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Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, Secret Agent, action film, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
A man is shot twice on the deck of a ship, during a heavy storm at night. The injured man plunges into the Mediterranean Sea, eventually washing ashore in a fishing village off the coast of Southern France. Two fishermen take him to the lo…
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Action, Drama, action film, thriller film, vigilante film
Three years after her family's death in a plane crash, Stephanie Patrick has become a drug-addicted prostitute in a London brothel. She is approached by journalist Keith Proctor, who believes the plane crash was a terrorist attack that was…
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survival film, thriller film
A woman arrives at a ranger station and informs Ranger Joan that a bear has been repeatedly attacking park visitors, including a recent encounter with a group of Girl Scouts. Despite Joan noting that the issue has been reported multiple ti…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
Souder, a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh, track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields'. T…
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Film Noir, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, prison film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In California, psychotic criminal Arthur "Cody" Jarrett leads the ruthless Jarrett gang alongside his wife Verna, his beloved mother "Ma" Jarrett, and his right-hand man "Big Ed" Somers. During a robbery of a mail train in the Sierra Nevad…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, mystery film
Private investigator Lew Harper is retained by an old pal, attorney Albert Graves, to search for Graves' employer, multi-millionaire Ralph Sampson. He has disappeared after flying into Los Angeles, and Sampson's physically disabled wife El…
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Psychological Thriller, horror film, thriller film
Katherine, a former TV star, wakes up in the hospital after a severe accident that has left her with locked-in syndrome, where she is completely paralyzed and cannot communicate. A nurse named Nicky begins to work with Katherine, to try to…
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Political Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
In 1972, Mason Skiles is a U.S. diplomat in Lebanon living in Beirut with his Lebanese wife, Nadia. They have recently begun caring for Karim, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who claims he is without a family.
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Ghost-Movie, Thriller, horror film
In August 1968, actress Sharon Tate describes to a journalist a nightmare she had, in which she and Jay Sebring, her friend and former lover, had their throats slashed. One year later, a very pregnant Sharon returns home after spending six…
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Drama, Historie, Thriller, speculative fiction film
During a field battle of the English Civil War in Monmouthshire, alchemist's assistant and astrologer Whitehead flees from the violent Commander Trower. He is saved by soldier Cutler, who kills Trower. The two meet fellow army deserters Ja…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, biopunk, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film
Syd March is employed by Lucas Clinic, a company which purchases viruses and other pathogens from celebrities, then purposefully infects paying fans who desire a connection with their idols. The company puts a copy protection on its produc…
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Horror, Occult Horror, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In Salem, Massachusetts, Heidi, a recovering drug addict, works as a disc jockey at a hard rock station with her co-workers Whitey and Munster. She receives a strange wooden box containing an album by a band named The Lords. She and Whitey…
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Horror, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, horror film, monster film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, teen film, teen horror film, thriller film
In small-town Iowa, a masked intruder attacks teenager Amy as she showers. The attacker turns out to be her younger brother Joey, a horror film fan, and his weapon is a fake rubber prop knife. Against her father's wishes, Amy visits a slea…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Historie, Melodrama, drama film, film noir, neo-noir, war film
In June 1945, Jacob "Jake" Geismer, an American war correspondent for The New Republic, returns to Berlin during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers after World War II is over in Europe but before hostilities end in Asia. Ja…
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Crime, comedy film, crime thriller film, drama film
Nursing assistant Ruth returns home from a bad day at work to find she has been burgled. She reports to the police that the thief has stolen her medication, her grandmother's silverware and a laptop computer. When she asks Detective Willia…
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Romance Film, Thriller, drama film, romance film, thriller film
Trish is a young American journalist stranded in Nicaragua during the COVID-19 pandemic and amid a period of severe governmental instability. She is a travel writer whose coverage of brutal extrajudicial killings has alienated both her sup…
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Action, action film, thriller
Jack Mason, a homeless man from Seattle, Washington, loses his only friends—his pet dog Mingo and fellow vagrant Hank—within a day of each other. The dejected Mason attempts to commit suicide but is saved by Walter Cole, who witnessed Maso…
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Action, Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film
While on vacation, Grace, her husband Adam, and Grace's younger sister Lee decide to visit a crocodile show. The next day Grace takes a pregnancy test and it is positive, but does not tell Adam. They head to "Black Water Barry's" fishing t…
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Horror, Mysterie, detective film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In 1961, in Paterson, New Jersey, divorced mother Catherine Spages visits Father Tom with her two daughters, nine-year-old Karen and twelve-year-old Alice, who both attend St. Michael's Parish Girls' School. Karen is preparing for her Firs…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
The Miller family lives in a mansion in Shreveport, Louisiana where the father Kyle Miller works as diamond merchant. The house is later invaded by robbers masquerading as police. They consist of leader Elias, his girlfriend Petal, his you…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Tom Ripley is a rich American living in Hamburg, Germany. He is involved in an artwork forgery scheme, in which he drives up auction prices of supposedly newly found—but really newly produced—paintings by an artist who has faked his own de…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, hood film
Dave Brown, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), patrols the Rampart Division. While training a new officer, he roughs up a suspect to find the location of a meth lab. After work, he goes home to his two daughters…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, horror film
Fénix is a child magician in a Mexican circus, Circo del Gringo, run by his father Orgo, a knife-thrower, and his mother Concha, an aerialist. The circus includes a tattooed lady who performs with Orgo, her adopted daughter Alma (a deaf-mu…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
A young girl named Bird is dropped off by a man to visit two graves, where she witnesses and photographs a hitman killing people at a burial. When the man, Roger, comes looking for her, the hitman kills him and turns to her (noticing her c…
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