# List of thriller films of the 2000s

List of thriller films released in the 2000s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/notes |
| 2000 |||||
| 2000 AD | Gordon Chan | Aaron Kwok, Phyllis Quek, Daniel Wu | Hong Kong | Action thriller |
| The 6th Day | Roger Spottiswoode | Arnold Schwarzenegger | United states | Action thriller |
| Anatomy | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos | Germany | |
| Baise-Moi | Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi | Raffaela Anderson, Karen Bach | France | Crime thriller |
| The Beach | Danny Boyle | Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen | United States | Psychological thriller |
| The Cell | Tarsem Singh | Jennifer Lopez | United States | Psychological thriller |
| La comunidad | Álex de la Iglesia | Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuna, Jesus Bonilla | Spain | |
| The Crimson Rivers | Mathieu Kassovitz | Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès | France | |
| Devil in the Flesh II: Teacher's Pet | Marcus Spiegel | Jodi Lyn O'Keefe | United States | |
| Chasing Sleep | Michael Walker | Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl | United States | |
| Frequency | Gregory Hoblit | Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, Andre Braugher | United States | |
| Gangster No. 1 | Paul McGuigan | Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany | United Kingdom Germany | Crime thriller |
| Get Carter | Stephen Kay | Sylvester Stallone | United States | |
| Hollow Man | Paul Verhoeven | Elisabeth Shue, Kevin Bacon, Josh Brolin | United States | Science Fiction-horror |
| Memento | Christopher Nolan | Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano | United States | |
| Merci Pour le Chocolat | Claude Chabrol | Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc | France Switzerland | |
| Mission: Impossible 2 | John Woo | Tom Cruise | United States | Action thriller |
| Proof of Life | Taylor Hackford | Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse | United States | |
| Proximity | Scott Ziehl | James Coburn, Rob Lowe, Kelly Rowan | United States | |
| Reindeer Games | John Frankenheimer | Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron | United States | |
| Seance | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Kōji Yakusho, Jun Fubuki, Ittoku Kishibe | Japan | |
| Sexy Beast | Jonathan Glazer | Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane | United Kingdom | Crime thriller |
| Time and Tide | Tsui Hark | Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai, Anthony Wong | Hong Kong | Action thriller |
| Six-Pack | Alain Berberian | Richard Anconina, Frédéric Diefenthal, Chiara Mastroianni | France | |
| Unbreakable | M. Night Shyamalan | Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn | United States | |
| Versus | Ryuhei Kitamura | Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki | Japan | Action thriller |
| Vertical Limit | Martin Campbell | Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn | United States | Action thriller |
| What Lies Beneath | Robert Zemeckis | Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid | United States | |
| With a Friend Like Harry... | Dominik Moll | Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner | France | |
| X-Men | Bryan Singer | Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen | United States | |
| 2001 |||||
| Along Came a Spider | Lee Tamahori | Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott | United States | |
| Antitrust | Peter Howitt | Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani | United States | |
| The Barber | Michael Bafaro | Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Ratchford, Garwin Sanford | United States | |
| Battle Royale | Kinji Fukasaku | Tatsuya Fujiwara | Japan | |
| Blue Spring | Toshiaki Toyoda | Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai, Sousuke Takaoka | Japan | |
| The Devil's Backbone | Guillermo del Toro | Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi | Spain Mexico | |
| Domestic Disturbance | Harold Becker | John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Teri Polo | United States | |
| Don't Say a Word | Gary Fleder | Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy | United States | |
| Das Experiment | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Timo Dierkes | Germany | |
| Enigma | Michael Apted | Dougray Scott, Kate Winslet | United Kingdom United States | Espionage thriller |
| The Fast and the Furious | Rob Cohen | Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez | United States | Action thriller, crime thriller |
| Frailty | Bill Paxton | Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe | United States | |
| From Hell | Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Johnny Depp, Heather Graham | United States | |
| Fulltime Killer | Johnnie To | Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Simon Yam | Hong Kong | Action thriller |
| The Glass House | Daniel Sackheim | Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård | United States | |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore | United States | |
