The Devil Has a Name (2019)
Dark Comedy, thriller film
It is a fictionalized drama of true events surrounding California's Central Valley water contamination wars.
Thrillers movies
Explore suspense, danger and tense conflicts.
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Chill Factor (1999)
Action, Comedy, thriller film
10 years after one of Dr Richard Long's military experiments went wrong and killed 18 US servicemen and a medical assistant, he has become a recluse in the small town of Jerome, Montana. He still conducts scientific experiments at the local base, and his only social activity is going fly-fishing with Tim Mason, a cook in the local run-down cafe. Long is murdered by Colonel Andrew Brynner, a former Army officer who took the blame for the failure of Long's experiment and served 10 years in prison.
Piggy Banks (2005)
thriller film
Le clan des siciliens (1969)
Crime, Drama, Heist, mystery film
In Paris, robber and murderer Roger Sartet escapes from custody with the help of the Manalese, a small, well-organized Sicilian Mafia clan consisting of patriarch Vittorio, his two sons, and his son-in-law. Sartet pays them with some valuable stamps he had stowed away, and the Manalese hide him in an apartment above the arcade game manufacturing company they own as a front. Jeanne, the French wife of Vittorio's elder son, looks after Sartet, but he sneaks out to see a prostitute at a hotel and narrowly avoids getting captured by Commissaire Le Goff.
Junction (2024)
thriller film
The modern-day opioid crisis in America from three different perspectives.
Nirvana (1997)
Cyberpunk, fantasy film
The film tells the story of a virtual reality game designer, Jimi (Christopher Lambert), who discovers that the main character of his game, Solo (Diego Abatantuono), has achieved sentience due to an attack by a computer virus. Asked by his creation (who feels everything the character in the game feels, including multiple deaths) to eliminate its existence, Jimi sets out to erase the game from the server of his employer, Okasama Star, before it's commercially released on Christmas Day, and thus spare Solo further suffering. Jimi has been depressed since his wife Lisa (Emmanuelle Seigner) left him.
The Phoenix Incident (2015)
Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
The Phoenix Incident begins with the night vision observation of a scorpion, moving across the screen before cutting to a series of military firefight engagements in Damal, Turkey, Dayr Az Zawr, Syria and Mogadishu, Banadir, Somalia, often with alien cries heard during these engagements. Expository text explains that, since 1997, the United States military has been engaged in a covert war against "forces of unknown origin", and that "57 incidents have spread across Asia, Europe and Russia." It goes on to note that NATO notes that alien invasion forces will reach populated areas within two years, and that the conflict itself is in…
Tenderness (2009)
Action, Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller
Lori is an unhappy 15/16-year-old girl who lives with her single mother. She receives sexual attention from men, including her boss at a retail store and her mother's boyfriend Gary. Eric Komenko is an 18-year-old boy who has killed his parents.
Too Late for Tears (1949)
Drama, Noir, Psychodrama
thumb|175px|left|Don DeFore and Lizabeth Scott Los Angeles couple Jane and Alan Palmer are returning from a party when the driver in an oncoming car tosses a bag of cash into their car. The Palmers elude another car that pursues them, and in a compromise between Jane wanting to keep the money and Alan wanting to contact police, they agree to check the bag at Union Station. When Alan is at work, a man named Danny Fuller comes to the Palmer apartment and tells Jane the money was intended for him.
Seizure (1974)
Horror
Horror writer Edmund Blackstone sees his recurring nightmare come to chilling life one weekend as one by one, his friends and family are killed by three villains: the Queen of Evil, a dwarf named Spider, and a giant scar-faced strongman called Jackal.
The Incubus (1982)
Horror
In a lake at a rock quarry in rural Wisconsin, a young woman, Mandy Pullman, and her boyfriend, Roy, are swimming. The two spend the night at the lake camping, but are attacked by an unseen figure; Roy is killed, and Mandy violently raped. Mandy is taken to the hospital with a ruptured uterus and serious trauma.
Demonios tus ojos (2017)
Drama, Erotic Thriller
Oliver, a Los Angeles-based erotic film director, finds out by chance an explicit video featuring his little half sister Aurora. He thereby goes back to his hometown in Madrid, where his obsession with Aurora gets him to secretly install a webcam in the latter's bedroom.
