Not just Halloween is the time for scary and exciting films. Regardless of the season, the films on this list, which include some of the greatest actors of this age and beyond, are meant to play with the senses and stimulate the adrenal glands of their audiences. Netflix's extensive collection of thrillers features screenplays that are based on true stories as well as creative fantasy. These filmmakers have contributed to the genre's advancement, served as an homage to the pioneers of the genre, and helped launch it. It's difficult to choose the perfect movie for your mood when there are so many captivating titles and engaging stories accessible for streaming, but when you do, it's an incredible experience.

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The Devil All The Time

https://www.netflix.com/title/81028870 

Description

The Devil All the Time, a period thriller and Netflix original, follows various interrelated groups of individuals between the conclusion of World War II and the mid-1960s as they reside in two tiny Southern Ohio communities. With several young Hollywood heavyweights among the ensemble, they are connected by religious proselytising, war, corruption, suicide, desertion, and serial murder. The cast makes the most of the story's melodrama and terrible subject matter. Drawing on the 2011 novel and helmed by Antonio Campos (The Staircase), The Devil All the Time truly embodies the phrase "all the time" in its title, showcasing the multitude of transgressions and the lowest reaches of human depravity.

• Director - Antonio Campos
• Actors - Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Sebastian Stan, Riley Keough
• Story Writer - Antonio Campos, Paulo Campos
• Age Restriction - A

Rating

IMDB: 7.1/10 (150K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 65% (218  Votes)

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El Camino

https://www.netflix.com/title/81078819 

Description

Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), stars of Breaking Bad, return for El Camino, a movie based on the popular AMC series, with a lot more focus on Pinkman's role. El Camino, which has several cameos from Breaking Bad's five-season run, continues up where the television series left off, travelling through time and flashing back to events that are seen in the programme. Badger, Skinny Pete, and Jane are all returning in one way or another, although the majority of the movie's story is told by Nazi Todd (Jesse Plemons). Fans of Breaking Bad will be happy to learn that Jesse Pinkman has at last had time to reflect on the previous few years of his life.

• Director - Vince Gilligan
• Actors - Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Jesse Plemons, Jonathan Banks, Matt Jones
• Story Writer - Vince Gilligan
• Age Restriction - U/A 16+

Rating

IMDB: 7.3/10 (287 K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 92% (133 Votes)

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Bird Box

https://www.netflix.com/title/80196789 

Description

In the post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box, seeing becomes a disadvantage as the adversary must remain hidden at all costs. In the film, Sandra Bullock plays Malorie Hayes, a lady tasked with blindfolding two small children and carrying them down a river. This is part of the survivors' plan to keep from witnessing the beings who struck Earth five years prior and killed anybody who happened to glance at them. Director Susanne Bier leans into the stress of the unknown and lets her great but diverse ensemble take care of the rest, alternating between their current journey and the previous events that brought Malorie and the kids to this point.

• Director - Susanne Bier
• Actors - Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Danielle Macdonald, Sarah Paulson
• Story Writer - Eric Heisserer
• Age Restriction - A

Rating

IMDB: 6.6/10 (381 K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 64% (172  Votes)

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The Mule

https://www.netflix.com/title/81035551 

Description

2018 saw the conclusion of Clint Eastwood's ten-year acting break with the release of The Mule, a criminal thriller in which he acted and directed. Additionally, the seasoned actor could not have chosen a finer screenplay to commemorate his big-screen comeback. The Mule, which is based on a real tale that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, follows an elderly man named Earl Stone as he battles the breakdown of his family connections and company.

• Director -  Clint Eastwood
• Actors - Clint Eastwood, Bradley Cooper, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña
• Story Writer - Nick Schenk
• Age Restriction - A

Rating

IMDB: 7/10 (150K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 70% (194 Votes)

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Oxygen

https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81277610

Description

French survival thriller Oxygen was helmed by Alexandre Aja. The movie is about a young woman who wakes up in a cryogenic pod; she is played by Melanie Laurent of 6 Underground and Inglourious Basterds. She can't recall how she got there or who she is. She has to restore her memories to escape her nightmare because her oxygen supply is running low.

