Thriller films about a recurring day

List of the best thriller films about a recurring day, selected by visitors to our site: Nightmare Alley, The Guest, The Grey, The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, Buried, Disconnect, Unknown, Profile, The Devil All the Time, The Trial of the Chicago 7.

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

Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada

An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

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: 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
      CountryUSA

      Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

      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: 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, 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: 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: 7.1
        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: 7.1
        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: 6.8
        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: 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: 7.5
        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: 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: 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: 7.6
          Genrethriller, drama, history
          CountryUSA, Germany, India
          Duration02:39

            During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
            Duration01:41

            A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

            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: 7.6
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountrySpain, USA
              Duration02:00

              A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

              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
              Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:43

                The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

                Markimdb: 7.6
                Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
                CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
                Duration01:40

                A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

                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: 7
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:54

                Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.

                Markimdb: 6.8
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:55

                Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

                Markimdb: 7.4
                Genrethriller, crime
                CountryUSA

                A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genrethriller, drama, military
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:06

                Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA, Australia, Luxembourg, Canada
                Duration01:53

                When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..

                Markimdb: 6.2
                Genrethriller, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:39

                A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

                Markimdb: 6.4
                Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:41

                Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genrethriller, comedy, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:43

                A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA, France
                Duration02:00

                The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.

                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: 6.7
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA, France, Canada
                Duration01:51

                One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.

                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: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, USA
                  Duration02:10

                  A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

                  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: 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: 7
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                  Duration01:35

                  Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
                  CountryTaiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
                  Duration02:37

                  During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

                  Markimdb: 8.1
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:29

                    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

                    Markimdb: 8.6
                    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:54

                    Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

                    Markimdb: 6.3
                    Genrethriller, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:38

                    A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.

                    Markimdb: 6.8
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:44

                    Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't come back out. Kale and his friends, Ronnie and Ashley, start to grow more and more interested in what is actually happening within the house of Robert Turner.

                    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: 7.5
                    Genrethriller, drama, history
                    CountryFrance, Canada, USA
                    Duration02:44

                    During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

                    Markimdb: 6.2
                    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:45

                    Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.

                    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: 6.4
                    Genrethriller, crime, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:58

                    FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.




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