Thriller Films
Pattern Statistics
820
Movies
6.9
Avg Arcplot
110
Avg Runtime
1931-2024
Year Range
6.6
Avg IMDb
61%
Avg RT
58
Avg Metacritic
$54278M
Total Box Office
247
With Awards
13.8
Avg Plot Points
Thriller Films - Structural Analysis
This collection of 820 thriller films demonstrates evolving relationship with narrative structure representative of the genre. Representing works from 1931 to 2024, the average Arcplot score of 7.0 demonstrates selective application of classical frameworks.
Within this genre, 1% of films achieve scores above 8.0, demonstrating that innovation and experimentation are valued. Notable examples include Insomnia (8.2), Club Dread (8.1), and Arsenic and Old Lace (8.0).
Duration Characteristics
Thriller films in this sample average 1 hour and 50 minutes, suggesting efficient narrative compression.
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[REC]²
2009
[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014
10 Cloverfield Lane
2016
10 to Midnight
1983
11-11-11
2011
12
2007
12 Rounds
2009
12 Rounds 3: Lockdown
2015
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
2016
15 Minutes
2001
16 Blocks
2006
2 Days in the Valley
1996
2 Fast 2 Furious
2003
2010
1984
21 Grams
2003
24 Hours to Live
2017
28 Days Later
2002
28 Weeks Later
2007
3 Days to Kill
2014
30 Days of Night
2007
47 Meters Down
2017
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
2019
49th Parallel
1941
52 Pick-Up
1986
8 Women
2002
88 Minutes
2007
8MM
1999
9
2009
A Bigger Splash
2015
A Force of One
1979
A Good Day to Die Hard
2013
A Haunting in Venice
2023
A History of Violence
2005
A Lonely Place to Die
2011
A Man Escaped
1956
A Most Violent Year
2014
A Most Wanted Man
2014
A Nightmare on Elm Street
2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
1988
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child
1989
A Perfect Getaway
2009
A Perfect World
1993
A Quiet Place Part II
2021
A Sound of Thunder
2005
A Time to Kill
1996
A View to a Kill
1985
A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014
Abduction
2011
Act of Valor
2012
Addicted
2014
Æon Flux
2005
Affliction
1998
After Hours
1985
After.Life
2009
Air Force One
1997
Airport
1970
Airport '77
1977
Airport 1975
1974
Alien Nation
1988
Alien: Romulus
2024
Alive
1993
All About the Benjamins
2002
All the King's Men
2006
All the Money in the World
2017
All the Old Knives
2022
All the President's Men
1976
Allied
2016
Alone
2007
Along Came a Spider
2001
Alpha Dog
2006
Altered States
1980
Ambulance
2022
American Assassin
2017
Amityville: The Awakening
2017
Amores Perros
2000
An American Haunting
2005
An Innocent Man
1989
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
2004
Angel Eyes
2001
Animal World
2018
Anna
2019
Anonymous
2011
Anthropoid
2016
Antichrist
2009
Apollo 18
2011
Apt Pupil
1998
Arbitrage
2012
Argo
2012
Argylle
2024
Armored
2009
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
As Above, So Below
2014
Assassination
2015
Assassins
1995
Atlas Shrugged: Part I
2011
Atomic Blonde
2017
Baby Boy
2001
Babylon A.D.
