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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 183.
Action, Adventure, Crime, thriller film
After serving a five-year prison sentence for marijuana possession, Daniel "Poke" Jackson returns to his hometown in Texas where he is greeted by the man who convicted him, Sheriff Duke Calley. Poke assures Duke that he will soon be leaving to go to California, but Duke warns Poke that he is under close watch. Poke calls his old girlfriend Mary Lee Carter and arranges a meeting to see their son Kevin, whom he has never met.
Comedy horror, Crime
"Make Me an Offer" (frame) The frame features John Ritter as real-estate agent Bob Carter who tries to sell a variety of homes to a young couple, the Doyles. Each home comes with a horror story associated with it. As the film progresses with each new home, Carter becomes more desperate to close a deal but keeps failing because of his commitment to have "full disclosure" about all the grisly occurrences that happened within each home, causing the Doyles to reject his deal offers.
thriller film
Artie Logan (Schlatter) is the new guy on campus. Suddenly, he meets Tally Fuller: the most popular and beautiful girl at Fairfield college and she finally agrees to go on a date with him. But that night she is brutally killed by a blowtorch-wielding maniac and Artie is wrongfully arrested.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Tristan Price is a wealthy and privileged teenager who seemingly has everything he could ever want, money, loving parents and a beautiful girlfriend. However, his perfect life is turned upside down by the arrival of Sebastian, a handsome, charismatic, ruthless drug dealer. As Tristan is sucked into a seedy underworld of drugs, sex and violence he begins to realise his new best friend is, in fact, his worst enemy.
Drama
The story centers around singer Thiola Rayfield (Parton) and her band Big T and the Texas Wheel. The plot follows the band's climb to success and Thiola's tumultuous relationship with their violently abusive, alcoholic manager Justice Parker (Busey). In the midst of the chaos, a murder occurs, leaving authorities with a trio of suspects and a mystery to solve.
Crime, Drama
Leonard Fagot has four daughters with whom he is obsessed. He lets them know how he feels about the men they date. And if he disapproves of them, he probably will have them killed to get them out of his daughters' life.
Crime, Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
Paul Decker kills his wife, Madge, by drugging her and then gassing her in a room in their Italian villa, sealing all the windows and doors but concealing himself under floorboards in the room, covered by a rug and using a snorkel attached to air pipes to breathe while hidden. Household servants discover her body in the morning and as the room has been locked and sealed from the inside, it appears to the local Italian police Inspector and British Consulate Mr. Wilson to be a case of suicide, although no suicide note has been found.
Crime, Drama
Lee and Vivien Warren are trapped in a nightmare marriage. Vivien is despising, devious and habitually unfaithful while Lee is pathologically jealous. On his return from a lengthy business trip to New York, suspicious after his wife failed to write to him or call, Lee finds several cards addressed to Vivien signed "Love Always" and determines to kill her latest lover, Richard Fenton.
Action, Crime, spy film
Tony Eckhardt is shot in an anti-terrorist operation and insists that the man killed during the operation was not their intended target, the terrorist Amar Kamil. Kamil undergoes extensive facial reconstruction surgery to look like a man kidnapped to take the fall for an assassination planned to take place during an upcoming press conference. Members of the Israeli team are being killed off and Eckhardt pursues Kamil while hoping to stay alive to raise his unborn daughter.
Crime, Horror, Science fiction
The renowned pianist Stephen Orlac is injured in an aeroplane crash, and he believes his badly damaged hands have been replaced with those of a strangler.
Crime, Drama, neo-noir
As children, Marty and Carol Lakewood, fraternal twins, witness a brutal murder involving their father. They grow up to become depraved and incestuous adults, living in coastal California in the mid-1950s. Marty is a skillful journalist, but grows bored with every new job and is easily distracted.
Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Melodrama, prison film
thumb|thumbtime=15|The film Thunderbolt (1929) thumb|right|Still with Fay Wray and George Bancroft Thunderbolt Jim Lang (George Bancroft), wanted on robbery and murder charges, ventures out with his girl, "Ritzie" (Fay Wray), to a Harlem nightclub, where she informs him that she is going straight. During a raid on the club, Thunderbolt escapes. His gang shadows Ritzie and reports that she is living with Mrs.
Drama, Noir
Gene Courtier, an employee of North American at Edwards AFB, stops his car on the way home for hitchhiker Victor Gosset, a wanted criminal and member of a gang of three robbers headed by Robert Batsford and new addition Luther Logan. When the gang discovers that Courtier only has a few dollars in cash, they threaten to kill him but instead concoct a plan to force him to sell his car and surrender the money to them. But because the auto dealer cannot pay such a large sum so late in the day, the gang leaves with Courtier and retreats to the family home in a suburban neighborhood.
Horror
While on a tour in Hollywood, a young couple, Joel and Donna Gregory, arrive at the house of Lorna Love, an infamous actress who died in 1935. There, they meet with housekeeper Clara Josephs and agent Oscar Payne, to investigate the mystery behind Lorna and finish a book that they are writing on the actress, an interest that came out of the discovery that Joel's father was her lover. While staying at the mansion, unusual incidents occur.
Crime Comedy, Drama
Suddenly made redundant and at rock bottom, Kate takes control by revealing her inner bad girl. Kate (played by Kelly Brook) is an out of work actress who is working in a shop. Until she gets made redundant, that is.
Crime
Drama, thriller film
Pierre Brossard, a French Nazi collaborator, orders seven Jews executed during World War II. Some 40 years later, he is pursued by David Manenbaum, a hitman who is under orders to kill Brossard and leave a printed statement on his body proclaiming the assassination was vengeance for the Jews executed in 1944. Brossard kills Manenbaum, hiding the dead body after finding the statement and discovering that his pursuer was travelling on a Canadian passport.
Drama, thriller film
Ed Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York City Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent, racist tendencies and trigger-happy behavior. He still has friends on the job and is ingratiating himself as a booster for a politician named Kevin Reilly who is looking to become the next Mayor of the city. Responding to a call on Manhattan's West Side, he finds a young musician named Sally has been abducted by a mentally unbalanced, Black stalker named Rabbit Shazam.
Drama
Christopher Hatton owns the country estate Mordelaine. While Hatton's son Barney has a romantic tryst with Dilys Helmar, Hatton loses his estate in a game of dice to Dilys' father Nick. The Hattons have to move out to a cottage in a nearby village.
Crime, Noir
Governors William P. Lane of Maryland, John S. Battle of Virginia and W.
Comedy drama, Crime, Crime Comedy, mystery film
Nancy Drew competed in the local newspaper's amateur reporter contest and won a month's work. During her inquest at the job, she attempts to clear a girl named Eula Denning of murder charges with the help of her long-suffering best friend Ted, and the two men from next door. Nancy rockets through a car chase, a song fest in a Chinese restaurant, a boxing bout, and a finale of whistling fireworks to catch the real killer.
Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
In 1913, Fernand Maubert, the dedicated chief of police of Paris, is pursuing Philippe Ledocq, a suave bank robber and burglar suspected of a series of thefts, but the criminal always has an alibi. After the latest robbery, Maubert captures Ledocq's accomplice, Madeleine Saincaise. When she is released from prison, Maubert warns her to stay away from Ledocq (though he has a certain admiration for the man).
Crime, Drama
A man enters a confessional box in a church and tells the priest: "I have killed a man, Father". Mike Nelson arrives at a country cottage. He has been in the USA working in the oil business for many years.
Crime, Drama
In Indiana, Sarah Jo Pender, a student, is sent to prison after her two roommates were murdered by her boyfriend Rick. She claims her innocence. After one of her appeals is denied, she escapes with the help of prison guard Scott Spitler and her friend Jamie Long.