THE 100 BEST SUSPENSE AND INTRIGUE MOVIES - ARTE

List with the best suspense, intrigue and drama films; They will keep you looking forward to the screen by asking you questions about the characters and how it will end.

Surely I forget several good films, so I encourage you to leave in the comments other films of this genre that you have liked.

What would the movies be without that pinch of suspense? That set of nerves and intrigue that keeps us glued to the armchair for a couple of hours is one of the best stimuli when it comes to going to the movies.

The tradition of this genre has spread over the decades. Directors such as Martin Scorsese, Alfred Hitchcock or Steven Spielberg have been some of the masters who have created true works of art, being indelible pieces in the memory of moviegoers.

You may also be interested in these movies based on real events.

50 good thrillers

Seven

Starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, Seven is one of the best suspense films ever made.

The story tells the story of a lieutenant who is about to be replaced by a young detective.

However, before such an event happens, they will have to collaborate side by side to catch a serial killer. This one takes as a guideline the seven deadly sins when carrying out his crimes.

The glow

A family heads to an isolated hotel, where a spiritual presence influences the father, while his son has dire forebodings of the past and the future.

The Hateful Eight

In the middle of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find refuge in a cabin inhabited by nefarious characters.

The Machinist

An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.

Dog loves

A horrific car accident connects three stories, each of which involves characters dealing with loss, regret, and the harsh realities of life, all in the name of love.

Black swan

A dancer wins the lead role in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" and has to fight to maintain her sanity.

The others

A woman living in a dark old house with her two photosensitive children thinks her home is haunted.

Mulholland Drive

After a car accident on Mulholland Drive, a woman in a state of amnesia tries to find answers in Hollywood.

Infiltrators

A cop infiltrates the Boston mafia and a member of the mob infiltrates the police.

Insomnia

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern city where the sun does not set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teenager.

Twelve Monkeys

In a future world ravaged by disease, a convict is dispatched in time to gather information on the man-made virus that wiped out the majority of the planet's human population.

Saw

Two strangers, who wake up in a room with no memory of how they got there, discover that they are pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a serial killer.

Heat

A group of professional bank robbers begin to feel the heat of the police when they unknowingly leave a trail on their latest robbery.

The Game

After a wealthy banker has a chance to play a mysterious game, his life is turned upside down when he becomes unable to distinguish between the game and reality.

Jacob's ladder

A tormented Vietnam War veteran tries to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation.

The Professional (Léon)

Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken by Léon, a professional killer, after her family is murdered.

The fugitive

Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real murderer at the same time that he is being followed by the police.

The reborn

A man on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s struggles for survival after being attacked by a bear and left behind by members of his own hunting team.

Mystic river

The lives of Los Angeles residents intersect with stories of race, loss, and redemption.

Old boy

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.

The Slevin case

A case of mistaken identity leads Slevin into a war engineered by two of the city's rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Chief.

Eyes Wide Shut

A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, sets out on a terrible nightly odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she almost cheated on him once.

Shark

One of the best films in the history of cinema. Steven Spielberg creates a climax of suspense, mystery and terror, hardly better, also supported by its magnificent soundtrack.

In it, the story of a town is told that sees how it has lost much of its tourism due to a giant shark that is ravaging the coasts.

Given this, it is decided to create an expedition that will have as its objective the difficult task of capturing the shark.

No country for old men

The protagonist of the film is two million dollars in a scene where a group of drug traffickers had died. He decides to take them away without saying anything to anyone and escape the country.

This poor choice will lead you to be suspicious of your environment to the point of thinking that there is someone who wants to kill you.

The rear window

A photographer who has just come out of a mishap and has his leg in a cast decides to photograph and spy, through his camera lenses, on the neighbors across from his house.

In one of his routine days, he begins to hear screams, shoves and strange noises, which will lead him to suspect that a murder has just occurred. That's when he begins to get into the role of a detective in order to understand what is happening.

Prisoners

Film with Hugh Jackman as the protagonist. On Thanksgiving, two families see their daughters disappear for no reason.

In this case, the father of one of the families will take justice into his own hands. He will kidnap the person he believes has been the cause of so much pain to carry out the investigation that leads him to the little ones.

Mr. Brooks

Kevin Costner plays an apparent billionaire who hides a terrible face: he is a famous serial killer being hunted by the police.

The protagonist tries to deal with this problematic facet that haunts him, at the same time that a young detective follows the track.

Mr. Brooks, has a plot that will undoubtedly hook you from the first moment.

Shutter Island

Rachel Solando has disappeared in a gloomy mental residence housed on a small island secluded from all civilization.

To investigate the fact, the FBI sends two of its men - played by Leonardoo Dicaprio and Mark Ruffalo - to investigate this series of events. Already lodged on the island, their investigation will turn upside down with a whole series of unexpected events.

Basic instinct

This film tells how an old rock singer appears murdered in his own bed. The main suspect is Catherine Tramell, her beautiful and slim wife, who must be watched by Nick Curran.

The story is one of the best known in the genre for a famous scene starring Sharon Stone, could you tell us what it is?

The name of the rose

Based on the homonymous novel by Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose tells how the murder of a monk in the abbey of the Order of Saint Benedict causes concern among the local clergy.

For this reason, a Franciscan named Guillermo de Baskerville, played by Sean Connery, will try to discover the who and why of this crime.

The sixth Sense

Bruce Willis plays a child psychologist who will try to investigate and study the strange events that happen to little Cole, who claims to see the dead.

