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Crime, Drama, Heist, thriller film
Edward James Olmos plays Detective Anthony Piscotti, a New York City police officer. He is trying to crack the hijacking of a New York City Subway train where the antagonists, led by Vincent D'Onofrio as Mr. Blue, are holding the passengers for ransom.
Horror, Psychological horror, thriller film
After dating for just two weeks, Tom invites Lucy to go with him and some friends to a festival. The night before, Tom plans to take Lucy to the Kilairney House Hotel, which he booked online and is hidden away on a series of remote roads in the Irish countryside. Before making their way to the hotel, the couple stop at a pub and a confrontation occurs between Tom and some of the locals.
Action, Drama, Martial arts, ninja film, thriller film
Casey Bowman is an American orphan, who is adopted into a martial arts dojo in Japan. Due to his perseverance and desire to master bushido, Casey earns the respect of his Sensei Takeda and his daughter Namiko. However, the dojo's top student Masazuka becomes bitter over Namiko's friendship with Casey.
Action, Drama, war film
Nick Gunar, an ex-soldier, is down and out in Chicago in a typically cold winter. When two men offer him a job on a tropical island, he reluctantly agrees and gathers together a group of soldier friends also down on their luck. They arrive in the Far East and come up against the evil Keefer, who was with Nick in Angola.
Horror
In London at the beginning of the twentieth century, Phyllis Allenby is a young and beautiful woman who is soon to be married to barrister and boyfriend Barry Lanfield. Phyllis is living at the Allenby Mansion without the protection of a male, along with her aunt Martha and her cousin Carol and the servant Hannah. As the wedding date approaches, London is shocked by a series of murders at the local park, where the victims are discovered with throats ripped out.
Crime, Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
The intro shows a camera recording faces of corpses, with their mouths being moved by medical residents. Dr. Teddy Grey graduates at the top of his class from Harvard Medical School and joins one of the nation's most prestigious pathology residency programs.
Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Holland lives with her mother Katherine, a successful florist. Lisa is beginning to show a keen interest in boys but is not allowed to date due to her mother's strict rule about not dating until she is 16. Lisa's desire to have a boyfriend is furthered by her best friend Wendy Marks, whose less-strict mother and father have allowed her to start dating.
Crime, Drama, Heist, neo-noir, thriller film
Jack Friar is a police detective who, while doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack finds himself being held hostage while the criminals decide what to do with him, and the leader's beautiful girlfriend Erin is left alone to watch Jack. Erin, who is a master manipulator of the men in the gang, reveals another side to Jack – a melancholy romantic who could have been a classical cellist.
Crime, Mysterie, mystery film, Science fiction
During an apparent drug store robbery, a woman is murdered. Seattle Medical Examiner Dr. David Krane finds a matchbook there that reminds him of one found at the scene of his wife Mary's murder.
Drama, Mafia Film, thriller film
The film tells the story of Al Capone's rise in the Chicago underworld from the perspective of Jack McGurn. McGurn, the successful amateur boxer, joins the Italian Mafia after the murder of his father and rises within the organization together with his friend Al Capone. Business flourishes, but the Italians and the Irish mafia around Dean "Dion" O'Banion and George "Bugs" Moran begin a fierce battle for criminal supremacy in the Chicago underworld, culminating in the so-called Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
Drama, Horror, thriller film
Rachel Penmark is a young girl who is upset at not winning a penmanship medal at school, having lost to her classmate Mark Daigler. During a school trip to the beach, Rachel tries to get Mark to give her the medal, he refuses and she chases him onto a fishing pier. Teacher Alice Fern notices Mark is missing during a roll call.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
As a child in Cape Town, Ali Sokhela (Forest Whitaker) witnesses the murder of his father via necklacing. Fleeing his father's murderers, a police dog hunts down Ali, leading to him being rendered a eunuch. Years later, Ali is a homicide detective of the South African Police, partnered with fellow detectives Brian Epkeen (Orlando Bloom) and Dan Fletcher (Conrad Kemp), who are both white men with a disdain for the former apartheid regime.
black comedy film, Drama, Psychodrama, thriller film
A teacher at an elite school forms a bond with five students, which takes a shocking turn when their approach to conscious eating goes too far.
mystery film, thriller film
Stone Alexander is a six-year-old boy whose mother has died giving birth to his younger brother, David. During a party at his influential father's home, Stone is left alone with David, who is in his crib. As Stone stares into the fireplace, a fiery force possesses him.
