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Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, Mysterie, sexploitation film
Carson Wheetly is the son of Ted Wheetly, a wealthy NASCAR racer. Carson suspects his father of murdering his mother to gain her money. After a weekend party at his father's Florida bay house, Carson is arrested for the rape of Brandi Cox.
Action, disaster film, Secret Agent, spy film, thriller film
Soviet General Marenkov decides to defect to the West. He is in charge of Operation Winter Harvest, a plot to poison crops in the West. CIA agent Harry Wargrave leads the extraction team.
Drama, romance film, thriller film
A talented and idiosyncratic bio-mathematician, Danielle Flinders is staying at a seaside hotel on the coast of Normandy where she meets the British Agent James More awaiting transport to Somalia to search for Somali Jihadist leaders. The two develop a friendly bond during their stay and eventually a romantic relationship. Their conversations mostly revolve around her important undersea work, which she believes may have insights into life on other planets.
Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ-related film
The film follows a diverse group of mostly middle-class residents of Los Angeles through emotional ups and downs in their lives, loosely connected to each other through a restaurant. In the first story, Mamie reluctantly agrees to work with a would-be young filmmaker in order to locate the now-grown son she secretly gave up for adoption after becoming pregnant from her stepbrother Charleywho is later revealed to be gay19 years earlier. In the second story, Charley and his domestic partner, Gil, are deciding whether or not to confront their friends, a lesbian couple, regarding the paternity of their son.
Comedy, Crime, mystery film, romance film, romantic comedy
220px|left|thumb|Joanne Woodward and George C. Scott in They Might Be Giants. Justin Playfair is an eminent judge who retreats into fantasy after his wife's death, imagining himself to be Sherlock Holmes, the legendary fictional detective.
Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Science fiction, thriller film
Paul and Jessie Duncan are a happily married couple who have an eight-year-old son named Adam. The day after his eighth birthday, when fetching a basketball into the street, Adam is killed in a collision. While leaving a church, Jessie and Paul are confronted by Dr.
Comedy, Crime, Family Drama, mystery film
Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt, an elderly dowager in Holly Springs, Mississippi, lives alone in a large house and is helped out daily by Willis Richland, her African American handyman and closest friend. After acting strangely, she commits suicide with one of her late husband Buck's pistols. Her pretentious niece, Camille, who directs local church theater productions, stops by later that day to borrow a glass fruit bowl.
Drama, Horror, Psychological horror, Slasher, teen film, thriller film
The titular Smiley killer is the subject of an Internet myth. Supposedly, if a person types "I did it for the lulz" three times on a Chatroulette-style website, a killer called Smiley (who had his eyes stitched shut and his mouth carved into a smile) will murder the person the user is talking to before the user themselves. College students Ashley and Proxy are roommates.
Comedy horror, Horror, Mysterie, Satire, Slasher, thriller film
Television director Jake Tanner travels to a small town to film a reality television show about the town's hockey team. However, town local Jaynie is soon murdered, being decapitated by a piece of wire hung up between two trees, but the murder is passed off as an accident. Jake meets with the show's producers, Lee and Phoebe, who now want to investigate the murder.
Comedy, Crime
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional creation, the central character in a series of short stories written by Dr John Watson and published in The Strand Magazine. Watson conceives of Holmes as a way for him to solve crimes incognito, as he views detective work as merely a hobby and does not want the attention it would bring to his medical career. However, when the reading public demand to actually see Holmes, Watson hires a washed-up stage actor, Reginald Kincaid, to play the part.
Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, mystery film, Noir, thriller film
A former police detective and Vietnam veteran in New Orleans and a recovering alcoholic, Dave Robicheaux, is living a quiet life in the swamplands of Louisiana with his wife Annie. The couple's tranquility is shattered one day when a drug smuggler's plane crashes in a lake, right before their eyes. Robicheaux succeeds in diving deep into the lake and rescuing a lone survivor from drowning, a female Salvadoran child, whom Annie quickly helped pull up from the lake and onto the boat and resuscitate.
Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, teen film, Teen Horror Film
Tamara Riley is a shy, lonely teenager who lives with her alcoholic and verbally abusive father after her mother has left. She is an excellent student but an outcast among her peers, and is often bullied for her appearance. She is infatuated with Bill Natolly, her handsome English teacher.
