Taking the top position in the list of Best Thriller Movies On Netflix is The Devil All The Time. Adapted from Donald Ray Pollock's novel of the same name, The Devil All the Time is a 2020 American psychological thriller/crime drama film directed by Antonio Campos from a script co-written with his brother Paulo Campos. The movie follows a variety of interesting and odd characters whose tales intertwine from the conclusion of World War II through the 1960s. On September 11, 2020, The Devil All the Time was released in a few cinemas, and on September 16, 2020, it was made available on Netflix. Critics gave it mixed reviews, praising Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson's acting while critiquing the movie's grim subject matter.

The story in the movie The Devil All The Time is set in the southern United States from 1945 to 1965 in Ohio and West Virginia. The film revolves around the main character Arvin Russell (Tom Holland). An orphan young man lived with his grandparents and adopted brother Lenora (Eliza Scanlen). The unfortunate events that came to Arvin seemed to be just the loss of a loved one, but behind it was a series of terrible secrets from people disguised as "pious". This caused Arvin's sister to leave forever and from here his arduous journey to find justice began.

• Actors: Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson
• Directed by: Antonio Campos

Based on the 2005 book by Swedish author Stieg Larsson, the 2011 neo-noir psychological thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. It was helmed by David Fincher, while Steven Zaillian wrote the screenplay. It chronicles the tale of journalist Mikael Blomkvist's pursuit to learn what happened to a girl from an affluent family who vanished 40 years earlier and stars Daniel Craig as Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander. He enlists the aid of computer hacker Salander.

This movie, a collaboration between the US, UK, Sweden, and Germany, began development at Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2009. The business needed a few months to secure the novel's rights while simultaneously hiring Zaillian and Fincher. Craig had scheduling issues, and several women were considered for the role of Lisbeth Salander throughout the lengthy and difficult casting process for the lead roles. The writing of the script took more than six months, including three months spent reading and analyzing the novel.

• Actors: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Christopher Plummer, Stellan Skarsgård, Steven Berkoff, Robin Wright, Yorick van Wageningen, Joely Richardson
• Directed by: David Fincher

Contagion is a 2011 American medical thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Along with Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Elliott Gould, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Ehle, Sanaa Lathan, and Marion Cotillard, the film's ensemble cast also features Gwyneth Paltrow. The story revolves around the introduction of a vaccine to stop the spread of a virus that is spread by respiratory droplets and fomites, efforts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the breakdown of social order during a pandemic, and the loss of social order. The movie employs the multi-narrative "hyperlink cinema" method, made popular by numerous of Soderbergh's works, to follow several interconnected plot threads.

After working together on The Informant! (2009), director Steven Soderbergh and writer Scott Z. Burns considered a movie that would show the rapid spread of a virus. Burns sought advice from W. Ian Lipkin and Larry Brilliant, as well as members of the World Health Organization. Principal photography began in Hong Kong in September 2010 and continued until February 2011 in the following locations: Chicago, Atlanta, London, Dublin, Geneva, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

• Actors: Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet
• Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

The Guilty is a 2021 American crime thriller movie that Antoine Fuqua both produced and directed from a Nic Pizzolatto screenplay. Jake Gyllenhaal and Christina Vidal are the leads of this version of the 2018 Danish film of the same name, which also features the voices of Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Eli Goree, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Paul Dano, and Peter Sarsgaard.

On September 11, 2021, The Guilty made its global premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. On September 24, 2021, a limited release of the movie was launched. On October 1, Netflix began streaming the movie digitally. Critics gave it favorable reviews and appreciated Gyllenhaal's performance, but many felt the remake was not as good as the original.

The movie has a 74 percent acceptance rating from 175 reviews on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, with an overall rating of 6.5/10. The Guilty is another Americanized remake that is overshadowed by the original, but according to the website's critical consensus, its idea is still solid enough to support a suspenseful, well-acted thriller. The movie received "generally positive reviews," according to Metacritic, which gave it a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 based on 35 reviews.

• Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Riley Keough, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Eli Goree, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Paul Dano, Peter Sarsgaard
• Directed by: Antoine Fuqua

The dystopian science-fiction thriller movie Gattaca was released in 1997 and was written and directed by Andrew Niccol. In addition to Jude Law, Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal, and Alan Arkin playing supporting roles, the film also stars Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. The movie offers a biopunk vision of a eugenics-driven future society in which children are created through genetic selection so that they inherit their parents' greatest features. The main character of the movie is Vincent Freeman, played by Hawke, who was born outside of the eugenics program and battles genetic prejudice in order to fulfill his ambition of going to space.

The movie makes reference to worries about eugenics-supporting reproductive technology and the potential social repercussions of such technological advancements. The idea of fate and the ways in which it might and does rule lives are also explored. In Gattaca, characters are always at war with themselves and society to find their place in it and to become the people their genes have predestined them to be.

The letters G, A, T, and C, which stand for guanine, adenine, thymine, and cytosine, the four DNA nucleobases, are used as the basis for the title of the movie. Both the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and the Academy Award for Best Art Direction was nominated for it in 1997.

• Actors: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman
• Directed by: Andrew Niccol

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia is the director of the 2019 Spanish social science fiction horror movie The Platform. This is one of the Best Thriller Movies On Netflix. The "Vertical Self-Management Center," a sizable tower, serves as the setting for the movie. A platform that is originally stocked with food on the top floor gradually lowers through the tower's levels, halting for a set length of time on each. Residents are rotated every 30 days between its several floors. Because each level only receives the leftovers from the previous one, the people at the highest levels get to consume as much as they like, which inevitably leads to strife.

Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor, Emilio Buale Coka, and Alexandra Masangkay are among the actors who appear in the movie. It had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where Midnight Madness took up the People's Choice Award. The movie signed a global streaming agreement with Netflix during TIFF. On March 20, 2020, the streaming service made it available.

• Actors: Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay
• Directed by: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

Shay Hatten penned the screenplay for the 2021 heist comedy Army of Thieves, which Matthias Schweighöfer will direct from a story he co-wrote with Zack Snyder. It is a prequel to the Army of the Dead and the sequel to the Army of the Dead series, starring Schweighöfer in his previous role as Ludwig Dieter, along with Nathalie Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Guz Khan, and Jonathan Cohen in supporting roles.

In Germany and the Czech Republic, filming started in October 2020 and was finished in December 2020. On October 29, 2021, Netflix published Army of Thieves digitally. Critics gave it fairly mixed reviews, praising Schweighöfer and Emmanuel's acting and Schweighöfer's directing but criticizing the plot for being unoriginal.

Based on Netflix's recently introduced system of evaluating TV episodes and movies by the total number of hours they are viewed, Army of Thieves ranked at the top of the top 10 weekly rankings for English-language films during its premiere week with a viewership of 49.64 million hours. Additionally, it topped the Netflix charts in more than 90 nations. According to Samba TV's estimation, 770,000 American households viewed the movie. According to TV Time, it was also the third most-watched movie overall in the United States for the week. With 294 million minutes viewed, Nielsen placed it as the fourth-most streamed movie for the week.

• Actors: Matthias Schweighöfer, Nathalie Emmanuel, Ruby O. Fee, Stuart Martin, Guz Khan, Jonathan Cohen
• Directed by: Matthias Schweighöfe

The Beguiled is a 2017 American Southern Gothic thriller film that Sofia Coppola wrote and directed. This American Civil War-era movie, which cost less than $10 million to produce, is based on Thomas P. Cullinan's book of the same name from 1966. It tells the story of a wounded Union soldier who is treated in a Mississippi seminary. This was a departure for Coppola as the movie featured aspects of the thriller subgenre. Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell, and Colin are all featured. Following Don Siegel's 1971 film of the same name, it is the second time Cullinan's novel has been adapted for the big screen.

