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Crime, Drama, Heist, Noir
Steve Thompson returns to Los Angeles after two years of drifting trying to shake off a bad divorce, looking for his ex-wife Anna but tormented over seeing her again. Against all better judgment he continues to, resuming his old job as a driver at an armored-truck company. Fended away by Steve's family and friends, Anna marries mobster Slim Dundee, but kindles a clandestine affair with Thompson.
Biography, Crime, Drama, thriller film
As he investigates the missing person report of a teenager named Christopher Gant (based on Gacy's final victim, Robert Piest), Des Plaines detective Lt. Joseph R. Kozenczak (Riley) becomes concerned that local businessman John Wayne Gacy (Dennehy) may be responsible for this as well as many other disappearances.
Action, Horror, thriller film
The film opens with a point-of-view shot, as a murderer surveys Amsterdam's canals at night. He slips into the back of a Chinese restaurant, steals a butcher's knife, and stalks his first victim, a prostitute. After she fights off a taxi driver, the killer stabs her and drags her body into the water, watched by a homeless person.
Drama, thriller film
Brenda is a plain young woman, who lives at home with her mother in Liverpool and enjoys writing fairy tales for children. One day she tells her mother that she is leaving home and moving to London in order to find a father for her yet unborn baby. Arriving in London, she has some of her belongings knocked out of her hands by an attractive young man (Peter) who doesn't give her a second look.
Biography, Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, thriller film
Crime, Drama, Noir
left|thumb| left|thumb| In the midst of the Great Depression, Alan Squier, a failed British writer, now a disillusioned, penniless drifter, wanders into a roadside diner in the remote town of Black Mesa, Arizona, at the edge of the Petrified Forest. The diner is run by Jason Maple, his daughter Gabrielle, and Gramp, Jason's father, who regales anyone who will listen with stories of his adventures in the Old West with such characters as Billy the Kid. Gabrielle's mother, a French war bride who fell in love with Jason when he was a young, handsome American serviceman, left her "dull defeated man" after World War I and moved back to France…
Drama, fantasy film, Ghost, Horror, mystery film, Psychological Thriller
A hooded, disfigured young man is eating at a diner, being watched by a stranger. The stranger is Wyburd (Clive Russell), who has been stalking the young man, Simon (Jonas Armstrong). Wyburd convinces Simon to join him in his truck, where Simon passes out and awakens strapped to a table.
Political Thriller
When his fiancée is murdered by terrorists, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) cryptographer named Charles Heller blackmails his superiors into sending him on a field assignment into Czechoslovakia to assassinate those responsible. Just as he enters the field, the CIA locates the stolen material he had been using to blackmail the agency, eliminating their need to cooperate with him. So he is behind the Iron Curtain, inadequately trained, and without support.
Action, Crime, Drama, Mafia Film, thriller film
Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano) is a brutal and experienced yakuza enforcer whose boss was killed and whose clan was defeated in a criminal war with a rival family. Surviving clan members have few options: either to join the winners, reconciling with shame and distrust, or to die by committing seppuku. Yamamoto, however, decides to escape to Los Angeles along with his associate Kato (Susumu Terajima).
Drama, Political Thriller, spy film
Joseph Rearden, a petty criminal-turned-agent for British intelligence, arrives in London. There, MI5 officer Mackintosh and his deputy, Mrs. Smith, inform Rearden of a way to steal diamonds which are transported via the postal service.
Crime, Horror, monster film, Mysterie, mystery film
In 1889, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson receive a visit from Dr.
Ghost, Horror, thriller film
Jessie Laurent, who is pregnant, is about to move to her fiancé, Mark's house when their car is hit by a truck just when they are backing up their car from the driveway, killing Mark and causing Jessie's miscarriage. Two months afterward, Jessie, who now uses a wheelchair, moves in with her estranged father, Leon, in St. Francisville, Louisiana.
