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Action, Crime, thriller film
Jacob, who is the son of a deceased police officer, is employed as a bank manager. He is married to Christina, and they have a daughter, Sophia, who is very ill from an extremely aggressive form of Type 1 diabetes. As a result of Sophia's mounting medical bills, they are struggling financially.
Action, Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Secret Agent, thriller film
Seven years after the events of Henry Fool, Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is contacted by a CIA agent (Jeff Goldblum) who, believing her husband Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan) to be deceased, coerces her to try to locate Henry's confession notebooks. Fay is launched into a world of espionage as she travels to Paris to retrieve some of the journals, each having mysteriously appeared in the hands of the most unlikely of people. Simon Grim, Fay's brother and Nobel Prize–winning poet, remains home with his sister's son, the CIA agent, and his publisher.
Aliens, Comedy, Comedy horror, fantasy film, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction comedy
The film opens with a security guard named Dennis investigating a deserted film vault at an old movie studio. While inside, his fantasy of being a rock star comes to life, but he dies while performing on stage. His boss, Mr.
Action, Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film
Alex Lee is a bank employee struggling to pay the mortgage on her beachfront home in Los Angeles. As a result, she secretly moonlights at night as a high-class call girl under the alias 'Joanna'. Her most frequent client is Bruno Buckingham, an eccentric but dangerous money launderer who enjoys engaging in sadomasochism with Alex as a dominatrix.
Drama, Psychological Thriller
The story follows lonely introvert Mason, a telesales insurance company worker by day and talented painter as well as a lover of classic jazz by night. His only friend is his boss, Berkeley (Levi), who keeps an eye on him and humors his bizarre behavior. When awkward Mason meets social Amber, a new co-worker, he begins to come out of himself, and reveals the depth and darkness of his mind.
Drama, Melodrama, silent film, thriller film
The film is set in Kentucky, where J. P. Pettigrew's wife had died giving birth to their son Edward, born disabled.
Crime, crime thriller film, Horror, police procedural, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Detective John Prudhomme, a Cajun transferred to Chicago, and his partner Hollinsworth are assigned to investigate the savage murder of a man whose left arm has been sawed off and taken. A message, "He Is Coming", is found written in lamb's blood on the victim's window. After another victim is discovered with a missing right arm, the detectives realise they are dealing with a serial killer.
Drama, Political Thriller, Psychodrama
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise—a hot-shot prosecutor on the cusp of a bright future. When an intern at the office becomes infatuated with him, Sam unwisely attempts to quiet his desires by seeing a high-class escort—only to discover that the experience is more fulfilling and exhilarating than he could have imagined. A second appointment with an escort soon follows, and a third, sending his once idyllic life spiraling out of control.
disaster film, Drama, Natural Disaster
A storm surge travels between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe, raising sea levels at the same time as the spring tide. Several parts of Scotland are devastated as a result, including Wick. The Met Office's head forecaster, Keith Hopkins, mistakenly believes the storm will head towards the Netherlands.
Action, thriller film
With the aid of a German nuclear physicist, dissident Russian General Konstantin Benin (Christopher Lee), a military casualty of the Soviet collapse, is conspiring to restore the Soviet Union to superpower status. His plan is to place a nuclear bomb on a train controlled by mercenaries, led by Alex Tierney (Ted Levine), bound for Iraq, forcing the Russian army to invade Iraq to recover it and once again mobilize its might - creating a new military union in the process. Malcolm Philpott (Patrick Stewart), the head of the United Nations Anti-Crime Organisation (UNACO), entrusts the mission of stopping the train and its deadly cargo to a…
thriller film, Western
Shane Cooper, a young police officer, relocates to the small town of Red Hill with his pregnant wife Alice. On his first day on the job, he is shown hostility from William "Old Bill" Jones, the head of the police force, for being unable to find his gun and getting shot on duty when he could not bring himself to fire his weapon on an armed boy. Shortly afterwards, the police learn that Jimmy Conway, a convicted murderer who was arrested by Old Bill for killing his wife, has escaped from prison.
Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
John Moon's wife recently took their son and left. Before John's father died, he was unable to pay the mortgage on the farm, and it was sold. John is depressed and an emotional wreck.
