Sometimes you feel like going to the movies knowing that you'll spend the entire movie on the edge of your seat, carefully eating popcorn in case you choke on the loud noise. These new thrillers with an unpredictable ending range from psychological to scary films, but they all guarantee a good time (if your idea of a good time is a movie that will take your breath away). We've also selected the best novels, dramas, horrors and comedies if you like them better.
If you are looking for “interesting movies with an exciting plot in 2021 that have already been released in good quality” – you have come to the right place!
[article updated November 8, 2021]
Don't breathe 2
- release date: August 12, 2021
- genre: horror, action, thriller, drama
- DirectorStory by: Rodolfo Sayages
- Duration: 98 min.
Thriller "Don't Breathe 2" takes place about eight years after the first film and it is discovered that the Blind Old Man (Stephen Lang) is living with a young girl he is raising as his daughter (Madeleine Grace). When she is captured by a vicious group of criminals, Norman sets out on yet another vicious massacre to retrieve her.
The devil is in the details
- release date: January 28, 2021
- genre: detective, crime, thriller, drama
- The country: USA
- DirectorStory by: John Lee Hancock
- Duration: 128 min.
Policemen chasing serial killers classic thriller storyAnd this movie is about just that. Directed by John Lee Hancock, Denzel Washington and Rami Malek play two cops on the hunt for a serial killer in 1990s Los Angeles. Jared Leto rounds out the main cast as a mysterious man suspected of murder.
Woman in the window
- release date: 2021
- genre: detective, thriller, crime
- The country: USA
- DirectorStory by: Joe Wright
- Duration: 101 min.
Woman in the Window - psychological thrillerwhich is impossible to stop watching. Watching Amy Adams deal with the fallout after witnessing a murder is intoxicating, especially when you're deciding if she's a reliable witness.
Last night in Soho
- Premiere: April 23, 2021 (Ireland)
- Director: Edgar Wright
- Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, James Phelps, Oliver Phelps, Thomasin McKenzie, Diana Rigg
Description: The psychological horror thriller Last Night in Soho is one of the most anticipated films of the year. A young girl with a passion for fashion design may mysteriously travel back to the 1960s. Where she meets her idol, a rising singer. London in the 60s is not what it might seem at first glance. Time begins to disintegrate, with grim consequences for the protagonist.
Claustrophobes 2 (escape room 2)
- Premiere: January 1, 2021 (USA)
- Director: Adam Robitel
- Cast: Isabelle Fuhrman, Taylor Russell, Logan Miller
Description:The horror film "Claustrophobia 2" is a sequel to the film of the same name, released in early 2019. Sony has yet to reveal any plot details for the sequel, opting to keep the story and characters closer to the release date. However, the first quest room ended with an obvious sequel. Deadly game survivors Zoey and Ben have traveled to New York City to continue investigating the mysterious forces behind the game. The puzzle master is not finished with them and the plane they are flying in has turned into a new deadly game. Apparently, the sequel will be a continuation of the last scene.
Human anger
- release date: April 22, 2021 (RF)
- genre: action, thriller
- Country: UK, USA
- Director: Guy Ritchie
- Duration: 119 min.
Another solid action bet is Guy Ritchie's upcoming film, Guy Ritchie'shuman wrath", in which he reunites with Jason Statham for what is sure to be another full Guy Ritchie and Guy Ritchie film.
Red dot
- Ratings: 67% positive
- Stars: Nanna Blondell, Anastasios Soulis, Thomas Hanson
- Director: Alain Darborg
- Duration: 86 minutes
David (Anastasios Soulis) and Nadia (Nanna Blondell), young newlyweds, lead a busy life of work, school, and poor communication skills. When Nadia finds out she's pregnant, she decides to save the news for an adventurous ski trip to the far north of Sweden with David. As the couple begin to lose themselves to nature's bounty, a hidden intruder begins to pursue David and Nadia.
It's a nightmarish fight for survival in a merciless winter wilderness, as the infamousred dot the crosshair follows every move of the couple. An energizing survival thrillerred dot makes us feel as lost and paranoid as the film's main talents.
Swindler
- genre: Thriller, Comedy, Crime
- Country: USA, UK
- DirectorStory by: J. Blakeson
- Duration: 118 min.
