| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 2000 |
| 2000 AD | Gordon Chan | Aaron Kwok, Phyllis Quek, Daniel Wu |  | Action thriller |
| The 6th Day | Roger Spottiswoode | Arnold Schwarzenegger |  | Action thriller |
| Baise-Moi | Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh Thi | Raffaela Anderson, Karen Bach |  | Crime thriller, Erotic thriller |
| Scream 3 | Wes Craven | Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Arquette | | Psychological thriller, Comedy thriller |
| The Beach | Danny Boyle | Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen | | Psychological thriller |
| The Cell | Tarsem Singh | Jennifer Lopez | | Psychological thriller |
| The Crimson Rivers | Mathieu Kassovitz | Jean Reno, Vincent Cassel, Nadia Farès | | Action thriller |
| Devil in the Flesh II: Teacher's Pet | Marcus Spiegel | Jodi Lyn O'Keefe | | Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Chasing Sleep | Michael Walker | Jeff Daniels, Emily Bergl | | Psychological thriller |
| Frequency | Gregory Hoblit | Dennis Quaid, James Caviezel, Andre Braugher | | Supernatural thriller |
| Get Carter | Stephen Kay | Sylvester Stallone | | Action thriller |
| Memento | Christopher Nolan | Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss | | Paranoid thriller |
| Merci Pour le Chocolat | Claude Chabrol | Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc |  | Psychological thriller |
| Mission: Impossible II | John Woo | Tom Cruise | | Action thriller |
| Time and Tide | Tsui Hark | Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai, Anthony Wong | | Action thriller |
| Unbreakable | M. Night Shyamalan | Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn | | Psychological thriller |
| Versus | Ryuhei Kitamura | Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki |  | Action thriller |
| Vertical Limit | Martin Campbell | Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn | | Action thriller |
| What Lies Beneath | Robert Zemeckis | Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid | | Supernatural thriller |
| With a Friend Like Harry... | Dominik Moll | Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner | | Psychological thriller, comedy thriller |
| 2001 |
| Battle Royale | Kinji Fukasaku | Tatsuya Fujiwara | | Action thriller |
| The Devil's Backbone | Guillermo del Toro | Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi |  | Supernatural thriller |
| The Fast and the Furious | Rob Cohen | Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez | | Action thriller |
| Frailty | Bill Paxton | Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe | | Psychological thriller |
| From Hell | Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes | Johnny Depp, Heather Graham | | Psychological thriller |
| Hannibal | Ridley Scott | Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore | | Psychological thriller |
| Donnie Darko | Richard Kelly | Jake Gyllenhaal, Patrick Swayze | | Paranoid thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Intacto | Juan Carlos Fresnadillo | Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela | | Psychological thriller |
| Joy Ride | John Dahl | Steve Zahn, Paul Walker | | Psychological thriller |
| Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Michael York, Michael Biehn, John DeMita, Diane Venora, R. Lee Ermey | | Action thriller |
| Mulholland Dr. | David Lynch | Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller | | Psychological thriller |
| The One | James Wong | Jet Li | | Action thriller |
| The Others | Alejandro Amenábar | Nicole Kidman | | Supernatural thriller |
| Pulse | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Haruhiko Kato, Kumiko Aso, Koyuki | | Psychological thriller |
| Read my Lips | Jacques Audiard | Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos, Olivier Gourmet | | Psychological thriller, Crime thriller |
| Session 9 | Brad Anderson | Peter Mullan, David Caruso | | Psychological thriller |
| Soul Survivors | Stephen W. Carpenter | Melissa Sagemiller, Casey Affleck, Wes Bentley | | Supernatural thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Training Day | Antoine Fuqua | Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke | | Crime thriller |
| Vanilla Sky | Cameron Crowe | Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz | | Psychological thriller |
| The Watcher | Joe Charbanic | James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Keanu Reeves | | Psychological thriller, Crime thriller |
| Zebra Lounge | Kari Skogland | Stephen Baldwin, Kristy Swanson | | Erotic thriller |
| 2002 |
| 2009 Lost Memories | Lee Si-Myung | Toru Nakamura, Jang Dong-gun, Ken Mitsuishi |  | Action thriller |
| And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen | Claude Lelouch | Jeremy Irons, Patricia Kaas, Thierry Lhermitte |  | Crime thriller |
| Assassination Tango | Robert Duvall | Robert Duvall, Rubén Blades, Kathy Baker | | Crime thriller |
| Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever | Kaos | Lucy Liu, Antonio Banderas | | Action thriller |
