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Erotic Thriller, sexploitation film
While working undercover in Skid Row, Los Angeles, police officer Cody and her partner, Sergeant Heineman, witness a stripper named Angel being thrown off a bridge and set on fire. Their investigation leads to Cody posing undercover as a stripper at Rock Bottom, the club where the murdered woman was employed. Despite not being much of a dancer, Cody manages to win an amateur night, after which the club's owner, Ray, offers her a job.
Action, Crime, Drama
Drama, prison film
Three women are released from Holloway Prison in London. Monica Marsden is a well-bred young woman, led into crime by her smooth-talking lover David; Monica took the fall for a crime he masterminded. Stella Jarvis is a beautiful West End prostitute.
Crime, thriller film
Martin Raikes is an American bank investigator who is sent to Monaco to check up on the suspicious financial dealings of a movie production. After the business trip, Martin, who is divorced, will fly to London to visit his daughter. Martin is met by the film company's CFO, Lela Forin, who introduces him to the movie's leading man, washed-up action star Jake Mellows.
Action, crime thriller film, Drama, Martial arts, thriller film
After years as a mob enforcer, Ben Archer (Jean-Claude Van Damme) moves from Marseille to Los Angeles and decides to become legitimate so he can spend more time with his wife Cynthia (Lisa King) and son Nicholas (Pierre Marais). Cynthia is a social worker with the INS, helping to process illegal Chinese immigrants. When a ship full of immigrants from Hong Kong is intercepted, she discovers a young girl named Kim (Valerie Tian) among them and decides, against regulations, to bring her home.
Drama, Noir
In the upstairs theatre office, Valerie Stanton, a Broadway actress, tells Gordon Dunning, her producer and former lover, about her intention to marry architect Michael Morrell. Gordon threatens to tell Michael about her previous relationship with him. He grabs Valerie, wanting their relationship to continue.
Action, Action Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, mystery film
A man named Victor Papas is attacked by two men at his home and burned to death with a flamethrower, along with his girlfriend. Shamus McCoy, a private detective in Brooklyn, New York, receives a request from E.J. Hume, a wealthy man who runs many companies, to find the diamonds that were stolen from Papas as well as about the murderers.
Crime, Drama, Erotic Thriller, Justice Drama, Raunchy comedy, Sex Film, sexploitation film, thriller film
Crystal is an advertising executive who tracks down the mobsters who killed her boyfriend. One by one, she seduces each man, drugs them, then smothers them with her huge breasts. At the end, she finds out that her own father was implicated in her lover's death before being fatally shot in the chest by her father and turning her own gun on her father, killing him.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Drama, Road Movie, Tragicomedy
Homer, a childlike, intellectually troubled man, decides to drive to Oregon from Arizona to visit his parents. Eddie is a homicidal escapee from a mental institution with an inoperable brain tumor. Eddie crosses paths with Homer, who becomes her traveling companion for a cross-country car trip that brings unexpected meaning to both their lives.
Crime, Drama
In 1950, Nick Romano Jr., whose father was a convicted murderer and died in the electric chair (the story told in Knock on Any Door), lives in a Chicago tenement building with his mother Nellie Romano. Nellie supports herself and Nick by working as a barmaid, saving money in the hope that Nick will one day attend college and be a success in life. As a young boy, Nick befriends several of the neighborhood residents, including the alcoholic former Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan, disabled newspaper vendor Wart, former prizefighter Goodbye George, lounge singer Flora, deliveryman/ taxi driver Max, and prostitute Fran.
Comedy, Crime Comedy, teen film
Tom McHugh quickly learns that his perfect big brother Craig isn't all he's cracked up to be while on a night on the town with the girl next door, during which Tom is harassed by unpleasant strangers, threatened by mobsters, pursued by police, attacked by an irate florist, accused of murder, and has his date kidnapped—all because everyone thinks he's Craig...and the classic 1959 DeSoto Firesweep he borrowed off his brother has two dead bodies in the trunk.
