Thriller movies about the beach

List of the best beach thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: Blow Out, Copycat, Mad City, Dark Harbor, Original Sin, Deliverance, Secret Window, F.I.S.T., Bringing Out the Dead, A Hard Day.

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

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: 6.6
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: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

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, 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: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

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, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:25

    Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.

    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: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:51

    On the way to his mother’s funeral, a detective accidentally hits a person with his car. He takes the body with him and puts it into his mother’s coffin. The moment he feels relieved, he receives a call. This caller insists that he saw the detective’s hit-and-run, but instead of asking for money, he wants to know about the body’s whereabouts, leading to a do-or-die showdown of the witness and detective.

    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: 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: 6.5
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:03

      A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes a backseat when a seemingly all-American couple set up house next door.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:53

      David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

      A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

      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: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:32

      A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySpain
      Duration01:49

      "The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryDenmark, Sweden
      Duration01:42

      Detectives and best friends Andreas and Simon lead vastly different lives; Andreas has settled down with his beautiful wife and son; while Simon, recently divorced, spends most of his waking hours getting drunk at the local strip club. But all that changes when the two of them are called out to a domestic dispute between a junkie couple, caught in a vicious cycle of violence and drugs. It all looks very routine – until Andreas finds the couple's infant son, crying in a closet. The usually collected policeman finds himself confronted with his own powerlessness and is shaken to his core. As Andreas slowly loses his grip on justice, it suddenly becomes up to the unruly Simon to restore the balance between right and wrong.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:05

        A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
        Duration01:53

        Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

        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: 6.8
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:53

        Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

        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: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryColombia, Spain
        Duration01:32

        A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:37

        The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...

        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, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:49

        Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Germany, Australia
        Duration01:48

        Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:18

        A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:00

        A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration02:14

        A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgangers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

        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: 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: 7.1
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:42

        A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

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