Springtime is usually the time for bright rom-coms like You, Me & Tuscany and kids flicks like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, but what’s stopping you from enjoying a good thriller?
The answer: nothing. Peacock has a slew of them, and Watch With Us has curated a list of the streamer’s best selections.
Sea of Love is a great ‘80s erotic thriller with a peak Al Pacino performance, while Red Eye features Oscar winner Cillian Murphy playing the passenger from hell terrorizing poor Rachel McAdams.
Below is the full list of the best Peacock thrillers streaming in April.
‘Sea of Love’ (1989)
There’s a serial killer on the loose in New York City, but all Detective Frank Keller (Al Pacino) cares about is when he can kick back his next drink. A functioning alcoholic, Frank is talented and sober enough to still investigate the murders of single men who all shared two things in common: they answered lonely hearts ads in the newspaper and had contact with Helen (Ellen Barkin). Beautiful and mysterious, Frank can’t help but fall in love with Helen, but will his illicit affair be his undoing?
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Sea of Love seems like a parody of itself. Destructive cop protagonist with a suicidal streak? Check. Alluring femme fatale with a shady past who romances the hero? Check. The killer even has a weird modus operandi involving bondage and the 1959 pop hit “Sea of Love” that Hannibal Lecter would appreciate. But it all works because of Pacino and Barkin, who share real chemistry as a damaged couple drawn together by their mutual traumas. Two wrongs usually don’t make a right, but Frank and Helen prove to be the exception to that rule.
Sea of Love is streaming on Peacock.
‘Red Eye’ (2005)
Travelling by plane is a headache these days, but it’s nothing compared to what Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) experiences in the sneaky 2005 thriller Red Eye. On her red-eye flight to see her dad, Joe (Brian Cox), in Miami, she gradually suspects her handsome fellow passenger, Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), is interested in her.
Lisa’s right, but for all the wrong reasons, as Jackson reveals he belongs to a domestic terrorist organization that wants to use her to assassinate a political figure. If Lisa doesn’t cooperate, Jackson’s buddies will kill her dad. To make matters worse, the plane ran out of free peanuts.
Directed by horror maestro Wes Craven, the movie makes the most of its intriguing, Hitchcockian premise. McAdams is terrific as a heroine who must make impossible choices, while Murphy makes the most of his icy-blue gaze to make a villain worth rooting against. Red Eye is a suspense film so tense, you might just travel by train afterwards.
Red Eye is streaming on Peacock.
‘Bugonia’ (2025)
Do aliens walk among us? That’s what Teddy Gantz (Jesse Plemons) and his cousin, Don (Aidan Delbis), want to know. They believe Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), a powerful pharmaceutical CEO, is part of an alien race that’s secretly enslaving humanity. Determined not to let that happen, Teddy and Don kidnap Michelle, shave her head and hold her prisoner in their house to interrogate her. But it quickly becomes apparent that Teddy isn’t so pure of heart, and Michelle isn’t as helpless as she appears to be.
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Nominate for several Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress, Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Bugonia is an odd blend of thriller and sci-fi with some inspired bits of comedy here and there. A remake of the obscure 2003 Korean film Save the Green Planet!, Bugonia is an entertaining ride that contains one of the most shocking endings of 2025. Stone and Plemons are superb, and the movie casts a strange, unsettling spell over you that’s tough to shake off.
‘Conclave’ (2024)
What do you do when the Pope has died? That’s the question facing Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Harry Potter star Ralph Fiennes), who must help pick a successor along with every important figure in the Catholic Church. Sequestered in the Vatican, Thomas acts as a go-between for different factions of the church: progressives, traditionalists, moderates and conservatives. But who among them has what it takes to lead their religion in the 21st century? Picking the right man could save the Church from becoming irrelevant, but selecting the wrong person could hasten its decline.
What makes Conclave such a compelling thriller isn’t whether or not someone lives or dies — it’s which ideology is strong enough to win over these powerful men who want to stay in power. A multiple Oscar nominee and winner of Best Adapted Screenplay, Conclave generates suspense the old-fashioned way — by letting you eavesdrop on conversations you and some of the characters aren’t supposed to hear. It’s a surprisingly effective thriller with a shocking ending that might make you question your own faith.
Conclave is streaming on Peacock.
‘Speak No Evil’ (2024)
When Ben and Louise Dalton (Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis) meet English couple Paddy and Ciara (James McAvoy and Aisling Franciosi) while on vacation in England, they think they’ve made some friends for life. But after they accept the latter couple’s invitation to stay at their farm in the tranquil countryside, they start to suspect Paddy and Ciara aren’t who they say they are. Why is the couple’s son, Ant (Dan Hough), always silent and seemingly frightened of his parents? And why is Paddy increasingly antagonistic towards Ben?
The answers to both questions are genuinely shocking, and what elevates Speak No Evil from most thrillers out there. A remake of a great 2022 Danish film, Speak No Evil is almost as effective as the original and adds an intriguing commentary about toxic masculinity. McAvoy is frighteningly convincing as a menacing alpha male who will do anything to prove his superiority over others, no matter if they are friend or foe. By the end, you might be rendered speechless by what you just witnessed.
Speak No Evil is streaming on Peacock.
‘Inside’ (2023)
Nemo (Willem Dafoe) is an art thief who is good at what he does, but he gets more than he bargains for when he breaks into a high-rise Manhattan penthouse to steal some expensive paintings. Just before he is about to leave, the apartment’s security system seals the apartment, effectively imprisoning him. With no way to contact the outside world without incriminating himself, Nemo will have to find a way out of his luxury jail before he’s discovered.
Inside is a different kind of thriller in that the hero’s main enemy is his location. Nemo’s battle is with four walls and a state-of-the-art security system that won’t let him out. As the film goes on, Nemo’s desperation mounts as his food runs out and water becomes scarce. You’re left guessing not whether Nemo will be captured, but rather if he’ll make it out alive at all.
Inside is streaming on Peacock.
‘Borderline’ (2025)
Sofia Minor (Samara Weaving) is a pop star with a major problem — she has an obsessed fan, Paul Duerson (Ray Nicholson), who thinks they are in love. After an initial attempt to establish contact lands him in prison, Paul escapes and, with the help of fellow inmate Penny (Alba Baptiste), breaks into Sofia’s mansion to profess his love for her. But Paul’s best-laid plans come undone as Sofia teams up with a security guard (Eric Dane) eager for revenge to stop Paul’s stalking once and for all.
While Borderline’s plot is a standard psycho stalker story that Fatal Attraction perfected nearly four decades ago, what elevates the movie is the performances of the two leads. As Sofia, Weaving adds yet another formidable female to her scream queen resume, while Nicholson shows a talent for lunacy that he must have inherited from his famous father, Jack. He has a gift for playing men with madness that isn’t too far off from The Shining’s Jack Torrance.
Borderline is streaming on Peacock.
‘Memento’ (2000)
Before Christopher Nolan made his name directing the Dark Knight trilogy, his calling card in Hollywood was Memento. For his first trick, Nolan shows audiences the ending of Memento before they realize what it means. Then he lets the story unfold in two parallel narratives before catching up with the conclusion.
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The film revolves around Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce), a man who lost his wife and his ability to make new long-term memories due to a brutal attack. Now, Leonard’s memories reset nearly every ten minutes, and he’s not sure if he can trust the people around him, including Natalie (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Teddy (Joe Pantoliano). Everyone seems to take advantage of Leonard’s condition, including Leonard himself.
Memento is streaming on Peacock.
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