English movies thrillers

List of the best English thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: The Rhythm Section, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 13Hrs, The Lords of Salem, Kill List, Sket, Cyberbully, Top Boy, Bull, Legacy.

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

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Republic of Ireland, USA

After the death of her family in an airplane crash on a flight that she was meant to be on, Stephanie Patrick discovers the crash was not an accident. She then seeks to uncover the truth by adapting the identity of an assassin to track down those responsible.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
Duration02:07

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:25

Sarah Tyler returns to her troubled family home in the isolated countryside, for a much put-off visit. As a storm rages outside, Sarah, her family and friends shore up for the night, cut off from the outside world. But something comes out of the driving rain and darkness. Something that holds a dark secret so devastating that, in one night, it could wipe out the entire family.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:37

The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:35

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:23

When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the volatile and damaged man-hating Danielle.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:39

A chilling real-time thriller featuring a teenager, Casey, battling with an anonymous cyber-stalker.

Markimdb: 8.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller
CountryUnited Kingdom

Ten years after he was last seen, a vicious mob enforcer returns home to find his son and methodically track down the gang that double-crossed him. His quest for revenge soon leads to a savage showdown between his wife and her mob boss father.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Set in the 1970s London during the height of the Cold War when a young spy discovers the disturbing truth about his father's complex past. Based on Alan Judd's 2001 novel Legacy, the second in the Thoroughgood series after 1981's A Breed Of Heroes (adapted by the BBC in 1994). As the three day week, petrol rationing and industrial strife plunge Britain into a state of emergency, MI6 trainee spy Charles Thoroughgood is asked to reconnect with an old university friend, Russian diplomat Viktor Koslov, with a view to 'turning' him. Viktor has his own agenda, though, and reveals a shocking truth about Charles's own family that threatens to derail him, both personally and professionally. He is catapulted into a dangerous personal odyssey to uncover the truth but finds himself drawn into a lethal KGB plot to mount an attack within the UK. His life is further complicated by a relationship with the wife of another agent, which forces him to realise that betrayal can take many forms.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom

A PC becomes a vigilante after a head trauma.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:42

Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration02:16

A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:40

Jack is a children's author turned crime novelist whose detailed research into the lives of Victorian serial killers has turned him into a paranoid wreck, persecuted by the irrational fear of being murdered. When Jack is thrown a life-line by his long-suffering agent and a mysterious Hollywood executive takes a sudden and inexplicable interest in his script, what should be his big break rapidly turns into his big breakdown, as Jack is forced to confront his worst demons; among them his love life, his laundry and the origin of all fear.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, thriller, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

Independent British thriller starring Dougray Scott and Kara Tointon. Lewis (Scott), an overworked doctor, is on his way home from London with his young son Max (Joshua Kaynama). Clearly exhausted from his work, Lewis decides to take a nap on the train while an attractive young woman (Tointon) watches over his son. When he wakes, all but a few passengers have alighted and he realises that the train is not stopping to let anyone else off. Determined to get to the bottom of the mystery, Lewis goes to investigate and finds that the train has been taken over by an unstable driver who is hellbent on destroying the vehicle along with all the remaining passengers on board.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:18

An adult victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrethriller
CountryUnited Kingdom

A heart-pounding suspense thriller, set on an isolated farm in England's beautiful, rugged Peak District.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:26

When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:32

During a handover to the head of counter-terrorism of MI5, Harry Pearce, a terrorist escapes custody. When Harry disappears soon after, his protégé is tasked with finding out what happened as an impending attack on London looms, and eventually uncovers a deadly conspiracy.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, short
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:08

A short film about a robot programmed for love who wants to fix the humans who do not love him back.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous criminals also have plans to steal the money...

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Sweden
Duration01:32

A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

As a snow storm closes in, one final plane takes off. The plane reports to the ground that both pilots are dead, while the slowly dwindling number of passengers on the plane wish that they’d never left the ground.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:31

A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:39

Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:52

    Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:27

    Something nasty is lurking inside a secure storage unit. When a group of people get trapped inside, they need to find a way to get out of a building that's designed to keep things in...

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrethriller, musical, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:47

    London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
    Duration01:58

      Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      On the evening of her 18th birthday, Molly Dawes finds herself drunk and is sick in the doorway of an army recruitment office. She looks into the window of the office and sees a life-sized photograph of an army girl, everything that Molly isn't but wants to be - respected. The following morning, Molly finds herself back in the recruitment office and is eventually persuaded to complete an aptitude test. No-one thinks she can stick it out, including herself. But slowly and surely, Molly is maturing and learning to believe in herself. She digs in and finds a strength that she never thought she had.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:36

      An elite hitman returns to erase his past only to find that somebody has messed with his future.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration00:40

      A woman who goes on maternity leave becomes increasingly paranoid about the motives of the person covering for her.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, thriller, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:24

      I Am Soldier follows Mickey Tomlinson (Tom Hughes), a military chef, who attempts the most dangerous military selection known to man: The Special Air Service (S.A.S.) selection. The S.A.S. Is the United Kingdom's most renowned Special Forces Regiment, tasked with life threatening missions in some of the most dangerous places on the planet. Mickey has more military experience than simply being a chef, something he doesn't let on to the other candidates... Mickey is smashed by this selection process - his mind, body and soul scream for mercy as he endures torturous speed-marches over the steepest mountains, running for his life during 'Escape and Evasion' and then facing the most evil interrogation possible, during the deadly phase known as: 'Tactical Questioning.' Even after everything, there is still only one way you can really prove yourself: in combat... Many try to get into the S.A.S. Only the elite make it.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:01

      A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
      Duration01:40

      Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:52

      Laila, a girl on the run from her family is hiding out in West Yorkshire with her drifter boyfriend Aaron. When her brother arrives in town with a gang of thugs in tow, she is forced to flee for her life and faces her darkest night.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:40

        Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:17

        When novelist Paula Martin retreats to the seclusion of her family home Crows Hall she hopes to clear her mind and focus on her new book. The arrival of an assistant, Linda, should take the pressure off... but as the bodies pile up, Paula finds herself trapped in a terrifying nightmare of murder and madness.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
        Duration01:35

        The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.

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