A list of thriller films released in the 1990s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | ||||||
| After Dark, My Sweet | James Foley | Jason Patric, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern | Psychological thriller | |||
| The Ambulance | Larry Cohen | Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Red Buttons | ||||
| Bad Influence | Curtis Hanson | Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane | ||||
| Blue Steel | Kathryn Bigelow | Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown | Action thriller | |||
| Bullet in the Head | John Woo | Tony Leung, Jacky Cheung | Action thriller | |||
| Dancing Machine | Gilles Behat | Alain Delon, Claude Brasseur, Patrick Dupond | ||||
| Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection | Aaron Norris | Chuck Norris, Billy Drago, Bobby Chavez | Action thriller | |||
| Desperate Hours | Michael Cimino | Mickey Rourke, Anthony Hopkins, Mimi Rogers, Lindsay Crouse, Kelly Lynch | ||||
| Die Hard 2 | Renny Harlin | Bruce Willis | Action thriller | |||
| Flatliners | Joel Schumacher | Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt | ||||
| The Guardian | William Friedkin | Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell | ||||
| Hidden Agenda | Ken Loach | Frances McDormand, Brian Cox | ||||
| The Hot Spot | Dennis Hopper | Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly | ||||
| The Hunt for Red October | John McTiernan | Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin | ||||
| Impulse | Sondra Locke | Theresa Russell, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza | ||||
| Internal Affairs | Mike Figgis | Richard Gere, Andy García, Nancy Travis | ||||
| Jacob's Ladder | Adrian Lyne | Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello | ||||
| Kill Cruise | Peter Keglevic | Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit, Elizabeth Hurley | ||||
| Kindergarten Cop | Ivan Reitman | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Penelope Ann Miller, Pamela Reed | ||||
| Lionheart | Sheldon Lettich | Jean-Claude Van Damme | Action thriller | |||
| Marked for Death | Dwight H. Little | Steven Seagal, Basil Wallace, Keith David | Action thriller | |||
| Miller's Crossing | Joel Coen | Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden | Crime thriller | |||
| Misery | Rob Reiner | James Caan, Kathy Bates | ||||
| Narrow Margin | Peter Hyams | Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B. Sikking | ||||
| Navy SEALS | Lewis Teague | Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley | Action thriller | |||
| Nikita | Luc Besson | Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Tchéky Karyo | ||||
| Pacific Heights | John Schlesinger | Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine | ||||
| Presumed Innocent | Alan J. Pakula | Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia, Greta Scacchi | ||||
| A Shock to the System | Jan Egleson | Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern, Peter Riegert | ||||
| A Show of Force | Bruno Barreto | Amy Irving, Robert Duvall, Andy García | ||||
| State of Grace | Phil Joanou | Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn | Crime thriller | |||
| 1991 | ||||||
| Backdraft | Ron Howard | Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro | ||||
| Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese | Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis | ||||
| Closet Land | Radha Bharadwaj | Madeleine Stowe, Alan Rickman | Psychological thriller | |||
| Dead Again | Kenneth Branagh | Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy García | ||||
| Do or Die | Andy Sidaris | Erik Estrada, Dona Speir, Roberta Vasquez | Action thriler | |||
| JFK | Oliver Stone | Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek | ||||
| A Kiss Before Dying | James Dearden | Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow | ||||
| The Last Boy Scout | Tony Scott | Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field | Crime thriller | |||
| Mortal Thoughts | Alan Rudolph | Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis, John Pankow, Harvey Keitel | ||||
| Netchaïev Est de Retour | Jacques Deray | Vincent Lindon, Yves Montand, Miou-Miou | ||||
| One False Move | Carl Franklin | Bill Paxton, Cynda Williams, Jim Metzler | ||||
| Out for Justice | John Flynn | Steven Seagal, William Forsythe, Jerry Orbach | Action thriller | |||
| Point Break | Kathryn Bigelow | Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty | Action thriller | |||
