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Drama, drama film, thriller film
Sheila, a hitchhiking teenage runaway, is picked up on Interstate 605 in the Greater Los Angeles Area by a woman with a toddler. When the car gets a flat tire, they find a telephone booth on the edge of an abandoned tract housing district. While the mother is on the phone, the toddler is attacked and killed by a stray dog.
action film, disaster film, thriller film
When the existence of a strain of plague (vaguely identified as pneumonic) is revealed at the US mission at the International Health Organization in Geneva, three terrorists seek to blow up the US mission. Two of them are shot, one mortally, by security personnel, but one escapes. The surviving terrorist is hospitalized and quarantined and identified as Swedish.
Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film
Jeliza-Rose has solitary adventures during one summer in rural Texas while staying at a rundown farmhouse called What Rocks. The girl creates an increasingly dark, imaginative fantasy life with the aid of dismembered Barbie doll heads that she often wears on her fingertips. With names such as Mystique, Sateen Lips, Baby Blonde and Glitter Gal, the doll heads not only engage in long conversations with Jeliza-Rose, reflecting different aspects of the girl's psyche, but also act as her companions while she explores the barren Texas landscape.
Crime, Thriller
Detective Bobby Belucci, once respected, finds himself in disgrace after a tumultuous confrontation with his wife's lover. This incident results in his demotion, leaving him grappling with both his personal turmoil and the loss of his professional standing. In a bid to reclaim his integrity and purpose, Bobby resolves to infiltrate the notorious Gambino crime family in New York, specifically targeting the menacing DeMeo Crew under the leadership of Roy DeMeo.
Horror, Thriller, horror film, thriller film
Hal, a married man with a dysfunctional family who is a collector of retro video games, receives a copy of an interactive fiction computer game called CURS>R. Hal installs the game and starts to play, expecting it to be nothing more than a classic 1980s text-based adventure game. However, when the objects around him begin to interact with the game, he realises it is something more, culminating in his wife Laura cutting out their son Gabe's tongue.
Horror, coming-of-age film, drama film, film noir, horror film, vampire film
Eight-year-old Seth Dove lives in an isolated Idaho prairie community in the 1950s. The film opens with Seth and his friends, Eben and Kim, playing with a frog Seth has found in the fields. The boys inflate the frog by inserting a reed up its anus and leave it by the side of the road.
Horror comedy, fantastique film, horror film, teen film
Journalist Buzzy Crocker writes for a supermarket tabloid, The National Inquisitor, after his termination from the Los Angeles Banner (where his then-girlfriend Jill works as editor) for publishing a fake news story. Helping him in his job is young niece Anna, with whom he is close friends. Sometime later, an elderly woman named Abigail Gregory comes to visit Buzzy, and explains that on Halloween in 1939, she was witness to a bizarre incident in the Hollywood Tower Hotel, when five hotel guests – singer Carolyn Crosson, Crosson's boyfriend: actor Gilbert London, much-loved child star Sally Shine, her nanny Emeline Partridge, and bellhop…
Thriller, thriller film
Doug Martin (Nick Jonas) is a 17-year-old teenager spending the summer with his parents Emily Martin (Kiki Harris) and Brian Martin (David Sherrill) at their lake house. When wealthy investment banker Elliot Harper (Dermot Mulroney) moves in next door, Doug finds himself immediately drawn to Elliot's young wife, Lena Harper (Isabel Lucas). Elliot hires Doug to work on his sailboat, and this gives Doug an excuse to interact with Lena, who is often alone due to Elliot traveling for business.
Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
London gangster Willie Parker gives evidence against his fellow criminals in return for a very generous offer from the police. As he is led from the witness box at his trial, the defendants threateningly sing Vera Lynn's song "We'll Meet Again." Ten years later, Parker lives in comfortable retirement in Spain. Four Spanish youths kidnap and deliver him to British hit man Braddock and his young sidekick, Myron, hired by the crime boss that Parker helped put away.
Action, Thriller
Hitman In-nam has completed an assignment in Japan, killing a Japanese mobster Koraeda. In Thailand, Young-joo sends her daughter Yoo-min to school and tells her that a babysitter will fetch her after school, as she meets up with real estate agents for an investment in a golf course. Later, as Yoo-min gets down from the school bus, the babysitter takes her to her husband's car and drives away, instead of going home.
Drama, Horror, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film, vampire film
Kathleen Conklin, an introverted doctoral student of philosophy at New York University, is attacked one night by a woman who calls herself "Casanova". She pushes Kathleen into a stairwell, bites her neck and drinks her blood. Kathleen soon develops traditional symptoms of vampirism such as aversion to daylight and distaste for food.
