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Action, Crime, Drama, mystery film
Xavier Quinn is the chief of police of a small island in the Caribbean. When Donald Pater, the millionaire owner of a luxury resort hotel, is found murdered, everyone assumes that the culprit is Maubee, a petty crook who also is Quinn's best friend. Quinn does not believe it and clashes with the island's inept Governor Chalk and his arrogant political fixer Thomas Elgin.
Action, Drama, spy film, thriller film
Samir Horn is an Arabic-speaking Sudanese-American and devout Muslim. His Sudanese father was killed by a car bomb when he was a child. As an adult, Samir is first seen operating as an arms dealer.
Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
Zoe Hughes is an up-and-coming young actress, trying to follow in her mother Kathryn Vale's footsteps, who once was a popular film star. A scene of Zoe's gets interrupted by Kathryn's dramatic entrance, and later in the dressing room, Kathryn has nothing but criticism for her. That evening, Zoe watches a TV interview with Kathryn promoting her recently published memoir, 'Behind the Vale'.
Horror, thriller film
In Indiana, July 1988, Alexis Butler and her two friends Val and Bev are driving to a heavy metal show, when a milkshake is thrown from a blue van onto their windshield. Once they arrive at the concert, they find the same blue van, and Val throws a small firecracker into it, causing the three boys inside to climb out. Ivan owns the van and his buddies Kovacs and Mark, who is said to be leaving for Los Angeles soon, are interested in the girls.
Drama, Mysterie, mystery film
In Pimlico, London, Alice Barlow is murdered by an unknown man, who then ransacks her house, ripping her furniture apart as if desperately searching for something. The house remains empty for many years, until newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move in. Bella soon finds herself misplacing small objects; and, before long, Paul has her believing she is losing her sanity.
Biography, Comedy, independent film, thriller film
Pilot James T. Hoffman is busted by the FBI when he arrives in the United States with a large amount of cocaine in his airplane. His wife and two sons are with him, having accompanied him on the flight to Bolivia.
Action, Science fiction
In 1947 New Mexico, a radio operator receives a bizarre signal coming from Roswell, New Mexico. He decides to investigate its origin and disappears tracking it. In the present day, the same signal is received from the South Pole and then retransmitted from the Falkland Islands to the United States.
Action, buddy film, buddy cop film, Crime, Drama, thriller film
NYPD Lieutenant Nick Chen is head of the Asian Gang Unit. His job is to keep the peace in Chinatown from a turf war that has broken out between the Tung Fung Benevolent Association tong and the Fukienese Dragons street gang. The problem is complicated by the fact that he is also an informant for the Tongs under Uncle Benny Wong and his lieutenant Henry Lee.
Ghost, Horror, thriller film
Though no one can see him, Hollow Face lurks in the corners, desperately desiring love but only knowing how to spread fear and hate. In England, Hollow Face creeps into the life of John Farrow, after Farrow's 12-year-old daughter Mia is assaulted in their home. In Spain, Hollow Face creeps into the life of Luisa and her adolescent son Juan, after Juan is assaulted in their home.
Mysterie, Slasher, thriller film
In rural Australia, expatriate American truck driver Patrick Quid pulls into a motel for the night. There, a man in a green van checks in with a female hitchhiker, whom Quid had passed by because of trucking company policy. In their motel room, the hitchhiker strums a guitar while the man unpacks a new guitar string and forms it into a noose.
Crime, thriller film
In an Oregon logging community, a man, Blackway, has been harassing Lillian, a woman newly returned to her hometown. Lillian finds her cat decapitated. She reports this to the town's sheriff but he advises her to leave town.
Conspiracy Thriller, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Russel Curran (Brendan Fletcher) is a successful businessman living in Portland, Oregon. His 32-year-old wife Lauren (Christina Ricci) has bipolar disorder after a home invasion left her injured and her baby drowned in the bathtub. Craving a safe home, Russel and Lauren decide to move into a luxurious high-tech smart apartment an hour away from Portland.
Erotic Thriller, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, satanic film, thriller film, Vampire
Stefan Chilton, the son of an aristocratic British family who was raised in the United States, is traveling with his new wife, Valerie, through Europe. The couple check into a grand hotel on the Ostend seafront in Belgium, intending to catch the cross-channel ferry to England, where Stefan's mother lives. Valerie notices that Stefan is reluctant to phone his mother, who is unaware of the couple's marriage.
mystery film, thriller film
Alexandra "Alex" Sternbergen, a washed-up, alcoholic actress who performs under the stage name "Viveca Van Loren", wakes up on Thanksgiving 1986 next to the bloodied corpse of a sleazy photographer named Bobby Korshack in his Los Angeles loft. Suffering a hangover, Alex does not recall any events from the night before. She phones her husband Joaquin "Jacky" Manero, a salon owner from whom she is separated, and he insists that Alex call the police.
action thriller, satanic film, thriller film
When a cocaine shipment is compromised to the dismay of the business's masterminds, a chain of events is set in motion to understand the root of the problem. The Cook and The Man are entrusted with the mission to track the supply chain and identify the point of failure. As they trace the journey of the drugs, moving from the fields to the processing facilities, and then crossing borders to reach the distributors, they encounter numerous obstacles.
