Best Thrillers of 2023: Top 15 New Films for Fans of the Genre

A series of murders shocked Baltimore on New Year's Eve. The maniac, who left no traces, killed dozens of people during the celebration right in the center of the city. Everyone is sure that he will go hunting again, but the chief investigator of the FBI, Lammark, has no leads. He involves a young police officer, Eleanor, who has shown an excellent understanding of the nature of the killer, and now their main task is to figure out and catch the psychopath.

Prison 77 (Modelo 77)

● Release date: 01/26/2023

● Director: Alberto Rodriguez
● Country: Spain
● Main Cast: Miguel Herran, Javier Gutierrez, Jesús Carrosa, Catalina Sopelana et al.
● Film running time: 125 minutes

What

A thriller based on real events. 1977, young Spanish accountant Miguel is unfairly sentenced to 20 years in prison. Fighting for justice along with his cellmate, he becomes the leader of the prisoners of all prisons in Spain who want to defend their freedom. This struggle was destined to change all of Spanish society and prison laws forever.

John Wick: Chapter 4

● Release date: 3/23/2023
● Director: Chad Stahelski
● Country: USA, Germany
● Starring: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Shamir Anderson and more
● Movie length: 169 minutes

What
The fourth film that tells about the life and revenge of a former assassin. Despite all the successes, getting freedom is becoming increasingly difficult. Now a young member of the Board, whose name is Marquis, declares a hunt for him. The situation seems hopeless, but John learns a way to finally end it all. .jpg» media-type=»photo» data-crop-ratio=»0.666016260162602″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»400″ data-source-sid=»» class=»lazyload» lazy=»1″ />

● Release date: 23.02.2023
● Director: Dmitry Dyachenko
● Country: Russia
● Starring: Alexey Serebryakov, Vsevolod Volodin, Evgeny Tkachuk, Georgy Dronov and others.
● Film length: 100 minutes

What
A non-classical thriller, where there are practically no gloomy landscapes, forcing music and sharp plot twists, but there are really tense moments. The whole story is built around the entrepreneur Henk Rogers, who in 1988 saw the Soviet game «Tetris» for the first time at the exhibition. He immediately decides to buy the rights to distribute it in Japan, as well as negotiate with Nintendo to implement Tetris on their new game console. But for this, he needs to go to Moscow to personally negotiate the licensing.

Aita

● Release date: 30.03.2023
● Director: Stepan Burnashev
● Country: Russia
● Starring: Innokenty Lukovtsev, Andrei Fomin, Georgy Bessonov, Ilyana Pavlova and others
● Duration of the film: 86 minutes

What
Aita is a young girl who dies after meeting her classmates. She leaves a lead — a note with a name on it. The investigation has not yet been terminated, but everyone is already sure that the local police officer is guilty. Residents demand punishment and are ready to arrange lynching, but the investigator in the case is in no hurry to make a decision and plans to find out all the circumstances of the murder. >

● Released: 11/05/2023
● Director: Ali Abbasi
● Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Jordan, Italy
● Starring: Zara Amir Ebrahimi, Mehdi Bejestani, Alice Rahimi, Diana Al Hussen and more
● Film running time: 118 minutes

About
Detective thriller based on true events. Journalist Rahimi investigates the murders of sex workers in the Iranian city of Mashhad, for which she comes directly to the scene. But the investigation is complicated by the fact that, contrary to common sense, many locals support the actions of a maniac who decided to «cleanse the city» in this way.

Translator (The Covenant)

● Release date: 06/01/2023
● Director: Guy Ritchie
● Country: UK, Spain, USA
● Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Jonny Lee Miller, Alexander Ludwig and more
● Film running time: 123 minutes

What
The action begins in Afghanistan, in March 2018. US Army Sergeant John Kinley, along with his squad, participate in a special operation to search for weapons of the Taliban, but are ambushed. Waking up already at home, the sergeant learns that he and the translator Ahmed, who is collaborating with the United States, remained among the survivors. He understands that it was Ahmed who saved his life, pulling him out of dangerous territory. John decides to head back to Afghanistan to help Ahmed and his family, who are being actively hunted by the Taliban.

Escape Illusion (Superposition)

● Released: 25.05.2023
● Director: Caroline Lyngby
● Country: Denmark
● Starring: Maria Bach Hansen, Mikkel Boe Fölsgaard, Milo Olsen and others
● Film running time: 105 minutes

What
A married couple with a child, wanting to start a new interesting life and develop in creativity, decide to arrange an experiment. They move into a deserted uninhabited forest and begin to chronicle their lives by recording podcasts. The experiment takes an unexpected turn when they meet strangers who look eerily similar to them.

10 Days of a Good Man (Iyi Adamin 10 Günü)

● Release Date: 03/03/2023
● Director: Iluch Bayraktar
● Country: Turkey
● Starring: Nezhat Isler, Noor Fettaholu, Shenay Gurler, Ilayda Alishan and others.
● Film running time: 124 minutes

What
A former lawyer, disillusioned with his work, decides to practice as a private detective. One day, the mother of a young guy who has gone missing turns to him and asks for help in the search. The detective faces 10 days of investigations, sudden encounters and deadly encounters, during which he will begin to rethink his worldview and, perhaps, change his ideas about good and evil.

U Turn )

● Release date: April 28, 2023
● Director: Arif Khan
● Country: India
● Starring: Alaya F, Priyanshu Painyuli, Manyu Rishi and more.
● Film length: 140 minutes

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Every driver who makes an illegal U-turn on an overpass mysteriously dies. Young Radhika, who is intern as a journalist, decides to investigate these deaths, but ironically, she is the main suspect. What happens to violators and who is to blame?