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Western
Blaise Starrett is a ruthless cattleman who helped found the small, bleak community of Bitters, Wyoming. He is at odds with homesteaders who, having established new farms in the area, have taken to putting up barbed wire to keep their livestock from wandering. Starrett is particularly aggrieved with Hal Crane, who not only inspired this use of barbed wire, but is also married to Helen, the woman Starrett loves.
Vice (2015)
Action, Dystopian, fantasy film, Science fiction, thriller film
A futuristic resort, Vice, offers visitors the opportunity to live out all their fantasies, no matter how violent or deviant, on sophisticated androids (referred to as "artificials"). Every day, the androids' memories are reset, and any damage sustained is scheduled for repair. To maintain the illusion that the androids are real, they are programmed to have behavioral responses such as emotions and believe themselves to be human.
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, mystery film, neo-noir, romance film, thriller film
Psychologist Dr. Sarah Taylor is a guarded, aloof criminal psychologist who interviews a client who is a rapist, and is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. It is later revealed that she was the subject of daily rapes as a child by her estranged father, who is now shown to be very ill.
Malone (1987)
Action, Drama
Richard Malone is a covert CIA operative specializing in assassinations, but has grown disillusioned with his line of work and suddenly resigns, much to the chagrin of his superiors. Malone begins driving aimlessly before his Ford Mustang breaks down in a rural Oregon valley. Malone pushes it to a gas station and garage owned by Paul Barlow, who runs the station with his 17-year-old daughter Jo.
Curdled (1996)
black comedy film, Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy
Gabriela is a Colombian immigrant living in Miami who has been fascinated with violent death ever since she saw a falling corpse pass by her mother's bakery window as a child. With many television shows and films feeding her obsession, she believes that after someone is decapitated, they still talk for a short while afterwards. Having quit her job at a bakery, she begins work for a cleaning service, after she sees a television commercial advertising it.
Whispers in the Dark (1992)
Drama, Erotic Thriller, mystery film
Psychiatrist Ann Hecker has a successful practice in Manhattan. During a session with a disturbed art gallery owner named Eve Abergray, Eve describes a sadomasochistic sexual encounter she recently had with her male lover. The next day, one of Ann's patients, Johnny Castillo, a painter, remarks that he passed by Eve on his way out of the office the day before, and that her beauty provoked violent sadistic fantasies in him.
The Last Victim (2021)
thriller film, Western
A group of outlaws, led by the charismatic Jake Samuels, is pursued by the aging Sheriff Hickey and his deputy Mindy Gaboon after a crime goes wrong in the American Southwest. The gang of outcasts soon crosses paths with Susan Orden, an anthropologist with OCD, and her husband, Richard, who witness them in the midst of covering up a horrendous crime. Soon after, Susan is pursued by the outlaw group with the hopes of making her the last victim.
The Naked Man (1998)
Comedy, thriller film
Dr. Edward Blis, Jr, a chiropractor by day, moonlights as a professional wrestler at night. His wrestling name is the Naked Man and he wears a naked body suit when wrestling.
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Crime, Drama, romance film
Intense young "tough" Thomas Seyr is a 28-year-old real estate broker involved in shady business deals. His business partners, Fabrice and Sami, spend much of their time ruthlessly chasing squatters and illegal immigrants out of the buildings they have procured and trying to work their way around government housing regulations. Thomas is born to this kind of work; his father, Robert, is involved in dodgy endeavors and sometimes calls upon Thomas to beat up people who refuse to pay.
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003)
Drama, Horror
The film is an adaptation of The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red (2001), written by Ridley Pearson under the pseudonym Joyce Reardon, PhD. Pearson's novel was based on the script of Stephen King's Rose Red. The plot revolves around the construction of the Rimbauer mansion, Rose Red, in Seattle, Washington, tracing a series of mysterious accidents throughout the mansion's early history which cause it to become cursed.
House of 9 (2005)
Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Lea, a young woman, wakes up in an unfamiliar, eerie mansion and quickly realizes she’s been kidnapped. As she explores the house, she finds several other unconscious people who soon awaken. Panic sets in when they discover that all the exits are sealed.
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Crime, Drama, Noir
Chris Emery works as a nightclub singer and dancer in the British colony of Trinidad and Tobago. One night after her performance, she receives news from Inspector Smythe and Anderson, a member of the American consulate, that her husband Neil has been found dead. She is comforted by Neil's friend Max Fabian.