| Intacto | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela | Spain | |
| Joy Ride | John Dahl | Steve Zahn, Paul Walker | United States | |
| Kiss of the Dragon | Chris Nahon | Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tchéky Karyo | France United States | |
| Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Michael York, Michael Biehn, John DeMita | United States | |
| Mulholland Drive | David Lynch | Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Nine Queens | Fabián Bielinsky | Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice | Argentina | |
| The One | James Wong | Jet Li | United States | Action thriller |
| The Others | Alejandro Amenábar | Nicole Kidman | Spain | |
| Pulse | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Asō, Koyuki | Japan | Psychological thriller |
| Read my Lips | Jacques Audiard | Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet | France | |
| Session 9 | Brad Anderson | Peter Mullan, David Caruso | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Soul Survivors | Stephen W. Carpenter | Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley | United States | |
| Spy Game | Tony Scott | Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack | United States | |
| Swordfish | Dominic Sena | John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry | United States | |
| Training Day | Antoine Fuqua | Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke | United States | |
| Vanilla Sky | Cameron Crowe | Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz | United States | |
| The Watcher | Joe Charbanic | James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Keanu Reeves | United States | |
| Zebra Lounge | Kari Skogland | Stephen Baldwin, Kristy Swanson | United States | |
| 2002 |||||
| 2009: Lost Memories | Lee Si-Myung | Toru Nakamura, Jang Dong-gun, Ken Mitsuishi | South Korea | |
| 2LDK | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Eiko Koiki, Maho Nonami | Japan | |
| Abandon | Stephen Gaghan | Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam | United States | |
| And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen | Claude Lelouch | Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte | France United Kingdom | |
| Assassination Tango | Robert Duvall | Robert Duvall, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker | United States | |
| Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever | Kaos | Lucy Liu, Antonio Banderas | United States | Action thriller |
| Below | David Twohy | Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Davis, Olivia Williams | United States | |
| Blackwoods | Uwe Boll | Patrick Muldoon, Keegan Connor Tracy, Michael Paré | Canada Germany | |
| Blade II | Guillermo del Toro | Wesley Snipes | United States | Action thriller |
| The Bourne Identity | Doug Liman | Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper | United States | Action thriller, paranoid thriller |
| City of Ghosts | Matt Dillon | Matt Dillon, Natascha McElhone, Gérard Depardieu | United States | |
| Collateral Damage | Andrew Davis | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Elias Koteas, Francesca Neri | United States | Action thriller |
| The Dancer Upstairs | John Malkovich | Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante | Spain United States | |
| Dark Water | Hideo Nakata | Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi | Japan | Supernatural thriller |
| Demonlover | Olivier Assayas | Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny | France | |
| Die Another Day | Lee Tamahori | Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, John Cleese, Judi Dench | United Kingdom | Action thriller |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | Audrey Tautou, Chiwetel Ejiofor | United Kingdom | |
| Enough | Michael Apted | Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis | United States | |
| Extreme Ops | Christian Duguay | Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves | United States | Action thriller |
| The Eye | Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun | Lee Sin-Je, Lawrence Chou, Chutcha Rujinanon | Hong Kong | |
| Femme Fatale | Brian De Palma | Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Antonio Banderas | United States | Crime thriller, erotic thriller |
| The Hard Word | Scott Roberts | Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor | United Kingdom Australia | Crime thriller |
| He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not | Laetitia Colombani | Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré | France | Psychological thriller |
| Insomnia | Christopher Nolan | Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank | United States | |
| Minority Report | Steven Spielberg | Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow | United States | Paranoid thriller |
| Murder By Numbers | Barbet Schroeder | Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt | United States | |
| Narc | Joe Carnahan | Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Chi McBride | United States | |
| The Nest | Florent Emilio Siri | Samy Naceri, Benoît Magimel, Nadia Farès, Pascal Greggory, Sami Bouajila | France | Action thriller |
