Blood Star (2024)
Horror, thriller film
At night, a girl stumbles down a desert road, pursued by a car. A man gives her a gun and one bullet. She loads the gun and aims it at the approaching vehicle, but the car smashes into her.
Thrillers movies
Explore suspense, danger and tense conflicts.
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Cop (1988)
Crime, mystery film, thriller film
LAPD detective Sgt. Lloyd Hopkins is a troubled cop, with a high arrest record but a notoriety for refusing to follow procedure. After taking a tip from a man reporting a murder, he visits the given address and discovers a woman's mutilated and bloodied body, proceeding to collect evidence on his own without informing his superiors.
When Time Ran Out... (1980)
disaster film, katastrophe
Shelby Gilmore, an international hotel magnate who owns the Kalaleu Gilmore, a resort hotel on a Pacific island, wants desperately to marry his secretary, Kay Kirby and proposes to her under the impression that she'll become his seventh wife. Kay is in love with Hank Anderson, an oil rigger whose scientists are warning him that the island's active volcano, Mauna Nui, is about to erupt. Shelby's partner is Bob Spangler, who inherited the island from his father, a sugar cane baron.
Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy? (2005)
Adventure, Cartoon, Comedy horror, Detective, mystery film
In a flashback to 41 B.C.E, following her losses at the Battle of Actium and Battle of Alexandria, Cleopatra visits her tomb beneath the Sphinx to bury a treasure and form an undead army of her fallen soldiers to protect it. As she prepares for her own death, she casts a curse upon the treasure to protect it. In the present day, Velma Dinkley works with an archaeological team led by Prince Omar to restore the Sphinx, during which they find an ancient necklace and stumble onto Cleopatra's tomb.
The Fan (1981)
Crime, Horror, thriller film
Douglas Breen, a deranged young New York City record store clerk, writes a rambling letter to stage and film star Sally Ross, reading: "Dear Miss Ross, I am your greatest fan, because unlike the others, I want nothing from you. The only thing that matters to me is your happiness." Sally's secretary, Belle Goldman, has been intercepting Douglas's numerous disturbed letters, responding herself and asking him to stop. Douglas feels ignored, and becomes determined to meet with Sally and consummate his "love" for her.
Into the Blue 2: The Reef (2009)
Action, thriller film
In Honolulu, Hawaii, a man dumps containers into the ocean and then goes to meet with men in suits expecting to get paid. But because he dumped the containers and altered the schedule of those container shipments to the customer, he is killed. Menwhile, a couple, Sebastian and Dani, is dive surfing with a model.
The First Power (1990)
Horror
Russell Logan, a hotshot Los Angeles police detective who specializes in catching serial killers, is hunting the Pentagram Killer, a murderer nicknamed after his habit of carving a pentagram in his victims before killing them. Logan receives an anonymous phone call from a woman who offers to tell him the location of the killer's next attack if he promises that the killer will not be executed. Logan agrees, and the police stake out the suggested location for several days.
No Mercy (1986)
Action, Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
Eddie Jilette is a Chicago cop on the vengeance trail as he follows his partner's killers to New Orleans to settle his own personal score. Eddie flees through the Louisiana bayous with Michel Duval, the beautiful Cajun mistress of a murderous crime lord who aims to destroy the Chicago detective before he can avenge his partner's murder. Michel and Eddie fall for each other, although they clash repeatedly while handcuffed together as they attempt to elude the brutal underworld figure and his henchmen.
White Sands (1992)
Crime, Drama, Police Film, Political Thriller, suspense film, thriller film
Ray Dolezal, a bored Torrance County, New Mexico deputy sheriff, investigates an apparent suicide in the desert. Alongside the body of Bob Spencer is a suitcase containing $500,000. During the autopsy, authorities find a digested piece of paper with a phone number; Dolezal, posing as Spencer, calls the number and goes to a meeting, where he is robbed and instructed to meet gunrunner Gorman Lennox at a restaurant.
Code 46 (2003)
arthouse science fiction film, biopunk, Drama, Dystopian, romance film, Science fiction, thriller film
In the year 2077, the world is divided between those who live "inside", in high-density cities, and the underclass who live "outside" in massive concentration camps. Access to the cities is highly restricted and regulated through the use of Bio-Passports, known as "papeles" in the global pidgin language of the day. William Geld, an insurance fraud investigator from the NUSA (New United States of America, the successor state to the US following a second civil war), is sent to Shanghai in the Chinese Federation, an authoritarian state which occupies all of east Asia, to interview employees at a company known as "The Sphinx", which…
Captive (2015)
Biography, Crime, Drama, prison film, Psychodrama, thriller film
On March 11, 2005, Brian Nichols escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, during his trial involving a rape case. In the process of the escape he murders the judge presiding over his trial, Rowland Barnes, as well as court reporter Julie Brandau. He also shoots Sergeant Hoyt Teasley while escaping from the courthouse, and later kills ICE Special Agent David G.
