List of thriller films released in the 2000s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | ||||||
| 2000 AD | Gordon Chan | Aaron Kwok, Phyllis Quek, Daniel Wu | Action thriller | |||
| The 6th Day | Roger Spottiswoode | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Action thriller | |||
| American Psycho | Mary Harron | Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto | ||||
| Anatomy | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Franka Potente, Benno Fürmann, Anna Loos | ||||
| Baise-Moi | Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi | Raffaela Anderson, Karen Bach | Crime thriller | |||
| The Beach | Danny Boyle | Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen | Psychological thriller | |||
| The Cell | Tarsem Singh | Jennifer Lopez | Psychological thriller | |||
| La comunidad | Álex de la Iglesia | Carmen Maura, Eduardo Antuna, Jesus Bonilla | ||||
| The Crimson Rivers | Mathieu Kassovitz | Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès | ||||
| Devil in the Flesh II: Teacher's Pet | Marcus Spiegel | Jodi Lyn O'Keefe | ||||
| Chasing Sleep | Michael Walker | Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl | ||||
| Frequency | Gregory Hoblit | Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, Andre Braugher | ||||
| Gangster No. 1 | Paul McGuigan | Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany | Crime thriller | |||
| Get Carter | Stephen Kay | Sylvester Stallone | ||||
| Memento | Christopher Nolan | Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano | ||||
| Merci Pour le Chocolat | Claude Chabrol | Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc | ||||
| Mission: Impossible II | John Woo | Tom Cruise | Action thriller | |||
| Proof of Life | Taylor Hackford | Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse | ||||
| Proximity | Scott Ziehl | James Coburn, Rob Lowe, Kelly Rowan | ||||
| Reindeer Games | John Frankenheimer | Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron | ||||
| Seance | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Koji Yakusho, Jun Fubuki, Ittoku Kishibe | ||||
| Sexy Beast | Jonathan Glazer | Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane | Crime thriller | |||
| Time and Tide | Tsui Hark | Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai, Anthony Wong | Action thriller | |||
| Six-Pack | Alain Berberian | Richard Anconina, Frédéric Diefenthal, Chiara Mastroianni | ||||
| Unbreakable | M. Night Shyamalan | Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn | ||||
| Versus | Ryuhei Kitamura | Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki | Action thriller | |||
| Vertical Limit | Martin Campbell | Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn | Action thriller | |||
| What Lies Beneath | Robert Zemeckis | Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid | ||||
| With a Friend Like Harry... | Dominik Moll | Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner | ||||
| 2001 | ||||||
| Along Came a Spider | Lee Tamahori | Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott | ||||
| Antitrust | Peter Howitt | Ryan Phillippe, Rachael Leigh Cook, Claire Forlani | ||||
| The Barber | Michael Bafaro | Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Ratchford, Garwin Sanford | ||||
| Battle Royale | Kinji Fukasaku | Tatsuya Fujiwara | ||||
| Blue Spring | Toshiaki Toyoda | Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai, Sousuke Takaoka | ||||
| The Devil's Backbone | Guillermo del Toro | Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi | ||||
| Domestic Disturbance | Harold Becker | John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Teri Polo | ||||
| Don't Say a Word | Gary Fleder | Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy | ||||
| Das Experiment | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Timo Dierkes | ||||
| The Fast and the Furious | Rob Cohen | Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez | Action thriller, crime thriller | |||
| Frailty | Bill Paxton | Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe | ||||
| From Hell | Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Johnny Depp, Heather Graham | ||||
| Fulltime Killer | Johnny To | Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Simon Yam | Action thriller | |||
| The Glass House | Daniel Sackheim | Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård | ||||
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore | ||||
| Intacto | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela | ||||
| Joy Ride | John Dahl | Steve Zahn, Paul Walker | ||||
| Kiss of the Dragon | Chris Nahon | Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tchéky Karyo | ||||
| Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Michael York, Michael Biehn, John DeMita | ||||
| Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller | Psychological thriller | |||
| Nine Queens | Fabián Bielinsky | Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice | ||||
