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Action, Adventure
On the run from his creditors, small time thief S.S. Kumar stumbles upon a private invitation card addressed to Raja Bahadur Singh for a gathering on the island of Sir John Locksley. Kumar steals the invitation card after witnessing the Raja get shot.
Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, Detective, fantasy film, mystery film, thriller film
Fred Jones' pen pal, Alejo Otero, invites him and Mystery Inc. to visit him and his family in Veracruz, Mexico, which is being terrorized by a monster that its citizens believe to be "El Chupacabra". Upon their arrival, Mystery Inc.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Lawson Russell is a New Orleans criminal defense lawyer who has had a crisis of conscience while defending wealthy childhood friend Thurman Parks III. Parks denies charges of the rape and murder of stripper Jeanie Brussard. Russell is involved with Parks' and Judge Wiley Banning's conspiracy to have the charges dismissed.
Drama, Heist, thriller film
In an underground mob poker game, a man is revealed to be cheating with a hole card when the game gets robbed. He manages to defend himself as a huge gunfight breaks out, leaving all dead but him and one gangster. They get into a Mexican standoff.
suspense film, thriller film
A young woman known only as "Girl" rides a bus back to her small hometown of Golden with the intention of murdering her abusive father named CW James, bringing her father's hatchet as a weapon. Girl calls her mother asking her to read a letter written by her father, her mother says that the letter contains a threat to kill the mother; Girl asks her mother for the return address, but her mother says she doesn't need to know it. The bus stops to let Girl walk away from the highway into the small town of Golden.
Action, Crime, Drama, Heist, thriller film
Karen McCoy, a renowned bank robber, is released from prison after serving six years and resolves to lead a law-abiding life. Upon returning home, she discovers that her ex-husband has told their young son, Patrick, that she died, further complicating her efforts to reconnect with him. Despite her determination to go straight, Karen is subjected to harassment from her corrupt parole officer, Gary Buckner, and faces difficulty securing honest employment.
Action, Martial arts, ninja film, thriller film
In Japan, the home of Cho Osaki is attacked by an army of a rival ninja clan, resulting in the slaughter of his entire family except for his mother and his younger son, Kane. When Cho arrives at his estate and discovers the carnage, the ninjas attempt to kill him as well, but Cho, a highly skilled ninja himself, avenges his family and kills the attacking ninjas. Afterwards, however, he swears off being a ninja forever and moves with his son and mother to America, where he opens an Oriental art gallery with the help of his American business partner and friend, Braden, and his assistant Cathy.
Drama, mystery film, neo-noir, Noir, romance film, Secret Agent, thriller film
In December 1941, just before the entry of the United States into World War II, an American agent from the Naval Intelligence Office arrives in Shanghai to find his friend Conner was recently murdered. Determined to find out who killed Conner and why, he begins working at The Herald newspaper using the alias Paul Soames, a Nazi-sympathizer cover he used while stationed in Berlin. He meets Anthony Lan-Ting, an influential crime lord, and Captain Tanaka (Ken Watanabe) at the German embassy in Shanghai, during an invitation-only event.
Science fiction, thriller film
Finn (Matt O'Leary), a painter with a creative block, lives with his girlfriend Callie (Danielle Panabaker) and his best friend Jasper (George Finn) in an apartment complex where Finn works as a manager. Because elderly tenant Mr. Bezzerides (informally called "Mr.
Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
In 1925 Alaska, gold prospector Jack McCann stumbles upon a near-abandoned mining encampment where he witnesses a maddened fellow prospector commit suicide. Later, Jack discovers a mysterious lodestone at the base of a tree before being surrounded by four wolves. Jack seeks shelter at a remote brothel in the mountains, where he has a spiritual experience with the madam, Frieda, a clairvoyant who tells him the lodestone "found" him.
Crime, mystery film
A group of ten disparate people, strangers to each other, have all been summoned by a mysterious host named Mr. Owen to travel to Africa and join him on a safari he is hosting. Philip Lombard guides the entourage with the aid of local natives through the jungle.
