50 Best Thriller Movies to Stream on Netflix
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There is nothing like a getting in your coziest pajamas, popping some popcorn, and having a movie night with you besties. And, if we are being honest, you know the best kind of movies are thrillers. They give you a little bit of every genre: suspense, comedy, and sometimes even the occasional romance.
Luckily for you, Netflix has the perfect thriller collection, from gems like Bird Box to more recent movies like The Pale Blue Eye. In the mood for a psychological thriller? Check out Circle or The Stepfather. Or, how a crime thriller? The Devil All the Time or The Good Nurse will give you goosebumps.
Below, we have compiled a list of all the best thriller movies on Netflix for you and your friends to stream that'll get everyone's heart racing without having to leave the couch. Be sure to check back each month as we add new entries that appear on Netflix's huge catalogue.
Unlocked (2023)
In this Korean-language thriller, a young woman is put into a seriously dangerous situation when her lost cell phone falls into the wrong hands.
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The Strays (2023)
A light-skinned black woman takes advantage of her privilege until two strangers suddenly show up in her suburban neighborhood and turn her world upside down.
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Missing (2023)
When June's mom never returns from her trip with her boyfriend, resourceful June uses social media and quick thinking to find her. You won't see the twist coming in this standalone sequel to 2018's Searching.
Get ready to see a different side of Euphoria's Storm Reid in this thriller.
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The Mother (2023)
Jennifer Lopez plays a skilled assassin who must come out of hiding to save the daughter she had to give up.
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Kill Boksoon (2023)
Gil Bok-Soon has no problem hunting down targets as one of the world's most successful contract killers. However, her other job as a single mother challenges her to build a better relationship with her 15-year-old daughter.
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Murder Mystery 2 (2023)
In the sequel to 2020's LOL-worthy Murder Mystery, Nick and Audrey Spitz become private investigators and find themselves at the center of another mystery — this time, surrounding their friend's abduction.
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Operation Mayfair (2023)
This Hindi-language film follows a former detective who quit the industry after he failed to solve a years-long case surrounding a serial killer. A few years later, the killer returns and he's determined to solve the case once and for all.
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Emily the Criminal (2022)
Parks and Recreation funny girl Aubrey Plaza takes on a totally different persona in this underrated movie about a woman drowning in debt who gets involved with a credit card scam to help pay her bills.
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End of the Road (2022)
What was supposed to be a nice cross-country road trip turns into a living nightmare when a family stumbles upon a murder and now must run for their lives after taking something that doesn't belong to them.
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The Good Nurse (2022)
This true crime movie starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne tells the true story of a nurse who killed tons of patients, and the co-worker who helped bring them to justice.
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I Came By (2022)
A graffiti artist who hits upper-class houses discovers a dark secret in one of them that puts him and his loved ones in serious danger.
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The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
This slow burn movie follows Augustus Landor, a detective who is tasked with investigating the homicide of a West Point cadet. When he realizes the victim's fellow cadets won't be much help to him, he enlists the help of one cadet, a young man known as Edgar Allan Poe — yes, that Edgar Allan Poe.
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Army of Thieves (2021)
Set before the events of Army of the Dead, this prequel follows Ludwig Dieter, a German safecracker who has been recruited to lead a group of aspiring thieves on a top secret heist during the beginning of a zombie apocalypse.
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Awake (2021)
Imagine a world where nobody can sleep. When a mysterious catastrophe wipes out all of the electronics as well as humans' ability to sleep, hysteria ensues. Scientists race against the clock in order to find a cure to the mass insomnia before the effects eliminate the human race.
When Jill, a former soldier, discovers her daughter might be the key to salvation, she must decide if she is willing to risk it all to save the world, or protect her daughter at all costs.
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The Guilty (2021)
After a police officer is demoted to a 911 operator, he soon gets caught up in a wild adventure involving a kidnapped woman.
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Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)
This thriller follows lethal assassin Sam who must reunite with her mom and her gang of deadly associates in order to protect an 8-year-old girl as a dangerous force threatens to take everything from them.
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Intrusion (2021)
After a husband and wife move from Boston to a small town in New Mexico, they're quickly targeted for a home invasion. Both of them survive the attack, but the woman begins to suspect no one around her is who they claim to be.
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Night Teeth (2021)
Benny is a college student working as a chauffeur to make ends meet. He picks up a group of women for a night of party-hopping in L.A., but when they reveal their true nature he must fight to stay alive.
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Oxygen (2021)
In this French movie, Liz Hansen wakes up in an air sealed cryogenic chamber having no recollection of how she got there. Now, she only has 90 minutes to rebuild her memory and find a way out of this nightmare before it is too late.
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Red Notice (2021)
This movie won't just get your heart racing; it'll have you laughing out loud. When an Interpol agent teams up with two rival criminals to capture the world's biggest art thief, they must work together before the next heist is committed.
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Stowaway (2021)
A three-person crew heads to Mars on a mission, but when they discover an unplanned passenger they face an impossible choice that could jeopardize everyone's lives on board.
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There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
After moving in with her grandmother in Hawaii, Makani must confront her past when a masked killer targets her and the rest of her new school's graduating class. They must find a way to defeat the assassin before their darkest secrets are exposed.
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Things Heard & Seen (2021)
When a Manhattan couple leaves the city in search of a simpler life, Catherine suspects her marriage is harboring some dark secrets and sinister past that rivals her new home's history.
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Till Death (2021)
Emma and Mark's marriage is hanging on by a thread, but when Mark plans a weekend getaway in a snowy cabin Emma is hoping for their spark to be reignited. However, when she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself handcuffed to Mark's dead body.
Alone in the woods, Emma must fight the killers her husband has hired to finish her off in order to make it out alive.
