Top 10 Best suspense movies

By Chilimovie - 21 November 2016

What a film can be called a classic suspense movie? Maybe different people have different views and watching experiences. The best suspense movie needs that you focus all your attention on the plot. You will deeply impressed by the unexpected ending and lost in thought that how this plot develop and why becomes such an ending?  

Identity

Identity

IMDb 7.3/10

Rotten Tomatoes 75%


Director:James Mangold

Writer:Michael Cooney

Stars:John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet

Release date: 2003-04-25

Storyline:

Malcolm Rivers has been convicted as the perpetrator of several murders and is sentenced to death. An eleventh hour defense by his lawyers and psychiatrist that Malcolm is insane based on new evidence has resulted in them meeting with the prosecutors and the judge to discuss if the verdict should be overturned. Meanwhile, on a dark night during a torrential rainstorm in the Nevada desert, a series of chain reaction events results in several people needing to stay at an out of the way motel managed by Larry. They are: ex-cop now limo driver Ed, and his client Caroline, a diva of a once famous actress; quiet adolescent Timmy, his stepfather George, and his mother Alice, who was seriously injured when Ed accidentally ran over her as she watched George change their flat tire; prostitute Paris, who was the unwitting cause of George's flat tire; newlyweds Lou and Ginny, whose marriage is based on a lie; and Police Officer Rhodes, who was en route escorting prisoner Robert to his new ...

shutter island

Shutter Island


IMDb 8.1/10

Rotten Tomatoes 76%

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay), Dennis Lehane (novel)

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo

Release date: 2010-02-19

Storyline:

It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

IMDb 7.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes 81%


Directors:Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber

Writers:J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress

Stars:Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters

Release date: 2004-01-23

Storyline

Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!

Fight Club


Fight Club


IMDb 8.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes 96%


Director:David Fincher

Writers:Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay)

Stars:Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf

Release date: 1999-10-15

Storyline

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Se7en

 

Se7en

IMDb 8.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes 95%

  

Director:David Fincher

Writer:Andrew Kevin Walker

Stars:Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey

Release date: 1999-10-15

Storyline

A film about two homicide detectives' (Morgan Freeman and (Brad Pitt desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" (Kevin Spacey) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Somerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills (Pitt) scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...

The Silence of the Lambs


The Silence of the Lambs

IMDb 8.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes 95%

Director:Jonathan Demme

Writers:Thomas Harris (novel), Ted Tally (screenplay)

Stars:Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney

Release date: 1998-07-01

Storyline

FBI trainee Clarice Starling works hard to advance her career, including trying to hide or put behind her West Virginia roots, of which if some knew would automatically classify her as being backward or white trash. After graduation, she aspires to work in the agency's Behavioral Science Unit under the leadership of Jack Crawford. While she is still a trainee, Crawford does ask her to question Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist imprisoned thus far for eight years in maximum security isolation for being a serial killer, he who cannibalized his victims. Clarice is able to figure out the assignment is to pick Lecter's brains to help them solve another serial murder case, that of someone coined by the media as Buffalo Bill who has so far killed five victims, all located in the eastern US, all young women who are slightly overweight especially around the hips, all who were drowned in natural bodies of water, and all who were stripped of large swaths of skin. She also figures that Crawford...

Triangle

  

Triangle

IMDb 6.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes 65%


Director:Christopher Smith

Writer:Christopher Smith

Stars:Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Jack Taylor

Release date: 2009-10-24

Storyline

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Her suspicions are realized when the yacht hits a storm and the group is forced to board a passing ocean liner to get to safety, a ship Jess is convinced she's been on before. The ship appears deserted, the clock on board has stopped, but they are not alone... Someone is intent on hunting them down, one by one. And Jess unknowingly holds the key to end the terror.

Gone Girl

Gone Girl

IMDb 8.1/10

Rotten Tomatoes 87%


Director:David Fincher

Writers:Gillian Flynn (screenplay), Gillian Flynn (novel)

Stars:Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

Release date: 2014-10-03

Storyline

On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

Mulholland Drive

Mulholland Drive

IMDb 8.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes 88%

Director:David Lynch

Writer:David Lynch

Stars:Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux

Release date: 2001-10-19

Storyline

A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Memento

Memento

IMDb 8.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes 94%

Director:Christopher Nolan

Writers:Christopher Nolan (screenplay), Jonathan Nolan (short story "Memento Mori")

Stars:Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano

Release date:2000-09-05

Storyline

Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time