Description:Marla Grayson is a very successful legal guardian who uses the flaws of the law to her financial advantage. On the courts, she argues that senior citizens can no longer take care of themselves, and therefore should be placed under her care. After she becomes their guardian, she places the old people in a nursing home, so that later they will take away the property. Marla Grayson is the protagonist of the film, but she's not just a con artist. She is a sociopath, a predator who, with a two-faced proud smirk, will easily throw someone's life into the trash.
A good woman is hard to find
- release date: October 2019
- Cast:Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg, Andrew Simpson, Jane Brennan, Kaylan Byrne
Plot:The film is set in an unnamed city in Northern Ireland against a carefully rendered backdrop of struggles with low incomes. The film focuses on Sarah (the fantastic Sarah Bolger), a tormented mother of two. Pale and delicate, Sarah carries the double burden of a recently deceased husband and a son who mysteriously refuses to speak. We do not immediately know how her husband died; but given that we meet her in blood before the film opens to fill in the gaps, we suspect it might not have been due to natural causes.
Go to daddy
- release date: February 2020
- Cast:Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Garfield Wilson, Madeleine Sami, Martin Donovan, Michael Smiley, Simon Chin, Ona Grauer
Plot:New Zealand director Ant Timpson's first feature film, "Come to Daddy" initially exhibits a bewitching oddity that is enhanced by Daniel Katz's whimsical camera angles and airy-elegant framing. As the action narrows down to an underground cell and then a series of motel rooms full of swingers, the atmosphere becomes more claustrophobic and the plot more crazy. Pretty unpredictable and gripping storyline.
Cherry Oblique
- release date: 2021 (world)
- genre: drama, crime
- The country: USA
- directorsPeople: Russo Brothers, Anthony Russo
- Duration: 142 min.
Description: Cherry is a film directed by brothers Anthony and Joe Russo. Tom Holland stars in a new film based on the novel of the same name by Nico Walker. The name "Cherry" comes from the film's protagonist, an army medic who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after a war in the Middle East. The protagonist returns home and plunges into a dangerous cycle of drug addiction and crime. The film Cherry is the story of a young man who, over the course of 15 years, has gone from being a bumbling college student to a desperate bank robber.
Chaos Walking
- Premiere: January 21, 2021
- Director: Doug Liman
- Cast: Daisy Ridley, Tom Holland, Mads Mikkelsen, Nick Jonas, Kurt Sutter
Description: The sci-fi film Chaos Tread is an adaptation of the first part of Patrick Ness' book trilogy, set in a dystopian world. According to the plot, all the women on the planet have disappeared without a trace. The surviving men got the opportunity to hear each other's thoughts in a stream of images, words and sounds called "Noise". One day, a ship with a mysterious girl Viola crashes on the planet. Teenager Todd Hewitt meets a girl by chance and tries to protect her from an impending threat.
Protector
- release date: 2021 (world)
- genre: action, crime, thriller
- The country: USA
- DirectorStory by: Robert Lorenz
- Duration: 108 min.
Description: Hardened Arizona rancher Jim Hanson lives quietly in an isolated stretch of frontier territory. But everything changes when Hanson, a former Marine Corps sniper, witnesses 11-year-old migrant Miguel on the run with his mother, Rosa, from drug killers led by Mauricio. After the shootout, a dying Rosa pleads with Jim to take her son to safety with his family in Chicago. Jim and the boy are on their way. The head of the drug dealers, Mauricio, and his fellow assassins are after them.
Locked up
release date: November 2020
Cast:Sarah Paulson, Kira Allen, Onali Ames, Pat Healy, Eric Athavale
What is the movie about:Overprotective mother Diane Sherman raised her daughter in complete isolation, controlling her every move. Chloe (daughter) is wheelchair-bound, takes a lot of pills, is homeschooled, and doesn't socialize with her peers. Of course, Chloe grows up to be a naive girl, but one day she begins to suspect her mother of hiding some secret.
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Shirley
Release date: June 5, 2020
Cast:Elisabeth Moss, Michael Stuhlbarg, Odessa Young, Logan Lerman, Steve Vinovich
The plot of the movie: Set in 1960s Vermont, a young couple appears on the doorstep of famed horror writer Shirley Jackson and her husband. But the couple did not even suspect that during the time spent in the same house with them they would play a terrible fraud with life and death.
