Best Thriller Films of 2006
Lucky Number Slevin
An innocent man visiting ... desperate search and reclaim his identity before he's forced to pay a debt that could cost him his life. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown's controversial best-selling ... the famous museum, but scenes taking place at Westminster Abbey had to filmed elsewhere when church officials declined permission. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Lonely Hearts
Todd Robinson's Lonely Hearts ... of the late '40s, the infamous couple whom the director's grandfather played a large part in bringing to justice. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
V for Vendetta
Based on the graphic ... Evey becomes his unlikely ally, newly aware of the cruelty of her own society and her role in it. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Prestige
Obsession, jealousy, and deceit ... finds director/screenwriter Nolan reuniting with brother and Memento story author Jonathan Nolan to adapt author Christopher Priest's original novel. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Firewall
A businessman becomes the ... into action to exact justice against the criminals. Firewall also stars Alan Arkin, Robert Forster, and Mary Lynn Rajskub. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Déjà Vu
Adrenaline-loving director Tony Scott ... greater power at their fingertips -- one that might not just solve the crime at hand, but prevent it. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Tell No One
An innocent man is ... Tell No One (aka Ne Le Dis a Personne) was based on the international best-selling novel by Harlan Coben. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Basic Instinct 2
When the mysterious death ... forced to make a difficult decision that could mean the end of both his professional career, and his life. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
A Few Days in September
A spy discovers doing ... Jours En Septembre (aka A Few Days In September) was the first directorial credit for veteran screenwriter Santiago Amigorena. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Unknown
Five men desperately try ... feature film from veteran music video director Simon Brand, Unknown also stars Peter Stormare, Bridget Moynahan and Clayne Crawford. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
In a Dark Place
A young nanny makes ... for a supernatural confrontation that will reveal a terrifying truth too horrific for the human mind to even comprehend. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
24: Season 05
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The Marsh
Haunted by gruesome visions ... newspaper publisher Noah (Justin Louis) and paranormal consultant hunt (Forest Whitaker) in solving the mystery of this cursed village. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Shadow Man
An ex-intelligence officer tricked ... rain vengeance upon those who thought they could use Jack to fulfill their nefarious plot to hijack the planet. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Hard Luck
An infamous ex-con on ... a high octane crime thriller starring and directed by Mario Van Peebles and featuring Wesley Snipes and Cybill Shepherd. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Sentinel
A man who has ... Garrison couldn't possibly be the rat in the house. The Sentinel also co-stars Kim Basinger as the First Lady. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Backwoods
First-time 31-year-old director Koldo ... and inbred local townspeople, who quake with rage at the thought of someone absconding with one of their own. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Last Hour
DMX, Michael Madsen, Paul ... by his deceased father, only to discover upon arriving that he isn't the only person on the guest list. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Lady in the Water
M. Night Shyamalan writes ... Jeffery Wright, Jared Harris and Mary Beth Hurt co-star, as well as Shyamalan himself, playing the visionary writer Vick. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Killer Wave
A series of massive ... and the seas begin to swell once again, it may already be too late to stop the latest attack. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Da Vinci Treasure
C. Thomas Howell and ... mystery that reaches back more than four centuries causes the very foundations of modern history to crack and crumble. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Fay Grim
A single mother from ... find out that her ex-husband is not only still alive, but in more trouble than he could ever imagine. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Journey to the End of the Night
Eric Eason's stylish sophomore ... Paolo, Brazil, Journey to the End of the Night had its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
An obsessive French perfumer ... lives of the numerous young girls in a tragic attempt to bottle the impossibly elusive smell of virginal womanhood. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Chaos
Two mismatched lawmen are ... do. Chaos also stars Justine Waddell as a police officer who has become involved with one of the detectives. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil
North Korea is threatening ... on the stranded men, the battle heats up and the fate of the free world hangs in the balance. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
First Born
A woman who wanted ... soon descends into a harrowing battle for sanity as the fate of a young child hangs in the balance. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Final Move
Directed by Joey Travolta, ... a detective with extrasensory perception who is pulled out of his retirement in order to solve an unsolved murder. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Avenger
Oscar nominated filmmaker Wolfgang ... the decorated war hero sets of a destructive chain of events that could plunge the entire planet into war. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Murderous Intent
A murder lifts the ... troubling secrets of his own. Like Minds was the first feature film from writer and director Gregory J. Read. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Bug
Academy Award-winning Exorcist director ... into a psychotic rage as he resorts to increasingly desperate measures to purge himself of the offending subdermal arthropods. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Veteran
