Top 10 Thriller Movies

In today's hectic life, everyone is in a hurry to complete their task doing their daily routine activities; they find little time to feel relaxed, and the way to feel relaxed may differ from person to person as some people prefer to sleep, some people prefer to cook snacks or meal, some people went to the grounds. Most people like to watch new or old movies, which is more common among the youth.

The taste for watching movies or the Honor of the movie differs from person to person. Some like to see Romantic movies, some like to watch Horror movies, and some like to watch Thriller or criminal movies. It is usually noted among the viewer that after a few times, they are all fed it from Romantic and Horror movies, and the only famous theme is Criminal and thriller movies. Thriller and Criminal movies are majorly based on real-life incidents that come from within society, those stories are part of the day-to-day activity, and when people see those stories on a big platform then, they enjoy those stories, and that's why the trend for watching Thriller movies are increasing day by day. In today's article, we are discussing the Top 10 Thriller movies.

1) Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a world-famous Thriller movie that everyone must have enjoyed during childhood or at any time. Harry Potter is a series of books with a total of 8 parts; when it became a best seller around the globe, then Chris Columbus, the director of Harry Potter, decided to present this in front of viewers in a cinematic view. As a result, the movie made a huge profit all its parts became a super hit.

The Screenplay of the first part of the movie "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was done by Steve Kloves; the movie was written by the Versatile writer J.K. Rowling. David Heyman produced the movie; John Seale completed the Cinematography, and Richard Francis Bruce edited the movie; John Williams gave many melodious songs and beats to the movie. Warner Bros. Pictures, Heyday Films, and 1492 pictures were the production companies of this movie. Warner Bros. Pictures was the only official Distributor for this complete series. The first part of the movie was released on November 4, 2001, in Oden Leicester, November 10, 2001, in the United Kingdom, and November 16, 2001, in the United States. The run time of the first part of the movie was 152 minutes, and it is officially made in the English language; the stunning part regarding the movie is its budget, which is $ 125 million, and the box office collection of this movie is $1.022 billion.

The actor and actresses in this movie include Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, John Cleese, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, Richard Harris, Ian Hart, John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Fiona Shaw, Maggie Smith, Julie Walters were the part of this movie, and most of them made their carrier just by getting fame from this movie.

The plot of this movie is that there is an orphan boy whose parents were wizards and they died fighting with a powerful demon wizard Voldemort when Harry was lying alone on the floor, there comes the Dumbledore who rescued Harry and left him under the supervision of his Aunt, they treat the Harry as a slave and his condition was very miserable there, one day their family received a letter which was from Albus Nicolas Dumbledore on behalf of Hogwarts which is the magical institute where some special students are selected from all around the world, but the Dursley family didn't want to send Harry at that school because earlier they also suffer from the same problem when her sister joined the Hogwarts, one day when they were fed up by the letters and Owl that are coming daily seeking for Harry's response, so they shifted to another place to get rid of those owls and letters, but one day at exact 12 AM Hagrid came and met Harry and take him along with him to buy him the necessary things needed in Hogwarts, there Hagrid tell the Harry about his parents and also tell him that he is very famous among the Magician community. Even the wand maker was very surprised when Harry bought his wand because, according to him, every wand chose his master itself, and when Voldemort was a schoolboy when his name was Tom Riddle, and he was chosen by the same wand that chose Harry.

When Harry went to Hogwarts, the magical Hat chose the GRYFFINDOR for Harry; no one was shocked because his parents were in the house. In his first year, Harry was attacked by a professor who secretly worked for Voldemort and attacked Harry, and luckily Harry was able to kill that professor even with his touch.

2) Bell Bottom

This movie was directed by Ranjit M. Tewari and written by Aseem Arora and Parveez Shaikh; the movie was produced by Vashu Bhagnani, Jackky Bhagnani, Deepshikha Deshmukh, Monisha Advani, Madhu Bhojwani, and Nikkhil Advani.

Rajeev Ravi has completed the cinematography of Bell Bottom, and Chandan Arora Edited the movie. Daniel B. George has given many melodious songs for this movie. Pooja Entertainment and Emmay Entertainment were the official production companies for this movie, and Pen Marudhar Entertainment was the official Distributor of this movie.

