A new list of some of the best Netflix thrillers you can stream on Netflix UK/Ireland
It has been a while since I have sat down and written a Netflix thrillers list so it feels good to be back at it. You can expect to see a lot more in the coming days/weeks. Let’s get to it!
PRISONERS
Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano star in the superbly dark thriller. The story of a kidnapped child, and the father who will do anything to get her back. Feeling the cops aren’t doing their jobs properly, he takes matters into his own hands to get his daughter back. Gyllenhaal plays the cop in charge of the case and Paul Dano plays the main suspect.
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, Prisoners is one of the most well-crafted, edge-of-you-seat thrillers that you could hope for.
GOOD TIME
Directed by the Safdie Brothers and starring Robert Pattinson and Benny Safdie. Good Time is a tense and anxiety-inducing, crazy film that is just one disaster after the next, in the best way possible. Good Time follows two brothers who plan to do a heist but things don’t go as planned which starts off a chaotic chain of events.
Robert Pattinson really shows us his range in Good Time. Without a doubt, he is one of the finest actors of our generation.
Fun Fact: Pattinson emailed the brothers complimenting them on a previous movie. He said in the email that he would to work with so the part in Good Time written especially for Pattinson to play. And, boy, did he play that part well!
BECKY
Kevin James takes an unsuspected but welcomed break from movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and enters the world of violent home invasion. James is almost unrecognisable as the mean af, lead Neo-Nazi villain.
A young girl called Becky must make a stand and mercilessly fight for survival against a group of wanted criminals who have broken into her house and taken her parents hostage.
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End director Edgar Wright shows us his trippy vision of a dark, colourful and seedy 1960s London.
An aspiring clothes designer finds out that she can travel back in time to the 1960s. She then becomes obsessed with a singer called Sandi who shows her that London ain’t the happy place she thinks it is.
THE LODGE
A great psychological thriller with an outstanding performance from lead actress Really Keogh. A woman called Grace is recovering from abuse at the hands of a religious cult. Her new husband-to-be invites her to a lodge in the snowy mountains to get to know his kids before their marriage. But when an unexpected storm hits trapping inside things quickly spiral out of control.
GONE GIRL
Starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike – directed by David Fincher. Gone Girl tells the story of a missing woman whose case got a lot of media attention. With the case still unsolved, new evidence comes to light and points to the husband, shocking everyone following the case. No one suspected that the killer may have been hiding in plain sight all along.
A wonderfully crafted thriller with both Affleck and Pike giving career-best performances in a flick that will keep you guessing until the very end.
SHUTTER ISLAND
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Ben Kingsley. A detective and his partner travel to an Alcatraz-like mental hospital to investigate a murder. The longer he stays, the more his mind starts to unravel and he quickly realises, it may not be as easy as he thought to get off of the island.
CALIBRE
Calibre is a brilliant indie thriller. It follows two friends who decide to go hunting to celebrate one of them getting married. But, while out hunting one of them accidentally kills a child. Instead of reporting the crime they decide to try and cover it up but the locals suspect they’re hiding something and will get the truth out of them…no matter what it takes.
MEMENTO
Before all of his big-budgeted movies, Christopher Nolan released one of the best and most memorable thrillers called Memento.
Starring Guy Pearce as a man suffering from short-term memory loss trying to find his wife’s murderer. Unable to remember recent conversations, he tattoos himself making a map that will hopefully lead to his wife’s killer.
That’s it for this list. I hope you enjoyed reading it. As always, thanks for reading.
