451. Brute Force
Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jules Dassin
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Hume Cronyn, Charles Bickford, Yvonne De Carlo, Ann Blyth, Ella Raines
Plot: Prison inmates revolt against a sadistic guard.
452. The Hills Have Eyes
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Craven
Actors: Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, Dee Wallace, Russ Grieve, James Whitworth
Plot: A family takes an ill-advised shortcut through an old air testing range in the California desert. When their car breaks down they are hunted by mutant cannibals.
453. eXistenZ
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Cronenberg
Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe, Don McKellar, Sarah Polley
Plot: A state-of-the-art virtual reality game becomes all too real for its creator and her naive PR man as reality and fantasy shift and collide in a deadly serious game.
454. The Shallows
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Actors: Blake Lively, Óscar Jaenada, Sedona Legge, Brett Cullen
Plot: Nancy is looking forward to secluded surfing experience, but 200 feet from shore, she is attacked by a great white shark. Alone, she beings the ultimate battle of survival and will as she tries everything to make it back to the beach alive.
455. The Funhouse
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tobe Hooper
Actors: Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson, Jeanne Austin, Jack McDermott, Kevin Conway, William Finley
Plot: Four teenage friends spent the night in a carnival funhouse and are stalked by a deformed man in a Frankenstein mask.
456. Sudden Fear
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Miller
Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Mike Connors, Bruce Bennett, Virginia Huston
Plot: Ambitious actor Lester Blaine seems destined to be the star in Myra Hudson's new play, until the woman dashes his hopes by proclaiming is his not romantic enough. Seeing opportunity, he romances Myra himself - all the while plotting with his mistress to murder her.
457. Night Moves
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Actors: Dakota Fanning, Jesse Eisenberg, Alia Shawkat, Peter Sarsgaard, James Le Gros, Lew Temple
Plot: Follows the lives of three environmentalists as they make a plan to destroy a dam.
458. The Awakening
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Nick Murphy
Actors: Rebecca Hall, Dominic West, Imelda Staunton, Lucy Cohu, John Shrapnel, Richard Durden
Plot: Following WWI, England slowly recovers as the grief and loss threaten to overwhelm the population. Into the miasma Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart is called to investigate the sighting of ghost child at a boarding house, but this is no simple hoax - and everything she thought she knew about life and death comes crashing down.
459. Surrogates
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Mostow
Actors: James Francis Ginty, Michael O'Toole, Bruce Willis, Rosamund Pike, Radha Mitchell, Ving Rhames
Plot: A future where humanity is isolated, pain-free and docile - because instead of venturing out themselves, they send surrogates, perfect mechanical counterparts, to do the work. But when a murder shatters this perfect world, an FBI agent will discover a conspiracy behind this perfect world and will have to abandon his own surrogate and risk his own life to find the truth.
460. Rendition
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gavin Hood
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin, Omar Metwally, Yigal Naor
Plot: A CIA analyst witnesses an unlawful interrogation of a prisoner in a secret location outside the United States. He now questions his position in the government.