| Blade II | Guillermo del Toro | Wesley Snipes | | Action thriller |
| The Bourne Identity | Doug Liman | Matt Damon | | Paranoid thriller |
| City of Ghosts | Matt Dillon | Matt Dillon, Natascha McElhone, Gérard Depardieu | | Crime thriller |
| The Dancer Upstairs | John Malkovich | Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante | | Political thriller |
| Dark Water | Hideo Nakata | Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi | | Supernatural thriller |
| Demonlover | Olivier Assayas | Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloë Sevigny | | Paranoid thriller, Erotic thriller |
| Dirty Pretty Things | Stephen Frears | Audrey Tautou, Chiwetel Ejiofor | | Crime thriller |
| Extreme Ops | Christian Duguay | Devon Sawa, Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, Rupert Graves | | Action thriller |
| Femme Fatale | Brian De Palma | Rebecca Romijn, Antonio Banderas | | Crime thriller, Erotic thriller |
| The Hard Word | Scott Roberts | Guy Pearce, Rachel Griffiths, Robert Taylor |  | Crime thriller |
| He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not | Laetitia Colombani | Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carré | | Psychological thriller |
| Insomnia | Christopher Nolan | Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank | | Psychological thriller |
| Minority Report | Steven Spielberg | Tom Cruise, Colin Farrel, Max von Sydow | | Science fiction action thriller |
| The Nest | Florent Emilio Siri | Samy Naceri, Benoît Magimel, Nadia Farès, Pascal Greggory, Sami Bouajila | | Action thriller |
| One Hour Photo | Mark Romanek | Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan | | Psychological thriller |
| Panic Room | David Fincher | Jodie Foster | | Psychological thriller |
| The Quiet American | Phillip Noyce | Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser | | Political thriller |
| Red Dragon | Brett Ratner | Anthony Hopkins | | Psychological thriller |
| Signs | M. Night Shyamalan | Mel Gibson | | Psychological thriller |
| Swimfan | Jesse Bradford | Erika Christensen | | Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| The Transporter | Corey Yuen | Jason Statham, Shu Qi | | Action thriller |
| XXX | Rob Cohen | Vin Diesel, Asia Argento | | Action thriller |
| 2003 |
| 2 Fast 2 Furious | John Singleton | Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes | | Action thriller |
| Basic | John McTiernan | John Travolta, Connie Nielsen, Samuel L. Jackson | | Psychological thriller |
| Cold Creek Manor | Mike Figgis | Dennis Quaid, Sharon Stone, Stephen Dorff | | Psychological thriller |
| Confidence | James Foley | Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy Garcia | | Crime thriller |
| Cradle 2 the Grave | Andrzej Bartkowiak | Jet Li, DMX | | Action thriller |
| dot the i | Matthew Parkhill | Gael García Bernal, Natalia Verbeke | | Psychological thriller |
| Fear X | Nicolas Winding Refn | John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger |   | Psychological thriller |
| Gothika | Mathieu Kassovitz | Halle Berry | | Supernatural thriller |
| House of the Dead | Uwe Boll | Jonathan Cherry, Tyron Leitso, Clint Howard |  | Action thriller |
| The i Inside | Roland Suso Richter | Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley | | Supernatural thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Identity | James Mangold | John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet | | Psychological thriller |
| I'm Not Scared | Gabriele Salvatores | Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia |  | Psychological thriller |
| In the Cut | Jane Campion | Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo | | Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Kill Bill Vol. 1 | Quentin Tarantino | Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah | | Action thriller |
| Killing Words | Laura Mañà | Darío Grandinetti, Goya Toledo | | Psychological thriller |
| Kontroll | Nimród Antal | Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch |  | Psychological thriller |
| Lucía, Lucía | Antonio Serrano | Cecilia Roth, Carlos Alvarez-Novoa, Kuno Becker |  | Comedy thriller |
| Moon Child | Takahisa Zeze | Hideto Takarai, Gackt Camui | | Action thriller |
| Once Upon a Time in Mexico | Robert Rodriguez | Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Johnny Depp | | Action thriller |
| Open Water | Chris Kentis | Blanchard Ryan, Daniel Travis, Saul Stein | | Psychological thriller |
| Out of Time | Carl Franklin | Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan | | Crime thriller |
| Phone Booth | Joel Schumacher | Colin Farrell | | Psychological thriller |
| The Recruit | Roger Donaldson | Al Pacino, Colin Farrel | | Psychological thriller |
| Runaway Jury | Gary Fleder | John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman | | |
| Running on Karma | Johnny To, Wai Ka-fai | Andy Lau, Cecilia Cheung, Cheung Siu Fai |  | Action thriller |
