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Horror, thriller film
During World War I, Lieutenant Turner commands a battalion including British soldiers Corporal Miller, Private Lewis, Captain Hall, and Corporal Walker. The young American soldier Private Baker struggles to adjust to the front. Private Segura, a medic, joins the group.
Action, Comedy, Drama, Dystopian, fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film, Science fiction, science fiction comedy, thriller film
In Lapland, playboy physicist Jerry Cornelius attends the funeral of his father, a Nobel Prize–winning scientist who has developed the "Final Programme"—a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being. He is questioned by Dr Smiles, who wants to retrieve microfilm which he knows is in the Cornelius family home in England. Cornelius, a conspicuous counter-culture dandy with a fondness for chocolate biscuits and alcohol, threatens to blow up the family house.
Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Horror, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
The Day follows a group of five survivors in a post-apocalyptic world as they travel through a bleak environment in an attempt to find food, shelter, and a safe place to stop running from tribes of savage cannibals that roam the country-side. They hope to plant two jars of seeds that they either stole or found during their journey. There was at some point twelve in their group, but it is not known how the others died or how long the remaining five have been on the run.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Having survived the assassination attempt at the end of Black Caesar, Tommy Gibbs takes on corrupt New York District Attorney James DiAngelo, who had sought to jail Gibbs and his father, Papa Gibbs, in order to monopolize the illicit drug trade. Gibbs decides to eliminate drug pushing from the streets of Harlem, while continuing to carry out his other illicit enterprises. Gibbs falls in love with Sister Jennifer, a woman who works with Reverend Rufus, a former pimp who has found a religious calling.
Horror, thriller film
In Florida, Sam is about to head into work when she picks up a card and types the number from it into her phone. In Michigan, a phone rings inside a cabin in the woods where Emily is trapped by her ex-boyfriend Charlie, who wants her back or he will kill her. Sam heads to work at a gas station, where she faces harassment from the manager and a wealthy customer.
Comedy, thriller film
Susan Holland is a suburbanite woman who plots to kill her wealthy husband Paul in order to collect his life insurance policy. Through Susan's adulterous lover, Sam Meyers, she hires two incompetent criminals, Bill and Steve, to kill Paul and make it look like a mugging gone wrong. However, when Bill and Steve show up as expected and shoot Paul outside his car in a parking lot, Paul survives and is taken to the hospital.
thriller film
After his wife's (Vahina Giocante) apparent suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson (Shawn Ashmore) becomes convinced that she has been murdered and sets out to stop the killer(s). When he asks his boss, Kelly Alderman (Daniella Alonso), for assistance she expresses doubt that his suspicions are true and initially refuses help. Working alone, Anderson researches a theory leading him to believe serial killer(s) have murdered several women over the past 10 years by faking suicides.
Action, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction
The film is set in an apocalyptic future where large swaths of North America have been turned into inhospitable desert and the United States has been assimilated into a Western bloc called the North Hemi. In order to survive North Hemi has begun plans to manufacture "mini-megs" called Mega-Robotic Assault System-2 (MRAS-2), miniature versions of giant "mega-robots" that resemble mechanized scorpions. The only working MRAS-2 is being used by Captain Drake and copilot Stumpy to conduct tours and deliver supplies.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Prison convict Joe Sullivan has "taken the fall" for an unspecified crime. His share for committing the crime was to be $50,000. Joe breaks out of jail with the help of his girl Pat.
Horror, thriller film
Every year, Rosie Forrest, known as "Auntie Roo", throws a lavish overnight Christmas party for ten of the best-mannered children at the local orphanage. Despite her warm demeanour, Rosie is in fact demented and mentally ill and keeps the mummified remains of her daughter Katharine in a nursery room in the attic. She holds regular séances in hopes of communicating with her spirit, presided over by phony medium Mr.
Crime, Mysterie, thriller film
Preacher David Martin finds a man unconscious at the side of the road in West Texas. David is traveling to the small town of Bevel to be the new preacher. When they reach a quarry nearby, the man kills David and heads to Bevel.
Drama, thriller film
Following the shooting of a film on the life of Jesus called This Is My Blood, Marie Palesi, the actress who plays Mary Magdalene takes refuge in Jerusalem in search of the truth behind the story, while the film's director, who also plays Jesus, returns to New York to aggressively promote the film. The film within a film is drawing public controversy for reasons that are never directly specified, but some scenes in the film draw on the non-canonical Gnostic Gospels, while there are public allegations that the film is anti-Semitic for reasons that are not given. In New York, television journalist Ted Younger (Forest Whitaker) is presenting…
Action, Crime, thriller film
A DEA SWAT team, led by elite DEA agent James Baker (Michael Jai White), assaults a Mexican cartel's drug lab. The bad guys are taken out in the ensuing gun fight, but Baker inadvertently kills three hostages, a mother and her two daughters. As a result of PTSD-induced hallucinations, nightmares, and not being able to differentiate between reality and illusion, Baker is sent home to recover.
