291. Salem's Lot
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Bonnie Bedelia, Lew Ayres, Julie Cobb
Plot: A writer returns to his home town to investigate the eerie mansion that
haunted him as a child. Meanwhile, a supernatural illness plagues the
town, leaving the victims weak and bloodless. Based on the Stephen King
novel.
292. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Year of Release: 1965
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Martin Ritt
Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Rupert Davies, Sam Wanamaker, Cyril Cusack
Plot: Alec Leamas is a British agent who refuses to come out of the Cold War. Sent to East Germany, supposedly as a defector, but really to sow disinformation - he realizes that he is a pawn in a much bigger game and struggles to find his humanity before it's too late.
293. Thoroughbreds
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cory Finley
Actors: Anya Taylor-Joy, Olivia Cooke, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks, Francie Swift, Kaili Vernoff
Plot: A pair of upper-class teenage girls rekindle a friendship that had grown apart years earlier. But the circumstances that bring them together involve their mutual disdain for their parents... and way to get rid of this problem by any means necessary.
294. The Woman in the Window
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond Massey, Edmund Breon, Dan Duryea, Thomas E. Jackson
Plot: A college professor and his friends become obsessed with the portrait of a woman in a nearby men's club. When admiring the picture, the actual subject of the painting shows up and he winds up in her apartment. When her boyfriend shows up, he thinks something sinister is going on and attempts to rough up the professor but, fighting back, the boyfriend winds up dead. He and the woman agree to cover up the death by dumping the body - but the police come closer the the truth as they lean on the woman.
295. Tenet
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Elizabeth Debicki, Robert Pattinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, John David Washington, Clémence Poésy, Michael Caine
Plot: An unnamed CIA operative dubbed The Protagonist finds himself recruited into the mysterious organization known as Tenet. Operating outside of the constraints of time itself, their goal is to stop Andrei Sator, a Russian oligarch with precognition abilities whose aim is to start World War III. Utilizing the art of "time inversion" Tenet will stop at nothing to counter this threat.
296. Salvador
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Stone
Actors: James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo, Cynthia Gibb
Plot: A out of work photographer goes to El Salvador to chronicle the war going
on and ends up finding more...
297. Sabotage
Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour, Matthew Boulton
Plot: A cinema owner is suspected of being a saboteur in a terrorist gang launching attacks throughout London. As an undercover Scotland Yard detective investigates, he begins to fall in love with the suspect's beautiful young wife.
298. The Stepfather
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joseph Ruben
Actors: Terry O'Quinn, Jill Schoelen, Shelley Hack, Charles Lanyer, Stephen Shellen, Stephen E. Miller
Plot: A seemingly average man, after murdering his entire family, remarries a widow with a teenage daughter in another town and prepares to do it again.
299. The Square
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nash Edgerton
Actors: David Roberts, Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton, Anthony Hayes, Paul Caesar, Brendan Donoghue
Plot: A man bored with his everyday life begins an affair with a wife of a mobster. She hatches a plan to steal his money and burn down the house to cover their tracks. When he tries to back out, it's too late and soon he's on the hook for the crime.
300. Titane
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Julia Ducournau
Actors: Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Mara Cisse, Marin Judas
Plot: After a car accident leaves her with a titanium plate, Alexia becomes obsessed with cars, eventually becoming a top model for shows - and attracting men and women with her sexual desire. But in a sudden turn of events, she seeks to hide her identity and even gender, becoming Adrien, a long-lost son of fire-fighter Vincent Legrand, who is more than happy to welcome back his son - even as both know the relationship is bound to fall apart.