| Ricochet | Russell Mulcahy | Denzel Washington, John Lithgow, Ice-T | ||||
| Run | Geoff Burrowes | Kelly Preston, Ken Pogue, Alan C. Peterson | Action thriller | |||
| Scissors | Frank de Felitta | Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michelle Phillips | Psychological thriller | |||
| Shadows and Fog | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich | Comedy thriller | |||
| Shattered | Wolfgang Petersen | Tom Berenger, Greta Scacchi, Bob Hoskins | ||||
| The Silence of the Lambs | Jonathan Demme | Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine | ||||
| Sleeping with the Enemy | Joseph Ruben | Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson | ||||
| Trancers II | Charles Band | Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Megan Ward | Action thriller, | |||
| Where Sleeping Dogs Lie | Charles Finch | Dylan McDermott, Tom Sizemore, Sharon Stone | Crime thriller | |||
| Year of the Gun | John Frankenheimer | Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone | ||||
| 1992 | ||||||
| Basic Instinct | Paul Verhoeven | Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn, George Dzundza | ||||
| Blown Away | Brenton Spencer | Nicole Eggert, Gary Farmer, Corey Feldman | ||||
| The Bodyguard | Mick Jackson | Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp | ||||
| Consenting Adults | Alan J. Pakula | Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller, Forest Whitaker | ||||
| The Crying Game | Neil Jordan | Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Miranda Richardson, Forest Whitaker | Political thriller | |||
| Deep Cover | Bill Duke | Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum, Victoria Dillard | Crime thriller | |||
| Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel | Alan Castle | Sherilyn Fenn, Whip Hubley, David Hewlett | ||||
| Final Analysis | Phil Joanou | Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts, Keith David | ||||
| Full Contact | Ringo Lam | Chow Yun-fat | Action thriller | |||
| A Grande Arte | Walter Salles, Jr. | Peter Coyote, Tchéky Karyo, Amanda Pays | ||||
| Hard Boiled | John Woo | Chow Yun-fat, Bowie Lam, Philip Chan | Action thriller | |||
| The Hand That Rocks the Cradle | Curtis Hanson | Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, Julianne Moore | ||||
| Jennifer Eight | Bruce Robinson | Andy García, Uma Thurman, John Malkovich, Lance Henriksen | ||||
| Love Crimes | Lizzie Borden | Sean Young, Patrick Bergin, Arnetia Walker | ||||
| El Mariachi | Robert Rodriguez | Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gomez, Reinol Martinez, Peter Marquardt | Action thriller | |||
| Patriot Games | Phillip Noyce | Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Sean Bean | Action thriller, political thriller | |||
| Poison Ivy | Andy Ruben, Katt Shea Ruben | Sara Gilbert, Drew Barrymore, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd | Erotic thriller | |||
| The Public Eye | Howard Franklin | Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Stanley Tucci | Crime thriller | |||
| Raising Cain | Brian De Palma | John Lithgow, Lolita Davidovich, Steven Bauer | ||||
| Reservoir Dogs | Quentin Tarantino | Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney | Crime thriller | |||
| The Sentinel | Arnaud Desplechin | Emmanuel Salinger, Thibault de Montalembert, Jean-Louis Richard | ||||
| Single White Female | Barbet Schroeder | Bridget Fonda, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Steven Weber | ||||
| Sneakers | Phil Alden Robinson | Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, Mary McDonnell, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, David Strathairn | ||||
| Storyville | Mark Frost | James Spader, Joanne Whalley, Jason Robards, Jr. | ||||
| Toutes Peines Confondues | Michel Deville | Jacques Dutronc, Patrick Bruel, Mathilda May | ||||
| Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me | David Lynch | Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, Kiefer Sutherland | Psychological thriller | |||
| Under Siege | Andrew Davis | Steven Seagal, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak | Action thriller | |||
| Unlawful Entry | Jonathan Kaplan | Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Madeleine Stowe, Roger E. Mosley | ||||
| 1993 | ||||||
| Body of Evidence | Uli Edel | Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer | ||||
| Boiling Point | James B. Harris | Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper | Crime thriller | |||
