thriller
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The Cleveland Browns maintained their surprise start while the Houston Texans concluded this year's London series by winning a thriller at Wembley.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
It’s a semi-immersive thriller about a struggling American actor in London who is hired to record an audio drama and finds the experience increasingly disturbing—and psychologically destructive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
An action-packed supernatural thriller: Netflix’s new No. 1 show, Below, stars Josh Hartnett as a brooding Newfoundlander haunted by something supernatural lurking in the ocean’s depths.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
The twists to come, however, feel as much like last year’s naughty hit “The Housemaid,” the domestic thriller in which Seyfried played a shady wife with a marriage made of lies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
They have a lot of my favorites in the thriller and young adult sections.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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When a name like Jim Caviezel shows up in QAnon-adjacent thrillers, it’s a bit of a “fork found in kitchen” situation.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
The film marks a departure for Gilroy, who cut his teeth writing action movies like the "Bourne" films and legal thrillers like "Michael Clayton."
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The fall TV season has the return of hit series, new thrillers and adaptations of Steinbeck and Austen classics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Working with cinematographer Ashley Connor, DeYoung drew from 1970s conspiracy thrillers like “The Parallax View” and “All the President’s Men.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
He’s been in thirty-eight dramas, twelve crime pictures and comedies, eleven thrillers, eight action films, seven Westerns, six war movies, four documentaries, three horror flicks, two sci-fi films, and a musical, among others.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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