Best Thriller Movies on Netflix That Will Keep You On Your Toes

Joe Baylor () is a disgraced LAPD officer assigned to a 911 call centre while court proceedings about his professional conduct are still ongoing. He gets a distress call from Emily Lighton (Riley Keough), an abducted woman. Through a series of back-and-forth calls, Joe discovers she’s in a white van somewhere on the highway, and her six-year-old daughter is at home with a toddler.

Baylor is a cop, so this is way above (or so he believes) his usual pay grade. He’s dealing with restricted resources and is limited to a single phone line, but he needs to help Emily.

The highlight of this movie is that the plot unfolds purely through phone calls. You see Baylor at his desk, in another room of the 911 quarters, and that’s all. There are no intense car chases, no physical fights, no blood—none of it. Just phone calls, inserts of the white van Emily describes, and shots of the forest fire blazing through the area being broadcast at the 911 centre.

To build intensity without the support of provocative visuals is reason enough to watch this, and Gyllenhaal’s performance takes it up a notch.

Emily the Criminal (2022)

You probably know at least one person who has been a victim of a credit card scam. But did that lead to more crimes? Well, for Emily (), it did. When in deep debt, like Emily is, earning money through a credit card fraud ring seems profitable enough.

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