| Swimming Pool | François Ozon | Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier | | Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| A Tale of Two Sisters | Kim Ji-woon | Im Su-jeong, Yeom Jeong-ah, Kim Kap-su | | Psychological thriller |
| Tears of the Sun | Antoine Fuqua | Bruce Willis | | Action thriller |
| Undermind | Nevil Dwek | | | Psychological thriller |
| Underworld | Len Wiseman | Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman | | Action thriller |
| Veronica Guerin | Joel Schumacher | Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley |  | Crime thriller |
| 2004 |
| Blade: Trinity | David S. Goyer | Wesley Snipes | | Action thriller |
| Blueberry | Jan Kounen | Vincent Cassel, Juliette Lewis, Michael Madsen, Temuera Morrison | | Supernatural thriller |
| The Butterfly Effect | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart | | Psychological thriller |
| Cellular | David R. Ellis | Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham | | Crime thriller |
| Collateral | Michael Mann | Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx | | Crime thriller |
| District B13 | Pierre Morel | Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario | | Action thriller |
| EMR | James Erskine, Danny McCullough | Adam Leese | | Paranoid thriller |
| The Forgotten | Joseph Ruben | Julianne Moore, Dominic West | | Supernatural thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Freeze Frame | John Simpson | Lee Evans, Sean McGinley, Ian McNeice | | Psychological thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| Godsend | Nick Hamm | Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, Robert De Niro | | Psychological thriller |
| I, Robot | Alex Proyas | Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, Bruce Greenwood | | Science fiction crime thriller |
| Kill Bill Vol. 2 | Quentin Tarantino | Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen | | Action thriller |
| Lethal | Dustin Rikert | Heather Marie Marsden, Lorenzo Lamas, Frank Zagarino | | Action thriller |
| The Machinist | Brad Anderson | Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh | | Psychological thriller |
| The Manchurian Candidate | Jonathan Demme | Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber | | Paranoid thriller, Psychological thriller, Political thriller |
| Mindhunters | Renny Harlin | LL Cool J, Kathryn Morris |   | Psychological thriller |
| New Police Story | Benny Chan | Jackie Chan | | Action thriller |
| Night Watch | Timur Bekmambetov | Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valery Zolotukhin |  | Action thriller, supernatural thriller |
| November | Greg Harrison | Courteney Cox Arquette, James LeGros, Michael Ealy | | Psychological thriller |
| Oldboy | Park Chan-wook | Choi Min-Sik | | Paranoid thriller |
| The Punisher | Jonathan Hensleigh | Thomas Jane, John Travolta | | Action thriller |
| Red Lights | Cédric Kahn | Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet | | Psychological thriller |
| Secret Window | David Koepp | Johnny Depp | | Psychological thriller |
| Spartan | David Mamet | Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy | | Political thriller |
| Spider Forest | Song Il-gon | | | Psychological thriller |
| Suspect Zero | E. Elias Merhige | Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley | | Psychological thriller |
| Taking Lives | D. J. Caruso | Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke | | Psychological thriller |
| Three Way | Scott Ziehl | Ali Larter, Desmond Harrington, Joy Bryant | | Crime thriller |
| Torque | Joseph Kahn | Martin Henderson, Ice Cube, Monet Mazur | | Action thriller |
| Trauma | Marc Evans | Colin Firth, Mena Suvari | | Psychological thriller |
| Twisted | Philip Kaufman | Ashley Judd, Samuel L. Jackson, Andy Garcia | | Psychological thriller |
| The Village | M. Night Shyamalan | Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, Adrien Brody | | Psychological thriller |
| Wild Things 2 | Jack Perez | Susan Ward, Leila Arcieri, Isaiah Washington | | Erotic thriller, Action thriller |
| 2005 |
| 13 Tzameti | Géla Babluani | George Babluani | | Psychological thriller |
| Assault on Precinct 13 | Jean-François Richet | Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne | | Action thriller |
| Blood Rain | Kim Dae-seung | | | |
| Caché | Michael Haneke | Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche |  | Psychological thriller |
| The Constant Gardener | Fernando Meirelles | Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Danny Huston | | Political thriller |
| Derailed | Mikael Håfström | Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel | | Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| Flightplan | Robert Schwentke | Jodie Foster | | Paranoid thriller |
| Hard Candy | David Slade | Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh | | Psychological thriller |
| Hide and Seek | John Polson | Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning | | Psychological thriller |