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Greenland
Release date: September 25, 2020 (movies already released)
Cast: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, David Denman, Scott Glenn.
Plot: Watching a movie about the end of the world seems appropriate at this time (in a pandemic), especially when a huge deadly comet is rushing to Earth. Family man John (Butler) must hide with his family in an orphanage, as such a comet will destroy the planet in less than 48 hours.
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Old guard
Release date: July 10, 2020 (film already released)
Cast:Charlize Theron, Beth Kono, Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, AJ Dix, Don Granger
The plot of the movie:A group of immortal warriors have been fighting in secret for decades, but a new mission reveals their identities in a new way, after which everyone wants to leave the squad. Soon, the team, led by the tough Andy (Charlize Theron), will have a serious battle with the bad guys (as is customary: for world peace).
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Hunting
Release date: March 13, 2020
Cast: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Emma Roberts, Glenn Howerton.
What is the plot of the movie about? Twelve strangers wake up in an unknown location, they are handed weapons and ordered to flee. They are part of The Hunt, a little game where people hunt people... like in The Hunger Games, but in the 21st century. Things soon get more interesting when one of the pursued changes the game and the hunt is on for the “Hunters”.
Vivarium
Release date: March 27
Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Imogen Poots
Plot: In this thriller, we meet a couple who, in search of the perfect home, end up trapped in a maze of insanely identical homes for eternity. After which they try to leave, but all in vain ... at least until they complete the required tasks.
New mutants
Release date: originally April 3, 2020, now August 28, 2020 (movies out now and available to watch)
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Maisie Williams, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga
Plot: The Marvel Universe will be filled with new viewers when The New Mutants is about to hit theaters. The film, which was supposed to be released two years ago, is about five teenagers who have just discovered that they have secret powers, but are trapped against their will. And in order to avoid their past sins and be saved, they fight with new forces.
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Deer horns
Release date: originally April 17, 2020, now February 19, 2021
Cast: Keri Russell, Jesse Plemons, Jeremy T. Thomas, Graham Greene
The plot of the movie: Keri Russell plays a teacher in a small Oregon town who becomes worried about one of his students when he starts acting weird. Russell, her brother and the local sheriff discover a terrifying secret that is definitely not normal. An encounter with a legendary ancestor creature that came before them.
Swallow
Release date: April 24, 2020
Cast: Hayley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'Hara, Elizabeth Marvel
About what: Hunter is a newly pregnant housewife who has no control over her life. When she finds herself losing control of her surroundings, she starts ingesting unusual objects and becomes obsessed with it. And it’s only the trailer that makes me lose my appetite… One of the few films that has already been released and is available for viewing, although the coronavirus has greatly ruined the release schedule for all films in 2020.
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Endless night
Release date: May 29
Cast: Sierra McCormick, Jake Horowitz, Bruce Davis III, Gail Cronauer
Plot:The action takes place in a small New Mexico town in the 1950s. Viewers follow two teenagers who hear a strange radio frequency one night while working at a local radio station. The noise they heard was, shall we say, not human. Endless Night is a contender for the title of "Best Movie with a Captivating Story of 2020". The plot is quite unusual for this genre, since the action takes place in the 50s, because everyone is already accustomed to the technologies and plot moves that filmmakers use in the 21st century.
Doll 2: Brahms
Release date: February 21
Cast: Katie Holmes, Ralph Ineson, Owain Yeoman, Christopher Convery
About what: One family moves into a really creepy house. The family's son finds an equally creepy doll and decides to keep it as his new toy. A child brings his "new friend" into the house, and things get even weirder. However, this time Katie Holmes is playing a troubled mother, and that alone makes us want to see it. The second part of this series of films is one of the most exciting thrillers that has already been released on screens and online in good quality, so we definitely recommend this film.
Quiet place part 2
Release date: originally March 20, 2020, now April 23, 2021
Cast:Emily Blunt, Noah Jupe, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds
The plot of the movie: The sequel to this film, written and directed by John Krasinski, follows the Abbott family as they battle the horrors and creatures of the outside world. They soon discover that these are not the only things that exist outside of the sandy path. Thisgood thriller was supposed to be released in 2020, but alas, due to the pandemic, it is planned to be released in 2021.