| The One | James Wong | Jet Li | Action thriller | |||
| The Others | Alejandro Amenábar | Nicole Kidman | ||||
| Pulse | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki | Psychological thriller | |||
| Read my Lips | Jacques Audiard | Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet | ||||
| Session 9 | Brad Anderson | Peter Mullan, David Caruso | Psychological thriller | |||
| Soul Survivors | Stephen W. Carpenter | Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley | ||||
| Spy Game | Tony Scott | Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack | ||||
| Swordfish | Dominic Sena | John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry | ||||
| Training Day | Antoine Fuqua | Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke | ||||
| Vanilla Sky | Cameron Crowe | Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz | ||||
| The Watcher | Joe Charbanic | James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Keanu Reeves | ||||
| Zebra Lounge | Kari Skogland | Stephen Baldwin, Kristy Swanson | ||||
| 2002 | ||||||
| 2009 Lost Memories | Lee Si-Myung | Toru Nakamura, Jang Dong-gun, Ken Mitsuishi | ||||
| 2LDK | Yukihiko Tsutsumi | Eiko Koiki, Maho Nonami | ||||
| Abandon | Stephen Gaghan | Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam | ||||
| And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen | Claude Lelouch | Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte | ||||
| Assassination Tango | Robert Duvall | Robert Duvall, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker | ||||
| Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever | Kaos | Lucy Liu, Antonio Banderas | Action thriller | |||
| Below | David Twohy | Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Davis, Olivia Williams | ||||
| Blackwoods | Uwe Boll | Patrick Muldoon, Keegan Connor Tracy, Michael Paré | ||||
| Blade II | Guillermo del Toro | Wesley Snipes | Action thriller | |||
| The Bourne Identity | Doug Liman | Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper | Action thriller, paranoid thriller | |||
| City of Ghosts | Matt Dillon | Matt Dillon, Natascha McElhone, Gérard Depardieu | ||||
| The Dancer Upstairs | John Malkovich | Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante | ||||
| Dark Water | Hideo Nakata | Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi | Supernatural thriller | |||
| Demonlover | Olivier Assayas | Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny | ||||
| Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | Audrey Tautou, Chiwetel Ejiofor | ||||
| Enough | Michael Apted | Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Juliette Lewis | ||||
| Extreme Ops | Christian Duguay | Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves | Action thriller | |||
| The Eye | Danny Pang, Oxide Pang Chun | Lee Sin-Je, Lawrence Chou, Chutcha Rujinanon | ||||
| Femme Fatale | Brian De Palma | Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Antonio Banderas | Crime thriller, erotic thriller | |||
| The Hard Word | Scott Roberts | Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor | Crime thriller | |||
| He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not | Laetitia Colombani | Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré | Psychological thriller | |||
| Insomnia | Christopher Nolan | Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank | ||||
| Minority Report | Steven Spielberg | Tom Cruise, Colin Farrel, Max von Sydow | Paranoid thriller | |||
| Murder By Numbers | Barbet Schroeder | Sandra Bullock, Ryan Gosling, Michael Pitt | ||||
| Narc | Joe Carnahan | Ray Liotta, Jason Patric, Chi McBride | ||||
| The Nest | Florent Emilio Siri | Samy Naceri, Benoît Magimel, Nadia Farès, Pascal Greggory, Sami Bouajila | Action thriller | |||
| One Hour Photo | Mark Romanek | Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan | ||||
| Panic Room | David Fincher | Jodie Foster, Forrest Whitaker | ||||
| The Quiet American | Phillip Noyce | Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser | ||||
| Red Dragon | Brett Ratner | Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes | ||||
| Ripley's Game | Liliana Cavani | John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone | ||||
| The Salton Sea | D.J. Caruso | Val Kilmer | ||||
| Signs | M. Night Shyamalan | Mel Gibson | Psychological thriller | |||
| Suicide Club | Sion Sono | Ryo Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Tamao Sato | ||||
| The Sum of All Fears | Phil Alden Robinson | Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell | ||||
| Swimfan | John Polson | Jesse Bradford, Erika Christensen | ||||
| Three Blind Mice | Mathias Ledoux | Edward Furlong, Emilia Fox, Chiwetel Ejiofor | ||||
| The Transporter | Corey Yuen | Jason Statham, Shu Qi | Action thriller, crime thriller | |||
| Trapped | Luis Mandoki | Charlize Theron, Courtney Love, Stuart Townsend | ||||
