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Crime, Drama, Noir
thumb|left|Woman on the Run. In San Francisco, artist Frank Johnson observes the gunshot murder of an important trial witness by a gangster seeking extortion money. Noticing Frank, the murderer takes shots at him.
Action, thriller film
At an American college, a group of students play a game with suction cup dart toy guns similar to The 10th Victim where a pair of students are assigned to "kill" the other one first by shooting him with a dart. One student, Loren Gersh (Bruce Abbott) lives purely to play the game. His expertise in "killing" all of his opponents and not being "killed" himself, making him a renowned master.
Horror, Slasher, thriller film
College student Amanda is babysitting for Helen and Jim, watching after their young son at their large estate in the woods. Amanda finds it odd there are so many locks on the front door but meets the child, Tara, before they go to sleep. Helen and Jim leave, Amanda makes tea in the kitchen, and is watched by a man through the window.
Horror, mystery film, Science fiction
Unaccountable, deadly malfunctions begin occurring at a top-secret government facility located under the New Mexico desert, where a space station is being constructed. Dr. David Sheppard, from the Office of Scientific Investigation (OSI) in Washington, D.C., is called in to investigate the mysterious deaths.
Drama, Dystopian, thriller film
Set in an unspecified country, a woman is taken from her home in the middle of the night, accused of embedding dissident messages into her book Closet Land. The book is a story about a child who, as a result of bad behavior, has been locked in a closet as punishment. While in there, the child is greeted by a group of childhood ally archetypes who innocently attempt to comfort the scared little girl.
Comedy, screwball comedy film, thriller film
Entrepreneur Ray Moody runs a business in which clients pay him to experience a simulated kidnapping. An interview for a loan goes poorly when he attempts to explain his business model to an incredulous banker. Although Ray has a strained relationship with his sister Natalie, he turns to her husband Tom for the money.
Action, Crime, Drama
Merle Hench (Eric Roberts), nicknamed "The Butcher", is a henchman for gangster Murdoch (Robert Davi) until Hench takes the fall for his boss. Having survived, Hench will earn his nickname on a mission for revenge. Merle dies after killing Murdoch's gang The Vegas mobsters show up and take their money back, but Janie gets the winnings from Merles last bet, buys the diner and names it after Merle
Drama, Erotic Thriller
In a luxurious house outside Seoul lives one of the country's richest families: company president Yoon, his wife Baek Geum-ok, their divorced daughter Nami, and son Chul. Yoon is company president but the reins of power are held by his wife Geum-ok, whose aged father was once a powerful businessman, and whom Yoon married for her money and influence. Yoon's private secretary is Joo Young-jak, from humble origins.
Crime, Heist, Noir
A discredited expatriate American professor, Theo Wilkins, has called on a young protégé and sophisticated thief, Paul Mason, to come over from the US to the south of France and help him pull off one final heist. He has masterminded a caper to steal $4,000,000 in French francs from the underground vault of the casino of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Wilkins has recruited a team of thieves – including Melanie, an exotic dancer – but he needs someone he can trust, Mason, to keep them all in line during the crime.
Drama, thriller film
While on a bus in London, Leonora, an aging prostitute, is approached by a waiflike young woman, Cenci, who utters the word "mummy". Cenci follows Leonora to a cemetery where the latter stops to mourn her daughter, who drowned five years earlier at the age of 10. Leonora is taken aback by Cenci's resemblance to her deceased daughter, and hesitantly agrees to accompany the girl to her opulent mansion, where she lives alone.
Drama, mystery film, thriller film
A concentration camp survivor named Samuel "Sam" Berg (Max von Sydow), a supernaturally lucky man, runs a European casino. One of his workers is Federico (Eusebio Poncela), a man who "steals" other people's luck merely by laying a hand on them. When Sam has a falling out with Federico and takes away his powers, Federico sets out to find the luckiest man alive, Tomás (Leonardo Sbaraglia), the lone survivor of a plane crash, in order to use his powers to overpower Sam in the one game he has never lost: Russian roulette.
Drama, Social Drama, Splatter Film, war film
Frankie Dunlan, an American soldier in the Vietnam War, runs alone through the jungle. As his voice narrates, he reveals that he "goes back there every night" before waking up in his rundown New York apartment, next to his wife Cathy and their deformed infant son. The couple argue over Frankie's unemployment and their son's health, with Frankie believing the baby's deformities are a result of chemical weapons like Agent Orange used during the war.
