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Mystery Team (2009)

Comedy, mystery film

The Mystery Team consisting of "Master of Disguise" Jason Rogers, "Boy Genius" Duncan Wheeler, and the "Strongest Kid in town" Charlie Day began with three children who styled themselves as detectives, solving mostly kid-related mysteries such as missing cats or a lost baseball, but also gaining some local fame. The trio have remained as naïve as ever, although they are about to graduate from high school. They have continued the same mindset and antics even though they are teenagers, focusing on children's infractions, although adults (such as their parents) wonder when the teens will grow out of this attitude.

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The Seven-Ups (1973)

Action, Crime, Drama, Police Film

NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci has been under pressure from the senior officers in the New York City police force because his team of renegade policemen, known as the "seven-ups" (so called because most criminals they arrest receive sentences from seven years and up) have been using unorthodox methods to arrest criminals; this is illustrated as the team ransacks an antiques store that is a front for the running of counterfeit money. Buddy received information about the counterfeit ring from his regular snitch & childhood friend, informant Vito Lucia. There has been a growing rash of kidnappings of organized crime figures and white-collar…

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La tua presenza nuda! (1972)

Horror, thriller film

Two years after his wife Sarah dies mysteriously while taking a bath, 42-year-old Paul, a successful writer, lives with his 22-year-old second wife Elise in an isolated mansion in rural Andalusia. Three months into their marriage, Elise meets Paul's precocious 12-year-old son Marcus for the first time after he returns home from boarding school while Paul is on a business trip to Paris. Marcus explains that he borrowed 1,000 pesetas from his father's desk to pay for a taxi from the airport.

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Chained Heat (1983)

Action, Crime, Drama, prison film, sexploitation film, thriller film

The film takes place in the California women's prison in which naïve teenager Carol Henderson is sentenced to serve 18 months for accidentally killing a man. Warden Ernie Backman has a hot tub in his office; his assistant, Captain Taylor controls the prison's prostitutes and has a lover, Lester, who is also involved in a clandestine affair with Ericka, the leader of the white prisoners, while the black prisoners are led by Duchess. Eventually the administration pushes the prisoners too far and they drop their race-based feuding to revolt against their common enemy.

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Man Hunt (1941)

Crime, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, thriller film, war film

On July 29, 1939, renowned British big-game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike slips through the forest undetected near the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's Bavarian retreat. With Hitler in his telescopic sight, he pulls the trigger on his unloaded rifle and gives a sardonic wave. He reflects a moment, then loads a live round, but is discovered at the last second by a guard, and the rifle goes off in their struggle.

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The Medusa Touch (1978)

Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Science fiction

Brunel, a French National Police detective on an exchange scheme in London, is assigned to investigate the apparent murder of novelist John Morlar. As they examine the crime scene, Brunel discovers the victim is still alive in spite of his severe head injuries and has him rushed to hospital. With the help of Morlar's journals and Dr Zonfeld, a psychiatrist Morlar was consulting, Brunel reconstructs Morlar's life.

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Pickup on South Street (1953)

Crime, Heist, Noir, spy film, thriller film

On a crowded New York City subway train pickpocket Skip McCoy steals Candy's wallet. Unbeknownst to either it contains microfilm of top-secret government information. Candy was delivering an envelope as a final favor to her ex-boyfriend Joey, who told her that it contained stolen business secrets.

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Thursday (1998)

Action, black comedy film, crime thriller film, neo-noir

On Monday night, Nick, Dallas, and Billy Hill argue with a Los Angeles convenience store cashier, resulting in Dallas shooting her dead. They conceal the killing from a police officer until he sees blood on the floor, at which point they kill him. Early Thursday morning, in Texas, Casey receives a call from his old drug dealing partner Nick asking to stay a couple of days.

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Bless the child (2000)

Conspiracy Thriller, Horror, Psychological Thriller, Satanism, thriller film

Maggie O'Connor, a psychiatric nurse in New York City, adopts her newborn niece, Cody, from her sister Jenna, a homeless heroin addict who abandoned her at Maggie's house just before Christmas. Maggie raises Cody herself, and during her formative years, Cody exhibits signs of autism, though Maggie is suspicious of the diagnosis. Maggie enrolls Cody in a special-needs Catholic school in Brooklyn, where the nuns notice Cody displaying possible telekinetic abilities.

