A rundown of the best thriller movies of 2025, from Black Bag and Drop to the Sydney Sweeney thriller The Housemaid.

As the year comes to a close, it's time to take a look back at the best that 2025 had to offer. 2025 was a particularly great year for movies. From Sinners to Weapons, Wake Up Dead Man and One Battle After Another,

Forty movies in Letterboxd's Top 250 are considered thrillers, but only a few, including Se7en and Oldboy, rank among the genre's all-time best.

Starring Vikrant Massey and Deepak Dobriyal in lead roles, this bone-chilling movie is inspired by the 2006 Noida serial murders, also known as the Nithari Killings. It follows a police officer investigating a series of child disappearances, ultimately leading him into a deadly, high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with a cunning serial killer.

To be sure, the film landscape in 2025 has no resemblance to that of 1999 — just as that storied year had little in common with the way we watched movies in 1975 or 1960. Throughout the 125 years or so of American moviegoing, the methods and means of finding great movies have changed; the appetite for them, however, hasn’t decreased.

Leonardo DiCaprio's film One Battle After Another earned the Best Movie of the Year trophy at the 2026 Critics' Choice Awards.The action-thriller won the Best Picture award on Sunday, January

If you're looking for an exciting thrill, look no further than these four titles now available to stream on Netflix.