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Action, action film, adventure film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
In Virginia, assailants breach an underground NSA bunker run by Agent Augustus Gibbons, who fends off the attackers before barely escaping with Toby Shavers. To find help from a XXX with more attitude, Gibbons meets his former comrade, Dar…
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Christmas film, Erotic Film, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, drama film, erotic drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, melodrama, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Dr. Bill Harford and his wife Alice live in New York City with their daughter, Helena. At a Christmas party hosted by Bill's patient, Victor Ziegler, Bill reconnects with his former medical school classmate, Nick Nightingale, now a profess…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
In Phoenix, Arizona, real estate secretary Marion Crane embezzles $40,000 in cash from her employer after hearing her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, complain that his debts are delaying their marriage. She sets off to drive to Sam's home in the to…
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Coming Of Age, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, coming-of-age film, contemporary fantasy, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, psychological thriller film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In October 1988, twelve-year-old Bill Denbrough makes a paper sailboat for his seven-year-old brother Georgie. Georgie sails the boat along rainy streets, only to have it fall down a storm drain. Attempting to retrieve it, Georgie sees a c…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Late Western, Thriller, Western film, action film, adventure film, contemporary Western film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1980, hitman Anton Chigurh is arrested in Texas. He escapes by strangling the sheriff's deputy to death and steals a car by killing the driver with a captive bolt pistol. Later, he spares the life of a gas station owner for correctly ca…
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Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
An adolescent Madeleine Swann witnesses her mother's murder by Lyutsifer Safin, whose family was murdered by Madeleine's father, Mr. White, under orders from Ernst Stavro Blofeld. After wounding Safin, Madeleine falls into a frozen lake, b…
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Crime, crime thriller film
In Los Angeles, Mike is an elusive and disciplined jewel thief, carefully planning robberies to avoid violence and DNA evidence while escaping via U.S. Route 101. Intercepting a diamond delivery carrying decoys, he steals $3 million in gen…
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island in Boston Harbor. They are investigating the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient o…
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Satire On War, War Film, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, alternate history film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, parody film, period drama film, political satire, suspense film, thriller film, war drama, war film
In 1941, Austrian SS- Hans Landa interrogates French dairy farmer Perrier LaPadite about a fugitive Jewish family, the Dreyfuses. He boasts his nickname, "The Jew Hunter", then offers LaPadite amnesty if he will give up the Dreyfuses. LaPa…
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Horror, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In 1982, four years after Finney Blake killed the Grabber, his sister Gwen begins having dreams where she sees murders that happened at Alpine Lake Camp in 1957. During one, she receives a call from her mother Hope, who at the time of the …
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Horror, black comedy film, body horror film, desire horror fiction, drama film, horror film, independent film, monster film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, satirical film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, thriller film
On her 50th birthday, faded Hollywood film star Elisabeth Sparkle is dismissed from her long-running aerobics TV show by its producer, Harvey, due to her age. Elisabeth crashes her car while distracted by a billboard of herself being taken…
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Horror comedy, Satanism, black comedy film, horror film, thriller film
As a child, Daniel Le Domas is confronted in his family's mansion by Charles, a wounded man who begs him for help. Instead, Daniel alerts his family, who arrive in ceremonial masks and robes. Despite his bride Helene's pleas, Charles is sh…
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Drama, Western film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, historical film, independent film, period drama film, revisionist Western, thriller film
In 1898, Daniel Plainview finds silver while prospecting in New Mexico but breaks his leg. Dragging himself from the pit, he takes a sample to an assay office and receives a silver and gold claim. In 1902, he discovers oil in California.
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Action, Detective Film, Super Hero, action film, crime film, detective film, drama film, superhero film, thriller film
On Halloween, Gotham City mayor Don Mitchell Jr. is murdered by a masked serial killer, the Riddler. Reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated for two years as the vigilante Batman, investigates the murder alongside Lieutenant Ji…
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Thriller, domestic thriller
Jackson's uncle leaves his Montana home to him after his death. Jackson decides to move there from New York with his pregnant girlfriend, Grace. Soon after the couple moves in, Grace gives birth to a baby boy.
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Jason Delgado, an unemployed engineer, is fishing when he sees an unusual-looking inbound storm. Just as it starts to rain, he returns to his suburban Seattle home where he lives with his wife Ann, their two children Graham and Ruth, and t…
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action film, thriller film
In an unnamed European city, a young mother is fatally stabbed in front of her son by a passing migrant. A news report states that parents are afraid to let their children play outside and that women avoid going out after dark. Michael San…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Monster Film, Musical, Sci-Fi, comedy horror, erotic thriller, horror film, musical film, science fiction film
The film begins with a pair of floating disembodied lips welcoming the audience to a science fiction double feature ("Science Fiction/Double Feature"). Throughout the film, a criminologist from an unspecified point in the future narrates a…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, superhero film, thriller film
A gang of masked criminals rob a mafia-owned bank in Gotham City, betraying and killing each other until the sole survivor, the Joker, reveals himself as the mastermind and escapes with the money. The vigilante Batman, district attorney Ha…
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Action, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, heist film, mystery film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, thriller film
Dom Cobb and Arthur are "extractors" who perform corporate espionage using experimental dream-sharing technology to infiltrate their targets' subconscious and extract information. Their latest target, Saito, is impressed with Cobb's abilit…
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Dark Comedy, Western, Western film, black comedy film, comedy film, contemporary Western film, crime film, drama film, horror film, satirical film, thriller film
In late May 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ted Garcia, mayor of the small town of Eddington, New Mexico, implements a lockdown and mask mandate based on the governor's orders. Conservative Sevilla County Sheriff Joe Cross publ…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, black comedy, comedy horror, thriller film
Wealthy foodie Tyler Ledford brings his date Margot Mills to Hawthorn, an exclusive restaurant on a private island operated by celebrity chef Julian Slowik. Their fellow guests are food critic Lillian Bloom and her editor Ted Feldman, weal…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, Zombiefilm, action film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, independent film, katastrophe, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, zombie film
A group of animal rights activists infiltrate a laboratory in Cambridge which houses abnormally aggressive chimpanzees. Despite a scientist warning that the chimpanzees are "infected" with "rage", an activist frees one; it attacks her and,…
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Horror, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
In 1978, a local serial child abductor and murderer, known only as "The Grabber", prowls the streets of a suburb in North Denver, Colorado. Finney Blake and his younger sister, Gwen, live in the area with their abusive, alcoholic father, T…
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