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Action, buddy cop film, Comedy, Detective, Drama, Martial arts, thriller film
U.S. version Billy Wong is a Hong Kong-born officer with the New York Police Department. During a bar robbery gone awry, Billy kills the perpetrators but loses his partner Michael Alexander, drawing the ire of his superiors.
Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Justice Drama, mystery film, Science fiction, thriller film
In 1859, a meteorite streaks across the sky and crashes into the Gela Alta glacier in western Greenland, causing a massive explosion that kills an Inuk fisherman. In present-day Copenhagen, Smilla Jaspersen, a transplanted Greenlander, is studying ice crystals at a university lab. Although an Arctic ice specialist, Smilla has not completed her credentials and is unemployed, with a troubled past.
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
A supermarket closes and the workers begin restocking the shelves for the next day. Craig – the ex-boyfriend of cashier Jennifer – appears and the two quarrel. Worried about her friend, her coworker, Linda, witnesses the debacle and presses her security button at her cash checkout.
Drama, Erotic Thriller, Mysterie, romance film, Romantic drama
In Cold War Vienna, Milena Flaherty, a young American woman, is rushed to the emergency room after apparently overdosing in a suicide attempt. With her is Alex Linden, an American psychoanalyst who lives in the city working as a university teacher. While doctors and nurses fight to save Milena's life, an investigator, Netusil, begins investigating the incident.
Action, Drama, romance film, thriller film
Set in the American Midwest, the film begins with the murder of a Jewish radio host in Chicago. FBI undercover agent Catherine Weaver, alias Katie Phillips, sets out to infiltrate a farming community, suspected of harboring those responsible. After receiving a warm welcome from land-owner and farmer Gary Simmons, his two children and extended family, she begins to believe that the FBI lead is erroneous.
Drama, Secret Agent, thriller film
Thomas is a British Jew who until a year ago used to work for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency in Germany. Now he is retired but still has access to some of his former employer's systems and resources. He receives a mysterious phone call from Rachel, another former agent whom he had recruited and who had become a friend but disappeared.
Adventure, mystery film, Western
Distraught but skillful bounty hunter Lewis Gates is accompanied by his horse and faithful companion Zip, an Australian Cattle Dog. Gates tracks three armed escaped convicts into Montana's isolated Oxbow Quadrangle, at the persistence of his unforgiving ex-father-in-law, who blames Gates for his daughter's tragic death. Gates sees the convicts but hears gunshots.
Action, Adventure, Christmas film, Drama, fantasy film, Science fiction
Will Stanton (Alexander Ludwig) is a day away from his fourteenth birthday. As Will walks home with his siblings, Miss Greythorne (Frances Conroy), the local mistress of the Manor, and her butler, Merriman Lyon (Ian McShane), invite them to a Christmas party. Later, two farmers, Dawson (James Cosmo) and Old George (Jim Piddock), arrive at the Stanton house with a large Christmas tree ordered by the family.
thriller film
In 1962, New York con man Chester MacFarland and his wife Colette are touring Greece. At the Acropolis, they meet Rydal Keener, an American who is alienated from his family. The MacFarlands invite him to dinner.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Sean Boyd, a former cop, aligns with Maria, a street smart young clerk from the New York City dog pound, on a search for his daughter, who is kidnapped by Gus Soltic, a psychopath, after being mistaken for the daughter of a wealthy real estate developer that he blames for the deterioration of his once beloved South Bronx childhood neighborhood. His search is met with obstacles as he runs afoul of the police in his pursuit, including a corrupt former colleague bent on revenge against him. Meanwhile, the kidnapper is ready to kill anybody, including his young hostage, unless his ransom demands are met.