| Cliffhanger | Renny Harlin | Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner | Action thriller | |||
| The Crush | Alan Shapiro | Alicia Silverstone, Cary Elwes, Kurtwood Smith | ||||
| Doppelganger | Avi Nesher | Drew Barrymore | ||||
| The Escort | Ricky Tognazzi | Claudio Amendola, Enrico Lo Verso, Carlo Cecchi | ||||
| The Firm | Sydney Pollack | Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman, Holly Hunter, Ed Harris, Hal Holbrook | ||||
| The Fugitive | Andrew Davis | Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones | ||||
| The Good Son | Joseph Ruben | Macaulay Culkin, Elijah Wood, Wendy Crewson | ||||
| Guilty as Sin | Sidney Lumet | Rebecca De Mornay, Don Johnson, Stephen Lang | ||||
| Hard Target | John Woo | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lance Henriksen, Yancy Butler, Wilford Brimley, Arnold Vosloo | Action thriller | |||
| In the Line of Fire | Wolfgang Petersen | Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Rene Russo | ||||
| The Innocent | John Schlesinger | Isabella Rossellini, Anthony Hopkins, Campbell Scott | ||||
| Judgment Night | Stephen Hopkins | Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Denis Leary, Stephen Dorff | ||||
| Jurassic Park | Steven Spielberg | Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough | Science fiction thriller | |||
| Kalifornia | Dominic Sena | Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes | Crime thriller | |||
| Malice | Harold Becker | Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman | ||||
| Manhattan Murder Mystery | Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Alan Alda, Anjelica Huston | Comedy thriller | |||
| The Pelican Brief | Alan J. Pakula | Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard | ||||
| Point of No Return | John Badham | Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Anne Bancroft, Harvey Keitel | ||||
| Public Access | Bryan Singer | Ron Marquette, Larry Maxwell, Brandon Boyce | ||||
| Red Rock West | John Dahl | Nicolas Cage, Dennis Hopper, Lara Flynn Boyle | Crime thriller | |||
| Romeo Is Bleeding | Peter Medak | Gary Oldman, Lena Olin, Annabella Sciorra, Juliette Lewis, Roy Scheider | ||||
| Sliver | Phillip Noyce | Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger | ||||
| The Temp | Tom Holland | Timothy Hutton, Lara Flynn Boyle, Faye Dunaway | ||||
| Trauma | Dario Argento | Chris Rydell, Asia Argento, Piper Laurie | Psychological thriller | |||
| True Romance | Tony Scott | Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Val Kilmer, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt, Christopher Walken | Crime thriller | |||
| The Vanishing | George Sluizer | Kiefer Sutherland, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Bridges, Nancy Travis | ||||
| 1994 | ||||||
| Amateur | Hal Hartley | Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, Elina Löwensohn | ||||
| Angel Dust | Toshihiro Ishii | Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa | ||||
| Blink | Michael Apted | Madeleine Stowe, Aidan Quinn, Laurie Metcalf | ||||
| Blown Away | Stephen Hopkins | Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Suzy Amis, Forest Whitaker, Lloyd Bridges | Action thriller | |||
| Blue Tiger | Norberto Barba | Virginia Madsen, Toru Nakamura, Dean Hallo | ||||
| China Moon | John Bailey | Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Benicio del Toro | ||||
| Clear and Present Danger | Phillip Noyce | Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer | Action thriller | |||
| The Client | Joel Schumacher | Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Renfro, Mary-Louise Parker, Anthony LaPaglia | ||||
| Color of Night | Richard Rush | Bruce Willis, Jane March, Ruben Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bakula, Brad Dourif, Lance Henriksen, Kevin J. O'Connor | ||||
| Cool Surface | Erik Anjou | Robert Patrick, Teri Hatcher | ||||
| The Crow | Alex Proyas | Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott | ||||
| Death and the Maiden | Roman Polanski | Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Stuart Wilson | ||||
| Dream Lover | Nicholas Kazan | James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Bess Armstrong | ||||
| Drop Zone | John Badham | Wesley Snipes, Gary Busey | Action thriller | |||
| Exit to Eden | Garry Marshall | Dana Delany, Paul Mercurio, Rosie O'Donnell, Dan Aykroyd | ||||
| The Getaway | Roger Donaldson | Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods | Action thriller, crime thriller | |||