| A History of Violence | David Cronenberg | Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ashton Holmes | | Crime thriller |
| Hostage | Florent Emilio Siri | Bruce Willis | | Action thriller |
| The Interpreter | Sydney Pollack | Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn | | Political thriller, Paranoid thriller |
| The Jacket | John Maybury | Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson | | Supernatural thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Lord of War | Andrew Niccol | Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Bridget Moynahan | | Crime thriller |
| Kill Zone | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung | | Action thriller |
| Munich | Steven Spielberg | Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds | | Political thriller |
| Red Eye | Wes Craven | Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy | | Psychological thriller |
| Sin City | Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller | Jessica Alba, Devon Aoki, Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe | | Crime thriller |
| The Skeleton Key | Iain Softley | Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, Peter Sarsgaard | | Supernatural thriller |
| Stay | Marc Forster | Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts | | Psychological thriller |
| Sympathy for Lady Vengeance | Park Chan-wook | | | |
| Syriana | Stephen Gaghan | George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright | | Political thriller |
| Transporter 2 | Louis Leterrier | Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta | | Action thriller |
| White Noise | Geoffrey Sax | Michael Keaton, Chandra West, Deborah Kara Unger | | Supernatural thriller |
| Wild Things 3: Diamonds in the Rough | Jay Lowi | | | Crime thriller, Erotic thriller |
| XXX: State of the Union | Lee Tamahori | Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe | | Action thriller |
| 2006 |
| Basic Instinct 2 | Michael Caton-Jones | Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis | | Psychological thriller, Erotic thriller |
| Black Book | Paul Verhoeven | Carice VanHouten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman |  | |
| Bug | William Friedkin | Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon, Lynn Collins | | Psychological thriller |
| Casino Royale | Martin Campbell | Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen |  | Action thriller |
| Children of Men | Alfonso Cuarón | Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine | | Action thriller |
| Crank | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Jason Statham, Amy Smart | | Action thriller |
| Death Note | Shusuke Kaneko | Kenichi Matsuyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara | | Psychological thriller |
| Death Note II: The Last Name | Shusuke Kaneko | Kenichi Matsuyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara | | Psychological thriller |
| The Departed | Martin Scorsese | Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson | | Crime thriller |
| Déjà Vu | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington | | Paranoid thriller |
| Exiled | Johnny To | Nick Cheung, Simon Yam, Francis Ng | | Action thriller, crime thriller |
| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift | Justin Lin | Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Nathalie Kelley | | Action thriller |
| Firewall | Richard Loncraine | Harrison Ford | | Crime thriller,
Action thriller,
Cyber thriller |
| Flash Point | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou | | |
| Half Light | Craig Rosenberg | Demi Moore | | Supernatural thriller |
| Inside Man | Spike Lee | Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster | | Crime thriller |
| Lady in the Water | M. Night Shyamalan | Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard | | Psychological thriller |
| The Lives of Others | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch | | Political thriller |
| Like Minds | Gregory J. Read | Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette | | Psychological thriller |
| The Marine | John Bonito | John Cena, Robert Patrick, Kelly Carlson | | Action thriller |
| Miami Vice | Michael Mann | Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx, Gong Li | | Action thriller |
| Mission: Impossible III | Eric Schwab, J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci | Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman | | Action thriller |
| The Night Listener | Patrick Stettner | Robin Williams, Toni Collette, Bobby Cannavale, Joe Morton | | Psychological thriller |
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer | Tom Tykwer | Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman | | Psychological thriller |
| The Prestige | Christopher Nolan | Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine | | Psychological thriller |
| The Return | Asif Kapadia | Sarah Michelle Gellar | | Supernatural thriller |
| Running Scared | Wayne Kramer | Paul Walker | | Action thriller, Crime thriller |
