Top 20 Thriller movies on Netflix Japan

Here there are the best thriller movies you can watch today in Netflix. Aimed to have a good suspense time.

1. Inception (2010)

Espionage expert Dom Cobb has condemned him to be a fugitive. His only chance to change his life will be to do the exact opposite of what he has always done. But his plan is complicated by the intervention of someone who predicts each of his movements.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Mystery, Science fiction, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 8.0 /10 IMDB Rating 8.8 /10

2. Léon: The Professional (1994)

Mathilda is a 12-year-old girl with a drug dealer as a father, who does business with Stan, a corrupt D.E.A. agent. One day, while Mathilda is in a supermarket, Stan kills his family. She then takes refuge in the house of Léon, a lonely and mysterious neighbor who turns out to be a hit man.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.6 /10 IMDB Rating 8.5 /10

3. Parasite (2019)

Parasite follows the impoverished Kim family as they infiltrate the wealthy Parks' household by fraud and manipulation. Their scheme to escape poverty becomes a darkly comic, violent critique of class and entitlement.

Genres: Comedy, Thriller

IMDB Rating 8.5 /10

4. Heat (1995)

Neil is an expert thief. His gang is formed by professional criminals that they can even impress Detective Vincent Hanna. When McCauley’s gang prepares the final blow, and Hanna’s team is ready to avoid it.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Cult, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 7.5 /10 IMDB Rating 8.3 /10

5. Jurassic Park (1993)

John Hammond, a billionaire, clones dinosaurs in an attempt to create a theme park on a remote island. He invites scientists and a mathematician to evaluate the project's feasibility. However, the park's security fails to account for nature's instincts and human greed.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Science fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 7.1 /10 IMDB Rating 8.2 /10

6. Perfect Blue (1997)

Mima is a famous Japanese singer of a music group. Due to the failure of sales of her albums, her manager decides to remove her from the band and give her a role in a television series. Her crisis gets worse when she discovers that her life is within anyone’s reach on the Internet and that someone is watching her.

Genres: Animation, Anime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 7.5 /10 IMDB Rating 8.0 /10

7. Infernal Affairs (2002)

Set in Hong Kong’s police–Triad struggle, Infernal Affairs tracks Chan, an undercover cop inside a gang, and Lau, a Triad mole in the police, as their loyalties, identities and survival unravel.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 7.4 /10 IMDB Rating 8.0 /10

8. The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

After resurfacing, Jason Bourne is drawn back when reporter Simon Ross exposes Blackbriar, a CIA program. Ross’s reporting awakens memories, sending Bourne worldwide to uncover his identity while evading lethal agency operatives.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.0 /10

9. The Revenant (2015)

The explorer Hugh Glass is critically injured in a bear attack and left to fend for himself by a treacherous member of his team. With willpower as her only weapon, Glass will have to face a hostile territory.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Biography, History

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.0 /10

10. Icarus (2017)

An American cyclist and a Russian scientist, Grigory Rodchenkov, uncovers a doping scandal in which the scientist is involved, whom Putin wants to silence. Research on sports doping uncovered an international scandal, and the documentary had the main consequence of the IOC's ban on Russia in South Korea Winter Olympics.

Genres: Documentary, Thriller, Sport

Filmaffinity Rating 7.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.9 /10

11. Ghost in the Shell (1995)

Set in 2029, Ghost in the Shell follows Major Motoko Kusanagi and Section 9 pursuing the Puppet Master, a hacker who controls augmented minds, raising questions about identity, consciousness, and a networked society.

Genres: Animation, Anime, Action/Adventure, Mystery, Crime, Drama, Science fiction, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 7.5 /10 IMDB Rating 7.9 /10

12. The Irishman (2019)

Frank Sheeran was a World War II veteran, con man, and hit man who worked with some of the most prominent figures of the 20th century. 'The Irishman' chronicles one of the country's great unsolved mysteries: the disappearance of legendary trade unionist Jimmy Hoffa.

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography, Mystery, Thriller, History

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

13. The Bourne Identity (2002)

An amnesiac rescued from the Mediterranean follows a bank-account clue to Zurich, finds cash, a gun and multiple passports, uncovers lethal skills and a secret intelligence plot, and races across Europe to reclaim his identity.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller, Mystery, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

14. Get Out (2017)

Chris thinks that his girlfriend parents are nervous about their daughter's interracial relationship. But a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to discover an unimaginable truth.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 6.8 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

15. The Chaser (2008)

Ex-cop Joong-ho, now running a small prostitution ring, hunts Seoul's underworld after several prostitutes vanish. Tracing a single client, he races against time to find and save one girl before it's too late.

Genre: Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 7.4 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

16. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

In 1969, one of the most popular trials in the history of the United States took place, in which seven people accused of conspiring against national security were tried. This event would bring with it a series of social conflicts that would go down in posterity at a time of great changes at all levels of American people.

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 7.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10

17. Man on Fire (2004)

Mexico DF. A government agent (Washington) disappointed with his life, reluctantly accepts a job that consists of protecting a girl (Dakota Fanning) whose parents have received kidnapping threats. The relationship with his protected will awaken unknown feelings. When the girl is kidnapped, her anger will unleash those responsible.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 7.1 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10

18. Black Hawk Down (2001)

October 1993. American elite soldiers are sent to Mogadiscio (Somalia) in a United Nations peace mission, but its main objective is to capture the Aidid leader and end up root with war. The mission is complicated when two Black Hawk helicopters are demolished. So the only thing that matters is to rescue the soldiers who have been trapped or have been injured in the accident.

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller, Action/Adventure

Filmaffinity Rating 6.9 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10

19. The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

Jason Bourne, hiding his past with Marie, is forced to flee when a CIA operation collapses and he's framed. He must abandon anonymity, use lethal skills, and expose agency conspiracies to survive.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 7.1 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10

20. Zodiac (2007)

Zodiac (late 1960s–70s) follows the real hunt for the Zodiac Killer, showing reporters, detectives and a cartoonist obsessing over coded clues. The unresolved case strains careers, relationships and sanity.

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 6.8 /10 IMDB Rating 7.7 /10