The movie was released on August 19, 2021, with a runtime of 123 minutes; the movie was officially dubbed in Hindi. The actors and actresses in this movie include Akshay Kumar, Vaani Kapoor, and Lara Dutta. The movie was based on a real-life incident when Indian Airlines Flight 691 was hijacked by a Pakistani hijacker. This movie is based on the strike done by the RAW secret agency of India under the accent of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

The movie shows the story of a commoner who was changed by circumstances. Akshay Kumar, who is playing the role of Anshul Malhotra, is a UPSC (Union Public Selection Commission) aspirant and a national-level chess champion who was happy with his life because he had a beloved wife and a loving mother, once her mother insisted he let her go to the function of her elder son who was living in London, so he allowed her to go and drop her to the airport. Still, unfortunately, that flight was hijacked by a Pakistani terrorist group because they wanted to force the Indian Government to release a dangerous terrorist and to threaten the Indian Government. To emphasize more pressure on them, they killed 1 passenger and tortured an old lady; unluckily, that lady was the mother of Anshul Malhotra, who was brutally tortured. Her Asthma pump was thrown by the terrorist "Doddy" Daljeet Singh. Anshul was completely broken after the death of her mother meanwhile he left everything and was recovering from a very tough phase of life, her wife was a secret agent in the RAW who give her name to the higher authority of RAW to make Anshul a part of RAW Agency because of his sharp brain and skills, The RAW agents picked up Anshul and interrogate him and asked him to join RAW firstly he denied this proposal but when he was told by the chief that her mother was brutally tortured by terrorists which ultimately become the cause of her death so he finally decided to join RAW, and within few years again a plane Hijack took place and they again lay emphasis on the Government to release a terrorist and this time on the advice of Anshul they planned a secret mission against the Hijacker and they planned a secret mission against them and when he came to know about the terrorist Daljeet Singh Doddy who was also involved this time in the hijacking, the team planned a mission under Anshul and successfully run the operation and take his personal revenge.

3) Cuttputlli

This super hit movie Cuttputlli was directed by Ranjit M. Tewari; Aseem Arora wrote the movie story; Tushar Trivedi did the Screenplay of this movie; Cuttputlli was a story by Ram Kumar, this movie is the remake of Ratsasan (2018) by Ram Kumar famous south Indian director, Vashu Bhagnani, Jackky Bhagnani, and Deepshikha Deshmukh produced the movie, the starring of the movie includes Akshay Kumar and Rakul Preet Singh. Rajeev Ravi has completed the Cinematography of the Cuttputlli film, and Chandan Arora edited the movie; moreover, Julius Packiam has given many melodious songs to the movie, and Pooja Entertainment is the official production company of this movie, Disney + Hotstar is the official Distributor of this movie. The movie was officially made in the Hindi language, the runtime of this movie is of 134 minutes, and the budget of this movie is 150 crores.

The plot of this movie is that Arjan Sethi, a passionate psychopath writer, was looking for an opportunity to grab an opportunity to present his script in front of a movie producer so that he could start his career in this field, but after too many unsuccessful attempts, his sister insists that he join the Police force; after successfully joining the police force, everyone thinks that everything is sorted in Arjan's life. Still, his passion for studying and writing Psychopath stories remains the same. One day there came a case at the police station regarding the death of a 15-year-old school girl, and the killer left a doll whose face was completely damaged; no one in the police station related this sign of criminal with the mass killing. Arjan Sethi being a psychopath writer, relate this thing and try to inform this his department, but no one believes his words. He thinks it's just a part of his imagination, but he continues his investigation, and later on, Arjan's investigation proves true. Everyone started believing in him, and he traced the path of kidnapping, but unfortunately, his Niece was kidnaped. She was tortured brutally and later killed; Arjan finally caught that psychopath killer and encountered him. This movie is available on Netflix, Disney + Hotstar, and Amazon Prime.

4) Baby

The movie was written and directed by Neeraj Pandey, Bhushan Kumar, Aruna Bhatia, Shital Bhatia, and Krishan Kumar produced this movie, and Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Danny Denzongpa, Rana Daggubati, Mikaal Zulfiqar, Madhurima Tuli, Taapsee Pannu, Kay Kay Menon, and many more are the part of this move. Sudeep Chatterjee and Sudheer Palsane have done the Cinematography of this movie.

Shree Narayan Singh edited this movie, and M. M. Keeravani and Meet Bros gave the movie's promotional Sound Track and melodic songs. Sanjoy Chaudhary gave the Background Score for this movie.

