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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 173.

A Rage in Harlem (1991)

Comedy, Comedy drama, comedy thriller, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Drama, Gangster Film

It is 1956, in Natchez, Mississippi. Slim and his crew, Hank and Jodie, are negotiating with Lester, a fence; they are trying to sell the gold they stole in a mining robbery. The deal goes south, and under duress Lester discloses that the only other person capable of fencing the gold is Easy Money in Harlem, New York.

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Zero Effect (1998)

Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, Drama, mystery film

Daryl Zero is the world's greatest detective, but is also a socially maladroit misanthrope. Among his quirks is that he never meets or has direct contact with his clients, instead conducting business through his assistant, Steve Arlo. Throughout the movie, Zero provides narration as he reads lines from his proposed autobiography.

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Fear X (2003)

Drama, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Harry Caine, a mall cop, obsessively investigates the murder of his pregnant wife, Claire, who was killed alongside a DEA agent at his place of work. Although Caine's co-workers sympathize with him, they express concern when he becomes aggressive with customers. Caine is tormented by inexplicable visions of his wife approaching a seemingly abandoned house in his neighborhood, which causes insomnia.

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Point Blank (2019)

Action, thriller film

Abe Guevara is caught in a shootout at a residential home that results in the death of District Attorney Joshua Gregory. He is chased on foot and attempts to escape with his brother Mateo, but Abe is hit by a car, and is subsequently sent to a local hospital. A pair of homicide detectives, Regina Lewis and Eric Masterson, are assigned to the case.

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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, crossover fiction, Parody, thriller film

Two Americans, Abbott and Costello, who are stranded in Cairo, Egypt, overhear Dr. Gustav Zoomer discussing the mummy Klaris, the guardian of the Tomb of Princess Ara. Apparently, the mummy has a sacred medallion that shows where the treasure of Princess Ara can be found.

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夕陽天使 Chik yeung tin si (2002)

Action, Drama, girls with guns, Heist, Martial arts, thriller film

Lynn and her sister Sue are computer hackers, assassins and espionage specialists who use their late father's secret satellite technology to gain an advantage over their rivals and law enforcement agents. At the beginning of the film, they infiltrate a high security building and assassinate Chow Lui, the chairman of a top company in China. After their successful mission, a police inspector named Kong Yat-hung is assigned to investigate the case and she manages to track down the assassins.

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Edmond (2005)

Crime, Drama

Edmond Burke is a middle-aged New York City businessman who visits a tarot fortune teller on the way home. The fortune teller, a little startled, tells him that "you are not where you belong". He decides to make changes in his life, beginning by leaving his wife.

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Dead Man's Curve (1998)

thriller film

After hearing of a school policy granting anyone whose roommate commits suicide an automatic 4.0 GPA, Harvard Business School aspirants Chris and Tim plot to kill their roommate Rand and make it look like a suicide. They're successful, but when the fallout breeds unforeseen consequences and two local detectives close in, guilt and mistrust fester, jeopardizing Chris's relationship with his girlfriend Emma and the roommates' futures.

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Woken (2023)

thriller film, Utopia & Dystopia

Anna is being nursed to health by Helen and Peter on a remote island in the North Sea after waking up with no memory, pregnant, and in the middle of a worldwide pandemic. She is told that James is her husband and that they arrived on the island after travelling from the mainland, although the reason for their trip is not revealed. Anna is shown photographs and videos to help her recall the events and is treated by Doctor Henry but continues to suffer from amnesia.

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Friend of the World (2020)

absurdist fiction, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, art film, black comedy film, body horror film, Comedy, Comedy drama, Comedy horror, Dark Comedy, experimental film, Gross Out Film, Horror, katastrophe, Mysterie, Post-apocalyptic, psychedelic film, Satire, Satire On War, Science fiction, Silly Movie, Splatter Film, Surrealist, thriller film, Zombie

Diane (Alexandra Slade) awakens in a bunker surrounded by dead bodies after a brutal massacre. After attempting to escape the structure, she eventually passes out at the bottom of an elevator shaft where she is rescued by a mysterious man who calls himself General Gore (Nick Young). Though he plays mind games with her, Gore gives her food and water as he attempts to figure out who Diane is and how she got into the bunker.

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Feng Shui (2004)

Horror

On a bus, Joy Ramirez finds a bagua mirror left behind by a passenger. Upon showing the mirror to Aling Biring at her bakery, the latter tells her to keep the mirror and display it for good luck as per feng shui tradition. Joy returns home and places the mirror at their front door.

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Joshua Tree (1993)

Action, thriller film

Wellman Anthony Santee is a former race car driver who has turned to a life of crime since the death of his mother. Santee and his friend Eddie Turner bend the law for profit by hauling exotic stolen cars. Santee's latest assignment is to transport such goods across the desert, but a highway patrol officer pulls him over.

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Confidence (2003)

crime thriller film, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist

A group of grifters rip off their latest mark and celebrate, while de facto group leader, Jake Vig, explains the art of the con. When one of the four, Alphonse "Big Al" Morley, is found shot to death, the other three learn that the latest money they stole belonged to Winston King, a local Los Angeles crime lord known as The King. Jake proposes that the grifters work for The King and steal money from Morgan Price, a rival who owns a bank.

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Franklyn (2008)

Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Dystopian, fantasy film, neo-noir, Science fiction, thriller film, vigilante film

In a comic book-like world, Jonathan Preest is the masked vigilante of Meanwhile City, where everyone is legally enforced to adopt a religion. Preest, the only atheist in town, learns that his nemesis, The Individual, has kidnapped a girl. While looking for her, he is captured by the local authorities.

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The Maltese Falcon (1931)

Crime, Detective, Drama, romance film

In San Francisco, private investigator Sam Spade and his partner Miles Archer are hired by Ruth Wonderly to follow Floyd Thursby, a man that allegedly ran off with her younger sister. Later that night, police detective Tom Polhaus informs Spade that Archer has been killed while tailing Thursby. Thursby is killed later, and the police suspect Spade.

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Villain (1971)

Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Heist, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film

Vic Dakin is a ruthless and sadistic London gangster. Dakin’s vicious behavior toward his associates and rivals is contrasted by his care for his elderly mother, who seems unaware of his criminal activities. Dakin is planning an ambitious robbery of a delivery of wages to a factory, but the heist will take place in the territory of Dakin's rival, Frank Fletcher, requiring Fletcher's agreement.

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Skin Trade (2014)

Action, rape and revenge film, thriller film, vigilante film

Tony Vitayakul, a RTP detective in Thailand, subdues a group of human traffickers in pretext of "buying" a Thai girl. Tony collects information about the ship used to transport trafficked girls and its destination, where he learns that Viktor Dragovic, a Serbian mobster, will be there to receive the shipment. Meanwhile, Nick Cassidy, a NPD detective in Newark, New Jersey, discovers that Dragovic is in New Jersey.

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