| Killing Zoe | Roger Avary | Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Jean-Hugues Anglade | ||||
| The Last Seduction | John Dahl | Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman | Erotic thriller | |||
| Léon | Luc Besson | Jean Reno, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman | ||||
| Mother's Boys | Yves Simoneau | Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave | ||||
| Mute Witness | Anthony Waller | Marina Zudina, Oleg Yankovsky, Evan Richards | ||||
| Nightwatch | Ole Bornedal | Nikolaj Waldau, Kim Bodnia, Lotte Andersen | ||||
| On Deadly Ground | Steven Seagal | Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen | Action thriller | |||
| L'Ours en peluche | Jacques Deray | Alain Delon, Francesca Dellera, Regina Bianchi | ||||
| The Patriots | Eric Rochant | Yvan Attal, Yossi Banai, Dan Toren | ||||
| The River Wild | Curtis Hanson | Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello, John C. Reilly | ||||
| Shallow Grave | Danny Boyle | Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor | Crime thriller | |||
| Silent Fall | Bruce Beresford | Richard Dreyfuss, John Lithgow, Linda Hamilton | ||||
| The Specialist | Luis Llosa | Sylvester Stallone, Sharon Stone, James Woods, Rod Steiger, Eric Roberts | Action thriller | |||
| Speed | Jan de Bont | Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock | Action thriller | |||
| Surviving the Game | Ernest R. Dickerson | Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Gary Busey, Charles S. Dutton, F. Murray Abraham, John C. McGinley, William McNamara | ||||
| Terminal Velocity | Deran Sarafian | Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski | Action thriller | |||
| True Lies | James Cameron | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold | Action thriller | |||
| 1995 | ||||||
| Assassins | Richard Donner | Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Julianne Moore | ||||
| Bad Boys | Michael Bay | Martin Lawrence, Will Smith | Action thriller | |||
| Bad Company | Damian Harris | Ellen Barkin, Susan Wooldridge, Laurence Fishburne | ||||
| Coldblooded | Matt Hinkley, Wallace Wolodarsky | Jason Priestley, Peter Riegert, Kimberly Williams | Comedy thriller | |||
| Copycat | Jon Amiel | Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney | ||||
| Cover Me | Michael Schroeder | Rick Rossovich, Paul Sorvino, Courtney Taylor | ||||
| Crimson Tide | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza | Action thriller | |||
| Crying Freeman | Christophe Gans | Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra, Tchéky Karyo | Action thriller | |||
| Desperado | Robert Rodriguez | Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Joaquim de Almeida | Action thriller | |||
| Die Hard with a Vengeance | John McTiernan | Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson | Action thriller | |||
| Dolores Claiborne | Taylor Hackford | Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer, Judy Parfitt | ||||
| Fair Game | Andrew Sipes | William Baldwin, Cindy Crawford | Action thriller | |||
| GoldenEye | Martin Campbell | Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco | Action thriller | |||
| Gonin | Takashi Ishii | Naoto Takenaka | ||||
| Heat | Michael Mann | Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer | ||||
| Jade | William Friedkin | David Caruso, Linda Fiorentino, Chazz Palminteri | ||||
| Just Cause | Arnold Glimcher | Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw | ||||
| Kamikaze Taxi | Masato Harada | Takeshi Caesar, Chika Nakagami, Mickey Curtis | Crime thriller, action thriller | |||
| Kiss of Death | Barbet Schroeder | David Caruso, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicolas Cage | ||||
| Never Talk to Strangers | Peter Hall | Rebecca De Mornay, Antonio Banderas | ||||
| The Net | Irwin Winkler | Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller | ||||
| Nick of Time | John Badham | Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton | ||||
| Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead | Eduardo Diaz Yanes | Victoria Abril, Angel Alcázar, Marta Aura | ||||
| Outbreak | Wolfgang Petersen | Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman | ||||
| Poison Ivy II: Lily | Anne Goursaud | Alyssa Milano, Johnathon Schaech, Camilla Belle | ||||
| Screamers | Christian Duguay | Ron White, Peter Weller, Jennifer Rubin | ||||
| Se7en | David Fincher | Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman | ||||
