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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 161.

Old Man (2022)

thriller film

An old man wakes abruptly, alone in a cabin in the middle of the woods, and is very erratic and violent; calling for something or someone called Rascal, while also threatening to kill them if they ever return. A young hiker named Joe, who says he is lost in the woods, knocks at the cabin and is held at gunpoint by the old man, who demands to know if he knows Rascal's whereabouts or was sent by the old man's wife. The old man eventually lets Joe into the cabin but continues to be very tense about the whole situation, keeping his shotgun trained on Joe.

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Beyond the Law (1993)

Action, Crime, Drama, police procedural, thriller film

Based on a true story, the film centers on Dan Saxon, a cop with a troubled childhood. After getting fired following a physical confrontation with his corrupt boss (who secretly works with a biker gang known as the Jackals, led by their president "Blood") at the sheriff's office, he is enlisted by Conroy Price, an agent in Arizona's State Attorney General's office, to go undercover to bust the illegal drugs and arms trafficking. Saxon is unsuccessful until he meets and befriends Virgil, a mechanic who introduces him to the seedy world of criminal bikers.

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Act of Violence (1948)

Crime, Drama, Noir

After surviving a Nazi POW camp where comrades were murdered by guards during an escape attempt, Frank Enley is respected for his fine character and good works in the small California town of Santa Lisa, where he, his young wife Edith and baby had settled after moving from the East. What his wife does not know is that Frank moved them in an attempt to escape the fall-out from events in that WWII prison camp. Frank has a nemesis, Joe Parkson, once his best friend, who lived through the ordeal and was left with a crippled leg.

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Iron Eagle II (1988)

Action, Military Film, Romantic drama, thriller film

While on a routine patrol in United States airspace west of Alaska, pilots Doug "Thumper" Masters and Matt "Cobra" Cooper test the g-forces of their F-16C fighter aircraft. Their antics get them carried away and they stray over Soviet airspace. As they are being escorted back into U.S.

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Poison Ivy II (1996)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, teen film, thriller film

Lily is a sheltered art student from Michigan attending college in California. She finds an apartment and notices that her roommates, Tanya (a friendly lesbian artist who becomes a good friend), Bridgette (a cruel and taunting artist who takes an immediate dislike to her), and Robert (a silent but talented musician) aren't quite normal. One day, Lily discovers a box of items belonging to a girl named Ivy.

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Fear City (1984)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, neo-noir, thriller film

Best friends Matt Rossi and Nicky Parzeno run a management company for Manhattan’s best exotic dancers, managing and booking their clients into clubs across the borough. Rossi was once in a relationship with their top client Loretta, but they broke up because Rossi's memories of accidentally killing an opponent in the ring during his days as a professional boxer left him emotionally barren. Loretta still cares for Matt but has moved onto a lesbian relationship with another dancer named Leila.

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Housebound (2014)

Comedy, Comedy horror, thriller film

Kylie Bucknell, a troubled young woman, attempts to steal the safe from an ATM but she fails to escape and is arrested. Due to her history of recidivism, she is sentenced to house arrest for eight months under the care of her mother, Miriam. Kylie does not get along with either her mother or her step-father, Graeme.

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Infidel (2019)

Political Thriller, thriller film

Doug Rawlins, an outspoken Christian American journalist and blogger, is kidnapped by members of the Iranian regime while he is in Cairo, Egypt making speeches. He is then taken to the Middle East and put on trial for erroneous and phony spying charges. His wife Liz, a State Department official, tries to use her influence to get the American government involved.

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Things Will Be Different (2024)

Science fiction, thriller film, Time travel

Estranged siblings Joseph and Sidney reunite at a restaurant with $7m in cash following a botched robbery. Joseph has made plans for the two to lay low at a remote farmhouse which apparently contains a closet with the ability to transport occupants into an alternative timeline if they follow instructions in a notebook. At the farmhouse, with the police closing in, Joseph and Sidney locate the closet and follow the instructions.

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Down a Dark Hall (2018)

Drama, fantasy film, Ghost, Horror, thriller film

Kit Gordy, a difficult young girl, is sent to the mysterious Blackwood Boarding School after her delinquent behavior becomes too much for her school to handle. When she arrives at Blackwood, Kit meets eccentric headmistress Madame Duret and the school's only other students, four teenage girls with similar behavioral problems (Veronica, Ashley, Sierra, and Izzy). Technology is rarely used, and the girls can only phone their families in the domineering presence of the headmistress.

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The Assassination Of Richard Nixon (2004)

Biography, Destiny, Drama, Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, Political Drama, Psychodrama, thriller film

In 1973, 43-year-old Philadelphia resident Sam Bicke (Sean Penn) is a down-on-his-luck salesman who desperately wishes to reconcile with his estranged wife Marie (Naomi Watts). A constant moralizer, he states that he stopped working at the tire shop owned by his brother Julius (Michael Wincott) because he was required to lie to the customers. Believing society's discrimination affects poor white people just as much as blacks, he attempts to join the Black Panthers.