Action, Animal horror, Comedy, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
In 1889, the inhabitants of Rejection are completely dependent on the income from a nearby silver mine. One day, water from a hot spring causes graboid eggs to hatch, resulting in the death of 17 miners. Hiram Gummer, great-grandfather of Burt Gummer and the mine's owner, arrives in town to assess the situation.
body horror film, fantasy film, Horror, natural horror film, thriller film
Gabi and Winston, two employees of South Africa's forestry service, are travelling along a river in the Tsitsikamma forest when Gabi loses the drone she is controlling. Gabi decides to enter the forest, retrieve the drone and rejoin Winston later. While walking through the forest, Gabi triggers a trap, which leads to a wooden stake piercing through her foot.
Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, crossover fiction, Detective, thriller film
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo travel to an amusement park called Kiss World to see Kiss at their big Halloween concert and solve a mystery, mostly because Daphne has a crush on Starchild (Paul Stanley), much to Fred's annoyance. However, when the gang arrive, security chief and former government defense employee Delilah Domino refuse to let them in due to unexplained reasons, but they sneak in anyway, only to be caught by Delilah, who bans them from Kiss World. At that moment, Kiss arrives, and after the gang explains they just want to help, they tell Delilah the kids are free to stay, to which she reluctantly agrees, though…
Biography, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Conman Raymond Fernandez (Jared Leto) defrauds rich women through personal ads, and meets Martha Beck (Salma Hayek) who joins Raymond in his schemes, posing as his sister. They begin traveling the country, murdering over a dozen women who respond to their ads. Homicide detectives Robinson (John Travolta) and Hildebrandt (James Gandolfini) track them down and bring them to justice.
Action, Bad Cop, Christmas film, Crime, Horror, prison film, Slasher, thriller film, Zombie
After being impaled by a pipe and plunged into a body of water, the now-undead "Maniac Cop" Matthew Cordell acquires a junked police cruiser and restarts his killing spree through New York City. Finding a convenience store in the middle of a robbery, he kills the clerk; the thief is subsequently killed in a shootout with police. As Cordell stalks the streets, his enemies Officers Jack Forrest and Theresa Mallory are put back on duty by Deputy Commissioner Edward Doyle, who has the two undergo a psychiatric evaluation under Officer Susan Riley.
Adventure, fantasy film, kaiju, Science fiction, thriller film
In waters off Infant Island, a presumed uninhabited site for atomic tests of the Eurasian country Rolisica, the Daini-Gen'you-Maru is caught and run aground in the turbulence of a typhoon. A rescue party following the storm finds four sailors alive and strangely unafflicted with radiation sickness, which they attribute to the juice provided them by island natives. The story is broken by tenacious reporter Zenichiro Fukuda and photographer Michi Hanamura, who infiltrate the hospital examining the survivors.
Drama, Horror, thriller film
In Providence, Rhode Island, Thomas "Tom" Bardo (Stephen Rea) is having a particularly bad day; not only has his unemployment run out, but he has also been evicted from his apartment. Retirement-home caregiver Brandi Boski (Mena Suvari), who is potentially up for a promotion at work, celebrates with a night of drinking and MDMA before driving home. On the way, Brandi hits Tom with her car and he becomes trapped in her windshield.
Adventure, Cartoon, Comedy, Comedy horror, Detective, Family Comedy, fantasy film, Ghost, thriller film
Shaggy discovers that his uncle Colonel Beauregard has died and has left him his country estate, Beauregard Manor, a Southern plantation. Shaggy, along with Scooby and Scrappy, head for the estate in order to claim Shaggy's inheritance. Before they can get there, they meet Sheriff Rufus Buzby, who warns them about the estate being haunted and that they should return home.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film
Detective Virgil Tibbs, now a lieutenant with the San Francisco police, is assigned to investigate the murder of a prostitute. A prime suspect is Reverend Logan Sharpe, a street preacher who is leading one of the sides in a city referendum on an urban renewal project. He tells Tibbs he was visiting the prostitute in his professional capacity, to advise her spiritually, and that when he left her apartment, she was alive and healthy.