Thriller movies about kings and queens

List of the best thriller movies about kings and queens according to visitors: Unthinkable, Chinatown, Blow Out, Rules of Engagement, The Game, Zhit, One Eight Seven, Awake, Mystic River, Silenced.

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

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

A convert to Islam sends the U.S. government a tape showing him in three nondescript storage rooms, each of which may contain a nuclear bomb set to detonate in less than a week. Helen Brody, an FBI agent in L.A., is tasked with finding the bombs while a CIA "consultant", known as H, interrogates the suspect who has allowed himself to be caught. The suspect, whose wife and children have left him and disappeared, seems to know exactly what the interrogation will entail. Even as H ratchets up the pressure, using torture over Brody's objection, the suspect doesn't crack. Should H do the unthinkable, and will Brody acquiesce? Is any Constitutional principle worth possible loss of life?

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: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust.

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: 7.7
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: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:12

Early autumn, godforsaken Russian countryside. A local hunter Michail witnesses a skirmish in the middle of the forest - three men want to kill the forth, Andrey. Kind-hearted Michail helps Andrey escape and together they run from the villains who chase them. Thus, two totally different men start a long and dangerous journey together, constantly arguing with each other regarding their ideology, morals and opinions about life. But life will put everything on its place and make the men understand who they really are.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:54

After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.

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: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:05

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryIndia

When a kindergarten teacher takes her 16 students hostage and makes a set of demands, it not only rattles the Mumbai police and the city but also sends shockwaves through the country and its leaders as the motive behind the hostage situation is unearthed.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:56

A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea

To combat rising violent crimes, the Police Chief asks Detective Oh Goo Tak to form a team consisting of criminals. He is currently suspended from the police force for using excessive force. He then gathers team members: Park Woong Chul who is a gangster, Lee Jung Moon who is the youngest serial killer with extraordinary intelligence and Jung Tae Soo who is a contract killer. Police Inspector Yoo Mi Young also joins the team and she tries to have these guys work as a team by dealing with them rationally and sometimes emotionally.

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: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:07

Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:59

A kidnapper disappeared 15 years ago without a trace. Five days before the case's statute of limitations expires, someone anonymously leaves a flower at the crime scene. A few days later, another kidnapping takes place using the same method on a similar target.

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, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:38

    The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop and a high-profile 'fixer' enter high-stakes negotiations.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

    48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Italy, Malta, France, United Kingdom
    Duration02:29

    When the curator of the Louvre is found murdered in the famed museum's hallowed halls, Harvard professor, Robert Langdon and cryptographer, Sophie Neve must untangle a deadly web of deceit involving the works of Leonardo da Vinci.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, music
    CountryUSA, Canada, Netherlands
    Duration01:20

    After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.

    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: 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: 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: 7.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:10

    Marnie is a beautiful kleptomaniac who is in love with businessman Mark Rutland. Marnie who is a compulsive thief is being watched by her new boss Mark who suspects her of stealing from him and thus decides to blackmail her in the most unusual way. A psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel of the same name by Winston Graham.

    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: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:06

    In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything—even put his very life on the line—in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.

    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, 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.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:48

    While investigating the kidnapping and murder of a little girl, a detective spots a piece of graffiti that depicts the crime scene perfectly—but the graffiti was drawn a month before the crime took place, and that the artist knows more than he is telling.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration02:27

      After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:45

        A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        On a beautiful college campus, something ugly is about to be spread around. A bit of gossip that was told is starting to take a frightening turn. Who could it have offended and how far will the person on the other side of the gossip handle the embarrassing situation.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrethriller, drama, history
        CountryFrance, Italy

        In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.

        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: 7.9
        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.

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