| One Hour Photo | Mark Romanek | Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan | United States | |
| Panic Room | David Fincher | Jodie Foster, Forest Whitaker | United States | |
| The Quiet American | Phillip Noyce | Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser | United States Australia | |
| Red Dragon | Brett Ratner | Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes | United States | |
| Ripley's Game | Liliana Cavani | John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone | United Kingdom Italy | |
| The Salton Sea | D.J. Caruso | Val Kilmer | United States | |
| Signs | M. Night Shyamalan | Mel Gibson | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Suicide Club | Sion Sono | Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Tamao Satō | Japan | |
| The Sum of All Fears | Phil Alden Robinson | Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell | United States | |
| Swimfan | John Polson | Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen | United States | |
| Three Blind Mice | Mathias Ledoux | Edward Furlong, Emilia Fox, Chiwetel Ejiofor | United Kingdom France | |
| The Transporter | Corey Yuen | Jason Statham, Shu Qi | France United States | Action thriller, crime thriller |
| Trapped | Luis Mandoki | Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend | United States | |
| XXX | Rob Cohen | Vin Diesel, Asia Argento | United States | Action thriller |
| 2003 |||||
| 2 Fast 2 Furious | John Singleton | Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes | United States | Action thriller |
| Anatomy 2 | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Barnaby Metschurat, Herbert Knaup, Heike Makatsch | Germany | |
| Basic | John McTiernan | John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson | United States | |
| Cold Creek Manor | Mike Figgis | Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff | United States | |
| Confidence | James Foley | Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy García | United States | Crime thriller |
| Cradle 2 the Grave | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Jet Li, DMX | United States | Action thriller |
| Doppelganger | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Kōji Yakusho, Nagasaku Hiromi, Hiromi Nagasaku | Japan | Psychological thriller |
| dot the i | Matthew Parkhill | Gael García Bernal, Natalia Verbeke | United Kingdom Spain United States | |
| Fear X | Nicolas Winding Refn | John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger | Denmark United Kingdom | |
| Goth | Brad Sykes | Phoebe Dollar, Laura Reilly, Dave Stann | United States | Psychological horror thriller |
| Gothika | Mathieu Kassovitz | Halle Berry | United States | Supernatural thriller |
| House of the Dead | Uwe Boll | Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard | Germany United States Canada | Action thriller |
| The i Inside | Roland Suso Richter | Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley | United States | |
| Identity | James Mangold | John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet | United States | |
| I'm Not Scared | Gabriele Salvatores | Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia | Italy United Kingdom Spain | |
| In the Cut | Jane Campion | Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo | United States | |
| Kill Bill: Volume 1 | Quentin Tarantino | Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah | United States | |
| Killing Words | Laura Mañà | Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo | Spain | |
| King of the Ants | Stuart Gordon | Chris L. McKenna, Kari Wührer, Daniel Baldwin | United States | Crime thriller, psychological thriller |
| Kontroll | Nimród Antal | Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch | Hungary | |
| Lucía, Lucía | Antonio Serrano | Cecilia Roth, Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, Kuno Becker | Mexico | Comedy thriller |
| Moon Child | Takahisa Zeze | Hideto Takarai, Gackt Camui | Japan | |
| Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Robert Rodriguez | Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp | United States | Action thriller |
| Open Water | Chris Kentis | Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein | United States | |
| Out of Time | Carl Franklin | Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan | United States | |
| Phone Booth | Joel Schumacher | Colin Farrell | United States | |
| The Recruit | Roger Donaldson | Al Pacino, Colin Farrell | United States | |
| Runaway Jury | Gary Fleder | John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman | United States | |
| Running on Karma | Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai | Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung, Cheung Siu Fai | China Hong Kong | Action thriller |
| Swimming Pool | François Ozon | Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier | France | |
| A Tale of Two Sisters | Kim Jee-woon | Im Soo-jung, Moon Geun-young, Yum Jung-ah, Kim Kap-soo | South Korea | |
| Tears of the Sun | Antoine Fuqua | Bruce Willis | United States | Action thriller |