Drama, romance film, thriller film, war film
In present-day London, Michael Walton visits his older cousins, Walter and Oliver Page. Interested in family history, he asks them about his great-aunt, Anne Keyes, the sister of his grandmother, Celia. Anne, an actress, was the eldest of the three Keyes children.
thriller film
A war criminal is hiding in plain sight in an unnamed Balkan country. He is wanted internationally for ethnic cleansing and war crimes, but his country pretends his whereabouts to be unknown despite international pressures to turn him in. A retinue of loyalists watches over him and ensures his safety as he goes about his life in a city where his face is well known.
fantasy film, Superhero
Liz Sherman and Abe Sapien enter a Mayan temple, where they find Hellboy battling a gigantic zombie bat, and engage its zombie followers. The group are eventually able to defeat their opponents when Liz unleashes her pyrokinetic powers, although she is still unsure of her ability to control those powers. Meanwhile, Japanese folklore expert Professor Mitsuyasu Sakai obtains an ancient scroll.
Drama, thriller film
Kenneth Chamberlain, an elderly veteran living in an apartment building, accidentally triggers his medical alert pendant early in the morning. Emergency services are dispatched, with three police officers arriving at his door. They tell Kenneth that they are there to check on his welfare.
Drama, war film
Lt. Kenneth Braden, a newly trained U.S. Navy frogman, is unexpectedly ordered to report for duty without being able to notify his new girlfriend Sally Johnson.
Secret Agent, spy film
Krasnevin, a KGB agent and assassin, has successfully infiltrated London society and the British Intelligence community as wealthy businessman Alexander Eberlin. After Kraznevin is forced to kill several British agents who come too close to revealing his identity, British Intelligence Chief Fraser – apparently unaware that Eberlin and Krasnevin are the same man – orders Eberlin to eliminate Krasnevin. Krasnevin decides to sacrifice his KGB contact, Pavel, who is already a suspect, but before Pavel can be killed the Russians do the job for him.
Drama, thriller film
Seventeen-year-old Amy plans to escape the care of her adoptive parents, who approve of her friendship with local girl Chloe. However, when Amy discovers a dark secret about the seemingly perfect Chloe, she finds herself fighting for her life and the family she tried to leave.
Horror, thriller film
A teacher at Wittering College in north London, Robert Anderson (Schofield), is hit in the face by a pupil and forced to take three months' leave to avoid being sued by the parents of the child for giving the pupil an F grade, which is against school policy. Anderson is deeply affected by the incident and upon his return to teaching, he is an alcoholic, emotionally disturbed and separated from his wife, Helen (Aubrey). Their daughter, Kate (Bennett), lives with her mother Helen and has classes with her father, but does not respect him.
Horror, Mysterie, thriller film
The film's story is told in a series of flashbacks interspersed with discussions between Ann (Dockery), a patient in a sanatorium, and Dr Fisher (Stevens), a skeptical and atheistic psychiatrist. Despite the suggestion of his superior (Redgrave) that he focus upon soldiers who have returned from the First World War, Fisher wishes to help Ann if he can. In flashbacks, Ann is hired by a wealthy and sophisticated aristocrat (Umbers) to act as a governess for his orphaned nephew and niece who live at Bly.
Horror, thriller film
Billionaire Charles Abernathy invites his estranged adult children—twins C.J. and Madeline, Drew and his wife Hannah, and Kami—home for his birthday. Head of security Miles leads them to their father, who reveals he will be killed at midnight, instructing his security detail to leave him alone.
Comedy, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, musical film
Grace Beasley is a content but timid housewife in Chicago. One morning, she wins tickets to a concert for her favorite singer, Victor Fox, just as her husband, Max, tells her he wants a divorce, citing a need for more variety and excitement in his life and expressing a dislike of her frequent singing. Soon afterward, Grace discovers that her son Andrew is also divorcing his wife, Maudey.
Drama, Mysterie
Four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, modern version of the Project MKULTRA indoctrination program. One by one, the subjects are brought into a large, white room, in which the tables and chairs have been bolted to the floor. They are each given a questionnaire to fill out.