The Best Thriller Movies Rated PG
List of PG thriller movies, ranked from best to worst with movie trailers when available. This list takes the best PG thriller movies and pits them against each other to see once and for all what the greatest PG Thriller movie of all time is. This list of popular PG thriller 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 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 Thriller films on this list. If you're trying to find a specific PG Thriller film you can search this list and filter to find what you're looking for.
Movies here include everything from Jaws to Vertigo.
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- James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
- Released: 1954
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
A newspaper photographer with a broken leg passes time recuperating by observing his neighbors through his window. He sees what he believes to be a murder, and decides to solve the crime himself. ...more - James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
- Released: 1958
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock's romantic story of obsession, manipulation and fear. A detective is forced to retire after his fear of heights causes the death of a fellow officer and the girl he was hired to follow. He ...more - Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
- Released: 1975
- Directed by: Steven Spielberg
When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry ...more - Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Joe Johnston
A magical board game unleashes a world of adventure on siblings Peter (Bradley Pierce) and Judy Shepherd (Kirsten Dunst). While exploring an old mansion, the youngsters find a curious, jungle-themed ...more - Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy
- Released: 1978
- Directed by: Philip Kaufman
This remake of the classic horror film is set in San Francisco. Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) assumes that when a friend (Brooke Adams) complains of her husband's strange mood, it's a marital ...more - Eileen Brennan, Martin Mull, Lesley Ann Warren
- Released: 1985
- Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Based on the popular board game, this comedy begins at a dinner party hosted by Mr. Boddy, where he admits to blackmailing his visitors. These guests, who have been given aliases, are Mrs. Peacock, ...more - Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn
- Released: 1990
- Directed by: John McTiernan
Based on the popular Tom Clancy novel, this suspenseful movie tracks Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) as he abandons his orders and heads for the east coast of the United States. ...more - Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Hume Cronyn
- Released: 1943
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) visits his relatives in Santa Rosa. He is a very charming man, but his niece slowly realizes that he is wanted for murder and he soon recognizes her suspicions. Although ...more - Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman
- Released: 1962
- Directed by: Terence Young
In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 (Sean Connery) battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, ...more - Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman
- Released: 1964
- Directed by: Guy Hamilton
Special agent 007 (Sean Connery) comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a ...more - Bob Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd
- Released: 1942
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Factory worker Barry Kane (Robert Cummings) is wrongfully accused of setting a deadly fire at an airplane plant in an apparent act of sabotage. Kane believes that the fire was set by another worker ...more - James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
- Released: 1948
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Just before hosting a dinner party, Philip Morgan (Farley Granger) and Brandon Shaw (John Dall) strangle a mutual friend to death with a piece of rope, purely as a Nietzsche-inspired philosophical ...more - Kevin Conroy, Efrem Zimbalist, Bob Hastings
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Eric Radomski, Bruce Timm
In this animated feature set in the 1940s, the troubled yet heroic Batman (Kevin Conroy) is pitted against a mysterious figure who is rubbing out Gotham City's most dangerous criminals, and who many ...more - Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Robert Shaw
- Released: 1963
- Directed by: Terence Young
Agent 007 (Sean Connery) is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) and Kronsteen ...more - Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight
- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Tobe Hooper
Strange and creepy happenings beset an average California family, the Freelings -- Steve (Craig T. Nelson), Diane (JoBeth Williams), teenaged Dana (Dominique Dunne), eight-year-old Robbie (Oliver ...more - Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, John Shea
- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Costa-Gavras
In 1973, U.S. businessman Ed Horman (Jack Lemmon) arrives in Chile to look for his son, Charles (John Shea), a politically left-leaning journalist who disappeared during a military coup. Charles'Â ...more - Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Bob Cummings
- Released: 1954
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) wants to have his wealthy wife, Margot (Grace Kelly), murdered so he can get his hands on her inheritance. When he discovers her affair with Mark Halliday ...more - Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, Ally Sheedy
- Released: 1983
- Directed by: John Badham
High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, Lightman ...more - Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Patrick O'Neal
- Released: 1975
- Directed by: Bryan Forbes
Joanna Eberhart (Katharine Ross) moves to the quiet town of Stepford with her husband (Peter Masterson) and children. The town seems perfect -- maybe a little too perfect. There's something not quite ...more - William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
- Released: 1991
- Directed by: Nicholas Meyer
Capt. James Kirk (William Shatner) and the crew of the USS Enterprise are carrying Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner) to Earth to negotiate a peace treaty with the United Federation of Planets. ...more - Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
- Released: 1973
- Directed by: Terrence Malick
Inspired by real-life killers Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate, this tale of crime and love begins in a dead-end town. Teenage girl Holly (Sissy Spacek) angers her father (Warren Oates) when ...more - Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders
- Released: 2009
- Directed by: Henry Selick
While exploring her new home, a girl named Coraline (Dakota Fanning) discovers a secret door, behind which lies an alternate world that closely mirrors her own but, in many ways, is better. She ...more - Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Shelley Winters
- Released: 1972
- Directed by: Ronald Neame, Irwin Allen
En route from New York City to Greece on New Year's Eve, majestic passenger ship the S.S. Poseidon is overtaken by a tidal wave. With the captain (Leslie Nielsen) dead, surviving passengers, ...more - Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Victor Jory
- Released: 1973
- Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Convicted murderer Henri Charriere (Steve McQueen), known as "Papillon" for his butterfly chest tattoo, is transported to French Guiana to serve his sentence in a work camp. Determined to escape, ...more - Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Peter Yates
Senator Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross (Vic Tayback) with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny (Pat Renella), who is in ...more