The Gray Man (2007)
Biography, Crime, thriller film
At St. John's Orphanage in 1877, children, including a young Albert Fish, are being paddled as punishment for their sins. Albert Fish as an adult (Patrick Bauchau) then tells of a horse that some older boys at the orphanage set on fire, comparing himself to the horse.
Devour (2005)
Drama, Horror
The story follows Jake Gray (Jensen Ackles), a young man who's been having bizarre visions of murder and self-mutilation, and his experience with a live roleplay-like online game called "The Pathway" (a similar roleplaying as seen in The Game). Following the deaths of his friends Conrad (Teach Grant) and Dakota (Dominique Swain), who introduced him to the game, Jake soon learns that "The Pathway" is actually being run by a man named Aiden Kater (Martin Cummins) and his band of Devil-worshippers. They've been using it to look for a specific person, even as they manipulate others into killing.
The Forger (2014)
Crime, Drama, Family Drama, Heist, thriller film
Raymond Cutter, a second-generation criminal, cuts a deal with an underworld art dealer to get released early from prison to spend time with his son who has an inoperable brain tumor. He must forge a copy of Monet's Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son (in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) and switch it with the real one, with the help of his son and father, to repay the syndicate that arranged his release.
Guns, Girls and Gambling (2012)
Action, Action Comedy, Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime
John Smith is down on his luck. His girlfriend left him for a doctor. A hooker steals his wallet at an Apache Reservation casino.
The Guvnors (2014)
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Mitch, the ex-leader of a London firm known as The Guvnors, has walked away from his life of violence and more than 20 years later is happily married in the suburbs. He becomes concerned when his son starts to show violent tendencies through his behaviour at school. His wife Angie receives phone calls from his former associates, who he warns off.
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
British sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones) arrives at the Berberian film studio in Italy to work on what he believes is a film about horses. During a surreal meeting with Francesco, the film's producer, Gilderoy is shocked to find the film is actually an Italian giallo film, The Equestrian Vortex. He nonetheless begins work in the studio, at one point made to do Foley work, using vegetables to create sound effects for the film's increasingly gory torture sequences, and mixing voiceovers from session artists Silvia and Claudia into the score.
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, spy film, thriller film
In 1914, Imperial German spies are everywhere in London. After a spate of mysterious assassinations of important British politicians, a retired British Intelligence officer, Colonel Scudder, realises his life and his mysterious black notebook are in danger. He turns to Richard Hannay, a mining engineer who is visiting Great Britain for a short time before returning to the Union of South Africa, who happens to be staying in a flat in the same building.
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
crime thriller film, Drama, Noir, thriller film
Harry Powell is a misogynistic serial killer and self-proclaimed preacher traveling along the Ohio River in West Virginia during the Great Depression. He is arrested for driving a stolen car and serves 30 days at Moundsville Penitentiary. There he shares a cell with Ben Harper, who killed two men in a bank robbery for $10,000.
Renegades (2017)
Action, thriller film
In August 1944, in Nazi-occupied France, the German military decides to move captured treasure, paintings, and about 25 tons of gold ingots from Paris to a safe location. The gold is then transported to the small Bosnian town of Bosansko Grahovo, where it is put into the bank vault. German forces arrest all the townspeople while a little boy escapes as they execute the townspeople.
The Awakening (1980)
Adventure, fantasy film, Horror
The film opens on an Egyptian archaeological dig in 1961. Three of the main characters are introduced: Matthew Corbeck, his wife Anne, and Jane Turner. Matthew and Jane are discussing their efforts to uncover the tomb of an ancient Egyptian queen.
Welcome Home (2018)
Drama, thriller film
Bryan and Cassie are a couple who decide to stay in a house in Umbria. They are trying to mend their relationship, after Cassie was caught having drunken sex with a co-worker. Since then, Bryan has become impotent.
Birthday Girl (2002)
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, Road Movie, romance film, romantic comedy
John Buckingham, an introverted, lonely St Albans bank clerk, orders a mail-order bride, Nadia, from Russia on the Internet. John is uncomfortable and shy, but Nadia is sexually bold. Although Nadia cannot speak English and John cannot speak Russian, they soon bond.
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Action Comedy, Blaxploitation, buddy cop film, Comedy, comedy thriller, thriller film
Deke "Reverend" O'Malley, a con man, is selling shares at a Harlem rally, for the purchase of a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. During the rally, several masked gunmen jump out of a meat truck and steal $87,000 in donated cash from the back of an armored car. Two Harlem detectives, "Gravedigger" Jones and "Coffin Ed" Johnson, chase the car, and a bale of cotton falls out of the vehicle, unremarked at the time.