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Mysterie, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
After the death of her mother, grief-stricken teenager Gretchen moves with her father Luis, stepmother Beth, and mute half-sister Alma to a resort town in the Bavarian Alps. The family is there to help build a new hotel, overseen by the en…
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Crime, Detective Film, Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir, teen film
High school student Brendan Frye discovers a note directing him to a pay phone, where he receives a call from his ex-girlfriend Emily Kostich, begging him for help. She mentions a "bad brick", "the Pin", and "Tug" before abruptly hanging u…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, teen film
Teenager Ruby Baker and her little brother, Rhett, lose their parents suddenly in a car accident and are placed under the guardianship of family friends and former neighbors, Terry and Erin Glass. Erin is a respected physician and Terry ru…
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Action, Mafia Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|The film's 1979 trailer In 1920s Chicago, an Italian immigrant and ambitious low-level thug, Tony "Scarface" Camonte, works as a bodyguard for crime lord "Big" Louis Costillo. Tony guns down his boss with Costillo's disgruntled lieut…
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Drama, Thriller, coming-of-age film, drama film, mystery film
On Valentine's Day 1900, students from Appleyard College, a girls' private school in Victoria, Australia, embark on a picnic to Hanging Rock led by teachers Miss Greta McCraw and Mlle de Poitiers. Sara, a quiet child who arrived at the sch…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Caleb Faulkner (Garrett Hedlund), a working-class man with a violent past, is struggling to rebuild his life while working for his uncle Benji (Stephen Lang) in a questionable construction supply business. His life spirals after his young …
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Mysterie, Romance Film, action film, fantasy film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2006, Brooklyn Democratic congressman David Norris unsuccessfully runs for the United States Senate. While rehearsing his concession speech in a men's bathroom, David meets Elise Sellas, who has been hiding after crashing a wedding and …
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Melodrama, Romance Film, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
alt=San Miniato al Monte, Florence|left|thumb|200px|Facade of the basilica San Miniato al Monte in Florence, one of the primary settings of the film. In 1959, Michael Courtland, a New Orleans real estate developer, has his life shattered w…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film
Nine years have passed since the failure of the Discovery mission to Jupiter in 2001, in which commander David Bowman and his crew were lost. Amid international tensions, the United States and Soviet Union each prepare separate missions to…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, teen film, thriller film
Jonathan Shale is a Vietnam War veteran and mercenary. After a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed, he returns home to Miami. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko, at her apartment; she welc…
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Aliens, Horror, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, slasher film
In the winter of 1982, members of the Norwegian research station "Thule" discover an alien spacecraft and a nearby alien body buried in the Antarctic ice. Dr. Sander Halvorson and his assistant Adam Finch recruit American paleontologist Ka…
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Fantasy, Historie, Mysterie, Romance Film, Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, mystery film, mysticism, romance film, thriller film
In 1889 Vienna, Austria-Hungary, a magician named Eisenheim is arrested by Chief Inspector Walter Uhl of the Vienna Police during a magic show involving necromancy. Later, Uhl explains the story of Eisenheim's life to Crown Prince Leopold.…
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Horror, Mysterie, Splatter Film, arthouse science fiction film, body horror film, desire horror fiction, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Max Renn is the president of CIVIC-TV, a Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalist programming. Harlan, the operator of CIVIC-TV's unauthorized satellite dish, shows Max Videodrome, a plotless show purportedly broadcast…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
On November 5, 1975, in Snowflake, Arizona, logger Travis Walton, and his five co-workers—Mike Rogers, Allan Dallis, David Whitlock, Greg Hayes and Bobby Cogdill—head to work in the White Mountains. Driving back towards town that night, th…
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Ghost-Movie, drama film, ghost film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, slasher film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|left|John Houseman as Mr. Machen in The Fog On the eve of the centennial of the small coastal town of Antonio Bay in Northern California, old Mr. Machen tells ghost stories to children by a campfire on the beach.
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Political Thriller, drama film, film noir, political film, political thriller film, spy film, thriller film, war film
During the Korean War, Soviet and Chinese soldiers capture a U.S. Army platoon, taking them to communist China. Three days later, Sergeant Raymond Shaw and Captain Bennett "Ben" Marco return to UN lines.
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, teen film
One year after the explosion of Flight 180, college student Kimberly Corman is heading to Daytona Beach, Florida, for spring break with her friends Shaina, Dano, and Frankie. On the entrance ramp to U.S. Route 23, she has a premonition of …
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film
On October 23, 1982, in Northern California, shop owner Harry Grimbridge, clutching a jack-o-lantern Halloween mask, is pursued by mysterious men in suits. He collapses at the shop of Walter Jones, who calls for help. Harry is taken to a h…
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Mysterie, crime film, drama film, romance film
In the 1970s New York City, David Marks, the son of a powerful real estate tycoon Sanford Marks, marries Katie McCarthy, a working-class student. Together they try to establish a new life in Vermont, setting up a health food store called A…
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Girls with Guns, Secret Agent, action film, girls with guns, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
Evelyn Salt is in prison in North Korea, suspected of being a U.S. spy. The CIA arranges a prisoner exchange to stifle the publicity her boyfriend, arachnologist Mike Krause, is bringing to her case.
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Fantasy, Horror, Komödie, Mysterie, comedy film, comedy horror, fantasy film, female buddy film, horror film
Alexandra Medford, Jane Spofford, and Sukie Ridgemont are three dissatisfied women living in picturesque Eastwick, Rhode Island. Sculptor Alex is a single mother of one, newly divorced music teacher Jane cannot have children, and Sukie has…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Washington D.C. Detective and forensic psychologist Dr Alex Cross is devastated to learn that his niece, Naomi, a college student in Durham, North Carolina, has been missing for four days, and he travels to Durham to investigate. Upon arri…
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Action, Thriller, action film, detective film, disaster film, mystery film, thriller film
Bill Marks is a U.S. Air Marshal and ex-NYPD officer who boards a British non-stop transatlantic flight, British Aqualantic Airlines Flight 10, from New York City to London. Bill sits next to Jen Summers in business class, who has switched…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Obsession, Satanism, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, religious horror, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, zombie film
Centuries ago in the Middle East, the Brotherhood of Sleep—a secret order of the Catholic Church—discovered a massive cylinder containing a swirling green liquid. Hidden even from the Vatican, the relic was eventually moved to Los Angeles …
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