3 underestimated thrillers that you have to view in May 2025
Some of the best thrillers no longer come to theaters, or they only get a handful of impressions before they leave just as quickly as they arrived.
Fortunately, the various streaming services have kept Thriller fans happy with a wide selection of films at their disposal.
To start with May, Watch With Us has selected three underrated thrillers to view this month.
Woody Harrelson And Simu Liu Headline our first selection, which was released earlier this year. The remaining films are a few thrillers who largely went under the radar in 2024, but they get a second chance to stream to find the audience they deserve.
‘Last Breath’ (2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snmyooxzztm
Last is a survival thriller based on a true story about a trio of deep sea divers. In 2012, Duncan Allcock (Harrelson), David Yuasa (Liu) and Chris Lemons (Finn Cole) are on a routine maintenance mission to ensure underwater gas lines when an accident lemons below leaves entangled and separated from the supporting ship that brought them there.
Lemons have left breathable air in his tank for only ten minutes, causing Allcock, Yuasa and the crew of the ship to clamber in a race by time to find and free him. At the same time, the safety of the ship is also at risk and anchor falling anchor can cause an environmental disaster if it tears the gas pipes.
Last flies on Peacock.
‘Strange Darling’ (2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ghxenXKXE
Willa Fitzgerald is currently headliner of the new medical romance show of Netflix, PulseBut her breakthrough performance came in the wicked original thriller a year earlier Strange treasure. The name of the character of Fitzgerald is never revealed, but the lady is introduced as the potential victim of a serial killer who urgently needs help to escape. ‘
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Writer and director JT Mollner Slowly peel the facts around the lady by explaining her story in a non-linear way. She is pretty open because she is afraid of serial killers and, paradoxically, to be eager to play the victim of a murderer. The secrets of this lady are particularly deadly, but she may have very good reasons to believe that someone will try to kill her.
Strange treasure flies on Paramount+ with Showtime.
‘The last stop in Yuma County’ (2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPJHQCSI8FO
Writer/director Francis GalluppiS The last stop in Yuma County is a refreshingly different kind of thriller that takes place in the 1970s. Jim Cummings Leads the cast as an unnamed knife seller who just wants to see his child to California. But as long as the local gas station is out of fuel, it is stuck in a nearby restaurant with a waitress called Charlotte (Jocelin Donahue). That would not be so bad if the duo was not caught with a few violent bank robbers, Travis (Nicholas Logan) and Beau (Richard Brake).
The seller and Charlotte are the only ones who know the robbers, but their lives are threatened before the regular customers start entering the restaurant. If they don’t keep their mouths shut, Travis and Beau are more than willing to kill innocent people. But as the situation becomes more intense, the seller and Charlotte do not have the luxury of just hoping that they will stay alive. If they want to go home, they have to fight for their lives.
The last stop in Yuma County flies on Paramount+ with Showtime.
