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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 180.

Bunraku (2011)

Action, Drama, Dystopian, fantasy film, Martial arts, samurai cinema, Spaghetti Western, thriller film

In the aftermath of a major global conflict, which caused untold amounts of death and destruction, guns have been outlawed. However, even in spite of there not being firearms anymore, people still continue to fight and kill one another, except now they rely on either bladed weapons or their bare fists. Within this new world of might makes right, where your strength and skill in combat determine your place in life, Nicola the Woodcutter is the most powerful man East of the Atlantic, a shadowy crime boss who rules his territory with an iron fist and his nine elite assassins called "The Killers" with his right-hand man, Killer No.

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Freeway II: Confessions of a Trickbaby (1999)

Comedy, LGBTQ-related film

Crystal "White Girl" Van Meter is a 15-year-old prostitute who is sentenced to 25 years for a long list of crimes that include beating up and robbing her customers. Transferred to a minimum security hospital to seek treatment for bulimia, White Girl teams up with Angela "Cyclona" Garcia, a lesbian teenage serial killer. Together, they escape from the hospital.

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Black Eagle (1988)

Action, Drama, Martial arts, spy film, thriller film

Through radio traffic, the US and Soviet Union learn that an F-111 carrying a sensitive missile guidance system is lost near Malta. CIA agent Dean Rickert initially dispatches agent Steve Henderson to retrieve it, but his director insists he recall agent Ken Tani (Shō Kosugi), codenamed "Black Eagle", from his vacation seeing his kids to do the job. Rickert also enlists the help of Jesuit priest Joseph Begelia to assist Tani.

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Grand Isle (2019)

thriller film

In the coastal town of Grand Isle, Louisiana, Fancy answers the door to find girl scouts selling cookies. She is very enthusiastic but also creepy. In 1988, Walt, who has long hair and a beard and looks and acts scary, confronts a burglar, shooting him as he runs away.

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Deadly Virtues (2014)

Drama, Horror, thriller film

Tom (Matt Barber) and Alison (Megan Maczko) are a married couple having sex when Aaron (Edward Akrout) breaks into their house and assaults them. When they come to, Alison is tied up in a shibari position and suspended from the ceiling in the kitchen while Tom is about to be bound by Aaron in the bathroom. As events progress, Aaron's actions grow increasingly more violent and dangerous and things come to the surface that shows that Tom and Alison are both hiding secrets.

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Bitch Slap (2009)

Action, exploitation film, girls with guns, Heist, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film

Three attractive and voluptuous vixens, a down-and-out stripper named Trixie, a drug-running killer and ex-convict named Camero, and a corporate powerbroker nicknamed Hel, arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort massive riches from a ruthless sword-wielding killer named Pinky, who is also a notorious underworld figure. None of the three women are who they appear to be: each has an ulterior motive. They kidnap a gangster called Gage and try to force him to reveal where the treasure is buried.

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Blueberry (2004)

Action, Adventure, Psychodrama, Treasure hunt, Western

U.S. Marshal Mike Donovan (Vincent Cassel) (referred to as Broken Nose by the aboriginal tribe; unlike the comic his nickname is not Blueberry) has dark memories of the death of his first love. He keeps peace between the white settlers and the Native Americans who had temporarily adopted and taken care of him.

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They Won't Believe Me (1947)

Crime, Drama, Noir, thriller film, trial film

After the prosecution rests its case in the murder trial of Larry Ballentine, the defendant takes the stand to tell his story. In flashback, Larry recounts how he started seeing magazine writer Janice Bell, innocently enough, but feelings developed between them. Unwilling to break up his marriage to Greta, Janice gets a job transfer.

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Another Thin Man (1939)

Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, Drama, mystery film

Nick and Nora Charles return to New York City with Asta and their infant son Nickie Jr. when they are invited by Colonel Burr MacFay, a former business partner of Nora's father, to spend the weekend at his country house on Long Island. Also present are MacFay's adopted daughter Lois, her fiancé Dudley Horn, and MacFay's secretary Freddie Coleman.

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The Veteran (2011)

Action, thriller film

Robert Miller, a veteran paratrooper, is returning from the war in Afghanistan to his home in a violent decaying South London Heygate Estate, overrun by gun-toting youth gangs. The gangs are led by a drug lord gangster Jones who is interested in Miller working for him, but his job offer is rejected. Through an ex-army mate, Miller finds work in undercover surveillance.

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The Formula (1980)

Crime, mystery film, Political Thriller, Science fiction, thriller film

In the final days of World War II, Soviet forces close in on Berlin, and Panzer Korps General Helmut Kladen is sent with secret documents that could be used to negotiate with the Allies and save Germany from the Soviets. However, he is intercepted by the U.S. Army and handed over to Army Intelligence.

