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Crime, Drama, Noir
thumb|right|Garfield and Pearson in Force of Evil Joe Morse is a lawyer working with powerful gangster Ben Tucker. Tucker plans to consolidate and gain control over the numbers racket in New York City. He plans to rig the winning number to 776, a number popularly played on the Fourth of July (a reference to 1776 and the Revolutionary War) - when the number hits, the ‘banks’ that run the racket will go broke, allowing Tucker to take over.
Crime, thriller film
The film chronicles an Italian film crew who are in London making a reconstruction of the real-life killing of Egyptian chef Mohamed El-Sayed by the two 19-year-olds Jamie Petrolini and Richard Elsey in 1994.
Comedy, Crime
In San Francisco, Nick and Nora Charles are looking forward to a relaxing afternoon at a horse racetrack, but they learn from Nick's old friend, Lieutenant Abrams, that a jockey named Goldez has been found shot dead in a shower stall after throwing a race the previous day. That night, Major Jason I. Sculley, the special deputy for the state legislature, and investigative reporter Paul Clarke visit the Charleses, seeking Nick's help with the case; he refuses but accepts Paul's tickets to the evening's wrestling match.
Drama, thriller film
Will Farmer's (Matt Lanter) neighbor Massude asks Will for help with a computer problem. Will steals $5,000 from Massude's account to gamble on an online gaming site featuring games based on terrorist attacks. He ends up winning $25,000.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Sam Roffe, President of Roffe & Sons Pharmaceuticals, dies in what appears to be a mountain climbing accident, leaving his daughter Elizabeth a billion-dollar empire. Roffe's board members see an opportunity to settle old scores, jockey for higher position, and reap lucrative profits. However, an investigation into Sam's death discloses that it was a murder and that a power struggle is going on within the company.
Adventure, Drama, thriller film
The writing team of Nava and Thomas split the story into three parts: Arturo Xuncax The first part takes place in a small rural Guatemalan village called San Pedro and introduces the Xuncax family, a group of indigenous Mayans. Arturo is a coffee picker and his wife a homemaker. Arturo explains his worldview to his son Enrique and how the indio fares in Guatemalan life, noting that, "to the rich, the peasant is just a pair of strong arms".
Adventure, Drama, Science fiction, thriller film
In the late 1960s, after learning that the Russians will be launching a Moon landing mission in four weeks, NASA decides to activate the "Pilgrim Project". The project is a secret plan to send one astronaut to the Moon in a one-way rocket (depicted in the film as a Titan II), using a modified Project Gemini craft. He would stay on the Moon for a few months in a shelter pod launched and landed before him and wait for astronauts from an Apollo mission to arrive and retrieve him.
crime thriller film, Horror, mystery film, thriller film
Two young American women, Stephanie and Ellie, are backpacking through South America. On their last day in Argentina, they decide to stay in a small hotel. After a drunken night at the local bar, where they encounter some of the local men, the two miss the bus that was supposed to take them to their next destination.
Drama, Noir
Dr. Luther Brooks is the first African-American doctor at the urban county hospital where he trained. Despite assurances from his mentor, chief resident Dr.
Action, action thriller
Jack Boucher is an orphan and the happily adopted son of Mary Anne. Boucher borrows money from criminal Big Momma Sweet for Mary Anne's medical expenses. He becomes a successful underground pit fighter, known as "the Butcher", to repay the loan.
Science fiction, screenlife, thriller film
The film’s unnamed protagonist, identified as #000000014, wakes up in his underwear in a spare, prison-like room, not knowing how he arrived. After pleading to be released, he realizes that he is being watched through a primitive computer in his wall, and gets rewarded with credits when he performs certain actions, usually ones that make him look like a fool. These credits allow him to buy objects or services to survive in the room.
Comedy, Dark Comedy, Modern-Day Fantasy, thriller film
Tom and Janet's friends are jealous of their lustful relationship. When a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, they begin to question the loyalty of their so-called friends.
Dark Comedy, thriller film
Norval Greenwood (Elijah Wood), a privileged musician who lives with his mother in a Beverly Hills mansion, receives a letter from his estranged father asking him to come and visit him. Norval, who has not seen his father since he was five years old, makes the trek to a secluded cabin overlooking the coast in Oregon. His father, Brian, is initially welcoming to him, but Norval's admission of a suicide attempt seems to anger Brian, who soon begins to display aggressive tendencies, taunting and insulting Norval, and even threatening him with physical violence.
Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, mystery film
A middle-aged gay man in Washington, D. C., Carter Page III, is a male escorta "walker"a single man who escorts other men's wives to social events, rather than their husbands. One of the women he escorts, Lynn Lockner, is married to a United States senator and is having an affair with a lobbyist.
Drama, Horror, thriller film
Aspiring writer Pallavi lives in New Orleans and has a close but contentious relationship with her mother Usha. Worried for her unmarried daughter, and interested in vedic astrology, Usha tries to set Pallavi up on arranged dates. After being stood up at one such blind date, Pallavi instead meets another man, Sandeep, and they begin dating.
Secret Agent, spy film, thriller film
CIA officer Harris is involved in missions to detain and relocate foreign nationals for interrogation. When Harris' superior is murdered, he finds himself the scapegoat for the killing of a detainee and must run from a team of operatives sent to bring him in, led by a ruthless double agent.
Crime, Drama, Mysterie, neo-noir, Noir, thriller film
Ex-boxer Kevin "Kid" Collins is a drifter and an escapee from a mental hospital. In a desert town near Palm Springs he meets widow Fay Anderson who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her husband left and lets him sleep in a trailer out back, near her dying date palms. Collins stays on Fay’s neglected property, fixing what he can and sleeping among the fading trees.
Drama, musical film, mystery film, thriller film
Tom Selznick was an up-and-coming concert pianist until he developed stage fright while attempting to play a complex piece, "La Cinquette". Five years later, he is slated to appear in Chicago for a comeback performance, dedicated to the memory of his late mentor, pianist and composer Patrick Godureaux (who composed "La Cinquette"). Godureaux posthumously acquired massive media coverage due to the mysterious disappearance of his vast fortune.
Action, Comedy, Crime, sexploitation film
In Texas in 1932, after stopping her youngest daughter's wedding, Wilma McClatchie takes over her late lover's bootlegging business, but gets caught while doing the delivery route with her two daughters. After handing over all her money and her ring to the sheriff, they are let go and she begins her crime spree. While Wilma is at a bank trying to cash a fake check, the bank is held up by Fred Diller and his gang.
Drama
Film producer Mike Max meditates on the paranoia of fear of attack, in the film industry and life in general, as his wife Paige announces she is leaving him. He receives a document via email from a NASA employee whom he met earlier at a conference. Before opening it, Mike is kidnapped and almost killed, a scene captured by surveillance cameras and witnessed by computer scientist Ray Bering on surveillance footage scene in his laboratory at the Griffith Observatory.
Action, disaster film, fantasy film, Horror, kaiju, monster film, Science fiction, thriller film
The Japanese fishing vessel Yahata Maru is trying to find its way to shore in a horrible storm, when a giant monster emerges from an eruption on a nearby uninhabited island and attacks the boat. A day later, reporter Goro Maki finds the vessel intact, along with its sole survivor Hiroshi "Kenny" Okumura. The Japanese Prime Minister, Seiki Mitamura, is informed of the attack and that the monster is Godzilla; he orders that this be kept secret from the public.
Adventure, Animal horror, Horror, natural horror film, thriller film
Tom Newman and his family arrive at a resort in South Africa. Tom is a hydro-electrical engineer who has been hired to help build a nearby dam. He hopes that this trip will help his daughter Jessica and new wife Amy get closer, as Jessica blames Amy for her parents' divorce.
Drama, thriller film
In 1844, the British Admiralty sends Sir William Walker, an agent provocateur, to the island of Queimada (literally "Burned" or "Burnt"), a Portuguese colony in the Lesser Antilles. The British government seeks to open the island to economic exploitation by the Antilles Royal Sugar Company. Walker's task is to organize an uprising of enslaved Africans against the Portuguese regime, which the British government intend to replace with a government dominated by pliable white planters.
Horror, Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
Nicole Barlow is finalizing preparations for her mother's funeral at her childhood home in San Pedro, California. Her sister, Annie does not want to attend, reminding Nicole of the way their mother used to treat them. Nicole tries to contact her cousin, Liz, and her daughter Eva via video call.