Long flights are actually one of the best excuses to finally watch films you've been putting off, these make the hours disappear. Thrillers with real tension, the kind that makes you hold your breath without realising it. All from the 2020s, proving that great cinema is still being made right now. Criminally underseen films that deserved a much bigger audience, now they have one.
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Every thriller film on this list was chosen for tonight because it actually delivers. no safe picks, no obligation watches - just films that are worth watching. If one doesn't land, the next one will. Bookmark this and come back whenever the mood calls for it.
The thriller genre produces a lot of filler. None of it is here. From the current decade, so the conversation around some of these is still open. Moviepiq has more lists broken down by genre, occasion, and mood.