Thriller films about lost love

List of the best thriller films about lost love according to the audience: Wicker Park, Bad Times at the El Royale, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Guest, The Call, Safe Haven, 127 Hours, Dear John, Stonehearst Asylum, Uncut Gems.

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 6.7
    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, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

      A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

      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: 6.3
      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: 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
        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: 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, 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: 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: 6.8
            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: 6.8
            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: 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: 7.3
              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: 7.4
              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: 7.3
              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: 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: 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: 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: 7.3
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryGermany, USA, Mexico
                  Duration02:00

                  A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

                  Markimdb: 7.2
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                  Duration01:58

                  Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

                  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: 7.2
                    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: 7.8
                    Genrethriller, drama, biography
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:37

                    Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand

                    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: 7.7
                      Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:09

                      In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

                      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: 6.5
                      Genrethriller, detective
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:36

                        Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

                        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: 7.8
                        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:14

                          The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

                          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: 8.1
                          Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:02

                            Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

                            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: 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: 6.8
                              Genrethriller, drama, adventure
                              CountryGermany, USA
                              Duration01:50

                              Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

                              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: 6.6
                              Genreaction, thriller, drama
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration02:08

                              A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.

                              Markimdb: 7
                              Genrethriller, drama, crime
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration01:36

                              While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.

                              Markimdb: 7.5
                              Genrethriller, drama, crime
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration02:30

                              A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

                              Markimdb: 8
                              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration01:20

                              Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

                              Markimdb: 6.9
                              Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration01:51

                              Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.

                              Markimdb: 8.2
                              Genrethriller, drama, detective
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration02:10

                              Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

                              Markimdb: 6.4
                              Genrethriller, drama
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration01:27

                              A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.

                              Markimdb: 7.8
                              Genrethriller, drama, crime
                              CountryUSA, Canada
                              Duration01:27

                              Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.

                              Markimdb: 6.3
                              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration01:55

                              A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador. Believing her husband when he tells her that he's being framed as part of a U.S. Military cover-up, the attorney defends him in a military court.

                              Markimdb: 6.5
                              Genrethriller, melodrama
                              CountryUSA
                              Duration01:48

                              When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.




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