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satanic film, Science fiction, Secret Agent, spy film, thriller film
Lee Barrett, a former intelligence agent, is approached by a man offering him a job to join a political organization against bioweapons. However, the man turns out to be an impersonator sent by Barrett's former boss, Eric Cavanaugh, to test his loyalty. Cavanaugh asks Barrett to investigate the murder of the security chief and the disappearance of Dr.
Heist, Science fiction, thriller film
After escaping from a military prison, rogue Air Force General Lawrence Dell and accomplices Powell, Garvas, and Hoxey infiltrate a Montana ICBM complex that Dell helped design. Their goal is to gain control over its nine Titan nuclear missiles. The infiltration does not go as planned, as the impulsive Hoxey guns down an Air Force guard for trying to answer a ringing phone.
thriller film
At night, a masked intruder breaks into a home and murders a woman, Anna, in front of her seven-year-old daughter, Celeste. Afterwards, an older woman assures Celeste that the killer will be punished. Years later, five strangers—salesman Billy Gray, detective Michael Quinn, Dr.
Crime, crime drama film, crime thriller film, Drama, Mysterie, mystery film, romance film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Murder! (1930)|left Diana Baring, a young actress in a travelling theatre troupe, is found in a daze with blood on her clothes, sitting by the murdered body of another young actress, Edna Druce. The poker used to commit the murder is at Diana's feet, but she has no memory of what happened during the minutes that the crime was committed.
Christmas film, Heist, Noir
thumb|Peter Cushing as Harry Fordyce Two days before Christmas, a bogus insurance auditor, "Colonel Gore Hepburn", appears at a provincial bank. Bank manager Harry Fordyce is a cold, officious man who treats his employees with disdain, but is revealed to care a great deal about his family. "Colonel Hepburn" recognises the insecurities underlying Fordyce's behaviour and exploits them ruthlessly, tormenting him with veiled threats.
Action, Horror, Mysterie, Science fiction, thriller film
In the prologue, the mother of Sara (Jessica Lowndes) is transporting a family of three (two parents and their son) in a small aircraft. The child is extremely nervous and starts hyperventilating. Wondering why he is so afraid, the parents suddenly see an out-of-control aircraft that crashes into them, and everyone plummets to the ground.
Action, Action Comedy, comedy thriller
LAPD detective Rita Rizzoli stages an undercover buy of a new strain of cocaine called "Fatal Beauty" with dealer Tito Delgadillo, but ruins it by leaving to save her informant Charlene from a beating by her pimp. Delgadillo steals her money and retreats to a warehouse in Chinatown where Fatal Beauty is manufactured. Two small-time hoods, Leo Nova and Earl Skinner, storm the warehouse and kill the entire gang, unknowingly stealing a botched batch of the drug.
Comedy
The Parkers, twin sisters, are placed in the FBI's Witness Protection Program after they witness a robbery at the local museum, in which the priceless Kneel Diamond is stolen. Unfortunately, the sisters have a problem with being blabbermouths; as a result, everywhere the Parkers are sent to live, the girls inadvertently end up revealing their witness status. The gang is led by a crime lord, Hatchew, who will do anything to get his hands on the diamond, which the thieves slipped into one of the girls' shoulder bag during their escape from the crime scene.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Roseanne Skolnick is outwardly a perfect and popular high school senior in Southern California, but she suffers from a dysfunctional home life: Her mother Maggie is unsatisfied in her marriage to Roseanne's alcoholic stepfather, Fred, who has raised Roseanne since age four. At school, Roseanne is an object of fascination to Vincent, an obsessive outcast who is often bullied by Roseanne's boyfriend, Jimmy. Though she is aware of Vincent's fixation with her, Roseanne largely ignores it.
thriller film
Rosalind and Will live an enviable life in London. She is a celebrated artist, he is a dependable engineer and a willing stepfather to her twin eight-year-old daughters. When the difficult birth of their son, Amadeo, rocks Rosalind's carefully calibrated world, she abruptly disappears with her children and the young nanny, Candy.
Psychological Thriller, Slasher
A nurse finishing her shift goes to the staff changing room to take a shower. While in the shower, she is killed by an unseen person. Three months earlier, social worker Evan works with abused and troubled teens.
