Hidden Gems
Underrated Thriller Movies
Thriller films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated Thriller Films
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Du rififi chez les hommes
Jules Dassin·1955·CrimeTML 92★ 8.2$57K box officeJean Servais, Carl Möhner +2
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Bronenosets Potemkin
Sergei M. Eisenstein·1925·DramaTML 91★ 8.0$51K box officeAleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy +2
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Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Eisenstein·1925·DramaTML 90★ 7.9$51K box officeAleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy +2
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Elevator to the Gallows
Louis Malle·1958·CrimeTML 89★ 7.9$375K box officeJeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet +2
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The Manchurian Candidate
John Frankenheimer·1962·DramaTML 89★ 7.9$2.8M box officeFrank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey +2
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The Wages of Fear
Henri-Georges Clouzot·1953·AdventureTML 87★ 8.1$21K box officeYves Montand, Charles Vanel +2
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M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Fritz Lang·1931·CrimeTML 87★ 8.3$29K box officePeter Lorre, Ellen Widmann +2
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Night of the Living Dead
George A. Romero·1968·HorrorTML 87★ 7.9$89K box officeDuane Jones, Judith O'Dea +2
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The Passenger
Michelangelo Antonioni·1975·DramaTML 85★ 7.5$620K box officeJack Nicholson, Maria Schneider +2
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene·1920·HorrorTML 84★ 8.0$9K box officeWerner Krauss, Conrad Veidt +2
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The Bad Sleep Well
Akira Kurosawa·1960·CrimeTML 84★ 8.0$47K box officeToshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori +2
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