• Actors         - Mélanie Laurent, Mathieu Amalric, Malik Zidi
• Director - Alexandre Aja
• Story writer - Christie LeBlanc
• Age Restriction - PG-13

Rating

IMDB: 6.5/10 (43K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 89% (107 Votes)

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Society of the Snow

https://www.netflix.com/title/81268316 

Description

When a Uruguayan plane crashed in the Andes Mountains in 1972 while it was travelling to Santiago, Chile, the area became a survivalist's hell. The remaining sixteen passengers were forced to use unimaginable tactics to make their way back after becoming stuck in one of Mother Nature's most dangerous environments. Society of the Snow offers a far more raw and emotional experience, enhanced by the director's conversations with real-life survivors.

• Director - J.A. Bayona
• Actors - Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Felipe González Otaño
• Story Writer - J. A. Bayona, Nicolas Casariego
• Age Restriction - A

Rating

IMDB: 7.8/10 (103K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 91% (149 Votes)

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Uncut Gems

https://www.netflix.com/title/80990663 

Description

In this crime thriller, which takes place in New York and is propelled by the unending energy that keeps the city never sleeps, Sandler plays fast-talking diamond salesman Howard Ratner, who is attempting to cling on to his wife, his family, and his mistress while simultaneously fending off creditors who are determined to collect on his numerous debts. Uncut Gems, which is directed by the Safdie brothers and has a strong ensemble that includes Kevin Garnett in a self-starring role, is more of a race against self-combustion than a movie.

• Director - Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie  
• Actors - Adam Sandler, LaKeith Stanfield, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett
• Story Writer - Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
• Age Restriction - A

Rating

IMDB: 7.4/10 (314K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 91% (150  Votes)

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The Good Nurse

https://www.netflix.com/title/81260083 

Description

Amy Loughren plays a night nurse in the psychological thriller Netflix original film The Good Nurse. Her husband, Charles Cullen, is a working man. Amy, a single mother with a severe cardiac ailment, is horrified to discover that Charles may have had a hand in the recent deliberate death of a patient at their hospital. Amy discovers that the coworker she believes to be trustworthy is someone far more sinister the more she investigates. The Good Nurse, which is based on the true account of how Amy Loughren assisted law enforcement in apprehending serial murderer Charles Cullen, is classic, straight out of the newspaper's film noir with a suspenseful plot made all the more horrifying.

• Director - Tobias Lindholm
• Actors - Jessica Chastain, Eddie Redmayne
• Story Writer - Krysty Wilson-Cairns
• Age Restriction - A

Rating

IMDB: 6.8/10 (78K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 74% (167 Votes)

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Lou

https://www.netflix.com/title/81058695 

Description

In addition to being skilled at delivering lines, Allison Janney also possesses punching bags from her time spent practising for her next Netflix movie, Lou. Janney plays the title role in the movie, a misandrist landlady who lets a little girl named Vee and her single mother Hannah (Jurnee Smollett) live in her house. Lou offers to assist Hannah in rescuing Vee after she is abducted but to preserve Vee's future, Lou must face her troubled past. The fact that Smollett and Janney spent a significant portion of the movie drenched in mud indicates that director Anna Foerster asked a lot of her cast during filming.

• Director - Anna Foerster
• Actors - Allison Janney, Jurnee Smollett, Logan Marshall-Green
• Story Writer - Maggie Cohn
• Age Restriction - A

Rating

IMDB: 6.1/10 (32 K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 67% (52 Votes)

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Missing

https://www.netflix.com/in/title/81643622 

Description

After Searching (2018), one might have assumed that the novelty of "screen life" thrillers had run its course. However, Will Merrick and Nick Johnson elevated the genre with its stand-alone sequel, Missing, which tells the tale of a teenager (Storm Reid) using all of her digital resources to look into her mother's (Nia Long) disappearance in Colombia. Even if the film's logic occasionally verges on ridiculousness, the internet's limitless paths serve as a creative tool for unravelling the mystery's many levels. Glistening with a savage and humorous depiction of the technologically obsessed society of 2023, Missing centres around a poignant journey of mending a damaged mother-daughter bond.

• Director - Will Merrick, Nicholas D. Johnson
• Actors - Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker
• Story Writer - Will Merrick, Nicholas D. Johnson
• Age Restriction - U/A 13+

Rating

IMDB: 7.1/10 (56K+ Votes)

Rotten tomato: 88% (148 Votes)

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Conclusion

We may sum up by saying that, depending on the situation, you want Netflix to offer you a shock to the system or comfort food. If the latter, you'll want a solid thriller that chills you to the bone without going overboard with the gore and blood. Although the streaming site offers a good number of films in the genre, there are also many other films categorised as "thrillers" that aren't worth watching.