If you love watching spine-chilling thrillers that will make you trace every move of the main character, then these movies are for you!
Are you in for a thrill? Well, let me be more specific. You’re looking for a thriller without any horror elements, right? Because these species are sometimes confused. So, while a thriller can be scary, they are interesting and make you think. If you’re looking for something bone-chilling, but also something that gets your brain working as well as the unexpected, you’re in the right place.
Here are 10 of the most thrilling and interesting movies you can watch on Netflix!
The Call:
Genre – Sci-Fi- mystery
This movie will scare and intrigue you at the same time. You will be confused about whether to sympathize with the opponent or hate them. Seo-yeon (Park Shin-Hye) decides to return to her childhood home while visiting her sick mother. She arrives home in a dilapidated state and finds an old phone from which the calls start coming. The call is from a distraught woman named Yeong-sook (Jun Jong-seo). Seo-yeon soon realizes that Yeong-sook is living in the same house but the time is 20 years ago. They slowly become friends and learn about each other’s lives, but one choice they make changes everything.
Bird Box
Genre – Sci-fi and post-apocalyptic:
If someone suddenly tells you not to look somewhere, you will unknowingly look that way. We all do things we are not told to do. However, in the world of the bird box, if someone looks, they can die. It is based on the 2014 novel of the same name and the film follows Mallory Hayes (Sandra Bullock) on a journey to survive and save her children. The world is full of off-camera aliens or entities that force people to commit suicide just by looking at them. Mallory is seen blindfolded instructing the children to swim down the river and urging them to watch. Then we go back five years to a pregnant Mallory talking to her sister (Sarah Paulson). News broadcasts have already started warning people against mass suicide and spreading edits. The story follows Mallory as she fights for her life and tries to protect her children as she faces friends and enemies.
Fractured
Genre – Psychological:
This movie will make you think about what is real and what is not. Ray Monroe (Sam Worthington) and his wife Joan (Lily Robbie) are arguing on their way home from Thanksgiving lunch when their daughter Perry (Lucy Capri) stops them. They stop at a gas station because he has to go to the bathroom and the family is waiting. While the parents are concerned, Perry wanders into a deserted construction site where a stray dog follows her. Ray thankfully finds her and tries to distract the dog by throwing rocks, but Perry backs off and falls into an open space where the bars are sticking out. Trying to catch Perry, Ray falls with him. He gets a headache and briefly faints but when he regains consciousness, he decides to take the injured Perry to the hospital. Dr. Bertram (Stephen Tobolowski) decides Perry needs a CAT scan and sends mother and daughter down an elevator to the basement while Ray waits in reception. However, a lot of time passes and the mother and daughter do not show up, leaving Ray confused as to where they are. Meanwhile, the hospital has no record of him anywhere. What happens next and how the truth unfolds is the crux of the story.
Spider head
Genre – Sci-fi Psychological:
The film is based on a short story by George Saunders. The story is about inmates Jeff (Miles Taylor) and Lizzie (Journey Smollett), who want to reduce their prison sentences and volunteer for a series of mental tests and mind-altering drugs at a schmancy penitentiary. I. These inmates have their own rooms and are free to move around unsupervised by guards as long as they attend daily tests for medical drugs. Presiding over them are Dr. Steve Abnesty (Chris Hemsworth) and his assistant Mark (Marc Paggio). However, there is a huge twist as nothing is as it seems. Jeff and Lizzie soon realize something more sinister than a simple drug.
Fair Play
Genre – Romantic thriller:
The story begins with a powerful couple trying to fight their way to the top of the corporate ladder. However, this can cause damage to the relationship. Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) and Luke (Alden Ehrenreich), our newly engaged couple, are financial analysts and their relationship is forbidden by their employer who heads One Crest Capital. It happens that Emily gets a promotion before Luke and a power game begins between the couple and the relationship falls apart.
Reptile
Genre – Crime:
The story is a thriller featuring a detective named Tom Nichols (Benicio Del Toro). He investigates the murder of a young real estate agent who was found dead in one of his listings. The woman had a boyfriend named Will Grady (Justin Timberlake), who was also the boss of a real estate empire and was devastated by her death. However, something is very wrong and the detective investigates the case which leads him into a maze of corruption.
Hold the Dark
Genre – Adventure and action:
Russell Corr (Jeffrey Wright) is a writer with an expert knowledge of werewolves and is called to investigate the disappearance of three children. It takes place in the fictional town of Keilot, Alaska. Medora Sloan (Riley Keough) believes the wolves are the cause of the disappearance. Medora’s husband, Vernon (Alexander Skarsgård), is serving in Iraq until he is wounded and news of his missing child brings him home. Now the husband and wife along with other friends start investigating who took the children. But did the wolves take the children or the humans?
The Devil All the Time
Genre– Thriller:
The film stars Tom Holland in the lead role and is about tight-knit groups of people living in towns. It takes place in southern Ohio in the mid-1960s and involves religious evangelism, war, corruption, suicide, abandonment, and serial killing. The cast features many young actors and reveals the dark secrets and human actions of the post-World War II era.
El Camino
Genre– Crime Thriller:
If you know Jesse Pinkman, you’ll like him even more! Albuquerque’s best math cook and chemistry teacher-turned-drug lord returns for a movie based on the AMC show. The film focuses more on Pinkman and the movie picks up where Breaking Bad left off. It also includes cameos from the Breaking Bad show. The most adorable cameo is from Jane and even Skinny Pete, and the badgers are back!
Oxygen
Genre– Sci-Fi:
This French-language film is a nightmare, especially for claustrophobic people. The science fiction film features a woman played by Melanie Laurent who is trapped inside an airtight medical capsule. The system’s AI is called M.I.L.O. (Medical Interface Liaison Officer) and gives her all the information when she asks for her identity. However, no matter what she asks or tries, she cannot escape the capsule. This is when the current state of the world comes into focus and another problem emerges which is the decreasing oxygen level in the capsule. He has limited time left.
So here are the 10 best thrillers you can watch on Netflix and make sure you sit down with the lights on!