The 5 Best Thrillers on Netflix, Prime Video and More, Ranked by Rotten Tomatoes Score (February 2026)
Everyone loves a good thriller. Hard-boiled mystery, cold crime procedural or space neo-noir – there are so many movies to choose from, and they are all available for streaming.
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This February, we’ve ranked the five best entertainers you can watch right now on streaming.
Our options include Saltburn star Barry Keoghan again Jacob Elordiagain M. Night Shyamlan‘s trap, about a loving father who is secretly a murderer.
Rotten Tomatoes: 56 percent
Young Riley (Ariel Donoghue) has a good relationship with his father Cooper (Josh Hartnett), and is excited to spend some time with him at the concert of his favorite pop singer (Let’s go Night Shyamalan). However, Riley doesn’t know that underneath his cheerful smile and his sense of humor, Cooper is a serial killer called the Butcher, and he’s being hunted by the FBI. While at the party, Cooper learns that the authorities have tracked him down and are planning to arrest him there, putting him in prison for life. But Cooper is cunning, and stays one step ahead of the police while giving his daughter a day she’ll never forget.
Wild and over-the-top as any M movie. Night Shyamalan, It’s a trap it might not be what it is without Harnett’s single-mindedness and good scenery chewing. If you can forgive plot holes, inconsistencies and straight threads that don’t make sense, It’s a trap good time at the movies. The dark humor and atmospheric tension are well planted alongside what is essentially a one-man show of Harnett’s talents.
Rotten tomato score: 58 percent
Disappointed Los Angeleno Sam (Andrew Garfield) floats through his life without direction, mostly behind on his rent payments, spending most of his time playing video games or hanging out with his hipster friends. When he meets his beautiful new neighbor, Sara (Riley Keough), Sam suddenly gets a jolt of adrenaline that wakes him from sleep. But the day after meeting her, Sara goes missing, and Sam is desperate to find her. Suddenly he finds himself trying to untangle a knotty web involving missing moguls, underground bunkers and codes hidden in cereal boxes. It all leads to a great conspiracy in the heart of Los Angeles.
Beneath Silver Lake mishandled by its distributor, it was pushed back twice until it was shown in a handful of theaters in April 2019 before being promptly dropped from distribution. Since then, the film has slowly gained a cult following that defends its status as a modern art noir. With its breakneck pace, haunting atmosphere and quirky narrative, Beneath Silver Lake it owes much to its film noir inspiration but its unique and unforgettable experience.
Rotten Tomatoes: 59 percent
While descending from the circles of Hell, Jack (Matt Dillon) explains Virgil (Bruno Ganz) his life as a failed architect and successful serial killer for the past twelve years. Jack waxes poetic about his five elaborate murders, which he tries to justify to Virgil as necessary works of art that have given his life meaning. His victims include an angry woman who annoys him (If Thurman), the simple-minded girlfriend he abuses (Keough), the mother (Sofie Gråbøl) with two young sons and an unfortunate landlady named Claire who happened to open the door for her (Sobhan Fallon Hogan).
Separation and discomfort, The House That Jack Built it’s macabre, terrifying and funny, led by a performance from Dillon who’s kind of disturbing. None other than the master provocateur Lars von Trier I would have made a wild film like this, and when The House That Jack Built it requires you to look at it, you may find it impossible to look away. In addition to being funny, stylish and compelling, it offers an inspiring exploration of art and violence.
Rotten Tomatoes: 72 percent
Scholarship student Oliver (Keoghan) has trouble fitting in with his peers at Oxford University, but finds a wonderful friendship with Felix (Elordi), a wealthy student who sympathizes with Oliver and his difficult upbringing. In an act of great kindness, Felix invites Oliver to stay with him at his family’s mansion during summer vacation, which Oliver readily accepts. But soon after Oliver arrives at the mansion – known as Saltburn – shocking events begin to occur in Felix’s family, and we learn that Oliver’s plans for the summer don’t just involve relaxing.
Wonderfully directed by Accommodations in Wuthering Heights‘the listener Emerald Fennellits production design and cinematography make the visuals an aesthetic delight, Saltburn is something Call Me By Your Name in a way Mr. The Talented Ripley. Elordi, Keoghan and Rosamund Pike are the true highlights of the film, however Richard E. Grant, Archie Madekwe again Carey Mulligan They are also great for some high-end programs. The film mixes loud comedy with outrageous scenes, and succeeds more as the fun, fun than satire it tries to be.
Rotten Tomatoes: 84 percent
Contract mafia hitman Ghost Dog (Forest Whitaker) made his songs precise, which is the result of strict adherence to the ancient samurai code. Ghost Dog devotes his life to serving a mobster named Louie (John Tormey), who saved his life many years ago. When Louie orders Ghost Dog to kill Handsome Frank (Richard Portnow), who has been sleeping with the daughter of local club boss Vargo (Henry Silva), Vargo sends for Ghost Dog to be killed to avoid being implicated in Frank’s murder.
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a fascinating blend of samurai philosophy, gangster films and hip-hop culture, supported by a stirring performance from Whitaker as a recluse, lonely and out of touch with reality. It is carried by an unforgettable song produced by RZA, Jim JarmuschDifferent direction helps create an addictive pace and style, as the film cleverly explores themes of loyalty and personal codes of ethics and behavior.
