Fog |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, Madonna |
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Comedy thriller |
| Shattered |
Wolfgang Petersen |
Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins |
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Psychological thriller |
| The Silence of the Lambs |
Jonathan Demme |
Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins |
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Psychological thriller |
| Sleeping with the Enemy |
Joseph Ruben |
Julia Roberts |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1992 |
| Basic Instinct |
Paul Verhoeven |
Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone |
|
Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| The Crying Game |
Neil Jordan |
Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson |
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Political thriller |
| Final Analysis |
Phil Joanou |
Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman |
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| Hard-Boiled |
John Woo |
Chow Yun-Fat, Bowie Lam, Philip Chan |
|
Action thriller |
| The Hand That Rocks The Cradle |
Curtis Hanson |
Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Julianne Moore |
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Psychological thriller |
| El Mariachi |
Robert Rodriguez |
Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez, Reinol Martinez, Peter Marquardt |
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Action thriller |
| Patriot Games |
Phillip Noyce |
Harrison Ford, Anne Archer,Sean Bean |
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Political thriller |
| Poison Ivy |
Andy Ruben, Katt Shea Ruben |
Sara Gilbert, Drew Barrymore, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd |
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Erotic thriller |
| Raising Cain |
Brian De Palma |
John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer, Frances Sternhagen |
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Psychological thriller |
| Reservoir Dogs |
Quentin Tarantino |
Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn |
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Crime thriller |
| The Sentinel |
Arnaud Desplechin |
Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard |
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| Single White Female |
Barbet Schroeder |
Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber |
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Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Storyville |
Mark Frost |
James Spader, Joanne Whalley, Jason Robards, Jr. |
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| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me |
David Lynch |
Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, Kiefer Sutherland |
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Psychological thriller, Crime thriller |
| Unlawful Entry |
Jonathan Kaplan |
Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Madeleine Stowe, Roger E. Mosley |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1993 |
| Cliffhanger |
Renny Harlin |
Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker |
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Action thriller |
| The Crush |
Alan Shapiro |
Alicia Silverstone,Cary Elwes, Kurtwood Smith |
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Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| The Fugitive |
Andrew Davis |
Harrison Ford |
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Crime thriller |
| The Good Son |
Joseph Ruben |
Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Wendy Crewson, David Morse, Daniel Hugh Kelly |
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Psychological thriller |
| In the Line of Fire |
Wolfgang Petersen |
Clint Eastwood |
|
Political thriller |
| The Innocent |
John Schlesinger |
Isabella Rossellini, Anthony Hopkins, Campbell Scott |
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| Judgment Night |
Stephen Hopkins |
Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff |
|
action thriller |
| Jurassic Park |
Steven Spielberg |
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum |
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| Kalifornia |
Dominic Sena |
Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes |
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Crime thriller |
| Malice |
Harold Becker |
Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman |
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| Manhattan Murder Mystery |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston |
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Comedy thriller |
| The Pelican Brief |
Alan J. Pakula |
Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard |
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Legal thriller,Political thriller |
| Sliver |
Phillip Noyce |
Sharon Stone, William Baldwin |
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Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| True Romance |
Tony Scott |
Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper |
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Crime thriller |
| The Vanishing |
George Sluizer |
Kiefer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1994 |
| Color of Night |
Richard Rush |
Bruce Willis, Jane March, Ruben Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bakula |
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Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| Cool Surface |
Erik Anjou |
Robert Patrick, Teri Hatcher |
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Erotic thriller |
| Exit to Eden |
Garry Marshall |
Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Rosie O'Donnell |
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| Killing Zoe |
Roger Avary |
Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Jean-Hugues Anglade |
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| The Last Seduction |
John Dahl |
Linda Fiorentino |
|
Erotic thriller |
| Léon |
Luc Besson |
Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman |
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Crime thriller |
| Nightwatch |
Ole Bornedal |
Nikolaj Waldau, Kim Bodnia, Lotte Andersen |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| Shallow Grave |
Danny Boyle |
Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor |
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Crime thriller |
| Speed |
Jan de Bont |
Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock |
|
Crime thriller |
| The Client |
Joel Schumacher |
Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker |
|
Legal thriller |
| 1995 |
| Bad Boys |
Michael Bay |
Martin Lawrence, Will Smith |
|
Action thriller |
| Cover Me |
Michael Schroeder |
Rick Rossovich, Paul Sorvino, Courtney Taylor |
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Erotic thriller |
| Die Hard With a Vengeance |
John McTiernan |
Bruce Willis |
|
Action thriller |
| Gonin |
Takashi Ishii |
Naoto Takenaka |
 |
Crime thriller |
| Heat |
Michael Mann |
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro |
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Crime thriller |
| Jade |
William Friedkin |
David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri |
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Erotic thriller |
| Never Talk to Strangers |
Peter Hall |
