# List of thriller films of the 2010s

Following is a list of thriller films released in the 2010s.

## 2010

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/notes |
| 22 Bullets | Richard Berry | Jean Reno, Kad Merad, Richard Berry | France | Action thriller |
| The A-Team | Joe Carnahan | Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Quinton Jackson | United States | Action thriller |
| Abandoned | Michael Feifer | Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain, Mimi Rogers | United States | |
| The American | Anton Corbijn | George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Thekla Reuten | United States | |
| Black Swan | Darren Aronofsky | Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel | United States | |
| Buried | Rodrigo Cortés | Ryan Reynolds, Ivana Miño, Anne Lockhart | Spain | |
| Cold Fish | Sion Sono | Denden, Megumi Kagurazaka, Tetsu Watanabe | Japan | |
| Confessions | Tetsuya Nakashima | Takako Matsu | Japan | |
| The Crazies | Breck Eisner | Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Danielle Panabaker | United States | Action thriller |
| Devil | John Erick Dowdle | Chris Messina, Logan Marshall-Green, Jenny O'Hara | United States | |
| Edge of Darkness | Martin Campbell | Mel Gibson, Danny Huston, Ray Winstone | United Kingdom United States | |
| The Experiment | Paul Scheuring | Adrien Brody, Forest Whitaker, Cam Gigandet | United States | |
| Fair Game | Doug Liman | Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Bruce McGill | United States | |
| From Paris with Love | Pierre Morel | John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak | France United States | Action thriller |
| Frozen | Adam Green | Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers | United States | Psychological thriller |
| The Ghost Writer | Roman Polanski | Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall | Germany United Kingdom France | |
| Golden Slumber | Yoshihiro Nakamura | Masato Sakai, Yuko Takeuchi, Hidetaka Yoshioka | Japan | |
| Green Zone | Paul Greengrass | Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Brendan Gleeson | France United Kingdom United States | |
| I Saw the Devil | Kim Jee-woon | Lee Byung-hun, Choi Min-sik | South Korea | |
| Killers | Robert Luketic | Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Tom Selleck | United States | Action thriller |
| Legion | Scott Stewart | Paul Bettany, Lucas Black, Tyrese Gibson | United States | |
| Life Is an Art | Jayant R. Harnam | Alison Carroll, Martin Swabey | Netherlands | Psychological thriller |
| The Losers | Sylvain White | Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Jason Patric | United States | Action thriller |
| Love Crime | Alain Corneau | Ludivine Sagnier, Kristin Scott Thomas, Gérald Laroche | France | Psychological thriller |
| The Man from Nowhere | Lee Jeong-beom | Won Bin, Kim Sae-ron, Kim Hee-won | South Korea | Action thriller |
| The Next Three Days | Paul Haggis | Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Liam Neeson | United States | |
| Salt | Phillip Noyce | Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor | United States | |
| Secret Reunion | Jang Hoon | Song Kang-ho, Kang Dong-won, Jeon Guk-hwan | South Korea | |
| The Hunter | Rafi Pitts | Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar | Germany Iran | Crime thriller |
| Shutter Island | Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley | United States | |
| Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball | P. J. Pesce | Tom Berenger, Clayne Crawford, Tommy Flanagan | United States | Action thriller |
| The Tourist | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, Timothy Dalton | United States | |
| The Town | Ben Affleck | Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm | United States | Crime thriller |
| Unstoppable | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington, Chris Pine, Rosario Dawson | United States | Action thriller |
| Unthinkable | Gregor Jordan | Samuel L. Jackson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Sheen | United States | |