Crime, crime thriller film, Drama, Mysterie, Noir
A sadistic killer, Garland "Red" Lynch, uses a campaign of terror to force San Francisco bank teller Kelly Sherwood to steal $100,000 from the bank for him. Despite Lynch's threat to kill Sherwood or her teenage sister Toby if she goes to the police, and in defiance of the fact that Lynch has created a set-up which alerts him to her activities, Sherwood contacts the San Francisco office of the FBI, where agent John Ripley takes charge of the case. Ripley interviews another woman who implies that she is involved in some way in a serious crime, but before she can give Ripley the details, Lynch murders her.
Action, black comedy film, Comedy, Crime, crime drama film, crime thriller film, Drama, mystery film, Political Thriller, romance film, spy film, suspense film, thriller film
On 10 May 1916, during World War I, British Captain and novelist Edgar Brodie returns home on leave, to discover his obituary in the newspaper. He is brought to a man identifying himself only as "R", who asks him to undertake a secret mission: to identify and eliminate a German agent on his way to Arabia to stir up trouble in the Middle East. Upon agreeing, Brodie is given a new identity—Richard Ashenden—a fake death, and the assistance of a killer known variously as "the Hairless Mexican" and "the General", though he is neither bald, Mexican, nor a general.
Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
The film follows two parallel stories, one being about a troubled detective (Molina) who plays a cat-and-mouse game with an unknown killer and the other being about an emotionally disturbed landlady and her relationship with an enigmatic "lodger" (Simon Baker).
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
Eileen and her boyfriend Woody are driving through a secluded rural area. When their car gets a flat tire, Woody goes to find a gas station. Their friends Becky, Jerry and Molly, are traveling in a different vehicle.
Mysterie
Ronald Wilby is a socially inept, awkward high school youth with budding artistic talent and a predilection for fantasy, who is often ridiculed for his behavior and mannerisms. His overprotective mother, Elaine, needs surgery and plans for Ronald to become a doctor and cure her illness. Ronald's father has not been heard from in years, having divorced his mother and agreeing to terminate his parental rights in exchange for not having to pay child support.
Horror, monster film, Science fiction
In a deserted field in rural Scotland, soldiers take turns familiarising themselves with how to use a Geiger counter when an explosion occurs. One soldier dies of radiation exposure while another is badly burned. At the site, there is a Y-shaped crack in the ground with no apparent bottom.
Action, fantasy film, Martial arts, ninja film
In 19th century Asia, Yang is a warrior and member of Sad Flute's clan, the cruelest assassins in the east. His personal goal to become the greatest swordsman in the entire world is accomplished when he kills the former champion and leader of the enemy clan. Both clans having sworn to fight until every member of the opposing clan is dead, Yang has killed every member except a baby girl, deciding to spare her.
Drama, Gangster Film, Heist
Five men, criminals Ray, Dave, Stevie, Julian ("Julie" as a nickname), and Jason, plan a robbery to steal a minimum of £2 million. Using a lorry modified as a battering ram, the group break into a security depot in London and steal a large amount of money before the police arrive. Upon counting the loot however, they quickly discover, that despite it looking like a large sum of money, it is almost entirely made up of small notes and only around £340,000, meaning a share of £68,000 each.
Drama, thriller film
After the end of apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu runs the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and visits Cape Town's Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison to meet with Piet Blomfeld, an ex-security police officer and Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging member, to assess his candidacy for amnesty. Blomfeld is a potential witness to murders committed during the time of Apartheid, particularly the murder of the teenage daughter of Mrs. Morobe, who begs the Archbishop to find answers about her missing daughter.
Drama, thriller film
Gail Bishop becomes the newly appointed and first Black master of Ancaster, an elite university in New England. The school is rumored to be cursed by the ghost of Margaret Millett, who was accused of witchcraft and hanged nearby. African American student Jasmine Moore moves in as a freshman and is assigned to room 302 along with her white roommate, Amelia.