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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,130 films · Page 130.

Frozen River (2008)

Christmas film, Drama, crime film, drama film

The film is set shortly before Christmas in the North Country of Upstate New York, near the Akwesasne ('Where the Partridge Drums') St. Regis Mohawk Reservation and the border crossing to Cornwall, Ontario. Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is a discount store clerk struggling to raise two sons with her husband, a compulsive gambler who has disappeared with the funds she had earmarked to finance the purchase of a double-wide mobile home.

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Instinct (1999)

Psychological Thriller, drama film, prison film

The film examines the mind of anthropologist Ethan Powell who had been missing for a few years, living in the jungle of Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable Forest with mountain gorillas. He is convicted of killing and injuring several supposed Wilderness Park Rangers in East Africa, and is sent to prison. A bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder, tries to find out why he killed them, but becomes entangled in a quest to learn the true history and nature of humankind, stating that civilization has steadily destroyed the natural world, advocating that humans abandon this.

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Soldaat van Oranje (1977)

Anti-War Film, Coming Of Age, Thriller

During World War II, a group of students in Leiden, the Netherlands—Erik Lanshof, Guus LeJeune, Jan Weinberg, Alex, Erik's friend Robby Froost and his girlfriend Esther—collaborate, while others join the Dutch resistance. A newsreel plays from the immediate postwar period of Queen Wilhelmina returning to the Netherlands. In 1938 Leiden, freshmen undergo the initiation rites of their fraternity.

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Divinity (2023)

Sci-Fi, science fiction film, thriller film

Set in an otherworldly human existence, scientist Sterling Pierce dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, slowly creating the building blocks of a groundbreaking serum named "Divinity". Jaxxon Pierce, his son, now controls and manufactures his father's once-benevolent dream into a malicious nightmare.

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Lady in White (1988)

Fantasy, Horror, ghost film, horror film

On Halloween 1962, nine-year-old Frankie Scarlatti is locked inside his classroom coatroom by schoolmates Donald and Louie at the end of the day. Trapped well after dark, he witnesses the apparition of a young girl being murdered in the coatroom, though her assailant is invisible. Moments later, a man enters the coatroom and attempts to open a vent grate on the floor, but notices Frankie and strangles him to unconsciousness.

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You're Killing Me (2023)

Horror, Thriller

Eden Murphy is a bright, young high school student hoping to get into Pembroke University on a scholarship. She's currently on the waitlist but just needs that extra push to secure her place and sees Barrett Schroder, the son of a congressman, the perfect way in. One day after school she asks him politely if she could get a meeting with his father, but he brushes her off.

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The Terror (1963)

Horror, Thriller, drama film, ghost film, horror film, romance film

thumb|thumbtime=1:50|Full movie In 1806, André Duvalier, a French soldier lost in the Confederation of the Rhine, is saved by Helene, a young woman who bears a resemblance to Ilsa von Leppe, the late wife of Baron von Leppe who had died 20 years earlier. André sets out to investigate Helene's true identity and learns the Baron's darkest secret: after he found Ilsa with another man, the Baron killed his wife while his servant killed her lover. Over the preceding two years, the Baron has been tormented by Ilsa's ghost, who has besought him to kill himself so that they can be together forever.

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Project X (1987)

Drama, Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy drama, comedy thriller, drama film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film

University of Wisconsin graduate student Teri MacDonald has trained a chimpanzee named Virgil to use sign language. When her National Science Foundation research grant is not renewed, Virgil is taken to an Air Force base in Lockridge, Florida, to be used in a top-secret research project involving flight simulation, though Teri is told that he's been sent to the Houston Zoo. Airman Jimmy Garrett is assigned to the same chimpanzee project.

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Rampage (1987)

Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film

Charles Reece is a serial killer who commits a number of brutal mutilation-slayings in order to drink blood as a result of paranoid delusions. Reece is soon captured. Most of the film revolves around the trial and the prosecutor's attempts to have Reece found sane and given the death penalty.

