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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, crime thriller film
In New Orleans, hitman Jimmy Bobo and his partner Louis Blanchard kill a corrupt former WDCPD policeman, Hank Greely. Decompressing at a bar, Blanchard is murdered by another hitman, Keegan, whose attempt to also kill Bobo fails. WDCPD Det…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, slasher film
A young woman walking home from her birthday party is stalked by a man. A man dressed as a police officer offers to escort her to her front door. The policeman, however, is actually the stalker.
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Horror, fantasy film, horror film
In 1939, at the Bodega Bay Inn in California, an old puppeteer named André Toulon is putting the finishing touches on his newest puppet, Jester, before he brings it to life. Two Nazi spies approach Toulon's room while Kahn, another living …
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Action, Thriller, thriller film
The movie opens with Judge Charles Coleman Sr. teaching his young son about standing up for justice and principles, using boxer and activist Muhammad Ali as an example. Charles eventually becomes a respected judge and one of the few promin…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Nolan Wright survives a car crash physically intact but suffering from amnesia. Having lost his wife in the accident, he is now a single father to his 10-year-old daughter, Ava. Nolan has a hard time remembering his past and doing basic ta…
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action film, drama film, dystopian film, political thriller film, science fiction film
In 2016, the United States is in a sustained economic depression. Industrial disasters, resource shortages, and gasoline prices at $37 per gallon have made railroads the primary mode of transportation, but even they are in disrepair. After…
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Political Drama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film, rape and revenge film
Paulina Escobar is a housewife married to a prominent lawyer, Gerardo, in an unnamed South American country, which is implied to be Chile. One day, a storm forces Gerardo to ride home with a charming stranger, Dr. Miranda, while the power …
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Drama, drama film, thriller film
Radical environmentalists Josh and Dena buy a boat and tow it long-distance to meet Harmon, who served in the military. The three buy fertilizer, assemble a bomb and load it onto the boat, planning to bomb a dam they believe is harming the…
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Fantasy, Parodie, fantasy film, parody film
Struggling Seattle plumbing salesman, former fencing athlete and couch potato Roy Knable lives with his neglected wife Helen. After a fight which involves Helen smashing the family's television with one of Roy's fencing trophies as a wake-…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Social Drama, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film
The film begins with a young professional suddenly going blind in his car while at an intersection, with his field of vision turning white. A seemingly kind passerby offers to drive him home. However, he then steals the blind man's car.
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Horror, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|A copy of the film without the prologue While out rowing in the middle of a lake after dark, John Haloran and his young wife Louise argue about his rich mother's will. Louise is upset that everything is designated to go to charity in…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film
44 months after the events of Day Six, a young boy in the African nation of Sangala is kidnapped at night, indoctrinated, and drafted along with other boys into a rebel militia led by General Benjamin Juma (Tony Todd) so they could take pa…
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Bad Cop, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
Ben Shockley, an alcoholic Phoenix police detective, is assigned to extradite witness Augustina "Gus" Mally from Las Vegas. His superior, Commissioner Edgar Blakelock, remarks that she is a "nothing witness" for a "nothing trial". Upon mee…
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Action, Thriller, action film, horror film, thriller film
Cassidy, an oceanographer, haunted by her father's death by a shark, decides to confront that memory by embarking on a diving expedition for sunken treasure with her new husband, Gregg, in Thailand. Their boat, captained by Gregg's friend …
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Political Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, horror film
Around the world, unusual phenomena are occurring that bear resemblance to signs of the Biblical apocalypse; these include a mass death of sea life in Haiti and a devastating freeze in the Middle East, and at each of these locations, a mys…
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Thriller, Western, Western film, drama film, thriller film
Roughly a decade after the end of the Civil War, veteran Jeb McAllister and his wife Hattie struggle to raise their adolescent son Will and infant daughter in the wilds of Montana. Hattie is disillusioned with the drudgery of frontier life…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Dylan Forrester, a psychopath and former assassin, is suppressing his instincts and taking mood stabiliser medication Lithium (which is incorrectly described on the bottle in the movie), supervised by Dr. Alderwood. He dodges his parole to…
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Ghost-House-Movies, Ghost-Movie, drama film, ghost film, horror film, mystery film
In 1928 England, English professor David Ash has spent most of his life working in the field of parapsychology to disprove the existence of ghosts. He is motivated by the death by drowning of Juliet, his twin sister, when they were 11, for…
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Romantic Drama, Thriller, comedy thriller, drama film, romantic comedy, thriller film
Tom Dobbs is host of a satirical news program, tapping into public frustrations with divisive, special interest-driven politics. Dobbs laughs off an audience member's suggestion that he run for president but following online support, he an…
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Horror, black comedy film, comedy horror, horror film
A news report shows a victim being pulled away on a stretcher. It is revealed that a serial killer, having murdered over thirty people, is on the loose in a Los Angeles suburb. Horace Pinker, a television repairman, is the culprit.
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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
In 1892 Fall River, Massachusetts, 32-year-old Lizzie Borden resides with her domineering father, Andrew; stepmother, Abby, and elder sister, Emma. While the Borden family are prominent members of the community, Lizzie's day-to-day life is…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, heist film, prison film, science fiction film
A gang robs a bank on behalf of crime boss Markus Kane. When two police officers unexpectedly enter the building, getaway driver Carl "Luke" Lucas urges his accomplices to abort the robbery, but they refuse. Luke intervenes, resulting in t…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, black comedy film, comedy film, historical drama
William Burke and William Hare, immigrants from Ulster, attempt to sell cheese mould as a patent medicine. When their fraud is discovered, they flee to an inn owned by Hare's wife, Lucky. One of her lodgers has died and she wants Burke and…
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Thriller, thriller film
The film tells the story of Kristín, an ambitious lawyer who is drawn into an unexpected sequence of events when her brother stumbles upon a World War II plane wreck on top of Vatnajökull.
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