A Vietnam veteran-turned-holy man ... buddy who forces him to own up to his blood-soaked past in this drama from director Sidney J. Furie. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Splinter
Edward James Olmos turns ... finds himself in the middle of a case involving a string of brutal gangland murders. Tom Sizemore also stars. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Perfect Parents
A simple lie yields ... a high price, and by the time Stewart discovers the priest's dark secret it may already be too late. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Covenant: Brotherhood of Evil
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Trapped
Nick Turturro, Dennis Christopher, ... take over an abandoned hotel while forcing the daughter of a well-known software engineer to access crucial government data. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Last Winter
As preparation gets underway ... appear as if mother nature may be voicing her opposition to the proposed pillaging of her luminous white landscape. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Catch a Fire
An apolitical South African ... is to aid in toppling the system that destroyed his family, and forever changed his outlook on the world. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The State Within
The British ambassador to ... he is being manipulated by an invisible puppeteer whose sadistic power mongering has become a threat to international security. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Killing Grounds
Armand Assante and Udo ... of two warring gangs of drug dealers struggling to gain the upper hand in the lucrative Berlin drug trade. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Eyes Front
Prolific hardcore/punk music video ... path of certain destruction, but men must struggle to make sense of their lives in a world gone mad. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Return
A self-assured Midwestern girl ... the secrets that will be revealed leave her wondering if the murder she is investigating may be her own. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Southland Tales
California is at the ... also created an accompanying series of three graphic novels that chart these events and characters prior to this story. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
Forget about Hitchcock's Birds, ... to the virus that would decimate the entire planet as it threatens the very existence of the human race. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Running Scared
A minor crook finds ... Scared is from writer-director Wayne Kramer, who made a name for himself with the well-reviewed independent feature The Cooler. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin
First-time writer/director Scott Burns ... Flemyng co-star in a film produced by Section Eight and Beacon Pictures for HBO Films, and distributed by Picturehouse. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
In Her Line of Fire
Two women are unwittingly ... Fire was produced in cooperation with here!, a premium cable service specializing in programming for gay and lesbian viewers. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Civic Duty
Where does legitimate concern ... take the law into his own hands. Civic Duty received its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Mammoth
This direct-to-video thriller concerns ... The beast then proceeds to go on a virulent rampage, terrorizing everyone in the small town that lies nearby. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
A Comedy of Power
Claude Chabrol's Comedy of ... Loosely based on real events, Comedy of Power had its North American debut at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Maneater
When a hungry tiger ... this made for television thriller that brings the terror of Jaws out of the ocean and onto dry land. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Unnatural and Accidental
The despair of Canada's ... (who also wrote the film's screenplay), Unnatural and Accidental received its world premier at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Three
In Stewart Raffill's low-budget, ... washes ashore. An ugly struggle then unfolds, as the boys vie for Jennifer's body and "survival of the fittest." [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
10.5: Apocalypse
For those who survived ... science, can find a way to divert the path of the quake and save countless lives in the process. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Prison Break: Season 02
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Glass House 2: The Good Mother
In this follow-up to ... skin-crawling domestic thriller that was scripted by Brett Merryman and marks the directorial debut of longtime actor Steve Antin. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Night of Terror
William Tannen's thriller Night ... problems become far less important when a deranged psychotic joins them, and goes to frightening measures to be accepted. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Situation
The war in Iraq ... Steavenson, a former journalist who was inspired to write the script by her own experiences covering the Iraq war. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Killing Gene
A seasoned gangland detective ... how he responds when forced to place his life on the line for the sake of someone he loves. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
La Tourneuse de Pages
Years after her once-promising ... on her recitals and become her personal page turner as she attempts to overcome her debilitating fear of failure. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Banshee
A female car thief ... his accelerated hearbeat, and uses the resulting sounds to keep local clubbers on their feet all through the night. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
BLINDeye
A big city cop ... friends haven't been entirely truthful about the situation, and a simple deception soon leads to tragedy for all involved. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Population 436
A census taker (Jeremy ... idyllic small towns can harbor deadly secrets in the feature directorial debut of longtime television producer/director Michelle Maxwell MacLaren. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Afghan Knights
