The best thriller films of 2024
Fans of suspenseful feature films know that there is often nothing better than watching a thrilling story unfold in a darkened cinema (or living room). Luckily for us, the 2024 film list includes several can’t-miss thrillers, from the highly anticipated A quiet place Spin-offs, several original stories from Sundance and gripping psychological thrillers starring superstars like Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Nicole Kidman. Here’s what’s on our must-see list.
‘My mistake’
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Release date: 23 February 2024
With: Kelly Rowland, Trevante Rhodes, Sean Sagar, Nick Sagar, RonReaco Lee, Shannon Thornton, Angela Robinson, Kerry O’Malley and Connor Weil.
Netflix and Tyler Perry’s steamy legal thriller follows criminal defense attorney Mea Harper (Rowland) as she takes on a murder case against an artist (Rhodes) accused of killing his girlfriend. As she tries to find out if her client is as innocent as he claims, Mea is thrust into a world that is as steamy as it is dangerous.
Trailer: HERE
‘Love lies bleeding’
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Release date: 8 March 2024
With: Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brian, Ed Harris, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov and Dave Franco.
In this highly anticipated romantic thriller, reclusive gym manager Lou (Stewart) falls in love with ambitious bodybuilder Jackie (O’Brian). “Their love soon turns to violence as they become drawn deep into the web of Lou’s crime family,” the film’s description reads.
Trailer: HERE
‘Ape Man’
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Release date: 5 April 2024
With: Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Pitobash, Sobhita Dhulipala, Sikandar Kher, Vipin Sharma, Ashwini Kalsekar, Adithi Kalkunte and Makarand Deshpande.
Patel directs and stars in this action thriller inspired by Hanuman, the Hindu god of wisdom, strength and courage. The film follows “The Kid,” an anonymous warrior who has spent his life seeking revenge on the corrupt officials who killed his mother and destroyed his home.
Trailer: HERE
‘Civil War’
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Release date: 12 April 2024
With: Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jesse Plemons and Nick Offerman.
This shocking film from destruction Director Alex Garland depicts a fictional near-future America in the midst of an armed civil war (because that’s exactly what our collective fear needs right now). In the film, Dunst plays a photojournalist documenting atrocities as a massive Fourth of July invasion unfolds in Washington, DC.
Trailer: HERE
“A quiet place: day one”
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Release date: 28 June 2024
With: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou and Denis O’Hare.
This spin-off of the suspenseful hit series takes viewers back to the early days of the alien invasion, but leaves the Abbott family (played by John Krasinski and Emily Blunt) behind and instead follows a new woman (Nyong’o’) as she experiences her terrifying first moments in the city that never sleeps (or rests), New York.
Trailer: HERE
‘Twisters’
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Release date: 19 July 2024
With: Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack and Maura Tierney.
The action thriller from 1996 Twisters (starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Cary Elwes as storm chasers chasing the strongest tornado in decades) is the latest ’90s classic to be resurrected in the 2020s. Plot details of the new film are still under wraps, but it has been described as a “new chapter” of the original.
Trailer: HERE
“Mother instinct”
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Release date: 26 July 2024
With: Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway
Now come the jokes about the “literal mom-out thing”: Oscar winners Chastain and Hathaway play best friends raising sons of the same age in 1960s suburbia in this tense psychological thriller. According to the film’s description, the couple’s familial ties are gradually eroded by guilt and paranoia after their lives are “rocked by a tragic accident involving one of their children,” and a gripping battle of wills unfolds that reveals the darker side of motherly love.
Trailer: HERE
‘Catch’
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Release date: 2 August 2024
With: Josh Hartnett, Hayley Mills, Vanessa Smythe and Saleka Shyamalan.
In M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Hartnett plays Cooper, a mild-mannered father who takes his teenage daughter to see her favorite pop star, Lady Raven (played by the director’s daughter, Saleka Night Shyamalan). Once there, Cooper discovers that the whole concert is actually a trap to catch a notorious serial killer known as the “Butcher.” One problem: The Butcher is Cooper.
Trailer: HERE
“Blink Twice” (formerly “Pussy Island”)
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Release date: 23 August 2024
With: Channing Tatum, Naomi Ackie, Alia Shawkat, Simon Rex, Adria Arjona, Haley Joel Osment, Christian Slater, Kyle MacLachlan and Geena Davis.
Zoe Kravitz’s directorial debut – now with a new title – will finally premiere this year. It is about a tech billionaire (Tatum) who invites cocktail waitress Frida (Ackie) to accompany him and his friends to his private island. diversity“Nobody wants this journey to end, but when strange things start happening, Frida begins to question her reality. There’s something wrong with this place. She must find out the truth if she wants to leave this party alive.”
Trailer: HERE
‘Strange Darling’
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Release date: 23 August 2024
With: Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Barbara Hershey and Ed Begley Jr.
This non-chronological horror thriller tells the story of a notorious serial killer in six chapters, beginning with a wild chase as the Lady (Fitzgerald) flees from a man known as “The Demon” (Gallner). To keep spoilers to a minimum, all we’ll say is: get ready for some jaw-dropping twists.
Trailer: HERE
“The substance”
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Release date: 20 September 2024
With: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley and Dennis Quaid.
In this gruesome body horror thriller, Moore plays Elisabeth Sparkle, a washed-up star nearing the end of her career who finds herself drawn to the mysterious titular drug that splits her into her current body and a beautiful twenty-something double named Sue. The film’s description states: “The only rule? Time must be divided: exactly one week in one body, then one week in the other. No exceptions. A perfect balance. What could go wrong?”
Trailer: HERE
“Another man”
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Release date: 20 September 2024
With: Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve.
Edward (Stan), an insecure aspiring actor, finds a miracle cure for his facial disfigurement. But according to the film’s description, “his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare as he can no longer play the role he was born to play and becomes obsessed with regaining what he has lost.”
Trailer: HERE
“It depends on what’s inside”
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Release date: October 4, 2024
With: Brittany O’Grady, James Morosini, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Devon Terrell, Gavin Leatherwood, Reina Hardesty, Nina Bloomgarten, David Thompson and Madison Davenport.
In this indie psychological thriller, which Netflix picked up at Sundance, a group of former college friends reunite eight years later for a pre-wedding weekend, but one of the guests has brought a mysterious suitcase that turns the festivities into “existential chaos,” according to Netflix.
Trailer: To be announced
‘Holland, Michigan’
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Release date: To be announced
With: Nicole Kidman, Gael García Bernal, Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill, Rachel Sennott, Lennon Parham, Isaac Krasner and Jeff Pope.
Details about this tense Hitchcock thriller, which centers on “a Midwestern housewife who discovers her husband’s dark secret after suspecting he’s having an affair,” are largely still under wraps. Deadline.
Trailer: To be announced
