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Move to the edge of your seat, now that you’ve discovered our choice of thriller films at Cinema Paradiso. Add a thriller film alongside your pick of other rental films and you’ll be sure to get your adrenaline pumping. A thriller is a great film to enjoy amongst friends and loved ones, especially if they’ve got an equal desire for intriguing plots and the odd surprise.

Thriller Films

Our selection of thriller films features various subgenres including action, erotic, crime and classic thrillers, as well as general, political, suspense, psychological, sci-fi thrillers and more.

Within our collection of thriller films, you’ll find some of the best horror-thriller movies of all time, as well as the best psychological thriller movies and a further choice of thriller film options.

Whatever type of thriller you like watching, you’ll find a suitable thriller movie from Cinema Paradiso.

Thriller Films 2020

We have numerous thriller films released available to rent or coming soon in 2020. Here is simply a shortlist of 2020 thriller films available from Cinema Paradiso.

21 Bridges follows an embattled NYPD detective (Chadwick Boseman), who is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on who he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all 21 bridges to prevent any entry or exit from the iconic island.

One of the most anticipated releases of the year, Joker centres around an origin of the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. Todd Phillips' exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is not only a gritty character study but also a broader cautionary tale.

Acclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in Knives Out, a fresh, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate.

Doctor Sleep, a long-awaited sequel to The Shining, the story follows Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) and where, on highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless but as Dan knows, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive. Unable to watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press.

More thriller films

In addition to our list of 2020 thriller films above, we have more thriller films available to rent at Cinema Paradiso.

We also have thriller movies from other years, including the 2001 classic thriller Session 9 set in the abandoned, deteriorating and demonic Danvers State Mental Hospital, as well as Hostel, presented by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Eli Roth. Undoubtedly one of the most brutal and best horror thriller movies of all time, Hostel centres on two young Americans backpacking through Europe who find themselves lured into a hostel as victims of a murder-for-profit business.