Action, Martial arts
Ten years ago, CIA agent Jake Hopper was stationed in Thailand. A fight with thugs resulted in his partner, Sunti escaping with his life after accidentally killing a woman. Following that, Jake left the CIA and returned to the United States when his wife died, while Sunti became a Buddhist monk to atone for his sins.
Animal horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
Quentin Kemmer is a shy security guard and obsessive comic book fan who dreams of becoming a superhero like his favorite comic book character, the Arachnid Avenger, and going out with his next-door neighbor Stephanie Lewis. When his partner is killed during a botched robbery at the research laboratory where he works, Quentin is fired, and in a moment of grief, he injects himself with an experimental serum derived from spiders. The next day, he is wracked with a severe fever and spends most of the day unconscious.
Horror
In 1977, young Alex Grant witnessed a carnival clown named Louis Seagram—a brutal sadist—rape and murder her mother, Elaine. Twenty years later, Alex lives above the Mermaid Bar, a seaside tavern she inherited from her mother, where she works as a bartender along with her younger sister Sandra, an aspiring singer. Alex remains haunted by the memories of her mother's murder.
Drama, thriller film
Claire, a young American, wakes up in a distressed state at an airport with no recollection of recent events. As she gradually pieces together her memories, she suspects she may be connected to a murder. Flashbacks reveal she was involved in risky activities, including jumping into a safety net for an event organizer named Del and participating in orgies with acquaintances.
Drama, mystery film, thriller film
American writer Tom Ricks arrives in Paris to be closer to his young daughter, who lives with his ex-wife. The divorce was prompted by Tom's mental illness, from which he has apparently recovered. After his possessions and money are stolen, he accepts a job as a night guard for Sezer, a local crime boss who owns a run-down hostel.
Crime, Detective, mystery film
left|thumb|Nigel Bruce, Evelyn Ankers and Basil Rathbone in Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942) Holmes is called into the "Inner Council" of British Intelligence by Sir Evan Barham, to assist in stopping Nazi saboteurs operating in Britain, whose activities are announced in advance in radio broadcasts by "The Voice of Terror". Gavin, one of Holmes's operatives, is killed with a German dagger in his back. Before he dies, Gavin utters the word "Christopher." Later, Holmes and Watson go to the Limehouse district of London, where they meet with Gavin's wife Kitty.
Psychological Thriller
When Robert and his wife move to her childhood home, he discovers an old portrait in the attic of a man who looks just like him. He soon travels down a frightening rabbit hole as he tries to discover the true identity of his mysterious doppelgänger, only to realize that every family has its own terrifying secrets. And the rest goes on.
Action, Crime
After an increasing number of his clients fail to make good on their payments, Mr Thigo decides to take matters into his own hands, travelling to London to make an example of local bad boy and debtor Nick. Thigo gives Nick just 24 hours to pay back the £100,000 he owes, and, as an incentive, Thigo holds Nick's wheelchair-using mother hostage. Since Nick is already financially challenged, he is forced to be creative in order to come up with the money.
Horror, Psychological horror, Psychological Thriller
Babak Naderi and his wife Neda, an Iranian couple living in the United States with their one-year-old daughter Shabnam, are driving home after visiting some friends. However, the car's navigation system starts malfunctioning, and they end up getting lost. After driving around for a couple of hours, they decide to spend the night at the Hotel Normandie.
Horror
Victorian era scientist Professor Emmanuel Hildern meets a young doctor in what appears to be a laboratory. Hildern claims to need help, having discovered a form of evil that is real, a living being, and which he has unwittingly unleashed thousands of years too soon. He then recounts how his discovery was made.
Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, Political Thriller
Former student radical Moses Wine now works as a private investigator. He is contacted by Lila, an ex-girlfriend from his college days, who is working in the election campaign for Miles Hawthorne, a politician who is running to be Governor of California. Lila takes Moses to meet Hawthorne's campaign coordinator Sam Sebastian, who is concerned about a fake campaign flyer supposedly showing former Berkeley radical Howard Eppis together with Hawthorne and endorsing him.
Comedy horror, comedy thriller
New Yorkers Tommy Larson and Bill Turner are best friends who spend their time reading comic books which they buy from Mr. Sumatra's newspaper stand. However, they are also under constant bullying from local hoodlums Vinnie Benedetti, Booger Martin, and Podowski.