Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore suspense, danger and tense conflicts.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 197.
Drama, musical film
Jenny is a deaf runaway who arrives in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district searching for her brother Steve. She encounters Stoney and his hippie band Mumblin' Jim in a coffee shop. The boys hide her from the police and help her look for her brother.
Drama, thriller film
Betrayal follows significant moments in the seven-year extramarital affair of art gallery owner Emma with literary agent Jerry, the best friend of her husband Robert, a London publisher. Nine sequences are shown in reverse chronological order with Emma and Jerry meeting for the first time at the conclusion of the film.
Comedy drama, Horror, thriller film
In Los Angeles, California, a distressed Swedish woman calls 911 to report a domestic dispute. She then confesses to her wealthy husband that she recently received a purple invitation to an anonymous sexual encounter. She says that she accepted the offer and realized she's not happy in her marriage; she wants to leave him and asks for only $5,000 instead of half of his money.
Drama, Secret Agent, spy film, thriller film, war film
In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, Luis Denard (Charles Boyer), a former concert pianist and composer, travels to England as a confidential agent of the Republican government. His mission is to buy coal or to deny it to the Fascist rebels. On the ship, he meets bored rich girl Rose Cullen (Lauren Bacall), whose father, Lord Benditch (Holmes Herbert), heads the firm with which Denard will negotiate.
Action, thriller film
Former U.S. Federal agent Thomas McKenzie, now using the name Martin Parker, is living in London under witness protection with his eight-year-old daughter, Carly. Thomas had worked undercover inside the crime syndicate of American arms dealer Charles Cooper, where he fell in love and married Cooper's daughter.
Horror, Slasher, Splatter Film, thriller film
A young woman with amnesia breaks out of a coffin in a funeral home, and dials 911 in the morgue, but accidentally unhooks the telephone while speaking to the operator. The mortician appears and is impaled by a man equipped with a chrome skull mask, and a shoulder-mounted camera. The girl stabs ChromeSkull in the eye, and runs off while he treats his wound.
Drama, mystery film, Noir
A woman wanders through Los Angeles, saying little more than "David". Admitted to a hospital's psychiatric ward in a catatonic stupor, and interrogated by a doctor, she calls herself Louise Howell, and recounts her life in intermittent spurts, starting with her memory of her lover, David Sutton, playing Schumann for her, with she saying, "I want to have a monopoly on you." He does not return her passion, but returns her home in a boat, and tells her their relationship is over. She lives and works as a nurse at the lakeside home of the Grahams.
exploitation film, Horror, sexploitation film, thriller film, Torture Porn, women in prison film
The film opens during a night-time thunderstorm when a frightened, confused and disheveled young woman, Anne-Marie, runs down a country road and is picked up by a trucker. We see through flashbacks how the young woman came to be in such a situation. While at a gathering in a London art gallery, naive French model Anne-Marie DeVernet is shocked to see that her photographer boyfriend is exhibiting a recently shot photo where she is seen being arrested by the police for public nudity.
Drama, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
While vacationing in Monte Carlo in 1927, Maxim de Winter meets the young and somewhat naive British companion of Mrs. Van Hopper, a typical Ugly American whose bout of influenza frees the girl to spend time with the wealthy widower. When Mrs.
Action, Adventure, mystery film, thriller film
In Paris, a woman named Donna Lloyd has been missing for two days. In Dallas, her husband Walter and their college-age son Chris decide to look for her. At the airport, Chris bumps into backpacker Carla.
Drama, Noir
Celebrated stage actor Anthony "Tony" John is offered the lead in a new production of William Shakespeare's Othello by theatrical producer Max Lasker, who wants Tony's ex-wife Brita to costar as Desdemona. Tony initially declines the offer, to the relief of director Victor Donlan, who knows that Tony becomes overly involved in his roles. Brita agrees with Donlan and warns press agent Bill Friend that although Tony's mood is delightful when appearing in a comedy, he is terrifying when performing in a drama.
