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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 188.

Blue City (1986)

Action, Crime, Drama, Political Thriller

A young man, Billy Turner, returns to his hometown of Blue City, Florida, after five years away. He gets into a bar fight and is thrown in jail. Then, he learns that his father Jim, the town's mayor, was killed while he was gone.

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The Wrong Woman (1995)

thriller film

An honest temporary employee (Nancy McKeon) finds herself accused of murder when the president of the real estate company to which she has been assigned is suddenly murdered before she can tell him that she discovered one of his regular workers has been robbing him blind. That she was having an affair with the slain man only complicates matters.

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The Factory (2012)

Crime, Horror, thriller film

In Buffalo, New York, a man named Carl picks up a woman he thinks is a prostitute and takes him to his home. When he spots that she is transgender, he angrily murders her, cuts up the body, and places the pieces in a freezer. Meanwhile, Mike Fletcher, a detective, becomes obsessed with the case, which is under threat of being shut down due to its inactivity.

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Backtrace (2018)

Action, Crime, thriller film

After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, MacDonald (Matthew Modine) develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year in evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate and a ward doctor (Ryan Guzman and Meadow Williams) to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he's forgotten. MacDonald must now elude a local detective (Sylvester Stallone), a toughened FBI agent (Christopher McDonald) and the drug's dangerous side effects in order to recover the stolen money all while confronting his past.

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400 Days (2015)

Psychological Thriller, Science fiction

Four astronautsCaptain Theo Cooper, Dr. Emily McTier, Bug Kieslowski, and Cole Dvorakbegin a 400-day-long simulation on Earth intended to study the long-term effects of space travel. As their time underground grinds on, the crew begins to deal with extreme psychological effects like paranoia and hallucination.

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Hell and High Water (1954)

Action, Drama

Before the credits, an off-screen voice-over narrates: Renowned French scientist Professor Montel (Victor Francen) goes missing; authorities believe that he and four other Western scientists have defected behind the Iron Curtain. Former U.S. Navy submarine commander Adam Jones (Richard Widmark) arrives in Tokyo after receiving a mysterious package containing $5,000.

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Thirteen Women (1932)

mystery film, Psychological Thriller, Slasher

Thirteen women, who were sorority sisters at the all-girl's college St. Alban's, all write to a clairvoyant "swami" who by mail sends each a horoscope foreseeing swift doom. However, the clairvoyant is under the sway of Ursula Georgi, a half-Javanese Eurasian woman who was snubbed at school by the other women owing to her mixed-race heritage, behavior which eventually forced her to leave school.

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iBoy (2017)

Crime, rape and revenge film, Science fiction, Superhero, thriller film

Living in a gang-ridden part of London, 16-year-old Tom Harvey struggles to get by. His best friend Danny gets him a new phone and encourages him to romantically pursue his longtime friend and neighbor Lucy Walker. Lucy asks Tom to help her study for exams, to which he happily agrees.

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The Good Neighbor (2022)

Crime, Horror, mystery film, thriller film

After a bad relationship break-up, American journalist David Stevens arrives in Riga, Latvia to begin a new job at the “European Press Network”. David's editor Grant gives him the use of a house on the outskirts of Riga while an apartment in the city is being prepared for him. Grant also tells David that as he is new, he will initially be given the journalistic assignments that no-one else wants.

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Highwaymen (2004)

Action, Crime, Horror, rape and revenge film, thriller film

A man named Rennie Cray is motivated by revenge to track down and kill the man who ran over his wife, a serial killer immobilized by the man himself. The killer uses a wheelchair. He drives a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado to stalk and kill his victims in car accidents.

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Night Tide (1961)

fantasy film, Horror, thriller film

Johnny Drake, a sailor on shore leave in Santa Monica, meets a young woman named Mora in a local jazz club. Mora tells him that she makes her living on the pier appearing as a mermaid in a sideshow attraction under the name 'Mora the Mermaid', a 'half-woman, half-fish', on the boardwalk, operated by Captain Murdock. She lives in an apartment above the amusement park that houses the merry-go-round.

