Top thriller movies to stream on Netflix in January 2026

Polygon lists several thrillers now available on Netflix this January 2026, highlighting Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, Ron Howard’s Eden, and Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room (Published 1 day ago).

Caught Stealing is presented as an uncharacteristically crowd-pleasing, deliriously goofy wrong-man-accused action thriller scripted by Charlie Huston and starring Austin Butler as a hapless bartender pulled into a dangerous New York underworld that includes Matt Smith, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Vincent D'Onofrio and others. Eden, directed by Ron Howard and featuring Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Sydney Sweeney, Jude Law and Daniel Brühl, follows a group who flee 1930s Germany for a Galápagos island where scarce resources and human tensions spiral into violence — the piece notes the film bombed at the box office last summer and even includes a harrowing birth scene with wolves. Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier’s home-invasion thriller set at an isolated punk club run by neo-Nazis, is described as nasty and confrontational, with standout turns from Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat and a chilling, restrained villainous performance by Patrick Stewart.

The roundup frames these titles as sharp, propulsive films built for winter viewing and places them among Netflix’s offerings for January 2026; the article emphasizes tone, cast and the films’ differing takes on high-stakes suspense.

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Culture, Caught Stealing, Eden, Green Room, Darren Aronofsky, Ron Howard