| xXx | Rob Cohen | Vin Diesel, Asia Argento | Action thriller | |||
| 2003 | ||||||
| 2 Fast 2 Furious | John Singleton | Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes | Action thriller | |||
| Anatomy 2 | Stefan Ruzowitzky | Barnaby Metschurat, Herbert Knaup, Heike Makatsch | ||||
| Basic | John McTiernan | John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson | ||||
| Cold Creek Manor | Mike Figgis | Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff | ||||
| Confidence | James Foley | Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy García | Crime thriller | |||
| Cradle 2 the Grave | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Jet Li, DMX | Action thriller | |||
| Doppelganger | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Koji Yakusho, Nagasaku Hiromi, Hiromi Nagasaku | Psychological thriller | |||
| dot the i | Matthew Parkhill | Gael García Bernal, Natalia Verbeke | ||||
| Fear X | Nicolas Winding Refn | John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger | ||||
| Gothika | Mathieu Kassovitz | Halle Berry | Supernatural thriller | |||
| House of the Dead | Uwe Boll | Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard | Action thriller | |||
| The i Inside | Roland Suso Richter | Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley | ||||
| Identity | James Mangold | John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet | ||||
| I'm Not Scared | Gabriele Salvatores | Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia | ||||
| In the Cut | Jane Campion | Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo | ||||
| Kill Bill Vol. 1 | Quentin Tarantino | Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah | ||||
| Killing Words | Laura Mañà | Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo | ||||
| King of the Ants | Stuart Gordon | Chris L. McKenna, Kari Wuhrer, Daniel Baldwin | Crime thriller, psychological thriller | |||
| Kontroll | Nimród Antal | Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch | ||||
| Lucía, Lucía | Antonio Serrano | Cecilia Roth, Carlos Alvarez-Novoa, Kuno Becker | Comedy thriller | |||
| Moon Child | Takahisa Zeze | Hideto Takarai, Gackt Camui | ||||
| Mystic River | Clint Eastwood | Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins | Psychological thriller | |||
| Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Robert Rodriguez | Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp | Action thriller | |||
| Open Water | Chris Kentis | Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein | ||||
| Out of Time | Carl Franklin | Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan | ||||
| Phone Booth | Joel Schumacher | Colin Farrell | ||||
| The Recruit | Roger Donaldson | Al Pacino, Colin Farrel | ||||
| Runaway Jury | Gary Fleder | John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman | ||||
| Running on Karma | Johnny To, Wai Ka-fai | Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung, Cheung Siu Fai | Action thriller | |||
| Swimming Pool | François Ozon | Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier | ||||
| A Tale of Two Sisters | Kim Ji-woon | Im Su-jeong, Yeom Jeong-ah, Kim Kap-su | ||||
| Tears of the Sun | Antoine Fuqua | Bruce Willis | Action thriller | |||
| Undermind | Nevil Dwek | Psychological thriller | ||||
| Underworld | Len Wiseman | Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman | Action thriller | |||
| Veronica Guerin | Joel Schumacher | Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley | Crime thriller | |||
| Who Killed Bambi? | Gilles Marchand | Laurent Lucas, Sophie Quinton, Catherine Jacob | ||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| Blade: Trinity | David S. Goyer | Wesley Snipes | Action thriller | |||
| Blueberry | Jan Kounen | Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Temuera Morrison | Supernatural thriller | |||
| The Bourne Supremacy | Paul Greengrass | Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Brian Cox | Action thriller, paranoid thriller | |||
| The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart | ||||
| Cellular | David R. Ellis | Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham | ||||
| The Clearing | Pieter Jan Brugge | Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Willem Dafoe | ||||
| Collateral | Michael Mann | Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx | ||||
| The Crimson Rivers II: The Angels of the Apocalypse | Olivier Dahan | Jean Reno, Benoît Magimel, Camille Natta | ||||
| Dead Man's Shoes | Shane Meadows | Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell | ||||
| District B13 | Pierre Morel | Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario | Action thriller | |||
| EMR | James Erskine, Danny McCullough | Adam Leese | ||||
| The Forgotten | Joseph Ruben | Julianne Moore, Dominic West | ||||
| Freeze Frame | John Simpson | Lee Evans, Sean McGinley, Ian McNeice | ||||