2008
Bad Boys
1983
Bad Company
2002
Bad Dreams
1988
Bad Genius
2017
Bad Influence
1990
Bad Times at the El Royale
2018
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
2002
Balloon
2018
Bangkok Dangerous
2008
Barbarian
2022
Barton Fink
1991
Basic
2003
Basic Instinct 2
2006
Bats
1999
Battle Royale
2000
Battle Royale II: Requiem
2003
Battleship
2012
Beast
2022
Beasts Clawing at Straws
2020
Before I Go to Sleep
2014
Before I Wake
2016
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007
Behind Enemy Lines
2001
Beloved
1998
Bereavement
2010
Best of the Best 2
1993
Big Trouble
2002
Billy Bathgate
1991
Black and Blue
2019
Black Book
2006
Black Box
2021
Black Moon Rising
1986
Black Swan
2010
Black Widow
1987
Blackhat
2015
Blacklight
2022
Blair Witch
2016
Bleach the Movie: The DiamondDust Rebellion
2007
Blind Horizon
2003
Blindness
2008
Blink Twice
2024
Blood Diamond
2006
Blood Work
2002
Blood: The Last Vampire
2009
Bloodsport
1988
Blue Thunder
1983
Bodies at Rest
2019
Body Double
1984
Body Heat
1981
Body of Lies
2008
Boiler Room
2000
Boogeyman
2005
Bordertown
2007
Boss Level
2021
Bound
1996
Bound by Honor
1993
Brahms: The Boy II
2020
Brainstorm
1983
Brazil
1985
Breaking In
2018
Bridge of Spies
2015
Brokedown Palace
1999
Broken Arrow
1996
Broken Embraces
2009
Brooklyn's Finest
2010
Brother
2000
Brothers
2009
Bullet to the Head
2012
Bullet Train
2022
Bullitt
1968
Burke & Hare
2010
Burning
2018
Candyman
2021
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1995
Cape Fear
1962
Capricorn One
1977
Captain Phillips
2013
Captive State
2019
Captivity
2007
Carlito's Way
1993
Carrie
1976
Carriers
2009
Case 39
2009
Casino Royale
2006
Cassandra's Dream
2007
Cat People
1982
Catch a Fire
2006
Cell 211
2009
Cellular
2004
Chain Reaction
1996
Changing Lanes
2002
Chappaquiddick
2018
Charlie's Angels
2000
Chasing the Dragon
2017
Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch
2019
Chaw
2009
Chernobyl Diaries
2012
Child's Play
1972
Child's Play
2019
Child's Play 2
1990
Child's Play 3
1991
Children of Men
2006
Children of the Corn
1984
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice
1992
Chill Factor
1999
Chinatown
1974
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe
2015
City Hall
1996
City Under Siege
2010
Civil War
2024
Cleaner
2007
Clear and Present Danger
1994
Cliff Walkers
2021
Closed Circuit
2013
Club Dread
2004
Cobra
1986
Cocaine Bear
2023
Code of Silence
1985
Cold Creek Manor
2003
Cold Eyes
2013
Cold War II
2016
Collateral
2004
Collateral Damage
2002
Colombiana
2011
Color of Night
1994
Come and See
1985
Commando
1985
Con Air
1997
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
Confidence
2003
Consenting Adults
1992
Contagion
2011
Contraband
2012
Cop Land
1997
Cops & Robbersons
1994
Copshop
2021
Copycat
1995
Countdown
2019
Counter Investigation
2007
Courage Under Fire
1996
Crawl
2019
Creep
2004
Criminal
2016
Criminal Law
1989
Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
2004
Crimson Tide
1995
Cruising
1980
Cuckoo
2024
Cyborg
1989
D-Tox
2002
D.O.A.
1988
Damien - Omen II
1978
Dante's Peak
1997
Dark Blue
2002
Dark Places
2015
Dark Skies
2013
Darkman
1990
Day Watch
2006
Dead Calm
1989
Dead Man Down
2013
Dead Presidents
1995
Dead Ringers
1988
Death and the Maiden
1994
Death Note
2006
Death Note: The Last Name
2006
Death Proof
2007
Death Race
2008
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
2018
Death Sentence
2007
Death Warrant
1990
Death Whisperer
2023
Death Wish
2018
Death Wish II
1982
Deception
2008
Decision to Leave
2022
Deliver Us from Evil
2014
Deliverance
1972
Demolition Man
1993
Den of Thieves
2018
Derailed
2005
Desierto
2015
Desperado
1995
Detroit
