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Thriller Movies Critics Rated Higher Than Audiences
43 thriller films in our catalog have at least 10,000 IMDb votes and a score that is higher with critics than with audiences by 15 points or more. The widest gap: Don't Look Now (1973), 7.1 on IMDb against 95 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Don't Look Now '1973 | Thriller / Drama / Horror | 7.1 | 93% | 95 | 6.9 | Nicolas Roeg | -24 |
| 2 | Babygirl '2024 | Romance / Thriller | 5.7 | 76% | 79 | 5.7 | Halina Reijn | -22 |
| 3 | Zero Dark Thirty '2012 | Thriller / Drama | 7.4 | 91% | 95 | 7.0 | Kathryn Bigelow | -21 |
| 4 | Notorious '1946 | Drama / Romance / Thriller | 7.9 | 96% | 100 | 7.7 | Alfred Hitchcock | -21 |
| 5 | The Lady Vanishes '1938 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.7 | 98% | 98 | 7.4 | Alfred Hitchcock | -21 |
| 6 | Under the Skin '2014 | Thriller / Sci-Fi / Drama | 6.3 | 84% | 83 | 6.1 | Jonathan Glazer | -20 |
| 7 | The Hurt Locker '2008 | Drama / Thriller / War | 7.5 | 96% | 95 | 7.2 | Kathryn Bigelow | -20 |
| 8 | Dragonball Evolution '2009 | Action / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 2.5 | 14% | 45 | 2.9 | James Wong | -20 |
| 9 | Touch of Evil '1958 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 99 | 7.7 | Orson Welles | -20 |
| 10 | One Battle After Another '2025 | Thriller / Crime / Comedy | 7.6 | 94% | 95 | 7.3 | Paul Thomas Anderson | -19 |
| 11 | Gravity '2013 | Sci-Fi / Thriller / Drama | 7.7 | 96% | 96 | 7.2 | Alfonso Cuarón | -19 |
| 12 | Uncut Gems '2019 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.4 | 91% | 93 | 7.2 | Benny Safdie | -19 |
| 13 | Black Bag '2025 | Mystery / Thriller | 6.7 | 96% | 85 | 6.4 | Steven Soderbergh | -18 |
| 14 | The Crying Game '1992 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.2 | 95% | 90 | 6.8 | Neil Jordan | -18 |
| 15 | The French Connection '1971 | Action / Crime / Thriller | 7.6 | 97% | 94 | 7.5 | William Friedkin | -18 |
| 16 | Frenzy '1972 | Crime / Thriller / Horror | 7.4 | 89% | 92 | 7.1 | Alfred Hitchcock | -18 |
| 17 | Army of Shadows '1969 | Drama / Thriller | 8.1 | 97% | 99 | 7.9 | Jean-Pierre Melville | -18 |
| 18 | Vertigo '1958 | Mystery / Romance / Thriller | 8.2 | 94% | 100 | 8.1 | Alfred Hitchcock | -18 |
| 19 | The Night of the Hunter '1955 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 93% | 97 | 7.9 | Charles Laughton | -18 |
| 20 | A Streetcar Named Desire '1951 | Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 97% | 97 | 7.6 | Elia Kazan | -18 |
| 21 | The Maltese Falcon '1941 | Mystery / Crime / Thriller | 7.9 | 99% | 97 | 7.7 | John Huston | -18 |
| 22 | Emilia Pérez '2024 | Drama / Thriller | 5.3 | - | 70 | 6.4 | Jacques Audiard | -17 |
| 23 | Saint Maud '2020 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.6 | 92% | 83 | 6.5 | Rose Glass | -17 |
| 24 | You Were Never Really Here '2017 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 6.7 | 89% | 84 | 6.5 | Lynne Ramsay | -17 |
| 25 | Drag Me to Hell '2009 | Horror / Thriller | 6.6 | 92% | 83 | 6.5 | Sam Raimi | -17 |
| 26 | The 39 Steps '1935 | Mystery / Thriller | 7.6 | 96% | 93 | 7.3 | Alfred Hitchcock | -17 |
| 27 | The Card Counter '2021 | Drama / Thriller | 6.2 | - | 78 | 6.1 | Paul Schrader | -16 |
| 28 | Kimi '2022 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 6.3 | 92% | 79 | 6.2 | Steven Soderbergh | -16 |
| 29 | The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre '1995 | Horror / Comedy / Thriller | 3.4 | 15% | 50 | 4.6 | Kim Henkel | -16 |
| 30 | Assault on Precinct 13 '1976 | Thriller / Action / Crime | 7.3 | 94% | 89 | 7.3 | John Carpenter | -16 |
| 31 | The Passenger '1975 | Drama / Mystery / Thriller | 7.4 | 88% | 90 | 7.2 | Michelangelo Antonioni | -16 |
| 32 | Rosemary's Baby '1968 | Drama / Horror / Thriller | 8.0 | 97% | 96 | 7.8 | Roman Polanski | -16 |
| 33 | Repulsion '1965 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 7.5 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Roman Polanski | -16 |
| 34 | Rear Window '1954 | Thriller / Mystery / Drama | 8.4 | 99% | 100 | 8.3 | Alfred Hitchcock | -16 |
| 35 | North by Northwest '1959 | Thriller | 8.2 | 97% | 98 | 8.0 | Alfred Hitchcock | -16 |
| 36 | Rififi '1955 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 8.1 | 92% | 97 | 7.8 | Jules Dassin | -16 |
| 37 | The Third Man '1949 | Thriller / Mystery | 8.1 | 99% | 97 | 7.9 | Carol Reed | -16 |
| 38 | Shadow of a Doubt '1943 | Thriller / Mystery / Crime | 7.8 | 100% | 94 | 7.5 | Alfred Hitchcock | -16 |
| 39 | The Manchurian Candidate '1962 | Thriller / Drama | 7.9 | 96% | 94 | 7.5 | John Frankenheimer | -15 |
| 40 | Invasion of the Body Snatchers '1956 | Sci-Fi / Horror / Thriller | 7.7 | 97% | 92 | 7.5 | Don Siegel | -15 |
| 41 | Elevator to the Gallows '1958 | Crime / Drama / Thriller | 7.9 | 93% | 94 | 7.6 | Louis Malle | -15 |
| 42 | Foreign Correspondent '1940 | Thriller / Mystery / Action | 7.4 | 95% | 89 | 7.0 | Alfred Hitchcock | -15 |
| 43 | Sabotage '1936 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 7.0 | 91% | 85 | 6.7 | Alfred Hitchcock | -15 |
Gap is IMDb score times 10 minus Metacritic score, in points. Only films with at least 10,000 IMDb votes and both scores are included, and only gaps of 15 points or more. This list is ordered by the size of the gap, not by quality. Scores shown are the raw ones.
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