| Undermind | Nevil Dwek | | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Underworld | Len Wiseman | Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman | United States | Action thriller |
| Veronica Guerin | Joel Schumacher | Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley | Ireland United States | Crime thriller |
| Who Killed Bambi? | Gilles Marchand | Laurent Lucas, Sophie Quinton, Catherine Jacob | France | |
| X2 | Bryan Singer | Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen | United States | |
| 2004 |||||
| Blade: Trinity | David S. Goyer | Wesley Snipes | United States | Action thriller |
| Blueberry | Jan Kounen | Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Temuera Morrison | Mexico France United Kingdom | Supernatural thriller |
| The Bourne Supremacy | Paul Greengrass | Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Brian Cox | United States | Action thriller, paranoid thriller |
| The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart | United States | |
| Cellular | David R. Ellis | Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham | United States | |
| The Clearing | Pieter Jan Brugge | Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe | United States | |
| Collateral | Michael Mann | Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx | United States | |
| The Crimson Rivers II: The Angels of the Apocalypse | Olivier Dahan | Jean Reno, Benoît Magimel, Camille Natta | France | |
| Dead Man's Shoes | Shane Meadows | Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell | United Kingdom | |
| District B13 | Pierre Morel | Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario | France | Action thriller |
| EMR | James Erskine, Danny McCullough | Adam Leese | United Kingdom | |
| The Forgotten | Joseph Ruben | Julianne Moore, Dominic West | United States | |
| Freeze Frame | John Simpson | Lee Evans, Sean McGinley, Ian McNeice | United Kingdom Ireland | |
| Godsend | Nick Hamm | Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Robert De Niro | United States Canada | |
| I, Robot | Alex Proyas | Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, Bruce Greenwood | United States | |
| Je Suis un Assassin | Thomas Vincent | François Cluzet, Bernard Giraudeau, Karin Viard | France | |
| Kill Bill: Volume 2 | Quentin Tarantino | Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen | United States | Action thriller |
| Lethal | Dustin Rikert | Heather Marie Marsden, Lorenzo Lamas, Frank Zagarino | United States | |
| The Machinist | Brad Anderson | Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh | Spain United States | |
| Man on Fire | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken | United States | |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Jonathan Demme | Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber | United States | |
| Mindhunters | Renny Harlin | LL Cool J, Kathryn Morris | Netherlands Finland United Kingdom United States | |
| New Police Story | Benny Chan | Jackie Chan | China Hong Kong | Action thriller |
| Night Watch | Timur Bekmambetov | Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin | Russia | Action thriller, supernatural thriller |
| November | Greg Harrison | Courteney Cox Arquette, James LeGros, Michael Ealy | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | Choi Min-sik | South Korea | |
| Premonition | Norio Tsuruta | Daisuke Ban, Maki Horikita | Japan | Psychological thriller |
| The Punisher | Jonathan Hensleigh | Thomas Jane, John Travolta | United States | Action thriller |
| Red Lights | Cédric Kahn | Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet | France | |
| Secret Window | David Koepp | Johnny Depp | United States | |
| Spartan | David Mamet | Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy | United States Germany | |
| Spider Forest | Song Il-gon | Kam Woo-sung, Seo Jeong-min, Kang Gyeong-heon | South Korea | Psychological thriller |
| Suspect Zero | E. Elias Merhige | Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley | United States | |
| Taking Lives | D. J. Caruso | Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke | United States | |
| Three Way | Scott Ziehl | Ali Larter, Desmond Harrington, Joy Bryant | United States | Crime thriller |
| Torque | Joseph Kahn | Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur | United States | Action thriller |
| Trauma | Marc Evans | Colin Firth, Mena Suvari | United Kingdom | |
| Twisted | Philip Kaufman | Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy García | United States | |
| Undertow | David Gordon Green | Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Devon Alan | United States | |
| The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrien Brody | United States | |
| Wild Things 2 | Jack Perez | Susan Ward, Leila Arcieri, Isaiah Washington | United States | |
| 2005 |||||
| 13 Tzameti | Géla Babluani | George Babluani | France | |
| Antibodies | Christian Alvart | Wotan Wilke Möhring, André Hennicke, Heinz Hoenig | Germany | |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | Jean-François Richet | Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne | United States | Action thriller |
| Batman Begins | Christopher Nolan | Christian Bale, Michael Caine | United States | Action thriller |