T Series, Cape of Good films, and Friday Filmworks were the official producer of this movie. Moreover, the film is distributed by T Series, White Hill Studios, and AA films. The movie was released on January 23, 2015, and the run time of the movie was 159 minutes. It is officially made in the Hindi language, the budget of this movie was 25 crores, and its box office collection was 251 crores.

The plot of this movie is that BABY, an anti-terrorist squad that was made in response to the 26/11 terrorist attack in India, functionality of BABY includes searching and eliminating the terrorist group.

The head of this task force is Feroz Ali Khan; once BABY was giving contrive to their mission in Turkey, and during their mission, they captured their old colleague who later turned into a traitor; Ajay Singh Rajput caught him and threatened him that he would kill his family, or he has to tell him all the secret information regarding the terrorists and later Ajay Singh Rajput along with its team planned a secret mission to neutral those terrorists by running this operation over their land, Ajay successfully managed to get permission from Feroz Ali Khan the head of BABY, he forms a strong team which include a desperate soldier just like him and an extremely intelligent soldier who is specialist in IT sector and with their combined efforts they successfully neutralized those terrorists and also they find the head of ISIS who is responsible for leading many terrorist activities in India, so they immediately planned to carry him along with them and in this way they successfully done their operation.

This story is about the life of a RAW agent who, on the one hand, is performing all the duties of his family, and on the other hand, he is fulfilling his duty for which he has taken an Oath.

5) Tumbbad

This legendary blockbuster movie is directed by Rahi Anil Barve, Mahesh Shah, Adesh Prasad, Rahi Anil Barve, and Anand Gandhi has done the movie's Screenplay. Sohum Shah, Anand L. Rai, Anand Gandhi, Mukesh Shah, and Amity Shah produced this movie. The movie's lead actor is Soham Shah, and Pankaj Kumar completed the Cinematography of Tumbbad. Sanyukta Kaza edited the movie.

Ajay Atul and Jesper Kyd gave many melodious songs to this movie; Eros International, Sohum Shah Films, Colour Yellow Productions, Film I Vast, and Filmgate Films were the official production companies for the movie. Eros International was the official Distributor of "Tumbbad." The movie was released on October 12, 2018; its runtime is 104 minutes; it was officially made in Hindi and Swedish and released in India and Sweden. The budget for "Tumbbad" is only five crores, and its Box office collection is 13.57 crores.

The plot of this movie is very interesting; it's related to Indian culture; it is related to that time when mother Earth gave birth to many dirties and demons, but her love and affection are more towards her eldest son "Hastar" who is very greedy. His main focus is on the Gold that is hidden inside Mother Earth. When the other deities came to know about the intentions of Hastar, they decided to forcibly stop Hastar and protect all the food and the belongings of Mother Earth, so they all unitedly fought battle and killed Hastar, but due to the special attachment to Hastar Mother Earth collect his fragments and put them into her womb. Still, other deities were unhappy with this decision and cursed Hastar that he couldn't get outside the Earth and will be deprived of the grains and the other eatables from Mother Earth.

Moreover, he was cursed not to be worshipped among all the deities, but in a village named after his name "Hastar," they started worshipping him just for his Gold, and as a result, other deities became angry and started punishing those local villagers, and it was a curse that whoever will touch the Hastar or was touched by the Hastar will become immortal, but his body will start becoming weak, and eventually, his body will shrink. This movie is about an enthusiastic explorer whose ancestors spent their entire lives searching for the Gold of Hastar. This movie is rated 5 stars. Moreover, unlike other movies, it did not spend much on its promotion.

6) Rustom

This superhit movie is directed by famous director Tinu Suresh Desai, and Vipul K Rawal wrote the movie. The movie is based on a true event of K. M. Nanavati vs. the State of Maharashtra. The producer of this movie is Aruna Bhatia, Nittin Keni, Akash Chawla, Virender Arora, Ishwar Kapoor, Shital Bhatia, Deepanshu Mishra, Prernaa Arora, and Arjun N. Kapoor.

The actors and actresses in this movie include Akshay Kumar, Ileana D'Cruz, Esha Gupta, Arjan Bajwa, Pavan Malhotra, Kumud Mishra, and Usha Nadkarni. Santosh Thundiyil has completed the Cinematography of Rustom, and Shree Narayan Singh has edited the movie; Jeet Gannguli, Arko, Raghav Sachar, and Ankit Tiwari have given various melodious songs to the movie, and Surinder Sodhi gave the background score of the movie.

