ARE YOU looking for a scary movie that won’t keep you up at night? Perhaps something with a mind-bending twist, or a frightening plot without all the gore? Enter, the elusive thriller. This genre is perfect for when you want a bit of everything— drama, horror, action, and sometimes, a bit of comedy—wrapped into one bone-chilling film. Over the years, the genre has grown to be quite expansive, but a great thriller only needs three key elements: a twisted plot, an unnerving character, and enough mystery to keep you guessing.

If you’re looking to watch a thriller at your next movie night, we’ve got you covered. Below, we rounded up the best thrillers for your streaming convenience. Scroll through, take a peek at the teasers, and pick one to watch if you dare. From Aubrey Plaza’s Emily the Criminal, to Stephen King adaptations like Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, and even classics like Shutter Island, this list is sure to check all your thrill-seeking boxes.

Emily The Criminal

In Emily The Criminal, Aubrey Plaza stars as a college graduate who embarks on a credit card scam to get out of debt — but the scheme proves to be more dangerous than she bargained for.

Before I Wake

When a young boy admits to being afraid to go to sleep, his guardians think it’s just childhood nerves. But when a dead person appears in their home, they discover the boy’s dreams and nightmares have the power to transform reality. Creepy!

Shutter Island

In one of our favoUrite Martin Scorsese films, Leonardo DiCaprio stars as U.S Marshall Teddy, a man sent to investigate an insane asylum after a woman suddenly goes missing.

Mr Harrigan’s Phone

We don’t want to spoil too much here, but Mr Harrigan’s Phone sees—yes, a mysterious phone—give a young boy named Craig the ability to communicate with the dead.

Hypnotic

In Hypnotic, Kate Siegel, the queen of scary movies, plays a young woman who hires a hypnotist to quell her anxiety. Things take a dangerous turn when her hypnotist turns out to be a master manipulator.

Intrusion

Intrusion is your classic home invasion nightmare. In the film, a couple’s home is broken into, leaving the wife fearful of everyone around them. Who can you trust when everyone’s a suspect?

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

I’m Thinking of Ending Things is a Charlie Kaufman flick, which should give you an idea of what you’re queuing up. Meaning: it’s better to press play without knowing too much beforehand.

Chloe

In Chloe, Julianne Moore and Liam Neeson play Catherine and David, a wealthy — albeit miserable — married couple. When Catherine suspects her husband is cheating on her, she hires a prostitute named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) to seduce him as a test. But things grow increasingly complicated when Chloe reveals her own reasons for taking the gig.

Nightcrawler

Jake Gyllenhaal‘s best performance might just be in Nightcrawler, where he plays a manic, sleazy photographer who makes his living under the cover of darkness.

Se7en

Back in the ’90s, our man Morgan Freeman was on a hell of a hot streak, stealing the spotlight in a psychological thriller that has Brad Pitt in it.

The Frozen Ground

The Frozen Ground might not be the best movie, exactly, but it does feature Nic Cage as an Alaska State Trooper unraveling a true crime debacle. Sign us up.

Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver needs no introduction.

The Devil All The Time

British actors Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland brush up on their Ohioan accents for this American gothic tale of a town haunted by its mistakes. Harry Potter star Harry Melling also excels in his role as an Evangelical preacher who pours spiders all over his head to prove his faith in God.

Cleaner

There’s a real movie, one that was definitely written, filmed, and produced, where Samuel L. Jackson plays a dude who cleans crime scenes. Actually? It’s pretty damn fun.

Contagion

Contagion’s new real-world parallels have brought viewers back to the virus outbreak film over a decade later, making the global pandemic story that much more terrifying. The film also has an all-star cast featuring Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Laurence Fishburne.

The Guilty

Jake Gyllenhaal sitting in a chair and responding to a single 911 caller is one of the most thrilling films of 2021. On top of the stressful conversation, an asthmatic Gyllenhaal is also blasting his inhaler at full force just to get through the night.

The Call

Did The Guilty make you realise how much you love films set almost entirely in 911 phone centres? Boy, do we have a movie for you!

The Net

Thank you Sandra Bullock for trying to alert us to the dangers of the internet before we really got into the throes of it. Bullock plays a woman in peril after her identity is stolen and manipulated in ways beyond comprehension. SHE IS ANGELA BENNETT.