| Blood Rain | Kim Dae-seung | Cha Seung-won, Park Yong-woo, Ji Sung | South Korea | |
| Caché | Michael Haneke | Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche | Austria Italy Germany France | |
| The Constant Gardener | Fernando Meirelles | Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston | United Kingdom | |
| Dark Water | Walter Salles, Jr. | Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth | United States | Psychological thriller, supernatural thriller |
| Derailed | Mikael Håfström | Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel | United States | |
| Domino | Tony Scott | Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez | United States | Crime thriller |
| Empire of the Wolves | Chris Nahon | Jean Reno, Jocelyn Quivrin, Arly Jover | France | |
| Flightplan | Robert Schwentke | Jodie Foster | United States | |
| Hard Candy | David Slade | Patrick Wilson, Elliot Page, Sandra Oh | United States | |
| Hide and Seek | John Polson | Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning | United States | |
| A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ashton Holmes | Canada United Kingdom | |
| Hostage | Florent Emilio Siri | Bruce Willis | United States | |
| The Interpreter | Sydney Pollack | Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn | United States | |
| The Jacket | John Maybury | Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson | United States United Kingdom | |
| Lord of War | Andrew Niccol | Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan | United States | Crime thriller |
| Kill Zone | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung | China Hong Kong | Action thriller |
| Munich | Steven Spielberg | Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds | United States | Political thriller |
| Red Eye | Wes Craven | Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy | United States | |
| Sin City | Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller | Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Skeleton Key | Iain Softley | Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard | United States | |
| Stay | Marc Forster | Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts | United States | |
| Sympathy for Lady Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | Lee Young-ae, Kim Shi-hoo, Nam Il-woo | South Korea | |
| Syriana | Stephen Gaghan | George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright | United States | |
| Transporter 2 | Louis Leterrier | Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta | France | Action thriller |
| White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | Michael Keaton, Chandra West, Deborah Kara Unger | United States United Kingdom Canada | |
| Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough | Jay Lowi | Linden Ashby, Brad Johnson, Sandra McCoy | United States | |
| XXX: State of the Union | Lee Tamahori | Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe | United States | Action thriller |
| 2006 |||||
| Basic Instinct 2 | Michael Caton-Jones | Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis | United States | |
| Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman | Belgium United Kingdom Netherlands Germany | |
| Bug | William Friedkin | Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins | United States | |
| Casino Royale | Martin Campbell | Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench | Czech Republic Germany United Kingdom United States | |
| Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine | United States | Action thriller |
| Comedy of Power | Claude Chabrol | Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel | Germany France | |
| Crank | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam | United States | Action thriller |
| The Da Vinci Code | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen | United States | |
| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson | United States | Crime thriller |
| Déjà Vu | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington | United States | |
| Exiled | Johnnie To | Nick Cheung, Simon Yam, Francis Ng | China Hong Kong | Action thriller, crime thriller |
| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | Justin Lin | Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelley | United States | Action thriller, crime thriller |
| Fay Grim | Hal Hartley | Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, James Urbaniak | Germany United States | |
| Firewall | Richard Loncraine | Harrison Ford | United States | |
| Flash Point | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou | Hong Kong China | |
| Frontier(s) | Xavier Gens | Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik, Patrick Ligardes | Switzerland France | |
| Half Light | Craig Rosenberg | Demi Moore | United States United Kingdom Germany | |
| Inside Man | Spike Lee | Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster | United States | Crime thriller |
| Lady in the Water | M. Night Shyamalan | Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard | United States | |
| The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch | Germany | Political thriller |