Drama, Psychodrama
The film begins with abstract images and sounds in the director's interpretation of schizophrenia. Peter Winter has recently been released from a mental institution and upon his release, must try to experience and understand a world that is all but foreign to him. Beginning the search for his daughter Nicole, Peter's car is hit by a soccer ball.
Action, Horror, thriller film
A husband and wife driving a 1973 Ford Torino station wagon become stranded on a stretch of road known as Devil's Pass. When their cell phone reception cuts out, they wait for help. Elsewhere, Emily joins her friend Leslie on a road trip after she becomes frustrated with her boyfriend, whom she believes may have cheated on her.
Crime, Drama, spy film, thriller film
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Andrew Craig, who is disrespectful of it, and seems more interested in women and drinking. Arriving in Stockholm for the award ceremony, he is delighted that Inger Lisa Andersson, whom he finds beautiful, has been assigned as his personal chaperone. At the hotel where all the winners are guests, Andrew is introduced to the physics laureate, Dr.
Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, thriller film
Abe Reles and his accomplice Bug Workman, two cold-blooded killers from Brooklyn's Brownsville district, go to the Garment District to meet with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, leader of the organized crime mob Murder, Inc., who offers them jobs as hit men. After hiring them to kill Catskills resort owner Walter Sage for withholding slot machine profits from the syndicate, Lepke designates Emanuel "Mendy" Weiss, his assistant, as Reles' contact. Reles coerces struggling singer Joey Collins, an old friend of Sage indebted to Reles, with veiled threats, and Joey agrees to accompany him to the Catskills, where he draws an unsuspecting Sage out into…
Crime, Drama, Noir
Detective Jim McLeod, whose violent criminal father drove his mother to insanity, nurtures a lifelong hatred of lawbreakers and is convinced that he has a flawless instinct for identifying criminals. He maintains a particular contempt for Dr. Karl Schneider, whom McLeod is convinced has performed illegal abortions that have resulted in the deaths of both women and their babies.
Horror, thriller film
The American oil company K.I.K. Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote northern Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, seeking energy independence. Independent environmentalists work together in a drilling base headed by the tough Ed Pollack in a sort of agreement with the government, approving procedures and sending reports of the operation.
thriller film, Western
Drama, thriller film, trial film
When call girl Claudia Draper kills client Allen Green in self-defense, her mother Rose and stepfather Arthur Kirk attempt to have her declared mentally incompetent by Dr. Herbert Morrison in order to avoid a public scandal. Claudia knows that if her parents succeed, she will be remanded to a mental institution indefinitely, so she is determined to prove she is sane enough to stand trial.
Animal horror, anthology film, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, Slasher
Terror in Topanga During a routine traffic stop, a highway patrolman is viciously stabbed by an unseen assailant, though he survives and is taken to the hospital. The perpetrator is William Henry Glazier, a serial killer who escaped a mental institution and is currently terrorizing the Topanga area. Meanwhile, Lisa, a housewife and chain smoker, discovers that she is out of cigarettes and goes out to buy some more, despite her husband Phillip warning her not to.
Crime, Drama
Set shortly after the end of World War II, the film begins with a voiceover narration by New York socialite Jessie Bourne describing her connection to the city. The film opens on fashionable Gramercy Park, where her mother lives, on the East Side of Manhattan. Jessie and her husband Brandon live on Gracie Square, on East 84th Street, in an apartment overlooking the East River.
Action, Adventure, B movie, disaster film, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film
A nuclear submarine on its shakedown cruise in the Pacific Ocean, captained by Commander Pete Mathews, comes into contact with a massive sonar return. Unable to outrun or outmaneuver the object, the boat is disabled, but frees itself and returns to Pearl Harbor. Tissue from a huge sea creature is discovered jammed in the submarine's dive planes.
Crime, Drama, neo-noir
Tony Rome is an ex-cop turned private investigator who lives on a powerboat in Miami, Florida, called ‘Straight Pass’. This is a reference to the fact that Tony also has a gambling problem. He is asked by his former partner, Ralph Turpin, to take home a young woman who had been left unconscious in a hotel room.