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Ghost-House-Movies, Horror, horror film, thriller film
In the final operating week of the Yankee Pedlar Inn, a once-grand hotel, Claire and Luke are the only employees working. Claire, an asthmatic college dropout, and Luke, owner of a website chronicling the hotel's supposed hauntings, are bo…
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Thriller, action film, thriller film
Inspector Mario Lavazzi in Rome discovers the mutilated body of a victim of a serial killer who apparently sacrifices people according to certain African rituals. The Italian police manage to track down a certain Mgwushu Randoku, but the d…
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Psychological Thriller, neo-noir, thriller film
Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by glamorous, enigmatic Brooke Reynolds, who works at Crispin's (a fictitious New York auction house modeled after Christie's). Brooke was having an affair with one of Rice's patients, George …
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, disaster film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In the prologue, quotes from the Book of Genesis are shown and narrated, describing God's decision to wipe out humanity. Pilot David Randall flies top-secret photographs from South African astronomer Dr. Emery Bronson to Dr.
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Horror, psychological thriller film
A group of orphans head south in search of a new life after the country's adult population is wiped out from a viral outbreak. Soon they discover a dangerous secret from a deranged woman.
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Biographical picture, Political Thriller, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
The story opens in 2010, with the release of the Afghan War Logs. It then flashes back to 2007, where journalist Daniel Domscheit-Berg meets Australian journalist Julian Assange for the first time, at the Chaos Communication Congress in Be…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Truman Gates, a former US Army Airborne Ranger raised in Appalachia, migrates to Chicago to become a detective for the Chicago Police Department. Married to Jessie, who is pregnant, he has made the transition from hillbilly to lawman. When…
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Political Thriller, thriller film
Elena McMahon is a journalist reporting out of the Atlantic Posts Central American bureau in El Salvador who is forced to flee during the civil war. A few years later she is pushing to reopen the bureau, but her editor reveals that Congres…
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Thriller, crime film, thriller film
1964. The US is in political turmoil due to the war and serial killers are on the road. Jim Goodwin, an animal trainer accompanied by his famous pet chimpanzee, Spanky, picks up a hitchhiker named Bobby Falls at a gas station en route to C…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
The daughter of a con artist struggles to come to terms with her father's past, involving the fourth-largest seizure of counterfeit bills in U.S. history, nearly $20 million.
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Action, Crime, action film, drama film, thriller film
U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Johnny Gallagher is part of a unit patrolling outside a chalet in West Berlin, where the U.S. president and the Soviet General Secretary are beginning talks for mutual nuclear disarmament.
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Drama, War Film, biographical film, drama film, war film
Kathryn Bolkovac is a police officer from Lincoln, Nebraska, who accepts an offer to work with the UNPOL in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina for a private contractor called Democra Security (a thinly veiled allusion to DynCorp International…
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Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, Psychodrama, crime film, drama film, film noir
New York, 1934 – Christopher "Chris" Cross, a late middle-aged cashier for a clothing retailer, is fêted by his employer for 25 years of service. After presenting Chris with a gold watch and kind words, company owner J.J. Hogarth leaves th…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film, trial film
Elizabeth Quinn, a law clerk, stumbles onto something while working on the transcripts of a 17-year old case. She approaches the trial judge, who gives her a cassette tape before committing suicide. The clerk is found murdered shortly ther…
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Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Armand Degas, a hitman known as "Blackbird", accidentally shoots his younger brother during a job. Years later, he is hired by a Mafia boss to assassinate the man's father-in-law at a hotel. In the process, he also kills a witness.
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Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Splatstick, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Philippe Douvier, a major French businessman and secretly the head of the French Connection, is suspected by his New York Mafia associates of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier…
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Romance Film, Thriller, dystopian film, romantic thriller
By 2024, COVID-19 has been mutated into COVID-23 and the world is in its fourth quarantine year. In the United States, the nation's government is converted into a fascist police state and the people are required to take temperature checks …
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Imaginative, impetuous, and wild Diana McFee cannot wait for her adult life to begin. While awaiting the final days of high school in the lush springtime, Diana tests her limits with sex and drugs as her more conservative friend Maureen wa…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Aging private detective Harry Ross, an ex-cop, is working on a case to return 17-year-old runaway Mel Ames to her parents' home. He tracks down Mel and her sleazy boyfriend, Jeff Willis, at a Mexican resort. During a struggle, Mel accident…
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Action, Family Drama, Komödie, Military Film, action film, comedy film
U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Zack Carey is about to retire from the military from his last post at a major U.S. Army base in rural Clemmons County, Georgia.
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Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, teen film, thriller film
The NSA-funded Quantum Tech (QT) Corporation has slated a project to develop Hypertime, a technology which allows the user's molecules to speed up to the point where the world appears in standstill. NSA head Moore ends the project due to t…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, heist film
Seattle PD Detective Quentin Conners and his partner Jason York are implicated in the death of a hostage taken by a carjacker named John Curtis. After a fellow police officer, Callo, testifies against them, Conners is suspended, and York i…
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Thriller, crime film, horror film, thriller film
In 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, several policemen discover a murdered woman sprawled on the floor of her apartment, which was locked from the inside. While police search for the killer's means of escape, they discover a second corpse …
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Caper-Movie, Crime Comedy, drama film, heist film
In 1855, Edward Pierce, a member of London's high society, is secretly a master thief. He plans to steal a monthly shipment of gold from the London-to-Folkestone train that is meant as payment for British troops fighting in the Crimean War…
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