| The Sentinel | Clark Johnson | Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria | | Political thriller |
| Severance | Christopher Smith | Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny | | Action thriller |
| Snakes on a Plane | David R. Ellis | Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips | | Crime thriller,
Psychological thriller |
| Tell No One | Guillaume Canet | François Cluzet, André Dussollier, Marie-Josée Croze | | Psychological thriller |
| Underworld: Evolution | Len Wiseman | Kate Beckinsale | | Action thriller,
Supernatural thriller |
| Unknown | Simon Brand | James Caviezel, Greg Kinnear | | Psychological thriller |
| V for Vendetta | James McTeigue | Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving | | Political thriller,
Psychological thriller |
| 2007 |
| Anamorph | H.S. Miller | Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Clea Duvall | | Psychological thriller |
| Awake | Joby Harold | Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard | | Psychological thriller |
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Sidney Lumet | Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei | | Crime thriller |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Paul Greengrass | Matt Damon, Julia Stiles, David Strathairn | | Action thriller |
| Death Proof | Quentin Tarantino | Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd | | Action thriller |
| Death Sentence | James Wan | | | |
| Disturbia | D. J. Caruso | Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer | | Paranoid thriller |
| Eastern Promises | David Cronenberg | Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel | | |
| First Snow | Mark Fergus | Guy Pearce, Piper Perabo | | Psychological thriller |
| Flash Point | Wilson Yip | Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou | | |
| The Flock | Andrew Lau | Richard Gere, Claire Danes | | Psychological thriller |
| Fracture | Gregory Hoblit | Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling | | Psychological thriller,
Crime thriller |
| Funny Games | Michael Haneke | Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt | | Crime thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Hannibal Rising | Peter Webber | Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans | | Psychological thriller,
Crime thriller |
| Hitman | Xavier Gens | Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko | | Action thriller,
Crime thriller |
| I Know Who Killed Me | Chris Sivertson | Lindsay Lohan | | Psychological thriller |
| Illegal Tender | Franc Reyes | Rick Gonzalez, Wanda De Jesus, Dania Ramirez | | Action thriller |
| The Invasion | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig | | |
| The Invisible | David S. Goyer | Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva | | Supernatural thriller |
| Jar City | Baltasar Kormákur | Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Agusta Eva Erlendsdottir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson |  | |
| Joshua | George Ratliff | Sam Rockwell, Vera Farmiga, Celia Weston | | Psychological thriller |
| Live Free or Die Hard | Len Wiseman | Bruce Willis | | Action thriller,
Cyber thriller,
Political action thriller |
| Michael Clayton | Tony Gilroy | George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, Tilda Swinton | | Paranoid thriller |
| Mr. Brooks | Bruce A. Evans | Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook | | Psychological thriller |
| Next | Lee Tamahori | Nicolas Cage, Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Thomas Kretschmann | | Supernatural thriller |
| No Country for Old Men | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin | | Crime thriller |
| The Number 23 | Joel Schumacher | Jim Carrey | | Psychological thriller |
| P2 | Franck Khalfoun | Wes Bentley, Rachel Nichols | | Psychological thriller |
| Perfect Stranger | James Foley | Halle Berry, Bruce Willis | | Psychological thriller |
| Planet Terror | Robert Rodriguez | Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin | | Action thriller |
| Premonition | Mennan Yapo | Sandra Bullock | | Supernatural thriller |
| Redline | Andy Cheng | Nathan Phillips, Nadia Bjorlin | | Action thriller |
| Roman de gare | Claude Lelouch | Dominique Pinon, Fanny Ardant, Audrey Dana | | |
| Seraphim Falls | David Von Ancken | Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan | | Action thriller |
| Shooter | Antoine Fuqua | Mark Wahlberg | | Political thriller,
Action thriller |
| Smokin' Aces | Joe Carnahan | Ben Affleck, Andy Garcia, Alicia Keys | | Action thriller, crime thriller |
| Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming | Ernie Barbarash | Rob Lowe, Zachary Bennett | | Supernatural thriller |
| Stuck | Stuart Gordon | Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby | | |
| Ten 'til Noon | Scott Storm | Alfonso Freeman | | Crime thriller |