Biography, Drama, romance film, spy film
In 1917, France is embroiled in World War I. Dubois, head of the French spy bureau, offers to spare the life of a captured agent if he will reveal who he is protecting. Dubois suspects it is Mata Hari, a celebrated exotic dancer, but the prisoner chooses execution by firing squad.
Action, thriller film
A SWAT team converges on the house of a United States Senator, who is being held hostage. The bomb squad arrives; Frank Glass (Steven Seagal) finds a bomb in the basement and works to disarm it while the SWAT team is in a shootout with the hostage takers. Glass disarms the bomb but deems it too easy, believing it was designed to mislead him.
Action, thriller film
While on a routine F-16C fighter aircraft patrol in United States airspace west of Alaska, Doug Masters and his wingman Matt Cooper test the g-forces of their fighters but stray into Soviet airspace. One of the Soviet aircraft has Doug on missile-lock, shooting him down. Doug safely ejects but is captured by Soviet soldiers.
Horror, thriller film
Victoria, an anxiety-ridden young woman, receives an invitation from her sister Carolyn to visit her in Paris. When she arrives, Carolyn takes her home and after settling in, the sisters tour Paris and do some shopping. During a break, Carolyn tells Victoria about a secret rave in the Catacombs of Paris taking place that night.
Political Drama, thriller film
In the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, an idealistic politician (Nicolas Cage) is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal. The video comes to light after he grants a live interview, and his team members work together to salvage the situation.
Crime, Drama, Melodrama, mystery film, Noir, thriller film
Johnny Eager masquerades as a taxi driver for his gullible parole officer, A. J. Verne, but in reality, he is the ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate.
Drama, Heist
Chris (Luke Perry), a young police officer meets the attractive and sexy Pamela (Ashley Judd) and immediately falls in love with her. Even her drug and alcohol problems cannot affect his mad love for her and they decide to marry. As the relationship continues, more problems arise.
Action, Horror, independent film, kaiju, Science fiction, thriller film
George Herbert explains that despite years of searching for extraterrestrial life mankind never expected aliens, which devastated human civilization into anarchy, would be killed by a lack of immunity to the bacteria in the human blood they consumed. Two years later, a town is seen populated with silent refugees including characters Shackleford and Sissy. Suddenly, three Tripods land in the city; apparently replacements for the walkers in the original attack having more legs.
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
Todd and Terry are identical twin brothers. One night at a drive-in theater in 1974, young Terry sees his mother Maddy and her date begin kissing inside the car. He wakes his brother and they sneak out of the car.
Drama, exploitation film, Horror, teen film, thriller film
David (Derrel Maury), a new student at Central High, meets Mark (Andrew Stevens), an old friend whom he once helped out of a jam at their previous school. Mark tells David that the school can be like a country club for him if he befriends Bruce (Ray Underwood), Craig (Steve Bond), and Paul (Damon Douglas), the bullies who rule the school student body; Mark has become their somewhat reluctant accomplice. Over the next few days, David witnesses Bruce, Craig, and Paul torment the other students, including the scrawny Spoony; the overweight Oscar; Arthur, the school's hearing-impaired librarian; and Rodney, who drives a rundown car that is…
Comedy, Comedy drama, Coming-of-age, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Drama, thriller film
When his parents' house is destroyed in a tornado, Harvard student Alan Jensen, point guard for the Harvard men's basketball team, is desperate for $100,000 to replace their home. He is approached by his girlfriend Cindy Bandolini, whose father is an organized crime boss. Cindy convinces Alan to throw a game for the money.
Action, Drama, historical film, thriller film
On June 27, 1976, four terrorists belonging to a splinter group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine under the orders of Wadie Haddad boarded and hijacked an Air France Airbus A300 in Athens, Greece. With the permission of President Idi Amin (Julius Harris), the terrorists divert the airliner and its hostages to Entebbe Airport in Uganda. After identifying Israeli passengers, the non-Jewish passengers are freed while a series of demands are made, including the release of 40 Palestinian militants held in Israel, in exchange for the hostages.
Action, thriller film