Top rated Thriller movies with establishing mood

Check out today’s highest ranked Thriller movies with establishing mood! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best Thriller movies with establishing mood, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Vast of Night (2019)

At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

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2019-06-01 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz

Rating

rating icon 6.55
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    cranky
  2. Ranked #1 for
    like The Twilight Zone
  3. Ranked #2 for
    vintage

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2 The Lighthouse (2019)

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

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2019-10-18 | Drama / Fantasy

Cast

Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe

Rating

rating icon 7.509
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    iconography
  2. Ranked #1 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely insane

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3 Esme, My Love (2023)

When Hannah notices the symptoms of a terminal and painful illness in her aloof daughter, Esme, she decides to take her on a trip to their abandoned family farm in a desperate attempt to connect before they have to say goodbye.

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2023-06-02 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Audrey Grace Marshall, Stacey Weckstein

Rating

rating icon 6.154
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    superb photography
  2. Ranked #1 for
    beautifully framed
  3. Ranked #2 for
    building up atmosphere

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4 Limbo (2021)

Veteran detective Cham works with rookie cop Will to hunt down the city's serial killer. The investigation leads them to a lair littered with dismembered female limbs, and an ex-con who killed Cham's wife and child years ago...

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2021-11-18 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Gordon Lam, Liu Yase

Rating

rating icon 7.387
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    high-running emotions
  2. Ranked #1 for
    saturated imagery
  3. Ranked #1 for
    hyper realistic

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5 Relic (2020)

When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.

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2020-07-03 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote

Rating

rating icon 6.086
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slowly building up
  2. Ranked #1 for
    climactic ending
  3. Ranked #1 for
    deathly

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6 Playhouse (2020)

Reckless Jack Travis is an irreverent horror writer notorious for scaring audiences. But as he obsesses over creating a new theatre show set in a haunted Scottish castle, demonic disturbances from deep within the walls begin to prey on his troubled daughter. When the alarming supernatural forces start to close in on him too, Jack is forced to reckon with the terrifying consequences of creating such a dark and macabre play. But will he realise the danger of unearthing a historic curse and stop writing before he damns himself, his personal sanity and those he loves forever?

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2020-11-17 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

William Holstead, Grace Courtney

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    different camera angle
  2. Ranked #1 for
    naughty boy
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nubile actor

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Playhouse trailer
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7 The Medium (2021)

A horrifying story of a shaman's inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not to be as benevolent as it first appears.

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2021-07-14 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Narilya Gulmongkolpech, Sawanee Utoomma

Rating

rating icon 7.018
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    raving lunatic
  2. Ranked #1 for
    Mockumentary
  3. Ranked #1 for
    thrilling climax

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8 She Will (2022)

Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.

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2022-07-15 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Alice Krige, Kota Eberhardt

Rating

rating icon 5.515
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    glued to seat
  2. Ranked #1 for
    startling image
  3. Ranked #1 for
    glued to screen

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9 Widow's Point (2019)

An author who spends a weekend locked in a haunted lighthouse as a publicity stunt for his next book becomes a target for powerful supernatural forces.

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2019-08-24 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Craig Sheffer, KateLynn E. Newberry

Rating

rating icon 6.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    spine-tingling
  2. Ranked #2 for
    rather uneventful
  3. Ranked #3 for
    haunting imagery

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10 The Stranger (2022)

Two strangers strike up a conversation on a long journey. One is a suspect in an unsolved missing person’s case and the other an undercover operative on his trail. Their uneasy friendship becomes the core of this tightly wrought thriller, which is based on the true story of one of the largest investigations and undercover operations in Australia.

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2022-10-06 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris

Rating

rating icon 6.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    absolutely outstanding
  2. Ranked #1 for
    lugubrious
  3. Ranked #1 for
    too slow-paced

Trailer

The Stranger trailer
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