Zee Studious, KriArj Entertainment, Cape of Good Films, and Plan C Studious were the official production companies for the movie. Panorama Studious; and Zee Studios International were the official Distributors of the movie. The movie was released on August 12, 2016, and officially Rustom was made in Hindi. The budget for this movie is 50.29 crores, and its official box office collection is 216.39 crores.

The Indian Navy Commander Rustom Pavri is an Honest person for his job and a loyal husband who loves his wife, Cynthia Pavri. This case is from the year 1959; their marriage suffered a lot when Rustom's loyalty towards his profession started interfering with his personal life when a Ship contractor forced and tried to give hash money to Rustom, and when he denied the proposal then Vikram Makhija who was the contractor has planned to come in a secret relationship with Cynthia Pavri. After a few times when Rustom came to know about their secret relationship, he got angry and went to kill Vikram Makhija. Nearly all his senior officers were against him because they had taken Hush money from Vikram Makhija and planned to trap Rustom so he would be sentenced to life imprisonment. This movie proved to be a huge Blockbuster in India and is also available on various OTT platforms like Disney + Hotstar, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and more.

7) Brahmastra Part One (Shiva)

Brahmastra part one Shiva is written and directed by Ayan Mukerji, and Karan Johar's production house produces the movie. The Star Cast of Brahmastra part one Shiva is Ranbir Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Alia Bhatt, Nagarjuna Akkineni, Shah Rukh Khan, Dimple Kapadia, and Mouni Roy.

One of the main reasons for the success of this movie was that it used VFX technology, which is nowadays very common in Hollywood movies and MCU movies.

The movie is distributed by Star Studios (India), 20th-century Studios (North America), Walt Disney Studios, and Motion Pictures. The movie was officially made in Hindi and later dubbed into many other languages. In Brahmastra part one Shiva, many melodious songs are given by Pritam; moreover, the movie is narrated by the greatest actor, Amitabh Bachchan.

Prakash Kurup edited the movie, and the Cinematography was completed by V. Manikandan, Pankaj Kumar, Sandeep Chatterjee, Vikash Nowlakha, and Patrick Duroux; the budget of the movie is 375 to 400 crores; the movies made 412.7 crores Worldwide, the worldwide share of movie is 181.3 crores, and the domestic net of this movie is 255.2 crores.

The movie work around the plot that a man named Shiva has some Supernatural powers that he doesn't know about it, and a special weapon of lord Brahma, Brahmastra, is given to a couple after they offer adverse worship to Lord Brahma. Unfortunately, the husband wants to use that supreme weapon for his wrong deeds, so her wife breaks that supreme weapon of lord Brahma into three pieces and hides them somewhere to protect humanity from the evil intention of her husband.

8) Bhool Bhulaiyaa Part 2

This Double Blockbuster movie Bhool Bhulaiyaa part 2 is the second part of Bhool Bhulaiyaa, directed by Priyadarshan and directed by Bhushan Kumar, and the main star cast of that movie was Akshay, but the second part of this movie is directed by Anees Bazmee, and the star cast of this movie is Veeru Raw, Tabu, Kartik Aaryan, and Kiara Advani.

This movie was made with a budget of 75 crores, 263.9 crores; its worldwide shares were 115.4 crores, and its Domestic Net was over 182.6 crores. As the name suggests and its last part tells us about this movie, it is a horror comedy movie,e but the name of the ghost in this movie is still the same as that of Bhool Bhulaiyaa part 1, which is Manjulika.

Bhushan Kumar, Murad Khetani, Krishan Kumar, and Anjum Khetani produced this Huge Blockbuster movie Bhool Bhulaiyaa part 2, and the production house for this movie is T-Series Films and Cine 1 Studios; AA Films was the official Distributor of Bhool Bhuliyaa part 2 moreover, the movie is edited by Bunty Nagi and Cinematography is completed by Manu Anand. Sandeep Shirodkar gave many melodious songs to this movie which are also liked by the public on various social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

The plot of this story was that there is a haunted palace in Bhawanigarh at Rajasthan, which was earlier the palace of the Royal family of Rajasthan, they hire an accountant who belongs to Kolkata, and he has two twin daughters who look identical but vary in their behavior, their names were Anjulika and Manjulika, and the Prince starts liking Anjulika because of her behavior and kindness, so he tells his father about his feeling for Anjulik, and he asked his father to let him marry with Anjulika, the king give his consent, and they marry each other, but Manjulika who also has a soft corner in her heart for Prince starting hating her sister and finally she takes the help of Black Magic to become Prince's wife.

