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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, thriller film
In 1952, Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of his small west Texas community; secretly, he is a sociopath with violent sexual tastes. Years before, Lou was caught raping a little girl by his adopted brother Mike, who pleaded guilty to th…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, crime film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In near-future New Orleans, a mysterious distributor offers a free supply of "Power"—a pill that grants various superpowers for five minutes—to a group of drug dealers, including one named Newt. Newt's teenage cousin Robin is a dealer hers…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In Warsaw, Poland, Tadek is a married detective who takes on a case involving the murder of a businessman, Daniel Sadowsky. To his and everyone's surprise the case is identical to a character's murder in a recently published novel by a man…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Dr. Richard Walker is a surgeon visiting Paris with his wife Sondra for a medical conference. At their hotel, she is unable to unlock her suitcase, and Walker determines that she picked up the wrong one at the airport.
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film
One morning in 1991, alcoholic NYPD Detective Matt Scudder is drinking at his usual bar when three criminals kill the bartender in an attempted shakedown. Scudder pursues them and, in a chaotic gun battle, kills two and cripples the third.…
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Political Drama, Political Thriller, drama film
An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his wide range of contacts and his parties she and her friend meet and date members of th…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, horror film, slasher film
In Los Angeles, FBI Special Agent Joel Campbell is moments too late to save a young woman from a serial killer he has been investigating, who escapes. Campbell quits his job and moves to Chicago where he is plagued by guilt-induced migrain…
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Erotic Thriller, Heist, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, erotic thriller, suspense film, thriller film
Mercenary thief Laure Ash is part of a team executing a diamond heist at the Cannes Film Festival. The diamonds are located on a gold ensemble worn by model Veronica, who is accompanying real-life director Régis Wargnier to the premiere of…
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biographical film, drama film, political thriller
The film chronicles the political ascension of Jair Bolsonaro during his 2018 presidential campaign, focusing on his assassination attempt in Juíz de Fora, Minas Gerais. It portrays Bolsonaro as an electoral "dark horse", chronicling his h…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, psychological thriller, science fiction film
Mr. Zimit, a philosophy teacher at an international school in Jakarta, has been challenging his class of twenty with thought exercises to prepare them for their future. On the last day of school, he holds an exercise in which he posits an …
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film, rape and revenge film
One year prior, in Portland, Oregon, Jillian "Jill" Conway was kidnapped by a brutal serial killer who held her captive in a mass grave of his victims. Police refuse to believe her due to Jill previously being institutionalized. In the pre…
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Splatstick, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
As LAPD policemen Hank Rafferty and Charlie Reed investigate a warehouse heist by a gang of thieves, Charlie is killed before the thieves escape. Meanwhile, Earl Montgomery's lifelong dream to become a police officer is thwarted when he fl…
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Action, Romance Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Carter "Doc" McCoy and his wife Carol are taking target practice with pistols when Rudy Travis arrives to propose they break Mexican drug lord Ramon's nephew Luis Mendoza out of jail for a $300,000 payment. The job is successful, but it tu…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film
A serial killer is targeting police officers in South East London. After two police constables are shot dead and Chief Inspector Bruce Roberts is bludgeoned to death, the hunt for the killer's identity begins. Sergeant Porter Nash is trans…
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Film Noir, Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
Nicola Six has clairvoyant powers and discovers that she will die at the hands of one man. She begins an affair with three men to discover which of them is the killer. The story opens with Samson Young, a terminally ill American writer who…
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Buddy Cop, Martial-Arts, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime film, martial arts film
Los Angeles cop Chris Kenner (Dolph Lundgren) is an American who was raised in Japan. He is given a new partner, Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee), an American of partial Japanese descent. Kenner does not appreciate American culture, while Johnn…
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Crime, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Holed up in a cheap hotel room in Philadelphia, local gangster Nicky Godolin phones his Jewish-American childhood friend, Mikey Mittner. At the hotel, Nicky tells Mikey that there is a contract for his life because he stole money from his …
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Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film, neo-noir
Under the pen name David Shane, reporter Rowena Price investigates a sex scandal involving Senator Sachs alongside her researcher Miles Haley. However, the story is shut down when their source becomes silent and her editor Arvis Narron, a …
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Detective Film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film, whodunit film
Emily Boynton, stepmother to the three Boynton children – Lennox, Raymond, and Carol – and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying her late husband's second will that would split his fortune between…
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Thriller, comedy film, thriller film
Barbara Duggen (Eve Connolly) is a seamstress struggling to keep her fabric shop alive. After a botched sewing appointment sets her on a quest to replace her client's lost button, she unexpectedly stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad. Faced …
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Thriller, thriller film
During a Vista Airlines flight from LAX to Los Cabos, the plane hits birds and crashes into the Pacific Ocean, killing the flight crew and most of the passengers. The survivors - Ava (the daughter of a prominent politician) and her boyfrie…
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
At a Texas high school, Mandy Lane blossoms over the summer, attracting her male classmates. One of them, Dylan, invites Mandy to a pool party at his house. She accepts with the provision that her best friend Emmet can come along.
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
One night, an intruder enters Michael and Karen Carr's upscale Los Angeles home. Karen is briefly taken hostage at knifepoint before the burglar escapes. Police arrive and one officer, Pete Davis, takes an extra interest in their case due …
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Sci-Fi, science fiction film, thriller film
William Foster and Ed Whittle are biomedical research scientists working for Bionyne Corporation in Puerto Rico, attempting to transfer the mind of a dead soldier into an android with superhuman strength, codenamed Subject 345. William spe…
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