## 2011

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Abduction | John Singleton | Taylor Lautner, Frank Molina, Lily Collins | United States | |
| A Morass | Shane James Bordas | Nina Hatchwell, Alessandro Giuggioli | United Kingdom | Noir thriller |
| Blind Turn | Robert Orr | Rachel Boston, Jay Dee Walters, John Gabriel Rodriquez | United States | |
| The Devil's Double | Lee Tamahori | Dominic Cooper, Ludivine Sagnier, Raad Rawi | Belgium | |
| Drive | Nicolas Winding Refn | Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston | United States | |
| Drive Angry | Patrick Lussier | Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard, William Fichtner | United States | Action thriller |
| Elephant White | Prachya Pinkaew | Kevin Bacon, Djimon Hounsou, Jirantanin Pitakorntrakul | United States | Action thriller |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | David Fincher | Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer | United States | |
| Hanna | Joe Wright | Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Tom Hollander | United States | |
| I Am Number Four | D. J. Caruso | Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Teresa Palmer | United States | Action thriller |
| The Ides of March | George Clooney | Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman | United States | Political thriller |
| The Ledge | Matthew Chapman | Charlie Hunnam, Terrence Howard, Liv Tyler | United States | |
| Limitless | Neil Burger | Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish | United States | |
| The Lincoln Lawyer | Brad Furman | Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe | United States | |
| Martha Marcy May Marlene | T. Sean Durkin | Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes | United States | |
| Requiem pour une tueuse | Jérôme Le Gris | Mélanie Laurent | France | |
| The Resident | Antti Jokinen | Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Christopher Lee | United States | |
| The Roommate | Christian E. Christiansen | Leighton Meester, Minka Kelly, Cam Gigandet | United States | |
| Season of the Witch | Dominic Sena | Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Stephen Campbell Moore | United States | |
| The Skin I Live In | Pedro Almodóvar | Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes | Spain | |
| Sleepless Night | Frédéric Jardin | Tomer Sisley, Serge Riaboukine, Julien Boisselier | France Belgium Luxembourg | |
| Source Code | Duncan Jones | Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga | Canada United States | |
| Trespass | Joel Schumacher | Nicolas Cage, Nicole Kidman, Ben Mendelsohn | United States | |
| Unknown | Jaume Collet-Serra | Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones | Germany United States | |
| Wrecked | Michael Greenspan | Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas, Ryan Robbins | Canada | |
| X | Jon Hewitt | Viva Bianca, Hanna Mangan-Lawrence, Peter Docker | United States | |

## 2012

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Act of Valor | Scott Waugh, Mike "Mouse" McCoy | Emilio Rivera, Roselyn Sánchez, Alex Veadov | United States | Action thriller |
| The Apparition | Todd Lincoln | Ashley Greene, Sebastian Stan, Tom Felton | United States | |
| Bending the Rules | Artie Mandelburg | Jamie Kennedy, Edge | United States | Comedy, crime thriller |
| The Body | Oriol Paulo | José Coronado, Belén Rueda | Spain | Psychological thriller |
| Black & White Episode I: The Dawn of Assault | Tsai Yueh-hsun | Mark Chao, Huang Bo, Angelababy | Taiwan | Action thriller |
| Chronicle | Josh Trank | Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell, Michael B. Jordan | United States | |
| Compliance | Craig Zobel | Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy | United States | |
| Contraband | Baltasar Kormákur | Mark Wahlberg, Kate Beckinsale, Ben Foster | United States | Action thriller, crime thriller |
| Elfie Hopkins | Ryan Andrews | Jaime Winstone, Ray Winstone, Steven Mackintosh | United Kingdom | Horror thriller |
| Fire with Fire | David Barrett | Josh Duhamel, Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio | United States | Action thriller |
| Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Nicolas Cage, Ciarán Hinds, Violante Placido | United States | Action thriller |
| Gone | Heitor Dhalia | Amanda Seyfried, Daniel Sunjata, Jennifer Carpenter | United States | |
| Jack Reacher | Christopher McQuarrie | Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Robert Duvall | United States | |
| Kahaani | Sujoy Ghosh | Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Nawazuddin Siddiqui | India | |
| Looper | Rian Johnson | Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt | United States | |
| Man on a Ledge | Asger Leth | Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Anthony Mackie | United States | |
| Premium Rush | David Koepp | Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Shannon, Dania Ramirez | United States | Action thriller |
| Safe House | Daniel Espinosa | Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Vera Farmiga | United States | |
| Savages | Oliver Stone | Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Blake Lively, Benicio del Toro | United States | |
| Stolen | Simon West | Nicolas Cage, Malin Åkerman, Josh Lucas | United States | |
| Taken 2 | Olivier Megaton | Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen | France United States | |
| The Tall Man | Pascal Laugier | Jessica Biel, Jodelle Ferland, Stephen McHattie | France Canada | |
| Underworld: Awakening | Måns Mårlind, Bjorn Stein | Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Rea, Michael Ealy | United States | Action thriller |
| The Viral Factor | Dante Lam | Jay Chou, Lin Peng, Nicholas Tse | Hong Kong | Action thriller |

