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. Supercop ( Ging chaat goo si 3: Chiu kap ging chaat )
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Tong
Actors: Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, Kenneth Tsang, Bill Tung, Philip Chan
Plot: A Hong Kong police officer and Chinese agent team up to bring down a drug syndicate. When one of their sources is about to be executed, they plan a jailbreak to get the information they need.
293. 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.
294. 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.
295. 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.
296. Firestarter
Year of Release: 1984
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark L. Lester
Actors: David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Heather Locklear, Freddie Jones, Martin Sheen, George C. Scott
Plot: Andy and Vicky participated in some medical experiments in college. It is 9 years later and their 9-year-old daughter, Charlene "Charlie" McGee, can start fire with her mind. The government wants to study her even if it kills her.
297. Body Heat
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Actors: William Hurt, Richard Crenna, Kathleen Turner, Mickey Rourke, J.A. Preston, Ted Danson
Plot: During the hottest time of the year, a man is convinced by his girlfriend to murder her husband - make it look accidental - so that they can be together. Will she turn on him in the end?
298. Child's Play
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tom Holland
Actors: Catherine Hicks, Brad Dourif, Chris Sarandon, Tommy Swerdlow, Dinah Manoff, Alex Vincent
Plot: Charles Lee Ray, a serial killer on the run, is shot and dying when he
performs a voodoo ritual to transfer his soul to a children's doll. This
doll is then given to a small boy who fights for his life as the doll
returns to Charles Lee Ray's killing ways.
299. Nightmare Alley
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Paul Anderson, Bradley Cooper, Mary Steenburgen, Toni Collette
Plot: A carney with a talent for manipulation leaves the sideshow behind for the
big city - but not before leaving a wake of chaos behind. Using the
talents he's learned to swindle millionaires - he finds his match in a
brilliant, devious psychologist - who becomes his greatest challenge and
ultimate downfall.
300. Redemption
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Knight
Actors: Jason Statham, Lee Asquith-Coe, Vicky McClure, Ian Pirie, Benedict Wong, Siobhan Hewlett
Plot: An ex-special forces agent, homeless and trying to avoid a court martial, navigates London's criminal underworld. When he comes upon an opportunity to assume a new identity - it allows him to be reborn - and become an avenging angel in the process.
