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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 481 films · Page 17.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Sexploitation Film, exploitation film
Meg is a Boston housewife, who is sexually assaulted by a janitor at her apartment building. She escapes when he hears someone coming, but he leaves a note under her door threatening to tell her husband if she doesn't come to his apartment…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
Bryan (David Hallyday) is a singer, and his best friend Reggie (T. K. Carter) is his manager.
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Thriller, action film
A stranger shoots a man named Brian Mars and buries him on the side of a road. Then he assumes his identity and moves to a small town in California to start a job as a deputy sheriff. His motives are unclear, but he has nightmares of being…
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LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime 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 gai…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film
Four young people win the competition of a lifetime; Jo (Scarlett Alice Johnson), Max (Jack Gordon), Gwen (Elen Rhys) and Dave (Michael Jibson) head off on an all expenses paid trip to New York, courtesy of the social network All2gethr.com…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, mystery film
A young woman runs from her pursuers in the streets of Istanbul. She is captured and imprisoned, accused of various crimes, and questioned by Dr. Kavak.
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Action, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
An American doctor, Dr. Nicholas Pinter (Val Kilmer), working in Bulgaria for Doctors Beyond Borders, is mistakenly identified as a secret agent by the Russian mob. He escapes a close brush with death and is then rescued by the British Sec…
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Horror, horror film
1977: Two boys are living in a decrepit junkyard with their father, Jimmy, who has a hobby of listening to a police radio for nearby car accidents. Hearing of an injured female motorist, he forces the boys into his stolen ambulance and rep…
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Western, Western film
Choya, a gunfighter on the run, is caught by cowboys Leffingwell and Tattoo in the mountains. They force him to participate in a scheme to bilk a rich rancher named Lavery. The plan requires a tattoo on Choya's shoulder, but as soon as Tat…
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Adventure, Crime, Komödie, Thriller, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, comedy thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, spy film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film, war film
After a 16-year-old girl Candy Hull develops a crush on intelligence agent Wally Sanders in London, she helps him to uncover a communist plot against the United States.
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Drama, drama film
Lance is a struggling bit-part actor who works as a hotel custodian. His supervisor arranges for him to moonlight as a gigolo for hotel guests. A co-worker, Lisa, is obsessed with him and rents every film in which he appears as an extra fr…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Komödie, comedy film
Chris Pepper and Charlie Salt lose their nightclub and turn to Pepper's aristocratic twin brother for help. He refuses to help them, and is then found murdered. Pepper assumes his identity, and soon discovers that he was a diamond smuggler…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Komödie, romantic comedy
Christopher Pride wants to marry his girlfriend, Dr. Elizabeth Acord. However, she is too involved with her patients and she doesn't think that she would be able to leave them to live in Paris for a year.
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, drama film
Truddi Chase phones her therapist to tell him she intends to travel to upstate New York to kill her stepfather. During her plane ride to New York, she flashes back to her traumatic childhood, which was filled with childhood sexual abuse su…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Genn (Dolph Lundgren) is known by most in his life as a divorced father working for an investment company. Before this, for years, he had worked as a sleeper agent called Icarus in America before the Soviet Union collapsed. A mishap in Hon…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film
Arthur Banks (Kiefer Sutherland) is an Ivy League-educated hitman for Latin American drug cartels who picks up solitary women, uses them as cover for a hit, then kills them. His trademark is a bullet with a tungsten core. Over the years, h…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
Claire of the Moon is set in the 1990s in the Pacific Northwest. Claire Jabrowski (Todd), a famous heterosexual author, decides to attend a retreat for all-female writers. Claire's roommate at the retreat is Dr.
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Satire, Sci-Fi, comedy film
The film, set in 1972 (five years after it was made), was inspired by an actual incident which occurred on 17 January 1966: a USAF Boeing B-52G Stratofortress collided with a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker over Palomares, Spain, and four 1.1-m…
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Komödie, Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, musical film
Popular crooner Russ Raymond abandons his career at its peak and joins the Navy using his real name, Tommy Halstead. However, Dorothy Roberts, a reporter, discovers his identity and follows him in the hopes of photographing him and reveali…
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Coming Of Age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Musical, Romance Film, drama film
Gay teenager Frank (Layke Anderson) is part of a typical bourgeois family in Luxembourg in 1984. For unknown reasons, he decides to run away with his best friend, Rita. They settle in Amsterdam, where Frank starts enjoying life.
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Drama, comedy drama
The plot concerns three generations of Garcia women in a sleepy Arizona town who experience an awakening during the course of a summer: teenaged Blanca Garcia; her mother, Lolita; and her grandmother, Doña. Doña, the matriarch of the famil…
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Family Drama, drama film
Twenty-three-year-old Peter Foster is an only child who lives at home, where he constantly hears his parents arguing. Because Peter does nothing all day, the family goes to a clinic where a therapist videotapes them. After Peter watches hi…
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Fantasy, Horror, Horror comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Slasher Horror, horror film, science fiction film, slasher film, teen film
During a sing-along at Camp Hiawatha in 1981, two revelers sneak away to have sex and are killed by an unseen assailant. Twenty-four years later, four friends (Angela, Jen, Mario, and Vade) are driving through the area on their way to Bost…
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Family Drama, drama film
Van (Tierney) frequently visits his grandmother, Armen (Keklikian) who is living in a poor quality nursing home. There, he meets Aline (Khanjian), whose mother (Sabourin) is in the bed next to Armen. Aline's job as a phone sex worker does …
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