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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 223 films · Page 4.
Conspiracy Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Time Travel, action film, science fiction film, time-travel film
In the near future, Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer; he analyzes his clients' competitors' technology and recreates it with improvements. To protect his clients' intellectual property and himself, Jennings undergoes memory wipes to …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Sci-Fi, alien invasion, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Zane Zaminsky and Calvin, radio astronomers employed by SETI, detect and record an extraterrestrial radio signal from Wolf 336, a star located 14 light-years away from Earth. Zane reports his discovery to his supervisor, Phil "Gordi" Gordi…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Super Hero, action film, crime thriller film
After being acquitted of mass murder on a legal technicality, Carmine Ricca, the boss of the Italian-American San Francisco Mafia, leaves the courthouse in his limousine. While traveling on a city road, the driver is pulled over by a San F…
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Komödie, Parodie, Secret Agent, Silly Movie, action comedy film, comedy film, spy film
Eight years after the first film, Johnny English has been training at a monastery in Tibet to recover from the shame of a failed mission to protect the newly elected president of Mozambique, which cost him his knighthood. English is called…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Forensic, drama film, trial film
In New Orleans, an ex-employee perpetrates a mass shooting with a machine pistol at a stock brokerage firm. Eleven people are killed and several others wounded in the incident. Among the dead is Jacob Wood.
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Thriller, political thriller film
Seattle television journalist Lee Carter witnesses the assassination of U.S. senator and presidential aspirant Charles Carroll atop the Space Needle during a campaign stop. The killer, disguised as a waiter, is killed during the pursuit.
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, prison film
In Los Angeles, Lieutenants Raymond Tango of the Westside and Gabriel Cash of the Eastside are considered the best detectives in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), where they are both assigned to the Narcotics Division and lauded fo…
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Family Drama, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film
In the late spring of 1959, the peaceful, all-white neighborhood of Suburbicon is shaken by the arrival of the black Mayers family. Gardner Lodge, a seemingly mild-mannered family man, lives in Suburbicon with his paraplegic wife, Rose, an…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Justice Drama, Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, political thriller film
In the fictional Southern African country of Matobo, rebel leader Ajene Xola drives two men, Simon Broome and Philippe, to an abandoned stadium. They discuss how President Edmond Zuwanie's regime has ruthlessly exterminated most of the pop…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
A nameless British ghostwriter is hired by London-based publishing firm Rhinehart, Inc. to complete the autobiography of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang after the original ghost, Lang's aide Mike McAra, dies in an apparent drowning…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Sci-Fi, dystopian film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film
Joanna Eberhart, a young wife and aspiring photographer, moves with her husband Walter and their two daughters, Kim and Amy, from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut. She finds that the women in town all look flawless and are obsessed with …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller film
In Washington, D.C., a man with a metal briefcase kills fleeing thief Deshaun Stagg. A passing witness is shot and left in a coma. The next morning, Congressional aide Sonia Baker is killed by a Washington Metro train.
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Conspiracy Thriller, Military Film, Secret Agent, action film, drama film, political thriller film, thriller film, war film
On March 19, 2003, Iraqi Army General Mohammed Al-Rawi flees his residence amid the bombardment of Baghdad. Before leaving the compound he passes a notebook to his aide Seyyed, instructing him to warn his officers to get to their safehouse…
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Psychodrama, Romance Film, Vampirfilm
Catholic priest Sang-hyun volunteers at a hospital, providing ministry to the patients. He eventually volunteers to participate in an experiment to find a vaccine for the deadly Emmanuel Virus (EV). The experiment fails, and Sang-hyun is i…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Secret Agent, drama film, spy film, thriller film
While studying nonlinear cryptography at MIT, James Clayton helps to create "Spartacus", a surveillance program that can enslave any computer's audiovisual hardware. Showcasing the software at a campus job fair, James impresses Bill Rudolp…
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Dark Comedy, Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film
In suburban Connecticut, upper-class high schooler Amanda euthanizes her crippled horse with a knife, resulting in charges of animal cruelty. Sometime later, Amanda arrives at the home of the more popular and academically inclined Lily. Th…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
New York City taxi driver Jerry Fletcher is a passionate conspiracy theorist, happily sharing his ideas with anyone who will listen. His favorite audience is Justice Department lawyer Alice Sutton, who tolerates him because he once saved h…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film
Matt Lee Whitlock is the respected chief of police in the small Florida Keys town of Banyan Key. Recently separated, Matt is currently seeing local resident Ann Merai-Harrison, an old flame from high school whose husband Chris, a former pr…
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Arranged Documentary, Conspiracy Thriller, thriller film
The film opens with President John F. Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. In 1967, ambitious CIA agents Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Andy Apelle, and Jared Raab convince their superiors to let them infiltrate NASA—disguise…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, action film, thriller film
British international terrorist and narcotics kingpin Charles Rane, whose career has been dubbed as "The Rane of Terror" by the media, is arrested by the FBI and local authorities in Miami, just as he is about to undergo plastic surgery in…
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Cyberpunk, Japanese Animation Film, Utopia & Dystopia
In 2032, three years after Major Motoko Kusanagi disappeared, Public Security Section 9 cybernetic operative Batou is teamed with Togusa, an agent with very few cybernetic upgrades. Section 9 is asked to investigate a series of deaths due …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Psychological Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Richard Haywood and Justin Pendleton are high school classmates; Richard is a cocky, wealthy and popular extrovert, while Justin is a gifted but introverted loner. Outwardly they are enemies, but secretly they are actually very close frien…
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Action, Komödie, Martial-Arts, action film, adventure film, buddy film, comedy film
In 1887, Lord Nelson Rathbone leads a band of Boxers into the Forbidden City, stealing the Imperial Seal of China and mortally wounds its Keeper. Before dying, the Keeper gives his daughter Chon Lin a puzzle box for her brother, Chon Wang.…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Parodie, Secret Agent, spy film
Matt Helm is assigned by his secret agency, ICE, to bring down an evil count named Contini, who is trying to collapse the world economy by stealing a billion dollars in gold. Helm travels to Copenhagen, where he is given a guide, Freya Car…
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