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Action, Sport, action film, drama film, martial arts film, prison film, thriller film
Years after his defeat by George "Iceman" Chambers, Yuri Boyka, now a prison janitor, hears about the Prison Spetz Competition (PSC), an inter-prison fighting tournament offering a chance at early release. Boyka trains privately to recover…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, B movie, Fantasy, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
A nomadic scavenger treks through an irradiated wasteland and discovers a buried robot. He collects the pieces and takes them to junk dealer Alvy, who is talking with 'Hard Mo' Baxter, a former soldier, and Mo's friend Shades. When Alvy st…
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Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Former L.A. SWAT officer Jeff Talley is a hostage negotiator in Los Angeles. One day, Talley negotiates with an abusive man who has taken his own wife and son hostage after learning his wife was cheating on him.
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Dennis Cleg is a schizophrenic man who has just been released from a mental institution. Known as "Spider", he is given a room in a halfway house catering to mentally disturbed people which is run by unrelenting landlady Mrs. Wilkinson.
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film
Supernova chronicles the search-and-rescue patrol of the medical ship Nightingale 229 in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew, which includes captain and pilot A.J. Marley, co-pilot Nick Vanzant, medical officer Kae…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Eight people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr and Mrs Owen. They settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers (a married cou…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, rape and revenge film, science fiction film, thriller film
Andrew Norris is the new music teacher at Lincoln High School, a troubled inner city school. As he arrives on his first day, he meets fellow teacher Terry Corrigan, who is carrying a gun. When Andrew asks about the firearm, Terry assures h…
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Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, thriller film
Sarah Morton, a middle-aged English mystery author based in London, who has written a successful series of detective novels, is experiencing writer's block that is impeding her next book. Her publisher, John Bosload, offers her his country…
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Psychological Thriller, psychological thriller
Set in the near future, a woman embarks on a virtual wellness retreat in order to get her life back on track – but with nightmarish consequences.
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Secret Agent, Thriller, spy film, thriller film
In 1968, an East-West agreement is established to halt nuclear proliferation. One of its clauses, the Fourth Protocol, forbids the non-conventional delivery of a nuclear weapon to a target. MI5 officer John Preston breaks into the residenc…
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Thriller, thriller film
Ronnie Chase died on prom night. Five years later, Melissa Moody, Ronnie's past girlfriend, shows up at his mother’s house and tells both Phillip, Ronnie’s brother, and Charlene, the mother of the two, that she is pregnant with Ronnie's ba…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror film, cosmic horror film
Slacker David Wong recalls confronting a zombie skinhead he beheaded a year earlier and wonders if an axe that had its handle and head replaced over time is still the same axe. In the present day, he meets with a reporter, Arnie Blondeston…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film, thriller film
Dylan Branson works as an air traffic controller at John F. Kennedy International Airport; he possesses the ability to visualize constellations and patterns, and though he has a pilot's license, he has a fear of flying. He has a recurring …
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Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, neo-noir
At a diner in Quincy, Massachusetts, low-level gunrunner Eddie Coyle meets with Jackie Brown, a younger gunrunner, in order to obtain guns for a bank robbery crew led by Jimmy Scalise and Artie Van. The crew successfully robs the South Sho…
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crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Danila Bagrov (Sergei Bodrov Jr.), recently discharged after serving in the First Chechen War, returns to his hometown. His mother insists that he travel to Saint Petersburg to seek out his successful older brother Viktor (Viktor Sukhoruko…
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Drama, Historie, drama film, mystery film
In 1844 Greenwich, Connecticut, Miranda Wells, a farm girl raised by strait-laced low church parents Ephraim and Abigail, often daydreams of a romantic and luxurious life. Miranda's mother receives a letter from their distant cousin Nichol…
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Psychodrama, mystery film, thriller film
18-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood lives on the family estate with her older sister Constance and their ailing uncle Julian. Constance has not left the house in the six years since she was tried and acquitted of the death of h…
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Dramedy, Thriller, action film, comedy film, comedy thriller, teen film
In Grandsboro, California, Leigh Ann Watson is a high school student living with her single mother, Faye, who works as a waitress. Leigh Ann's goals are to get top grades, become valedictorian, and leave town. However, her grade in history…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, exploitation film
When a renegade Japanese gang known as the Katana takes control of the cocaine trade in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department transfers in Joe Marshall, a "samurai" policeman from the San Diego Police Department who has been "trai…
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Thriller
In the early hours at a remote railway station in rural India, two brothers, Gautam (Abhishek Banerjee) and Raman (Shubham Vardhan), witness a baby being stolen from Jhumpa Mahato (Mia Maelzer), an impoverished tribal woman. While Raman, g…
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Mysterie, Romantic Drama, drama film, ghost film, romance film, science fiction film
Joe and Emily Darrow are doctors in a Chicago hospital. Seven months pregnant Emily travels to Venezuela to help natives in the Amazon area. She dies when a bus is hit by a landslide and plunges into the river below.
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Action, action film, martial arts film, thriller film, war film
In 1973, United States Senator Conrad Morgan, the chief delegate diplomat in negotiating the terms of the end of the Vietnam War, made a deal in Paris with Kuong Yen, a North Vietnamese negotiator. The deal called for Yen to release certai…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy drama, crime film
In Los Angeles, Bobby is an amateur boxer with ties to local mob boss Max. Between his lackluster boxing career and working as a mason on Max's construction projects, Bobby struggles to support his girlfriend Jessica, a stripper in Max’s e…
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Thriller, thriller film
Teenage drug runner Cedric Beauville is captured and arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the Canada–United States border in possession of large quantities of illegal fentanyl pills. Everett University research scientist Dr. Ty…
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