Drama, Noir
George Stroud, editor-in-chief of Crimeways magazine, hides from building security inside the "big clock" which dominates the lobby of the Janoth Publications building where he works. It is the largest and most sophisticated clock ever built. Thirty-six hours earlier, Stroud was eager to embark on a long-postponed honeymoon in Wheeling, West Virginia, with his wife Georgette and son George Jr.
crime thriller film, Social Drama, thriller film
A troubled but dedicated social worker, assisting a working and struggling single mother and her daughter, intervenes when the father returns from prison and drags his family back to his habitual world of crime.
Crime, Drama, historical drama, neo-noir
In the 1940s, Leon "Bernzy" Bernstein is a freelance crime and street photographer for the New York City tabloids, dedicated to his vivid and realistic work and his unique ability to capture shots that nobody else can. He is very confident of his skills, declaring at one point, "Nobody does what I do. Nobody".
action thriller, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, sexploitation film
Molly Stewart (Betsy Russell) is off the streets and studying to become a lawyer. Molly learns that Lt. Andrews (Robert F.
Drama, flashback film, romance film
The reclusive foreign-born Fedora is one of the great film stars of the century, and known for retaining her youthful beauty over the course of a career spanning decades. At the height of her fame, however, Fedora withdrew to a private island near Corfu and refused to be seen in public, leading to vast speculation on what became of her. All are shocked when it is confirmed Fedora died by suicide by throwing herself in front of a train.
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
Jess picks up his girlfriend, Nicole, to head out to California in his convertible. On the way, Nicole complains she needs to urinate, and she urges Jess to find a rest stop. After exiting the building, she finds her boyfriend gone.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime Comedy, mystery film, neo-noir
Ira Wells, an aging Los Angeles private detective, is writing his memoir at his boarding house when his ex-partner Harry Regan appears, mortally wounded, and dies shortly after. At Harry's funeral, Ira is introduced to Margo Sperling by a mutual acquaintance, Charlie Hatter. Margo asks Ira to locate her stolen cat Winston, and Ira learns Harry was murdered while on the case to find Margo's cat.
Biography, Crime, Drama, romance film
June 1906, New York City. Arriving nearly two hours late for a dinner reservation, multimillionaire Harry Thaw is indignant that his imagined rival, prominent architect Stanford White, has been given his table. The detested White has a higher social status; worse, White blackballed Thaw from membership at an exclusive club.
Crime, Drama, medieval film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1380, in England, the priest Nicholas (Bettany) flees his village when found in flagrante delicto with a married woman. During the flight, he witnesses a group euthanise a member to give him relief from his long-recurring internal pain. He becomes known to the group and is captured.
Drama, Noir
The film opens with a vicious killer attacking an innocent woman in her apartment. It soon becomes apparent this murderer is a serial killer. The scene switches to elderly Amos Kyne, a news media mogul, who is on his deathbed (in his office) talking to the men in charge of his company's divisions: wire-service chief Mark Loving, newspaper chief Jon Day Griffith, and television chief "Honest" Harry Kritzer; Edward Mobley, TV anchorman for Kyne Inc., is also present.
Action, biopunk, Cyberpunk, Horror, Science fiction
Anthony is a man with an American father and a deceased Japanese mother living and working in Tokyo. One day, his son is killed in a car accident and shortly afterward, Anthony begins to transform into metal after arguing with his wife who wants revenge for the death of their son. He is shot dead by a hitman accompanied by a mysterious individual who taunts Anthony's dead body.
Ghost, Horror, Slasher, teen film
A crying little girl runs through a graveyard. She makes it to her house and her parents ask her what's wrong. She responds, "I don't remember." Years later, Sandy Channing and her brother, Eli, are college bound students who attend a party at their friend TJ's house.
Action, thriller film
In the midst of a drug deal between two parties exchanging cash for illegal drugs, masked men with guns suddenly appear and shoot all of them to death, despite one who claims to be a DEA agent involved in a sting operation. Two girls are then seen fleeing from the scene, and are pursued by the masked men, but manage to escape. Detective Travis is called by his boss Hernandez, who informs him that DEA agents were killed during a drug bust operation, and that Travis should bring the two missing witnesses who have now been caught shoplifting in Mexico.