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The Most Suspenseful PG-13 Thrillers
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Vote up your favorite thriller films that are rated PG-13.
This list takes the best PG-13 suspense movies and compares them to each other to determine the greatest PG-13 suspense movie of all time. This list of popular PG-13 suspense movies includes information like who directed the film, when it was released and which actors starred in the movie. If you think the top PG-13 thriller movie isn't as high as it should be then be sure to vote it up so it can take its rightful place among the other great PG-13 rated suspense films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific psychological thriller film that is rated PG-13 you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for.
List ranges from The Sixth Sense to Unbreakable, plus much more. If you're trying to find out "What are the best PG-13 suspense movies?" and "What are the most famous PG-13 thriller movies?" then this list is the perfect resource for you.
Use this list if you're looking for some new suspense movies that are rated PG-13. Between Netflix, Hulu and other services there are thousands of great suspense movies rated PG-13, so get out there and start watching. Vote up your favorite PG-13 thrillers and vote down any that had you yawning instead of sitting on the edge of your seat.
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- 1Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds
- Released: 2018
- Directed by: John Krasinski
If they hear you, they hunt you. A family must live in silence to avoid mysterious creatures that hunt by sound. Knowing that even the slightest whisper or footstep can bring death, Evelyn and Lee ...more - 2Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Famke Janssen
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Pierre Morel
Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson), a former government operative, is trying to reconnect with his daughter, Kim (Maggie Grace). Then his worst fears become real when sex slavers abduct Kim and her friend ...more - 3Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette
- Released: 1999
- Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Young Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment) is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows. He is too ...more - 4Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Andre Braugher
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
What if you had the chance to travel back in time and change just one event in your life? What would it be? For John Sullivan (Jim Caviezel), there is no question. He would undo the events of October ...more - 5Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Alakina Mann
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Alejandro Amenábar
Grace (Nicole Kidman), the devoutly religious mother of Anne (Alakina Mann) and Nicholas (James Bentley), moves her family to the English coast during World War II. She awaits word on her missing ...more - 6Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
David Dunn (Bruce Willis) is the sole survivor of a devastating train wreck. Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson) is a mysterious stranger who offers a bizarre explanation as to why David escaped without ...more - 7Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga
- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Duncan Jones
Helicopter pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) is part of a top-secret military operation that enables him to experience the last few minutes in the life of Sean Fentress, a man who died in a ...more - 8Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: Adam Robitel
Six adventurous strangers travel to a mysterious building to experience the escape room -- a game where players compete to solve a series of puzzles to win $10,000. What starts out as seemingly ...more - 9Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames
- Released: 1996 – Present
- Directed by: Christopher McQuarrie, Brad Bird, J. J. Abrams, John Woo, Brian De Palma
Mission: Impossible is a series of action spy thriller films based on the television series of the same name, produced by and starring Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt. - 10Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
Taut thriller about a young law student whose legal brief about the assassination of two Supreme Court justices causes her to be targeted by killers. She realizes just how accurate her accusations ...more - 11Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Wes Craven
In the wake of her grandmother's funeral, hotel manager Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is waiting to fly back home when she meets charming Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy) at check-in. She thinks it ...more - 12John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee
- Released: 2018
- Directed by: Aneesh Chaganty
David Kim becomes desperate when his 16-year-old daughter Margot disappears and an immediate police investigation leads nowhere. He soon decides to search the one place that no one else has -- ...more - 13Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Diana Scarwid
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
It had been a year since Dr. Norman Spencer (Harrison Ford) betrayed his beautiful wife Claire (Michelle Pfeiffer). But with Claire oblivious to the truth, Norman's life and marriage seem so perfect ...more - 14Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen
- Released: 2005
- Directed by: Robert Schwentke
Airplane engineer Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is heading home from Germany to New York on a double-decker Elgin 474 to bury her husband. But three hours into the flight, she awakens to find her young ...more - 15Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Irwin Winkler
Computer programmer Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) starts a new freelance gig and, strangely, all her colleagues start dying. Does it have something to do with the mysterious disc she was given? Her ...more - 16Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Brian Dennehy
- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Paul Haggis
Life for John and Lara Brennan (Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks) is miserable after she is convicted of a murder she says she did not commit. Three years later while struggling with the demands of ...more - 17John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher
- Released: 2016
- Directed by: Dan Trachtenberg
After surviving a car accident, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up to find herself in an underground bunker with two men. Howard (John Goodman) tells her that a massive chemical attack has ...more - 18Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, Bridget Moynahan
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Roger Donaldson
In an era when the country's first line of defense - human intelligence - is more important than ever, comes an explosive thriller that gives an insider's view into the CIA's secret training ground: ...more - 19Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, Samuel L. Jackson
- Released: 2019
- Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
David Dunn tries to stay one step ahead of the law while delivering vigilante justice on the streets of Philadelphia. His special talents soon put him on a collision course with the Beast -- the ...more - 20Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Gore Verbinski
It sounds like just another urban legend -- a videotape filled with nightmarish images leads to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. Newspaper reporter Rachel Keller ...more - 21Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Daniel Sackheim
After the parents of Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and her younger brother, Rhett (Trevor Morgan), are killed in a car crash, their parents' best friends, Erin and Terry Glass (Diane Lane, Stellan ...more - 22John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, Teri Polo
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: Harold Becker
Frank Morrison (John Travolta) no longer lives with his ex-wife, Susan (Teri Polo), and 12-year-old son, Danny (Matt O'Leary). Susan and Danny now live with Rick Barnes (Vince Vaughn), Susan's new ...more - 23Sarah Paulson, Kiera Allen, Onalee Ames
- Released: 2020
- Directed by: Aneesh Chaganty
An isolated teen discovers her mother's sinister secret. - 24Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Based on Tom Clancy's novel, this espionage thriller tracks a sinister plot to draw the United States and Russia into World War III. When the Russian president (Ciarán Hinds) suddenly dies, world ...more - 25Susan Sarandon, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary-Louise Parker
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Fast-paced thriller, based on the John Grisham bestseller, about a boy whose life is endangered after he stumbles across vital information about a politician's murder. His lawyer is the only person ...more
