Best Thriller movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Nastassja Kinski, Annette O'Toole,
Directors : Paul Schrader,

A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

Actors : Eero Milonoff, Ann Petrén, Jörgen Thorsson, Eva Melander,
Directors : Ali Abbasi,

A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.

Actors : Madeleine Stowe, Joseph Melito, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt,
Directors : Terry Gilliam,

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

Actors : Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann,
Directors : Alejandro Amenábar,

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.

Actors : Andy Garcia, Kate Capshaw, Ken Takakura, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Ridley Scott,

Two NYC cops arrest a Yakuza member and must escort him when he's extradited to Japan.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Juliette Lewis, Jessica Lange, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

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

Actors : Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Paul Newman, Melinda Dillon,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

When a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.

Actors : River Phoenix, Jadrien Steele, Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford,
Directors : Peter Weir,

An eccentric and dogmatic inventor sells his house and takes his family to Central America to build a utopia in the middle of the jungle. Conflicts with his family, a local preacher and ...

Actors : Ed Harris, John Spencer, Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Michael Bay,

A mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.

Actors : Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam Shepard, Natalie Portman,
Directors : Jim Sheridan,

A young man comforts his older brother's wife and children after he goes missing in Afghanistan.

Actors : Hal Holbrook, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side.

Actors : Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow,
Directors : Renny Harlin,

A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.

Actors : Gary Sinise, Rene Russo, Mel Gibson, Brawley Nolte,
Directors : Ron Howard,

When a multimillionaire man's son is kidnapped, he cooperates with the police at first but then turns the tables on the kidnappers when he uses the ransom money as a reward for the capture of the kidnappers.

Actors : Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : John Boorman,

Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Actors : Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Euzhan Palcy,

Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police ...

Actors : Al Pacino, John Leguizamo, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

Actors : David Morse, Robin Wright, Anjelica Huston, Jack Nicholson,
Directors : Sean Penn,

Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Charles Napier,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Actors : Nikita Mikhalkov, Sergey Garmash, Apti Magamaev, Sergey Makovetskiy,
Directors : Nikita Mikhalkov,

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.

Actors : Susan Sarandon, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg,
Directors : Peter Jackson,

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.