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Drama, spy film, thriller film, war film
As German forces take over Czechoslovakia in March 1939, Axel Bomasch, a Czechoslovak scientist working on a new type of armour-plate, is flown to Britain. Bomasch's daughter, Anna, is arrested before she can reach the airport and sent to a concentration camp, where she is interrogated by Nazis who are pursuing her father. Anna refuses to cooperate.
Action, Crime, Drama, Noir, thriller film
The film opens in Los Angeles with Treasury Agent Jimmy Mercer and his partner Brady doing some undercover work, when Mercer's fellow agent is shot and killed by a new man, Ronnie, whom criminal Rudolph "Red" Diamond pulled out of jail. Now on a snap of anger and thoughts of revenge, Mercer wants to find the killer and take him down before he gets transferred to Newark, New Jersey. Although a cop and close colleague claims over dinner that Mercer must do it "by the book", Mercer replies with, "When I'm done with this motherfucker, I'm gonna put him in a box.....
Drama, fantasy film, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
After witnessing the murder of his wife and young son at the hands of Henry Caine (Craig Fairbrass), who then turned the gun on himself, Abe Dale (Nathan Fillion) is so distressed that he attempts to take his own life. A near-death experience follows that leaves Abe with the ability to identify those who are about to die. He acts on these premonitions to save three people from death, among them a nurse met during his recovery, Sherry Clarke (Katee Sackhoff).
Action, Drama, thriller film
Annie and Matthew, a young married couple, find their infant daughter screaming with a high temperature and an earache. Matthew calls the doctor, who promises to phone in a prescription to the pharmacist the following day. During the night, the neighborhood wakes up due to a massive power outage.
Adventure, Comedy, Crime Comedy, Heist
A British bartender, Monte, hopes to marry Lucy, a waitress at the upscale restaurant where they work, ostensibly so he can obtain his green card and become an American citizen. Monte alludes to likely being killed if he returns to Britain. The waitress, Lucy, is an aspiring escape artist who is fixated on the legacy of Harry Houdini.
Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Comedy horror, Detective, Horror, thriller film
Mystery Inc. travel to Camp Little Moose, Fred Jones' old summer camp, to serve as camp counselors for the summer. Upon arrival however, they find head counselor Burt and forest ranger John Knudsen, who explain that one of the camp's old legends, the Woodsman, seemingly came to life and scared off the campers.
Drama, Noir, thriller film
Webb Garwood, a single and disgruntled cop, is called to investigate a report of a peeping tom by Susan Gilvray, whose husband works nights as a radio personality. Webb falls in love and becomes obsessed with Susan, and they begin an adulterous affair. After Webb discovers that Susan's husband has a life insurance policy, he concocts a murderous scheme.
Biography, Crime, Detective, Drama, mystery film, neo-noir, Noir
San Francisco-based Dashiell Hammett, trying to put his Pinkerton detective days behind him while establishing himself as a writer, finds himself drawn back into his old life one last time by the irresistible call of friendship and to honor a debt. In 1928, Hammett, known to his librarian neighbor Kit and other acquaintances as "Sam" is holed up in a cheap apartment, hard at work at his typewriter each day. He drinks heavily, smokes too much and has coughing fits.
Drama, Mysterie
Darkly Noon (Brendan Fraser), named for a Bible passage, is a young man who has spent his entire life as a member of an ultraconservative Christian cult. After a violent incident in which the cult is dissolved and Darkly's parents die, the disoriented Darkly wanders into a forest in the Appalachian region of North Carolina. He is rescued from exhaustion by an undertaker's assistant named Jude (Loren Dean) and his friend Callie (Ashley Judd).
thriller film
Suki, a young woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder, moves into Juniper Tower, a strange, darkly gothic apartment building, that serves as a halfway house for mental patients who don't need to be institutionalized any longer, but are not completely cured yet. Suki has been given an experimental device that lets her perform a procedure known as The Siamese Burn on herself. The machine is supposed to "burn" all her extra personalities until she only has one left.
Crime, docudrama, Drama
Martha Beck is a sullen, overweight nursing administrator living in Mobile, Alabama, with her elderly mother. Martha's friend Bunny surreptitiously submits Martha's name to a "lonely hearts" club, which results in a letter from Raymond Fernandez of New York City. Overcoming her initial reluctance, Martha corresponds with Ray and becomes attracted to him.