## 2013

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Avenged | Michael S. Ojeda | Amanda Adrienne, Tom Ardavanay, Rodney Rowland | United States | Action horror thriller |
| The Call | Brad Anderson | Halle Berry, Abigail Breslin, Morris Chesnut, Michael Eklund, Michael Imperioli, David Otunga | United States | Psychological thriller, paranoid thriller |
| The Counselor | Ridley Scott | Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz | United Kingdom United States | Crime thriller |
| Drishyam | Jeethu Joseph | Mohanlal, Meena | India | |
| Lucia | Pawan Kumar | Ninasam Satish, Sruthi Hariharan | India | |
| Montage | Jeong Keun-seob | Uhm Jung-hwa, Kim Sang-kyung | South Korea | |
| Prisoners | Denis Villeneuve | Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello | United States | |
| The Purge | James DeMonaco | Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder | United States | |
| Side Effects | Steven Soderbergh | Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law | United States | |
| Stoker | Park Chan-wook | Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode, Nicole Kidman | United States | |
| The Supernatural Events on Campus | Guan Er | Zhao Yihuan, Wang Yi, Li Manyi | China | Horror |
| Trance | Danny Boyle | James McAvoy, Vincent Cassel, Rosario Dawson | United Kingdom | |
| Ugly | Anurag Kashyap | Ronit Roy, Rahul Bhat, Vineet Kumar Singh, Girish Kulkarni | India | Psychological thriller |
| Upstream Color | Shane Carruth | Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig | United States | |

## 2014

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Bloody Doll | Teruyoshi Ishii | Jiro Wang, Zhou Qiqi, Don Li | China | Horror |
| Bugs | Yan Jia | Xia Zitong, Zhang Zilin, Eric Wang | China | Science fiction disaster |
| Christmas Icetastrophe | Jonathan Winfrey | Victor Webster, Jennifer Spence, Richard Harmon | United States | Television film |
| Cold in July | Jim Mickle | Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Vinessa Shaw | United States | |
| The Deathday Party | Xie Hang | Anita Yuen, Xiong Naijin, Archie Kao | China | Suspense |
| Double Exposure | Li Jinhang | Qin Wenjing, Ma Wenlong, Sabrina Qiu | China | Horror |
| The Eighth House | Zhang Li | Bao Tino, Ni Jingyang, Chang Le | China | Romance |
| Flower's Curse | Li Kelong | Qi Zhi, Liao Weiwei, Luo Bin | China | Romance horror |
| Gone Girl | David Fincher | Rosamund Pike, Ben Affleck, Tyler Perry | United States | Psychological thriller |
| Haunted Road | Yijian Tong | Su-a Hong, Jo Jiang, Musi Ni | China | Horror |
| Honeymoon | Leigh Janiak | Harry Treadaway, Rose Leslie | United States | Psychological thriller |
| The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode | United States | Historical thriller |
| Inside the Girls | Liang Ting | Wen Xin, Cheng Yi, Yin Zheng | China | Suspense |
| John Wick | Chad Stahelski | Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen | United States | Action thriller |
| Kingsman: The Secret Service | Matthew Vaughn | Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson | United Kingdom, United States | Action comedy |
| Lonely Island | Lian Tao, Wang Kunhao | Li Yiyi, Tian Suhao, Mao Yi | China | Suspense horror |
| Midnight Hair | Liu Ning | Daniella Wang, Lee Wei, Xuan Lu | China | Horror |
| Monsterz | Hideo Nakata | Tatsuya Fujiwara, Takayuki Yamada | Japan | Fantasy horror |
| Mystery | Wu Bing | Ady An, Jiro Wang, Guo Degang | China | Suspense adventure |
| Nightcrawler | Dan Gilroy | Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton | United States | |
| Non-Stop | Jaume Collet-Serra | Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Scoot McNairy | France Canada United Kingdom United States | |
| She and She | Cao Ji | Wang Xi, Song Zifei, Li He | China | Suspense |
| Skin Trade | Ekachai Uekrongtham | Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman, Peter Weller | United States | Action thriller |
| The Snow White Murder Case | Yoshihiro Nakamura | Mao Inoue, Gō Ayano, Nanao | Japan | Mystery thriller |
| The Guest | Adam Wingard | Dan Stevens, Leland Orser, Lance Reddick | United States | |
| The Haunted Cinema | Yuan Jie | Liu Yanxi, Luo Xiang, Wei Xingyu | China | Suspense horror |
| Tomb Robber | Yu Dao | Michael Tong, Muqi Miya, Li Bingyuan | China | Action adventure suspense |
| Under the Bed 2 | Yuan Jie | Abby, Li Henan, Chen Yuan | China | Suspense |