The Beguiled

This Sophia Coppola flick combines the best of the thriller genre: the thread of danger, sexual tension, and an incomprehensible Nicole Kidman accent. Long live the genre. Set during the Civil War, an ailing soldier finds comfort in a school for women, but obviously, things get complex really quickly.

The Stowaway

You know how sometimes you go to space with two other people and everything is fine, and then all of a sudden, someone falls out of the roof of the ship because they were doing last minute maintenance and now y’all don’t have enough oxygen for everyone to live? BUMMER.

The Woman in the Window

Notoriously awful? Messy in scope? Sure. Those things are true. But also, The Woman in the Window is a psychological thriller that is so over the top and campy that it’s impossible to stop watching. Watching Amy Adams navigate the fallout after witnessing a murder is intoxicating, especially as you decide whether or not she’s a reliable witness.

Ava

Tate Taylor’s Ava stars Jessica Chastain as an assassin who starts doubting her choice to enter into this chaotic world when a job goes awry. Turns out, having a family while you’re, well, killing people is even more complicated than it reads on paper.

Sweetheart

Being shipwrecked on an island seems like it would be thrilling (is that the right word?) enough, but being shipwrecked on a deserted island and then finding out you’re not alone? No thanks. Sweetheart follows one woman’s desperate attempt at survival. Bonus: it’s a quick one hour and 22 minutes.

Bad Genius

Lori Loughlin? Child’s play. In Bad Genius, a group of highly gifted students set up a college entrance exam scam that leads to higher and higher stakes the more successful they become. The 2017 Thai heist film (more! heist! films!) has a 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and is critically acclaimed, so flex on your film buff friends with that.

See You Yesterday

You might have slept on this Spike Lee-produced film, but it’s waiting on your binge. The 2019 thriller sees two science prodigies who are experimenting with time travel, but when one of their brothers ends up murdered by an officer, their experiment becomes more important than ever before.

Gerald’s Game

Directed by new horror master Mike Flanagan (the mind behind Doctor Sleep and The Haunting of Hill House), Esquire ranked Gerald’s Game as one of the top 10 best Stephen King adaptations. It’s the story of a woman whose husband dies suddenly of a heart attack but she’s left handcuffed to the bed and must find a way to survive.

Fractured

This psychological thriller shows a family on a road trip for Thanksgiving. When his young daughter suffers an injury, Ray takes her and his wife to the nearest emergency room and waits as the two are taken to get a CT scan. However, the two disappear, and Ray becomes convinced that the hospital is hiding something.

1922

1922 follows a farmer to Nebraska, where he sets on the path to write a confession for a murder from his past. The film is adapted from a Stephen King novella.

Bird Box

Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Trevante Rhodes, and John Malkovich star in this dystopian thriller about a woman who must travel blindfolded along with her children to safety as an unseen force stalks them on their journey.

Cam

Madeline Brewer plays an enterprising camgirl who discovers that she’s somehow been replicated in various videos that have been uploaded to her own website in this Internet-inspired horror thriller and Netflix original.

The Hateful Eight

Quentin Tarantino delivers an Agatha Christie-style mystery set in the American West just after the Civil War with a stellar cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Bruce Dern, and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Hush

This is the O.G. A Quiet Place. That’s that.

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

Lily (Ruth Wilson) is a live-in nurse who moves into the remote New England mansion owned by her patient, an elderly horror novelist who suffers from dementia. Soon Lily starts to question if the unsettling things that are taking place in this house came straight from one of her patient’s books.

The Perfection

The Perfection is absolutely bonkers, so when it comes to thrillers, it fits the bill perfectly. If you’re looking for unnerving twist and turns, you’re going to be hard pressed to find one with more than this film about two cellists vying for the top spot in a conservatory.

Secret Obsession

Brenda Strong deserves one insane thriller a year, and Secret Obsession is her entry for 2019.

Velvet Buzzsaw

This horror satire from Nightcrawler director Dan Gilroy is a mix of The Square and Eyes of Laura Mars, with Jake Gyllenhaal starring as an art critic who discovers that the mysterious paintings by an unknown artist have supernatural abilities — and take their revenge on anyone attempting to profit off of them.

This article originally appeared on Esquire US.