7 Must-See Thrillers on Netflix Right Now (April 2025) (2025)

Training Day director Antoine Fuqua and True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto teamed up for The Guilty, a remake of a 2018 Dutch thriller. The vast majority of the movie centers on LAPD officer Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) in a single location as the story plays out through his phone calls.

Baylor is stuck on duty answering 911 calls pending a disciplinary hearing when he receives an alarming call from Emily Lighton (Riley Keough). Emily tells Baylor that she’s been abducted, but he has limited resources to find her kidnapper and most of his fellow officers aren’t going to help him. Baylor’s partner, Sergeant Bill Miller (Ethan Hawke), reluctantly does some of the legwork, but what he finds at Emily’s home is disturbing. And time is running out to locate Emily before another tragedy occurs.

The Guilty is streaming on Netflix.

Maika Monroe has made a name for herself as a scream queen in movies like It Follows, and she’s certainly got a lot of reasons to scream in Watcher. Julia already felt like a stranger in a strange land when she moved to Bucharest with her husband, Francis (Karl Glusman). But she can’t escape the sensation that she’s always being watched.

Torchwood’s Burn Gorman gives a creepy performance as Daniel Weber, the man Julia believes is stalking her. Daniel claims that Julia is the one harassing him, which the police find more convincing than her story. There is a serial killer on the loose, and even Julia has to wonder if she’s letting her fear rule her actions. She’ll get her answer — it just may not be the one she’s looking for.

Watcher is streaming on Netflix.

Director David Fincher never discloses the true name of the title character in The Killer, but Michael Fassbender conveys just how diligent and prepared he is for everything except failure. When the Killer misses his contract, the resources of the high-class criminal underworld are turned against him.

There’s nowhere the Killer can run where he won’t be found, so he resolves to track down his would-be murderers first. That may involve burning some bridges and leaving a few more bodies behind, but it’s nothing he hasn’t done many times before.

The Killer is streaming on Netflix.

The Good Nurse is loosely based on a true story about Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain), a single mother who works at a hospital alongside a new colleague, Charles Cullen (Eddie Redmayne). Amy finds Charles to be trustworthy, especially after he agrees to help her keep a secret about her health.

However, Amy starts to suspect her friend when a number of patients in their hospital die under suspicious circumstances. Since Amy already blew off the police investigating the case, she’ll have to endanger her own life while looking for evidence that Charles is a serial killer.

The Good Nurse is streaming on Netflix.

Gerald’s Game is a different kind of horror thriller than Stephen King usually writes, and director Mike Flanagan draws out a lot of tension for a story where the main character is handcuffed to a bed for almost its entire duration.

Jessie Burlingame (Carla Gugino) only agreed to be bound at the request of her husband, Gerald (Bruce Greenwood). But when Gerald suddenly expires, it leaves Jessie trapped on the bed with little hope for escape. As Jessie’s reality breaks down, she sees a monster she calls Moonlight Man (Carel Struycken), who may have come for her husband’s soul . . . and her’s as well.

Grerald’s Game is streaming on Netflix.

Amanda (Julia Roberts) and Clay Sandford (Ethan Hawke) may have picked the wrong time to go on vacation in Leave the World Behind. Or perhaps they picked the most opportune time without realizing it. The Sandfords and their children rent a cabin in the woods, but even in their isolation, they recognize some troubling events around them.

Shortly thereafter, the owner of the cabin, G.H. Scott (Mahershala Ali), arrives with his daughter, Ruth (Myha'la), to take shelter as technology seemingly fails everywhere. What started as a family excursion may turn into a trip that the Sandfords may not come home from. It might even turn out to be the end of the world.

Leave the World Behind is streaming on Netflix.

Runaway Jury casts John Cusack and Rachel Weisz as a pair of lovers with an audacious plan. In a high-stakes wrongful death trial with a gun manufacturer over its culpability, Marlee (Weisz), contacts the defense and the plaintiff with an offer to sway the jury to either side. And she can do it because Nick (Cusack) is her man on the inside.

Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman) is enraged by the attempted blackmail because he already spent the time and effort stacking the jury in his favor. He’s not going to let himself get extorted without a fight. And unlike the plaintiff’s lawyer, Wendell Rohr (Dustin Hoffman), Fitch fights dirty and he doesn’t mind getting some proverbial blood on his hands.

Runaway Jury is streaming on Netflix.