It had its world premiere on May 24 at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and was chosen to compete for the Palme d'Or in its main competition section. Coppola was the only woman to win the Best Director prize (the first being Yuliya Solntseva in 1961). Focus Features premiered the movie in theaters on June 23, 2017.

• Actors: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning
• Directed by: Sofia Coppola
  

Based on A. J. Finn's 2018 novel of the same name, The Woman in the Window is a 2021 American psychological thriller film that Joe Wright will direct from a screenplay by Tracy Letts. The story revolves around an agoraphobic woman (Amy Adams) who starts watching her new neighbors (Gary Oldman, Fred Hechinger, and Julianne Moore) and discovers that they've been the victims of a crime. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, and Anthony Mackie also star.

The final movie produced by Fox 2000 Pictures was originally slated to be released in theaters by 20th Century Fox and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in October 2019, however owing to re-editing after subpar test screenings, the release date was pushed back to May 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic later caused the cinema release to be postponed, and the rights to the movie were sold to Netflix. On May 14, 2021, Netflix will release the movie. At the time of its release, the movie garnered unfavorable reviews from critics, who primarily criticized Wright's direction and the script while also praising the cast.

• Actors: Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie, Fred Hechinger, Wyatt Russell, Brian Tyree Henry, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Julianne Moore
• Directed by: Joe Wright

Uncut Gems is a 2019 American crime thriller movie[5] that was written and co-directed by Josh and Benny Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. This is one of the Best Thriller Movies On Netflix. Adam Sandler, Lakeith Stanfield, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, and Eric Bogosian are among the movie's stars. In order to pay off his debts, Jewish-American jeweler and gambling addict Howard Ratner (Sandler) must collect a pricey gem from New York City's Diamond District. His narrative is told in the movie. From September to November 2018, there was filming. Daniel Lopatin wrote the soundtrack's original composition. Sandler's most frequently seen movie since 2015's Pixels is Uncut Gems.

The Telluride Film Festival hosted the international premiere of Uncut Gems on August 30, 2019. Prior to its broad distribution by A24 on December 25, it began its restricted release in the US on December 13, 2019. The movie got positive reviews, and many critics hailed Sandler's performance as the best of his career. The National Board of Review selected it as one of the top ten movies of 2019.

• Actors: Adam Sandler, Lakeith Stanfield, Julia Fox, Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, Eric Bogosian
• Directed by: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie

Yorgos Lanthimos' 2017 psychological horror-thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer is based on a screenplay he co-wrote with Efthymis Filippou. Alicia Silverstone, Bill Camp, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Barry Keoghan, Colin Farrell, and Nicole Kidman are among the actors who appear in it. The ancient Greek tragedy Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides served as the basis for this tale. The movie centers on a cardiac surgeon (Farrell) who develops a close friendship with a little boy (Keoghan) who has ties to his past. He presents the boy to his family, who thereafter start to experience strange illnesses.

At the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, The Killing of a Sacred Deer was chosen to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section. A24 and Curzon Artificial Eye both released it in theaters on October 20, 2017, in the United States, and on November 3, 2017, in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Positive reviews have been given to it, and it has made over $7 million globally.

• Actors: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Camp
• Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos
  

American psychological horror thriller Gerald's Game was released in 2017; it was directed, edited, and co-written by Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard. It is based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Stephen King, which was long regarded as being unfilmable. In the movie, Carla Gugino and Bruce Greenwood play a married couple who go on vacation to a remote property. The wife, who is shackled to the bed without the key and with little chance of escape when her husband suddenly passes away from a heart attack, must find a means to survive while confronting her inner demons.

The international premiere of Gerald's Game took place on September 19, 2017, at the BFI Southbank, and it was made available on Netflix on September 29, 2017. It garnered overwhelmingly good reviews from critics, who praised Gugino's performance as well as Flanagan's directing, the film's topics, and how they were handled.

• Actors: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood
• Directed by: Mike Flanagan