fantasy film, Mysterie
The story concerns a dishevelled man in a filthy flat. He is anxious and paranoid, trying to kill a small bug-like creature that is scurrying on the floor. It is revealed that the bug resembles a miniature version of himself, with every movement it makes being later matched by the man himself.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, Noir
Peter Denver, a renowned Broadway producer, is attending a cocktail party hosted by the viciously haughty and celebrated actress Carlotta "Lottie" Marin and her quiet husband Brian Mullen when he meets Nancy "Nanny" Ordway. The seemingly naïve Nanny, a 20-year-old aspiring writer, says she hopes to make it big in New York. She convinces a reluctant Peter to persuade his wife, Iris—another famous actress, who is temporarily out of town—to agree to Nanny's use of the couple's apartment to write in during the day.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, thriller film
In the mid-1960's, John Skillpa (Cillian Murphy), a quiet bank clerk living alone in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life in order to hide his secret: He has dissociative identity disorder, the implied result of childhood trauma inflicted by his abusive mother. His other identity is a woman, Emma, who each morning does his chores and cooks him breakfast before he starts the day. One day while he is using the outside yard clothesline as Emma, a freight train caboose derails and crashes into John's backyard.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
In the 1970s Midwest, teenaged Bobbie, a methamphetamine addict, attempts to rob several vending machines at a local college, but is confronted by a night guard who brutally attacks and beats him. The fight ends with Bobbie stabbing the guard to death. A severely injured Bobbie returns to the flophouse of his older girlfriend, Rosie, who contacts Mel, a streetwise middle-aged thief and part-time drug dealer, for help.
Science fiction, thriller film
Set in a near future society ruled by sentient A.I., a private eye investigates a murder case only to discover a rebel group capable of undermining the digital overlord. As the detective's identity slowly unravels, his world enters a state of hypnotic meltdown.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, thriller film
In 1939, a new radio network based at station WBN in Chicago, Illinois, begins its inaugural night. The station's owner, General Walt Whalen, depends on his employees to impress main sponsor Bernie King. This includes writer Roger Henderson, assistant director Penny Henderson (Roger's wife, seeking divorce), page boy Billy Budget, engineer Max Applewhite, conductor Rick Rochester, announcer Dexter Morris, director Walt Whalen Jr.
Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Dr. Frank Linden has a life-size, anatomically correct medical dummy in his office which he calls "Pin". Via ventriloquism, Dr.
Action, Secret Agent, thriller film
In 2005, undercover CIA operative Leonard Turner is held captive and interrogated by a group of unidentified Russian arms dealers. His interrogators have been aware of Leonard's true identity and demand a full written list of individuals and businesses affiliated with the CIA in exchange for the safety of his wife and son. Leonard breaks from captivity and kills his interrogators, phoning his colleague Ken Robertson to get his family to safety.
Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama
After returning home from a five-year prison sentence, John "Goldie" Mickens has a plan to achieve money and power in Oakland, California, by becoming a pimp. Goldie's criminal ways contrast with his brother Olinga's Black Nationalist efforts to save the community from drugs and violence. With Slim as his partner and Lulu as his head prostitute, he organizes a team of women and quickly rises to prominence.
fantasy film, Mysterie, Occult Horror, Psychological Thriller
Alex Bernier is a disillusioned priest and a member of the fictional Carolingian Order – an ancient sect that specializes in exorcisms and combatting demonic forces. The narrative begins with the mysterious death of Father Dominic – the head of the Carolingians, in Rome. Alex is dispatched by Cardinal Driscoll – a prominent Vatican official and papal candidate, to investigate the circumstances surrounding Dominic's demise.
Comedy, thriller film
Richard Thorncroft is a former television actor, known for playing Detective Bruce Mindhorn, a detective with a cybernetic eye that enables him to see truth (described as an optical lie detector), on the 1980s TV show Mindhorn. Twenty-five years later, on the Isle of Man, where the series was filmed, police hunt the escaped lunatic Paul Melly, who's wanted for murder. Melly says he will only speak to Detective Mindhorn, believing Mindhorn is real.
Action, buddy film, buddy cop film, Comedy
In Kansas City, 1933, police lieutenant Speer goes to a diner for coffee. Two men arrive, looking for a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Speer and Murphy were good friends until the latter left the force.
Drama, musical film, romance film
Satin Records rejected rock and roll band Eddie and the Cruisers' last album A Season in Hell 20 years earlier. Now Satin launches an "Eddie Lives!" campaign to make more money off Eddie's image as a publicity stunt, despite their belief that Eddie is dead. The record label re-releases the band's first album, which becomes an even bigger hit than its original release.
Drama
Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston's parents divorced two years earlier, and his mother Wendy has been dating other men, but she remains deeply in love with her ex-husband. When she learns he is remarrying, she sleeps with a man she met the same day, Sam, on the rebound. Jake and his preadolescent brother Brian are disturbed by this, but as Sam begins dating Wendy, they are won over by Sam's ingratiating manner and his gifting them both dirt bikes.