The Best Thrillers of 2023


20 Nowhere

Nowhere

Set in a dystopian future, Spain has been turned into a dictatorship, where its government plans to eradicate children, pregnant women, and the elderly to deal with the lack of resources. The plot follows a pregnant woman separated from her husband while trying to flee the country to Ireland. She then finds herself trying to survive inside a shipping container in the heart of the sea.

Director: Albert Pintó
Writers: Indiana Lista, Ernest Riera, Seanne Winslow
Starring: Anna Castillo, Tamar Novas, Tony Corvillo

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19 Fair Play

Fair Play

Hot off the heels of their new engagement, thriving New York couple Emily and Luke can’t get enough of each other. When a coveted promotion at a cutthroat financial firm arises, supportive exchanges between the lovers begin to sour into something more sinister. As the power dynamics irrevocably shift in their relationship, Luke and Emily must face the true price of success and the unnerving limits of ambition.

Director: Chloe Domont
Writer: Chloe Domont
Starring: Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan

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18 May December

May December

Middle aged Gracie lives a happy, well settled life with her husband. Some years ago she was involved in an unsavory scandal but for her it is all in the past. Movie actress Elizabeth is on a visit to this home and she is on a mission. This visit is a part of her preparation to play the role of Gracie in a movie being made. As she goes about talking to the family members Gracie wonders whether Elizabeth will uncover some secrets from her past and will some skeletons be revealed.

Director: Todd Haynes
Writers: Samy Burch, Alex Mechanik
Starring: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton
Budget: $20 000 000
Box office: $5 247 000

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17 Red Rooms (Les chambres rouges)

Les chambres rouges

The high-profile case of serial killer Ludovic Chevalier has just gone to trial, and Kelly-Anne is obsessed. When reality blurs with her morbid fantasies, she goes down a dark path to seek the final piece of the puzzle: the missing video of a murdered 13-year-old girl, to whom Kelly-Anne bears a disturbing resemblance.

Director: Pascal Plante
Writer: Pascal Plante
Starring: Juliette Gariépy, Laurie Babin, Elisabeth Locas
Box office: $47 000

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16 A Haunting in Venice

A Haunting in Venice

In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to once again uncover the killer.

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writers: Michael Green, Agatha Christie
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin
Budget: $70 000 000
Box office: $122 290 000

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15 Reptile

Reptile

Tom Nichols is a hardened New England detective, unflinching in his pursuit of a case where nothing is as it seems and it begins to dismantle the illusions in his own life.

Director: Grant Singer
Writers: Benicio Del Toro, Grant Singer, Benjamin Brewer
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Justin Timberlake, Eric Bogosian

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14 Sharper

Sharper

Tom owns an antiquarian bookstore in New York. One day, when he finds the courage to ask out Sandra, a student who asked about a book for her professor, he is refused. But when the hero of the film closes the doors in the evening, Sandra suddenly appears in front of him again — before, she simply would not have dared to say «yes.»

Director: Benjamin Caron
Writer: Alessandro Tanaka
Starring: Sebastian Stan, Julianne Moore, John Lithgow

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13 Beshenstvo (Бешенство)

Бешенство

An unprecedented epidemic of rabies is breaking out in the taiga. Infected wolves become more and more ferocious, and even the slightest bite brings certain death. At the same time, a desperate father decides to forcibly isolate his son in one of the hunting lodges in order to save him from addiction. Soon, he and several local residents will have to fight not only with a rabid pack, but also with the most dangerous predator of the forest.

Director: Dmitriy Dyachenko
Writer: Aleksey Kazakov
Starring: Aleksey Serebryakov, Vsevolod Volodin, Evgeniy Tkachuk
Box office: $1 268 000

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12 Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une chute)

Anatomie d'une chute

The story begins when Samuel is found dead in the snow outside the isolated chalet where he lived with his wife Sandra, a German writer, and their partially-sighted 11-year-old son Daniel. An investigation leads to a conclusion of «suspicious death»: it’s impossible to know for sure whether he took his own life or was killed. Sandra is indicted, and we follow her trial which pulls the couple’s relationship apart. Daniel is caught in the middle: between the trial and their home life, doubts take their toll on the mother-son relationship.

Director: Justine Triet
Writers: Justine Triet, Arthur Harari
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado-Graner
Box office: $35 597 000

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11 Tetris

Tetris

An enterprising game developer risks everything in a race to outmaneuver duplicitous insiders to negotiate a deal with Soviet Union bureaucrats for the international licensing rights to what would eventually become one of the most recognizable and widely played games in history.

Director: Jon S. Baird
Writer: Noah Pink
Starring: Taron Egerton, Nikita Yefremov, Sofia Lebedeva

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