9) Karthikeya

The movie was written and directed by Chandoo Mondeti, Abhishek Agarwal, and T. G. Viswa Prasad produce the movie. The movie stars include Nikhil Siddhartha, Anupama Parameshwaran, Anupam Kher, and Adithya Menon. Karthik Ghattamneni has completed the cinematography of the movie.

Kaala Bhairava gave many melodious songs to this movie, and the official producer of the movie are Abhishek Agarwal Arts and People Media Factory; the movie is distributed by Zee Studios and E4 Entertainment (Kerela); the movie was officially released on August 13, 2022, the official runtime of the movie is 145 minutes, the movie is officially made in the Telugu language.

The official budget of the movie "Karthikeya 2" is 15 crores, and 15 crore extra was for the promotion team, and the officially announced box office collection of the movie was 121.5 crores.

The movie made a huge profit without investing much in promotion; one of the main reasons behind the success of this movie is that the movie tries to tell the important lessons that we all can learn from the life of lord Krishna. The movie is also famous on various OTT platforms like Hotstar, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and many more.

10) Drishyam 2

Famous Director Abhishek Pathak directs this huge Blockbuster movie; the actors and actress of this movie include Ajay Devgn, Tabu, Akshaye Khanna, Shriya Saran, and Ishita Dutta.

The Screenplay of Drishyam 2 is done by Aamil Kenyan Khan and Abhishek Pathak, the writer of this movie is Jeetu Joseph. The production company of Drishyam 2 is Panorama Studios, Viacom 18 Studios, and T-Series Films, and Bhushan Kumar, Kumar Mangat Pathak, and Krishna Kumar were the Official producers of this film. Sudhir K. Chaudhary completed the cinematography of Drishyam 2, and Sandeep Francis edited this movie.

Panorama Studios were the Official Distributor of Drishyam 2; Devi Sri Prasad gave many melodious songs for Drishyam 2 that spellbound the spectators by its melody.

Drishyam 2 was made with an average budget of 65 crores, and the movie made 204.5 crores; its worldwide share is 87.5 crores, and its domestic net is 140.7 crores.

The plot of this movie is that there is a normal middle-class family who was living a good and happy life, but suddenly a storm named Sam knocks into their peaceful life; Ajay Devgan, who is playing the role of Vijay who has a normal business of Cable and he is very passionate to watch every movie may it be of any type, when Vijay's daughter was representing her school in an environment club than a boy named Sam who was shooting girls video on his camera shoot a weird video of Anu and blackmailed him that he will leak her video on the internet, and make her ready to meet him at midnight.

When he meets Sam at her storeroom, and there at a small clash, he hits Sam with an Iron Rod, and unfortunately, Sam dies due to internal blood injury. After this moment, all joy and happiness completely vanished from their life, and Vijay was wholeheartedly dedicated to protecting her daughter and wife, who unknowingly were involved in this killing. As Vijay was a very knowledgeable guy so, he planned to arrange all things in his favor so that he could manipulate the police; they had no evidence against his family, and due to the lack of shreds of evidence, his family would not get arrested. Moreover, the main twist in the movie is that Sam is the son of a powerful businessman, and her mother is the Inspector General of Police. She was very eagerly finding evidence against Vijay's family. For this, he also took his family into remand and beat them. Still, all their efforts were ruined when they came to know about a dead body being dug in Vijay's Garden, then they dug their garden, but they didn't get anything, and here the first part ended with suspense about what Vijay did to Sam's body.

Drishyam 2 starts with a scene in that Vijay has now opened his own Cinema theatre and has planned to produce a movie that he has written himself and also published a few books of his story. To open a theatre, Vijay sold his old house, and unfortunately, the new buyers were the under-cop police officers who acted like a normal low-income family. They were continuously interrogating Vijay's wife in such a manner that she didn't know that they were recording her words.

Now came the new Inspector General of Police who, after seven years, re-opened that case because it was supposed that Vijay had dumped that body in the police station. When they dug the floor and got a skeleton, they sent it to forensics, but even this time also, Vijay managed to change the skeleton, and the case against Vijay was proved negative this time also.