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The Cry Baby Killer (1958)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

After Jimmy Wallace is beaten by Manny Cole and his friends over Carole, Jimmy confronts him and challenges him to a fight outside the café; during a struggle, Jimmy grabs a gun from one of Manny's friends and two gunshots ring out. A nearby police officer corners Jimmy, who then rushes into a room and takes a worker and a mother with her baby hostage. After a prolonged and tense hostage situation, Carole begs Jimmy to come out, who then does, surrendering himself to the police and releasing the hostages.

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No Way Back (1995)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

When an undercover FBI agent with a secret agenda (Kelly Hu) murders the skinhead son (Ian Ziering) of high-ranking crime boss Frank Serlano (Michael Lerner), the mafioso retaliates by kidnapping the son of Zach Grant (Russell Crowe), the FBI agent in charge of the botched undercover sting. Simultaneously, Yuji (Etsushi Toyokawa), wanted dead by the yakuza for forthcoming legal testimony, breaks free from Grant's supervision during a trans-Atlantic flight. He forces their airplane, along with Mary (Helen Slater), the ditzy stewardess accompanying them, to make an emergency-landing.

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Baltimore (2023)

Drama, thriller film

On 26 April 1974, 19 paintings were stolen from Russborough House in Ireland in the largest art heist in history. The gang, led by Rose Dugdale, demanded the release of four IRA prisoners from England in exchange for the artworks. The film interweaves the heist with flashbacks to Rose’s childhood, education, and radicalization.

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The Quiet American (1958)

Drama

In 1952 Saigon, the body of Alden Pyle, a young American, is found dead near a river during the Chinese New Year celebration. Thomas Fowler, a British journalist, had invited Pyle to his flat. Inspector Vigot, who is investigating the drowning murder of Pyle, interrogates Fowler, who declines to verify whether Pyle and Fowler's former Vietnamese lover, Phuong, were engaged.

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A Certain Sacrifice (1985)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, rape and revenge film

Madonna plays the part of Bruna, a Lower East Side resident who lives with three "love slaves" (one woman, one man, and one transgender woman). Bruna meets Dashiell (Pattnosh) in the water fountain in Washington Square Park and the two "fall in love". Bruna later tells her lovers she does not need them anymore, resulting in them attacking her sexually.

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Blue Hill Avenue (2001)

Crime

Tristan (the leader), Simon (the right-hand man), E-Bone (the hot head) and Money (the mediator) are four smart friends growing up in the tough Roxbury section of Boston in the late 1970s. Starting out as small-time dope dealers on Blue Hill Avenue in Roxbury, they eventually go to work for Benny, a major player in the Boston crime scene. As the four friends grow up and become the biggest dealers in the city, things become increasingly heated: Tristan's wife wants him to leave the business because she's pregnant, Tristan finds out his sister is hooked on drugs and is alienated from his family, Simon becomes obsessed with a near-death…

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A Shock to the System (1990)

Crime, Dark Comedy, thriller film

Graham Marshall, a long-time executive in a large advertising company, is unexpectedly passed over for promotion in favor of his obnoxious younger rival Bob Benham. While he sympathizes with his friend George Brewster, whose dismissal in the midst of a corporate takeover created the open position, Marshall is angry and disappointed. His greedy, self-absorbed wife Leslie is devastated and continually reproaches her husband for his apparent lack of ambition and willpower.

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The Visitors (1972)

Drama

Bill Schmidt and his long-term girlfriend Martha Wayne and their young son Hal live in a small Connecticut farmhouse owned by Martha's overbearing father. One snowy winter Saturday, two of Bill's ex-army buddies, Mike and Tony, arrive. A few years before, they had all served together in Vietnam in the same platoon but later ended up on opposite sides of a court-martial.

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Chatroom (2010)

Drama, Psychological Thriller

William Rollins is a depressed teenage boy recovering from self-harm who regularly goes online to chatrooms. One day, he opens a chatroom himself and names it "Chelsea Teens!", where he meets Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo. There is no real subject matter in "Chelsea Teens!", which instead focuses on the lives of each one as they talk.

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Darkness (2002)

Ghost, Horror, mystery film, thriller film

In the early 1960s, an unfinished occult ritual results in the disappearance of six young children in the Spanish countryside. 40 years later, Mark Rua, his wife Maria, and their two children—teenage Regina, and young Paul—relocate from the United States to Mark's native Spain, settling in a large country home outside Barcelona. The family have partly relocated to be closer to Mark's father, Albert, an accomplished physician who resides in the city.

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