Top 7 tense thrillers available on Netflix

Gerald's Game (2017)

Gerald’s Game makes for one of Stephen‌ King’s queasiest, most relentlessly gripping works.

Freaks (2019)

The movie features a show-stopping performance from Lexy Kolker as seven-year-old Chloe. She’s spent her entire life completely isolated from the world inside her home with her father, Henry (Emile Hirsch).

The Platform (2020)

The Platform is set within the confines of an impossibly tall building where residents either feast or famine depending on which floor they're on.

Level 16 (2018)

The son of the boss of a Yokohama shoe firm is unintentionally abducted and held for ransom, turning him into a victim of extortion.

Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

The film is set in the art world and centres on a cache of artwork that is discovered to have been produced by a mystery and deceased artist. It is equal parts thriller and slasher.

Operation Mincement

Operation Mincemeat is a tense historical war drama about one of the most daring deceptions that won World War II

Bird Box (2018)

With Bird Box, a star-studded and meme-friendly new thriller starring Sandra Bullock as a mother attempting to safeguard her children in a post-apocalyptic world, Netflix managed to sneak in one final streaming sensation before the year ended.