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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 215.

11-11-11 (2011)

Horror, thriller film

Joseph Crone wakes in his hotel room at 11:11 AM on November 7, 2011. His manager, Grant, arrives and urges Joseph to write his next novel after telling him that his previous book sold over 5 million copies. Joseph begins writing about how after his wife and son died, he lost all faith in a higher power and God and writes "God is dead, or maybe he was never alive." On November 8, 2011, Joseph attends his support group meeting where Sadie is telling her story.

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Defence of the Realm (1986)

Political Thriller

On a foggy night a car containing two men is pursued by police. The radio is discussing the country being on high alert due to a terrorist attack in Ankara. Going down a dead end road and forced to stop, (Steven) escapes over a high barbed-wire fence, but the other one is caught.

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The Standoff at Sparrow Creek (2018)

thriller film

Gannon, an ex-police officer, hears automatic gun shots and explosions in the distance one night. Listening to a police radio, he hears that a man identified as a militia member fled on foot from a cemetery after opening fire at a police funeral with a modified AR-15 and multiple IEDs. Gannon drives to a secluded lumber warehouse where he meets six other men who, along with Gannon, are part of a local militia.

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Bliss (1997)

Drama, Erotic Thriller

Maria (Sheryl Lee) and Joseph (Craig Sheffer) are a young couple, married for only six months, but already facing issues that prevent them from enjoying a fulfilling sex life. In their attempt to address and resolve the issue, they reach out to marriage counsellor Alfred (Spalding Gray). During the process, Joseph is shocked to find out that Maria has never had a genuine orgasm when they had sex with each other.

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In My Father's Den (2004)

Destiny, Drama, Family Drama, Psychodrama, thriller film

War photographer Paul Prior (Matthew Macfadyen) returns to his hometown in the South Island of New Zealand following the death of his father Jeff (Matthew Chamberlain). Paul reunites with his younger brother Andrew (Colin Moy), a pious local ostrich farmer who is married to the very religious and agoraphobic Penny (Miranda Otto). Under Andrew's pressure, Paul reluctantly prolongs his stay to help sort out the sale of their father's cottage and the adjoining orchard.

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Silver City (2004)

Comedy, Crime, Drama, mystery film, Political Satire

Richard "Dicky" Pilager, the dim-witted scion of a powerful political dynasty, is running for Governor of Colorado. One day, while filming a campaign ad that shows him fishing at Arapahoe Lake, Pilager hooks a corpse on location. Chuck Raven, Pilager's campaign manager, hires Danny O'Brien, a former journalist who works as a private investigator, to examine the case.

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Limbo (1999)

Adventure, Drama, thriller film

Port Henry, Alaska, is a town undergoing stress as the local economy switches from an industrial one based on the canning and paper industries towards a tourism-based model. Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn) is a former high school basketball star and fisherman who now works as a handyman, particularly for Frankie (Kathryn Grody) and Lou (Rita Taggart), a lesbian couple who own the local resort hotel. Joe is friends with teenager Noelle De Angelo (Vanessa Martinez), who also works for Frankie and Lou.

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3 Headed Shark Attack (2015)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Drama, Horror, independent film, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film

A 3-headed great white shark attacks an atoll where a group of teenagers is partying, killing all of them except one, Mark, who was on a buoy while the rest of the teens were at the beach. The shark then attacks the Persephone, an underwater research facility studying the Pacific Garbage Patch. The resulting damage causes the facility to explode, killing everybody inside except marine biologists Ted Nelson and Laura Thomas, and a group of activists touring the lab (Greg, Ryan Bennett, Omar, Alison, and college graduate Maggie Peterson, who applied for a job at the facility, and is also Greg's ex-girlfriend).

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Van Diemen's Land (2009)

Drama, Horror

The film takes place in 1822 in Tasmania and is loosely based on a true story. A group of transported convicts, suffering brutal treatment at the Macquarie Harbour penal settlement on Van Diemens Land, as Tasmania was then known (until 1856), escape into the wilderness in hopes of reaching the settlements to the east. Their enthusiasm and bravado soon give way to hunger, which saps their strength and causes them to despair.

