Short Thriller Movies
Short thrillers, rated 3.0 or better. Tension is a hard thing to sustain, and these do not try to stretch it.
20 films, drawn from a catalog of 3,647 — every title rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members, with at least 5,000 ratings, and no longer than 110 minutes.
- Whiplash — 1h 47m · 2014 · Damien Chazelle · 4.4/5
- Psycho — 1h 49m · 1960 · Alfred Hitchcock · 4.3/5
- Perfect Blue — 1h 21m · 1998 · Satoshi Kon · 4.4/5
- Children of Men — 1h 49m · 2006 · Alfonso Cuarón · 4.3/5
- M — 1h 50m · 1931 · Fritz Lang · 4.3/5
- Fargo — 1h 38m · 1996 · Joel Coen · 4.2/5
- Black Swan — 1h 48m · 2010 · Darren Aronofsky · 4.2/5
- Yojimbo — 1h 50m · 1961 · Akira Kurosawa · 4.3/5
- Reservoir Dogs — 1h 39m · 1992 · Quentin Tarantino · 4.2/5
- Double Indemnity — 1h 47m · 1944 · Billy Wilder · 4.3/5
- Michael Jackson's Thriller — 14 min · 1983 · John Landis · 4.5/5
- Get Out — 1h 44m · 2017 · Jordan Peele · 4.1/5
- The Night of the Hunter — 1h 33m · 1955 · Charles Laughton · 4.3/5
- The Third Man — 1h 45m · 1949 · Carol Reed · 4.2/5
- The Sixth Sense — 1h 47m · 1999 · M. Night Shyamalan · 4.1/5
- Dial M for Murder — 1h 45m · 1954 · Alfred Hitchcock · 4.2/5
- The Usual Suspects — 1h 46m · 1995 · Bryan Singer · 4.1/5
- Rope — 1h 21m · 1948 · Alfred Hitchcock · 4.1/5
- Obsession — 1h 49m · 2026 · Curry Barker · 4.1/5
- Le Samouraï — 1h 45m · 1967 · Jean-Pierre Melville · 4.2/5