Thriller films about the death of loved ones

List of the best thriller films about the death of loved ones according to the audience: 21 Grams, The Good Son, Nocturnal Animals, Buried, Stonehearst Asylum, Mystic River, Limitless, Bridge of Spies, The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain, Argo.

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

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: 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: 7.5
    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: 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: 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: 7.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Australia
      Duration02:18

      A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.

      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: 7.6
      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: 6.9
        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: 7.7
        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: 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: 6.4
          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: 7.1
          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: 7.5
          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: 6.6
            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: 7.3
              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: 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: 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: 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: 6.3
                  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: 7.3
                    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: 6.5
                      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: 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: 7.1
                        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: 6.6
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
                        Duration01:35

                        A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

                        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: 6.6
                        Genrethriller, drama, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:03

                        An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

                        Markimdb: 7.2
                        Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
                        CountryMexico, Spain, USA
                        Duration02:05

                        Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

                        Markimdb: 8.6
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration02:07

                        Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

                        Markimdb: 5.9
                        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:41

                        Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.

                        Markimdb: 8.5
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                        CountryUSA, Germany
                        Duration01:46

                        Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

                        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: 7.5
                        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: 6.1
                        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
                        CountryFrance, Mexico, USA
                        Duration01:58

                        A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp

                        Markimdb: 6.6
                        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                        CountryWest Germany, USA
                        Duration01:56

                        This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.

                        Markimdb: 6.7
                        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                        CountryFrance, Germany, USA
                        Duration02:04

                          Connie is a wife and mother whose 11-year marriage to Edward has lost its sexual spark. When Connie literally runs into handsome book collector Paul, he sweeps her into an all-consuming affair. But Edward soon becomes suspicious and decides to confront the other man.

                          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, 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: 7.2
                          Genrethriller, drama
                          CountryUSA, Germany
                          Duration02:10

                          When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.

                          Markimdb: 6.3
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                          CountryUSA, Netherlands
                          Duration01:38

                            The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down.

                            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: 7.3
                            Genrethriller, crime
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration02:08

                            Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

                            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: 6.4
                            Genrethriller, adventure, crime
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration01:51

                            While on a family vacation, rafting expert Gail takes on a pair of armed killers while navigating a spectacularly violent river.

                            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: 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: 7.5
                            Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                            Duration02:01

                            Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

                            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: 7.8
                            Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
                            CountryUSA
                            Duration01:49

                            Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

                            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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