171. Air Force One
Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Actors: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Xander Berkeley, Wendy Crewson, Jürgen Prochnow
Plot: When Russian terrorists take over Air Force One, the President (Harrison Ford) fakes his own escape in order to strike from hiding and save his family.
172. 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.
173. Under the Shadow
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Babak Anvari
Actors: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Arash Marandi, Behi Djanati Atai
Plot: Stranded in their flat during the Iran/Iraq war, a young Iranian mother and her daughter are haunted by an evil spirit.
174. 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.
175. 30 Days of Night
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Slade
Actors: Manu Bennett, Ben Foster, Mark Boone Junior, Craig Hall, Josh Hartnett, Camille Keenan
Plot: The northern-most city in the United States, Barrow, Alaska is about to shut down for 30 days of darkness. Only a small group of citizens braves the cold and isolation, but they're about to be joined by a tribe of vampires who don't plan on leaving any survivors.
176. Revenge
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Actors: Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Guillaume Bouchède, Vincent Colombe
Plot: An isolated villa is the setting for a trio of wealthy men, and one mistress, to party. That is, until she is violated and speaks out - only to find her boyfriend isn't about to give up his friends and wealth, and throws her off a cliff to her death. But this is no ordinary woman, and she does not die but finds a new strength and plots a brutal revenge.
177. The Towering Inferno
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
Actors: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely
Plot: At the gala premiere opening of the world's tallest skyscraper, architect Doug Roberts discovers builders have installed shoddy wiring. Sure enough, a fire breaks out during the celebration and the world's tallest building becomes the world's tallest death trap.
178. Soylent Green
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Brock Peters, Chuck Connors, Edward G Robinson
Plot: In the year 2022 a police detective in NYC is hunted down for murder when
he uncovers a secret cover-up by the government.
179. Missing
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Costa-Gavras
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, David Clennon, Charles Cioffi
Plot: In a coup, a junta, a young man goes missing. Fearing he is dead, his
wife and his father use all their influence at the American embassy to
find, him dead or alive.
180. The Guard
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Michael McDonagh
Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Liam Cunningham, Mark Strong, Fionnula Flanagan, David Wilmot
Plot: Sergeant Gerry Boyle is a small-town Irish cop with a confrontational personality, a subversive sense of humor, a dying mother, a fondness for prostitutes, and absolutely no interest whatsoever in the international cocaine-smuggling ring that has brought straight-laced FBI agent Wendell Everett to his door.
