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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 176.
Crime, thriller film
A busload of passengers, including off-duty police detective Dave Evans, is gunned down and killed. Evans, on his own time, has been following a man named Gus Niles in search of information linking businessman Henry Camarero to the murder of Henry's wife Teresa two years earlier. Detective Sergeant Jake Martin, a veteran but cynical member of the Homicide Detail, was Evans' partner and is working on the investigation of a bus massacre.
Action, buddy cop film, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Jack Murphy, a hardened, antisocial alcoholic LAPD detective, frequently escapes the harsh reality that his ex-wife has become a stripper and his career is going nowhere by drinking. His world is turned upside down, however, when he is framed by ex-convict Joan Freeman for putting her in prison earlier in his career. Freeman murders the detective's ex-wife and her boyfriend and begins killing off his associates while framing him for the crimes.
Erotic Thriller, Horror
English literature professor, Dr. Diane Stevens, works at Ocean View College, where she hires student Jay Richard to varnish her yacht 'Lillian'. During a break, she seduces him, and they have sex.
Crime, Drama, Noir, romance film
San Francisco socialite Helen Brent has established residence in Reno, Nevada to obtain a divorce decree and is lodging in a boarding house owned by the feisty Mrs. Kraft. Helen meets Laury Palmer, a next-door neighbor, and Mrs.
Action, Crime, crime thriller film, thriller film
Bent follows Danny Gallagher (Karl Urban), a discredited narcotics detective who, upon his release from prison, makes plans to seek revenge on the accuser who framed him and killed his partner. Through his quest, Gallagher is forced to confront a ruthless, seductive government agent Rebecca (Sofía Vergara), who may or may not be on his side; and his mentor Jimmy Murtha (Andy García), a retired cop who has fought corruption his entire career.
Biography, Comedy, docudrama, Documentation, Drama, Political Thriller
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Accident, disaster film, Family Drama, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
Harry Baldwin, his wife Ann, their son Rick, and daughter Karen leave suburban Los Angeles at sunrise to go on a fishing trip to the southern Sierra Nevada wilderness, bringing with them a small camping trailer. After a couple of hours on the road, Harry and Ann are startled by a series of unusually bright lights in the sky, accompanied by a radio station going to static. Tuning through stations, they hear a sporadic news report broadcast on CONELRAD that hint at the start of an atomic war, confirmed when the Baldwins see a large mushroom cloud from a hydrogen bomb rising over Los Angeles, now many miles away.
Action, Drama, thriller film, war film
A British tramp steamer named the SS Glencairn is on the long voyage home from the West Indies to Baltimore, and then to England during World War II. The crew is a motley, fun-loving, hard-drinking lot. Among them is their consensus leader, a middle-aged Irishman named Driscoll; a young Swedish ex-farmer, Ole Olsen; a spiteful steward nicknamed Cocky; a brooding Lord Jim-like Englishman, Smitty; and a burly, thoroughly dependable bruiser, Davis.
alien invasion, Horror, Science fiction
After a year of marriage, Marge Farrell is despondent that her husband Bill is cold and not acting toward her the way he did before they were married. He does not show any signs of genuine affection towards her or toward his new dog, a surprise anniversary present from Marge. The dog barks and snarls at him whenever he approaches.
Drama, Occult Horror, thriller film
Leah Reyes is a teenager fascinated with black magic and occult practices. Following the death of Leah's father, her grieving mother decides to move to a remote woodland house for a fresh start, forcing Leah to leave her school friends behind and join her. After a fierce argument with her mother, Leah wishes death on her and performs an occult ritual in the forest from one of her books, to summon the demon Pyewacket to kill her mother.
Crime, exploitation film, Gruselfilm, Horror, rape and revenge film, thriller film
During a Growth Opportunity graduation (a parody of Erhard Seminars Training), a couple, Terry and Charlie, are offered a ride by an old woman and driven into the woods. After the old woman's car stalls, two inbred killers appear and attack; Charlie is decapitated with a machete in the backseat while Terry is brutally beaten up before being garroted by the old lady. It is revealed that the two killers named Ike and Addley are the woman's sons.
thriller film
The film is set two years after the disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister, Annie. Kath is haunted by Annie's disappearance and continues to investigate herself. On the discovery of some strange CCTV footage she appears to lose her grip on reality.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Eric Stanton, a well-dressed but down-on-his-luck drifter, feigns sleep but gets pulled off a bus in the hamlet of Walton because he does not have the fare to continue to San Francisco. He finds a low-budget diner called "Pop's Eats", where Pop is worried about waitress Stella because she has not shown up for work for days. Ex-New York cop Mark Judd tells him not to worry, and the sultry Stella soon returns.
