Best thriller movies to stream (November 2026)
The highest-rated is The Dark Knight (2008), IMDb 9.1, streaming on Prime Video, JioHotstar.
Updated 3 November 2026 · 25 titles · How we choose
1. The Dark Knight
Streaming on Prime Video, JioHotstar
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership…
2. Fight Club
Streaming on Netflix
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an ecc…
3. Pulp Fiction
Streaming on Prime Video, JioHotstar
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip bac…
4. The Silence of the Lambs
Streaming on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for var…
5. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Streaming on Prime Video
Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering…
6. The Departed
Streaming on Prime Video
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a car…
7. Parasite
Streaming on VI movies and tv, Sonyliv Amazon Channel
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
8. The Dark Knight Rises
Streaming on Prime Video, JioHotstar
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight year…
9. Inglourious Basterds
Streaming on Prime Video, JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Bast…
10. Memento
Streaming on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memor…
11. Joker
Streaming on Netflix, JioHotstar
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
12. Oldboy
Streaming on Prime Video, VI movies and tv
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
13. Shutter Island
Streaming on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
14. No Country for Old Men
Streaming on Netflix
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey a…
15. Reservoir Dogs
Streaming on Prime Video
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde,…
16. Die Hard
Streaming on JioHotstar
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chanc…
17. Prisoners
Streaming on Prime Video, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel, Movie Sphere+
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search desce…
18. The Terminator
Streaming on Prime Video
In the post-apocalyptic future, reigning tyrannical supercomputers teleport a cyborg assassin known as the "Terminator" back to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead insurgents against 21st cen…
19. Blade Runner
Streaming on Prime Video
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their shor…
20. Fargo
Streaming on MGM Plus Amazon Channel
Jerry Lundegaard is a small-town Minnesota car salesman deeply in debt and willing to do almost anything to get out. Police chief Marge Gunderson discovers a string of violent crimes as Jerry's schemes spiral out of con…
21. Jaws
Streaming on JioHotstar, VI movies and tv
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the b…
22. Room
Streaming on Lionsgate Play
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
23. Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the vict…
24. Casino Royale
Streaming on Prime Video
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M send…
25. Twelve Monkeys
Streaming on JioHotstar
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground …
Questions
- What is the highest-rated title on this list?
- The highest-rated is The Dark Knight (2008), IMDb 9.1, streaming on Prime Video, JioHotstar.
- How does Kunbah choose these titles?
- Well-known titles streaming on a subscription or free app in India, ranked by IMDb rating. Each needs at least 50,000 IMDb votes, so a title rated by a handful of fans doesn't top the list.
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- Every day. It was last updated on 3 November 2026.
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