The Best Thrillers of 2022


10 The Menu

The Menu

A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

Director: Mark Mylod
Writers: Seth Reiss, Will Tracy
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult
Budget: $35 000 000
Box office: $74 171 000

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9 Like a Man (По-мужски)

По-мужски

The film tells about a 35-year-old man named Gleb, who has everything he needs to be happy: a beautiful wife, a successful business and a luxurious country house. But as a result of a showdown with a drunken neighbor who hit his wife, his life changes dramatically.

Director: Maksim Kulagin
Writer: Densi Kulagin
Starring: Anton Lapenko, Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Vladimir Gorislavets
Box office: $445 000

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8 The Outfit

The Outfit

Chicago, 1956. Leonard is a master English tailor who makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters. One night, two killers knock on his door in need of a favour, and Leonard is thrust into a deadly game of deception and murder.

Director: Graham Moore
Writers: Graham Moore, Johnathan McClain
Starring: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn
Box office: $4 032 000

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7 Bandit

Bandit

After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewellery stores while being hunted by a police task force. Based on the story of The Flying Bandit.

Director: Allan Ungar
Writers: Kraig Wenman, Robert Knuckle
Starring: Josh Duhamel, Mel Gibson, Elisha Cuthbert
Box office: $451 000

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6 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Glass Onion

During the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Miles Bron, the billionaire co-founder of technology company Alpha, hosts a murder mystery game at the Glass Onion, his mansion on a private island in Greece. He invites five friends: Alpha head scientist Lionel Toussaint, Connecticut governor Claire Debella, controversial fashion designer and model Birdie Jay, men’s rights streamer Duke Cody, and ousted Alpha co-founder Cassandra «Andi» Brand. The five friends are delivered a wooden puzzle box to decipher to find the invitation inside. The five travel to Miles’s island, along with Birdie’s assistant Peg and Duke’s girlfriend Whiskey. Famous detective Benoit Blanc joins them; although Miles says he did not invite Blanc, he allows Blanc to stay, assuming another guest sent him an invitation as a joke.

Director: Rian Johnson
Writer: Rian Johnson
Starring: Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe
Budget: $40 000 000
Box office: $13 280 000

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5 Decision to Leave (헤어질 결심 | Hyeeojil gyeolsim)

Hyeeojil gyeolsim

From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.

Director: Park Chan-wook
Writers: Jeong Seo-kyeong, Park Chan-wook
Starring: Park Hae-il, Tang Wei, Lee Jung-hyun
Budget: $10 000 000
Box office: $22 928 000

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4 Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing

From the best-selling novel comes a captivating mystery. Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, isolating the sharp and resilient Kya from her community. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new and startling world; but when one of them is found dead, she is immediately cast by the community as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the verdict as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, threatening to reveal the many secrets that lay within the marsh.

Director: Olivia Newman
Writers: Lucy Alibar, Delia Owens
Starring: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson
Budget: $24 000 000
Box office: $140 230 000

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3 A Thursday

A Thursday

Naina, a playschool teacher, takes 16 students hostage. Rattling the police and the leaders, her demands send shockwaves through the country.

Director: Behzad Khambata
Writers: Behzad Khambata, Ashley Michael Lobo, Vijay Maurya
Starring: Yami Gautam, Atul Kulkarni, Neha Dhupia

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2 Thirteen Lives

Thirteen Lives

In the true story of Thirteen Lives, twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.

Director: Ron Howard
Writers: William Nicholson, Don MacPherson
Starring: Colin Farrell, Viggo Mortensen, Joel Edgerton
Budget: $55 000 000

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1 The Batman

The Batman

Batman ventures into Gotham City’s underworld when a sadistic killer leaves behind a trail of cryptic clues. As the evidence begins to lead closer to home and the scale of the perpetrator’s plans become clear, he must forge new relationships, unmask the culprit and bring justice to the abuse of power and corruption that has long plagued the metropolis.

Director: Matt Reeves
Writers: Matt Reeves, Peter Craig, Robert Kane
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano
Budget: $200 000 000
Box office: $770 945 000

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