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Crime, Drama, mystery film, thriller film
A man has parked his car and is looking into the Grand Canyon with binoculars when someone releases the car's parking brake and pushes the vehicle toward him. He is able to leap out of the way at the last moment, and in a fierce struggle knocks his attacker over the rim to his death. The man is then seen wandering, disheveled and talking apparent nonsense, by Eli, an old prospector who tells deputy sheriff Martin about it.
crime thriller film, thriller film
The film begins with the meeting of a support group in Los Angeles, during which the unnamed leader of the group, The Man, takes a call asking him to come to London. Once in London, he meets Jade in a bar in broad daylight, asks her why Senator Kyle is still alive and advises her to leave. The subsequent film opener shows a fight between Krystal and Jade in a club, which Jade loses.
Action, Horror, thriller film
Aspiring comic book artist Josh Baker meets a young woman named Cheryl on the streets of New York City, who proceeds to collapse and is rushed to a hospital by an ambulance. When Josh arrives at the hospital, he is shocked to find that there is no record of Cheryl ever being admitted. He soon learns another startling discovery: Cheryl's roommate also vanished after being picked up by the same ambulance.
thriller film
While a police officer in New Orleans, the events of Hurricane Katrina convince Sandra to move with her mother to a remote and cold region of Montana, where she becomes a university professor. Once her mother dies, Sandra is left alone between the power dynamics of her college and the town. But it is a confrontation with two hunters trespassing on her property that ultimately pushes her own pain and growing anger to their limits.
Action, Drama, thriller film
Kamal Wasaki is a young Belgian rapper of Moroccan origin. He decided to go to Raqqa in Syria as a volunteer to help the victims of the war. His family stayed in Molenbeek.
Drama, Horror, thriller film
Dr. Jane Mathis (Vinessa Shaw) is a psychiatrist and an expert at confrontational therapy. Two years prior, she had a patient, Nora Green, who attacked her and attempted suicide in her office.
Crime, Noir, Police Film
On a Los Angeles street, Officer Rob Rawlins, a patrolman on his way home from work, stops a man whom he suspects of being a burglar and is shot and mortally wounded. The minor clues lead nowhere. Two police detectives, Marty Brennan and Chuck Jones, are assigned to catch the killer, Roy Morgan, a brilliant mystery man with no known criminal past.
Action, thriller film
Two men, both assassins, enter a hotel, and speak to the manager Araña (Cage). They take away his shotgun and revolver from the front lobby, and talk about pursuing him for a while now. An old sniper is on the lookout with his rifle from a high storey window of a building.
Comedy, Comedy drama, comedy thriller, Crime, Drama, Horror, romance film
Still a virgin after 15 years in a convent, the demure Isabelle earns her living in New York City by writing pornography, which she researches by buying magazines and hiring videos. In a café, she befriends Thomas, who has amnesia after falling from a window. In another café, an accountant called Edward is befriended by Sofia, who pushed Thomas out of the window because, she says, he introduced her to drugs at the age of 12 and made her into a celebrated porn actress.
Crime, Psychodrama, thriller film
In 1970s New York, former author June Leigh lives alone in her late grandmother's dilapidated apartment after cutting herself off from the outside world. Riddled with anxiety and agoraphobia, she spends her days watching the derelict neighbourhood below from her fourth-story window, amidst the notorious "Summer of Sam" in the blistering heat. June is visited by her estranged friend, Margot, who is shocked to see June in such a depressive state.
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
Monica Rivers owns a travelling circus that tours England. Monica is ringmistress, and Albert Durando is business manager. During one performance, tightrope walker Gaspar the Great dies when his rope breaks.
Crime, Detective, Drama, Mysterie
Hercule Poirot is travelling on the Orient Express. While on the journey, Poirot meets a very close friend, Wolfgang Bouc, who works for the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The train is stopped when a landslide blocks the line on the second night out from Istanbul, and American millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett is found stabbed to death the next morning.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Comedy horror, Drama, Horror, Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
Tom Penderel, an American car salesman in London, delivers a car to an old mansion on Dartmoor for his eccentric roommate Casper Femm. The car is damaged by a falling statue in a raging storm. Tom enters the house, and finds that his roommate Casper is dead.
