Top 10 Bollywood Suspense Movies

Top 10 Bollywood Suspense Movies– Who doesn’t love Suspense movies. The desire to know things, especially the hidden ones makes us more curious. This forces our subconscious mind to investigate and find out what has happened? Bollywood makes suspense and thriller movies for the viewers to experience the excitement in veins and nerve-wracking tension.

These movies bind us by maintaining entertainment and excitement in the movie by suspense. So if you are wondering what are the best suspense movies to watch, we are here to share the list of top ten suspense films of Bollywood based on IMDb Ratings.

No.1 Drishyam

In this movie, we see a man Vijay who says “He will go to any extent to save his family.” One day on a trip, a boy named Sam takes pictures of Anju taking off her clothes and later blackmails her for sexual favors. Anju informs her mother about this and she pleads with Sam to leave their house but he didn’t listen, and to protect her daughter she hit him with the lead pipe leading to the death of the boy. Vijay comes in the morning and learns what happened last night. From here the suspense starts in the movie that how Vijay saves his family from the police.

IMDb ratings: 8.2
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Drama
Release Date: 31 July 2015
Duration: 2h 43 m
Star Cast: Ajay Devgan, Tabu, Shriya saran.

No.2 Kahani

Kahani is one of those movies that knows how to grab the interest and attention of the viewers very well. The starting of the movie is frightening and the end is completely unpredictable. The story starts with Vidya Bagchi, a pregnant woman, from London who comes to Kolkata in search of her missing husband Arnab Bagchi but whomsoever she asks denies to know her husband. A police officer Styoki Rana Sinha offers her help and together they began the search. These all seem so simple but the truth lies deeper, beyond reach.

IMDb ratings:8.1

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Release Date: 9 March 2012

Duration: 2h 8 m
Star Cast: Vidya Balan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui

No.3 Indian

In this movie, a freedom fighter becomes self vigilant to remove the corruption from society. The movie starts with a series of murders in the city of Chennai and nearby areas. All the murders were done in the same way; the body was stabbed by a knife but before that is was first paralyzed. The investigating officer Krishnaswamy after the investigation had found out that the age of the murderer is above 70 years. The suspense of the story revolves around finding the killer and how is he able to do this at such an age and what are his motifs.

IMDb ratings: 8.1

Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Release Date: 9 May 1996

Duration: 3h 5 m
Star Cast: Kamal Hassan, Manisha Koirala, Kasturi.

No.4 A Wednesday

The movie starts with Prakash Rathore retired police officer who was telling about the most memorable case of his life when one Wednesday he receives a call that bomb has been planted in five locations in the city and to know the location of the bomb they have to release four terrorists. Initially, they try to get the location of the caller, assuming it was a person from any terrorist group but in the end, it was said that a common man had done this. The mystery unfolds as the story progresses with a completely shocking climax.

IMDb ratings:8.1

Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Release Date: 5 Sept 2008

Duration: 2h 43 m
Star Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Jimmy Shergill.

No. 5 Jewel Thief

As the name suggests it’s about a thief but nobody knows who is he but few say that he seems like Vinay, son of the Police Commissioner. But Vinay refuses the charge he said that they are not the culprit but he insisted on finding the real one. He impersonates himself as Thief along with the police to catch Thief. Will he be able to do that?

IMDb ratings: 8/10

Genre: Thriller, Musical, Drama
Release Date: 27 Oct 1976

Duration: 3h 6m
Star Cast: Dev Anand, Ashok Kumar, Tanuja

No.6 Special 26

The concepts of the movies revolve around conducting bogus raids on politicians and businessmen for their black money by a group of well-trained people who pose themselves as CBI. These raids were conducted by Ajay Singh “Ajju” and Pramod Kumar “P.K.” Sharma. When CBI came to know about the bogus raids they come up with a plan to catch them red-handed. The film is based on Opera House Heist (1987).

IMDb ratings: 8/10

Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Release Date: 8 Feb 2013

Duration: 2h 24m

Star Cast: Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Manoj Bajpayee

No.7 Don

“Don”, the leader of Underworld was a Gangster and a renowned criminal. One day in an encounter with the police he got shot dead by the police officer De Silva. Only officer D’ Silva knew the fact that Don is dead so he came up with a plan to plant a similar-looking Vijay and trains him to be the Don. But after some time, De Silva died in a raid, and the truth that Vijay is not the real don and just acting like a don to help policemen dies with him. Now the don (Vijay) faces threats from the police as well as within the gang itself.

IMDb ratings: 7.8

Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Release Date: 12 May 1978

Duration:2h 46m
Star Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Zeenat Aman, Pran

No.8 Kaun

The movie starts on a Stormy night showing a woman watching television and listening to the news of a serial killer who is in town and the people are asked to be safe and suddenly her bell rings. She meets two men at her door who look very suspicious about their intentions. The movie is full-on suspense and is a thing to watch.

IMDb ratings: 7.8

Genre: Thriller, Horror
Release Date: 26 Feb 1999

Duration: 1h 30m
Star Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpayee

No.9 Teesri Manzil (Top 10 Bollywood Suspense Movies)

The movie starts with the death of Rupa from the third floor of Park Hotel in Dehradun. A year later her sister Sunita comes to Dehradun to avenge her sister’s death as she was in love with the Rocky drummer at the same hotel and believed that he must have seduced and killed her. On the way to Dehradun, she meets a man called Anil who tried to cherish her and she spots him at the hotel as well. He was Rocky and lies to her. They gradually fall in love with each other. But when Sunita comes to know the truth she breaks up with Anil. Anil desperately tries to find out that how Rupa died and who was behind her death.

IMDb ratings:7.7

Genre: Musical, Mystery
Release Date: 21 Oct 1966

Duration: 2h 52m
Star Cast: Shammi Kapoor, Asha Parekh, Raj Mehra

No.10 Mera Saaya (Top 10 Bollywood Suspense Movies)

Thakur Rakesh Singh is a lawyer and man from a wealthy reputed family. He was a very happy married man and his wife’s name was Gita. He was in London for pursuing higher studies when he heard the news of the illness of his wife. When he returned after few days Geeta died. In the meanwhile, Police catch a girl named Nisha who was looking like his wife. She says that she is the wife of Rakesh but he says that his wife died in his hand and the girl is lying. From here stars the suspense of the movie because the truth is hidden one has to dig it out.