The Sixth Sense has been possibly one of the most shocking films of the 90s, being also the film that established the career of Haley Joel Osment

The silence of the lambs

The second appearance in the cinema of Hannibal Lecter was a new point in suspense cinema.

The arduous task of the FBI to find the problematic serial killer "Buffalo Bill", will lead them to ask for the help of Lecter, a man with an intelligence far superior to other people.

The final trick: prestige

Film directed by Christoper Nolan set in the 19th century that tells the story of two companions who are dedicated to the world of magic and escapism.

Their relationship begins to suffer rivalries, and the desire for fame and power will lead them to compete to achieve the best trick that has ever been seen on stage.

Memento

Another Nolan movie for the collection.

On this occasion, the story is told of a man who loses his memory and must reconstruct the facts to find out how he got to where he was.

Memento is considered a true cult work thanks to its vindictive narration.

Psychosis

Alfred Hitchcock's artwork that tells us about Marion Crane, a secretary who has robbed her company and is forced to flee her city having to stay in a roadside motel.

There a series of strange events will occur that will put Marion's life on the brink of death.

Catch Me If You Can

One of the most famous Steven Spielberg films, standing out for its incredible plot, and its well-known soundtrack.

Set in the sixties, Carl Hanratty, an FBI agent, spent several months tracking down one of the world's biggest con artists

The most curious of all is that the film is based on a true story.

Origin

A curious group works by penetrating people's dreams, thus stealing their ideas and drawing confessions that otherwise would not be possible.

Their mentality changes when a tycoon proposes another plan: instead of stealing his ideas, they must try to implant them.

In this way, the team led by Dominick Cobb will try to get into the dreams of a billionaire who owns one of the largest companies in the world.

Captain Phillips

Film based on a real event from 2009.

Two hundred kilometers off the coast of Somalia, the Maersk Alabama was boarded by a group of Somali pirates, the first American ship hijacked in the last 200 years.

The story is full of suspense, fear and drama on all four sides.

18- The minimal island

Spanish film winner of nothing more and nothing less than ten Goya awards.

The minimum island is located in the full eighties, where two young teenagers have disappeared in a small Andalusian town.

To solve the mystery, two policemen who have been sent from Madrid will have to solve the mystery in addition to dealing with rough edges between the two.

It is one of the best Spanish suspense films in memory.

Now you see Me…

A group of young and talented magicians known as "the four horsemen" meet in order to rob a series of banks through illusion and deception.

The FBI, unmoved by these events, decides to hire a wizard hunter who, together with a police inspector, will try to catch them in order to do justice.

An exemplary citizen

Gerard Butler plays Clyde Shelton, a man who has lost his wife and daughters to a murderer.

After a trial where the accused are not convicted, Clyde will plan a clever revenge to try to end those legally responsible for such an unjust sentence.

The Raven

A happy couple who are about to get married is murdered just the night before their wedding.

These deaths will not go unpunished, since the husband returns to the world in the form of a raven to take revenge for the crime. The nods to Edgar Allan Poe's homonymous story are constant throughout the plot.

Reservoir dogs

Quentin Tarantino's first film was a before and after in independent cinema.

In it, an organized gang is hired to steal coveted diamonds.

Their attempt is unsuccessful and they are arrested by the police. It is at this point that some die in an attempt to escape, while others emerge successfully.

The survivors will try to discover the reason for their resounding failure, through a series of eloquent dialogues and flash-backs.

The bridge of spies

One of the latest Tom Hanks movies. Critically acclaimed, The Bridge of Spies is set in the middle of the Cold War.

A Brooklyn lawyer, James Donova, is sent to Berlin to do an important job: negotiating a prisoner exchange and securing the release of a top American war pilot who has been captured by the Soviet Union.

The Oxford crimes

Elijah Wood plays an Oxford student who finds his landlady murdered, a woman who had long ago cracked the Enigma Code of World War II.

At the same time, a professor from the same university is warned that a series of crimes will be committed. Given this, the boy, together with the teacher, decide to get down to work to try to solve the mystery.

Thesis

One of the first films by Alejandro Amenábar that tells the story of Ángela, a student about to finish her thesis on audiovisual violence.

Suddenly, her professor appears dead in the faculty library while looking for material for the student. To this is added the strange presence of a couple of boys who decide to try to win the girl's friendship.

Panic room

A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in a room in their recently bought house when three men enter in search of a lost fortune.

Cape of fear

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.

Taxi driver

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night taxi driver in New York City, where perceived decadence and squalor fuels his drive for violent action.

The untouchables of Eliot Ness

Federal Agent Eliot Ness plans to arrest Al Capone.

Vertigo (1958)

A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

The last call

A veteran 911 operator takes a call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted.

with death on his heels

A New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies and is hunted across the country as he searches for a way to survive.

Suspicion

A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect that he is planning to murder her.

Lost

A man becomes the media focus of the media when he is suspected of the disappearance of his wife.

Zodiac

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac, a serial killer terrorizing Northern California.

Point blank love

In Detroit, a young man and a prostitute get married, the latter stealing his pimp's cocaine. Meanwhile, the owners of the cocaine hunt them down to get it back.

Strangers on a train

Two young men, one of them a tennis star, ponder the possibility of committing a murder and that he cannot be discovered.

The best offer

The film tells a story of love and deception, set in the world of art auctions and antiques.

LA Confidentia l

As corruption grows in LA in the 1950s, three cops investigate a series of murders.

THE 100 BEST SUSPENSE AND INTRIGUE MOVIES - ARTE - 2025