Rebecca De Mornay, Antonio Banderas |
|
Psychoglogical thriller, Erotic thriller |
| Poison Ivy II: Lily |
Anne Goursaud |
Alyssa Milano, Johnathon Schaech, Camilla Belle |
|
Erotic thriller |
| Se7en |
David Fincher |
Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman |
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Crime thriller |
| Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead |
Gary Fleder |
Andy Garcia, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe |
|
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| The Usual Suspects |
Bryan Singer |
Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri |
|
Crime thriller |
| 1996 |
| Bound |
Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski |
Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon |
|
Erotic thriller |
| Crimetime |
George Sluizer |
Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Diabolique |
Jeremiah S. Chechik |
Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Scream |
Wes Craven |
Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy |
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Psychological thriller, Comedy thriller |
| Extreme Measures |
Michael Apted |
Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker |
|
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| Fear |
James Foley |
Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon |
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Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Mission: Impossible |
Brian De Palma |
Tom Cruise |
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Action thriller |
| Primal Fear |
Gregory Hoblit |
Richard Gere |
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Psychological thriller |
| The Rock |
Michael Bay |
Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris |
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Action thriller |
| The Stendhal Syndrome |
Dario Argento |
Asia Argento, Paolo Bonacelli, Luigi Diberti |
|
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| 1997 |
| Absolute Power |
Clint Eastwood |
Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris |
|
Political thriller |
| Air Force One |
Wolfgang Petersen |
Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close |
|
Action thriller |
| Bad Day on the Block |
Craig R. Baxley |
Charlie Sheen, Mare Winningham |
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Crime thriller |
| Conspiracy Theory |
Richard Donner |
Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart |
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| Cube |
Vincenzo Natali |
Nicole de Boer, Nicky Guadagni, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Cure |
Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki |
|
Crime thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Face/Off |
John Woo |
Nicolas Cage, John Travolta |
|
Action thriller |
| The Game |
David Fincher |
Michael Douglas, Sean Penn |
|
Psychological thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| Genealogies of a Crime |
Raúl Ruiz |
|
|
Psychological thriller, Crime thriller |
| Insomnia |
Erik Skjoldbjærg |
Stellan Skarsgård, Gisken Armand |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| The Jackal |
Michael Caton-Jones |
Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier |
|
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| Jackie Brown |
Quentin Tarantino |
Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster |
|
Crime thriller |
| Kiss the Girls |
Gary Fleder |
Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes |
|
|
| Murder at 1600 |
Dwight H. Little |
Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane |
|
Crime thriller |
| Nightwatch |
Ole Bornedal |
Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Nick Nolte |
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Psychological thriller |
| Open Your Eyes |
Alejandro Amenábar |
Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera |
 |
Psychological thriller |
| Perfect Blue |
Satoshi Kon |
|
|
Psychological thriller, Animated film |
| Poison Ivy: The New Seduction |
Kurt Voss |
Jaime Pressly, Michael Des Barres, Megan Edwards |
|
Erotic thriller |
| See the Sea |
François Ozon |
Sasha Hails, Marina de Van, Samantha |
|
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| Shadow Conspiracy |
George Pan Cosmatos |
Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Theodore Bikel |
|
|
| Smilla's Sense of Snow |
Bille August |
Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris |
 |
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| Suicide Kings |
Peter O'Fallon |
Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Henry Thomas |
|
Crime thriller |
| 1998 |
| Scream 2 |
Wes Craven |
Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Jamie Kennedy |
|
Psychological thriller, Comedy thriller |
| Devil in the Flesh |
Steve Cohen |
Rose McGowan, Alex McArthur, Sherrie Rose, Peg Shirley, J.C. Brandy |
|
Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Disturbing Behavior |
David Nutter |
James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl |
|
|
| Enemy of the State |
Tony Scott |
Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight |
|
Political thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| The Gingerbread Man |
Robert Altman |
Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey, Jr. |
|
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| New Rose Hotel |
Abel Ferrara |
Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento |
|
Erotic thriller |
| The Negotiator |
F. Gary Gray |
Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse |
|
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| A Perfect Murder |
Andrew Davis |
Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen |
|
Crime thriller |
| π |
Darren Aronofsky |
Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Psycho |
Gus Van Sant |
Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Run Lola Run |
Tom Tykwer |
Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu |
|
Crime thriller |
| Wild Things |
John McNaughton |
Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell |
|
Erotic thriller, Crime thriller |
| The Wisdom of Crocodiles |
Po-Chih Leong |
Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn |
|
Psychological thriller |
| 1999 |
| Arlington Road |
Mark Pellington |
Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack |
|
|
| The Bone Collector |
Phillip Noyce |
Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Buddy Boy |
Mark Hanlon |
Aidan Gillen, Emmanuelle Seigner |
|
Psychological thriller |
| Eyes Wide Shut |
Stanley Kubrick |
Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field |
|
Erotic thriller |
| Fever |
Alex Winter |
Henry Thomas, David Patrick O'Hara, Bill Duke |
|
Psychological thriller |
| In Too Deep |
Michael Rymer |
Omar Epps, LL Cool J, Nia Long |
|
|
| The Omega Code |
Robert Marcarelli |
Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Michael Ironside, Catherine Oxenberg |
|
Action thriller |
| The Sixth Sense |
M. Night Shyamalan |
Haley Joel Osment, Bruce Willis, Toni Collette |
|
Psychological thriller, Supernatural thriller |
| Stir of Echoes |
David Koepp |
Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas |
|
Supernatural thriller, Psychological thriller |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley |
Anthony Minghella |
Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow |
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Psychological thriller, Crime thriller |