Horror, rape and revenge film, thriller film
Emily's friend Angelica invites her to a rave party in the woods. Emily's parents, Leo and Justine, tell her she must return by midnight or call if she's going to be late. At the party, Angelica asks Swan, another party guest, for ecstasy.
Crime, crime thriller film, Drama, mystery film, neo-noir
Los Angeles Police Lieutenant Phil Gaines and his girlfriend Nicole Britton, a high-priced call girl, have their weekend plans dashed when Gaines receives a call that a dead woman was found on the beach. Before he leaves, the two plan a romantic trip to Rome. At the police precinct, Gaines and his partner, Sergeant Louis Belgrave, meet Marty and Paula Hollinger, and ask Marty to view the deceased to see if it is his daughter, Gloria.
Drama, Gangster Film
The movie starts with flashbacks of Lansky's life, first showing an elderly Lansky looking for a rock to put on his grandfather's grave in Jerusalem. Upon seeing soldiers of the Israeli Defense Force, Lansky expresses regret that his grandfather never lived to see them. As he walks through a tunnel, he catches sight of an old man.
thriller film
A famous author, Sandy Duffy (Conleth Hill), wrote his well-known and only novel, "A Patch of Fog" nearly 25 years ago. Sandy is now a university lecturer and talk-show personality with co-host Lucy (Lara Pulver), who is also Sandy's girlfriend. Still riding the success of his only publication, Sandy has developed a shoplifting addiction and gets caught by a security guard, Robert Green (Stephen Graham).
Horror, Mysterie
Cayce Bridges is a psychic gifted in a form of psychometry, which she plies to kickstart her career as a novelist by serving as a consultant on homicide investigations, mentally linking with murderers in order to provide police with clues to their identities and whereabouts, and then writing nonfiction books about these experiences. The books make Cayce a minor celebrity with a glowing public image, but her manager and friend Jessica informs her that publishers are only interested in more books about her psychic investigations, even though Cayce is traumatized by mind linking with killers and wants out. Jessica can get her a deal for two…
Action, Road Movie, thriller film
Jimmy Kowalski, a Gulf War veteran and former stock car racer, works as an automobile restorer and delivery driver at a shop in Idaho. He takes an assignment delivering a 1971 Plymouth Roadrunner to New Mexico, to pay his wife's mounting medical bills. While in New Mexico, he is offered another job: delivering a 426 Hemi-powered 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Drama, thriller film
The film is based on the true story of Charles Joseph Whitman, an engineering student and former Marine who murdered his wife and mother and then killed 14 more people and wounded 31 others in a shooting rampage at the University of Texas at Austin on the afternoon of August 1, 1966.
Action, Drama, thriller film
The eponymous "Brotherhood of Justice" begins as an attempt by several students to end vandalism and drug sales in and near their high school, but this "solution" gradually becomes worse than the original problem. As the Brotherhood's targets expand to include all who irritate them for any reason, the group's actions escalate to arson and attempted murder. Its original main organizer, Derek, realizing what the group has become, eventually reports his comrades.
Action, Action Comedy, B-action, Dystopian, exploitation film, Science fiction, thriller film
An earthquake leaves the California coastline in ruins and reduces the beaches to a state of chaos. A group of neo-Nazis led by Adolf, the self-proclaimed "Führer of the new beach", takes advantage of the resulting chaos by fighting off several rival surfer gangs to seize control of the beaches. Meanwhile, an African American oil well worker named Leroy is killed by the surf Nazis while jogging on the beach.
crime thriller film, Drama, Noir
At night on a busy Los Angeles sidewalk, James "Jim" Vanning (Aldo Ray) wanders aimlessly, avoiding bright lights and police cars, while he's being watched by another man, later revealed to be insurance investigator Ben Fraser (James Gregory). At a corner, Fraser asks Vanning for a light, and the two men chat briefly, with Vanning revealing that he is a veteran who fought on Okinawa in the war. Vanning enters a bar, sitting next to Marie Gardner (Anne Bancroft), who has been nursing her drink because she has no cash to pay for it.
Action, Adventure, B movie, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Scientist Steve Karnes delivers a speech to a British scientific society, led by Professor James Bickford, about the dangers to marine life posed by nuclear testing. Before Karnes can return to the United States, a real-life example of his concern materialises when a fisherman in Looe, Cornwall is killed on the beach, and his dying word is "behemoth". Later, thousands of dead fish are washed ashore.