Thriller films about smugglers

List of the best thriller films about smugglers, selected by visitors to our site: The Hurt Locker, Panic Room, Rules of Engagement, The Best Offer, Trade, An Inspector Calls, The Number 23, Out of Time, Sleuth, Stay.

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

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: 6.8
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: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
    Duration02:08

    Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryItaly
    Duration02:11

    Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

    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: 7.6
    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: 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: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

    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: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

      This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany
      Duration01:50

      Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. A film with many twists and turns.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:24

      A bickering couple drive fast through a downpour to catch the last ferry to their island retreat. In a flash, they recognize a crumpled body laying at the side of the road and after much argument they stop, only to find a young man battered and bruised. An offer of summoning the police firmly rejected, the two help the man as best they can although it certainly means missing the ferry... and so starts this thriller: a tale of twisted sexual attraction and ulterior motives.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up -- and doesn't let go. Initially, Chip is just overzealous in his desire to be Steven's pal, but when Steven tries to end the "friendship," Chip shows his dark side. He begins stalking Steven, who's left to fend for himself because no one else can believe Chip's capable of such behavior.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.

      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.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, drama, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. They find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party, and eventually into the White House itself.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySpain
      Duration01:48

      A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.

      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: 7.3
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

      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: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:34

      Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Jonathan Ames, a young Brooklyn writer, is feeling lost. He's just gone through a painful break-up, thanks in part to his drinking, can't write his second novel, and carouses too much with his magazine editor. Rather than face reality, Jonathan turns instead to his fantasies — moonlighting as a private detective — because he wants to be a hero and a man of action.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:35

      Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

      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: 7.2
      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: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:54

      A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

        A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryRussia
        Duration02:12

        Terror strikes the underground train system in Moscow in the form of a flood from a collapsed tunnel. The film follows a diverse group of Moscow citizens who find themselves trapped in the city’s underground rail network, their train derailed and virtually crushed after an aging tunnel collapses. Amongst this band of survivors is softly spoken surgeon Andrey (Sergei Puskepalis), whose wife is having an affair with the conceited businessman Vlad (Anatoly Beliy). Fate brings these two men together on the same doomed train, but there is little time to resolve their differences, as the tunnel begins to quickly fill with water, forcing them to work together with the others and find a way back to the surface.

        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: 6.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryDenmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
        Duration02:43

        Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.

        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: 7.8
        Genreaction, thriller, crime
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration02:21

          Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:59

          A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.

          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.

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