Assistant
Release date: January 31
Cast: Julia Garner, Matthew Macfadyen, Mackenzie Lee
What is the plot of the movie about?The assistant, a young woman named Jane, runs errands for a man who works as an assistant to a high-ranking entertainment executive.As she begins to realize that the day-to-day tasks she performs aren't really all that normal, she discovers the true horrors of the system she's entered.
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Saint Maud
release date: February 2020
Cast:Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight, Lily Fraser, Turlo Convery, Rosie Sansom, Marcus Hutton, Noah Bodner
Plot:Formally controlled and visually elegant, "Saint Maud" has a dark, flawed beauty and a shifting point of view that questions Maud's twisted vision. Preferring suggestion over specifics, the script (also created by Glass) doesn't always avoid the genre's familiar bumps: nosebleeds and gothic interiors, ominous lighting and self-injurious behavior. The gestures towards Maude's troubled past remain vague, but the film's artistry and sensibility draws in. Maud knows she cannot save Amanda's body; she wants her soul. One of the most interesting films with a gripping plot released in 2020.
Tenet (Tenet)
Release date: originally July 17, 2020, now September 3, 2020
Cast: Robert Pattinson, John David Washington
Plot: Director Christopher Nolan is here to give us another mind-blowing thriller. As the teaser trailer hints, Washington and Pattinson are dealing with a time continuum that could wreak havoc on the human race, and they must stop it. One of the already released thrillers with a high rating, which, of course, may not “go” to everyone, but the rating of the film is quite high. And I personally liked the film, although in some places it was difficult to understand “What, how, why, why?”. Tenet also claims the title of "the best thriller of 2020 with an unpredictable denouement", or rather the title of "the most over-the-top-tangled plot".
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Fantasy island
Release date: The 14th of February
Cast: Lucy Hale, Maggie Q, Portia Doubleday, Charlotte McKinney, Michael Peña, Michael Rooker
Plot: Based on the 1977 ABC television of the same name, Fantasy Island leads guests staying at a luxurious yet remote tropical resort where all their wildest dreams come true. When the dream turns into a nightmare of a series of murders, the guests must solve the mystery of the island, as they want to get out of there alive.
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Invisible Man
Release date: February 28 (already available for viewing)
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Storm Reed, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Aldis Hodge, Harriet Dyer
The plot of the movie: Fleeing an abusive relationship with her wealthy scientist husband, Cecilia Kass (Moss) seeks refuge with her sister and childhood friends. She then learns that her husband committed suicide and left her $5 million. The sudden act of kindness leads her to believe that his death was a hoax, and while she may not be able to see him, she can definitely feel him. Many call this film the best detective film that has already been released.
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Curse
Release date: January 3
Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Betty Gilpin, John Cho, Demian Bichir, Lin Shaye
The plot of the movie: The remake, based on the 2002 Japanese horror film Ju-On by Takashi Shimizu, makes a lasting impression. The new chapter of the horror series tells the story of a detective who investigates the case of a young mother who killed her family in their home. While trying to solve the case, the detective discovers that the house is haunted by a ghost that is very deadly.
Hope Girl
Release date:originally April 17, 2020
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Beau Burnham, Alison Brie, Laverne Cox and Adam Brody
Plot: Cassie (Mulligan) once had a promising future until something happened while she was in medical school that caused her to drop out. Now she lives at home with her parents and works in a cafe. Only at night is Cassie allowed to go out and relax, and by freedom we mean the desire to take revenge on all the men who are the reason for existence.
Antebellum
Release date: originally on April 24, 2020, will now be available on on-demand platforms on September 18, 2020.
Cast: Janelle Monae, Kiersey Clemons and Eric Lange
Plot: This film gave us worthy "goosebumps". Monae plays a successful writer who gets kidnapped, and waking up to reality, she must learn how to escape before it's too late.
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Bay of Silence
Release date: August 14, 2020
Cast: Claes Bang, Olga Kurylenko, Brian Cox, Alice Krieg
The plot of the movie: Married couple Will and Rosalind seem to be living the perfect life...until the birth of their son starts haunting memories of Rosalind's past. When their son goes missing, Will doesn't believe his wife has anything to do with it until he sets out to find what's lost. Let's put it this way: sometimes things that don't want to be found shouldn't be found.