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Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)

Drama, spy film, war film

Violette Bushell is a young woman whose father is English, and whose mother is French, living in London early in the Second World War. She meets French Army officer Etienne Szabo, stationed in the city, and they become engaged to be married. They have a daughter, Tania, but Etienne never sees the child, as he is killed fighting in the North African front; Violette Szabo and her daughter move into her parents' home.

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Cruel Jaws (1995)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Drama, Horror, natural horror film, suspense film, thriller film

When a military ship named the Cleveland crashes, two divers named Paco and Jose search it and are killed by a large tiger shark. The shark also kills their captain, Ramone. Meanwhile in Hampton Bay, Florida, aquarist Dag Soerenson, who runs an aquarium alongside his sons Bob and Larry, is trying to stop bigwig Samuel Lewis from shutting things down due to months of unpaid rent.

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Road to Hell (2008)

Action, fantasy film

A soldier who has been fighting a long war is driven mad because he no longer believes in any purpose or righteous truth behind the killing. He comes home to a surreal world looking for his first and only love from his youth, believing she will rescue him from his demons. On the road to Edge City he encounters two seductive spree killers who oppose his efforts to find his love and the redemption he desperately seeks

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He Ran All the Way (1951)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Petty thief Nick Robey botches a robbery, shooting and killing a policeman and leaving his partner Al severely wounded. Nick escapes with more than $10,000 and, deliberately losing himself in the crowd, arrives at a local swimming pool, where he meets bakery worker Peg Dobbs. She invites him to her family's apartment.

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88 (2015)

thriller film

Confused and not sure where she is, Gwen comes out of a daze in a diner. She is surprised to find a pistol in her bag, and she accidentally shoots a waitress when the police confront her. Fleeing the diner, she returns to a hotel room that matches a key in her possession, though she can not remember any details of it.

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Tatami (2023)

Drama, sport film, thriller film

The film follows Iranian female judoka Leila and her coach Maryam, who travel to the World Judo Championships in Tbilisi, Georgia, intent on bringing home Iran's first gold medal. This includes a possible encounter with an Israeli athlete, something that the Mullah regime prohibits. Midway through the competition, Leila and her coach receive repeated threats from the Islamic Republic ordering Leila to fake an injury and drop out of the tournament.

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Light It Up (1999)

Drama, hood film, teen film

In an urban Queens high school students, Lester DeWitt, who lost his father, his younger best friend, artist Zacharias 'Ziggy' Malone, hard-working Stephanie Williams, criminal Rodney J. Templeton, rebellious pregnant Lynn Sabatini, and hustler Robert Tremont a.k.a. "Rivers", attend the history class of the caring Ken Knowles.

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The Organization (1971)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

After a break-in at the San Francisco headquarters of a company, the police are called in. One of the executives has been murdered, and the security guard has been bludgeoned. It is not a simple robbery, as the executive was killed by shots from two different guns, nothing was stolen, and there are several other unexplained facts.

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Slaughter High (1986)

Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, Splatter Film, teen film, thriller film

On April Fools Day 1976, high school outcast Marty Rantzen is seduced by popular girl Carol Manning in the women's locker room. This is revealed as a prank as several students appear and mock Marty's naked body. Led by troublemaker Skip Pollack, the students physically abuse Marty before the coach intervenes.

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Dollman (1991)

Action, Science fiction

On Arturos (a dystopian planet populated by humans that are six times smaller than that of Earth), a criminal takes hostages at a laundry. The crook is surprised when cop Brick Bardo defiantly enters to do his laundry. Bardo causes the overweight hostages to faint and pin down the criminal when he threatens to shoot through their bodies with his powerful weapon.

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Glass House: The Good Mother (2006)

Drama, thriller film

Siblings Abby and Ethan Snow lose their parents in an accident and are adopted by Eve and Raymond Goode, two seemingly-ideal parents who have recently lost a child of their own, David. Initially, things seem good, but the first oddity manifests when Ethan gets his own room with a bathroom close to the master bedroom and Abby is given a bedroom far away, up in the tower of the house. From here, Abby notices a lot of strange things; there is a bed in the basement with David's name carved into the support post near it and there are many places they cannot enter, including David's old bedroom.

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