| Thr3e | Robby Henson | Marc Blucas, Laura Jordan, Justine Waddell | | Crime thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Timecrimes | Nacho Vigalondo | Karra Elejalde, Barbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo | | |
| War | Phillip Atwell | Jet Li, Jason Statham | | Action thriller |
| 2008 |
| 21 | Robert Luketic | Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth | | Psychological thriller, Drama |
| 88 Minutes | Jon Avnet | Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski | | Psychological thriller |
| The Baader Meinhof Complex | Uli Edel | Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek | | Political thriller |
| Bangkok Dangerous | Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang | Nicolas Cage | | Crime thriller |
| Blindness | Fernando Meirelles | Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Alice Braga |  | |
| The Caller | Richard Ledes | Frank Langella, Elliott Gould, Laura Elena Harring | | |
| Cassandra's Dream | Woody Allen | Colin Farrell, Ewan McGregor | | Crime thriller |
| Changeling | Clint Eastwood | Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan | | Psychological thriller |
| The Dark Knight | Christopher Nolan | Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal | | Superhero film, crime thriller |
| Deception | Marcel Langenegger | Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams | | |
| Eagle Eye | D.J. Caruso | Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan, Rosario Dawson | | Sci-fi action thriller |
| The Eye | David Moreau, Xavier Palud | Jessica Alba | | Film remake |
| The Happening | M. Night Shyamalan | Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo | | |
| The Haunting of Molly Hartley | Mickey Liddell | Haley Bennett, Chace Crawford, Shannon Marie Woodward | | Supernatural thriller |
| The Horsemen | Jonas Åkerlund | Dennis Quaid, Zhang Ziyi | | |
| Lakeview Terrace | Neil LaBute | Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Patrick Wilson | | Suspense-action thriller |
| The Life Before Her Eyes | Vadim Perelman | Uma Thurman, Evan Rachel Wood, Eva Amurri | | |
| Max Payne | John Moore | Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Chris O' Donnell | | Action Thriller |
| The Oxford Murders | Álex de la Iglesia | Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling | | |
| Pathology | Marc Schoelermann | Milo Ventimiglia, Alyssa Milano, Lauren Lee Smith | | Crime thriller |
| Poison Ivy: The Secret Society | Jason Hreno | Miriam McDonald, Crystal Lowe | | Erotic thriller |
| Rambo | Sylvester Stallone | Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden | | Action thriller |
| Righteous Kill | Jon Avnet | Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Curtis Jackson | | Psychological thriller |
| The Strangers | Bryan Bertino | Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman | | Psychological thriller |
| Taken | Pierre Morel | Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen | | Action thriller |
| Transsiberian | Brad Anderson | Woody Harrelson, Emily Mortimer, Ben Kingsley | | |
| Untraceable | Gregory Hoblit | Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Colin Hanks | | Psychological thriller |
| Valkyrie | Bryan Singer | Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy | | Political thriller |
| Vantage Point | Pete Travis | Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker | | Political thriller |
| The X-Files: I Want to Believe | Chris Carter | David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet | | |
| 2009 |
| Angels & Demons | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor | | Crime thriller |
| Armored | Nimród Antal | Matt Dillon, Jean Reno, Laurence Fishburne | | Action thriller, crime thriller[1] |
| Blue | Anthony D'Souza | Sanjay Dutt , Akshay Kumar , Kylie Minogue |  | Action thriller |
| Duplicity | Tony Gilroy | Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Tom Wilkinson | | |
| Gamer | Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor | Gerard Butler, Milo Ventimiglia | | [2] |
| The International | Tom Tykwer | Clive Owen, Naomi Watts | | |
| Killshot | John Madden | Diane Lane, Mickey Rourke | | |
| Knowing | Alex Proyas | Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne | | Sci-fi thriller |
| Law Abiding Citizen | F. Gary Gray | Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney | | |
| New York | Kabir Khan | John Abraham, Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irrfan Khan | | |
| Obsessed | Steve Shill | Beyoncé Knowles, Idris Elba, Ali Larter | | Erotic thriller, Psychological thriller |
| Push | Paul McGuigan | Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Belle, Djimon Hounsou | | Sci-fi action thriller |
| State Of Play | Kevin Macdonald | Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams | | Political thriller |
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 | Tony Scott | Denzel Washington, John Travolta, James Gandolfini | | |
| The Unborn | David S. Goyer | | | |
| Whiteout | Dominic Sena | Kate Beckinsale, Columbus Short, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt | | [3] |
