Top rated tension-filled movies with zero character development

Check out today’s highest ranked tension-filled movies featuring zero character development! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best tension-filled movies featuring zero character development, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Alone (2020)

A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.

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2020-09-10 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca

Rating

rating icon 6.312
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    suspenseful
  2. Ranked #2 for
    tension-filled
  3. Ranked #2 for
    heart-pounding

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2 Underwater (2020)

After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

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2020-01-08 | Horror / Science Fiction

Cast

Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel

Rating

rating icon 6.285
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    Monster Movie
  2. Ranked #2 for
    respite
  3. Ranked #4 for
    claustrophobic

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3 Head Count (2019)

Newcomer Evan joins a group of teens on a getaway in Joshua Tree. While exchanging ghost stories around the campfire, Evan reads aloud a mysterious chant from an internet site. From that moment, someone--or something--is among them.

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2019-06-14 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Isaac Jay, Ashleigh Morghan

Rating

rating icon 5.313
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    climactic ending
  2. Ranked #3 for
    with creepy moments
  3. Ranked #3 for
    downright creepy

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4 Thirteen Lives (2022)

Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them in a chamber inside the mountain. Entombed behind a maze of flooded cave tunnels, they face impossible odds. A team of world-class divers navigate through miles of dangerous cave networks to discover that finding the boys is only the beginning.

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2022-07-18 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell

Rating

rating icon 7.903
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    on tenterhooks
  2. Ranked #2 for
    dramatized
  3. Ranked #2 for
    real deal

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5 Greyhound (2020)

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

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2020-07-09 | War / Action

Cast

Tom Hanks, Stephen Graham

Rating

rating icon 7.409
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2 for
    tense and exciting
  2. Ranked #2 for
    shocking moment
  3. Ranked #2 for
    lean

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6 Hideout (2021)

Evading police at a remote farmhouse after fumbling a robbery, four criminals discover that the family living there is not who they appear to be.

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2021-11-09 | Horror / Crime

Cast

Katie Lyons, Bryan Enright

Rating

rating icon 5.2
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    downright painful
  2. Ranked #1 for
    poorly put together
  3. Ranked #1 for
    weird camera angle

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7 Nightride (2022)

In this single shot thriller, we're in the driver's seat with small-time dealer Budge as he tries to pull one last deal with cash borrowed from a dangerous loan shark. When the handover goes catastrophically wrong, Budge finds himself in a race against time to find his missing product and get a new buyer before the loan shark tracks him down.

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2022-03-04 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Moe Dunford, Joana Ribeiro

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3 for
    tense and suspenseful
  2. Ranked #3 for
    brilliant pace
  3. Ranked #4 for
    snoozing

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8 The Furies (2019)

A young woman faces her darkest fears with seven other unwilling participants in a deadly game — a game that can only have one winner.

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2019-04-12 | Horror / Action

Cast

Airlie Dodds, Linda Ngo

Rating

rating icon 5.522
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    rounded character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    explicitly gore
  3. Ranked #1 for
    gore factor

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9 The Black Phone (2022)

Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

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2022-06-22 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Mason Thames, Ethan Hawke

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    bone chilling
  2. Ranked #2 for
    lovecraftian
  3. Ranked #3 for
    absolutely terrifying

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10 The Owners (2020)

A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

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2020-08-27 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy

Rating

rating icon 5.651
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    uncreative story
  2. Ranked #1 for
    followable
  3. Ranked #1 for
    kind of weird

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