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
In a rural, mountainous region of Oregon, drunken hunters Ty and Vachel come across an abandoned church, which they explore. After Ty sees their truck being crashed into a tree, Vachel is castrated with a serrated machete by a chuckling assailant who then dons Vachel's hat and jacket. Ty, seeing the murderer exit the church, quietly flees off into the forest.
Drama, Dystopian, Science fiction, thriller film, Utopia & Dystopia
In the future, the Earth has become severely polluted (people need to wear breathing masks when outside), with severe overpopulation affecting available resources. Because of the permanent thick smog that has settled over the dismal cities that now cover the Earth's entire surface, all animals – even common household pets – are extinct. People eat tasteless, bright-colored paste out of plastic containers.
Action, Drama, Horror, independent film, Science fiction, thriller film
Set in late 19th-century England, the film follows a journalist from Woking known as "the Writer" as he struggles to reunite with his wife during a Martian invasion. After witnessing the arrival of the alien invaders and their towering tripod war machines, he journeys across a war-torn southern England while his brother attempts to escape London with two women amid the widespread chaos and destruction.
Animal horror, Horror, monster film, thriller film
A group of friends—Anja, Mel, Dace, Chad, Kris, and Warren—embark on a journey into the Australian outback where Dace, an anthropology student, aims to study ancient symbols outside a mysterious cave. They are soon attacked by a bizarre, aggressive rabbit with sharp teeth, which injures Kris before the group manages to kill it. Bewildered, they return to their camp.
Crime, Drama, Horror, thriller film
In 1996, Jack Wilson is producing a crime docuseries segment on the Manson Family murders. Narrated via contemporaneous interviews and flashbacks, several former members of Charles "Charlie" Manson's "family" recount their time spent leading up to the August 1969 murder spree. Tex Watson is brought to Spahn Ranch, a former movie set-turned-commune where Manson is housing his followers.
Drama, thriller film
Danny Quinn (Donnie Wahlberg) is a former "street kid" from South Boston, colloquially known as "Southie," who returns home from New York City after three years away. He finds his mother (Anne Meara) overwhelmed with worry as her other three kids are caught up in the madness of the hardscrabble neighborhood in which drinking, sex, and fighting is the way of life. Danny tracks down his brothers only to find out they are deeply embedded in the Irish mob in Boston and in debt to local mobster Colie Powers (Lawrence Tierney).
Action, Crime, thriller film
John Lomax is an ex-Special Forces trainer whose sister is attacked and murdered by serial killer Martin Kagan. Kagan represents himself at trial, calling in testimony from Dr. Alice Barnes that the murders were committed by Martin Mirman, one of Martin Kagan's other personalities.
Action, Drama, Science fiction, thriller film
Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film
Emily Crane, a picture editor for Life magazine, is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee. She then takes a part-time job as companion/reader to an elderly woman. One day she overhears a noisy argument in a neighboring house.
Action, Cyberpunk, Science fiction, thriller film
In 2025, time travel technology has improved considerably; Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), the agency that monitors time travel, is still keeping the past safe and after the events of the previous film, Society for Historical Authenticity (SHA) is established to ensure that TEC personnel do not alter history. However, the Society's leader, Brandon Miller, believes he has the responsibility to change history based on a "moral obligation to right the wrongs of the past" and plans to do so by traveling back to Berlin in 1940 and kill Adolf Hitler. TEC agent Ryan Chang is sent back to stop him, but in the resulting fight, Miller's wife,…
Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, romance film, thriller film
American ballerina, Claire Hamilton, travels to Budapest to audition for a prestigious ballet school. She befriends a fellow American and antiques dealer, Jason Forrest, who is clearly smitten. At her audition, Claire suddenly loses her courage when a visibly distraught dancer is harshly rejected.