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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 182.

Delta Force 3: The Killing Game (1991)

Action

Terrorist leader Kahlil Kadal has threatened to bomb Miami, Florida unless western influence is removed from the Middle East. In order to keep Kadal from detonating an atomic bomb in Miami, The Delta Force, with new leaders Charlie and Greg, are ordered to team up with a group of Russian Spetsnaz commandos and head to El-Qutar, Kadal's hometown in the fictional country of Sudalia, so they can hunt for Kadal. Kadal sends Anwar Hussein to Miami, with orders to detonate the bomb live on TV, where Hussein arranges for an assault on TV news producer Wendy Jackson.

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Mimic 2 (2001)

Animal horror, Horror, Science fiction

Four years after the events of the first film, after three men are discovered hideously mutilated (their faces have been removed) and strung up among New York City's high-tension wires, Detective Klaski (Bruno Campos) stumbles upon a link: Each of the men knew entomologist Remy (Alix Koromzay), a teacher at an inner-city high school. Klaski considers Remy to be a prime, albeit unlikely, suspect in the killings until he witnesses for himself the shape-shifting creature that has been stalking Remy: an intelligent mutant insect with the face of its previous victim that wants to mate with Remy. Klaski, Remy and a pair of her students get…

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The Tortured (2010)

Horror, mystery film, rape and revenge film, thriller film

The film tells the story of a couple, Elise Landry (Erika Christensen) and her husband, Craig Landry (Jesse Metcalfe), whose lives are shattered when a serial killer named John Kozlowski (Bill Moseley), kidnaps, tortures, and kills their only son, Benjamin. Craig feels immense guilt, as he saw Benjamin being kidnapped, but could not catch up to the fleeing vehicle. Elise blames Craig for not watching the child more closely.

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The Deceivers (1988)

Adventure, Drama, thriller film

The film takes place in India in 1825. The country is being ravaged by Thuggee, a Kali-worshiping cult also known as "Deceivers", who commit robbery and ritualistic murder. Captain William Savage, an honorable district administrator for the East India Company, is informed by his subjects in Madhya about the Thugs' murder raids, and appalled, he starts an investigation.

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La Setta (1991)

fantasy film, Horror, mystery film, Occult Horror, Supernatural, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film

In 1970 in Southern California, a group of hippies and their children are approached at a desert encampment by Damon, a wayward traveler. They welcome him and serve him a meal. At nightfall, he kills each of them in ritualized murders with the help of several assailants, invoking Lucifer during the killings.

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Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (2010)

Comedy horror, Horror, Mysterie, Vampire, Zombie

In New Orleans, Dylan Dog, a paranormal detective, recounts his past experiences helping people with supernatural cases until his wife was killed by vampires. He currently works on regular cases with his partner, Marcus Deckler. When Elizabeth Ryan finds her father dead and is attacked by a strange creature, she seeks Dylan's help.

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The Evil That Men Do (1984)

Action, Drama, thriller film

In Suriname, Clement Molloch, referred to as "The Doctor", tortures journalist Jorge Hidalgo to death with electricity in front of government officials. Outside of the building, an Israeli Mossad team attempts to rig a bomb under the Doctor's car. The operation fails and one team member is killed.

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Band of the Hand (1986)

Action, Crime, thriller film

A group of five juvenile delinquents in their teens are doomed to be prosecuted as adults for their crimes unless they take part in a new and experimental "program" led by a Vietnam veteran Native American named "Indian Joe" Tegra. The five teens include two rival gang leaders, Ruben Pacheco, the leader of the Home Boys serving a three-year sentence for aggravated assault and armed robbery; Moss Roosevelt, the leader of the 27th Avenue Players, also serving a three-year sentence, for assault and armed robbery; Carlos Aragon, a drug trafficker serving a four-year sentence after being arrested in a police sting; James Lee "J.L." MacEwen,…

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Venom (1981)

Horror, thriller film

International criminal Jacques Müller and his girlfriend Louise Andrews plan to kidnap Philip Hopkins, the grandson of Howard Anderson, a retired hunter and the wealthy owner of a hotel chain. Louise goes undercover as a maid working for Philip's mother Ruth and seduces her chauffeur Dave Averconnelly, convincing him to help in the kidnapping. On the day of the kidnapping, Müller tricks Howard and Ruth into leaving home while Louise and Dave kidnap the boy.