| Sudden Death | Peter Hyams | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Dorian Harewood | Action thriller | |||
| Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead | Gary Fleder | Andy García, Christopher Lloyd, William Forsythe | ||||
| Under Siege 2: Dark Territory | Geoff Murphy | Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Katherine Heigl | Action thriller | |||
| The Usual Suspects | Bryan Singer | Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite | ||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| Anna Oz | Eric Rochant | Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gérard Lanvin, Sami Bouajila | ||||
| Broken Arrow | John Woo | John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis | Action thriller | |||
| Bound | Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski | Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano | Erotic thriller | |||
| Chain Reaction | Andrew Davis | Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Brian Cox | Action thriller | |||
| Crimetime | George Sluizer | Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Sadie Frost | ||||
| Diabolique | Jeremiah S. Chechik | Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates | ||||
| Eraser | Chuck Russell | Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa L. Williams | Action thriller | |||
| Extreme Measures | Michael Apted | Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker | ||||
| Eye for an Eye | John Schlesinger | Sally Field, Kiefer Sutherland, Ed Harris | ||||
| The Fan | Tony Scott | Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin | ||||
| Fear | James Foley | Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon, Alyssa Milano, William Petersen, Amy Brenneman | ||||
| Freeway | Matthew Bright | Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland, Brooke Shields | Crime thriller | |||
| Fled | Kevin Hooks | Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Salma Hayek | Action thriller | |||
| The Glimmer Man | John Gray | Steven Seagal, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bob Gunton | Action thriller | |||
| Head Above Water | Jim Wilson | Harvey Keitel, Cameron Diaz, Craig Sheffer | ||||
| The Hunters | Kjell Sundvall | Helena Bergström, Rolf Degerlund, Goran Forsmark | ||||
| The Juror | Brian Gibson | Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Gandolfini, Anne Heche | ||||
| Last Man Standing | Walter Hill | Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern | Action thriller | |||
| The Long Kiss Goodnight | Renny Harlin | Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Malahide, Craig Bierko, Brian Cox | Action thriller | |||
| Maximum Risk | Ringo Lam | Jean-Claude Van Damme, Natasha Henstridge, Zach Grenier | Action thriller | |||
| Mission: Impossible | Brian De Palma | Tom Cruise | Action thriller | |||
| Passage a L'Acte | Francis Girod | Daniel Auteuil, Patrick Timsit, Anne Parillaud | ||||
| Primal Fear | Gregory Hoblit | Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton | ||||
| Pusher | Nicolas Winding Refn | Peter Andersson, Vanja Bajicic, Kim Bodnia | Crime thriller | |||
| Ransom | Ron Howard | Mel Gibson, Rene Russo, Gary Sinise, Delroy Lindo, Brawley Nolte | Crime thriller | |||
| The Rock | Michael Bay | Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris | Action thriller | |||
| Sci-Fighters | Peter Svatek | Roddy Piper, Jayne Heitmeyer, Billy Drago | Action thriller | |||
| The Stendhal Syndrome | Dario Argento | Asia Argento, Paolo Bonacelli, Luigi Diberti | ||||
| Tesis | Alejandro Amenábar | Xavier Elorriaga, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega | ||||
| The Trigger Effect | David Koepp | Kyle MacLachlan, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney | ||||
| Unforgettable | John Dahl | Ray Liotta, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Coyote, Christopher McDonald | ||||
| Young and Dangerous | Andrew Lau | Chan Sau-yu, Jordan Chan | Action thriller | |||
| 1997 | ||||||
| Absolute Power | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris | ||||
| Air Force One | Wolfgang Petersen | Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, Glenn Close | Action thriller | |||
| Bad Day on the Block | Craig R. Baxley | Charlie Sheen, Mare Winningham | ||||
| Barracuda | Philippe Haim | Jean Rochefort, Guillaume Canet, Claire Kem | ||||
| Conspiracy Theory | Richard Donner | Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart | ||||
| Le Cousin | Alain Corneau | Alain Chabat, Patrick Timsit, Samuel Le Bihan | Crime thriller | |||