| Like Minds | Gregory J. Read | Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette | United Kingdom Australia | |
| Lucky Number Slevin | Paul McGuigan | Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley | United States | |
| The Marine | John Bonito | John Cena, Robert Patrick, Kelly Carlson | United States | Action thriller |
| Miami Vice | Michael Mann | Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li | United States | Action thriller |
| Mission: Impossible III | J. J. Abrams | Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman | United States | Action thriller |
| Movin' Too Fast | Eric Chambers | Layla Alexander, Marquita Terry, Matthew Glave, Jack Kehler, Eric Michael Cole | United States | Horror thriller |
| The Night Listener | Patrick Stettner | Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale | United States | Psychological thriller |
| The Page Turner | Denis Dercourt | Catherine Frot, Déborah François, Pascal Greggory | France | |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Tom Tykwer | Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman | Spain France Germany | |
| The Prestige | Christopher Nolan | Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine | United States United Kingdom | |
| Pulse | Jim Sonzero | Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Rick Gonzalez | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Red Road | Andrea Arnold | Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston | Denmark United Kingdom | |
| The Return | Asif Kapadia | Sarah Michelle Gellar | United States | |
| Running Scared | Wayne Kramer | Paul Walker | Germany United States | |
| See No Evil | Gregory Dark | Kane | United States | Horror |
| The Sentinel | Clark Johnson | Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria | United States | |
| Severance | Christopher Smith | Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny | Germany United Kingdom | Action thriller |
| Snakes on a Plane | David R. Ellis | Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips | United States | Action thriller |
| Tell No One | Guillaume Canet | François Cluzet, André Dussollier, Marie-Josée Croze | France | |
| Underworld: Evolution | Len Wiseman | Kate Beckinsale | United States | Action thriller |
| Unknown | Simon Brand | James Caviezel, Greg Kinnear | United States | |
| V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving | United States | |
| X-Men: The Last Stand | Brett Ratner | Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen | United States United Kingdom | |
| 2007 |||||
| Anamorph | H.S. Miller | Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Clea DuVall | United States | |
| Anything for Her (Pour elle) | Fred Cavayé | Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch | France | |
| Awake | Joby Harold | Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard | United States | |
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Sidney Lumet | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei | United States | Crime thriller |
| Boarding Gate | Olivier Assayas | Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng | Luxembourg France | |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass | Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn | United States | Action thriller, paranoid thriller |
| Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd | United States | |
| Death Sentence | James Wan | Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston | United States | Crime thriller |
| Disturbia | D. J. Caruso | Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer | United States | |
| Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel | United Kingdom Canada United States | |
| First Snow | Mark Fergus | Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo | United States | |
| Flash Point | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou | Hong Kong China | |
| The Flock | Andrew Lau | Richard Gere, Claire Danes | United States | |
| Fracture | Gregory Hoblit | Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling | United States | |
| Funny Games | Michael Haneke | Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt | Italy France Germany United States | |
| A Girl Cut in Two | Claude Chabrol | Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand | France Germany | Comedy thriller |
| Gone Baby Gone | Ben Affleck | Morgan Freeman, Casey Affleck, Amy Ryan | United States | |
| The Gray Man | Scott Flynn | Patrick Bauchau, Jack Conley, John Aylward | United States | |
| Hannibal Rising | Peter Webber | Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans | United Kingdom France United States | Psychological thriller |
| Hitman | Xavier Gens | Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko | United States | Action thriller |
| I Know Who Killed Me | Chris Sivertson | Lindsay Lohan | United States | |
| Illegal Tender | Franc. Reyes | Rick Gonzalez, Wanda De Jesus, Dania Ramirez | United States | |
| The Invasion | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig | United States | |
| The Invisible | David S. Goyer | Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva | United States | |
