Best Classic Thrillers on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Classic Thrillers on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 12 titles in category code 46588. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1991, 1h 58m. FBI trainee Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned cannibal.
2. Psycho (1960)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1960, 1h 48m. When a larcenous real estate clerk goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel.
3. The Shining (1980)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1980, 1h 59m. Jack Torrance descends into madness -- terrorizing his wife and young son -- after living at a deserted and eerie hotel during its off season.
4. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1992, 1h 39m. In Quentin Tarantino's raw directorial debut, a botched robbery indicates a police informant, and pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse.
5. Scarface (1983)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1983, 2h 49m. Al Pacino stars as Cuban refugee Tony Montana, who becomes a Florida drug kingpin but makes the fatal mistake of getting high on his own supply.
6. Taxi Driver (1976)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1976, 1h 53m. While looking out for a misguided child prostitute, an unhinged cabbie descends into madness while grappling with society’s moral decline.
7. Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1968, 2h 16m. A woman is thrilled to find out she's pregnant.
8. Jaws (1975)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1975, 2h 03m. When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes Amity Island, a police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the beast.
9. Deliverance (1972)
Rated 7.7/10 on IMDb, from 1972, 1h 49m. A canoeing trip down a Georgia river turns sinister when redneck locals descend on a group of friends and force them to kill or be killed.
10. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Rated 7.4/10 on IMDb, from 1999, 2h 39m. An argument about fidelity sends a married physician reeling into the night, where he finds himself in a surreal succession of sexual encounters.