Movies thrillers about tournaments

List of the best thriller films about tournaments according to the audience: Limitless, 127 Hours, Disconnect, Unstoppable, Room, Shutter Island, The Raven, The Mule, The Grey, Anonymous.

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

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:45

A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

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: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

    Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the stories intersect with surprising twists that expose a shocking reality into our daily use of technology that mediates and defines our relationships and ultimately our lives.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Stanton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer and a young conductor. Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster.

    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: 8.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Spain, Hungary, Serbia
    Duration01:50

    A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:56

    Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

      An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

      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: 7.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

        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: 7.7
        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: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

          Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:33

            When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:48

              Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:32

                Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

                Markimdb: 8.1
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:59

                A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:35

                Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom

                A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

                Markimdb: 7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:56

                John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, France
                Duration02:13

                  A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.

                  Markimdb: 7.3
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
                  Duration02:18

                  Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

                  Markimdb: 7.3
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:56

                  A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

                  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: 7.1
                  Genrethriller, drama, history
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
                  Duration02:42

                  Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

                  Markimdb: 8.8
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, Germany
                  Duration02:11

                  A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

                  Markimdb: 7.3
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:20

                    A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

                    Markimdb: 6.8
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:47

                      Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

                      Markimdb: 6.6
                      Genreaction, thriller, crime
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:42

                        An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.

                        Markimdb: 7.4
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:00

                        A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.

                        Markimdb: 6.8
                        Genrethriller, drama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:52

                        A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

                        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: 8.5
                        Genrethriller, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:52

                        Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

                        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: 7.9
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:59

                        Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.

                        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: 7.2
                          Genrethriller, drama, detective
                          CountryUSA, Germany
                          Duration02:04

                          Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

                          Markimdb: 7.7
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:00

                          The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.

                          Markimdb: 7
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:35

                          Three stories portray women coping with unplanned pregnancies in various social climates, the 1950s, 1970s and 1990s. In 1952 the newly widowed nurse Clare goes and sees a back-street abortionist in order to put an end to her pregnancy. After giving birth to three children, Barbara at last has the realistic hope of finding a job again, but then a new pregnancy thwarts her plans. In 1974 abortion is already legal; however, this fact does not make it any easier for Barbara to take the right decision. In 1996 Christine, a student, consults an abortion clinic to get information on abortion. While doing this, she is being harassed by militant anti-abortionists.

                          Markimdb: 6.8
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                          CountryUSA, Canada
                          Duration01:53

                          Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

                          Markimdb: 8.5
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:53

                          Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

                          Markimdb: 6.9
                          Genrethriller, drama
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:59

                          A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

                          Markimdb: 6.5
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
                          Duration01:45

                          A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

                          Markimdb: 7.7
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography, history
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:21

                          Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

                          Markimdb: 7.2
                          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA, Canada
                          Duration01:26

                          Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.

                          Markimdb: 7.5
                          Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                          CountryUSA, Germany
                          Duration02:24

                          A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.




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