Crime, Police Film, thriller film
FBI agent Kevin Cole goes undercover as Jimmy Vaughn, an organized crime enforcer. When he is ordered to undertake the week-long torture of accountant Archie Green, Kevin begins to question his role in government service, where often he must hurt or end another human being's life just to make a bust.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Vietnam veteran and retired CSA agent William Lansing works on a wildlife refuge in Northern Alaska, and has been exchanging letters in a pen-pal relationship with Irena Morawska, a 13-year-old orphaned girl in Warsaw, Poland that he is helping out financially. When the letters suddenly stop coming, Lansing heads to Poland to figure out the reason. He discovers that the orphanage that Irena was staying in, which is financed by honest – and unsuspecting – good intentioned Samaritans, is a front for a human trafficking syndicate run by a notorious crime boss and freelance terrorist named Faisal.
Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film
Action, thriller film
Chris Cody (Steven Seagal) is a top-ranked mercenary who took part in an undercover operation to stop a major terrorist strike on U.S. soil; a strike that the UN refused to believe was about to happen. Cody had to break a number of laws in order to do the job, and he is in a military prison.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, neo-noir, Road Movie, romance film, thriller film
Eunice, a bisexual serial killer, travels along the bleak motorways of Lancashire, searching filling stations for a mysterious woman named Judith and asking about finding a song that she vaguely remembers, always asking if the cashier's name is Judith. She does this at one and, after the cashier tells her her name is Wendy, not Judith, Eunice murders her, stealing her name badge. After searching fruitlessly at another, she travels outside and douses herself with petrol.
Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
In an airplane in 1987, two men, Alan Riply and Javier, are on their way to New York. Alan reminisces about an affair he had 14 years earlier while working as a cabana boy at an unnamed opulent beach hotel, where he falls in love with Ella Brice (Mol), the beautiful wife of business mogul Mark Brice. At first resistant, Ella reciprocates his love, and things seem to go well for some time, but eventually Ella confesses her affair to Mark, deciding it was the right thing to do.
Action, thriller film
After an incident where he used questionable police tactics, Jeff Powers is placed on probation. Upon hearing of his probation, a friend from the force later invites Jeff to join the Special Investigation Section, an elite and highly secretive Los Angeles Police Department(LAPD) unit designed to track and shut down high-profile criminals. Jeff discovers that the group is actually a group of rogue cops who actually function like an unofficially sanctioned death squad, and are given wide latitude in dealing with criminals.
Action, Crime, Drama
Detective Klein and his team discover the dead body of a woman who he believes is Samantha Walker, the daughter of a military contractor known as Lex Walker. Lex is informed of the news and goes to his London apartment, with news the body will be shipped back to London. However, Walker is called back to LA to identify the corpse, and realises it is not Samantha, but one of her friends.
Drama, Noir
In the opening scene, a "beatnik" named Stan Hess sits at a table in a coffee house with a woman who begs him for his affection. He scorns her, then encounters his father at another table, who announces his engagement to a younger woman who had also pursued Stan. He insults his stepmother-to-be and departs.
Crime, Drama
The story of the real-life case of David Graham and Diane Zamora. It revolves around two best friends who turn out to be soul mates and who swear to stay together forever and ever, even to the point where Graham's apparently confessed infidelity leads to the couple's murder of Adrianne Jones, the girl with whom he purportedly cheated.
Action, Adventure, Crime, crime drama film, crime thriller film, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
A small oil rig located on a small river in Louisiana hits it big and former oiler John Sanders (who quit when a blowout occurred on a rig he was the boss of and four men died) and his friend Emery are hired to take his ex-wife Kelly and her boss to the location. Nearby, some thugs go diving for stolen goods that have been dumped in the river. Unfortunately, at the same time, a huge bull shark enters the river.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Foley gets out of prison after 25 years, for killing his best friend and grifting partner. His partner's son, Ethan, takes him to Xavier's nightclub and tries to recruit him into a grift he's planning, and Foley turns it down, saying he wants to go straight. Ethan goes to the kitchen area where Xavier is dealing with someone who has been caught stealing from him.
Crime, Horror, thriller film
While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. She is found to be the escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer. The girl has become mute because of her experience, and Strother is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds.