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Action, action film, buddy cop film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Walter "Walt" Coogan, a deputy sheriff of fictional Piute County, Arizona, is sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman. NYPD Detective Lieutenant McElroy informs him that Ringerman is recovering from an overdose of…
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Thriller, dystopian film
A disease targets the richest people on Earth, starting with billionaires, then millionaires, and so on, causing people to give away their assets to avoid death. The plot of the film coincides with that of the novel "Antidystopia" publishe…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller
Karl Thomasson (Treat Williams), a former mercenary, arrives on Long Island with a personal mission: to deliver a war medal to the daughter of a fallen comrade, Nicole Stewart, who now teaches English at a local college. Their relationship…
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Sex Film, drama film, erotic film, melodrama, romance film
April Delongpre is the eldest daughter of a powerful Alabama senator and heiress to an old and respectable Southern family. After graduating from college, April returns home to her parents’ house for the summer to await her semi arranged m…
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Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller film
Second-term Democratic U.S. President Jackson Evans must select a new Vice President following the sudden death of his vice president, Troy Ellard. The obvious choice seems to be Virginia Governor Jack Hathaway, who is hailed as a hero aft…
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Thriller, thriller film
Michael is a shepherd who lives with his father Ray in rural Ireland. Years prior, Michael caused a car accident in response to his mother telling him she was leaving the family. The crash killed her and heavily wounded his girlfriend, Car…
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Crime, Horror, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller
On 11 May 2000, a psychologist, Dr. Arnold, is conducting a session with Karla Homolka at Canada's Regional Psychiatric Centre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Dr.
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Gangster Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, melodrama, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Little Caesar (1931)|left Small-time criminals Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello and his friend Joe Massara move to Chicago to seek their fortunes. Rico joins the gang of Sam Vettori, while Joe wants to be a dancer. Olga bec…
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Satanism, horror film
Katherine Winter and her colleague Ben investigate claims of miracles. On an expedition to the city of Concepción, Chile, they investigate claims that the corpse of a priest who has been dead for 40 years remains in pristine condition. Eve…
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Mafia Film, Secret Agent, Thriller, thriller film
In a money laundering scheme, "The Prince" – leader of the Russian Mafia – creates a new bank in London and has its financial oligarchs sign over their accounts to him. The first oligarch and his family are murdered by a blue-eyed assassin…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
A young couple, Andrew and Sue, are compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After saying goodbye to the people in their village, they tra…
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Monster Film, action thriller, documentary film
Big game hunter Bill, owner of Avex-Bio Tech, leads a hunting party with his best hunter Anna, where he takes wealthy participants to hunt down Graboids on Dark Island, a private area where he operates his company. Dr. Jasmine 'Jas' Welker…
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Dark Comedy, Vampirfilm, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, thriller film, vampire film
Three years after surviving an attack by vampire Jerry Dandrige, Charley Brewster is now a college student undergoing psychiatric therapy. Convinced that vampires are not real, he believes Dandrige was merely a serial killer. Charley is da…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
In post-World War II America, Maja Reid is a Romanian refugee who has built a new life with her American husband, Lewis, and their young son, Patrick, but she is still haunted by her dark memories of the war, still having nightmares. While…
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Horror, horror film, thriller film
Two friends, Benjamin and Dom, are celebrating their last night together before Ben flies to Los Angeles to become a gay porn star. Dom drives them to do a drug run to Canada to make some money to help set Ben up in L.A. Their contact, Ali…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film
In 1996, in Upstate New York, two teenage best friends, Zach and Josh, rate the girls in their yearbook. They find a common interest in Allison. After school, the duo crosses the path of the universally-disliked Daryl and his eighth-grade …
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Historie, Psychological Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
The movie starts on April 11, 1972. Nixon's advisers at the White House ask Mark Felt how to ask J. Edgar Hoover to step aside as the FBI director.
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Horror, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
An author of highbrow literary novels, Thad Beaumont, is better known for the bestselling murder mystery suspense-thrillers he writes under the pen name "George Stark". Beaumont wishes to retire the Stark name and symbolically buries Stark…
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Police Film, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, science fiction film
In 1988, a spaceship bearing 300,000 enslaved aliens known as "Newcomers" lands in the Mojave Desert. By 1991, they have settled in Los Angeles and some of them have joined the Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Matthew Sykes' partne…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
Charley Varrick is a crop-duster and former stunt pilot, down on his luck. So he, his wife, and two accomplices, Al and Harman, rob a bank in rural New Mexico. Though the heist results in a big haul, it also claims the lives of Al and Char…
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Action, action film, thriller film
Logging company owner and family man Joe Braven lives with his wife Stephanie, daughter Charlotte, and his father Linden. Linden, who has dementia due to a previous head injury, gets into a bar room brawl, ending up in the hospital. When t…
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Detective Film, action film, crime film, drama film
FBI Special Agent Terry McCaleb, a veteran criminal profiler, leads a joint FBI-LAPD task force to capture the "Code Killer", a serial murderer who leaves taunting messages for McCaleb. While addressing reporters at the latest crime scene,…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Juliet Devereau, an emergency room physician, rents an apartment in New York City from Max. Juliet has recently filed for divorce from her husband Jack after she caught him having an affair, but she still has feelings for him. Unbeknownst …
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Erotic Film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, melodrama
Emily Reed travels to New York City to interview with a law firm, which offers her a job if she flies to Rio de Janeiro the following morning. Emily agrees and is introduced to Claudia Dennis, one of the firm's top executives. They arrive …
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