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Drama, Film Noir, Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, romance film
In December 1941, just before the entry of the United States into World War II, an American agent from the Naval Intelligence Office arrives in Shanghai to find his friend Conner was recently murdered. Determined to find out who killed Con…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie
In Prague, Czech Republic, single mother Helena (Isabelle Blais) is seduced by a successful, handsome man and travels with him to spend a weekend in Vienna, Austria. He then sells her to a human trafficking ring and she is brought to New Y…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
A group of ten disparate people, strangers to each other, have all been summoned by a mysterious host named Mr. Owen to travel to Africa and join him on a safari he is hosting. Philip Lombard guides the entourage with the aid of local nati…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, mystery film
Firmly in the tradition of American Westerns, it follows the lives of the two orphaned brothers. The older one, Buddy, sees his father being shot. Vulnerable and described as "slow", Buddy gets co-opted by gangster Julius Hench and turns i…
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Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, romance film
The film opens as Agatha Christie gets a silver cup engraved for her husband Archie, who receives the gift with utter disdain. The couple walk to a publicity event for Agatha's new novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. They are tailed into t…
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Accident, Action, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, disaster film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
An unnamed man sneaks into Ocean View Amusement Park and places a small radio-controlled bomb on the tracks of the park's wooden roller coaster, The Rocket. The bomb detonates, causing the ride's train to derail, killing or injuring the ri…
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Erotic Thriller, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Best friends Matt Rossi and Nicky Parzeno run a management company for Manhattan’s best exotic dancers, managing and booking their clients into clubs across the borough. Rossi was once in a relationship with their top client Loretta, but t…
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Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
A satellite, just launched from a Space Shuttle orbiter, collides with an unidentified object, which, after being spotted on radar moving at great speeds, had positioned itself just over the ship. The collision kills an astronaut in the la…
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adventure film, children's film, mystery film, science fiction film, teen film
On the outskirts of a small town stands a rock formation called Witch Mountain, rumored to possess mysterious powers. A young waitress, Zoe Moon, witnesses infant twin children Anna and Danny appear behind the diner where she works in a pi…
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Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, action film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Evan Lake is a highly decorated veteran CIA agent and Intelligence Star recipient reduced to a desk job at Langley with his protege and close friend Milton "Milt" Schultz. Twenty-two years ago during an op in Africa, Lake was captured by t…
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Thriller, action film, mystery film, thriller film
Border Patrol agents Bobby Logan and Ernie Wyatt are planting motion sensors in a remote area of the Texas desert when they stumble across what appears to be a decades-old Jeep buried in the sand. Upon excavating the vehicle, they find an …
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Fantasy, Modern-Day Fantasy, comedy horror, neo-noir
In an alternative 1948 Los Angeles, magic and mythological creatures are common. The protagonist, Phil Lovecraft, a detective, refuses its use. He does still accept wealthy widower Amos Hackshaw's job offer: Locate the powerful grimoire kn…
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Drama, action film, adventure film, horror film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
Kate is a shark expert whose business has been failing since a shark attack killed a fellow diver under her command. Once dubbed "the shark whisperer", Kate is haunted by the memory of the attack and unable to get back into the water. With…
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Mysterie, Secret Agent, cyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
Recently unemployed accountant Morgan Sullivan is bored with his suburban life. Pressured by his wife to take a job with her father's company, he instead pursues a position in corporate espionage. Digicorp's Head of Security, Finster, indu…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, spy film
Axel Nordstrom manages a glass-bottom boat tourist operation on Santa Catalina Island, California. His widowed daughter, Jennifer Nelson, helps by donning a mermaid costume and swimming underneath his boat for the passengers' amusement. Je…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, drama film
Vann Siegert is a wandering serial killer who poisons his victims; he explains that he feels he is helping them and that they die without pain. After killing a heroin addict named Casper he met at a bar, he makes her death look like an ove…
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Crime, Western film
In 1880, an unknown drifter and gambler in the small town of Rincon, 100 miles (161 km) from Denver, Colorado, is caught cheating at a five-card stud poker game. The players, led by the volatile Nick Evers, take the cheating gambler to lyn…
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Horror, horror film, mystery film
thumb|left|upright|Vincent Price and Gavin Gordon in The Bat Mystery author Cornelia Van Gorder rents The Oaks, a summer home in a small town, from local bank president John Fleming. While on a hunting trip with his physician, Dr. Malcolm …
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American football film, Thriller, action film, disaster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
An unknown sniper (Warren Miller) positions himself at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum before a professional football championship dubbed "Championship X" (Ten) between Baltimore and Los Angeles, similar to the Super Bowl. He is spotted …
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Horror, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, a young doctor named John Wesford becomes a suspect when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. John and another young doctor, Jack Pendler, are at the scene of the latest crime in the series; they know …
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, thriller film
A bomb planted in a lorry detonates in London's Borough Market killing 120 people. The London police receive an anonymous tip and arrest Farroukh Erdogan, a Turkish immigrant, as the terror cell leader and mastermind of the attack. Two oth…
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Adventure, Animation, children's film, mystery film
After the events of the third film, Fievel's sister Tanya and his friend Tony get jobs at the local newspaper. Fievel has had terrible nightmares due to mysterious attacks in Manhattan on mice. The film opens with Fievel dreaming that he's…
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, drama film, psychological thriller, thriller film
Following top secret experiments, people called "viewers" have developed the psychic ability to enter people's memories. John Washington, a recent widower, is one such gifted individual. Washington works for Mindscape, the world's top memo…
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Mysterie, drama film, horror film, supernatural fiction, thriller film
In 1940s Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to visit a sick maid at the dilapidated Hundreds Hall. The maid confesses to faking and hopes the doctor will send her home.
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