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Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park is ... the imperiled vacationers and dousing the fire before lives are lost and the awe-inspiring landscape is turned to ash. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Restraining Order
When a successful young ... confronted by the very man he suspects his wife of sleeping with drives Dante over the edge of sanity. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Listening
A spy discovers a ... is killed. Inspired by actual incidents, The Listening was shot in Rome by Italian filmmakers with an English-speaking cast. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Retribution
Japanese horror producer Taka ... springs an endless series of twists and double-crosses that force the audience to reevaluate everything that has come before. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Insurgents
A dejected ex-GI, a ... near and preparations for the bombing get under way, the motivating factors behind their extreme act become terrifyingly clear. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Deceit
Money, deception, and obsession ... now as jealousy flares and relationships unravel Dave becomes hopelessly locked into a deadly game of treachery and deceit. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Telling Lies
Two female friends invent ... to pile up, she makes a desperate attempt to discover the connection between herself, Eve, and the mysterious Vincent. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
UKM: The Ultimate Killing Machine
The gifted Michael Madsen ... destroy the other creations in his laboratory. David Mitchell directs, from a script by Tyler Levine and Tim McGregor. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Undoing
A man learns being ... into greater danger than he ever imagined. Undoing was screened in competition at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Festival. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Dhoom 2
Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, ... November 2006, Dhoom 2 would ultimately earn the privilege of becoming the largest-scale release in Bollywood history to date. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Troubled Waters
An FBI agent (Jennifer ... child of a prominent multi-millionaire in a tense, independent thriller that explores the tragedy of every parent's worst nightmare. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Covenant
An ancient secret threatens ... The Covenant and lay the one descendent who threatens to reveal their secret to rest once and for all. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Black Book
Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven returned ... on the 1977 international success Soldier of Orange. Zwartboek received its world premier at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
TRAP
After killing her brutally ... set for a deadly struggle from which only one of the two victimized spouses is likely to emerge alive. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Net 2.0
An in-name-only, direct-to-video sequel ... Winkler (the son of The Net's director, Irwin Winkler), The Net 2.0 co-stars Keegan Connor Tracy and Demet Akbag. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Rape is a Circle
The exploitation film Rape ... to perform acts on each other. The relationship between the two friends alters as a result of these experiences. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Aksar
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Flight 93
Although al-Qaida terrorists hijacked ... Channel debuted its documentary The Flight That Fought Back and several months before the feature film United 93 premiered. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Teesri Aankh
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Seducer by Night
The tables turn on ... outwardly hard-nosed detective's tough-guy façade slowly fading and revealing a lonely man in desperate need of some female companionship. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Lost
A charismatic psycho suspected ... Ed Anderson desperately attempt to gather the evidence needed to arrest the swaggering psychopath before more lives are lost. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Street Thief
A pair of filmmakers ... protagonist. Deliberately blurring the line between truth and fiction, Street Thief's co-director Malik Bader also stars as Kaspar Carr. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Red Road
A woman paid to ... feature film from award-winning director Andrea Arnold, Red Road received its world premier at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
36 China Town
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Robert Ludlum's Covert One: The Hades Factor
An unknown virus has ... some people are willing to go to achieve ultimate power. Blair Underwood and Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino co-star. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
December Ends
Directed by collegiate Lee ... - or the explosive complications that will arise when Hayden's sexy girlfriend (Alex Thayer) begins to fall for him. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Fingerprints
Loosely based on an ... Brittany Snow and Kristin Cavallari star in a psychological shocker featuring Kou Diamond Phillips, Sally Kirkland, and Josh Henderson. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
In the Blood
A closeted college jock ... way to keep his visions coming and save his sister is to fully give in to his deepest desires. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The End of the Night
When the final victim ... prison, however, the past is about to blindside the grief-stricken Raquel and send her reeling toward an uncertain future. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Them
Co-writers and directors David ... a nasty, brutal battle of wills that can only end in the death of the victims or the assailants. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Bloody Tie
A disillusioned cop haunted ... over the informant as he works his way through the criminal ranks and gains access into Jangchul's inner circle. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Killer
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Anthony Kaun Hai?