| Jar City | Baltasar Kormákur | Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson | Iceland Denmark Germany | |
| Joshua | George Ratliff | Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston | United States | |
| Live Free or Die Hard | Len Wiseman | Bruce Willis | United States | Action thriller |
| Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton | United States | |
| Mr. Brooks | Bruce A. Evans | Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook | United States | |
| Next | Lee Tamahori | Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann | United States | |
| No Country for Old Men | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin | United States | |
| The Number 23 | Joel Schumacher | Jim Carrey | United States | |
| P2 | Franck Khalfoun | Wes Bentley, Rachel Nichols | United States | |
| Perfect Stranger | James Foley | Halle Berry, Bruce Willis | United States | |
| Planet Terror | Robert Rodriguez | Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodríguez, Josh Brolin | United States | Action thriller |
| Premonition | Mennan Yapo | Sandra Bullock | United States | |
| Roman de Gare | Claude Lelouch | Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana | France | |
| Seraphim Falls | David Von Ancken | Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan | United States United Kingdom | Action thriller |
| Shooter | Antoine Fuqua | Mark Wahlberg | United States | |
| Smokin' Aces | Joe Carnahan | Ben Affleck, Andy García, Alicia Keys | United States | Crime thriller, action thriller |
| Stuck | Stuart Gordon | Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby | Canada United States | |
| Ten 'til Noon | Scott Storm | Alfonso Freeman | United States | |
| Three | Robby Henson | Marc Blucas, Laura Jordan, Justine Waddell | United States | |
| Timecrimes | Nacho Vigalondo | Karra Elejalde, Barbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo | Spain | Crime thriller, supernatural thriller |
| War | Phillip Atwell | Jet Li, Jason Statham | United States | Action thriller |
| 2008 |||||
| 21 | Robert Luketic | Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth | United States | |
| 88 Minutes | Jon Avnet | Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski | United States Germany | |
| Aduri | Riyadh Mahmood | Ariana Almajan, Kawan Karadaghi, Roger Payano, Christy Sullivan | United States | |
| The Baader Meinhof Complex | Uli Edel | Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek | Germany | Political thriller |
| Bangkok Dangerous | Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang | Nicolas Cage | United States | |
| The Caller | Richard Ledes | Frank Langella, Elliott Gould, Laura Elena Harring | United States | |
| Cassandra's Dream | Woody Allen | Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor | France United States | |
| Changeling | Clint Eastwood | Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan | United States | |
| Death Race | Paul W. S. Anderson | Jason Statham, Joan Allen, Tyrese Gibson | United States | Sports thriller |
| Deception | Marcel Langenegger | Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams | United States | |
| Donkey Punch | Olly Blackburn | Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke | United Kingdom | |
| Eagle Eye | D. J. Caruso | Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson | United States | |
| Iron Man | Jon Favreau | Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges | United States | |
| Loss | Maris Martinsons | Andrius Mamontovas, Valda Bičkutė, Kostas Smoriginas | Lithuania | |
| The Eye | David Moreau, Xavier Palud | Jessica Alba | United States | Psychological thriller |
| The Happening | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo | United States | |
| The Haunting of Molly Hartley | Mickey Liddell | Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford, Shannon Marie Woodward | United States | |
| The Horsemen | Jonas Åkerlund | Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi | United States | |
| Just Another Love Story | Ole Bornedal | Anders W. Berthelsen, Rebecka Hemse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas | Denmark | |
| Lakeview Terrace | Neil LaBute | Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Patrick Wilson | United States | |
| The Life Before Her Eyes | Vadim Perelman | Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri | United States | |
| Max Payne | John Moore | Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Chris O' Donnell | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Oxford Murders | Álex de la Iglesia | Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling | France Spain | |
| Pathology | Marc Schoelermann | Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano, Lauren Lee Smith | United States | Crime thriller |
| Poison Ivy: The Secret Society | Jason Hreno | Miriam McDonald, Crystal Lowe | Canada United States | |
| Quantum of Solace | Marc Forster | Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Judi Dench | United Kingdom | |
| Rambo | Sylvester Stallone | Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden | United States | Action thriller |
