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Secret Agent, drama film, political thriller film, romance film, spy film
Bartholomew "Barley" Scott-Blair, head of a British publishing firm, arrives in Moscow on business in autumn 1987, at the height of perestroika. At a writers' retreat near Peredelkino, he speaks of an end to tensions with the West, heard b…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, boxing film, coming-of-age film, martial arts film, teen film
Max Cooperman is in charge of another upcoming fight at the underground event "The Beatdown", and four fighters are training in a vacant lot under very-experienced martial artist Case Walker: Zack Gomes, who recently quit boxing after sust…
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Political Drama, Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Okwe, a doctor in his home country (not initially named) who was forced to flee after being falsely accused of murdering his wife, lives in the United Kingdom as an undocumented immigrant. He drives a cab in London during the day and works…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, gangster film, neo-noir
A pair of hitmen drive to Eddie Macklin's house and kill him as he builds a brick wall in his backyard. Eddie's brother Earl is released from prison in Illinois after a 27-month term for carrying a concealed weapon. His girlfriend Bett pic…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, political thriller film
Pete Garrison is a Secret Service agent and one of the personal bodyguards for the First Lady of the United States Sarah Ballentine, with whom he is having an affair. He is one of the oldest and most experienced agents, having been involve…
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Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Alex Gardner is a psychic who has been using his talents for personal gain, which mainly consists of gambling and womanizing. When he was 19, he had been the subject of a scientific research project documenting his psychic ability but, in …
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Film Noir, Forensic, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, docudrama, drama film, film noir, trial film
Alfred Hitchcock (or a double; he is in silhouette) appears on screen to tell the audience that the film's "every word is true". Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero, a down-on-his-luck musician at New York City's Stork Club, needs $300…
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Political Thriller, political thriller film, thriller film
The film follows Michael Sullivan, the son of a US State Department diplomat who died when Michael was young. Michael leaves a lucrative job at a large bank and lands his dream job as a diplomat with the United Nations (UN) in the fall of …
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1880, in the fictional central European country of Gorslava, prominent London physician Sir Robert Cargrave visits the mysterious Baron Sardonicus at the urgent request of Robert's former love, Maude, now the baron's wife. Sir Robert be…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, thriller film
Gordon uses a store selling bialy bread as a front for laundering money for the mafia. Reggie is a hitman for hire who kills his victims by suffocating them with a plastic bag. Patrice manages an elite art gallery that caters to the rich, …
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Action, Thriller, action film, comedy film
On a cold night in 1978, while driving to meet IRA members Chris and Frank, Stevo tells Bernie that he was beaten up the previous day by the cousin of a woman he assaulted. The group meet outside a Boston warehouse with intermediary Justin…
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Animalhorror, Horror, Thriller, horror film, romance film
Rod is a young software salesman living a successful life in Silicon Valley. He meets up with old classmate and aspiring fashion model Nathalie and begins dating her. Things go well for the couple, with Rod receiving a large bonus that he …
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Dark Comedy, black comedy film, comedy thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
The quirky but down-to-earth residents of the small hamlet of Highwater, Vermont, encounter the freshly dead body of Harry Worp, which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town. The problem of who the deceased is, who was …
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Action, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
During Prohibition, a drifter calling himself John Smith drives into the desolate border town of Jericho, Texas. He stops to let a Mexican woman named Felina cross the street, causing several Irish mobsters to surround and vandalize his ca…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Aegis Oil owns various oil refineries and rigs in Alaska, where the company faces strong public opposition due to the increasing environmental damage from its operations. Aegis had purchased the oil production rights from the local tribal …
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Horror, drama film, ghost film, horror film, thriller film
During the frigid winter of 1979, in the small New England town of Milburn, four elderly friends—businessman Ricky Hawthorne, lawyer Sears James, physician John Jaffrey, and Mayor Edward Charles Wanderley—form the Chowder Society, an infor…
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Drama, Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, drama film
The film consists of three stories that take place on the same night in downtown Memphis. The three stories are linked together by the Arcade Hotel, a run-down flophouse presided over by a night clerk and a bellboy, where the principal cha…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, drama film, horror film
London architect Martin Kennedy and his unhappy journalist wife Kate often visit a small, remote, uninhabited island off the west coast of Scotland called Blackholme Island for their holiday retreats. The only dwelling on the island, Fairw…
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Melodrama, Psychodrama, Social Drama, drama film, romance film, thriller film
In the late 1990s, writer Nathan Zuckerman has settled in a lakeside New England cabin following his second divorce and a battle with prostate cancer. His quiet life is interrupted by Coleman Silk, a former dean and professor of classics a…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
In the wilds of Northern Siberia during the Cold War, an American spy breaks into an old, snow-covered mine, where he discovers the frozen body of a U.S. Army sergeant next to a wooden marker dated 10 February 1912. Using a Geiger counter,…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, musical film, mystery film, romantic comedy
Nikki Finn is a carefree young woman who usually wears a leather jacket and skirt, sports fire-red lips and a platinum bubble cut, and speaks in a high-pitched voice; she is also resourceful and intelligent. One day her boyfriend Johnny se…
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thriller film
Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
In 1899, an Oxford University professor demonstrates a patient with a case of female hysteria, Eliza Graves, before his class, including a young man. Though the patient protests that she is sane, the professor points out that all mental pa…
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Accident, Action, Drama, action film, drama film
Baltimore City firefighter Jack Morrison saves a man's life in a massive four-alarm fire in a 20-story concrete grain elevator/warehouse in the Canton waterfront neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. However, the grain stored in the warehou…
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