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Open Water 2: Adrift
A seafaring birthday celebration ... as exhaustion begins to set in and the vast ocean threatens to swallow the entire group without a trace. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
La Reunion
Daniel Roman, Belen Verdugo, ... relations grow extremely tense and then strained as Gonzalo throws out clues that suggest his motivations and overall plan. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Black Dahlia
The Polish-born character actor-cum-slasher ... happen upon several of the corpses and must track down the psychopath in order to end his menace forever. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The 9/11 Commission Report
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Arang
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Don't Open Your Eyes
The supernatural thriller Don't ... Hatchet Man, the officer must do battle with the bad guy yet again this time on a spiritual plane. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Striking Range
The next generation of ... and survival instinct, the race is on to ensure that this groundbreaking weapon doesn't fall into the wrong hands. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Surveillance
A mall security guard ... clocks out today the security guard that everyone trusted will reveal himself to be a murderous master of deception. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Ma fille, mon ange
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After...
A thrill-seeking group of ... for both their lives and their sanity against an all-consuming blackness that threatens to swallow them without a trace. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
P.O.E.
A high-profile heist brings ... strangers finally find out who is taking them for a ride, and who plans on leaving them all behind. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Mobile Phone
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The Victim
Fact and fiction become ... she is, either . . . The Victim (aka Phee Knon Pen) also stars Kiradej Ketakinta and Penpak Sirikul. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Honor
Two street warriors come ... test as they struggle to maintain their honor in a city where life is cheap and death comes fast. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
El Numero de La Muerte
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UnCivil Liberties
The thriller Uncivil Liberties ... with a group of terrorists who are planning to assassinate her, but are themselves having qualms about their mission. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Dog Bite Dog
A Cambodian boxer smuggled ... Lee) sets out on a restless crusade to bring the resourceful killer to justice no matter what the cost. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Cult
Joe Knee's horror film ... that seems to have its hooks in many shady areas. Soon their fascination begins to cost them their lives. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Rival
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Nehlle Pe Dehlla
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Sex and Consequences
The Michael Valverde-directed Sex ... police officer (L.A. Law's Corbin Bernsen). But Lisa fails to foresee the lethal consequences that her actions will precipitate. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Last Seen at Angkor
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Cracker: A New Terror
Robbie Coltrane returns as ... disturbed veteran of the battles with the IRA who killed a man after the events of September 11, 2001. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Playroom
Five friends who have ... shine through a suffocating darkness with the power to consume all five in the course of just one night. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Raw Summer
A salaryman man obsesses ... teenage schoolgirl in first-time filmmaker Keisuke Yoshida's darkly comic tale of a man consumed by a truly twisted love. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Interstate
A trip from Montreal ... situation turns quickly grim after he accidentally ingests drugs and proves unable to escape from a seedy interstate motel. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
On Bloody Sunday
A serial killer stalks ... mysterious serial killer, it's only a matter of time before she comes face to face with her worst nightmare. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Dark Mind
A young inventor struggling ... as it seems, the brilliant inventor is forced to make a series of impossible decisions just to stay alive. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Juncture
Given just three months ... be seen is whether Anna will complete her deadly plan before death's cold grip can tighten around her throat. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Case Closed: 14th Target - The Movie
An unknown killer has ... the man to narrow the list down to one, before the killer takes the life of his 14th target. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Juarez Mexico
A fearless private investigator ... is finally about to be broken by one lone private investigator with no real leads and nothing to lose? [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Inside
When a young man ... his best friend Josie if he holds out any hope of escaping his captors and reclaiming his true identity. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
A Bloody Aria
An aspiring opera singer ... game of survival, the two captives wage a life or death struggle to escape their tormentors or die trying. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Pistoleros
This ultra-stylized Danish thriller ... secret stash, and every hired gun in town has their sites set on the same pile of money . [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
The Entrance
Inspired by actual events, ... this modern kidnapping case may in fact transcend their reality and have implications that reach back through the centuries. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
El Evangelista
A Bible-quoting hit-man experiences ... about to find out just how deadly it can be to deny his duties as the underworld's primary executioner. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
Desert of Blood
An evil that had ... blood cannot be denied, and the harder he tries to resist his thirst the greater his inner rage grows. [ best thriller films - 2006 ]