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Mortal Thoughts (1991)

Comedy, Mysterie, mystery film, neo-noir, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Cynthia Kellogg is interrogated by Detective John Woods and Detective Linda Nealon at a police station regarding the murder of her husband, Artie. Cynthia provides a deposition, relayed in detailed flashbacks. Cynthia recounts her employment as a hairdresser at her friend Joyce's hair salon in Bayonne, New Jersey.

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The Comfort of Strangers (1990)

Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, thriller film

Unmarried English couple Colin and Mary are vacationing in Venice for a second time. As they meander through the city visiting landmarks, they are surreptitiously photographed by a stranger. Over dinner, Mary questions Colin as to whether he likes her two children, whom she conceived during her last marriage.

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Helter Skelter (2004)

Crime, Drama, Horror, thriller film

After breaking up with her husband, 19-year-old single mother Linda Kasabian seeks refuge with the Manson Family at Spahn Ranch and witnesses their indoctrination techniques. After attending the killings at the Sharon Tate house she flees Spahn Ranch but the Manson Family keeps her daughter in their custody, knowing that this will force her to return. Her daughter and all of the other children are taken by Social Services during a raid on Spahn Ranch after Manson burns municipal earthmoving equipment that he believes is being used to make it harder for him to find the "bottomless pit" that he believes is described in Revelation 9 and…

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Bordertown (2007)

Crime, Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film

The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war.

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A Thief in the Night (1972)

thriller film

In medias res, Patty Myers awakens to a radio broadcast announcing the disappearance of millions around the world. The radio announcer suggests this might be the rapture of the Church spoken of in the Bible. Patty, a member of a liberal church, finds that her husband, a born-again Christian, has also disappeared.

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Plan A (2021)

Drama, thriller film

In post-war occupied Germany, the Nakam paramilitary organization, consisting of traumatized Holocaust survivors led by Abba Kovner, plans to murder six million German people as indiscriminate revenge for the Holocaust and other crimes. With this goal in mind, Kovner leads Nakam in a plan to poison the drinking water in multiple major German cities, intending this to be only the beginning.

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Abandon (2002)

Drama, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, romance film

Brilliant, senior college student Katie Burke is struggling to deal with the stress of completing her thesis and succeeding in an upcoming rigorous interview process. To make matters even more complicated, Detective Wade Handler, a recovering alcoholic, is tasked with reopening the two-year-old police investigation into the disappearance of her boyfriend, Embry Larkin. An orphaned young man of considerable means, Larkin had purchased two tickets to Athens, Greece before his disappearance: the tickets had never been used, and Embry's financial assets had not been touched since his disappearance.

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The Prophecy 2 (1998)

fantasy film, Horror, thriller film

Lucifer (Guri Weinberg) ejects Gabriel from Hell, claiming the War of Heaven isn't his to fight, and Hell isn't big enough for both of them. Gabriel's new mission is to prevent the birth of a child, a nephilim, the offspring of an angel and a human. The coming of this child, said to precede reconciliation between the warring factions in heaven, has been prophesied by Thomas Daggett, now a monk.

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Shadows and Fog (1991)

Comedy, comedy thriller, mystery film, neo-noir

Kleinman is awakened from his sleep by a vigilante mob, which claims to be looking for a serial killer and therefore to be needing his help. Kleinman's landlady gives him a bag containing pepper. Irmy and her boyfriend Paul, a pair of circus performers, quarrel about getting married and having a baby.

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The Apparition (2012)

Ghost, Horror, thriller film

On May 21, 1973, six people conduct The Charles Experiment, a parapsychological experiment, in which they stare at a drawing of a deceased man, Charles Reamer, hoping to summon his spirit. Years later, four college students, Patrick (Tom Felton), Lydia (Julianna Guill), Ben (Sebastian Stan) and Greg (Luke Pasqualino) attempt to recreate the Charles Experiment on a larger scale by using modern technology. During the experiment, something attacks the students and pulls Lydia into the wall vanishing.

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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)

Crime, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

American single mother Ann Lake, who recently moved to London from New York, arrives at the Little People's Garden preschool to collect her daughter, Bunny. The child has mysteriously disappeared. An administrator recalls meeting Ann but claims never to have seen the missing child.

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