| Cure | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki | ||||
| Dobermann | Jan Kounen | Vincent Cassel, Monica Bellucci, Tchéky Karyo | Crime thriller | |||
| Face/Off | John Woo | Nicolas Cage, John Travolta, Joan Allen, Gina Gershon, Alessandro Nivola, Dominique Swain | Action thriller | |||
| Fred | Pierre Jolivet | Clotilde Courau, François Berléand, Vincent Lindon | Psychological thriller | |||
| Funny Games | Michael Haneke | Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch | ||||
| The Game | David Fincher | Michael Douglas, Sean Penn | ||||
| Genealogies of a Crime | Raúl Ruiz | Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud | Psychological thriller, crime thriller | |||
| Insomnia | Erik Skjoldbjærg | Stellan Skarsgård, Gisken Armand | ||||
| The Jackal | Michael Caton-Jones | Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier | ||||
| Jackie Brown | Quentin Tarantino | Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro | Crime thriller | |||
| Kiss the Girls | Gary Fleder | Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes | ||||
| Murder at 1600 | Dwight H. Little | Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane | ||||
| Nightwatch | Ole Bornedal | Ewan McGregor, Patricia Arquette, Nick Nolte | Crime thriller, psychological thriller | |||
| Open Your Eyes | Alejandro Amenábar | Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera | ||||
| The Peacemaker | Mimi Leder | George Clooney, Nicole Kidman, Marcel Iures | ||||
| Perfect Blue | Satoshi Kon | |||||
| Poison Ivy: The New Seduction | Kurt Voss | Jaime Pressly, Michael Des Barres, Megan Edwards | ||||
| See the Sea | François Ozon | Sasha Hails, Marina de Van, Samantha | ||||
| Shadow Conspiracy | George Pan Cosmatos | Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Linda Hamilton, Sam Waterston, Theodore Bikel | ||||
| Smilla's Sense of Snow | Bille August | Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Harris | ||||
| Suicide Kings | Peter O'Fallon | Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Henry Thomas | ||||
| The Swindle | Claude Chabrol | Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet | ||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| Apt Pupil | Bryan Singer | Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison | Psychological thriller | |||
| Bullet Ballet | Shinya Tsukamoto | Shinya Tsukamoto, Kirina Mano, Tatsuya Nakamura | ||||
| Clay Pigeons | David Dobkin | Vince Vaughn, Janeane Garofalo, Joaquin Phoenix | Comedy thriller | |||
| The Curve | Dan Rosen | Matthew Lillard, Michael Vartan, Randall Batinkoff | ||||
| Déjà mort | Olivier Dahan | Romain Duris, Benoît Magimel, Zoe Felix | ||||
| Desperate Measures | Barbet Schroeder | Michael Keaton, Andy García, Brian Cox | ||||
| Devil in the Flesh | Steve Cohen | Rose McGowan, Alex McArthur, Sherrie Rose | ||||
| Disturbing Behavior | David Nutter | James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl | ||||
| Enemy of the State | Tony Scott | Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight | ||||
| Fallen | Gregory Hoblit | Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland | ||||
| Following | Christopher Nolan | Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell | ||||
| The Gingerbread Man | Robert Altman | Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey, Jr. | ||||
| Hard Rain | Mikael Salomon | Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver | Action thriller | |||
| Heaven | Scott Reynolds | Martin Donovan, Danny Edwards, Richard Schiff | ||||
| Hush | Jonathan Darby | Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow, Johnathon Schaech | ||||
| The Interview | Craig Monahan | Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, Aaron Jeffery | ||||
| The Longest Nite | Yau Tat-chi | Yau Tat-chi, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Shiu | Crime thriller | |||
| Mercury Rising | Harold Becker | Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes | Action thriller | |||
| A Murder of Crows | Rowdy Herrington | Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Berenger, Eric Stoltz | ||||
| New Rose Hotel | Abel Ferrara | Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, Asia Argento | ||||
| The Negotiator | F. Gary Gray | Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse | ||||
| Palmetto | Volker Schlöndorff | Woody Harrelson, Elisabeth Shue, Gina Gershon | ||||
| A Perfect Murder | Andrew Davis | Michael Douglas, Gwyneth Paltrow, Viggo Mortensen | ||||
| Pi | Darren Aronofsky | Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman | ||||
