The Best Suspense Movies and TV Shows on Vudu

What it's about: Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But will Light succeed in his noble goal, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?

Where to Watch: 37 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Vudu & 1 other). 37 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix, HBO MAX, Hulu & 1 other). 37 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 3 services (Google Play, Vudu & YouTube).

What it's about: A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Plex, Vudu & PopcornFlix), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Shudder, Hoopla & 1 other) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & Prime Video).

What it's about: While holidaying in the French Alps, a Swedish family deals with acts of cowardliness as an avalanche breaks out.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Plex & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Hulu, Hoopla, Kanopy & 1 other) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).

What it's about: Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy (married) boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (PlutoTV & Vudu), stream on a subscription service (Shudder) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Peacock & 5 others), stream on a subscription service (Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & Microsoft).

What it's about: Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas station and decide to follow him. At a strip club Paul cautiously decides to approach him but the chance encounter brings Paul's world crashing down around him.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Peacock, Plex & 4 others), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Hoopla & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Microsoft).

What it's about: Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Vudu), stream on a subscription service (Hoopla) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: A young photographer Thun and his girlfriend Jane discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after fleeing the scene of an accident. As they investigate the phenomenon, they find other photographs contain similar supernatural images, that Thun's best friends are being haunted as well, and Jane discovers that her boyfriend has not told her everything. It soon becomes clear that you can not escape your past.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Netflix & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 1 service (Vudu).

What it's about: A fashion photographer is traveling to meet his sister at Eden Parish. Once there, his friends begin to film interviews with the Eden Parish inhabitants, all of whom speak of the commune in glowing terms. However, they soon discover that there is a sinister edge to the commune that belies the seemingly peaceful setting.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Plex & 2 others), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 6 services (iTunes, Google Play & 4 others).

What it's about: A supernatural, maniac killer cop teams up with a Times Square serial killer.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Vudu & 1 other), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Shudder) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Google Play).

What it's about: When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the family fortune if her husband is alive. The Halorans are a strange family, still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter Kathleen who drowned in a pond when she was just a child. They hold an annual ceremony of remembrance every year on the anniversary of her death. This year however, someone is wielding an ax intent on murder.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Plex & 2 others), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Epix, Hoopla & 1 other), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $2.00 on 3 services (iTunes, Prime Video & Vudu).

What it's about: When a detective is called in to investigate the roadside execution of his partner, he discovers at the crime scene a data card from a video camera. The card contains footage shot by two runaway teenagers who are making a documentary about the drug related death of a sibling. The detective retraces the teen's journey and soon begins to uncover a trail of the dead that leads all the way back to police headquarters.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV & Vudu).

What it's about: A young person gets hired to kill someone completely unknown, by someone equally unknown. Or is that true? Nothing is what it seems.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Vudu & PopcornFlix) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 1 service (iTunes).

What it's about: The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

Where to Watch: 3 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV & Vudu). 3 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Hoopla).

What it's about: A high-rise apartment populated by models, nightclub dancers and call girls becomes the focus of a mysterious serial killer. When a young model named Jennifer and her friend Marilyn move into one of the victims' former apartments, Jennifer becomes the next target and the pair try to identify the killer.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Shudder) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Sammy and Ray, leatherback turtles and friends forever, are enjoying an atoll's water and sand, shepherding new hatchlings Ricky and Ella out to sea. Suddenly, a poacher swoops in and ships them off to be part of a spectacular aquarium show for tourists in Dubai. The kingpin of the place, Big D the seahorse, enlists them in his plans for a great escape. But with their new friends Jimbo the bug-eyed blob fish and Lulu the snippy lobster, Annabel the sweet Octopus, and a whole family of penguins, Sammy and Ray hatch breakout plans of their own. That is when little Ricky and Ella arrive, determined to break in to rescue them. After a series of thrilling adventures and narrow escapes, our heroes head south to meet up with Shelly, Sammy's first and only love.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Vudu & 1 other), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Hoopla & Ameba) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: A mother takes her son on a trip into remote wilderness to scatter his father's ashes; they must confront their worst fears when a lone hiker begins following them.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Vudu & IMDb TV), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Epix), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: While investigating the privatization of energy giant Central Energy, journalist Petra Vlčka uncovers corruption involving his brother the CEO.

Where to Watch: 6 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Vudu). 6 episodes (100%) are available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, HBO MAX, HBO & 1 other). 6 episodes (100%) are available to rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).

What it's about: A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Peacock & 2 others).

What it's about: A group of friends sneak into an abandoned prison with the intention of making a ghost hunting video, until they start to go missing one by one.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu) & stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video).

What it's about: Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV & 2 others).

What it's about: McKenzie is a few months away from getting married when her three best friends from college surprise her with a bachelorette party.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV & Vudu) & stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video).

What it's about: Recovering addict Will Parker experiments with 'Z', a black-market sleeping serum, in order to cure his insomnia. Instead, the drug sends Will's consciousness one day into the future, where he's the prime suspect in the disappearance of a young girl he hasn't even met - yet.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video, Epix & Hoopla), stream on a popular TV everywhere service (Epix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: L.A. Heat is an American action series starring Wolf Larson and Steven Williams as Los Angeles police detectives, in the tradition of films like Lethal Weapon. The series aired on TNT from March 15, 1999.

Where to Watch: 48 episodes (100%) are available to watch free online (Vudu & IMDb TV).

What it's about: Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness comes in the form of a quiet, elderly German, who Mr Kaplan believes to be a runaway Nazi. Determined to capture this Nazi, as Eichmann was captured before him, Mr Kaplan surprises everyone when he takes up this challenge.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Kanopy) & rent or buy from $0.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: A young woman (Tansy Parkinson) who possesses the supernatural powers and visions of an upcoming apocalypse is aided by a retired bounty hunter who must protect her from those who wish to use her abilities for evil.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 1 service (Vudu).