2017
Devil
2010
Diabolique
1996
Diamonds Are Forever
1971
Diary of the Dead
2007
Die Another Day
2002
Die Hard
1988
Die Hard 2
1990
Dirty Harry
1971
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry
1974
District 13: Ultimatum
2009
District B13
2004
Disturbia
2007
Dog Day Afternoon
1975
Dogman
2018
Dogville
2003
Domestic Disturbance
2001
Domino
2005
Don
2006
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010
Don't Breathe
2016
Don't Breathe 2
2021
Don't Let Go
2019
Don't Say a Word
2001
Don't Worry Darling
2022
Donnie Brasco
1997
Doomsday
2008
Dorian Gray
2009
Dr. No
1962
Dracula 2000
2000
Drag Me to Hell
2009
Dragon Wars: D-War
2007
Dragonball Evolution
2009
Dragonfly
2002
Dreamcatcher
2003
Dressed to Kill
1980
Drive
2011
Drive Angry
2011
Drive-Away Dolls
2024
Drop Zone
1994
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
2011
Eagle Eye
2008
Earthquake
1974
Eastern Promises
2007
Edge of Darkness
2010
Eight Legged Freaks
2002
Elephant
2003
Elysium
2013
Emergency Declaration
2022
End of Watch
2012
Enemy of the State
1998
Fargo
1996
Fight Club
1999
Furie
2019
Furious 7
2015
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2009
Game of Death
1978
Gamer
2009
Gangster Squad
2013
Gattaca
1997
Gemini Man
2019
Geostorm
2017
Get Carter
2000
Get Out
2017
Get Shorty
1995
Get Smart
2008
Get the Gringo
2012
Ghost Rider
2007
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
2011
Ghost Ship
2002
Gilda
1946
Glass
2019
Go
1999
Godzilla Against MechaGodzilla
2002
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus
2000
Gogol. The Beginning
2017
Goldfinger
1964
Gone
2012
Gone Girl
2014
Gone in Sixty Seconds
2000
Good Time
2017
Gosford Park
2001
Gossip
2000
Gotcha!
1985
Gothika
2003
Green Lantern
2011
Green Zone
2010
Greenland
2020
Grosse Pointe Blank
1997
Guilty as Sin
1993
Guns Akimbo
2020
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant
2023
Half Past Dead
2002
Halloween
1978
Halloween
2018
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
1988
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
1989
Halloween Ends
2022
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
Halloween II
1981
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
1995
Hamburger Hill
1987
Hanna
2011
Hannibal Rising
2007
Hard Candy
2005
Hard Rain
1998
Hard Target
1993
Hard to Kill
1990
Hardware
1990
Harsh Times
2005
Hate Story 2
2014
Hate Story 3
2015
Haywire
2011
He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not
2002
Hell or High Water
2016
Hellbound: Hellraiser II
1988
Hellraiser
1987
Hellraiser: Bloodline
1996
Hero and the Terror
1988
Hideaway
1995
High Anxiety
1977
High Noon
1952
Higher Learning
1995
Hitman
2007
Hitman: Agent 47
2015
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard
2021
Hollywoodland
2006
Homefront
2013
Homestead
2024
Honest Thief
2020
Hostage
2005
Hotel Mumbai
2019
House at the End of the Street
2012
House of Wax
2005
Humane
2024
Hunter Killer
2018
Hush
1998
I Know What You Did Last Summer
1997
I Know Who Killed Me
2007
I Saw the Devil
2010
I Spy
2002
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
1998
I, Frankenstein
2014
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
2020
Ice Station Zebra
1968
Identity
2003
Immaculate
2024
In the Bedroom
2001
In the Cut
2003
In the Heart of the Sea
2015
In the Heat of the Night
1967
In the House
2012
In the Valley of Elah
2007
In Time
2011
In Too Deep
1999
Incarnate
2016
Infernal Affairs
2002
Insidious
2011
Insidious: Chapter 2
2013
Insidious: Chapter 3
2015
Insidious: The Last Key
2018
Insomnia
2002
Internal Affairs
1990
Intimate Strangers
2004
Into the Blue
2005
Intruder
2020
Invasion U.S.A.