| Godsend | Nick Hamm | Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Robert De Niro | ||||
| I, Robot | Alex Proyas | Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, Bruce Greenwood | ||||
| Je Suis un Assassin | Thomas Vincent | François Cluzet, Bernard Giraudeau, Karin Viard | ||||
| Kill Bill Vol. 2 | Quentin Tarantino | Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen | Action thriller | |||
| Lethal | Dustin Rikert | Heather Marie Marsden, Lorenzo Lamas, Frank Zagarino | ||||
| The Machinist | Brad Anderson | Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh | ||||
| Man on Fire | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington, Dakota Fanning, Christopher Walken | ||||
| The Manchurian Candidate | Jonathan Demme | Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber | ||||
| Mindhunters | Renny Harlin | LL Cool J, Kathryn Morris | ||||
| New Police Story | Benny Chan | Jackie Chan | Action thriller | |||
| Night Watch | Timur Bekmambetov | Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin | Action thriller, supernatural thriller | |||
| November | Greg Harrison | Courteney Cox Arquette, James LeGros, Michael Ealy | Psychological thriller | |||
| Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | Choi Min-Sik | ||||
| Premonition | Norio Tsuruta | Daisuke Ban, Maki Horikita | Psychological thriller | |||
| The Punisher | Jonathan Hensleigh | Thomas Jane, John Travolta | Action thriller | |||
| Red Lights | Cédric Kahn | Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet | ||||
| Secret Window | David Koepp | Johnny Depp | ||||
| Spartan | David Mamet | Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy | ||||
| Spider Forest | Song Il-gon | Gam Woo-seong, Seo Jeong-min, Kang Gyeong-heon | Psychological thriller | |||
| Suspect Zero | E. Elias Merhige | Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley | ||||
| Taking Lives | D. J. Caruso | Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke | ||||
| Three Way | Scott Ziehl | Ali Larter, Desmond Harrington, Joy Bryant | Crime thriller | |||
| Torque | Joseph Kahn | Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur | Action thriller | |||
| Trauma | Marc Evans | Colin Firth, Mena Suvari | ||||
| Twisted | Philip Kaufman | Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy García | ||||
| Undertow | David Gordon Green | Jamie Bell, Josh Lucas, Devon Alan | ||||
| The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrien Brody | ||||
| Wild Things 2 | Jack Perez | Susan Ward, Leila Arcieri, Isaiah Washington | ||||
| 2005 | ||||||
| 13 Tzameti | Géla Babluani | George Babluani | ||||
| Antibodies | Christian Alvart | Wotan Wilke Möhring, André Hennicke, Heinz Hoenig | ||||
| Assault on Precinct 13 | Jean-François Richet | Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne | Action thriller | |||
| Blood Rain | Kim Dae-seung | Cha Seung-won, Park Yong-woo, Seong Ji-ru | ||||
| Caché | Michael Haneke | Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche | ||||
| The Constant Gardener | Fernando Meirelles | Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston | ||||
| Dark Water | Walter Salles, Jr. | Jennifer Connelly, John C. Reilly, Tim Roth | Psychological thriller, supernatural thriller | |||
| Derailed | Mikael Håfström | Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel | ||||
| Domino | Tony Scott | Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke, Edgar Ramirez | Crime thriller | |||
| Empire of the Wolves | Chris Nahon | Jean Reno, Jocelyn Quivrin, Arly Jover | ||||
| Flightplan | Robert Schwentke | Jodie Foster | ||||
| Hard Candy | David Slade | Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh | ||||
| Hide and Seek | John Polson | Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning | ||||
| A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ashton Holmes | ||||
| Hostage | Florent Emilio Siri | Bruce Willis | ||||
| The Interpreter | Sydney Pollack | Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn | ||||
| The Jacket | John Maybury | Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson | ||||
| Lord of War | Andrew Niccol | Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan | Crime thriller | |||
| Kill Zone | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung | Action thriller | |||
| Munich | Steven Spielberg | Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds | Political thriller | |||
| Red Eye | Wes Craven | Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy | ||||
| Sin City | Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller | Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel | Crime thriller | |||
| The Skeleton Key | Iain Softley | Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard | ||||
| Stay | Marc Forster | Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts | ||||
| Sympathy for Lady Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | Lee Yeong-ae, Kim Shi-hu, Nam Il-woo | ||||
