121. The Equalizer
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Actors: Denzel Washington, Chloë Grace Moretz, Haley Bennett, Marton Csokas, Melissa Leo, Robert Wahlberg
Plot: A former black ops commander has settled down in Boston - having faked his own death in order to enjoy a normal life. But when a young girl gets herself in trouble, his need for justice brings him out of retirement - even if it means going up against a group of dangerous Russian gangsters.
122. Lost Highway
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Lynch
Actors: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Richard Pryor, Henry Rollins, Gary Busey
Plot: A man with Dissociative Fugue disorder is accused of murder. He wouldn't kill the one he loves, would he?
123. The Day of the Jackal
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Actors: Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Denis Carey
Plot: In early 1960s France, the disbanded members of the former French Foreign Legion want to kill current president Charles DeGaulle - turning him into one of the most guarded men in the world. In desperation they turn to "The Jackal", codename of a notorious assassin who agrees to take the job for half-a-million in payment. As he plans the perfect assassination, the police desperately try to track him down.
124. Pi
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Actors: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ajay Naidu, Lauren Fox, Ben Shenkman
Plot: A paranoid, genius mathmatician thinks he has discovered the key to all the universal patterns in nature. Soon he is pursued by a Hasidic Jewish sect looking to decode the 216-digit number of God's true name to Wall Street brokers hoping to crack the stock market. What he decides to do with the knowledge is the true shocker.
125. The China Syndrome
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Bridges
Actors: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, Wilford Brimley, Richard Herd
Plot: Kimberly Wells, an inquisitive reporter working on an alternative energy story, oversees an accident at the nuclear power plant. Wanting the break the story immediately, she suddenly finds herself caught in a web of conspiracy, and those in power will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.
126. Mission: Impossible
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Brian De Palma
Actors: Tom Cruise, Emmanuelle Béart, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Jean Reno, Henry Czerny
Plot: A super American spy agent must uncover the mystery why he was set up and what parties were involved with his team of spies.
127. Nocturnal Animals
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Ford
Actors: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Armie Hammer, Michael Shannon, Isla Fisher, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Plot: Twenty years after their marriage fell apart, Susan receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, Edward titled "Nocturnal Animals". The violent thriller, about a family vacation turning deadly, seems to Susan a probable revenge and perhaps a veiled threat from the man she once loved, and the story withing a story causes her to confront some dark truths about her past.
128. Forbidden Planet
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, Richard Anderson, Robby the Robot
Plot: A space crew travels to a distant planet when it is silence for unknown
reasons. When they arrive only two survivors and a robot are left while
neither of them understands what has happened how what caused the
disappearances until a terrifying secret is discovered.
129. Man from Nowhere, The ( Ajeossi )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeong-beom Lee
Actors: Bin Won, Sae-ron Kim, Hyo-seo Kim
130. Lifeboat
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, Henry Hull
Plot: Several survivors of a torpedoed ship find themselves in the same boat with one of the men who sunk it.
