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Open Water 3: Cage Dive (2017)

Fake Documentary, found footage film, natural horror film, survival horror, thriller film

A news story unfolds from 21 October 2015, about a shark cage diving boat in Australia that capsized; after several confirmed fatalities and others rescued, a search is underway for the last three missing passengers, tourists from Laguna Beach, California. One week later: A diver is swimming along a reef and finds an underwater camera wedged in some coral with its SD card preserved. The diver is interviewed by the filmmakers, explaining he uploaded the footage to social media after finding it belonging to the three Americans: Josh, his brother Jeff, and Jeff's girlfriend Megan, eventually getting ahold of Greg, Josh and Jeff's cousin who…

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Blood Money (2017)

Crime, thriller film

During a weekend excursion in the woods, three friends, Victor (Ellar Coltrane), his ex-girlfriend Lynn (Willa Fitzgerald) and Jeff (Jacob Artist), who's been secretly sleeping with Lynn, discover four bags full of money. The trio discover that the bags belong to a criminal named Miller (John Cusack), who is looking for the money. As they try to get away, Jeff is entangled with one of the bags.

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The Plumber (1979)

Comedy, Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Dr. Brian Cowper takes a shower in the flat he shares with his wife Jill, who is a masters student in anthropology. As he exits the building's lift on his way to work, an ominous character is seen entering and randomly choosing the button for the ninth floor.

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Warning (2021)

Science fiction, thriller film

"Set in the not-too-distant future, this intense sci-fi thriller explores the repercussions that humanity faces when omniscient technology becomes a substitute for human contact. But life begins to unravel when a meteor shower and a global storm causes electronics to go haywire, leading to terrifying, deadly consequences."

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Bloody Birthday (1981)

Horror, Slasher, thriller film

On June 9, 1970, at a hospital in Southern California, three women give birth at the same time during a solar eclipse. Two boys and a girl are born - Curtis Taylor, Debbie Brody, and Steven Seton. Ten years later, on June 1, 1980, Annie Smith and Duke Benson, a young couple are murdered in a cemetery by unseen assailants.

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The Phantom of the Opera (1998)

Drama, Gothic film, gothic horror film, Horror, romance film, romantic horror film, Slasher, thriller film

In 1877 Paris, a pack of rats save an abandoned baby from a basket that was flowing along a river. They raise him in the underground of the Opéra de Paris. This child becomes the Phantom of the Opera, a misanthrope who kills anyone who ventures into his underground chambers, just as rats are killed whenever they venture above ground.

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Everly (2014)

Action, girls with guns, thriller film, vigilante film

Everly, trapped into sexual slavery and abused and assaulted while being forced to work for the brutal Japanese criminal overlord Taiko, is attacked in her apartment by Taiko's enforcers after he discovers that she has been working with a police officer to damage his organization. Although Taiko expected his men to kill her easily after torturing her, Everly retrieves a gun she had hidden in the toilet and manages to kill all of her attackers. Taiko then begins a sadistic game of toying with Everly, dispatching numerous hired killers and offering the other trafficked women in the building (which he presumably owns) a bounty if they manage…

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Guilty as Sin (1993)

Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, Forensic, thriller film, trial film

Jennifer Haines is an up-and-coming Chicago attorney. She wins a big case, celebrates with the man in her life, Phil Garson, and returns to work to a hero's reception. Into her life walks David Greenhill, who was seated in the gallery during her previous trial.

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Balibo (2009)

Drama, Political Thriller

The film starts in the present day, when an Australian journalist interviews a woman named Juliana, who as a young girl witnessed Roger East's capture and execution by the Indonesian invasion force. We see events from Roger East's point of view, as he investigates the imminent Indonesian invasion of East Timor, and the fate of the Balibo Five, five Australian journalists who went missing prior to the Indonesian invasion. Then the point of view changes to the Balibo Five's actions in the town, from their departure in Australia, to their arrival in East Timor and being embedded in a Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor…

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Hacker (2016)

Crime, thriller film

As a family of immigrants who moved to Canada, the Danyliuk's subsequently struggle for money and have to live on welfare. Alex grew up with no friends and spent his time online, playing games. He later started making money as a "Clicker" by generating online traffic to earn revenue for websites.

