Thriller movies about the beach

List of the best beach thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: The Beach, Limitless, Doctor Sleep, Nightcrawler, Split, Dear John, Anonymous, The Call, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Words.

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

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:59

Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

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
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

    When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration02:27

    Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

    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: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
      Duration02:10

        Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

        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: 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
        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: 7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:56

          Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA

          On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.

          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: 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: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration01:52

            After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

            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: 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: 6.7
              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: 7.1
                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: 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: 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: 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: 8.1
                Genrethriller, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:59

                A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

                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, melodrama, drama
                  CountryUSA, Germany, Saudi Arabia
                  Duration01:41

                  A thriller in which a battle of philosophies between a fundamentalist Christian and an atheist escalates into a lethal battle of wills.

                  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: 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: 7.5
                    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: 7.5
                      Genrethriller, drama, crime
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration02:04

                      Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

                      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: 8
                        Genrethriller, drama, history
                        CountryUSA, France
                        Duration03:01

                        New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

                        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: 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.

                        Markimdb: 6.7
                        Genrethriller, drama, military, history
                        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
                        Duration02:18

                        When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.

                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada

                        An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

                        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: 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: 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: 7.7
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration02:10

                          An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a 3rd person in the room. The intensity builds when a surprise twist alters everyone's perception of the crime.

                          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: 8.2
                          Genrethriller, drama, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:28

                          Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which had approved the script, but chose not even to air the pilot once it was done in 1999, despite Lynch's labours to cut the project to their liking. It was left in limbo until 18 month later French company Studio Canal Plus (also producer of 'The Straight Story') agreed to pay ABC $7 million for the pilot, and budget a few million more to turn the pilot into a two-hour, 27-minute movie. The cost of the film doubled to $14 million as sets had to be reconstructed and actors recalled.

                          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: 7
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
                          Duration01:47

                          France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of 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: 7.9
                          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: 7.6
                          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: 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: 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: 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...




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