25 Thrillers on Netflix That Will Have You Sleeping With the Lights On

The all-star cast of Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Mark Wahlberg is enough to hold your interest, but Martin Scorsese's The Departed is a non-stop thrill ride. It takes place in Boston and puts cop DiCaprio undercover in the Irish mob.

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You'll find it hard to breathe when you watch Berlin Syndrome. It stars Teresa Palmer as a photojournalist on vacation who meets a handsome man named Andi. They share a passionate night, and she wakes up to find he's imprisoned her.

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Se7en is one of those films that you'll want to watch again and again for the adrenaline rush. It stars Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, and Gwyneth Paltrow, and it follows two detectives hunting a serial killer who uses the Seven Deadly Sins as inspiration for his crimes. It's one of David Fincher's best works.

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It Follows seems like a ridiculous plot line, since it's technically about an STD. If you have sex with someone carrying this curse, you'll immediately be inflicted by a ghost that will try to kill you. Maika Monroe has a one-time fling with a guy, and now he has passed the ghost murderer on to her. But seriously, this film is so intense, you won't sleep for weeks.

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From the director of Jennifer's Body comes The Invitation. A man is grief-stricken after the passing of his young son. His ex-wife invites him to dinner with a few other guests, and Will immediately starts to suspect that something is not right. Is it Will's paranoia, or is he actually dining with a death cult?

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We all know the famous line from The Sixth Sense, but this film starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment is still worth the watch, even if you know the ending. It's an intense film that will make you question everything you know.

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We had to include another M. Night Shyamalan film on the list because, after all, he is the master of the thriller. The Village, starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, and Adrien Brody, focuses on a village in the 18th or 19th century. Residents are told not to enter the nearby woods because of some unknown evil, but not everyone listens.

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Creep stars Mark Duplass and Patrick Bice, and boy is it creepy. Duplass plays Josef, a loner whose need for companionship prompts him to post a Craigslist ad seeking a filmmaker to chronicle his life. When Aaron replies to the ad, he has no idea that Josef might be a killer. You'll want to sleep with the light on.

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Heat is seriously timeless, and if you haven't watched it yet, there is no time like the present. Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Amy Brenneman, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd, Jon Voight, and Natalie Portman make up the star-studded cast of this intense film. De Niro plays a criminal whose heist goes awry, and Pacino is the LAPD lieutenant put in charge of finding him.

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Super Dark Times follows a group of teenagers in the '90s, as they're engaging in the typical teenage activities of talking about girls and fending off boredom. One day, they stumble upon a katana in one of their brothers' rooms, and it leads to a fatal mistake.

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The Gift tells the story of Gordo, whose childhood friend Simon (played by Jason Bateman) returns to LA with his wife. Gordo's persistence in rekindling the friendship at first seems innocent, but it quickly turns to something else.

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If you thought the book The Road was intense, you'll be even more shocked by the movie. It's about a man and son chasing survival in a post-apocalyptic type of world.

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47 Meters Down didn't exactly get the critics pumped, but Mandy Moore's performance in this thriller necessitates your attention. The premise is terrifying: Moore goes into the ocean in a shark tank, and the shark tank falls to the bottom of the ocean. There's sharks, diminishing oxygen, and plenty more to scare you out of the water forever.

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Red Dragon is essentially a prequel to Silence of the Lambs, so you know it's thrilling. Edward Norton plays a detective trying to solve a series of homicides from a killer known as The Tooth Fairy.

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We've got George Clooney, Tom Wilkinson, and Tilda Swinton starring in Michael Clayton, and their performances are unmatched. Clooney is caught in the cross-hairs of a lawyer's breakdown and a pharmaceutical company trying to keep him quiet.

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Oscar winner L.A. Confidential demands to be seen. It follows three detectives with three very different styles as they navigate corruption, drugs, and murder in 1950s Los Angeles.

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It's not a conventional thriller, but Donnie Darko is extremely powerful in that spine-tingling way. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal as the brooding, troubled teenager who conjures up visions of doomsday prophecies.

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2016 film A Dark Song has no shortage of suspense. A woman who is grieving her son's death hires an expert in occult to channel his spirit.

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Similar to Santa Clarita Diet, but far scarier, Raw tells the story of a young prospective veterinarian who is forced to eat raw meat during a hazing ritual. Suddenly, she develops an endless, gnawing need to continue eating flesh in all forms.

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They say that Veronica is so scary people are turning it off, but if you feel up to the task, this chilling movie is for you. After holding a seance, a teenage girl in '90s Madrid feels that an evil spirit has followed her home, where she lives with her younger siblings.

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Netflix original film The Ritual follows four friends who take a hiking trip to a Swedish forest. They stumble upon dark, evil forces, and they might never make it back at all.

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Leonard Shelby has no short-term memory following a head injury in Memento. He knows he has one mission: to find who murdered his wife. But he has to work through his memory loss every day to find the culprit.

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While it might be about two magicians, The Prestige is as dark and suspenseful as it gets. Two rival magicians attempt to outdo each other, but the tricks increasingly become more dangerous.

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The 2014 Australian horror film The Babadook is one of those amazing scary movies that also makes you think. A son's frequent tantrums turn terrifying when he finds a mysterious children's book.

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Netflix original film Calibre focuses on two lifelong friends who take a hunting trip to Scotland. Things get out of control and the two find their morals and commitment to the friendship called into question.

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