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The Woman in the Window (2021)
Dr. Anna Fox is agoraphobic and watches her neighbors, the Russells, from a window of her New York City apartment. Soon, however, she witnesses something she shouldn't have seen. Now she is forced to ask herself, what really happened?
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The Call (2020)
In this Korean movie, two women use a special cordless phone to contact each other 20 years apart in the same house. At first, they give each other information to help the other person's life, but then things take a dark, twisted, and murderous turn.
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Dangerous Lies (2020)
Starring Camila Mendes, Katie is a broke caregiver who is unexpectedly left all of her wealthy patient's estate. This ends up drawing her into a web of lies and murder after his sudden death.
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The Devil All the Time (2020)
Arvin Russell is a devoted young man committed to protecting the ones he loves. However, in small town Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, a collection of disturbed characters converge around him as he fights the evil forces threatening him and his family.
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Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020)
Following the death of her mother, Abby returns to her hometown to take care of her affairs. Abby is still haunted by the kidnapping of a boy she witnessed as a kid and decides to try and solve the mystery. However, what she unearths could put her in serious danger.
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A Fall From Grace (2020)
After a woman is charged with murdering her husband (and admitting she's guilty), her rookie lawyer begins to suspect there's a conspiracy at play and refuses to accept a plea deal for her client. Instead, she has them go to trial to reveal the truth about this case.
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I Care a Lot (2020)
You can't always trust what people say they are. Shady legal guardian Marla Grayson has made her living defrauding her clients and trapping them under her care, but when she traps a woman with a dangerous past, she finally meets her scheming match.
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The Rental (2020)
Before Barbarian warned us renting houses could be dangerous, there was The Rental.
Hoping for a fun, celebratory getaway, two sets of couples rent a vacation house for the weekend. However, they soon begin to suspect their host is spying on them.
Dave Franco directed and co-wrote this indie thriller that stars his wife, Community's Alison Brie.
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Sightless (2020)
After a terrible accident, Ellen Ashland loses her sight and becomes blind. Retreating from the outside world, she returns and quickly spirals into paranoia trying to convince those around her that her attacker has returned and is hiding in plain sight.
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Murder Mystery (2019)
In this comedic take on a classic murder mystery tale, Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston play a typical American couple who are thrown into the middle of a chaotic murder case.
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47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
This horror-thriller is a standalone sequel to 47 Meters Down and follows two sisters who, along with their friends, dive down into underwater caves, looking for an adventure. Unfortunately, they get more than they bargain for when they come across a deadly shark species.
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Fractured
After their 6-year-old daughter's arm is fractured at a gas station, a couple brings her to a nearby hospital. The young girl and her mother end up missing from the ER, and it's up to her dad to find them.
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El Camino (2019)
Inspired by the critically acclaimed crime drama series, Breaking Bad, this movie picks up right where the show left off. Now, Jesse Pinkman must deal with his past in order to make some kind of future for himself.
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Secret Obsession (2019)
When Jennifer wakes up from a brutal attack, she returns home to be cared for by her doting husband, Russell. With no recollection of her assault, she quickly realizes the real danger is far from over.
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See You Yesterday (2019)
Best friends and science prodigies C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas have been spending all their free time working on their latest invention: backpacks that enable time travel. But when one of their older brothers is killed, they put their unfinished products to the test in order to save his life.
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Bird Box (2018)
Set in an apocalyptic world, a mysterious force has wiped out the population leaving few survivors. Only one thing is certain: If you look at it you die. Single mother Malorie and her two children are desperate to make it to safety, but will they make it out alive?
This is adapted from Josh Malerman's book of the same name.
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Peppermint (2018)
When the gang members who killed her husband and daughter get away with their crimes, a woman returns home after five years away to get revenge on the monsters who destroyed her family.
Jennifer Garner is a total badass in this movie.
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The Beguiled (2017)
Based on Thomas Cullinan's 1966 novel of the same name, this gothic thriller takes place during the U.S. Civil War.
When a wounded Union soldier stumbles upon a girls school in Virginia, he quickly makes quite an impression on the women there, who all seem to want a piece of the handsome stranger.
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Bright (2017)
In an alternate universe, humans coexist with elves and orcs. One night, two LAPD officers — one orc and one human — are on a routine patrol that can alter their world as they know it.
On a mission to save a female elf, they also must protect an ancient relic that was to be forgotten. If it fell into the wrong hands, there could be extreme consequences.
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You Get Me (2017)
After going through a messy break up with his girlfriend, Tyler does what many people with a broken heart would: looks for a one night stand. Unfortunately, the attention of his newest lover grows dangerous and she develops a sick obsession.
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Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Susan Marrow is a successful art gallery owner in L.A. Her life is almost perfect, aside from the fact her second husband is never home. One day, a manuscript from her first husband — who she hasn't seen in years — shows up on her doorstep. While reading it, she forced to face her dark past.
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Circle (2015)
Not to be confused with Emma Watson's 2017 movie, The Circle, this thriller is about a group of 50 strangers who all wake up in a windowless room, standing in a circle. Their task is simple: Choose one person amongst them to survive. Everyone else dies.
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Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks stars as the title character in this biopic about Captain Richard Phillips whose U.S. cargo ship was hijacked in 2009 by Somali pirates.
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Prisoners (2013)
When 6-year-old Anna and her friend go missing, Anna's dad will stop at nothing to find them and bring them home safely. This movie really makes you wonder: How far would you go to save your loved ones?
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The Stepfather (2009)
You's Penn Badgley stars in this remake of the 1987 movie of the same name.
Returning from military school, Michael discovers his mom has a new fiancé who isn't as nice and charming as he originally seems.
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Enough (2002)
Jennifer Lopez plays a wife running away with her daughter from her abusive husband. Unfortunately, her husband isn't ready to let go of her so easily.
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