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Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)

Action, Crime, neo-noir

Raymond Lembecke is an ex-con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his boss Eddie Grillo. Lembecke was innocent, but took the fall for Grillo. Lembecke thinks Grillo owes him, so when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars' worth of drugs from him.

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Getting In (1994)

Comedy

When Rupert Grimm learns that there are several students ahead of him in line to be admitted to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine he devises a plan for them each to meet with a series of unfortunate '"accidents". Gabriel Higgs also is in need to get into the school, considering that every generation ahead of him has been a doctor. He attempts to bribe both Amanda Morel and Randall Burns, but they refuse to be bribed.

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Kill Me Three Times (2014)

Action Comedy, Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Dark Comedy, neo-noir, thriller film

In Eagles Nest, Western Australia, a wealthy motel proprietor Jack Taylor believes his wife Alice to be having an affair. After a violent argument, Jack hires Charlie Wolfe, a private investigator and contract killer. When Charlie returns with video proof that Alice is having sex with Dylan Smith, Jack orders Charlie to kill her.

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Share (2019)

Drama, thriller film

Mandy, a 16-year-old high school student, wakes up on her front lawn after a night of hard partying with friends. She receives text messages from her friends about a video that has gone viral. In the video, she is face down at the party and obviously unconscious.

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Cosa avete fatto a Solange? (1972)

Crime, thriller film

While in a boat making out with her Italian college professor, Enrico Rosseni, Elizabeth Seccles witnesses a man with a knife stabbing another woman in the woods on the nearby shore. Rosseni convinces Elizabeth to keep silent about what she saw, especially after it turns out that the dead victim was one of her classmates and was killed by having a long knife pushed deep into her vagina. Another girl, a student at the same college, is killed later by the same attacker.

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The Night Train to Kathmandu (1988)

Adventure, Drama, romance film

Lily is forced to leave her home in Princeton, New Jersey with her parents and brother to travel to Nepal. She is unhappy that she had to leave her own country and her old life behind to visit this mystic country with her family. Once there, however, she meets a mysterious Sherpa named Joharv and falls in love with him and the country.

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Stiletto (2008)

Action, Crime, Drama, girls with guns, thriller film

Two crime lords, Virgil Vadalos, a wealthy Greek mafia boss and an MS-13 leader meet in a bathhouse to discuss business. A woman appears in the room with a stiletto switchblade knife, and kills the MS-13 leader, before stabbing Virgil, leaving him for dead. Virgil survives, however, and orders his men and a corrupt Los Angeles Police Department detective to find the woman, whom he identifies as his lover, Raina.

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Beneath the Darkness (2011)

comedy thriller, Crime, Horror, teen film, thriller film

Vaughn Ely is a beloved native of the small town of Smithville, TX with a dark secret. Formerly the star quarterback, now he's the local mortician. When Ely discovers that his wife Rosemary is cheating on him with the high school English teacher's husband, David Moore, he makes sure they can't do it again.

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The Gate II: Trespassers (1990)

fantasy film, Horror, Occult Horror, thriller film

It has been five years since Terry (now known as Terrence) and his friend, Glen, accidentally opened up the Gate in Glen's back yard, releasing demonic forces that the two of them had to banish. Glen and his family have moved away, and Terrence's broken family has grown worse. Still grieving over his mother's death, and with his dad wallowing in alcoholism, Terrence finds himself increasingly drawn to the evil portal and the power it possesses.

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Wrong Side of Town (2010)

Action, Crime

Bobby Kalinowski, a former Navy Seal, enjoys a peaceful life as a landscape architect in Louisiana with his family. After receiving an invitation from new neighbors Clay Freeman and Elise Freeman, they go out for a night on the town to a famous club. The evening soon takes a turn for the worse when Bobby gets into a conflict with one of the club owners, named Ethan Bordas.

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