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found footage film, Horror
Home Movie documents one family's descent into darkness through compilation of the Poe family's home-made video footage. In the remote woods of upstate New York, David (Adrian Pasdar) and Clare (Cady McClain) Poe are attempting to live an idyllic life. However, the Poe children are hiding a dark secret and something is wrong with ten-year-old twins Jack (Austin Williams) and Emily (Amber Joy Williams) Poe.
Action, Military Film, Political Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film, war film
An Arab is captured in the desert after attacking U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and then tortured and brutalized in a secret detention center. He finds himself transported to Poland, along with other prisoners.
alien invasion, Comedy horror, Science fiction
A jock sneaks into his supposed girlfriend's house with flowers for her. It is cold inside and when he approaches his girlfriend's room he finds a dead man with his mouth wide open. He then spots two more corpses.
Comedy, Dark Comedy
Struggling actor William McFly is hired by wealthy eccentric Cecil Fox to play his personal secretary for a "practical joke." Pretending to be on his deathbed, Fox invites three former lovers to his Venetian palazzo for a final visit: penniless Princess Dominique, fading movie star Merle McGill, and Texas millionairess Lone Star Crockett Sheridan. Accompanying Mrs. Sheridan is her nurse, Sarah Watkins.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, thriller film
Jimmy Lait (Brown) and his girlfriend, Wendy, come across Jimmy's friend, House, wounded and dying. Lait learns from House that he had escaped from a secret medical experimentation facility. Later in the hospital, a delirious House tells Lait that there is someone who aims to "kill us all" and that they have a way of doing it.
Drama, thriller film
Cindy Liggett is waiting on death row having been found guilty of the brutal double murder she committed in her teens, 12 years earlier. Rick Hayes is appointed to the Clemency board by his brother John Hayes. Rick meets Sam Burns his boss who assigns Rick Cindy's case as a candidate for clemency.
Crime, thriller film
Tommy Akhtar, the son of Ugandan immigrants, works as a snoop in London. Melody Chase visits him to ask him to look for her missing roommate Natasha, a Russian prostitute. Tommy steals a keycard from the cleaning staff and sneaks into the hotel room where she met her last client but only finds the dead body of Usman Rana, a British Pakistani businessman.
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
Outside of a Boston daycare center, teacher's aid Anne Barron is brutally decapitated by a kukri-armed assailant wearing a black motorcycle helmet. Lt. Judd Austin is the policeman assigned to the case.
Horror, teen film
Jennifer Baylor is a poor young woman from a Pentecostal family in Appalachia who possesses a supernatural power over snakes, including an ability to control and communicate with them. She and her father, Luke, left their home in disgrace, because when Jennifer was seven years old, some snakes she had been handling killed the town preacher's son. She refused to handle snakes ever again, though Luke now runs a pet store in suburban Los Angeles and often encourages her to use her power again.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Harry Garmes is an aging American career criminal who was once a driver for the Chicago Outfit. He is living in self-imposed exile in Albufeira, a fishing village in southern Portugal, where he owns a fishing boat and seeks occasional companionship from Monique, a local prostitute, as his wife has left him after the untimely death of their son. Unexpectedly, Harry receives a job, his first in nine years, to drive escaped killer Paul Rickard and his girlfriend Claudie Scherrer across Portugal and Spain into France.
docudrama, Drama Documentary, historical film, Political Thriller
In October 1962, United States U-2 flights reveal the Soviet Union is placing ballistic missiles in Cuba, only 90 miles from the continental United States. President John F. Kennedy collects a group of advisors from his cabinet and the military to assess the situation and develop a strategy to negotiate the withdrawal of the missiles.
Drama, thriller film
Friends Ron, Jonathan, Richard and Tim, have known each other since college. They reunite in Big Sur to celebrate Tim's 44th birthday. Each of them enjoy some degree of professional success but are unfulfilled with their lives.
Action, thriller film
A former Spokane, Washington cop turned private investigator takes on a case of a missing diamond cutter that leads him on an adventure of love and villainy spanning from the Nazis to the present-day Mob.
Crime, Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Anna Marchant (Milla Jovovich) witnesses a murder by a serial killer called Tearjerker Jack (David Atrakchi). Jack chases and attacks her, but she eludes him by falling from a bridge. Anna wakes from a coma one week later and is diagnosed with prosopagnosia, also known as "face blindness".
Drama, Erotic Thriller, Horror, mystery film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
Erica spends her nights trawling the bars and beds of Austin, Texas. Emotionally withdrawn, her only form of human contact is a series of unprotected one-night stands with strangers, whom she picks up irrespective of age or physical appearance. For some reason, however, she keeps a Polaroid photo album of her partners, remembers their faces and those of their acquaintances, and takes caution to avoid sleeping with the same man twice.
thriller film
Sean Crawley is a young man struggling to make ends meet in suburban Los Angeles. "Duke" Wayne introduces Sean to his boss, Ray Matthews, a shady real estate developer. Ray initially hires Sean to follow Eric Gatley, an accountant who has been investigating Ray's company, but later offers him $13,000 to kill Eric.
Drama, thriller film
Drama, Erotic Thriller
Vera (Neve Campbell) is a femme fatale for the 21st century: a beautiful, capricious young woman living in New York who begins exploring the limits of her sexual and intellectual power. She picks up men on the street and has sex with them in her apartment. She also videotapes a sexual romp with a female lover and has sexually frank discussions with her potential employer.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Americans Doug and Helen Stilwin and their young son, Bobby, embark on a vacation driving across the border into desolate Baja California in Mexico to a remote fishing spot along the coast that Doug used to frequent with his old military buddies. Upon arrival at the remote beach, young Bobby goes exploring out onto a precarious, rotting pier, high above the water. His foot gets stuck in a crack between boards.
docudrama, Drama, Noir, spy film, thriller film, war film
The film begins, and is interspersed with, documentary footage, and is narrated throughout. The opening footage is described as derived from FBI surveillance, showing officials at the German Embassy in Washington, and describing them as actively recruiting spies. A German spy is killed in a traffic accident; dying, he is heard to murmur "Mr.
Adventure, Crime, thriller film
On a clear day in 1971, the hijacker identified as D.B. Cooper jumps from an airliner by using the rear exit, parachuting into a forest in Washington State. The man is later identified as Jim Meade, a military veteran with big dreams.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A corporation tries to pressure a bunch of Arkansas farmers and ranchers to sell their land so they can strip-mine it for coal. The fiercely proud and stubborn Hunter family refuse to give in. This leads to a bitter conflict that results in several casualties.
Action, Dystopian, Science fiction, thriller film
In a dystopian North America in 2044, war and environmental degradation have led to the almost complete abandonment of cities and to the establishment of a totalitarian military dictatorship called the "Regime". Niska and her eleven year old daughter Waseese live in the woods. While hunting for food, Waseese's leg is seriously injured after stepping on a trap.
Action, Crime
Abner Procane hires Raymond St. Ives, a crime reporter, novelist, and ex-policeman, to return five journals stolen from his safe. St.