Sometimes you want Netflix to provide comfort food, and other times you want it to give you a jolt to the system. When it’s the latter, you’ll want a good thriller that may not go heavy on the blood and gore, but still manages to rattle you to your core. The streaming service has a solid selection of picks from the genre, but they’ve also got a lot of other movies labeled under “thriller” that wouldn’t be the best use of your time, so we’ve got an updated list of the best thriller movies on Netflix to save you some scrolling.
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If you need a bit of guidance on what thrillers you should check out, look at our recommendations below.
Editor’s Note: This article was last updated August 2023.
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Emily the Criminal
- Release Date
- August 12, 2022
- Director
- John Patton Ford
- Cast
- Aubrey Plaza, Theo Rossi, John Billingsley, Bernardo Badillo
- Runtime
- 97 minutes
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Thriller
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
- Director
- Rian Johnson
- Release Date
- December 23, 2022
- Cast
- Janelle Monae, Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Dave Bautista, Kathryn Hahn
- Genres
- Mystery, Thriller
Extraction 2
- Release Date
- June 16, 2023
- Director
- Sam Hargrave
- Cast
- Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Daniel Bernhardt, Sinead Phelps
- Rating
- R
- Genres
- Action, Thriller
It Follows
- Director
- David Robert Mitchell
- Release Date
- March 15, 2015
- Cast
- Bailey Spry, Carollette Phillips, Loren Bass, Keir Gilchrist, Maika Monroe, Lili Sepe
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
The Pale Blue Eye
- Director
- Scott Cooper
- Release Date
- January 6, 2023
- Cast
- Christian Bale, Harry Melling, Simon McBurney, Timothy Spall
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror, Crime, Mystery
Spiderhead
- Director
- Joseph Kosinski
- Release Date
- June 17, 2022
- Cast
- Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller, Jurnee Smollett, Mark Paguio
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
1922
- Director
- Zak Hilditch
- Release Date
- October 20, 2017
- Cast
- Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Brian D’Arcy James, Neal McDonough, Dylan Schmid, Roan Curtis
- Genres
- Crime, Horror, Drama
Operation Mincemeat
- Director
- John Madden
- Release Date
- May 11, 2022
- Cast
- Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Kelly Macdonald, Rufus Wright
- Genres
- Drama, War
I Care A Lot
- Director
- J Blakeson
- Release Date
- February 19, 2021
- Cast
- Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza Gonzalez, Dianne Wiest
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Crime
The Platform
- Director
- Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
- Release Date
- March 20, 2020
- Cast
- Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi
Oxygen
- Director
- Alexandre Aja
- Release Date
- May 12, 2021
- Cast
- Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Marc Saez, Malik Zidi, Eric Herson-Macarel, Cathy Cerda
- Genres
- Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Nocturnal Animals
- Director
- Tom Ford
- Release Date
- December 9, 2016
- Cast
- Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Ellie Bamber
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller
Gerald’s Game
- Director
- Mike Flanagan
- Release Date
- September 29, 2017
- Cast
- Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Chiara Aurelia, Carel Struycken
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Thriller
Velvet Buzzsaw
- Director
- Dan Gilroy
- Release Date
- February 1, 2019
- Cast
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette, Natalia Dyer
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Bird Box
- Director
- Susanne Bier
- Release Date
- December 21, 2018
- Cast
- Sarah Paulson, Rosa Salazar, Sandra Bullock, David Dastmalchian, John Malkovich, B.D. Wong
- Genres
- Thriller, Sci-Fi
Apostle
- Director
- Gareth Evans
- Release Date
- October 12, 2018
- Cast
- Dan Stevens, Kristine Froseth, Lucy Boynton, Michael Sheen, Bill Milner, Mark Lewis Jones
- Genres
- Horror, Drama, Fantasy
Cam
- Director
- Daniel Goldhaber
- Release Date
- November 16, 2018
- Cast
- Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters, Devin Druid, Imani Hakim, Michael Dempsey
- Genres
- Horror, Drama, Mystery
Berlin Syndrome
- Director
- Cate Shortland
- Release Date
- May 16, 2017
- Cast
- Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt, Matthias Habich, Kristina Kostiv, Peter Young, Lucie Aron
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Creep
- Director
- Patrick Brice
- Release Date
- June 23, 2014
- Cast
- Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass, Katie Aselton
- Genres
- Horror
In the Shadow of the Moon
- Director
- Jim Mickle
- Release Date
- September 27, 2019
- Cast
- Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael C. Hall
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Mystery
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