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Best Thriller Movies of the 2010s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
214 thriller films from the 2010s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Parasite (2019), at 8.5 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.7. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Joker, 8.3 on IMDb against 59 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parasite '2019 | Comedy / Thriller / Drama | 8.5 | 99% | 97 | 8.5 | Bong Joon Ho |
| 2 | Whiplash '2014 | Drama / Musical / Thriller | 8.5 | 94% | 89 | 8.4 | Damien Chazelle |
| 3 | The Dark Knight Rises '2012 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 8.4 | 87% | 78 | 7.8 | Christopher Nolan |
| 4 | Joker '2019 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.3 | 68% | 59 | 8.1 | Todd Phillips |
| 5 | Shutter Island '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 8.2 | 69% | 63 | 8.2 | Martin Scorsese |
| 6 | Prisoners '2013 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 8.2 | 81% | 70 | 8.1 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 7 | Gone Girl '2014 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 8.1 | 88% | 79 | 7.9 | David Fincher |
| 8 | The Imitation Game '2014 | Drama / Thriller / War | 8.0 | 89% | 71 | 8.0 | Morten Tyldum |
| 9 | Black Swan '2010 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 8.0 | 85% | 79 | 7.7 | Darren Aronofsky |
| 10 | Room '2015 | Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 93% | 86 | 8.0 | Lenny Abrahamson |
| 11 | Get Out '2017 | Mystery / Thriller / Horror | 7.8 | 98% | 85 | 7.6 | Jordan Peele |
| 12 | Nightcrawler '2014 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 95% | 76 | 7.7 | Dan Gilroy |
| 13 | Skyfall '2012 | Action / Thriller | 7.8 | 92% | 81 | 7.3 | Sam Mendes |
| 14 | Drive '2011 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.8 | 93% | 79 | 7.6 | Nicolas Winding Refn |
| 15 | Gravity '2013 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama | 7.7 | 96% | 96 | 7.2 | Alfonso Cuarón |
| 16 | Wild Tales '2014 | Drama / Thriller / Comedy | 8.1 | 94% | 77 | 7.9 | Damián Szifron |
| 17 | Captain Phillips '2013 | Action / Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 93% | 82 | 7.5 | Paul Greengrass |
| 18 | The Handmaiden '2016 | Thriller / Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 96% | 85 | 8.2 | Park Chan-wook |
| 19 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo '2011 | Thriller / Crime / Mystery | 7.8 | 86% | 71 | 7.4 | David Fincher |
| 20 | Argo '2012 | Drama / Thriller | 7.7 | 96% | 86 | 7.3 | Ben Affleck |
| 21 | Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood '2019 | Comedy / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 86% | 84 | 7.4 | Quentin Tarantino |
| 22 | Sicario '2015 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.7 | 91% | 82 | 7.4 | Denis Villeneuve |
| 23 | The Invisible Guest '2017 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 8.0 | 67% | - | 8.1 | Oriol Paulo |
| 24 | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes '2014 | Sci-Fi / Action / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 91% | 79 | 7.3 | Matt Reeves |
| 25 | John Wick '2014 | Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 87% | 68 | 7.5 | Chad Stahelski |
| 26 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes '2011 | Thriller / Action / Drama / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 82% | 68 | 7.4 | Rupert Wyatt |
| 27 | Wind River '2017 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 87% | 73 | 7.4 | Taylor Sheridan |
| 28 | The Conjuring '2013 | Horror / Thriller | 7.5 | 86% | 68 | 7.5 | James Wan |
| 29 | Train to Busan '2016 | Action / Horror / Thriller | 7.6 | 95% | 73 | 7.8 | Yeon Sang-ho |
| 30 | Source Code '2011 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Mystery | 7.5 | 92% | 74 | 7.3 | Duncan Jones |
| 31 | Bridge of Spies '2015 | Thriller / Drama | 7.6 | 91% | 81 | 7.2 | Steven Spielberg |
| 32 | End of Watch '2012 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.6 | 85% | 68 | 7.4 | David Ayer |
| 33 | The Town '2010 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 92% | 74 | 7.2 | Ben Affleck |
| 34 | Looper '2012 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 93% | 84 | 6.9 | Rian Johnson |
| 35 | 127 Hours '2010 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 93% | 82 | 7.1 | Danny Boyle |
| 36 | John Wick: Chapter 2 '2017 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 89% | 75 | 7.3 | Chad Stahelski |
| 37 | Limitless '2011 | Thriller / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 68% | 59 | 7.2 | Neil Burger |
| 38 | The Raid '2012 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.6 | 87% | 73 | 7.4 | Gareth Evans |
| 39 | John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum '2019 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 89% | 73 | 7.4 | Chad Stahelski |
| 40 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol '2011 | Action / Thriller | 7.4 | 94% | 73 | 7.1 | Brad Bird |
| 41 | I Saw the Devil '2010 | Thriller / Horror | 7.8 | 83% | 67 | 7.8 | Kim Jee-woon |
| 42 | The Impossible '2012 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 81% | 73 | 7.4 | J. A. Bayona |
| 43 | Nocturnal Animals '2016 | Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 74% | 67 | 7.4 | Tom Ford |
| 44 | It '2017 | Horror / Thriller / Drama | 7.3 | 85% | 69 | 7.2 | Andy Muschietti |
| 45 | Zero Dark Thirty '2012 | Thriller / Drama | 7.4 | 91% | 95 | 7.0 | Kathryn Bigelow |
| 46 | Uncut Gems '2019 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 91% | 93 | 7.2 | Benny Safdie |
| 47 | Predestination '2014 | Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.4 | 84% | 69 | 7.4 | Michael Spierig |
| 48 | Searching '2018 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 92% | 71 | 7.6 | Aneesh Chaganty |
| 49 | Split '2017 | Horror / Thriller | 7.3 | 79% | 63 | 7.3 | M. Night Shyamalan |
| 50 | Upgrade '2018 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.5 | 88% | 67 | 7.5 | Leigh Whannell |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
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