Action, Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film
Firmly in the tradition of American Westerns, it follows the lives of the two orphaned brothers. The older one, Buddy, sees his father being shot. Vulnerable and described as "slow", Buddy gets co-opted by gangster Julius Hench and turns into his key assassin.
Action, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, sexploitation film, thriller film, women in prison film
In Los Angeles, undercover police officers arrive at a motel where those inside, including Jacqueline Wilson, are trafficking illegal drugs. During the escape, an officer and one of Jacqueline's accomplices are shot, while two of them escape. Jacqueline is arrested and sentenced to 40 years inside a women's correctional prison for possession of illegal drugs and attempted murder.
thriller film
Rebecca's mother informs Rebecca's sister, Jemma, that Rebecca's friends are visiting Rebecca's house to get closure and move on from Rebecca's death. Mia meets Natasha who works as an erotic dancer at a club. Mia, Will, James and Natasha arrive at Rebecca's house.
Drama, thriller film
Walter Stackhouse is an architect by day and an aspiring writer of short-story crime fiction by night who is fascinated by the recent murder of a local woman. He pays a visit to Kimmel, the deceased woman's husband, at his used bookstore, pretending to be a customer looking for a book on architecture, but Kimmel's suspicions are aroused. Stackhouse has a troubled marriage, and his own wife, Clara, turns up dead as a result of an apparent suicide, not far from the restaurant parking lot where Kimmel's wife was murdered.
Action, Drama, spy film, thriller film
CIA operative Emerson Kent (John Cusack) is sent to kill a man who owns a bar. Before being killed by Kent, the man reveals he is a former agent who wanted to retire. A witness flees the scene, accidentally leaving his wallet behind.
Action, Drama, Martial arts, ninja film, thriller film
Casey has settled down at the Kōga ninja dojo and married Namiko, who is pregnant with their first child. One day, while shopping for a pendant in town, he encounters and fends off two knife-wielding muggers. Later that night, Casey goes grocery shopping, but when he remembers that the muggers took his wallet, he rushes home only to find Namiko slain, with markings of a barbed wire weapon around her neck.
Action, thriller film
Ray Thompson, a narcotics cop recently back on duty after a suspension, receives a package at the station. This leads to a website that shows a madman holding a child hostage. The child has timed explosives strapped to his body.
Comedy, exploitation film, Horror, pornographic film, pornographic parody film, Sex Film, sexploitation film, thriller film, Vampire
In a psychiatric institution, patients are behaving oddly and are being discovered with bite marks on their necks. Professor Van Helsing believes it to be the work of vampires, and just when things are already bad, they get worse with the arrival of Count Dracula.
thriller film
Convinced that his fiancée is cheating on him, a man follows her to a hotel and calls his best friend to help him avoid a calamity.
Drama, Noir, thriller film, war film
In Prague, during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. František Svoboda, a member of the Czech resistance, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich. Before he can escape the scene his getaway car is discovered, forcing his planned safe house to reject him.
Comedy, Comedy horror, LGBTQ-related film, teen film, thriller film, Vampire
Charley Brewster, Ed Bates, and Amy Peterson are with their class as exchange students in Romania, where Charley tries to reconcile with Amy after she suspects him of cheating. On the first night in their hotel, Charley spots a beautiful woman having a sexual encounter with another woman, ending with the former drawing blood from the latter, in the residence across the road. That woman is revealed later that night to be Gerri Dandridge, the alluring college professor who will be teaching them about Romanian history and culture.
Action, Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film
Jack Ryan, a surfer and small-time thief, has a fight with the intimidating Lou Harris, involving a baseball bat. Harris is a foreman on a Hawaii construction site run by duplicitous millionaire Ray Ritchie. When Jack is released from jail, both the police and Ritchie's business partner, Bob Rogers Jr., tell Jack to leave the island.
Accident, Action, crime thriller film, disaster film, Drama, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
An unnamed man sneaks into Ocean View Amusement Park and places a small radio-controlled bomb on the tracks of the park's wooden roller coaster, The Rocket. The bomb detonates, causing the ride's train to derail, killing or injuring the riders as a result. Safety inspector Harry Calder, who initially cleared the ride, is called to the park to investigate.