At the risk of sounding incredibly pretentious, I'll recommend The Wages of Fear or Le Salaire de la Peur in the original French. Yes, it's a French movie. Yes, it's two and a half hours long. Yes, it's a silver screen film full of misery and suffering. But the film is a masterclass in suspense and tension. If you have the time and patience to watch it, I highly recommend doing so because you won't find a film like it in Hollywood.
The film starts in a small, isolated South American town, the kind where people go to hide out or do illegal things. People there have enough money to get into town, but they never have enough money to leave because there's nothing to do except drink and smoke. However, there is an oil field several hours' drive away in the countryside, and there's an industrial accident there: one of the shafts erupts into a giant fire and there isn't enough water to put it out.
The only way to extinguish a fire of that size is to deprive it of oxygen, which can only be done with a giant explosion. In this case, several tonnes of nitroglycerine transported over winding mountain roads in giant trucks. The only people crazy enough to take on such a job are four European men from the village, because if they can complete this task then they'll be paid enough to leave.
I won't lie, it's kind of a draining and miserable movie, but I think it's worth watching if the premise sounds interesting. There are so many little ordinary things that become life-threatening obstacles to a truck full of explosives. I did a quick search for a particular scene and apparently the film's been uploaded to YouTube just last month with subtitles and everything. I'm sure the video quality is trash, but it's there if you're feeling lazy.