1985
Jackie Brown
1997
Jaws
1975
Joker
2019
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004
M
1931
Ma
2019
Macabre
1958
Machete
2010
Mad City
1997
Mad Max
1979
Mad Max 2
1981
Madame Web
2024
Madras Cafe
2013
Malang
2020
Mama
2013
Man of the Year
2006
Man on a Ledge
2012
Man on the Train
2002
Memento
2000
Monkey Man
2024
Monkey Shines
1988
Monster
2023
Monsters
2010
Moonraker
1979
Morgan
2016
Motel Hell
1980
Motherless Brooklyn
2019
MR-9: Do or Die
2023
Mr. Brooks
2007
Mulholland Drive
2001
Mulholland Falls
1996
Munich
2005
No Country for Old Men
2007
On the Waterfront
1954
Parasite
2019
Pulp Fiction
1994
Race to Witch Mountain
2009
Raging Fire
2021
Rambo
2008
Rambo: Last Blood
2019
Ran
1985
Random Hearts
1999
Rear Window
1954
Reservoir Dogs
1992
Saturn 3
1980
Savages
2012
Saw III
2006
Saw VI
2009
Scanners
1981
Searching
2018
Secret Agents
2004
Secret Window
2004
Self/less
2015
Serenity
2019
Serial Mom
1994
Severance
2006
Shaft
2000
Shaft
1971
Shallow Grave
1994
Shanghai
2012
Shark Night 3D
2011
Shattered
1991
Shutter Island
2010
Tenet
2020
The Age of Shadows
2016
The Amateur
1981
The American
2010
The Anderson Tapes
1971
The Andromeda Strain
1971
The Apparition
2012
The Arrival
1996
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
2004
The Assistant
2020
The Astronaut's Wife
1999
The Attacks Of 26/11
2013
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016
The Avengers
1998
The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008
The Bank Job
2008
The Beasts
2022
The Bedroom Window
1987
The Beekeeper
2024
The Beguiled
2017
The Berlin File
2013
The Big Doll House
1971
The Big Hit
1998
The Big Sleep
1946
The Black Dahlia
2006
The Blob
1988
The Departed
2006
The Expendables 2
2012
The Experiment
2001
The Eye
2008
The Family
2013
The Fast and the Furious
2001
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
2006
The Fate of the Furious
2017
The Ferpect Crime
2004
The Final Conflict
1981
The Finest Hours
2016
The Firm
1993
The Flu
2013
The Foreigner
2017
The Forest
2016
The Forgotten
2004
The Formula
1980
The Forsaken
2001
The Fourth Kind
2009
The Fourth Protocol
1987
The French Revolution
1989
The Frozen Ground
2013
The Fury
1978
The Gallows
2015
The Gambler
2014
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019
The Gauntlet
1977
The Getaway
1972
The Ghost Writer
2010
The Gift
2015
The Girl Who Played with Fire
2009
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011
The Glass House
2001
The Glimmer Man
1996
The Good German
2006
The Good Shepherd
2006
The Good Son
1993
The Gray Man
2022
The Great Escape
1963
The Grey
2012
The Grifters
1990
The Grudge 2
2006
The Grudge 3
2009
The Guard
2011
The Guardian
1990
The Guns of Navarone
1961
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1992
The Handmaiden
2016
The Haunting in Connecticut
2009
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
2013
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
2008
The Lives of Others
2006
The Next Three Days
2010
The Ninth Gate
1999
The November Man
2014
The Number 23
2007
The Nun
2018
The Omega Man
1971
The Omen
1976
The Omen
2006
The One
2001
The Order
2003
The Orphanage
2007
The Osterman Weekend
1983
The Other Side of the Door
2016
The Others
2001
The Outlaws
2017
The Package
1989
The Page Turner
2006
The Peacemaker
1997
The People Under the Stairs
1991
The Perfect Guy
2015
The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon
2023
The Player
1992
The Pledge
2001
The Pope's Exorcist
2023
The Poseidon Adventure
1972
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
The Presidio
1988
The Priests
2015
The Prodigy
2019
The Professor and the Madman
2019
The Promise
2005
The Proposition
2005
The Protégé
2021
The Puppet Masters
1994
The Purge
2013
The Purge: Anarchy
2014
The Quick and the Dead
1995
The Quiet American
2002
The Rage: Carrie 2
1999
The Raid 2
2014
The Rainmaker
1997
The Raven
2012
The Real McCoy
1993
The Recruit
2003
The Relic
1997
The Return
2006
The Return of Godzilla
1984
