Best Indian suspense-thrillers
8 pointers and above according to me, in no particular order.
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- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsKay Kay MenonRaj Singh ChaudharyRaja ChaudharyA law student witnesses deception, homicide, and crime after being elected as General Secretary of his college.
- DirectorNeeraj PandeyStarsAnupam KherNaseeruddin ShahVeerendra SaxenaA retiring police officer reminisces about the most astounding day of his career. About a case that was never filed but continues to haunt him in his memories - the case of a man and a Wednesday.
- DirectorVishal BhardwajStarsAjay DevgnKareena KapoorSaif Ali KhanA politically-minded enforcer's misguided trust in his lieutenant leads him to suspect his wife of infidelity in this adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Othello'.
- DirectorRam Gopal VarmaStarsJ.D. ChakravarthiManoj BajpayeeUrmila MatondkarAn innocent man is embroiled in underworld after being falsely charged and sets out to punish the perpetrators who subjected his life to misery.
- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsManoj BajpayeeNawazuddin SiddiquiTigmanshu DhuliaA clash between Sultan and Shahid Khan leads to the expulsion of Khan from Wasseypur, and ignites a deadly blood feud spanning three generations.
- DirectorMahesh ManjrekarStarsSanjay DuttNamrata ShirodkarReema LagooConsequences force an innocent man to get involved in crime after making an error.
- DirectorPrakash JhaStarsAjay DevgnGracy SinghMohan JoshiAn IPS officer motivates and leads a dysfunctional, corrupt police force of Tezpur to fight against the corrupt politician.
- DirectorRaj Kumar GuptaStarsRajeev KhandelwalMukesh AgrohariSupavitra BabulA doctor of Indian origin returning to Mumbai from London is forced to participate in a terrorist plot.
- DirectorShekhar KapurStarsSeema BiswasNirmal PandeyRajesh VivekThe story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994.
- DirectorSudhir MishraStarsIrrfan KhanChitrangda SinghArunoday SinghGangsters kidnap the prospective son-in-law of a politician in order to secure the release of an imprisoned gang-member.
- DirectorVishal BhardwajStarsShahid KapoorPriyanka Chopra JonasDeb MukherjeeThe desperate lives of two estranged twin brothers converge over missing drugs, politics, racial prejudice, corrupt cops and an unplanned pregnancy.
- DirectorRaj Kumar GuptaStarsRani MukerjiVidya BalanMyra KarnA journalist, who is more of an activist teams up with the sister of a murdered model, as she gets interested in the case and wants to bring justice to her case.
- DirectorBejoy NambiarStarsKalki KoechlinShiv PandittGulshan DevaiahFive substance-abusing friends decide to fake a kidnapping in order to bribe a police constable for covering-up a hit-and-run accident.
- DirectorAbhishek ChaubeyStarsVidya BalanNaseeruddin ShahArshad WarsiWhile on the run from goons, a man and his nephew fall for a kidnapper's seductive widow.
- DirectorMilan LuthriaStarsJohn AbrahamNana PatekarSonali KulkarniA cabbie (Patekar) and businessman (Abraham) both in need of big money partake in a two-hour adventure together.
- DirectorAnurag BasuStarsKangana RanautShiney AhujaEmraan HashmiSimran, who relocates to Seoul, is distraught when Daya, a gangster, re-enters her life. She has to make a choice between him and her lover Akash, who is a singer at an Indian restaurant.
- DirectorVishal BhardwajStarsShahid KapoorTabuShraddha KapoorA young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle, whom he suspects of playing a role in his father's fate.
- DirectorAnurag KashyapStarsKay Kay MenonPawan MalhotraAditya SrivastavA film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.
- DirectorApoorva LakhiaStarsAmitabh BachchanSanjay DuttSuniel ShettyAn account of the gangster Maya Dolas and his gang which terrorized Mumbai City, and the ensuing standoff between Mumbai Police and the gang on 16 November 1991.
- DirectorAmit KumarStarsNawazuddin SiddiquiSundar Dan DethaIrrfan KhanA bypass somewhere in Rajasthan, two violent muggers and a corrupt police officer but it seems there is something more to the story.
- DirectorVishal BhardwajStarsIrrfan KhanTabuPankaj KapurThe intrigue of the Shakespearean tragedy 'Macbeth' is transposed to the Mumbai underworld.
- DirectorNishikant KamatStarsAjay DevgnShriya SaranTabuDesperate measures are taken by a man who tries to save his family from the dark side of the law, after they commit an unexpected crime.
- DirectorMeghna GulzarStarsIrrfan KhanKonkona Sen SharmaNeeraj KabiAn experienced investigator confronts several conflicting theories about the perpetrators of a violent double homicide.
- DirectorKrishna D.K.Raj NidimoruStarsTusshar KapoorSendhil RamamurthyNikhil DwivediVarious residents and career-criminals face challenges in crime-laden Mumbai.
- DirectorSuresh KrishnaStarsKamal HaasanRaveena TandonManisha KoiralaNandu and Vijay are brothers, who were abused by their stepmother during their younger days. Nandhu, who is mentally ill, decides to kill Vijay's fiancee as he visualizes her as his stepmother.