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The Best Thriller Movies on Peacock Right Now (October 2026)

By Matt Oakes · October 26, 2026

Peacock quietly carries some of the best adult thrillers in streaming, from slow-burn revenge stories to slick spy games. These are the ones worth your time, led by Blue Ruin, Black Bag, and Promising Young Woman, each a film I’ve reviewed or ranked among the best of its year.

Every pick links to where it’s streaming, and the list gets refreshed as titles come and go.

Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of October 2026.

BLUE RUIN (2014)

96%Critics 79%Audience 7.1IMDb

A homeless drifter learns the man who killed his parents is getting out of prison and sets out for revenge, very badly. Jeremy Saulnier’s lean, brutal thriller is all tension and no glamour, and Macon Blair is unforgettable as the world’s least capable avenger.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

BLACK BAG (2025)

Steven Soderbergh’s slick spy thriller pits married British intelligence agents (Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett) against each other when one is suspected of treason. It’s a tight, adult, and very sexy dinner-party chess game written by David Koepp.▶ Streaming on Peacock

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020)

90%Critics 87%Audience 7.5IMDb

A defiant, bold, and color-splashed debut, ‘Promising Young Adult’ sees writer-director Emerald Fennell loudly announce herself as someone to watch while veteran badass Carey Mulligan gives one of the best performances of her career as an impacted survivor out for revenge served cold AF.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

NOBODY (2021)

83%Critics 94%Audience 7.4IMDb

Nobody delivers exactly what it promises to with Bob Odenkirk proving himself a beefy blood-addicted badass when the time calls for it. Gratuitously violent, with clean action choreography and expertly blocked set pieces, the amusing actioner from Ilya Naishuller reinvigorates our love for addictive on-screen violence.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

THE COURIER (2019)

Benedict Cumberbatch plays a British salesman recruited by MI6 and the CIA to ferry secrets out of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It’s a humanist spy thriller that’s on a mission to move you, and Cumberbatch’s transformation in the final act is devastating.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

THE CARD COUNTER (2021)

Oscar Isaac plays a former military interrogator turned obsessive gambler who takes a young man under his wing on the casino circuit. Paul Schrader’s coolly hypnotic character study is haunted by guilt and builds to a slow, simmering boil.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

DESTROYER (2018)

Nicole Kidman disappears into a ravaged LAPD detective chasing the gang she infiltrated as a young undercover cop. Karyn Kusama’s sun-scorched, nonlinear noir is grim and gripping, with Kidman at her most ferocious. Sebastian Stan and Tatiana Maslany fill out a terrific supporting cast.▶ Streaming on Peacock

THE KILLER (2024)

John Woo remakes his own Hong Kong classic with Nathalie Emmanuel as an assassin who spares a blind witness and turns on her employers. Set in Paris, it’s stylish, bullet-riddled, and full of Woo’s trademark operatic gunplay.▶ Streaming on Peacock

LIZZIE (2018)

Chloë Sevigny and Kristen Stewart star in a slow-burn retelling of the Lizzie Borden murders as a story of repression, cruelty, and forbidden love. It’s austere and moody, with a quietly devastating final act. Sevigny, who spent years developing the project, is quietly magnetic.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

PROFILE (2018)

A British journalist goes undercover online to investigate ISIS recruiters and falls into a dangerously intimate relationship with one of them. Told entirely through computer screens, Timur Bekmambetov’s thriller is tense, even if it doubles as a cautionary tale about how not to be a journalist.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review