What it's about: A kidnapping leads to a love affair and complicates meaning for a young woman, a kidnapper, and a police detective in pursuit.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: The suicide of a pregnant woman begins to look like murder and a county prosecutor is called in to investigate.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Vudu) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Prime Video & Vudu).

What it's about: It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Penny is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Vudu) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: “FRAZIER PARK RECUT” follows first-time filmmakers (Tyler and Sam) as they document the behind-the-scenes trials and tribulations of producing an independent found-footage horror film. After writing a script, collecting production gear, and securing a “cabin in the woods” location, Tyler and Sam hit gold when they cast the perfect actor, Tom Morris, to play the psychopathic antagonist of their film. With everything falling into place, the trio travels to the small, isolated town of Frazier Park, California to make their dream a reality.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 2 services (Google Play & Prime Video).

What it's about: With her son being held captive by a criminal gang, police-officer Amanda Doyle, together with her ex-husband and three unlikely allies, takes part in a desperate plot to hold a wealthy banker and his family to ransom. But this is no ordinary family.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu) & stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Hoopla).

What it's about: Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Vudu & PopcornFlix).

What it's about: To escape her abusive spouse, Sarah fakes her own death and flees. Seems like a good plan, right? Sadly, it doesn't take her estranged husband long to get wise and hunt her down. This game between them will turn deadly and it looks like only one will survive.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).

What it's about: Intrepid FBI agent Beck, assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple's missing daughter. As clues begin to reveal themselves, Beck draws an explosive line connecting the kidnapper and the girl's mother -- and brings to light their dark, disturbing secret. Racing against the clock, the determined agent must discover the real reason for the abduction and save the child's life.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).

What it's about: As Abraham Lincoln labors over the Gettysburg address, the importance of which he is fully aware, he learns that a menace from his past has returned, threatening to tear the already fractured nation to pieces. He must journey behind enemy lines to face an foe far more fearsome than the Confederate army: the walking dead.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Peacock & 2 others), stream on a subscription service (Hoopla) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 1 service (Microsoft).

What it's about: Seeking revenge for the murder of their religious leader, fundamental loyalists kidnap and torture the man they believe responsible, but the ensuing clash of right vs. left ideologies quickly reveals that they may have the wrong man, which puts them on a path toward a shocking twist

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Vudu & IMDb TV) & stream on a subscription service (Hoopla).

What it's about: On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2," follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an ice berg into the new ship's path, the passengers and crew must fight to avoid a similar fate.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Plex & 1 other), stream on a subscription service (ConTV) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 1 service (Microsoft).

What it's about: Clinton is convinced that Casey is a figment of his imagination. But seriously, what would a girl like her see in a guy like him? It seems that lately people are seeing all sorts of things in him, but the problem is that he can't see them himself.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).

What it's about: A fable of five vastly separate inner-city lives who struggle against their limitations in an interlocking tale assembled by a dark orchestrator.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Hoopla) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Vudu).

What it's about: A group of 20-somethings reunite at a New Year's Eve bash in middle-class suburbia. But when a near-death experience, a pregnancy, and the appearance of past rivals disrupts the night, how will each see their place in the world come new year's day?

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, PlutoTV, Plex & 1 other), stream on a subscription service (Hoopla & IndieFlix) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Rachel and Anna return home two years after their mother’s death, and find the town abandoned with their house left in disgusting disarray. When Rachel begins hallucinating about their dead mother and some ancient artifact, terrifying clues begin falling into place surrounding their family’s past.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Google Play).

What it's about: The only thing James wants is to remain away from Scotland. One day, however, he receives a fax, a printout of an unknown person's obituary. The next day, he is charged and arrested for the murder of this person.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Plex & Vudu) & stream on a subscription service (Hoopla).

What it's about: Pauline begins to lose track of time, misplace things and find herself disoriented. She fears falling victim to a disease, but all is not as it seems. She must find the truth and prove it to the police and herself.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Hoopla) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: The granddaughter of a prominent politician loses her husband in a fiery explosion. Her husband is under investigation prior to his death and she vows to clear his name.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Hoopla) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Prime Video & Vudu).

What it's about: When a realtor shows an old New York factory building to a group of would-be investors, they are unwittingly caught in its tragic and sinister history.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a subscription service (Fear Factory) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: 15 yrs after she was left in a ditch, a young woman is contacted by a millionaire from NYC who claims to be her mother. When she arrives at the family estate, she finds herself in the middle of a mysterious plot.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu), stream on a subscription service (Hoopla) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 3 services (Google Play, Prime Video & Vudu).

What it's about: Donna Erickson, an overworked public defender, is in the middle of a tricky case — she's representing a woman suspected of committing a murder that happened years ago. Even though recent DNA evidence lays the blame on her client, this legal eagle has a gut feeling that her defendant is innocent. But the only way she can prove it is to go digging into the past of the accused. Your jaw will drop when you learn what she finds out!

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 3 services (Google Play, Prime Video & Vudu).

What it's about: An assassin hunts and tortures his old predecessor in the basement of his European home, only to reveal the lies and corruption of their international hitman agency by taking a journey through the manipulations of the old man's past.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi & Vudu) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 1 service (Prime Video).

What it's about: A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi, Vudu & IMDb TV), stream on a subscription service (Hoopla) & rent or buy from $2.00 on 3 services (iTunes, Prime Video & Vudu).

What it's about: Samantha plays the role of "Fortune Teller," but she is a thorough skeptic about "paranormal activities" and all things supernatural - she certainly doesn't believe in ghosts.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Vudu), stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).