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Comedy, Crime, Detective, mystery film
In the opening sequence, a former FBI agent named Carter Morstan receives an unwelcome visit by a man named Small. In the ensuing struggle, a gunshot rings out. Subsequently, a body is wrapped into a carpet and set alight.
Action, Crime, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, thriller film
In 2010, a deadly virus infected everyone on the planet, wiping out 50% of the population. Absolon is a drug regimen that everyone must now take to stay alive. One corporation controls the drug and Murchison (Ron Perlman) is its leader.
Crime, crime thriller film, thriller film
In a town of low-income and fractured families, a group of teens are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives who hides a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change their lives forever. New girl Kat Carter (Eliza Taylor) befriends classmate Beaver (Webber) in a community where drugs and violence run rampant and realizes how deep the drug problem is.
Crime, Mysterie
Erotic Thriller, Horror, independent film, Psychological Thriller, Slasher, thriller film
Debbie Strand is a beautiful psychopath who escapes from the mental institution she was sent off to in the first installment of the series when a female orderly tries to sexually assault her. After a teenage girl who took Debbie in her car dies when retreating from Debbie and accidentally impaling herself, Debbie steals both the girl's identity and her car, and heads off to the college the dead girl was supposed to attend as a freshman. There, Debbie instantly develops a psychotic crush on her dashing writing professor, Dr.
Horror, thriller film
The police investigate a string of murders committed by the Creeper, a mysterious killer with a hideously disfigured face. The Creeper attacks and murders Professor Cushman, a professor from the nearby Hampton University. Later that night, the killer approaches a woman named Joan Bemis in front of her home and identifies himself as Hal Moffet.
Crime
The film is told through the perspectives of Scott and Laci Peterson's friends & family, who trusted and supported Scott until they could not believe him any more. Laci Peterson was a pregnant mother-to-be. On Christmas Eve, 2002, she disappeared.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Businessman Carl Schaffner flees to Mexico with the police hot on his heels after embezzling company funds. He has a fortune stashed in a Mexican bank to keep it out of reach of the British authorities. While travelling by train, Schaffner drugs and switches identities with fellow train passenger Paul Scarff, who looks like him and has a Mexican passport.
Horror, Science fiction
Ever since he lost his wife and son in a devastating fire, Detective Jack Murphy has wandered around life in a fog. He is forced to face his terrifying memories when his partner Gus is killed in a manner too brutal to be human, too clever to be animal. The only clues to Gus's death are a vagabond Golden Retriever and Dr.
Crime, Drama, exploitation film, teen film, thriller film
Paula Parkins leads a gang of bored young women. The gang's core members—besides Paula—are Georgia, Phyllis, and Geraldine ("George", "Phil", and "Gerry" for short). The gang agrees to wreck a school as the request of a local criminal, Sheila.
Crime, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film
The story begins in London. Alan is a reserved primary school teacher with a romantic bent, moonlighting as a night DJ for a hospital where he plays the work of jazz musicians like Django Reinhardt. Beatrice is a professional thief who gained the moniker B.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Charlie Pope (Miguel Ferrer) is a writer who goes to Mexico to write the ending of the plot for a movie. In Mexico he is attracted to a woman, Natalie (Leilani Sarelle). They go together to a beach where when she goes away to swim, he is attacked and wakes up five days later.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Bill Saunders is a Canadian former prisoner of war now living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent. He gets into a pub fight in which he kills the publican and then flees. As the police pursue Saunders, he sneaks into the apartment of Jane Wharton, a nurse, while she is sleeping.
Crime, Drama, Noir
With a million dollars cash in the vault, Jim Osborne, a long term bank employee who has advanced to assistant bank manager in Los Angeles, is tempted to steal from his own bank and flee the country. Doing research at the library, he learns that Brazil has no extradition treaty with the United States. If he steals the money at close of business on a Friday, he will have time to travel to Brazil before the theft is discovered on Monday's opening.
Crime, war film
A World War II vet, former U.S. Intelligence officer Michael Rogan, sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife and unborn child at the hands of Nazis and his own torture and botched execution. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities.
Crime Comedy, mystery film
The film is set in Manhattan, New York City. The plot concerns the efforts of a woman (Fawcett) and her lover (Bridges) to find the murderer of her husband before they are accused of it themselves. The story's climax takes place in the toy department and Santa's house of Macy's famous department store.
Action, thriller film
Jake "Tiger" Sharp (Michael Sopkiw) is a former policeman who seeks revenge after his wife is murdered. After killing the murderer, Sharp is sentenced to seven years in prison. Upon release Jake is given an SPAS-12 Shotgun by his old friend Jerry in order to wreak vengeance upon the crooked attorney responsible for sending him away.
Crime, mystery film, romance film
Set in a present that feels more like the past, awkward Harry Dobbs is an inept private detective surrounded by mysterious and dangerous dames. Among them is his angry girlfriend, Doris, and the suspicious women he encounters on his latest case. In a nightclub, the sultry Miss Dolan hires the private eye to follow her lover, Rick, who might be trying to kill her.
Crime, Drama, Mysterie
The story is a thriller that revolves around the Lebanon family who live at Mark’s Priory. Lady Lebanon tells her son, William, Lord Lebanon that he must marry his cousin Isla Crane to continue the family line. However, William has no intention of marrying Isla and matters are made more complicated due to Isla falling in love with an architect, Richard Ferraby, who has come to Mark’s Priory to draw up renovation plans.
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Erotic Thriller, sexploitation film
The film begins with a monotone narration about the developing evil of marijuana in modern society and the need for vigilance in stopping the actions of the "pushers" and the "smugglers". Harry, a small town border sheriff, lives at the site of a defunct silver mine with his girlfriend Cherry, an Englishwoman who works as a nurse. The blonde Raquel is a writer and works to sexually pleasure the local men for the enjoyment of it.
Crime, neo-noir, thriller film
Fritz Brown is a disgraced former LAPD officer now working as a private investigator, part-time repo man and struggling on-the-wagon ex-alcoholic. Fritz is hired by an obese caddy named Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, supposedly to keep tabs on Fat Dog's sister, Jane. In the course of his investigation, Fritz learns that Jane is indeed living with an elderly millionaire named Solly Kupferman, and that their relationship is odd at best.
Action, thriller film
On his last assignment prior to resigning, burned out human rights activist James Rhodes arrives in Tijuana to help oversee local union elections, which are occurring in a chemical factory built by a US corporation, an election tainted with violence. While there, he becomes embroiled in the investigation of a mass murder in what appears to be a drug runners' tunnel on the Tijuana/San Diego border, which was casually discovered. He teams up with a local honest street cop and a US official all under the watchful eye of State Department attache, eager to pin the killings on a drug cartel.
Crime
Sammy is released from prison and moves into a trailer and gets a low level job. On Friday he goes to a bar, starts drinking, and befriends some locals. After spending the weekend with them smoking meth, they convince him to break into a wealthy family's house.
Crime, Drama
The movie depicts the life of Dawn Anna, a teacher and single mother of four children. Soon after meeting her eventual husband, she is diagnosed with a severe brain disease that requires a serious operation. Shortly after her recovery, her daughter Lauren Townsend is murdered by shooters in the Columbine High School massacre.