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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 185.

The Domino Principle (1977)

Action, Drama, thriller film

Roy Tucker is serving time in San Quentin prison for the murder of his wife's first husband, a murder he did not commit. Warden Ditcher introduces him to a man named Marvin Tagge. Over a series of interviews with Tagge and an associate named Ross Pine, Tucker learns the two men represent a mysterious organization, and Tagge presents him with an offer: in exchange for Tagge helping him escape and start a new life, Tucker must work for the organization for a few weeks.

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Lantana (2001)

Drama, Marital Tragedy, Psychological Thriller

A woman's body is shown in lantana bushes in suburban bushland. Leon, a policeman, and Jane have sex in a motel. They part, and Leon and his wife, Sonja, attend Latin dance classes that the recently separated Jane is also taking.

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Animal Instincts (1992)

Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, thriller film

Joanna (Whirry) is married to David Cole (Caulfield), a police officer. While they love each other, their marriage is in a precarious position, as David's sexual impotence prevents them from being intimate with each other. A sexually frustrated Joanna ends up having an extramarital affair with a cable repairman; when they are caught in the act by David, David's response is to passionately have sex with Joanna, to Joanna's surprise.

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Countdown to Looking Glass (1984)

Docufiction, Drama

The CVN news network's nightly program, starring Don Tobin (Patrick Watson), with reports from correspondents Michael Boyle (Scott Glenn) and Dorian Waldorf (Helen Shaver), discusses a terrorist bombing of the American embassy in Saudi Arabia that killed an American ambassador. The week before, a global banking crisis, caused by several South American countries defaulting on their loans, led to turmoil in Southwest Asia. Before the unrest spread to Saudi Arabia, Soviet-backed militants led a coup in Oman when the Omani economy collapsed.

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Trigger Point (2021)

Action, Secret Agent, thriller film

In New York, an assailant shoots and kills various people with a silencer. One year later, retired United States special operative Nicolas Shaw lives a quiet life in hiding. In flashbacks, Shaw partially remembers being tortured by an unknown perpetrator who forced him to give out the names of his colleagues, who were shot by the assailant, before being framed for the assassinations.

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The Witches (1966)

fantasy film, Horror, thriller film

Schoolteacher Gwen Mayfield comes back to England after suffering a nervous breakdown caused by an attack by witch-doctors while working in a mission in Africa. She is hired by the wealthy Reverend Alan Bax, who runs a school in the remote village of Heddaby. Once there, Gwen finds out Alan is not actually a minister and only wears a clerical collar out of "a sense of security"; the only church in the village is in ruins.

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I'll sleep when I'm dead (2003)

Crime, Drama, neo-noir, Noir, rape and revenge film, thriller film

Davey Graham arrives at an upper-class party to sell drugs to a woman named Stella. As he leaves, Stella's date watches him and makes a call on his mobile phone. Outside the party, three men are waiting for Davey in a black Range Rover, including a car dealer named Boad.

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Blood Alley (1955)

Action, Adventure

Captain Tom Wilder, an American Merchant Mariner, is taken prisoner after Chinese Communist seize his ship. After two years in prison, unknown accomplices help Wilder escape using bribery and disguising him as a Soviet army officer. Wilder is transported to Chiku Shan village.

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Outlaw (2007)

Action, Crime

The film begins by exploring stories involving a number of different characters who live in and around London, all of whom have experiences which lead them to believe that justice in the country is not being handed out fairly. These characters include nice guy white-collar worker Gene Dekker (Danny Dyer), who is brutally beaten by a yob after colliding with his car. Danny Bryant (Sean Bean) is a paratrooper who has seen action in the Falklands, Afghanistan and Iraq and who arrives back from abroad to find his wife with someone else, and also believes that the state of the country is worse than the war-torn places he has recently served in.

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Jackdaw (2023)

Action, thriller film

Set in Hartlepool in the North-East of England, over the course of a single night. The film follows a former motocross champion and army veteran who has fallen on hard times (Jackson-Cohen). He accepts a job to collect a package in the North Sea but this decision could have big ramifications for his family.

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Broken Embraces (2009)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, thriller film

"Harry Caine" is a blind writer who shares his life with his agent Judit and her adult son, Diego. Slowly, events in the present begin to bring back memories of the past. Harry hears that millionaire Ernesto Martel has died; a young filmmaker, Ray X, appears and turns out to be Martel's son, Ernesto Jr.

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The Glass Key (1942)

Crime, Drama, mystery film, Noir

After falling for Janet Henry, the daughter of reform candidate for governor Ralph Henry, shady political boss Paul Madvig is determined to help Henry get elected. Paul's right-hand man, Ed Beaumont, distrusts both Janet and her father, and suspects that they are stringing Paul along only to dump him after the election. Janet becomes engaged to Paul, but is put off by his crudity.

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When I'm Ready (2025)

apocalyptic film, romantic thriller

Set against the backdrop of an asteroid cluster threatening to end all life on Earth, When I'm Ready follows Rose and Michael, a young couple who set out to make the most of their final days by embarking on a cross-country road trip to visit Rose's grandmother one last time. Along the way they encounter a rotating cast of characters including Julia (Cohan), a former beauty queen holding out hope for last minute love, and Keith (Mulroney), a solitary drifter searching for any human connection, each looking for something different out of the end.

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Baby Ruby (2022)

Psychological Thriller

Jo (Noémie Merlant) is a lifestyle influencer. Her relationship with Spencer (Kit Harington) strengthens as they wait for the couple's first baby. After the birth of the baby, named Ruby, Jo's successful world begins to fall apart as she suffers postpartum psychosis.

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Wedlock (1991)

Action, Crime, Science fiction

The story follows Frank Warren (Hauer), a jewel thief and electronics expert who is betrayed by his accomplices after a successful diamond heist. Frank is sentenced to Camp Holliday, an experimental prison where inmates are fitted with explosive electronic collars linked to unknown partners. If linked inmates are separated by more than 100 yards, both collars detonate.

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The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)

Crime, Drama, Noir, thriller film

While on vacation in Scotland, Sally Morton learns that her lover of two weeks, painter Geoffrey Carroll, is married to an invalid wife, prompting Sally to end their romance. Back in London with his wife and pre-teen daughter, Beatrice ("Bea"), Geoffrey paints his wife's portrait, depicting her as the Angel of Death. He buys poison from chemist Horace Blagdon, signing the register with a false name.

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A Study in Terror (1965)

thriller film

In the dark alleys of London, the notorious Jack the Ripper is committing a series of gruesome murders. Holmes and Watson, already intrigued by reports of the Jack the Ripper murders, become involved when they receive a parcel from Whitechapel containing a case of surgical instruments with the scalpel, possibly the murder weapon, missing. By a family crest on the box, they come into contact with the Duke of Shires who admits his elder son Michael Osborne dreamed of becoming a doctor.

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American Yakuza (1993)

Action, Martial arts, thriller film

American FBI agent David Brandt is working undercover under the identity of Nick Davis, a former convict who died in solitary confinement, at a warehouse in Los Angeles that the Tendo crime family owns in order to infiltrate their operations. After Brandt saves the life of one of the family's leaders, Shuji Sawamoto, Sawamoto welcomes him into the criminal organization. As part of his introduction, Sawamoto takes Brandt to witness the execution of Okazai, an alleged traitor, via woodchipper then stops the execution at the last minute.

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Enemies Closer (2013)

Action, thriller film

A plane carrying 50 pounds of pure heroin in sealed packets crashes near the US-Canada border. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers prepare to search for the plane, but a group of criminals led by the unstable Xander (Van Damme) kill them and take the coordinates for the crash: a lake just off King's Island. On the island, ex-Navy SEAL Henry Taylor (Scott) works as a forest ranger.

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Shaft in Africa (1973)

Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, crime thriller film, Detective, Drama, mystery film, neo-noir

At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is tranquilized, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa, assuming the identity of an indigenous language-speaking itinerant worker. His job is to help break a criminal ring that is smuggling immigrants into Europe, then exploiting them. But the villains are tipped off that he is on his way.

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Bullet Head (2017)

Crime, thriller film

Interspersed flashbacks occur of a Perro de Presa Canario, a large mastiff, from a dog fighting ring, as well as his owner Blue (Antonio Banderas), who has abused the dog in order to make it fight. Despite growing large and taking on multiple canine opponents within single matches, the dog has become injured, and Blue instructs the handler (Ori Pfeffer) to put him down. Following a botched robbery, the getaway driver of a four-man crew was presumably shot as there are three bullet holes shown in the driver's side window.

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