Drama, Horror, Thriller, War Film, drama film, ghost film, horror film
In 1917, soldiers of the British 5th Battalion's Y Company under Cpt. Jennings charge a German trench as part of a larger assault. The young Pvt.
Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Ben Logan is an American single parent who has recently moved to Belgium with Amy, his previously estranged teenaged daughter. He works for The Kohler Company, a subsidiary within the Halgate Group, a multinational technology corporation. He tests ways to breach security measures, such as locks and iris scanners.
Military Film, War Film, action film, propaganda film, thriller film
Lieutenant Nikolai Petrovitch Rachenko, a Soviet Spetsnaz operative from Ukraine, is sent to an African country in which Soviet and Cuban forces are helping the government fight an anti-communist rebel movement. He is tasked with the mission to assassinate the rebel leader. Rachenko stirs up trouble in the local bar and gets arrested for disorderly conduct.
Thriller, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, thriller film
Jennifer is a beautiful teenager who is hired to babysit the children of Harry Tucker and his wife, Dolly Tucker, while they attend a party hosted by their friends, Bill Holsten and his wife, Bernice Holsten. Harry often fantasizes about Jennifer, while Dolly misinterprets Bill's compliments as a sign of attraction and fantasizes about him. Meanwhile, Jennifer's ex-boyfriend Jack, with whom she broke up when he started pressuring Jennifer for sex, runs into his estranged troublemaking friend Mark, Bill and Bernice's son, who once had a fling with Jennifer and still harbors feelings for her.
Monster Film, Sci-Fi, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
Dr. Jane Tiptree has withdrawn from public life to conduct sequestered research for the Eunice Corporation. DARPA is wary of her work with genetically modified chickens but cannot legally interfere in her research.
Historie, Political Thriller, drama film, war film
Brigadier General Bonner Fellers is sent to Japan as a part of the Allied occupation force after World War II, tasked with arresting Japanese war criminals, including former Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. He's also seeking his former Japanese girlfriend, Aya Shimada, with the assistance of his Japanese interpreter and driver, Takahashi. Tojo is arrested, but the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, General Douglas MacArthur, informs Fellers that Emperor Hirohito is being shielded from war crimes trials, to prevent a Japanese revolt, despite loud American calls he should pay personally for Japan's war crimes.
Drama, drama film, mystery film
The story centres on an anguished English-born Pittsburgh high school teacher Tom Crick and his life in 1974, going through a reassessment of his life. Crick finds out that his wife, Mary, is starting to lose her sanity and longing for a son they never had. Soon after, worried about Mary's mental health, Crick changes his method for teaching history, and starts narrating his life to his class and interweaving three generations of his family.
Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
At a university fraternity's New Year's Eve party, a reluctant Alana Maxwell is pressured into a prank: she lures the awkward, virginal pledge Kenny Hampson into a bedroom under the promise of sex. Instead, he discovers a corpse stolen from the medical school in the bed. Traumatized, Kenny is committed to a psychiatric hospital.
action comedy film, adventure film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film
Whilst working for the CIA, Jackie is assigned to follow leads of a nuclear smuggling case. One of the tasks the CIA gives him is to watch a woman named Natasha while on a plane from Hong Kong to Crimea and record her movements. Jackie arrives in Simferopol and the CIA, partnered with local Ukrainian Security Service, take over the task of following Natasha.
Action, Vampirfilm, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, horror western, science fiction Western, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, vampire film
In 1913 Mexico, American author Ambrose Bierce experiences a nightmare in which he is killed by Pancho Villa. Bierce wakes and talks to a local bartender about his intentions to join Villa's revolutionary army. He joins a stagecoach transporting a newlywed couple, John and Mary Newlie, who are traveling to Mexico to preach Christianity.
Thriller, screenlife, thriller film
In order to investigate the recruitment of young European women by ISIS, journalist Amy Whittaker creates a new Facebook profile under the alias of Melody Nelson. She creates a persona online of a woman who has recently converted to Islam. Soon Amy is contacted by Bilel, an ISIS fighter from Syria.
Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film
In 1985, Enid Baines works for the British Board of Film Classification during the height of the "video nasty" controversy. Enid's co-workers call her "Little Miss Perfect" due to her insistence that violent content be cut or banned. While Enid is having dinner with her parents, they discuss Enid's sister Nina, who disappeared when the two were little.
Military Film, action film, thriller film
U.S. Army Sergeant Edward Brockman is stationed at Camp Humphreys in South Korea. His commanding officer has assigned him with Corporal Stephaine Selby to repair a ground-penetrating radar (GPR) unit near the Korean DMZ.