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Ghost-Movie, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film, screenlife, thriller film
In Fresno, California in 2013, high school student Laura Barns dies by suicide via gunshot after an anonymous user uploads a video of her passing out and defecating at an unsupervised party, making it go viral. One year later, her former c…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Thriller
The alcoholism and explosive temper that cost Jack Torrance his teaching job also threatens to tear apart his family, after assaulting his 7-year-old son Danny in a drunken rage. Horrified, Jack tells his wife Wendy that should he ever sta…
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Ghost-Movie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film, psychological horror fiction
Six months after the first film and the short film Rings, Samara Morgan's cursed videotape has been circulating through Astoria, Oregon. Jake Pierce is on his seventh day after watching the cursed videotape. Desperate, he convinces a schoo…
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Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, drama film, film noir
thumb|200px|left|From the trailer for the film Monte Beragon, the second husband of Mildred Pierce, is murdered. The police tell Mildred her first husband, Bert Pierce, is guilty of the murder, because he owned the gun, had a motive, and d…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
In Cape Town, South Africa, junior CIA officer Matt Weston is serving as a "housekeeper", an operative in charge of securing and maintaining a local CIA safe house in case of an operation. He calls his mentor and immediate superior David B…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, gangster film
A man, Colin, delivers a large sum of cash to an unknown recipient in Belfast, by suitcase, in the process helping himself to some of the cash. Colin then goes to a bar with his driver Phil, where he picks up a young man. As the recipients…
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crime film, drama film, thriller film
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist, co-owner of the magazine Millennium, loses a high-profile libel case against billionaire Hans-Erik Wennerström, resulting in a looming prison sentence. Meanwhile, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but troubled hack…
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Ghost-Movie, horror film, mystery film, rape and revenge film
Ben Shaw and his new wife Jane leave New York for Tokyo, Japan, where Ben has a job as a photographer. While traveling, Jane accidentally hits a girl in the middle of the wilderness. Later they start to find mysterious lights in their phot…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, horror film, psychological horror fiction
Katie, a nurse, is unable to save the life of a patient in her care, despite attempting CPR. Some time later, Katie, referring to herself as Maud, has become a devout Roman Catholic and is working as a private palliative care nurse in an E…
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Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, drama film, horror film, mystery film
Samantha "Sam" Kingston awakens on February 12, known as Cupid's day. She is picked up by her friends Lindsay, Ally, and Elody, who are excited about Sam's plans to lose her virginity to her boyfriend Rob that night. During a class lecture…
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Mysterie, Time Travel, children's film, fantasy film, science fiction film, time-travel film
On July 4, 1978, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 12-year-old David Freeman walks through the woods to pick up his 8-year-old brother, Jeff, from a friend's house when he falls into a ravine after a trick Jeff plays on him and is knocked uncon…
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Erotic Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, satirical film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, struggling actor Jake Scully has recently lost his role as a vampire in a low-budget horror film after his claustrophobia thwarts shooting. Upon returning home to discover his girlfriend Carol cheating on him, Scully splits…
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film
16-year-old Tyler Burnside lives with his Christian family in a small Kentucky town. The town and its residents are haunted by the memory of the Clovehitch Killer, an infamous serial killer who bound and strangled ten known female victims …
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In New York City, four men wearing similar disguises and carrying concealed weapons board the same downtown 6 train, "Pelham 1-2-3," at different stations. Using their code names Mr. Blue, Mr.
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Crime, Mysterie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, crime film, crime thriller film, mystery film, romantic comedy film, thriller film
thumb|right|upright=1.2|thumbtime=2:04|Trailer for To Catch a Thief Police suspect retired jewel thief John "The Cat" Robie may be responsible for a string of burglaries on the French Riviera. When they arrive at his hilltop villa to quest…
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Crime, Mysterie, Psychodrama, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
thumb|Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings 1966 After spending the night at a doss house, where he has taken pictures for a book of art photographs, photographer Thomas is late for a photo shoot with model Veruschka at his studio, which in …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Modern-Day Fantasy, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, experimental film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, surrealist film, thriller film
In 1953, exterminator William Lee finds that his wife Joan is stealing his insecticide to use as a recreational drug. Lee is arrested by the police, and he begins hallucinating due to exposure to the insecticide. Lee believes he is a secre…
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Secret Agent, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, flashback film, girls with guns, martial arts film, mystery film, spy film
At an Upstate New York diner, Mallory Kane meets her associate Aaron. He demands she get in a car outside. She refuses and he pulls a gun, but she disarms and pistol whips him.
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In January 1971, private investigator John Shaft is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. He spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building and ambushes him. At gunpoint, he brings him to his office, where the seco…
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Crime, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
In 2015, TifAni "Ani" FaNelli, a respected New York women's magazine columnist, appears to have a picture-perfect life. As she prepares to marry her fiancé Luke Harrison, Ani meets with Aaron Wickersham, a documentary director who is makin…
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Mysterie, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In 2003, young Craig Poole becomes acquainted with retired businessman John Harrigan following the death of his mother, Joanna, with instructions simply to read to him three times a week. Five years later a teenage Craig and elderly Harrig…
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Arranged Documentary, Found Footage, Horror, disaster film, found footage film, horror film, science fiction film, zombie film
On the evening of March 11, 2008, news reporter Angela Vidal, and her cameraman, Scott Percival, are filming their report on the night shift at the Los Angeles Fire Department. Firefighters, Jake and George Fletcher, receive an emergency c…
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1947, LAPD detectives Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are made partners after engaging in a boxing match to raise public support for the department. Lee introduces Bucky to his girlfriend Kay Lake, and the trio becomes insepa…
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Satire On Media, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, spy film, thriller film
Tired of being rejected by the beautiful women he lusts after, Chuck Barris moves to Manhattan to become an NBC page with dreams of becoming famous in television but is eventually fired. He moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clark…
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