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The Survivalist (2015)

Found Footage, Sci-Fi, Thriller, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film

After a catastrophic global population collapse, an unnamed man, known only as the Survivalist, lives alone in woodland. He protects a small cabin and vegetable plot with traps and alarms, surviving by hunting, foraging and farming. Two strangers arrive: Kathryn, an older woman, and her daughter Milja.

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'Til Death Do Us Part (2017)

thriller film

Michael and Madison Roland have a seemingly perfect marriage, and are celebrating their first wedding anniversary. Madison brings up that she wants to start a family together but Michael becomes irritated as he doesn't. Michael visits his mother's grave and talks to her headstone, it is revealed his mother and his father died the same year, and later it becomes known that they died in a murder-suicide.

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Who Dares Wins (1982)

Action, Political Thriller, action film, political thriller film, thriller film

In London, a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) demonstration is interrupted when a protester is killed. British security forces learn that a terrorist group has associated itself with the CND to further its own goals, and has been planning some sort of attack; the murdered protester was an undercover intelligence officer who had infiltrated the terrorist group. The commanding officer of the Special Air Service, Colonel J.

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Fire Down Below (1997)

Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film

In the peaceful Appalachian hills of eastern Kentucky, toxins are being dumped into abandoned mines, causing environmental havoc, but the locals, mindful of their jobs and the power of the mine owners, can do nothing. EPA CID agent Jack Taggert is sent to investigate, after a fellow agent, revealed to be Jack's friend and partner, Frank Elkins, is found dead, probably not by accident. The EPA has received an anonymous letter from Jackson, Kentucky, and Taggert goes undercover to continue his colleague's investigations.

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Targets (1968)

Thriller, crime thriller film, horror film

Byron Orlok, an aged, embittered horror movie actor, abruptly announces his decision to retire from Hollywood and return to his native England to live out his final days. Orlok considers himself outdated because he believes that people are no longer frightened by old-fashioned horror, citing real-life news stories as more horrifying than anything in his films. However, after much persuasion, particularly from young director Sammy Michaels, Orlok agrees to make a final in-person promotional appearance at a Reseda drive-in theater before leaving Hollywood for good.

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After (2012)

Thriller, fantasy film

In 2012, Ana, a nurse who once wanted to write horror fiction, meets Freddy on a bus. Freddy, a graphic novelist, chats her up. Surprisingly, they live on the same street in a small town, Pearl, but their conversation is cut off when the bus crashes.

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The Salton Sea (2002)

Drama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, neo-noir, psychological thriller

"Danny Parker" is a Los Angeles speed freak (meth addict) who hangs out with junkie friends while indulging in drugs. He also moonlights as an informant for two corrupt cops, Gus Morgan and Al Garcetti. Danny is trying to set up a large meth score with notorious drug dealer Pooh-Bear, an eccentric psychopath who lost his nose to excessive snorting of meth, while also attempting to set up a sting operation for Morgan and Garcetti.

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Afflicted (2013)

Horror, Thriller, drama film, found footage film, horror film, vampire film

Childhood friends Clif and Derek decide to venture around the world and film their travel web series Ends of the Earth. The trip is Derek's last wish, as he has an AVM (cerebral arteriovenous malformation), which could cause his death at any moment. Clif and Derek stop in Barcelona to meet with old friends Edo and Zach.

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Paradise Hills (2019)

Fantasy, Thriller, fantasy film, melodrama

At her wedding, rich socialite Uma is toasted by her guests, who compliment her new attitude. Later, she is pinned to a bed by her husband, Son, who happily remarks on how much more obedient she is. Two months earlier, Uma awakens in a strange room and realizes that she is trapped on an island called Paradise.

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Remember (2015)

Drama, drama film, thriller film

In a New York City nursing home, Auschwitz concentration camp survivor Zev Guttman, an 89-year-old dementia patient, awakens looking for his wife, Ruth, who died two weeks prior. Another elderly patient and fellow Auschwitz survivor, the incapacitated Max Rosenbaum, reminds Zev of what he promised to do when Ruth died. Max has continually reminded Zev that their families were murdered at the camp by the Blockführer Otto Wallisch, who was believed to have immigrated to the U.S.

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