151. Family Plot
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Ed Lauter, Cathleen Nesbitt
Plot: Lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
152. High Tension ( Haute tension )
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexandre Aja
Actors: Cécile De France, Maïwenn Le Besco, Franck Khalfoun, Philippe Nahon, Oana Pellea, Andrei Finti
Plot: Marie and Alexia are classmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quite, they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But in the dead of night, a stranger comes knocking at the front door. And with the first swing of his knife the weekend turns into an endless night of horror.
153. After Hours
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Tommy Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr
Plot: A typical, everyday guy who works as a word processor impulsively decides to visit Soho in order to meet up with a young woman he met in a coffee shop. That's the first bad decision he made, but the night is about to get oh so much worse for him.
154. Side Effects
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: Channing Tatum, Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Vinessa Shaw, David Costabile
Plot: In order to cope with the impending release of her husband from prison, a
woman turns to an experimental anti-anxiety drug that has unintended and
dangerous consequences.
155. Blue Ruin
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jeremy Saulnier
Actors: Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, Eve Plumb, David W. Thompson
Plot: A loner returns home after long absence in order to carry out vengeance as
he sees fit. But his revenge is not well planned and before he knows it
his act puts his estranged family in dangers unless he fights back.
156. The Bank Job
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Roger Donaldson
Actors: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David
Plot: Based on the true story of the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery. A group of
guys plans a foolproof bank robbery. They target a room with safe deposit
boxes worth millions in cash and jewelry. What they don't know is that it
contains the secrets of London's criminal underworld, the British
government, and even the Royal Family.
157. Shooter
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Michael Peña, Rhona Mitra, Elias Koteas, Kate Mara
Plot: A marksman on a self-imposed exile is brought in when information about a presidential assassination surfaces. When he is double-crossed, he starts a mission to clear his name and bring those responsible to justice.
158. Red Dragon
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brett Ratner
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Mary-Louise Parker, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson
Plot: A retired FBI agent with a pychological talent, is brought back to track down "the Tooth Fairy". However, he is forced to get help from Hannibal Lector - the man he put away and who almost killed him.
159. Salt
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Phillip Noyce
Actors: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Zoe Lister Jones, Gaius Charles, James Cronin
Plot: When a CIA agent is accused of being a Russian spy, she goes on the run, using all her training and talents to elude capture and clear her name.
160. Straw Dogs
Year of Release: 1971
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T. P. McKenna, Del Henney, Jim Norton
Plot: A meek American mathmatician goes to England on sabbatical to the small town where his young, liberated wife grew up. As his wife becomes the object of desire for a group of local toughs, he finds a violent reserve deep inside.
