Best Thriller on Paramount+, ranked by IMDb rating
106 thriller titles on Paramount+ rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 50 are ranked below.
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
★ 8.8 IMDb 🍅 92%
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
★ 8.6 IMDb 🍅 90%
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
★ 8.2 IMDb 🍅 93%
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey an
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
★ 8.0 IMDb 🍅 97%
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
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The Untouchables (1987)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 83%
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
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Zodiac (2007)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 90%
Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes of the professionals.
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Taken (2008)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 60%
Bryan Mills, a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter Kim. After reluctantly agreeing with his ex-wife to let Kim go to Paris on vacation with a friend, his worst nightmare comes tr
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Primal Fear (1996)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 77%
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds hims
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 87%
The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
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Minority Report (2002)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 89%
John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.
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The Machinist (2004)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 77%
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 96%
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the world'
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Match Point (2005)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 77%
Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and fina
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Searching (2018)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 92%
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 93%
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time
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Collateral (2004)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 86%
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 88%
A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius. The American government thinks Ramius is planning to attack. Lone CIA analyst J
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 93%
Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 85%
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his pla
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Marathon Man (1976)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 82%
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 71%
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary
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Witness (1985)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 92%
While protecting an Amish boy—the sole witness to a brutal murder—and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life comes under threat.
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
★ 7.3 IMDb 🍅 84%
After years of war, the Federation and the Klingon empire find themselves on the brink of a peace summit when a Klingon ship is nearly destroyed by an apparent attack from the Enterprise. Both worlds brace for what may b
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Undisputed III: Redemption (2010)
★ 7.3 IMDb
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But whe
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Mission: Impossible (1996)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 66%
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clea
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Shooter (2007)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 47%
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to h
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A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 91%
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond
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Anthropoid (2016)
★ 7.2 IMDb 🍅 67%
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
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Fist of Fury (1972)
★ 7.2 IMDb
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025)
★ 7.1 IMDb 🍅 80%
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past
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Allied (2016)
★ 7.1 IMDb 🍅 60%
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
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September 5 (2024)
★ 7.1 IMDb 🍅 91%
During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
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The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain (2021)
★ 7.1 IMDb 🍅 97%
Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched
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Jack Reacher (2012)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 64%
One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought into custody. The interrogation yields one wr
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Super 8 (2011)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 81%
In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing sense
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The Foreigner (2017)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 66%
Quan is a humble London businessman whose long-buried past erupts in a revenge-fueled vendetta when the only person left for him to love – his teenage daughter – dies in an Irish Republican Army car bombing. His relentle
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The Words (2012)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 24%
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to ha
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Breakdown (1997)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 83%
On their cross-country drive, a married couple, Jeff and Amy Taylor, experience car trouble after their SUV breaks down. Stranded in the New Mexico desert, the two catch a break when a passing truck driver offers Amy a r
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Strange Darling (2024)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 96%
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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Undisputed II: Last Man Standing (2006)
★ 7.0 IMDb
Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to the death. This tim
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Juice (1992)
★ 7.0 IMDb 🍅 82%
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspir
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Mission: Impossible III (2006)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 73%
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as h
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The Firm (1993)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 76%
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally ob
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Clear and Present Danger (1994)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 81%
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts dis
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Fatal Attraction (1987)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 74%
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
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The Last Stop in Yuma County (2024)
★ 6.9 IMDb 🍅 97%
While awaiting the next fuel truck at a middle-of-nowhere Arizona rest stop, a traveling young knife salesman is thrust into a high-stakes hostage situation by the arrival of two similarly stranded bank robbers with no q
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The Island (2005)
★ 6.8 IMDb
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly t
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Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
★ 6.8 IMDb 🍅 71%
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a serie
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Smile 2 (2024)
★ 6.7 IMDb 🍅 86%
About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to
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Out of the Furnace (2013)
★ 6.7 IMDb 🍅 53%
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.