10 Most Intense Movies That Aren't Thrillers, Ranked

Thrillers are usually intense, because of course they are. They sort of have to be. It’s a whole genre of movies where the main emotion evoked is some kind of unease or excitement, or maybe a bit of both, contrasted with the horror genre, where the point is more unease and fear. But films can certainly belong to both genres, with some of the most intense of the kind being classics like Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, and Jaws.