## 2015

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Boy Next Door | Rob Cohen | Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman | United States< | Psychological thriller |
| Colonia | Florian Gallenberger | Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist | Germany | |
| Dark Places | Gilles Paquet-Brenner | Charlize Theron, Christina Hendricks, Nicholas Hoult | United States United Kingdom France | Psychological thriller |
| Death Trip | Billy Tang | Victor Wong, Zeng Yongti, Han Bo-reum | China | |
| Drishyam | Nishikant Kamat | Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Shriya Saran | India | |
| Eye in the Sky | Gavin Hood | Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman | United Kingdom | |
| The Gift | Joel Edgerton | Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton | United States Australia | Psychological thriller |
| Grasshopper | Tomoyuki Takimoto | Toma Ikuta, Tadanobu Asano, Ryosuke Yamada | Japan | |
| Insanity | David Lee | Sean Lau, Huang Xiaoming, Alex Fong | China Hong Kong | |
| The Invitation | Karyn Kusama | Logan Marshall-Green, Tammy Blanchard, Michiel Huisman | United States | Horror thriller |
| The Mystery of Death | Ben Wong | Deric Wan, Huang Zheng, Josephine Yu | China | |
| Nowhere to Run | Wang Mengyuan | Zhang Duo, Liu Ying, Ge Tian | China | |
| Prophecy | Yoshihiro Nakamura | Toma Ikuta, Yoshiyoshi Arakawa, Erika Toda | Japan | Psychological thriller |
| Scary Road Is Fun | Samm Chan | Zhang Junning, Michael Tong, He Haoyang | China | Comedy thriller |
| Tōkyō Mukokuseki Shōjo | Mamoru Oshii | Nana Seino, Nobuaki Kaneko, Lily | Japan | Suspense |

## 2016

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| The Accountant | Gavin O'Connor | Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J. K. Simmons | United States | |
| The Girl on the Train | Tate Taylor | Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Rebecca Ferguson, Luke Evans | United States | |
| Hush | Mike Flanagan | Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Michael Trucco | United States | Horror thriller |
| Jack Reacher: Never Go Back | Edward Zwick | Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders | United States | |
| Mine | Fabio Guaglione, Fabio Resinaro | Armie Hammer, Annabelle Wallis, Tom Cullen, Juliet Aubrey | Italy United States Spain | Psychological thriller |
| Money Monster | Jodie Foster | George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell | United States | Paranoid thriller |
| Nocturnal Animals | Tom Ford | Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson | United States | Psychological thriller |
| South of 8 | Tony Olmos | Brian Patrick Butler, George Jac, Jennifer Paredes, Kathryn Schott, Raye Richards | United States | Crime thriller |
| Uriyadi | Vijay Kumar | Vijay Kumar, Mime Gopi | India | Political thriller |

