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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 218.

Liberty Stands Still (2002)

crime thriller film, Drama, romance film, thriller film

Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino) is the Vice President of Marketing for McCloud Industries, one of the largest gun manufacturers in the United States. She's the daughter of the company's founder, and married to the company's ruthless CEO, Victor Wallace (Oliver Platt). While Victor trafficks in international armaments, Liberty takes a break to have a romantic affair with Russell Williams (Martin Cummins), an actor.

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Caught Up (1998)

Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, hood film

Daryl Allen (Bokeem Woodbine) is an ex-con who has been serving time for drug charges. Now he plans to get his life straight, open up a nightclub and be a part of his son Jerome's life. His friend Trip offers to give him the $10,000 for his club.

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Möbius (2013)

Action, Drama, spy film, thriller film

Russian spy, FSB Agent Gregory Lyubov is sent to Monaco to watch the actions of the powerful Russian oligarch Ivan Rostovskiy. As part of this mission, the team recruits a talented finance expert named Alice. Suspecting her of treason, Gregory breaks the golden rule and makes contact with Alice.

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The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

Crime, Drama, mystery film, Psychological Thriller

A former family man and pianist studying at Juilliard music school, Romulus Ledbetter, now has paranoid schizophrenia and lives in a cave in Inwood Park, New York. He believes that a man named Cornelius Gould Stuyvesant is controlling the world with rays from the top of the Chrysler Building, and that his mind is inhabited by moth-like seraphs. On Valentine’s Day, he discovers the frozen body of a young man, Scotty Gates, left in a tree outside his cave.

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Eyes of a Stranger (1981)

Crime, Horror, Slasher, thriller film

Jane, a newscaster in Miami, reports on the latest victim of a serial killer and rapist. She lives with and cares for her teenage sister, Tracy, who is blind and deaf-mute owing to a conversion disorder she suffered after being kidnapped and raped as a young girl, something Jane remains tormented by due to her leaving Tracy alone shortly before it occurred. In her newscast, she frequently goes off-script to make impassioned pleas for the killer to be caught, and for other women in the city to exercise caution.

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Dirty War (2004)

Drama, thriller film

An Islamist terror cell plans to detonate dirty bombs in Central London. Vegetable oil imports from Turkey are used to smuggle radioactive material into the city which is then combined with other bomb components to make two devices. Anti-Terrorist Branch officers DI Justin Lane, DS Mike Drummer, and DC Sameena Habibullah lead the police investigation to stop the attack under the supervision of DI Lance Brook and DAC John Ives.

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Death Defying Acts (2007)

Drama, historical film, romance film, Romantic drama, thriller film

In 1926, 13 years after his mother's death, illusionist and escapologist Harry Houdini has begun debunking mystics, psychics, and others who claim to have paranormal powers. He offers $10,000 to anyone who can quote his mother's dying words to him. Impoverished and uneducated Scottish con artist Mary McGarvie and her daughter, Benji, set their sights on Houdini's reward when he visits Edinburgh on tour.

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Holy Rollers (2010)

Coming-of-age, Crime, Social Drama

In 1998, Sam Gold is a mild-mannered 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man who lives with his large family in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn. Sam works in his father Mendel's fabric store while studying to be a rabbi. He and his family hope to arrange a marriage for him with Zeldy Lazar.

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Woman of Straw (1964)

Crime, crime thriller film, Drama

Playboy Anthony Richmond schemes to acquire the £50 million fortune of his uncle Charles Richmond, a tyrannical, arrogant wheelchaired tycoon, by persuading Maria Marcello, the new Italian nurse he has hired, to marry the old man in exchange for one million pounds. A sincere Maria endures the verbal and emotional abuse of Charles both at his estate and on a yacht trip in Mallorca, Spain, where they wed, and a humbled Charles changes his will to leave all his fortune to Maria, leaving only 40,000 pounds to his nephew. After his uncle's death at the yacht one morning, both Anthony and Maria concoct a scheme to pretend he is still living as…

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The Courier (2012)

Action, thriller film

The "courier" lives in a derelict flat where he has adopted a mouse as his pet. When he visits his old friend Stitch at his boxing gym, he is contacted by a stranger who tasks him with delivering a suitcase to a man known as "Evil Sivle". The stranger doesn't know where Sivle is, and explains that finding him is the actual task.

