The best thrillers on Hulu right now

Celebrating its 30^th anniversary in 2024, there’s arguably no other action thriller that sustains the same level of intensity all the way through like Speed. It begins when LAPD SWAT bomb disposal officer Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) learns that an extortionist has rigged a city bus with a bomb that will explode if the vehicle ever travels below 50 miles per hour. Jack bravely boards the bus to help stop the literal ticking time bomb, but when the driver is accidentally shot, Jack looks to random passenger Annie Porter (Sandra Bullock) to take over. Together, the two work in a frantic state to keep the bus moving, until they can help get the passengers off and defuse the bomb.

Speed is an edge-of-your-seat action movie, with Reeves and Bullock making a formidable pair. The movie has received universal praise as a fantastic popcorn thriller, helping solidify Reeves as a top leading man. It’s exciting no matter how many times you’ve watched it.

Is it even possible to get enough of Die Hard and Bruce Willis? If you already watched Die Hard this holiday season (it’s also available to stream on Hulu), why not keep the momentum going with the rest of the movies in the franchise, including this one? A Good Day to Die Hard is the fifth installment in the franchise, an action thriller that continues to follow John McClane (Willis) and his terrifying brushes with danger as he saves citizens from threatening enemies.

In the story in this movie, John travels to Russia to save his estranged son, Jack (Jai Courtney), a CIA agent working undercover. When John gets caught in a terrorist plot, however, he will have to save more than his son. A Good Day to Die Hard might not be the best-reviewed of the Die Hard films, but it closes out the franchise as Willis plays McClane one final time. Plus, it was an expected box office success. Despite critics finding the movie clichéd, it’s worth watching if you’re a fan of the franchise and of Willis’ work. For a marathon movie night, A Good Day to Die Hard is a reminder of why Willis was one of his generation’s best action movie stars.

At this point, anyone who doesn’t know about the big twist at the end of The Sixth Sense has been living under a rock for the last quarter of a century. That, however, doesn’t make the psychological thriller any less watchable. The M. Night Shyamalan film has his signature directorial style all over it. Bruce Willis stars as child psychologist Malcolm Crowe, who is working with a young boy named Cole (Haley Joel Osment).

As Malcolm tries to work with the boy and understand his odd behaviors, he learns a troubling truth: Cole reveals in the famous line that he “sees dead people.” Without ruining the plot for those who happen to have never seen this movie, The Sixth Sense is arguably one of the best psychological thrillers ever made, with stellar performances all around from Willis, Osment, and Toni Collette.

Praised for its focus on timely eco-related topics, How to Blow Up a Pipeline is set in West Texas. A group of young residents decide bold steps are needed to get their point across. So, they devise a plan to blow up an oil pipeline, their radical response to the climate crisis. The film examines their actions and the morality of them: Are these young individuals activists or terrorists?

Featuring an ensemble cast that includes Lukas Gage (The White Lotus, Euphoria), Marcus Scribner (Black-ish), Ariela Barer (Runaways), and Kristine Froseth (The Buccaneers), Forbes’ Scott Phillips classifies How to Blow Up a Pipeline both as a “top-notch thriller” and an “examination of our modern political system where the voices of individual citizens seem to carry no weight.”

If you’re looking for a thriller that skews more toward horror, No One Will Save You fits the bill. The movie centers around Brynn (Dopesick’s Kaitlyn Dever), a young woman living as a recluse. She has been shunned by her neighbors, so she spends her days and nights making a model town in her living room and mourning the loss of her best friend and mother. But when there’s a home invasion and Brynn discovers aliens have taken over, her life is turned upside down.

An interestingly quiet movie (there are only five words of dialogue through the entire thing), No One Will Save You is like nothing else you’ve ever seen. It has elements of horror and sci-fi smashed into one, with a commanding performance from Dever that will have you convinced she’s a widely underrated breakout star.

The story in Rogue Agent is based on the real-life one of Robert Hendy-Freegard, who pretended to be an MI5 agent, successfully fooling many people. He went so far into the con, in fact, that he convinced several people to fear a fake assassination by the IRA. James Norton stars as the titular character in this British mystery drama thriller, while Gemma Arterton is Alice Archer, the woman who finally uncovered and revealed the truth.

Rogue Agent is so filled with plenty of twists, turns, and suspense that you’ll have a hard time believing something like it really happened.

Jesse Eisenberg, Alexander Skarsgård (Infinity Pool), Michael Mando, and Salma Hayek star in this thriller-drama about the inside lives of stockbrokers and the ever-moving stock exchange. When stockbroker Vincent (Eisenberg) convinces Bryan (Frank Schorpion) to order a new high-frequency trading (HFT) operation to invest in fiberoptic cable, the situation gets hairy at his company, particularly when he decides to leave.

The Hummingbird Project follows Vincent’s attempt to build a cable tunnel with his cousin, Anton (Skarsgård), so they can program trading software that will be faster than any other. The pair compete with their former employer, Eva (Hayek), in a high-stakes fight for market domination.

Pig is collecting a ton of attention lately, by way of both bountiful media mentions and general word-of-mouth exchanges — and for plenty of good reasons. The film follows Rob (Nicolas Cage), a reclusive ex-chef living in the woods of Oregon. Now a truffle hunter, Rob scours the wilderness with his prized foraging pig. After a run-in with a gang of assailants, Rob’s pig is stolen. Connecting with a local contact (Alex Wolff), Rob follows the single lead he has to his swine’s whereabouts, plunging the self-proclaimed hermit into the seedy underbelly of Portland. An astonishing feature debut from writer-director Michael Sarnoski, Pig is a poignant film with an equally-poignant lead performance from Nicholas Cage, reminding us that the actor is capable of much more than camp.