## 2017

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Based on a True Story | Roman Polanski | Emmanuelle Seigner, Eva Green, Vincent Perez | France Italy Poland | Psychological thriller |
| Berlin Syndrome | Cate Shortland | Teresa Palmer, Max Riemelt | Australia France | Psychological thriller |
| The Covenant | Robert Conway | Monica Engesser, Owen Conway, Clint James, Sanford Gibbons, Maria Olsen, Shawn Saavedra, Richard Lippert and Amelia Haberman | United States | Mystery horror thriller drama |
| The Girl in the Fog | Donato Carrisi | Toni Servillo, Alessio Boni, Jean Reno | Italy | Psychological thriller |
| Hangman | Johnny Martin | Al Pacino, Karl Urban, Brittany Snow | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Hunter's Prayer | Jonathan Mostow | Sam Worthington, Odeya Rush, Allen Leech | United States Germany Spain | Action thriller |
| Immigration Game | Krystof Zlatnik | Mathis Landwehr and Denise Owono | Germany | Action thriller drama |
| The Invisible Guardian | Fernando González Molina | Marta Etura, Elvira Mínguez | Spain | Psychological thriller |
| The Invisible Guest | Oriol Paulo | Mario Casas, José Coronado, Ana Wagener, Bárbara Lennie | Spain | Psychological thriller |
| Kidnap | Luis Prieto | Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Chris McGinn, Lew Temple | United States | |
| The Man with the Iron Heart | Cédric Jimenez | Jason Clarke, Rosamund Pike, Jack O'Connell | France, Belgium | Biographical thriller |
| The Playground | Edreace Purmul | Myles Cranford, Merrick McCartha, Shane P. Allen, Christopher Salazar | United States | Fable |
| 6 Days | Toa Fraser | Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish, Mark Strong | United Kingdom New Zealand | Political thriller |
| Shot Caller | Ric Roman Waugh | Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Omari Hardwick, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal | United States | Crime thriller |
| The Snowman | Tomas Alfredson | Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg | United States United Kingdom Sweden | Crime thriller |
| Thumper | Jordan Ross | Eliza Taylor, Lena Headey, Pablo Schreiber, Ben Feldman | United States | Crime thriller |
| You Were Never Really Here | Lynne Ramsay | Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, John Doman | United States United Kingdom France | Action thriller |

## 2018

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Bad Times at the El Royale | Drew Goddard | Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson | United States | |
| The Cabin | Johan Bodell | Christopher Lee Page, Caitlin Crommett, Erik Kammerland, Thomas Hedengran | Sweden United States | Horror |
| Calibre | Matt Palmer | Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran | United Kingdom | |
| The Commuter | Jaume Collet-Serra | Liam Neeson, Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga | United States United Kingdom France | Action thriller |
| Death Wish | Eli Roth | Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue | United States | Action thriller |
| The Girl in the Spider's Web | Fede Álvarez | Claire Foy, Sverrir Gudnason, LaKeith Stanfield | United States Canada Germany | Action thriller |
| Golden Slumber | Noh Dong-seok | Gang Dong-won, Kim Eui-sung, Kim Sung-kyun | South Korea | Action thriller |
| Missing | Mukul Abhyankar | Tabu, Manoj Bajpayee, and Annu Kapoor | India | Psychological thriller |
| The Neighbor | Aaron Harvey | William Fichtner, Jessica McNamee, Jean Louisa Kelly | United States | |
| The Open House | Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote | Dylan Minnette, Piercey Dalton, Sharif Atkins | United States | Horror |
| The Realm | Rodrigo Sorogoyen | Antonio de la Torre, Mónica López, Josep Maria Pou | Spain | |
| Red Sparrow | Francis Lawrence | Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts | United States | Spy thriller |
| Searching | Aneesh Chaganty | John Cho, Debra Messing | United States | |
| A Simple Favor | Paul Feig | Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding | United States | Comedy thriller |
| Traffik | Deon Taylor | Paula Patton and Omar Epps | United States | Action, crime thriller |

## 2019

| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Subgenre/Notes |
| Cold Pursuit | Hans Petter Moland | Liam Neeson, Tom Bateman, Tom Jackson | United States United Kingdom | Action thriller |
| Glass | M. Night Shyamalan | James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Anya Taylor-Joy | United States | |
| I See You | Adam Randall | Helen Hunt, Jon Tenney, Judah Lewis | United States | |
| The Poison Rose | George Gallo | John Travolta, Morgan Freeman, Famke Janssen | United States | Neo-noir thriller |
| Serenity | Steven Knight | Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane | United States | Fantasy thriller |