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Adventure, fantasy film, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
In 1911, three men are floating in a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean following the wreck of the ship Lady Vain. One dies at sea. After seventeen days at sea, the two remaining survivors land on an island, where one is killed by animals.
Drama, Horror, Mysterie, mystery film, Noir
In a village in 1906 Vermont, Helen, a mute girl, attends a silent film screening in a local inn. During the screening, a lame woman limps out of the theatre to her room. She is strangled by a man who was hiding in her closet.
Action, crime thriller film
On the morning of Fourth of July, the DEA enlists the help of the Seattle SWAT to storm a drug cartel's waterfront warehouse to capture cartel members and seize a shipment of drugs. A firefight ensues, and when it is over, several DEA agents and one SWAT team member are dead. When the container holding the suspected drug shipment is found and opened, the team is surprised to find a man chained inside.
Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, teen film, thriller film
A paperboy delivers a newspaper to the house of District Attorney Bill Carson, who has planned a hunting trip. He warns his teenage daughter Paula to do her homework, not to allow boys in the house, and most importantly not to cut class. Paula then puts the newspaper in the bin, showing its headline: "Boy who killed father released from Mental Asylum." Bill Carson drives to the swamps for his hunting trip.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Drama, Satire
Gruff American gangster Dickey pushes a broken-down stolen car along a causeway through rising seawater while his increasingly weak accomplice Albie lies inside, bleeding from a gunshot wound after a botched robbery. Cut off by the unexpected rising tide, they are on the only road to the remote tidal island of Lindisfarne in Northumberland, where, in a dark castle on a hilltop, an eccentric middle-aged Englishman named George lives with his second wife, the young Frenchwoman Teresa. Dickey breaks into the castle and telephones his underworld boss, Katelbach, to send someone to collect him and Albie.
Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
Stephen Elliott is a successful author with a troubled childhood. His mother died when he was a child and his father Neil was physically and psychologically abusive. From his adolescence, Stephen has lived most of his life behaving very destructively, abusing drugs (of which Adderall is an example), and committing petty vandalism.
Comedy, Drama, Satire
Ben, a veteran Hollywood producer, is suffering a number of professional and personal problems. His latest film, Fiercely, has a disastrous test screening, mostly because of its ending, which features the murder of its main character, played by Sean Penn, along with his pet dog. Ben and his maverick British director Jeremy Brunell plead their case to studio executive Lou Tarnow.
Crime, Drama, Noir, sport film, thriller film
Harry Fabian is an ambitious American tout and con man on the make in London. He maintains a fractured relationship with the honest Mary Bristol, nightclub owner and businessman Phil Nosseross and with Nosseross's scheming wife, Helen. While attempting a con at a wrestling match, Fabian witnesses Gregorius, a veteran Greek wrestler, arguing with his son Kristo, who has organised the fight, and who effectively controls all wrestling in London.
Coming-of-age, Drama, independent film, Social Drama, sport film, thriller film
Alex, a 16-year-old skateboarder, rides a freight train clandestinely with a man named Scratch whom he has just met at the Eastside Skatepark, known as "Paranoid Park". While the train is moving a security guard notices the pair, chases after them, and tries to get them off by hitting Scratch with his flashlight. During the melee, Alex hits him with his skateboard and the guard, losing balance, falls onto another track into the path of an oncoming freight train which cuts him in half.
Drama, thriller film
Will McLean is a senior cadet at the Carolina Military Institute, a school that outwardly promises to produce men of honor but practices brutal hazing against its knobs (freshman cadets). Among these knobs are the overweight Poteete and the institute's first black cadet, Tom Pearce. McLean's mentor, Lt.
Drama
Alex (Gael García Bernal) and Nica (Hani Furstenberg) are in love and engaged to be married. They are seasoned travelers on a trip in the country of Georgia, formerly a republic of the Soviet Union. They hire a local guide (Bidzina Gujabidze) to take them backpacking through the breathtaking scenery of the Caucasus Mountains.
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
An unknown woman enters a maternity ward and, with help from an accomplice, steals a newborn baby. Terry, one of the guards catches them in the act but ends up being stabbed to death. Beth Sohapi is having a birthday party for her husband, Daniel Sohapi with the help of their friends, married couple Treshawn and Gina Jackson; Dave Lowe and his fiancee, Annette Langston; George Barnum and his girlfriend, Melissa McGuire; and Daniel's co worker, and friend, Julie Ross.
body horror film, Horror, monster film, Slasher, television film, thriller film
After a voice-over narrates on an opening card, Bobby Carter and his psychiatrist are discussing the events of the first film, which took place eight years ago. Bobby is still traumatized by the events, but he and Rachel (formerly known as Ruby), who now owns a biker team, have also invented a super fuel that can power bikes. The team is due to race in the same desert where the original massacre took place.
