131. Dead Ringers
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas, Stephen Lack
Plot: Twin gynecologists, Elliot and Beverly Mantl, can't help spiraling into madness and addiction when they meet a pill-popping actress who hopes to have children.
132. Assault on Precinct 13
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton, Charles Cyphers
Plot: A police precinct in a less than desirable part of L.A. is shutting down, so there is only a skeleton crew on duty... they find themselves under siege by a gang, and must fight to survive the night.
133. A Different Man
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Aaron Schimberg
Actors: Sebastian Stan, Miles G. Jackson, Adam Pearson, Renate Reinsve, Patrick Wang, Neal Davidson
Plot: Edward undergoes a radical facial reconstruction surgery, which is a
resounding success but he soon becomes obsessed with an actor who takes
his place in a stage play based on his old life.
134. 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.
135. The Road
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Hillcoat
Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall, Michael Kenneth Williams
Plot: Based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy, a father and son must navigate a lonely, dangerous world following a nuclear holocaust.
136. Natural Born Killers
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Rodney Dangerfield, Tom Sizemore, Tommy Lee Jones
Plot: A serial killing pair who were victimized sexually as children fall in love, go on a rampage, and kill a lot of people as they run from police.
137. Panic in the Streets
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
Plot: One of film noir's finest. When a Dead man found in the streets is found to have the bubonic plague, a police detective and public health doctor scour the city for his killer, who may also be infected. Lots of suspense and a good, nostalgic look at New Orleans.
138. Blow-Up
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings, John Castle, Jane Birkin, Gillian Hills
Plot: A photographer in swinging London snaps some photos and stumbles upon murder.
139. Blade
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Norrington
Actors: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, Udo Kier, Donal Logue, Traci Lords
Plot: Blade's mother was bit by a vampire while she was pregnant with him. In turn he doesn't have any of the weaknesses of other vampires and spends his life hunting them down.
140. Seconds
Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph, Richard Anderson, Murray Hamilton, Karl Swenson
Plot: A man receives a call from his friend, Charlie - who is supposedly dead - but who offers him a way out of his dreary life. A company will set him up with a new identity, a new life and even a new face - and when he accepts the offer, transforming into a free-spirited artist playboy - he finds his new life oddly unfulfilling.
