Best Made-For-TV Thriller Movies
A list of amazing thriller movies, produced for televison broadcast
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- DirectorClay BorrisStarsRick RossovichClaudette MinkEllen DubinThe year is 2013. After a world-wide economic collapse in 2009, the entire middle-class is wiped out, leaving only high-class and low-class. The high-class rich reside in a place called Parkland. Parkland is surrounded by high walls so they would be separated from the low-class citizens. There are no jobs, so there is no way that low-class citizens would ever achieve a better life. The high-class citizens want what they call "eternity" life. They build TV billboards to advertise "Eternity" life, in which poor citizens donate organs which the rich citizens need to survive and live longer. In exchange, the remaining family of the donor will receive $10 million and residence in Parkland. One man, Sgt. Jimmy Quinn and his family are allowed to live in Parkland because of his achievements and is to be promoted detective at Parkland...without being a donor. When the donor for the creator of Eternity, Dr. Roland Parker, is killed, they are in a desperate search of another donor. After waking up one morning with a hangover, a donation contract, and fired from the police department, he believes these donations are not so voluntary; he sets out to find proof before his time is up.
- DirectorDavid Warry-SmithStarsEric RobertsJürgen ProchnowVenus TerzoTerrorists seize a building with intent to blow it up. However, one of the men trapped in the building is an ex-treasury agent, who just happens to be there with his wife and children in a tour group. Having to fight the terrorists and fires that breakout in the high rise...
- DirectorPaul ZillerStarsKate JacksonEd MarinaroErik EstradaThe cockpit of a Boeing 747 is struck by lightning during takeoff for a flight to Europe, fatally injuring the flight crew. Laurie, the senior flight attendant, enlists the aid of passenger Brett Young. They determine that the autopilot can bring the plane in for a landing, but soon learn that the autopilot is locking onto the transponders of airfields at random, including signals from small airports with runways too short to accommodate the jumbo jet. Meanwhile, federal officials on the ground who have lost radio contact with the jet debate whether the plane should be shot down to prevent a more disastrous crash in a heavily populated area.
- DirectorJeff WoolnoughStarsJohn SavageBarbara SukowaRichard LinternAs a family moves into their new country home, strange events occur, making them believe that their autistic daughter is communicating with the spirits of two murdered children.
- DirectorFred Olen RayStarsCoolioMaxwell CaulfieldBrent HuffNavy SEALs launch a rescue mission after terrorists plunge a jet carrying a missile-launching computer into the sea.
- DirectorJeffrey ReinerStarsSuzanne SomersTimothy BusfieldRyan DeBoerA bed-ridden teen believes he has witnessed the murder of one of his neighbors. When no body is found, he then recruits friends to attempt to prove the death.
- DirectorNick LyonStarsKimberley HewsTonya KayChristine SclafaniKate is devastated to learn that her husband Billy has been living a double life. Even worse, a killer is after her because he thinks that she has the money her late husband stole.
- DirectorJohn BradshawStarsKim CoatesDaniel BaldwinPenelope Ann MillerA scientist and a dishonest agent work toward different ends as a mysterious virus afflicts passengers on a flight to Hawaii.
- DirectorDavid StraitonStarsGreg EviganRachael CrawfordClaudia MichelsenAn Arctic oil rig crew discovers something strange far beneath the Earth's surface, which may or may not be responsible for the series of murders that begin to take place.
- DirectorNorberto BarbaStarsRob EstesShannon SturgesKai WiesingerA group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.
- DirectorChris ThomsonStarsJason BatemanJohn GloverJack WagnerA teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.
- DirectorSam IrvinStarsAntonio Sabato Jr.Rae Dawn ChongMichael BoisvertThe sky is literally falling in this thriller as one of the nation's leading astronomers, Madison Kelsey believes she is tracking a huge rogue asteroid rocketing toward earth.
- DirectorGavin WildingStarsBrendan FehrBrad RoweAllison LangeA teenage girl is plagued by bizarre occurrences and deaths related to her new home.
- DirectorRockne S. O'BannonStarsRobert HaysNancy StaffordRyan PhillippeWhen bees attack an isolated country house, a family must stick together to survive.
- DirectorGraeme CampbellStarsTimothy BusfieldLisa JakubBrennan ElliottTechno terror. A young couple move into a sophisticated home of the future where everything is automated by a super computer. However, the cutting edge device soon turns murderous!