Action, Crime, Drama, war film
The film opens in Saigon late in the Vietnam War. John Converse, a disillusioned war correspondent, approaches Ray Hicks, a merchant marine sailor and acquaintance of Converse from the U.S., for help in smuggling a large quantity of heroin from Vietnam to San Francisco, where he will exchange the drugs for payment with Converse's wife Marge, who has become addicted to Dilaudid. When Hicks gets back to the U.S.
Action, Crime, thriller film
In New York City, special effects expert Rollie Tyler is contacted by his girlfriend Kim Brandon's ex-husband, NYPD detective Mike Brandon, to help apprehend a murderer targeting models who was arrested previously but served a reduced sentence and could strike again. The trap involves luring the murderer to the apartment of a model, where Mike will arrest him. Rollie sets up the trap and watches using hidden cameras, but Mike is killed by an unidentified assailant in the apartment, while Mike's superior Ray Silak shoots the model murderer.
folk horror film, Ghost, Horror, Mysterie, supernatural horror film
While in Wales visiting her husband James, Adèlle tries to fix her relationship with her daughter Sarah. By the side of a cliff, they see a strange memorial with evidence of a plate missing and with the name "Annwyn" marked on it. A local man Dafydd explains that, according to traditional Welsh mythology, Annwyn is a sort of afterlife.
Science fiction, thriller film
U.S. Marine Malik Khan has two young boys, Jay and Bobby. At home, Jay and Bobby are living with their mother Piya and their mother's new partner, Dylan.
Horror, thriller film
After starting a fire in a nearby warehouse as a diversion, the five robbers—Leah Dillon; her sister, Vee; their brother, Michael; Kramer, the safecracker; and Cyrus, the muscle—initiate a bank robbery. An officer inside the bank tries to call for help on his police radio. Detective Tom Iger, who had just been in the bank, hears the call and decides to check it out.
Crime, thriller film
Cliff, who in the past at his work had an affair with the wife of his company's CEO and who was involved in allegations of embezzlement, for which the CEO subsequently took the blame and committed suicide, loses his job as a travelling salesman of defibrillators after rumours of his involvement resurface when he attempts to blackmail his manager over poor defibrillator sales into giving him a higher commission. Unable to find employment elsewhere, he takes up an offer from his old colleague Ricky to become a drug- and gun-runner under his old travelling salesman cover for a local gang. As Cliff makes his first run with a shipment of drugs…
Action, Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film, vigilante film
Judge Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles judge who becomes frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of three criminals. The first is a man who was charged with murdering several elderly women for their welfare money. The second and third are two men who were accused of raping and killing a young boy named Daniel Lewin as part of a suspected child pornography ring.
art film, Crime, Drama, thriller film
The film opens with Detective Fisher, a European expatriate in Cairo, undergoing hypnosis to process his most recent case, with the remainder of the film narrated by him in a dreamlike state. Expressionistic and surreal, the Europe of Fisher's hypnotized recollection is a psychosocial dystopia, dark, decaying, desolate, and rain drenched. Chief Inspector Kramer has asked Fisher to return to Europe to investigate a serial killer who has been strangling and mutilating young girls.
Crime, Drama, Noir
New York police detective Mark Dixon is demoted by Inspector Foley because of his frequent use of violence that echoes his father's criminal past. At a hotel, gangster Tommy Scalise's floating crap game becomes the scene of a visiting Texas tycoon's murder. Police are summoned, including Dixon, who had arrested Scalise years earlier for murder, although Scalise was acquitted.
Drama, Horror, psychological drama film, Psychological horror, Psychological Thriller, suspense film, thriller film
The film opens with an informational prologue by Lincoln Maazel, who explains how society constantly overlooks and undervalues the elderly. He tells the viewer that they are about to watch a film that acts as a metaphorical description of how the elderly are mistreated. An elderly man, played by Maazel, sits in a white room, bandaged, bloodied and with his once nice white suit dirtied.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film
In a warehouse, a handful of amnesiac men regain consciousness. One is bound to a chair, another has been handcuffed and shot, a third has a broken nose, and the other two, one wearing a jean jacket and one wearing a rancher shirt, are also wounded. The man in the jean jacket wakes up first.