301. 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.
302. 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.
303. 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?
304. 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.
305. 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.
306. The X Files: Fight the Future
Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Rob Bowman
Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau, Mitch Pileggi
Plot: After five years, the X-Files have been closed down and agent Mulder and
Scully are assigned regular duty. In Texas, a federal building is
destroyed, but investigating the matter leads not to terrorists, but their
own government behind the plot. This cover-up leads to an even bigger
conspiracy involving a powerful cabal of men and a mysterious
extraterrestrial virus.
307. High Sierra
Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Leslie, Henry Hull
Plot: After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
308. Red
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Trygve Allister Diesen, Lucky McKee
Actors: Brian Cox, Tom Sizemore, Robert Englund, Amanda Plummer, Noel Fisher, Kyle Gallner
Plot: A reclusive man sets out for justice and redemption when three troublesome teens kill his dog for no good reason.
309. Southern Comfort
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Director: Walter Hill
Actors: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter
Plot: A troop of National Guardsmen get on the wrong side of a murderous clan of Cajuns in the bayous of Louisiana.
310. The Neon Demon
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee
Plot: A young, aspiring model arrives in L.A. with dreams of making it big, but, unbeknownst to her, a sinister cabal of beauty-obsessed women will go to great lengths to reclaim their own youth and vitality by draining it from her.
