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Best Thriller Movies of the 2020s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
252 thriller films from the 2020s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Batman (2022), at 7.8 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Bullet Train, 7.3 on IMDb against 49 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Batman '2022 | Crime / Mystery / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 72 | 7.7 | Matt Reeves |
| 2 | Obsession '2026 | Horror / Thriller | 7.8 | 93% | 77 | 8.2 | Curry Barker |
| 3 | One Battle After Another '2025 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 95 | 7.3 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 4 | John Wick: Chapter 4 '2023 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.6 | 94% | 78 | 7.7 | Chad Stahelski |
| 5 | Sinners '2025 | Horror / Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 97% | 84 | 7.5 | Ryan Coogler |
| 6 | Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One '2023 | Action / Thriller | 7.6 | 96% | 81 | 7.5 | Christopher McQuarrie |
| 7 | Promising Young Woman '2020 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.5 | 90% | 72 | 7.4 | Emerald Fennell |
| 8 | The Whisper Man '2026 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | - | 46% | - | 6.8 | James Ashcroft |
| 9 | Anatomy of a Fall '2023 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.6 | 96% | 86 | 7.5 | Justine Triet |
| 10 | Nobody '2021 | Action / Thriller | 7.4 | 83% | 64 | 7.9 | Ilya Naishuller |
| 11 | Tenet '2020 | Action / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 70% | 69 | 7.2 | Christopher Nolan |
| 12 | Marty Supreme '2025 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 93% | 89 | 7.4 | Josh Safdie |
| 13 | Bullet Train '2022 | Action / Comedy / Thriller | 7.3 | 53% | 49 | 7.4 | David Leitch |
| 14 | No Time to Die '2021 | Action / Thriller | 7.3 | 83% | 68 | 7.3 | Cary Joji Fukunaga |
| 15 | Guy Ritchie's The Covenant '2023 | War / Action / Thriller | 7.5 | 82% | 63 | 7.7 | Guy Ritchie |
| 16 | Conclave '2024 | Drama / Thriller | 7.4 | 93% | 79 | 7.2 | Edward Berger |
| 17 | Bugonia '2025 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Comedy | 7.4 | 87% | 72 | 7.3 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 18 | Thirteen Lives '2022 | Drama / Thriller | 7.8 | 85% | 66 | 7.8 | Ron Howard |
| 19 | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery '2025 | Thriller / Mystery / Comedy | 7.3 | - | 80 | 7.2 | Rian Johnson |
| 20 | A Quiet Place Part II '2021 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Horror | 7.2 | 91% | 71 | 7.4 | John Krasinski |
| 21 | Riders of Justice '2020 | Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 96% | 81 | 7.3 | Anders Thomas Jensen |
| 22 | The Invisible Man '2020 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Horror | 7.1 | - | 72 | 7.1 | Leigh Whannell |
| 23 | 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple '2026 | Horror / Thriller / Sci-Fi | 7.2 | 91% | 81 | 7.1 | Nia DaCosta |
| 24 | No Other Choice '2025 | Comedy / Crime / Thriller | 7.5 | 97% | 86 | 7.5 | Park Chan-wook |
| 25 | Tetris '2023 | Thriller / Drama | 7.4 | 81% | 61 | 7.8 | Jon S. Baird |
| 26 | Prey '2022 | Thriller / Action / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 94% | 71 | 7.6 | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 27 | Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning '2025 | Action / Thriller | 7.1 | 80% | 67 | 7.2 | Christopher McQuarrie |
| 28 | The Devil All the Time '2020 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.1 | 65% | 55 | 7.2 | Antonio Campos |
| 29 | The Mauritanian '2021 | Drama / Thriller | 7.5 | 75% | 53 | 7.4 | Kevin Macdonald |
| 30 | Wrath of Man '2021 | Thriller / Crime / Drama | 7.1 | 68% | 57 | 7.6 | Guy Ritchie |
| 31 | The Courier '2020 | Thriller / Drama | 7.2 | 85% | 65 | 7.0 | Dominic Cooke |
| 32 | Predator: Killer of Killers '2025 | Animation / Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.4 | 94% | 78 | 7.8 | Dan Trachtenberg |
| 33 | Monster '2023 | Mystery / Thriller / Drama | 7.8 | 97% | 79 | 7.9 | Hirokazu Kore-eda |
| 34 | Barbarian '2022 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.0 | 92% | 78 | 6.9 | Zach Cregger |
| 35 | Saltburn '2023 | Drama / Comedy / Thriller | 7.0 | 72% | 61 | 6.9 | Emerald Fennell |
| 36 | Last Night in Soho '2021 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 7.0 | 75% | 65 | 7.3 | Edgar Wright |
| 37 | Heretic '2024 | Thriller / Horror | 7.0 | 89% | 71 | 7.0 | Scott Beck |
| 38 | Nightmare Alley '2021 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.0 | 80% | 70 | 6.9 | Guillermo del Toro |
| 39 | The Outfit '2022 | Crime / Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | 86% | 69 | 7.1 | Graham Moore |
| 40 | Extraction 2 '2023 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 7.0 | 79% | 57 | 7.4 | Sam Hargrave |
| 41 | The Black Phone '2022 | Horror / Thriller | 6.9 | 81% | 65 | 7.5 | Scott Derrickson |
| 42 | Decision to Leave '2022 | Thriller / Mystery / Romance | 7.2 | 94% | 85 | 7.3 | Park Chan-wook |
| 43 | Companion '2025 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.9 | 93% | 70 | 7.0 | Drew Hancock |
| 44 | The Call '2020 | Thriller / Mystery / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | 46% | - | 7.5 | Lee Chung-hyun |
| 45 | Extraction '2020 | Action / Thriller | 6.8 | 67% | 56 | 7.3 | Sam Hargrave |
| 46 | Juror #2 '2024 | Drama / Thriller | 7.0 | 93% | 72 | 6.9 | Clint Eastwood |
| 47 | Missing '2023 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.1 | 88% | 66 | 7.4 | Nicholas D. Johnson |
| 48 | Nope '2022 | Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.8 | 83% | 77 | 6.8 | Jordan Peele |
| 49 | Sisu '2022 | Action / War / Thriller | 6.9 | 94% | 70 | 7.4 | Jalmari Helander |
| 50 | Ballerina '2025 | Action / Thriller / Crime | 6.8 | - | 59 | 7.3 | Len Wiseman |
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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