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The Skull (1965)

Horror

In the 19th century, Pierre, a phrenologist, robs the grave of the recently buried Marquis de Sade. He takes the Marquis's severed head and sets about boiling it to remove its flesh, leaving the skull. Before the task is done, Pierre meets an unseen and horrific death.

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Hangar 18 (1980)

Action, Science fiction

A satellite, just launched from a Space Shuttle orbiter, collides with an unidentified object, which, after being spotted on radar moving at great speeds, had positioned itself just over the ship. The collision kills an astronaut in the launch bay. The events are witnessed by Bancroft and Price, the astronauts aboard.

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Crocodile (2000)

monster film

Eight teenagers, including Brady, Claire, Duncan, Kit, Annabelle, Sunny, Foster, and Hubs, are going on a weekend boat trip on a remote lake in Southern California for spring break. As the group is about to depart on their boat, Sheriff Bowman warns them to be sensible and stay out of danger. After a day of partying, the group has a bonfire, where Kit tells them a local story about how in the early 20th century, a hotel owner named Harlan featured a crocodile named Flat Dog at his hotel.

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Redline (2007)

Action

Natasha Martin is an auto mechanic and aspiring musician who is invited to join music producer Infamous aboard his private jet en route to Las Vegas in appreciation of her services on his Ford GT. She is also a highly skilled race car driver, but is haunted by memories of her father's death at a NASCAR race many years ago. Meanwhile, on another side of town, USAF veteran Carlo, returning from a tour of duty in Iraq, meets up with his brother Jason before heading to Vegas themselves.

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Dying of the Light (2014)

Action, Drama, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, thriller film

Evan Lake is a highly decorated veteran CIA agent and Intelligence Star recipient reduced to a desk job at Langley with his protege and close friend Milton "Milt" Schultz. Twenty-two years ago during an op in Africa, Lake was captured by terrorist Muhammad Banir and tortured by having his head repeatedly bashed and having his ear mutilated. During the extraction and ensuing explosion, Banir went missing and was presumed dead, although Lake never believed it and has obsessively tried to find Banir ever since.

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Sharktopus (2010)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, disaster film, Horror, independent film, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, television film

Geneticist Nathan Sands and his daughter Nicole are hired by the U.S. Navy to create a new weapon; they create an intelligent shark that has the tentacles of an octopus, dubbed S-11, controlling the creature using electromagnetic pulses with a device attached to its head. During one of the test missions, S-11 discards the device before traveling to Mexican waters to find food.

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Sister My Sister (1994)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film

In 1933 France, Christine (Richardson) is the maid of the well-to-do middle-aged widow Madame Danzard (Julie Walters) and her teenage daughter Isabelle (Sophie Thursfield). Her younger sister, Lea (May) is hired on the recommendation of Christine. The two sisters become increasingly alienated from their employer, separated by barriers between the classes.

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Flashpoint (1984)

Action, mystery film, thriller film

Border Patrol agents Bobby Logan and Ernie Wyatt are planting motion sensors in a remote area of the Texas desert when they stumble across what appears to be a decades-old Jeep buried in the sand. Upon excavating the vehicle, they find an intact skeleton in the driver's seat, a toolbox containing $800,000 in unused 10 and 20 dollar bills, and a hunting case containing a scoped sniper rifle with matching ammunition. The skeleton is accompanied by a wallet, containing the driver's license of a Michael J.

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Shadow Conspiracy (1997)

Action, Political Thriller

Set in Washington, D.C., this film documents an attempted power grab by White House Chief of Staff Jacob Conrad. Bobby Bishop is a special aide to the President of the United States who finds out about a plot to assassinate the President from a former professor. Bobby's old professor is murdered shortly thereafter and Bobby is left to try to uncover the conspiracy on his own.

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Wild Geese II (1985)

Action, Adventure, thriller film

In 1977 Africa, veteran mercenary Allen Faulkner leads fifty hired soldiers in a mission to rescue deposed President Julius Limbani. After rescuing the president, the team is double-crossed and Faulkner's men are attacked in the open by a hostile airplane. Faulkner tries to escape with a handful of survivors in an antique Dakota aeroplane.

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Timestalker (2024)

Comedy horror, fantasy film, Science fiction, thriller film, Tragicomedy

In 1688, the priest of an unorthodox congregation in western Scotland is arrested for heresy. Agnes, a witness to his execution, becomes enamoured by him and tries to save him. Agnes is inadvertently struck by an axe, and the priest, Alex, takes the opportunity to escape.

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