| Redbelt | David Mamet | Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Alice Braga | United States | |
| Reykjavík-Rotterdam | Oskar Jonasson | Baltasar Kormákur, Victor Löw, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson | Netherlands Iceland | |
| Righteous Kill | Jon Avnet | Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis Jackson | United States | |
| The Incredible Hulk | Louis Leterrier | Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth | United States | |
| The Square | Nash Edgerton | David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton | Australia | |
| Street Kings | David Ayer | Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie | United States | Action/Crime/Drama |
| Surveillance | Jennifer Chambers Lynch | Bill Pullman, Julia Ormond, Pell James | United States | |
| Taken | Pierre Morel | Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen | France | |
| The Objective | Daniel Myrick | Jon Huertas, Jonas Ball, Matt Anderson | United States | |
| Transsiberian | Brad Anderson | Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley | United States | |
| Untraceable | Gregory Hoblit | Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks | United States | |
| Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy | United States | Political thriller |
| Vantage Point | Pete Travis | Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker | United States | |
| The X-Files: I Want to Believe | Chris Carter | David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet | United States | Supernatural thriller |
| 2009 |||||
| 12 Rounds | Renny Harlin | John Cena, Ashley Scott, Brian J. White, Aidan Gillen | United States | |
| Amer | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Bianca Maria D'Amato | France Belgium | |
| American Sunset | Michael Masucci | Corey Haim | Canada | |
| Angels & Demons | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor | United States | |
| Armored | Nimród Antal | Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne | United States | |
| Crank: High Voltage | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Dwight Yoakam | United States | Action/Crime/Sci-fi |
| Chloe | Atom Egoyan | Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried | France United States Canada | |
| The Disappearance of Alice Creed | J Blakeson | Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan | United Kingdom | |
| Dolan's Cadillac | Jeff Beesley | Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley | Canada | |
| Duplicity | Tony Gilroy | Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson | United States | |
| Echelon Conspiracy | Greg Marcks | Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames | United States | |
| Espion(s) | Nicolas Saada | Vincent Regan, Stephen Rea, Archie Panjabi | United Kingdom France | |
| Exam | Stuart Hazeldine | | United Kingdom | |
| Gamer | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Gerard Butler, Milo Ventimiglia | United States | |
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest | Daniel Alfredson | Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin | Sweden | |
| The Girl Who Played with Fire | Daniel Alfredson | Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin | Sweden | Crime thriller |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Niels Arden Oplev | Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Noomi Rapace | Sweden | |
| Harry Brown | Daniel Barber | Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles | United Kingdom | |
| The International | Tom Tykwer | Clive Owen, Naomi Watts | United States | |
| Killshot | John Madden | Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke | United States | |
| Knowing | Alex Proyas | Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne | United States | |
| Law Abiding Citizen | F. Gary Gray | Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney | United States | |
| Obsessed | Steve Shill | Beyoncé Knowles, Idris Elba, Ali Larter | United States | |
| A Perfect Getaway | David N. Twohy | Timothy Olyphant, Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich | United States | |
| Push | Paul McGuigan | Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou | United States Hong Kong | |
| Sherlock Holmes | Guy Ritchie | Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams | United States | Action thriller |
| The Stepfather | Nelson McCormick | Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley | United States | |
| Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clarke Duncan, Neal McDonough | United States | Action Thriller |
| The Taking of Pelham 123 | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini | United States | |
| The Secret in Their Eyes | Juan José Campanella | Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago | Argentina | |
| Vengeance | Johnnie To | Cheung Siu Fai, Johnny Hallyday, Ng Yuk-sau | France Hong Kong | |
| Whiteout | Dominic Sena | Kate Beckinsale, Columbus Short, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt | United States | |
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Gavin Hood | Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Danny Huston | United States | |