The Rhythm Section
2020
The Rich Man's Wife
1996
The Rite
2011
The River Wild
1994
The Road
2009
The Rock
1996
The Rookie
1990
The Roommate
2011
The Roundup: No Way Out
2023
The Rundown
2003
The Running Man
1987
The Russia House
1990
The Saint
1997
The Salesman
2016
The Score
2001
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2024
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
2007
The Sentinel
2006
The Serpent and the Rainbow
1988
The Siege
1998
The Sixth Sense
1999
The Skeleton Key
2005
The Skin I Live In
2011
The Skulls
2000
The Snowman
2017
The Spacewalker
2017
The Spanish Prisoner
1997
The Specialist
1994
The Stepfather
2009
The Stepford Wives
1975
The Strangers
2008
The Strangers: Prey at Night
2018
The Swarm
1978
The Tailor of Panama
2001
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
2009
The Tenant
1976
The Thirteenth Floor
1999
The Tourist
2010
The Tower
2012
The Towering Inferno
1974
The Town
2010
The Train
1964
The Transporter
2002
The Transporter Refueled
2015
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020
The Turning
2020
The Tuxedo
2002
The Two Faces of January
2014
The Unborn
2009
The Unknown Woman
2006
The Untouchables
1987
The Vault
2021
The Village
2004
The Villainess
2017
The Virtuoso
2021
The Visit
2015
The Wages of Fear
1953
The Wall
2017
The Ward
2010
The Warrior's Way
2010
The Warriors
1979
The Watcher in the Woods
1980
The Wave
2015
The Wave
2008
The Whole Ten Yards
2004
The Wicker Man
2006
The Witch: Part 2. The Other One
2022
The Woman in Black
2012
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
2014
The World Is Not Enough
1999
The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008
Thelma & Louise
1991
They
2002
Thief
1981
Thief of Hearts
1984
Thir13en Ghosts
2001
Those Who Wish Me Dead
2021
Three Days of the Condor
1975
Throw Momma from the Train
1987
Thunderball
1965
Tidal Wave
2009
Tiger 3
2023
Tightrope
1984
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2011
Titane
2021
To Live and Die in L.A.
1985
Tokyo Ghoul
2017
Tomorrow Never Dies
1997
Top Dog
1995
Topaz
1969
Torn Curtain
1966
Toy Soldiers
1991
Traffic
2000
Traffik
2018
Train to Busan
2016
Traitor
2008
Trance
2013
Transcendence
2014
Transporter 2
2005
TransSiberian
2008
Trespass
1992
True Crime
1999
True Lies
1994
Truth or Dare
2018
Tunnel
2016
Turbulence
1997
Turistas
2006
Turner & Hooch
1989
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
2024
Twisters
2024
Two for the Money
2005
Two-Minute Warning
1976
U Turn
1997
U.S. Marshals
1998
Uncut Gems
2019
Under Siege
1992
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
1995
Underworld
2003
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016
Underworld: Evolution
2006
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
2009
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
2006
Unforgettable
2017
Unhinged
2020
United 93
2006
Universal Soldier
1992
Unknown
2011
Unlawful Entry
1992
Untraceable
2008
Upendra
1999
Upgrade
2018
Vanguard
2020
Vanishing Point
1971
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
2021
Vertical Limit
2000
Vertigo
1958
Very Bad Things
1998
Veteran
2015
Vigilante
1983
Village of the Damned
1995
Virtuosity
1995
Visiting Hours
1982
Von Ryan's Express
1965
Waist Deep
2006
Wait Until Dark
1967
Walking Tall
2004
Wanted
2008
War
2019
War
2007
WarGames
1983
We Need to Talk About Kevin
2011
We Own the Night
2007
What Lies Beneath
2000
When the Bough Breaks
2016
White House Down
2013
White Man's Burden
1995
White Nights
1985
Whiteout
2009
Widows
2018
Wild at Heart
1990
Wild Tales
2014
Wild Things
1998
Willard
2003
Winchester
2018
Wind River
2017
Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2
2024
Witchboard
1986
Witness
1985
Wolf Creek
2005
Wolf Creek 2
2013
World Trade Center
2006
Wrath of Man
2021
Wrong Turn
2003
Wrongfully Accused
1998
X
2022
xXx
2002
xXx: State of the Union
2005
You Only Live Twice
1967
You Were Never Really Here
2017
You're Next
2013
Z
1969
Zero Dark Thirty
2012
Zodiac
2007