| Syriana | Stephen Gaghan | George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright | ||||
| Transporter 2 | Louis Leterrier | Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta | Action thriller | |||
| White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | Michael Keaton, Chandra West, Deborah Kara Unger | ||||
| Wild Things 3: Diamonds in the Rough | Jay Lowi | Linden Ashby, Brad Johnson, Sandra McCoy | ||||
| XXX: State of the Union | Lee Tamahori | Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe | Action thriller | |||
| 2006 | ||||||
| Basic Instinct 2 | Michael Caton-Jones | Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis | ||||
| Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | Carice VanHouten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman | ||||
| Bug | William Friedkin | Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins | ||||
| Casino Royale | Martin Campbell | Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen | ||||
| Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine | Action thriller | |||
| Comedy of Power | Claude Chabrol | Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand, Patrick Bruel | ||||
| Crank | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Jason Statham, Amy Smart | Action thriller | |||
| The Da Vinci Code | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen | ||||
| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson | Crime thriller | |||
| Déjà Vu | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington | ||||
| Exiled | Johnny To | Nick Cheung, Simon Yam, Francis Ng | Action thriller, crime thriller | |||
| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | Justin Lin | Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelley | Action thriller, crime thriller | |||
| Fay Grim | Hal Hartley | Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, James Urbaniak | ||||
| Firewall | Richard Loncraine | Harrison Ford | ||||
| Flash Point | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou | ||||
| Frontier(s) | Xavier Gens | Karina Testa, Aurelien Wiik, Patrick Ligardes | ||||
| Half Light | Craig Rosenberg | Demi Moore | ||||
| Inside Man | Spike Lee | Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster | Crime thriller | |||
| Lady in the Water | M. Night Shyamalan | Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard | ||||
| The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch | Political thriller | |||
| Like Minds | Gregory J. Read | Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette | ||||
| Lucky Number Slevin | Paul McGuigan | Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley | ||||
| The Marine | John Bonito | John Cena, Robert Patrick, Kelly Carlson | Action thriller | |||
| Miami Vice | Michael Mann | Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li | Action thriller | |||
| Mission: Impossible III | Eric Schwab, J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci | Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman | Action thriller | |||
| The Night Listener | Patrick Stettner | Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale | Psychological thriller | |||
| The Page Turner | Denis Dercourt | Catherine Frot, Déborah François, Pascal Greggory | ||||
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Tom Tykwer | Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman | ||||
| The Prestige | Christopher Nolan | Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine | ||||
| Pulse | Jim Sonzero | Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder, Rick Gonzalez | Psychological thriller | |||
| Red Road | Andrea Arnold | Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston | ||||
| The Return | Asif Kapadia | Sarah Michelle Gellar | ||||
| Running Scared | Wayne Kramer | Paul Walker | ||||
| The Sentinel | Clark Johnson | Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria | ||||
| Severance | Christopher Smith | Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny | Action thriller | |||
| Snakes on a Plane | David R. Ellis | Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips | Action thriller | |||
| Tell No One | Guillaume Canet | François Cluzet, André Dussollier, Marie-Josée Croze | ||||
| Underworld: Evolution | Len Wiseman | Kate Beckinsale | Action thriller | |||
| Unknown | Simon Brand | James Caviezel, Greg Kinnear | ||||
| V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving | ||||
| 2007 | ||||||
| Anamorph | H.S. Miller | Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Clea DuVall | ||||
| Anything for Her (Pour elle) | Fred Cavayé | Vincent Lindon, Diane Kruger, Lancelot Roch | ||||
| Awake | Joby Harold | Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard | ||||
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Sidney Lumet | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei | Crime thriller | |||
| Boarding Gate | Olivier Assayas | Asia Argento, Michael Madsen, Carl Ng | ||||