| Psycho | Gus Van Sant | Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen, William H. Macy | ||||
| The Replacement Killers | Antoine Fuqua | Chow Yun-fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker | Action thriller | |||
| Ring | Hideo Nakata | Nanako Matsushima, Hiroyuki Sanada, Miki Nakatani | Psychological thriller | |||
| Ronin | John Frankenheimer | Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone | Action thriller | |||
| Run Lola Run | Tom Tykwer | Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu | ||||
| The Siege | Edward Zwick | Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis | Action thriller, political thriller | |||
| Snake Eyes | Brian De Palma | Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard | ||||
| U.S. Marshals | Stuart Baird | Tommy Lee Jones, Wesley Snipes, Robert Downey, Jr. | Action thriller | |||
| Wicked | Michael Steinberg | Julia Stiles, William R. Moses, Patrick Muldoon | ||||
| Wild Things | John McNaughton | Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Bill Murray | ||||
| The Wisdom of Crocodiles | Po-Chih Leong | Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn | ||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| 8mm | Joel Schumacher | Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini | ||||
| Apocalypse II: Revelation | Andre Van Heerden | Jeff Fahey, Nick Mancuso, Carol Alt | ||||
| Arlington Road | Mark Pellington | Jeff Bridges, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack | ||||
| The Astronaut's Wife | Rand Ravich | Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton | Psychological thriller | |||
| Best Laid Plans | Mike Barker | Alessandro Nivola, Father Terrance Sweeney, Rebecca Klingler | Crime thriller | |||
| The Bone Collector | Phillip Noyce | Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie | ||||
| Buddy Boy | Mark Hanlon | Aidan Gillen, Emmanuelle Seigner | ||||
| The Corruptor | James Foley | Chow Yun-fat, Mark Wahlberg, Ric Young | ||||
| Deep Blue Sea | Renny Harlin | Thomas Jane, Saffron Burrows, Samuel L. Jackson, Stellan Skarsgard, LL Cool J | ||||
| Double Jeopardy | Bruce Beresford | Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Bruce Greenwood | ||||
| Entrapment | Jon Amiel | Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames | Crime thriller | |||
| Eye of the Beholder | Stephan Elliott | Ewan McGregor, Ashley Judd, Patrick Bergin | ||||
| Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Todd Field | Paranoid thriller | |||
| Fever | Alex Winter | Henry Thomas, David Patrick O'Hara, Bill Duke | ||||
| Felicia's Journey | Atom Egoyan | Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian | ||||
| The General's Daughter | Simon West | John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Woods, James Cromwell | ||||
| Goodbye Lover | Roland Joffé | Patricia Arquette, Dermot Mulroney, Ellen DeGeneres | Comedy thriller | |||
| In Dreams | Neil Jordan | Annette Bening, Aidan Quinn, Robert Downey, Jr. | ||||
| In Too Deep | Michael Rymer | Omar Epps, LL Cool J, Nia Long | ||||
| The Nameless | Jaume Balagueró | Emma Vilarasau, Karra Elejalde, Tristán Ulloa | ||||
| The Ninth Gate | Roman Polanski | Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin | ||||
| The Omega Code | Robert Marcarelli | Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Michael Ironside, Catherine Oxenberg | ||||
| Payback | Brian Helgeland | Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello | Crime thriller, action thriller | |||
| Resurrection | Russell Mulcahy | Christopher Lambert, James Kidnie, Mike Anscombe | Crime thriller | |||
| Ruang Talok 69 | Pen-ek Ratanaruang | Lalita Panyopas, Black Pomtong | ||||
| Running Out of Time | Johnny To | Andy Lau, Lau Ching-Wan, Yo Yo Mung | ||||
| Shiri | Jacky Kang | Han Suk-Kyu, Choe Min-sik, Song Kang-ho | ||||
| The Sixth Sense | M. Night Shyamalan | Haley Joel Osment, Bruce Willis, Toni Collette | ||||
| Stigmata | Rupert Wainwright | Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce | Psychological thriller | |||
| Stir of Echoes | David Koepp | Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas | Supernatural thriller, psychological thriller | |||
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | Anthony Minghella | Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett | ||||
| Teaching Mrs. Tingle | Kevin Williamson | Helen Mirren, Katie Holmes, Jeffrey Tambor | ||||
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