Crime, thriller film
Outside Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on West 81st Street in Manhattan, Bernard Gilbert is attacked by another man wielding an ice axe. Meanwhile at Mother Cabrini Hospital, Barbara Delaney is undergoing emergency surgery. The NYPD arrive to process the crime scene outside the church.
Action, thriller film
An unidentified man arrives at a local hospital, seriously wounded. He is taken care of by a devoted nurse, Suzanne. Things take a turn for the worse when an international gang invades the hospital to kill him.
Action, Drama, Historie, thriller film
Crime, Drama
Brandon "Blue" Monroe, a 16-year-old half-Navajo gang member from East L.A., is serving time in prison for murdering his abusive stepfather. On an annual medical visit, Blue is told by Dr. Michael Reynolds, a wealthy, materialistic oncologist with a wife Victoria and daughter Calantha, that he is dying of abdominal cancer and has very little time left to live.
Crime, Drama, spy film, thriller film
Johnny Worricker is a long-serving MI5 officer. His best friend and superior, director general Benedict Baron, summons Worricker to a meeting with fellow MI5 agent Jill Tankard and Home Secretary Anthea Catcheside regarding a potentially explosive report. Worricker highlights a note at the foot of page eight alleging that Prime Minister Alec Beasley has knowledge of secret overseas prisons where American authorities have tortured terror suspects.
Crime, Drama, neo-noir, Psychological Thriller
Brothers Dova (Matt Dillon) and Milo (Gary Sinise) are small-time crooks. They and their partner, Law (William Fichtner), pull a holdup in New Orleans that goes terribly wrong. A police officer is killed, as are two other men.
caper story, Crime, Drama, Heist, Mysterie, Noir, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Kansas City Confidential (1952) The ruthless Mr. Big is timing the arrival of an armored car collecting money from a bank and a flower delivery truck driven by deliveryman Joe Rolfe. He plans to rob the armored car with Peter Harris, Boyd Kane and Tony Romano, men whom he interviewed while wearing a mask so that they cannot identify him.
Mysterie, thriller film
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bower has suffered from nightmares and eerie visions ever since the death of his daughter Evie in a street accident a year earlier, for which he blames himself. His wife Carol suffers extreme depression and rarely gets out of bed. At his practice, Peter meets with several clients referred to him by his mentor, Duncan.
Action, Drama, giallo, Gothic film, gothic horror film, Horror, independent film, Melodrama, romance film, romantic horror film, Supernatural, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, Vampire
During the Walpurgis Night in the woods adjacent to the village of Passo Borgo, located at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, a couple of young lovers, Tanja and Milos, secretly meet and have sex. After fighting, Tanja removes the cross Milos had given her. On her way home, Tanja is chased by a supernatural creature that drains her blood.
Crime, thriller film
Ben Chase is a brash young defense attorney whose success is built on his willingness to manipulate the judicial system for the benefit of his clients. In spite of his career success as an attorney, Ben is starting to show signs of serious alcoholism. When he successfully defends Martin Thiel, the scion of a wealthy, prominent family, against a murder charge, the game turns on him.
Horror, mystery film, thriller film
Leigh Michaels relocates from New York City to Los Angeles, where she lands a job directing live television for a local station. Leigh rents a spacious apartment in a downtown high-rise building. She quickly befriends Sophie, a lesbian co-director with whom she will be working, and is aggressively pursued by Steve, a male director.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Tom Ripley's friend Philip Derwatt, a successful young artist, is killed in a car accident. Ripley, along with Jeff Constant, Derwatt's gallerist; Bernard Sayles, another artist; and Cynthia, Derwatt's girlfriend, concoct a scheme in which Bernard forges more of Derwatt's paintings, making a great deal of money. They hide Derwatt's body in a freezer.
thriller film, Western
Passing a stagecoach way station on his journey into town, Pat Brennan agrees to return with some store-bought candy for the friendly station manager's young son. At a ranch where he once worked, Brennan tries to buy a bull, but is talked into riding one. If he wins, he gets the bull.