Home / Movies / Best Thriller Movies The 25 best thriller movies, ranked by critics Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Tomatometer), then Metacritic score. Only movies with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 70% or higher make the list. Scores as recorded in Wikidata.
1 Rotten Tomatoes 99% · Metacritic 97
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
2 Rotten Tomatoes 98% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Roman Polanski
3 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 100
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
4 Rotten Tomatoes 97% · Metacritic 87
Directed by Steven Spielberg
5 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 96
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
6 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 90
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
7 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 86
Directed by Ben Affleck
8 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 78
Directed by Ron Howard
9 Rotten Tomatoes 96% · Metacritic 75
Directed by Steven Spielberg
10 The Silence of the Lambs 1991
Rotten Tomatoes 95% · Metacritic 86
Directed by Jonathan Demme
11 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 88
Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
12 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 85
Directed by Christopher Nolan
13 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 83
Directed by Christopher Nolan
14 Arrival 2016
Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 81
Directed by Denis Villeneuve
15 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 80
Directed by Martin Campbell
16 Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 72
Directed by John McTiernan
17 No Country for Old Men 2007
Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen
18 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 92
Directed by Martin Scorsese
19 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 90
Directed by Christopher Nolan
20 Alien 1979
Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 89
Directed by Ridley Scott
21 Aliens 1986
Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 84
Directed by James Cameron
22 Rotten Tomatoes 93% · Metacritic 83
Directed by Sam Raimi
23 Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 95
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
24 Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 89
Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
25 Rotten Tomatoes 92% · Metacritic 87
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
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