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Drama, romance film
Stella Raphael is the bored and unfulfilled wife of Max, a psychiatrist working at a remote mental asylum. Stella begins a passionate affair with Edgar, one of the patients. Edgar is particularly dangerous, having gruesomely murdered his wife in a jealous rage.
Crime, crime thriller film, Drama, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Social Drama
Brenda walks through a predominantly African American housing project and enters an emergency room in a daze, apparently in shock and with cut and bleeding hands. Police detective Lorenzo Council is sent to take a statement from her. She says that her car has been stolen.
Crime, Detective, Drama, Secret Agent, spy film
Having lost two agents in Berlin, British intelligence chiefs arrange for American agent Quiller to report to the local controller, Pol, and continue the assignment, which is to find the headquarters of Phoenix, a neo-Nazi organization. Quiller leaves the Konigshof Hotel in West Berlin and confronts a man who has been following him, learning that it is his minder, Hengel. Hengel gives Quiller the few items found on his dead predecessor: a bowling alley ticket, a swimming pool ticket and a newspaper article about a Nazi war criminal found teaching at a school.
Horror, thriller film
A single mother (Frances O’Connor) and her two children George (Chandler Riggs) and Buddy (Joel Courtney) go to help take care of their grandmother (Shirley Knight) who has mystical powers.
thriller film
The opening credits begin with a montage of Polaroid photos showing the progress of a Christian couple, working as missionaries on a remote tropical island. Under their supervision the natives help build a church, but still continue with their Pagan like rituals. This becomes a problem for the couple as their young daughter starts participating with the locals, leading to tensions and eventually the church burning down.
Action, docudrama, Drama, Historie, thriller film
On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked Flight 139, an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece. Two of the terrorists are West Germans named Wilfried Boese and Halima, and the other two are Palestinians. After landing to refuel in Libya, the four hijackers force the airliner to take off once again.
Action, crime thriller film, Drama, Gangster Film, Heist, prison film, romance film, thriller film
James, a man with nothing to lose, owes his life to his older brother Frankie, who took the rap for a crime they did together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around: he manages to get a job as a mechanic, and begins courting his girlfriend Emily, a police dispatcher. Now, Frankie is released and back on the streets and pulls his brother into a heist to serve as wheel man.
Ghost, Horror, mystery film, rape and revenge film, Splatter Film
Max Matheson clinically died after a car accident killed his fiancée, Kayla. Although Max was later resuscitated and the other driver, who was inebriated, was held responsible, the ordeal left Max with tremendous guilt and trauma. However, after psychological treatments with Dr.
Action, thriller film
D.E.A. agent Shane Tanner is the son of a legendary cooler named James Dalton. Nate Tanner is Shane's uncle, and the owner of the Black Pelican, a bar located in Nate's new permanent home of Tyree, Louisiana.
Action, neo-noir, thriller film
In Los Angeles, divorced editor Carol Hunnicut is on a blind date at a hotel restaurant with widowed lawyer Michael Tarlow, when a waiter delivers a message for him to phone a client. Tarlow goes to his suite to make the call and invites her to come with him. While Hunnicut watches from a darkened room, the client, crime boss Leo Watts, unexpectedly arrives in person along with a gunman, Jack Wootton.
Action, Christmas film, Drama, Heist, thriller film
Once a celebrated race car driver, Brent Magna returns to a ransacked home and the horrifying discovery that his wife, Leanne, is missing. A chilling phone call soon follows from a mysterious man known only as The Voice, who claims responsibility for Leanne's abduction. The Voice reveals out a terrifying ultimatum: Magna must execute a set of dangerous tasks without fail if he ever wants to see his wife again.
crime thriller film, thriller film
Claire Marrable, the vainglorious aging widow of a prominent businessman, is distraught upon discovering that her husband's estate has been stripped of all assets, leaving her in medical debt and with nowhere to live. His only personal effects include a briefcase, a butterfly collection, two antique daggers, and a stamp collection. Claire relocates to Tucson, Arizona to be close to her nephew, George, and his wife Julia.
Concert film, Documentation, musical film, thriller film
Amid aerial footage of Vancouver and BC Place, a radio DJ publicizes Metallica's concert. An overweight heavy-metal fan drives into the empty parking lot, and climbs on the car's hood, whooping and laughing. Trip, a roadie for Metallica, skateboards past the fan and wipes out.
Action, Drama, Martial arts, neo-noir, thriller film
One evening, at his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu studio, martial arts teacher Mike Terry is approached by attorney Laura Black, who accidentally sideswiped his car. Policeman Joe Collins, one of Mike's students, sees that Laura is distressed and tries to take her coat. Startled, she grabs Joe's gun, and it goes off, shattering the studio's front window.
Animal horror, monster film, thriller film
At a logging camp, a supervisor tries to contact the last crew working before the weekend. When he cannot, he goes to the site and finds a severed arm and something in the trees. When he flees back to his car, a creature kills him.
Horror, natural horror film, survival film, thriller film
A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.
Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
The story begins in 1992, as Amy Fisher lies in a hospital bed, with her mother sitting by her bedside. Earlier, she had attempted to commit suicide, but her parents caught her and took her to the hospital. As Amy rests in bed, she thinks back on her life, over the last two years, and her involvement with Joseph "Joey" Buttafuoco.
Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
Each of the elements of life is portrayed using four different people on the urban streets of Los Angeles, with Fingers (Garcia), a gangster, playing the part that intertwines all four individuals. Happiness Forest Whitaker plays a meek bank employee who loves butterflies. He accidentally overhears acquaintances discussing a fixed horse race, and decides to bet $50,000, borrowing from a bookie.
thriller film
Three scientists (Dr. Laura Sommerfield, Dr. Fabio Cavani, and Dr.
Drama, Horror, thriller film
While on a holiday in Mallorca, Lisa, Kim, and Tammi meet four young men, Bluey, Josh, Sean, and Marcus. After spending the day at the resort together, the girls are invited to the men's yacht, where they plan to party out at sea. While aboard the boat, they take drugs and the conversation turns to sex, and in particular, types of sexual acts.
thriller film
Jill and Alan 'Hoaggie' Hoaganraad are on a road trip with their two teenage sons, Maika and Jordan. While hiking, Maika notices two men in the distance watching them before disappearing. While the family picnics by the road, they are interrupted by the two violent drifters, Mandrake and Tubs.
Action, thriller film
A group of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, who are themselves tied into law enforcement agencies and criminal underworlds alike and who also control the international media with their billions, have devised the ultimate entertainment for themselves, simply referred to as "The Tournament." The Tournament takes place at intervals of every 7 years in an unspecified location, usually a large city. The "Contestants" volunteer, but due to the nature of the tournament, they are some of the toughest or craziest individuals on the planet. They are expected to kill, and only the last surviving combatant will win the cash prize of $10…
Adventure, thriller film
Johannesburg, 1973. A tunnel collapse at the Sonderditch gold mine is no accident. It was actually a failed plan by an international syndicate to manipulate gold prices.
Action, Blaxploitation, Gangster Film
The movie opens to a narration (by Ron O'Neal) detailing the poor economic state of a gang-ridden Gary, Indiana. The narrator explains to the audience of how the city came into such a state. After the opening narrative, the scene switches to the base of operations for the Rebels, a local street gang, and a one-on-one basketball game between a Rebels gang member and a local boy named Kenny Thompson.