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Exterminator 2 (1984)

Action, Crime, thriller film

The film opens with a robbery of a liquor store by a group of well-armed young men, as an unseen man listens to a police scanner. That man, wearing a welding mask, suddenly appears behind the store as the men flee, incinerating two of them with a flamethrower. The survivors flee underground, revealing their membership in a street gang led by a charismatic man named X.

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Dead-End Drive In (1986)

Action, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, science fiction action film

In the near future, the economy has collapsed and crime waves sweep the inner cities. The manufacturing industry has shrunk to the point where cars are a commodity and parts are fought over between salvage companies and roving gangs. Australia, the US, and North Korea are the only functioning nation-states left on earth.

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Love Is the Monster (2025)

Horror, thriller film

Ana and Justin, a couple who have been rocked by infidelity, attend an exclusive couples retreat in Finland under the golden rays of the summer's midnight sun. They join other couples from other parts of the world to experience the transformative teachings of the shaman and healer, Tiina, inspired by Lempo, the ancient goddess of love and fertility from Finnish mythology. But the idyllic setting soon takes a turn.

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Happy Face Killer (2014)

Crime, thriller film, true crime

Over the course of two years, Keith Jesperson (David Arquette), a long-haul truck driver, kills at least eight women, following his failed marriage and an injury which prevented him from joining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He meets his first victim in a Portland, Oregon bar and kills her after an argument in his rented home. When Delores Parnicke falsely confesses to committing the murder with her boyfriend, Jesperson sends disturbing letters to the press and even writes confessions on the wall of a highway rest stop and at the body dumps.

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Rage, furia primitiva (1988)

Animal horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, thriller film

Frank Duffy, a reporter for a local newspaper in Miami, sneaks into a research laboratory that carries out experiments on animals. Bitten by a rabid monkey, the young man falls prey to an uncontrollable fury and spreads the infection in the nearby college, where the carefree Halloween party taking place there turns into a bloodbath.

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Black Tuesday (1954)

Crime, Noir

A violent con, Vincent Canelli, escapes prison on the night of his execution. With the help of a phony newspaper reporter and Canelli's girlfriend, Hatti, who has planned the escape, the con takes along five hostages: the prison priest, the prison doctor, one of the guards, the young reporter whose place has been taken by one of the gang, and the daughter of another guard. This young woman is kidnapped to force her father - who, unlike the guard who is taken hostage, always treats the death row inmates well - to facilitate the escape.

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Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)

Action, thriller film

It has been a year since Nick Prescott became the sheriff of Boone, Texas, and cleaned up the town. Now, he is moving to Dallas so he can be with his FBI agent fiancée Kate Jensen and her 12-year-old daughter Samantha. Currently, Kate is one of the many people working to put away Octavio Perez, the biggest drug kingpin in the central states.

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Hostile Waters (1997)

thriller film

In 1986, the Soviet Navy submarine K-219 performs a Crazy Ivan, and USS Aurora collides with her, causing a rupture of the seal on one of its ballistic missile tubes. The leaking seawater causes a corrosive reaction which floods the sub with toxic gas. The corrosive reaction starts a fire that floods the sub with more toxic gas and smoke.

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Crackers (1984)

Comedy, Crime, Heist

In 1980s San Francisco, Weslake, who was laid off from his job, is working in a low-paying position at Garvey's pawn shop. Weslake has one friend nicknamed "Turtle" who is homeless and is seen throughout the whole film searching for something to eat. One day, Dillard, who is an amateur musician, and Ramon, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who lives with his sister Maria, come to Garvey's shop.

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Inherit the Viper (2019)

Crime, Drama, Family Drama, Gangster Film, thriller film

For siblings Kip and Josie, dealing opioids is not just their family business, it is their only means of survival. When a deal goes fatally wrong, Kip decides he wants out for good. But his attempt to escape his family's legacy soon ignites a powder keg of violence and betrayal, endangering Kip, Josie and their younger brother.

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