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Assassination Games (2011)

Action

In France, Vincent Brazil (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Roland Flint (Scott Adkins) retired from being a contract killer after an attack by drug kingpin Polo Yakur (Ivan Kaye) left Roland's wife Anna (Bianca Van Varenberg) in a coma that she still hasn't emerged from. When a contract is put out on Yakur, both Vincent and Roland want to take the contract—Vincent is in it for the money, and Roland is in it to make Yakur pay for putting Anna in a coma.

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Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale (2010)

Animation, fantasy film

While filming an adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, Barbie questions the director's bizarre creative choices which results in her being fired. Immediately afterwards, Barbie is lambasted on social media and receives a phone call from Ken who breaks up with her. Heartbroken and to get away from her troubles, Barbie goes on vacation to Paris to visit her aunt Millicent, an esteemed fashion designer.

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Surveillance (2008)

thriller film

A series of violent deaths and the disappearance of a young woman bring FBI agents Sam Hallaway and Elizabeth Anderson to a town in rural Nebraska. They meet the three survivors of a mysterious bloodbath; the young Stephanie, the cocaine-addicted Bobbi Prescott, and the foul-mouthed police officer Jack Bennett. Hallaway watches the trio's respective interviews with Captain Billings and officers Wright and Degrasso, where they tell the story of what brought them there.

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Mercy Black (2019)

Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller

As a teenager, Marina Hess and Rebecca Cline stabbed a classmate. The attack was motivated by Marina's belief that the sacrifice to a ghost called Mercy Black would cure her mother's illness. Fifteen years later, Marina is released from a psychiatric hospital to her sister, Alice.

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Term Life (2016)

Action, Crime, Gangster Film, thriller film

Nick Barrow plans and sells heists to the highest bidder but is forced to take his daughter Cate, who he hasn't had a relationship with her whole life, on the lam when a job goes bad. Cate has had to fend for herself because her mother Lucy is an alcoholic. Cate gives her father a hard time because his criminal activity has now disrupted her life.

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Black Butterfly (2017)

thriller film

Paul, a reclusive writer, is typing into his typewriter the words "I'm stuck" over and over. Falling asleep, he awakes the next morning when his real estate agent Laura comes over with prospective buyers for his house and farm. Paul makes plans to meet her for lunch, then goes into town for errands.

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M (1951)

Drama, Noir, Police Film, Psychodrama, thriller film

In Los Angeles, a string of child murders terrorizes the populace. The perpetrator stalks and lures his victims, before killing them via strangulation and taking their shoes as mementos. The police start a crackdown on criminal operations, dive bars and hangouts in the city, hoping that the murderer will turn up in one of the many raids.

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The Desperate Hours (1955)

Action, Crime, Drama, Noir, prison film

Glenn Griffin is the leader of a trio of escaped convicts who invade a randomly selected suburban home in Indianapolis and hold four members of the Hilliard family, who live in the home, hostage. There they await the arrival of a package, being sent by Griffin's girlfriend, that contains funds to aid the three fugitives in their escape. Police organize a statewide manhunt for the escapees and eventually discover the distraught family's plight.

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Sword of Gideon (1986)

Action, Drama

Avner, an adept Israeli military officer, is interrupted from his service in the IDF by a special request from Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir to join Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency. Despite warnings from his father, he agrees to join, and becomes the leader of an elite five-man group assigned to assassinate all of the Black September terrorists involved in the Munich massacre. Shortly before embarking, however, his wife reveals to him that she is pregnant, to Avner's surprise.

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Live Wire (1992)

Action, Drama, thriller film

When a Senator is killed in an explosion, the FBI investigates. The agent in charge is bomb expert Danny O'Neill, who is separated from his wife Terry (due to the accidental drowning of their only child in their pool) and behaving very erratically. Initially the investigation does not reveal the kind of explosive used or even what was used to detonate it.

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Silk Road (2021)

thriller film

The film begins with Ross Ulbricht's arrest in San Francisco in 2013. It then delves into Ross's background, portraying him as a well-educated aspiring entrepreneur living in Austin, Texas. Ross comes up with the idea for Silk Road as a way to challenge government control and regulations, believing in the idea of taking back liberty.

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