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass | Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn | Action thriller, paranoid thriller | |||
| Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd | ||||
| Death Sentence | James Wan | Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston | Crime thriller | |||
| Disturbia | D. J. Caruso | Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer | ||||
| Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel | ||||
| First Snow | Mark Fergus | Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo | ||||
| Flash Point | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou | ||||
| The Flock | Andrew Lau | Richard Gere, Claire Danes | ||||
| Fracture | Gregory Hoblit | Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling | ||||
| Funny Games | Michael Haneke | Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt | ||||
| A Girl Cut in Two | Claude Chabrol | Ludivine Sagnier, Benoît Magimel, François Berléand | Comedy thriller | |||
| Gone Baby Gone | Ben Affleck | Morgan Freeman, Casey Affleck, Amy Ryan | ||||
| Hannibal Rising | Peter Webber | Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans | Psychological thriller | |||
| Hitman | Xavier Gens | Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko | Action thriller | |||
| I Know Who Killed Me | Chris Sivertson | Lindsay Lohan | ||||
| Illegal Tender | Franc Reyes | Rick Gonzalez, Wanda De Jesus, Dania Ramirez | ||||
| The Invasion | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig | ||||
| The Invisible | David S. Goyer | Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva | ||||
| Jar City | Baltasar Kormákur | Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson | ||||
| Joshua | George Ratliff | Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston | ||||
| Live Free or Die Hard | Len Wiseman | Bruce Willis | Action thriller | |||
| Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton | ||||
| Mr. Brooks | Bruce A. Evans | Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook | ||||
| Next | Lee Tamahori | Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann | ||||
| No Country for Old Men | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin | ||||
| The Number 23 | Joel Schumacher | Jim Carrey | ||||
| P2 | Franck Khalfoun | Wes Bentley, Rachel Nichols | ||||
| Perfect Stranger | James Foley | Halle Berry, Bruce Willis | ||||
| Planet Terror | Robert Rodriguez | Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin | Action thriller | |||
| Premonition | Mennan Yapo | Sandra Bullock | ||||
| Roman de Gare | Claude Lelouch | Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana | ||||
| Seraphim Falls | David Von Ancken | Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan | Action thriller | |||
| Shooter | Antoine Fuqua | Mark Wahlberg | ||||
| Smokin' Aces | Joe Carnahan | Ben Affleck, Andy García, Alicia Keys | Crime thriller, action thriller | |||
| Stuck | Stuart Gordon | Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby | ||||
| Ten 'til Noon | Scott Storm | Alfonso Freeman | ||||
| Thr3e | Robby Henson | Marc Blucas, Laura Jordan, Justine Waddell | ||||
| Timecrimes | Nacho Vigalondo | Karra Elejalde, Barbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo | Crime thriller, supernatural thriller | |||
| War | Phillip Atwell | Jet Li, Jason Statham | Action thriller | |||
| 2008 | ||||||
| 21 | Robert Luketic | Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth | ||||
| 88 Minutes | Jon Avnet | Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski | ||||
| The Baader Meinhof Complex | Uli Edel | Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek | Political thriller | |||
| Bangkok Dangerous | Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang | Nicolas Cage | ||||
| The Caller | Richard Ledes | Frank Langella, Elliott Gould, Laura Elena Harring | ||||
| Cassandra's Dream | Woody Allen | Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor | ||||
| Changeling | Clint Eastwood | Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan | ||||
| Deception | Marcel Langenegger | Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams | ||||
| Donkey Punch | Olly Blackburn | Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke | ||||
| Eagle Eye | D.J. Caruso | Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson | ||||
| Loss | Maris Martinsons | Andrius Mamontovas, Valda Bičkutė, Kostas Smoriginas | ||||
| The Eye | David Moreau, Xavier Palud | Jessica Alba | Psychological thriller | |||
| The Happening | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo | ||||
| The Haunting of Molly Hartley | Mickey Liddell | Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford, Shannon Marie Woodward | ||||
| The Horsemen | Jonas Åkerlund | Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi | ||||
| Just Another Love Story | Ole Bornedal | Anders W. Berthelsen, Rebecka Hemse, Nikolaj Lie Kaas | ||||