Crime
Australian cop, Jerome (Patrick Thompson) works as a cybercrime investigator for Interpol but is left shaken after investigating a case in Hamburg, Germany in which a man consented to having his own penis cut off and eaten by his lover. Jerome's own relationship is also troubled due to his frequent travel and difficulties with romantic intimacy, and he finds himself unable to respond positively to his girlfriend's sexual overtures. The two have violent sex and she leaves him after writing "pig" on his chest with lipstick.
Horror, thriller film
Nine months after her schizophrenic mother Sophia commits suicide, 20-year-old Rose Halshford moves to Chicago with her father Jerry, an architect who wants to help his daughter cope with their loss. But Rose, who has suspended her studies at Stanford University for one semester, does not feel comfortable in the hundred-year-old house, and is suspicious almost immediately. After speaking with Leila Markby, the girl living across the street, she confirms that her new house may be hiding a dark past.
Drama, Erotic Thriller, neo-noir, romance film, Romantic drama, thriller film
Psychiatrist Isaac Barr treats Diana Baylor for obsessive–compulsive disorder. Diana suggests Isaac meet her sister, Heather Evans, who may be able to shed light on her neuroses. Heather tells him that Diana was sexually abused by their father after their mother left.
Action, Adventure, Drama, thriller film
British Treasury secret agent Phillip Calvert is sent to investigate the hijacking of five cargo ships in the Irish Sea, tracking the latest hijacked ship – the Nantesville, carrying £8 million in gold bullion – to the Scottish Highlands and the sleepy port town of "Torbay" on the "Isle of Torbay" (actually filmed in Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull). Posing as marine biologists, Calvert and his partner Hunslett find the local inhabitants suspicious and hostile. They suspect that Cypriot tycoon and shipping magnate Sir Anthony Skouras, whose luxury yacht Shangri-La is anchored off the coast, may be behind the pirating of the gold bullion.
Biography, Drama, thriller film
The film is based on the true story of who was sentenced to 35 years in 2004 for possession of marijuana, and who made a spectacular escape from prison in 2006 with the help of a woman he met through a lonely-hearts ad.
Action, thriller film
In Boston, assassin Mary Goodwin kills her target Marcus Miller in his apartment. Before leaving, she notices Marcus’ young son Danny in his room, oblivious to her presence. A year later, Danny – unaware Mary has been keeping an eye on him – is working for a drug dealer who calls himself Uncle.
Adventure, Crime, Detective, Drama, mystery film, thriller film
Dr John H. Watson becomes convinced that his friend Sherlock Holmes, the famous private detective, is delusional—particularly in his belief that the renowned mathematician Professor James Moriarty is a criminal mastermind—as a result of his addiction to cocaine. Moriarty visits Watson to complain about being harassed by Holmes and explains that he was the tutor of Sherlock and his brother Mycroft until "the tragedy" happened.
Drama, neo-noir, thriller film
At a bar, detective Kyle Bodine hits on Rachel Munro, who is married to wealthy banker Rupert Munro; she blows Bodine off. At home, Rachel gets drunk while viewing a private investigator's photos of Rupert having sex with Adele, an employee. Rachel eventually starts an affair with Bodine.
thriller film
Ray and Maggie have lost their child to an accident. Longing for a fresh start, they purchase a motel from Ben in a small town located somewhere in the Arizona desert . Hours after their arrival, Ben calls Ray briefly, and disconnects his cellphone number soon after.
Drama, Dystopian, mystery film, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, thriller film, war film
The story transpires in a non-linear fashion, following U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer in training, in battle in Afghanistan, in counseling in Afghanistan, while searching for his family after returning to a devastated United States, and in his final moments as his broken mind returns to reality. Drummer is at Camp LeJeune, training as a U.S.
Crime, Horror, thriller film
Reporter Carl Kolchak of Seattle, Washington is assigned by his editor, Tony Vincenzo, to cover a series of killings in which the victims, all belly dancers, are strangled. Kolchak learns from the coroner's report that the victims' necks were actually crushed (a feat no human is strong enough to accomplish), they were drained of a few ounces of blood, and there were traces of rotting flesh on their necks. Kolchak consults researcher Titus Berry, who discovers that there was a similar rash of killings in 1952.