161. Night and the City
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Herbert Lom, Francis L. Sullivan
Plot: Harry Fabian is a London hustler whose plans never seem to work out as
planned. Spying a world-famous Greco-Roman wrestler as his son's
restaurant, he comes up with his most audacious plan yet. He does his best
to con everyone around him, but in the end, really only winds up conning
himself as his dreams crumble around him.
162. The Train
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon, Michel Simon, Albert Rémy
Plot: A railroad boss and the French Resistance join forces in Paris during the
German occupation, to thwart the Germans' plan.
163. Locke
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Knight
Actors: Tom Hardy, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Tom Holland, Olivia Colman, Olivia Colman
Plot: Ivan Locke is a building site manager who has spent the last nine years building up his life. But in one 90-minute drive, on the eve of the biggest contract of his life, we watch as his carefully built life crumbles down around him.
164. Last House on the Left
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Sandra Cassel, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, Fred J. Lincoln, Jeramie Rain, Marc Sheffler
Plot: Two teens go to the city to see their favorite band and score some drugs. But instead they run into escaped convict Krug and his sadistic group. After having their way with the two girls the gang unknowingly seeks refuge at the house of one of the girl's parents who realize what's happened and plan the ultimate revenge.
165. Bad Education ( mala educación, La )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lluís Homar, Francisco Maestre, Francisco Boira
Plot: A man impersonates his brother in order to convince said brother's director friend to take up his script, which was based on their childhood. The story triggers the director's emotions and his love for the impostor. The writer claims that the ending was fictional but is it really fictional? Will the director finally figure out who was he dealing with? Where is his first love? Can the director ever believe what he sees again?
166. The Constant Gardener
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Fernando Meirelles
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Bill Nighy, Pete Postlethwaite, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston
Plot: After his wife dies in Africa, a quiet diplomat begins to investigate her death and uncovers a conspiracy by the British government and a powerful drug company.
167. Safe House
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Vera Farmiga, Joel Kinnaman, Brendan Gleeson, Robert Patrick
Plot: A house under the protection of the CIA becomes a target and it is up to the facility's house sitter to extract the criminal in hiding and take him to a secure location.
168. The Lookout
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Scott Frank
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Isla Fisher, Carla Gugino, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Alberta Watson
169. Bad Sleep Well, The ( Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura, Kô Nishimura
170. The Bedford Incident
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James B. Harris
Actors: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Michael Kane
Plot: A reporter is given access to the American destroyer the USS Bedford and the cold-war hardened Captain Finlander. But when a Soviet sub is discovered, things get entirely too real as the captain pursues the enemy at any cost.