| Lakeview Terrace | Neil LaBute | Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Patrick Wilson | ||||
| The Life Before Her Eyes | Vadim Perelman | Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri | ||||
| Max Payne | John Moore | Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Chris O' Donnell | Crime thriller | |||
| The Oxford Murders | Álex de la Iglesia | Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling | ||||
| Pathology | Marc Schoelermann | Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano, Lauren Lee Smith | Crime thriller | |||
| Poison Ivy: The Secret Society | Jason Hreno | Miriam McDonald, Crystal Lowe | ||||
| Rambo | Sylvester Stallone | Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden | Action thriller | |||
| Redbelt | David Mamet | Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emily Mortimer, Alice Braga | ||||
| Reykjavík-Rotterdam | Oskar Jonasson | Baltasar Kormákur, Victor Löw, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson | ||||
| Righteous Kill | Jon Avnet | Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis Jackson | ||||
| The Square | Nash Edgerton | David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton | ||||
| Surveillance | Jennifer Chambers Lynch | Bill Pullman, Julia Ormond, Pell James | ||||
| Taken | Pierre Morel | Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen | ||||
| The Objective | Daniel Myrick | Jon Huertas, Jonas Ball, Matt Anderson | ||||
| Transsiberian | Brad Anderson | Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley | ||||
| Untraceable | Gregory Hoblit | Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks | ||||
| Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy | Political thriller | |||
| Vantage Point | Pete Travis | Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker | ||||
| The X-Files: I Want to Believe | Chris Carter | David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet | Supernatural thriller | |||
| 2009 | ||||||
| Amer | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani | Bianca Maria D'Amato | ||||
| American Sunset | Michael Masucci | Corey Haim | ||||
| Angels & Demons | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor | ||||
| Armored | Nimród Antal | Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne | ||||
| Chloe | Atom Egoyan | Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried | ||||
| The Disappearance of Alice Creed | J Blakeson | Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie Marsan | ||||
| Dolan's Cadillac | Jeff Beesley | Christian Slater, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Wes Bentley | ||||
| Duplicity | Tony Gilroy | Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson | ||||
| Echelon Conspiracy | Greg Marcks | Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames | ||||
| Espion(s) | Nicolas Saada | Vincent Regan, Stephen Rea, Archie Panjabi | ||||
| Exam | Stuart Hazeldine | |||||
| Gamer | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Gerard Butler, Milo Ventimiglia | ||||
| The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest | Daniel Alfredson | Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin | ||||
| The Girl Who Played with Fire | Daniel Alfredson | Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist, Annika Hallin | Crime thriller | |||
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Niels Arden Oplev | Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Noomi Rapace | ||||
| Harry Brown | Daniel Barber | Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Charlie Creed-Miles | ||||
| The International | Tom Tykwer | Clive Owen, Naomi Watts | ||||
| Killshot | John Madden | Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke | ||||
| Knowing | Alex Proyas | Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne | ||||
| Law Abiding Citizen | F. Gary Gray | Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney | ||||
| Obsessed | Steve Shill | Beyoncé Knowles, Idris Elba, Ali Larter | ||||
| A Perfect Getaway | David N. Twohy | Timothy Olyphant, Steve Zahn, Milla Jovovich | ||||
| Push | Paul McGuigan | Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou | ||||
| Sherlock Holmes | Guy Ritchie | Robert Downey, Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams | Action thriller | |||
| The Stepfather | Nelson McCormick | Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley | ||||
| Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Kristin Kreuk, Michael Clarke Duncan, Neal McDonough | Action Thriller | |||
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini | ||||
| The Secret in Their Eyes | Juan José Campanella | Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago | ||||
| Vengeance | Johnny To | Cheung Siu Fai, Johnny Hallyday, Ng Yuk-sau | ||||
| Whiteout | Dominic Sena | Kate Beckinsale, Columbus Short, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt | ||||
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