The Best Thriller Movies on Netflix Right Now

A 911 dispatcher takes a call from a woman who may be kidnapped. The entire film takes place in the dispatch centre. Jake Gyllenhaal is extraordinary — reactive, desperate, morally compromised. One of the most effective single-location thrillers ever made.

A ruthless legal guardian strips elderly people of their assets with the full backing of the courts — until she targets the wrong woman. Rosamund Pike is ice-cold and completely compelling. The film is a properly uncomfortable satire of institutional corruption.

A woman receives a manuscript from her ex-husband — a violent novel that seems to mirror their relationship. Tom Ford's film cuts between two stories simultaneously. Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, and a career-defining Michael Shannon performance. Cold and beautiful.

A sprawling Southern Gothic thriller set in rural Ohio from the 1940s to the 1960s. Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan in a story where everyone is either a predator or prey. Antonio Campos directs with quiet, escalating dread.

Two friends from Edinburgh go on a hunting trip in the Scottish Highlands. An accident sets off a chain of events that gets darker and darker. Matt Palmer's debut is a lean, beautifully shot British thriller that makes extraordinary use of its remote location.

A man arrives at a hospital with his injured daughter, waits while she goes into surgery — and is then told she and his wife never checked in. Brad Anderson (The Machinist) keeps you questioning everything. A well-executed paranoid thriller.

A woman wakes in a cryogenic pod with no memory and dwindling oxygen. The entire film is set inside the pod. Alexandre Aja's Netflix original is a claustrophobic survival thriller that makes a single location work harder than most films with much bigger budgets.

Set during the 1938 Munich Conference, a British diplomat and a German civil servant race to prevent war while discovering the full horror of what Hitler has planned. George MacKay is excellent. A serious, well-crafted political thriller.

A woman with a mysterious illness fights back when terrorists seize control of the plane she and her son are on — revealing a darker secret about herself. German-language Netflix original with a genuinely original premise. More fun than it sounds.

A Philadelphia detective hunts a mysterious serial killer whose pattern he can't explain — across three decades. Boyd Holbrook, Cleopatra Coleman. Netflix original with a sci-fi premise it actually earns. Better than its obscurity suggests.