Horror, thriller film
A suburban father is killed after being hit by a car. Unemployed and financially unable to support herself and her teenage son Logan, his wife Naomi agrees to move into her sister's secluded mountain chalet until it sells. Upon moving into the beautiful home, Naomi and Logan encounter their elderly neighbor, Martha, who behaves strangely, and Chris, a pleasant but persistent store clerk.
Crime, mystery film, thriller film
Los Angeles police detective John Berlin is teetering toward burnout after the collapse of his marriage. At the invitation of an old friend and colleague, Freddy Ross, Berlin heads to rural Northern California for a job with the Eureka police force. Berlin rankles his new colleagues, especially John Taylor, who was the lead homicide detective for the unsolved homicide investigation concerning young woman found with her head and hands missing.
Crime, Drama, Noir
The night of her birthday, L.A. switchboard operator Norah Larkin opens the latest letter from her fiancé, a soldier serving in the Korean War. The letter ends up revealing his plans to marry someone he met in Tokyo.
Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, thriller film
Norah Dain, a nightclub disc jockey and aspiring actress living alone in a Manhattan apartment, receives a series of obscene phone calls from someone who seems to be watching her on a daily basis. She also finds a decapitated teddy bear in her apartment. A police detective, Lt.
Action, Drama, thriller film
Velvet Von Ragnar is a powerful murderous psychopathic gang leader, but also a hermaphrodite who prides himself on being both a man and a woman. He's holding a gang rally where he announces his plans to poison the water supply and pipeline of a major US city. However, top US secret agent and double-O counterpart Drew Stargrove steals a key component he needs to pull this off.
Action, thriller film
A retired CIA agent paints as a hobby. But his past has come back to haunt him, as a mysterious woman shows up. He must find the way to evade the incoming threat in forms of some trained op recruits.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Ryan Weaver, an accused serial killer and rapist, is arrested in New York City despite his claims of innocence. Even though police lieutenant Aldo Hines broke protocol during the arrest by assaulting Weaver, the authorities have enough hard evidence to have him extradited to Los Angeles to face trial. Weaver and another prisoner, a bank robber named Stubbs, are escorted by four U.S.
Action, Comedy drama, comedy thriller, romantic comedy, Romantic drama, thriller film
Chicago native Charlie Countryman is greeted in a hospital by his deceased mother after she is taken off life support. She requests him to go to Bucharest, Romania, and he complies despite his initial reservations. During his flight he bonds with Victor, a Romanian man who is returning home after attending a Chicago Cubs game.
Crime, fantasy film, Horror, monster film, Mysterie, mystery film, Science fiction, thriller film
While investigating the murders of a serial killer who mutilates and removes the internal organs of the victims, two present-day New Orleans police detectives, Carson O'Conner and her partner Michael Sloane, learn that Victor Frankenstein, now calling himself Victor Helios, is still alive and has created a number of genetically-engineered creatures with the intent of building a legion of followers to assist in his overthrow of the Old Race (humans). However, his very first creation, the original Frankenstein monster, now calling himself Deucalion, is also alive and looking to kill his creator.
Comedy, Comedy drama, comedy thriller, Crime, Drama, Family Drama
Bill Kincaid is lecturing his class at Brown University about Plato's Socratic dialogues. Meanwhile, Bill's identical twin brother Brady Kincaid is living in Oklahoma, growing and selling hydroponic cannabis. Brady is under pressure from local drug lord Pug Rothbaum to expand his sales.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Heist, romance film, romantic comedy
Working as a toll collector on a lonely highway in Buffalo, New York, Henry is a man seemingly without ambition, dreams or purpose; a man sleepwalking his way through life. His wife Debbie is not happy with the situation. One morning Eddie, a friend, drops by to ask Henry to join a baseball game.
Action, found footage film, thriller film
Used to encountering scammers online, four young adults come up with a plan to try to steal cryptocurrencies from Don Heard, a tech billionaire.