English movies thrillers

List of the best English thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: Cold Pursuit, Suite Française, An Inspector Calls, Cul-de-sac, Argo, The Bank Job, The Prestige, Anonymous, The Bletchley Circle, Following.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Norway, China, Canada, USA, France
Duration01:59

The quiet family life of Nels Coxman, a snowplow driver, is upended after his son's murder. Nels begins a vengeful hunt for Viking, the drug lord he holds responsible for the killing, eliminating Viking's associates one by one. As Nels draws closer to Viking, his actions bring even more unexpected and violent consequences, as he proves that revenge is all in the execution.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration01:47

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:40

A mysterious Inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, comedy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:53

A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at an old beachfront fortress. The owner of the fortress and his young wife, initially unwilling hosts, quickly experience their relationship with the criminal shift in a humorous and bizarre fashion.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, biography
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:00

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
Duration01:51

Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. As the resourceful band of thieves burrows its way into a safe-deposit vault at a Lloyds Bank, they quickly realise that, besides millions in riches, the boxes also contain secrets that implicate everyone from London's most notorious underworld gangsters to powerful government figures, and even the Royal Family. Although the heist makes headlines throughout Britain for several days, a government gag order eventually brings all reporting of the case to an immediate halt.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:05

    A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration02:10

      Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada

      The Bletchley Circle follows the journey of four ordinary women with extraordinary skills that helped to end World War II. Set in 1952, Susan, Millie, Lucy and Jean have returned to their normal lives, modestly setting aside the part they played in producing crucial intelligence, which helped the Allies to victory and shortened the war. When Susan discovers a hidden code behind an unsolved murder she is met by skepticism from the police. She quickly realises she can only begin to crack the murders and bring the culprit to justice with her former friends. The Bletchley Circle paints a vivid portrait of post-war Britain in this fictional tale of unsung heroes.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:10

      Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:56

      After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he's the wrong man.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:53

      David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:32

      Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:37

      An urban hotel in London is a gathering and flash point for legal and illegal immigrants attempting to cobble together their lives in a new country. The immigrants include Senay, a Turkish woman, and a Nigerian doctor named Okwe who is working as a night porter at the hotel. The pair discover the hotel is a front for all sorts of clandestine activities. Their only wish is to avoid possible deportation. Okwe becomes more entangled in the goings on when he is called to fix a toilet in one of the rooms. He discovers the plumbing has been clogged by a human heart.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration01:35

      Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Italy
      Duration02:11

      After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:24

      Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:59

      Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two women - one assuring him his place in high society, and the other that would bring him far from it - palms start to sweat and a dark psychological match in his head begins.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryRussia, USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus

      Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:39

      After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
      Duration02:03

      Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:59

      Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country house. Still unable to make himself at ease socially, he starts to plan on acquiring a girl friend - in the same manner as he collects butterflies. He prepares the cellar of the house to be a collecting jar, and stalks his victim over several days.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France
      Duration01:33

      The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:24

      Canadian Richard Hannay, residing in London, meets secret agent Annabella Smith immediately following a shots fired incident. She asks to go home with him. Back at Hannay's flat the mysterious woman confides that she fears for her life and is on a critical mission relating to protecting state air ministry secrets. Later that night assassins murder her. Believed by the police to be her killer, Hannay is forced to go on the run and flees to Scotland in a desperate attempt to see Annabella's mission through before it's too late. Along the way he chances upon beautiful Pamela, who unwillingly becomes his accomplice in the mission.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
      Duration01:35

      A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:52

        After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, USA
        Duration01:37

        A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama
        CountryArgentina, Spain, France, United Kingdom
        Duration02:02

        Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrethriller, drama, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA
        Duration01:53

        An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a former Stazi agent, he sets out to prove who he is and find out why people are trying to kill him.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

        What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
        Duration02:19

        Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, thriller
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:35

          A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrethriller, drama, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Mexico
          Duration02:02

          A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryItaly, Spain, United Kingdom
          Duration01:48

          While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend. Michele's parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget what he saw

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, military
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
          Duration01:34

          Set just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Sgt. Ray Elwood is an American soldier stationed at a German army camp. A soldier because a judge gave him a choice between the army and jail, Ray spends much of his free time cooking cocaine for the MPs. When a soldier dies and a toxicology screen shows an alarming level of illegal narcotics, someone is sent in to investigate.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:47

          When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:32

          Three friends discover their new flatmate dead but loaded with cash.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
          Duration02:01

          Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

          Markimdb: 8
          Genrethriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:18

          A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife’s lover – but things aren’t exactly as they seem.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
          Duration02:13

          Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:32

          Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when the they split into two separate camps -- one led by the pragmatic Ralph and the other by militaristic Jack -- their society falls into disarray, leading to a disturbing examination of human nature and a chilling conclusion.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:59

          Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrethriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:49

          Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
          CountryFrance, United Kingdom
          Duration02:19

          An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is mesmerized by the man's wife, who has perfected that trick of looking a man boldly in the eye until, by looking away, he concedes sexual supremacy.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, USA
          Duration01:32

          Young lovers in London are wrapped up in a love triangle that may not be exactly what it seems. Carmen, a beautiful Spanish woman with a tendency to lose her temper at the drop of a hat, is about to be married to Barnaby, a caring, wealthy, but slightly boring Englishman. While out with friends on her 'hen night' she encounters a stranger who suddenly sparks a passion that has been sleeping within her. As her wedding date approaches, she finds herself struggling to put this newcomer out of her mind, but his effect on her keeps growing stronger. What is it that he sees in her, and why does she feel like she's being pushed inevitably into his arms?

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Luxembourg
          Duration01:48

          A female executive and a night janitor conspire to commit a daring diamond heist from their mutual employer, The London Diamond Corporation.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA, Japan
          Duration02:01

          Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, military, history
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
          Duration02:18

          When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:42

          Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.




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