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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)

Comedy, Parody, Science fiction

The film's opening titles announce it is set "possibly around 1933." The story concerns the 168-year-old Fu Manchu, who must duplicate the ingredients to the elixir vitae that extends his life after the original is accidentally destroyed by one of his minions. When the Star of Leningrad diamond is stolen by a clockwork spider from a Soviet exhibition in Washington D.C., the FBI sends a pair of special agents (agents Pete Williams and Joe Capone) to London, in order to seek the assistance of Scotland Yard as a card from Fu Manchu's organisation, the Si-Fan, has been left at the crime. Sir Roger Avery of the Yard feels this is a job for…

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The Second Woman (1950)

Drama, Mysterie, Noir

Jeff Cohalan, a successful architect, is tormented because his fiancée, Vivian Sheppard, was killed in a mysterious car accident on the night before their wedding. Blaming himself for her death, Cohalan spends his time alone, lamenting in the state-of-the-art cliff-top home he designed for his bride-to-be. Cohalan notices that ever since the accident, he seems to be followed by bad luck.

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Trouble in Mind (1985)

Crime, Drama, neo-noir, Noir, thriller film

In the mysterious metropolis of Rain City, a former policeman, Hawk, is out of prison after serving eight years on a murder rap. He returns to his former hangout, Wanda's Cafe, run by his former love, Wanda. New arrivals in town are the down on his luck Coop, his naive wife Georgia and their baby boy, Spike.

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Plush (2013)

Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

After losing her bandmate and brother to a drug overdose, rising rock star Hayley finds herself in a downward spiral. The second album from her band Plush is received as a critical and commercial disaster. She finds new hope and friendship in Enzo, the replacement guitarist who inspires her to reach new creative heights.

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Cthulhu (2007)

Drama, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film

When young history professor Russ is called upon by his sister to execute their late mother's estate, he is reunited with boyhood friend Mike, and with his father, the charismatic leader of a New Age cult. While exploring his memories, Russ wanders into a warehouse where hundreds of names are listed on the walls. As he sleeps that night, he dreams of a stone cudgel and awakens to find a cudgel (with the word Dagon written on it) in his motel room; the town drunk warns him that it is an instrument of sacrifice.

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Zone 414 (2021)

Science fiction, thriller film

Zone 414 is a walled city of state-of-the-art androids, humanoid robots which cater to wealthy clients, providing companionship and sex. The Zone is run by a corporation owned by the androids' inventor, Marlon Veidt, and his brother, the psychologist Joseph Veidt. Marlon realizes that his adult daughter Melissa has gone missing inside Zone 414.

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Across the Pacific (1942)

Action, Adventure, Drama, spy film, war film

On November 17, 1941, on Governor's Island in New York City, Captain Rick Leland is court-martialed and discharged from the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps after he is caught stealing. He tries to join the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry but is coldly rebuffed. Ostensibly on his way to China to fight for Chiang Kai-shek, he boards a Japanese ship, the Genoa Maru, sailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Yokohama via the Panama Canal and Hawaii.

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Diablo (2015)

Action, Adventure, thriller film, Western

A man named Jackson wakes to find his home and barn burning; Mexican bandits have taken his wife. He manages to shoot one before he tries to dig something up in his barn, but is overcome by smoke. The next morning, neighbors wake him.

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Far from Home (1989)

Crime, Drama, Mysterie, thriller film

Charlie Cox is a divorced magazine writer based in Los Angeles. Charlie and his daughter Joleen are on their way home from a cross country vacation when they run out of gas in the small Nevada town of Banco, on the day before Joleen's 14th birthday, where their car is being taken care of by mechanic Duckett. When they stop in a local supermarket, they find no one in the store except Sheriff Bill Childers.

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Rogue Male (1976)

Drama, thriller film

In early 1939, before the start of the Second World War, Sir Robert Hunter takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a hunting rifle, but hesitates to shoot and is spotted and tackled by a Schutzstaffel (SS) guard. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo, he claims that his aiming at Hitler was simply an intellectual exercise, to see if it could be done. Because of his high status in Britain, his captors intend to shoot him and cover it up as a hunting accident, but, because his body displays clear evidence of torture, they decide instead to throw him off of a cliff to disguise the signs.

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It Stains the Sands Red (2016)

Drama, Horror, thriller film

During a zombie apocalypse, Las Vegas residents Molly and Nick are on their way to meet up with some friends at a remote airfield to catch a plane ride out of the country. They encounter a lone zombie as their car gets stuck in the sand. After Nick unsuccessfully tries to kill the zombie with his gun, they are trapped while the zombie tries its best to get inside.

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