- DirectorColin BuckseyStarsSherilyn FennRena SoferSteve HarrisAfter a woman jumps in front of a truck to save her daughter's life, she wakes up in the hospital in a seemingly alternate reality where everyone and everything in her life are different, including her own name.
- DirectorPo-Chih LeongStarsJudd NelsonHedy BurressMichael WeatherlyA screenwriter, who lives in a cabin by the lake near Los Angeles, drowns young women, then goes back to visit their bodies and do their laundry.
- DirectorGregory GoodellStarsCorbin BernsenLesley Ann WarrenTushka BergenA woman discovers that she's the linchpin of a plot by her mother and her mother's lover to kill his wife.
- DirectorJerry LondonStarsSela WardMichael WoodsRoscoe BornA woman's husband and his lover try to drive her mad at their seaside mansion.
- DirectorIan BarryStarsJames RemarStephanie NiznikDaniel von BargenScorching disaster movie starring James Remar (Dexter). When a huge fireball hurtles towards the Earth the authorities have only hours to react before temperatures soar beyond human tolerance.
- DirectorCurtis CrawfordStarsFiona GubelmannEmma HentschelJames GallandersGrowing up under terrible circumstances in a loveless home, a girl who finally finds happiness refuses to let anyone take it from her.
- DirectorMichael GrossmanStarsKenan ThompsonKel MitchellKen ForeeThe Rockmores set out on a family road trip with an uninvited Kel stashed in the trunk. While camping out in the woods, Kenan has a scary encounter with a mysterious, shadowy figure...
- DirectorJames HeadStarsNicollette SheridanJudd NelsonAlex McArthurDuring a storm, a group of people are trapped inside a mansion with a killer.
- DirectorRob HeddenStarsJohn RitterMary Page KellerHal LindenThriller about a man who, along with his family, moves from a crime-ridden inner city suburb to a self-proclaimed violence-free haven overseen by a godlike businessman. However, they soon discover that life in The Colony is much more sinister than it first appeared.
- DirectorDavid JacksonStarsYasmine BleethLinden AshbyStanley AndersonA nurse returns to her home town to care for her dying father, and finds everyone she knows there has undergone a bizarre personality change.
- DirectorCraig GoldsteinStarsVanessa MarcilBrooke NevinStephen SneddenKaylene Larsen's dream finally came true: beautiful twins from an in vitro procedure. But when Kaylene needs home care, the nurse she hires is none other than the egg donor herself -- and the crazy woman has come to claim "her" babies.
- DirectorDon McBreartyStarsCheryl LaddDuncan RegehrAemilia RobinsonA young girl experiences disturbing visions of a tragedy that took place 30 years earlier, that may be connected to a recent unsolved murder.
- DirectorDavid WinningStarsPatrick DuffyPam DawberDominic RaackeA family is thrust into the Federal Witness Relocation program that fails, in deadly ways, to protect them.
- DirectorWes CravenStarsLinda BlairLee PurcellJeremy SlateA teenage girl's life is turned upside down after her cousin moves into her house, and as time goes by she begins to suspect that she may be a practitioner of witchcraft.
- DirectorJoe CacaciStarsLindsay CrouseZoe McLellanDan LauriaA middle-aged woman takes on a young female tenant to help pay her debts, but gets a lot more than she bargains for when the girl starts to act very strangely indeed . . .
- DirectorKelly SandefurStarsMegan GallagherEric LutesSofia VassilievaA family dismisses their daughter's claims of "fairies" living in the playhouse in their new home's backyard, until they discover another girl described the same beings in their home, decades before.
- DirectorPaul SchneiderStarsAlexandra PaulShannon LawsonGary HudsonA woman moves to a gated community following a violent home invasion, but encounters sinister problems with her new neighbor.
- DirectorDick LowryStarsConnie SelleccaWayne RogersAna AliciaA passenger jet loses a portion of its fuselage in flight over Hawaii and is forced to make an emergency landing.
- DirectorBrian Trenchard-SmithStarsLindsay WagnerMichael IronsideMartin SheenAn infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
- DirectorDouglas JacksonStarsStefanie PowersMickey ToftMargot KidderCory is a young boy who has just moved into a new house with his mom. He develops a relationship with an "imaginary" friend who lives in his closet. No one believes him until people start dying violently and the "imaginary" friend becomes all too real.