Best Thriller movies that are award winners or nominees

Actors : Tom Wilkinson, John Kani, Val Kilmer, Michael Douglas,
Directors : Stephen Hopkins,

A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.

Actors : Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen,
Directors : Rod Lurie,

Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for US Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to de-rail her confirmation.

Actors : Joan Crawford, Wesley Addy, Victor Buono, Bette Davis,
Directors : Robert Aldrich,

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Actors : Dustin Hoffman, T.P. McKenna, Susan George, Peter Vaughan,
Directors : Sam Peckinpah,

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.

Actors : Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Cliff Robertson,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, George Kennedy, Jean Seberg,

A bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, William Devane,
Directors : John Schlesinger,

A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.

Actors : Bruno Cremer, Roy Scheider, Francisco Rabal, Amidou,
Directors : William Friedkin,

Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.

Actors : Djebril Zonga, Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Issa Perica,
Directors : Ladj Ly,

A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.

Actors : Jon Finch, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Barry Foster,
Directors : Alfred Hitchcock,

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.

Actors : Tommy Lee Jones, Steven Seagal, Gary Busey, Erika Eleniak,
Directors : Andrew Davis,

A Navy cook is the only person who can stop a group of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. battleship.

Actors : William Holden, Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Newman,
Directors : John Guillermin,

At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.

Actors : Kim Greist, Danny DeVito, Anne Ramsey, Billy Crystal,
Directors : Danny DeVito,

A bitter ex-husband and a put-upon momma's boy both want their respective former spouse and mother dead. Who will pull it off?

Actors : Frances Reid, Frank Campanella, John Randolph, Rock Hudson,
Directors : John Frankenheimer,

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity - one that comes with its own price.

Actors : Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Scott Brady, Michael Douglas,
Directors : James Bridges,

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Actors : Clint Eastwood, Donna Mills, John Larch, Jessica Walter,
Directors : Clint Eastwood,

A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.

Actors : Roy Scheider, Jane Fonda, Charles Cioffi, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Alan J. Pakula,

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Actors : James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier,
Directors : Franklin J. Schaffner,

A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Actors : Tom Hulce, Rosie Perez, Jeff Bridges, Isabella Rossellini,
Directors : Peter Weir,

A man's personality is dramatically changed after surviving a major airline crash.

Actors : Christopher St. John, Moses Gunn, Richard Roundtree, Charles Cioffi,
Directors : Gordon Parks,

Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.