The Best Foreign Thriller Movies, Ranked
If you love a good adrenaline rush, check out some of these superb foreign thriller movies to get your heart rate pumping. Thriller films are always enticing, with that mix of action, adventure, and larger-than-life characters.
Foreign thriller films add an extra layer of excitement as they simultaneously offer you the opportunity to broaden your horizon and learn more about other cultures. From new foreign action movies to long-beloved classics, you'll find films to satiate your craving for action and adventure in the list below.
What are some great foreign language action films? Tom Tykwer's 1998 German film Run Lola Run follows the title character as she tries to save her boyfriend's life. The film is set in three parts each, with a small variance that changes the plot immensely. The Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is also a great foreign thriller. The Hunt - a 2012 Danish film - is a slow-burner, full of psychological suspense. Other good foreign thrillers include Oldboy, The Lives of Others, and I Saw the Devil.
Do you have a favorite foreign thriller? Give the best movies a thumbs up, and please add any good films we may have missed.
- Mario Casas, Ana Wagener, Jose Coronado
- Released: 2016
- Directed by: Oriol Paulo
The Invisible Guest is a 2016 Spanish mystery thriller film directed by Oriol Paulo. A Spanish businessman (Mario Casas) is out on bail after being arrested for the murder of his lover (Bárbara ...more - Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung
- Released: 2003
- Directed by: Park Chan-wook
Dae-Su is an obnoxious drunk bailed from the police station yet again by a friend. However, he's abducted from the street and wakes up in a cell, where he remains for the next 15 years, drugged ...more - Manuela Velasco, Ferran Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano
- Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-gyun, Jo Yeo-jeong
- Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Johan Olsen
- Released: 2018
- Directed by: Gustav Möller
The Guilty is a 2018 Danish thriller film directed by Gustav Möller. A police officer (Jakob Cedergren) assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from ...more - 6
The Body
José Coronado, Hugo Silva, Belén Rueda- Released: 2012
- Directed by: Oriol Paulo
A detective searches for a femme fatale's body after it goes missing from the morgue.