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Anti-War Film, Mysterie, Psychodrama, thriller film
During the Second World War, young pilot RAF Flight Lieutenant Toby Jugg (Robert Pattinson) suffers a serious spinal injury during a bombing raid on the city of Dresden. This injury confines him to a wheelchair, facing a life as a paralyzed recluse. In the hope that he can recover, his aunt-in-law, Julia (Rachael Stirling), takes him to Llancebach, a remote military hospital in Wales run by Dr.
thriller film
Edward Rodney Fleming (Weaving) is a man living alone after losing his job and wife. One morning, Detective Sergeant John Steele (Martin) and his subordinate, Detective Wayne Prior (Aaron Jeffery), break into Fleming's apartment. They rough Fleming up, ransack his belongings, and take him to the police station in handcuffs.
Ghost, Horror
In 1795, after moving to her fiancé Charles Fengriffen's family estate, Catherine experiences visions of an undead corpse with a heavily birthmarked face, empty eye sockets and a severed right hand. On her wedding night, she is attacked and raped by an evil spirit in her bedroom at Fengriffen House. Later, she is disturbed to encounter Silas, a woodsman who lives in a nearby lodge and has a birthmark identical to the corpse's.
Crime, drama television program, giallo, Sherlock Holmes television program
In November 1903, young women are being killed in London, each with a silk stocking stuffed down her throat. Watson seeks help from the retired and disenchanted Holmes, who determines that the victims are well-born ladies, not prostitutes. Evidence found includes a thumbprint, a pair of ladies' dancing shoes, broken glass, a strong smell of chloroform and a silk stocking removed from a victim's gullet.
thriller film
Quiet and nerdy Jude attends a party at his friend David's home with his friend Kent. At the party, Derek and his friends begins a game of "Seven in Heaven", with winning cards sending Jude and June to sit for seven minutes in a secret closet. Upon exiting the closet, they discover they have traveled to an alternate reality.
Drama, Noir, thriller film
Before the opening credits, a recent widow is sitting in a life insurance office. Expecting to be compensated for her husband's death, the widow is informed that she is not entitled to full death benefits because the insurance company has obtained video of her husband smoking and attributes his death to cigarettes. Abe Holt looks on as his co-worker convinces the widow that she's lucky to leave with a small fraction of the award she was expecting.
Comedy, Crime, Detective, mystery film
An old wooden-walled warship, HMS "Battledore", has been purchased by a trust for the rehabilitation of young criminals. Shortly after joining the board of the trust, Miss Marple witnesses the sudden death of a fellow trustee, who has just returned from a surprise visit to the ship, much disturbed by something he saw there. He dies without revealing his discovery.
Drama, Noir
Joe Barrett, an ex-US Air Force Colonel and World War II veteran, returns to Tokyo to see if there is anything left of his pre-war bar and gambling joint, Tokyo Joe's. Amazingly, it is more or less intact and being run by his old friend Ito. Joe is shocked to learn from Ito that his wife Trina, who he thought had died in the war, is still alive.
romance film, thriller film
A couple is kissing in a hotel room, astrophysics professor Ed (Jeremy Irons) and his lover the PhD student Amy Ryan (Olga Kurylenko). They can meet only occasionally, when Ed's work brings them together. He challenges her to reveal more of herself, perhaps something that bothers her but that she kept secret from him, but she refuses.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Detective Inspector Jack Regan and Detective Sergeant George Carter become embroiled in a deadly political scandal. One of the leading members of the British government, Charles Baker, is about to secure a huge deal with OPEC (Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries), stabilising the world oil market and boosting Britain's position within it. Baker is a rising star in the government, regarded as a future prime minister, and he is closely controlled by his urbane, manipulative American press secretary, Elliot McQueen.
Action, disaster film, katastrophe, thriller film
In Stillwater, Utah, Bradshaw Disposal Services is transporting a Russian nuclear bomb slated to be decommissioned. An employee, John Henry Bradshaw, decides to cut operating costs by concealing it in a freight train laden with biomedical and flammable chemicals bound for Denver. The train loses all brakes when its air hoses split apart, becoming a high-speed runaway.
Crime, Drama, Noir
An international drug-smuggling racket plants heroin on unsuspecting American tourists traveling from Asia, so that the dope can pass through customs undetected. A killer, Dancer, led by his mentor Julian, and their driver McLain then collect the contraband. Lt.
disaster film, Natural Disaster
Part 1 The film begins in the Seattle, Washington, area with increasingly severe earthquake activity. A quake of magnitude 7.9 is measured at the Earthquake centre, where Dr. Samantha Hill takes command, displacing Dr.
Drama, neo-noir, thriller film
Raymond Yale and Carla Smith are lovers in a small Australian town living across the river from one another. However, both are already married; Raymond to a loveless wife and Carla to a domineering petty gangster Greg "Smithy" Smith. Ray and Carla plan to leave their respective spouses and run away together, although Ray insists that they delay until he has enough money to ensure a new life together.
katastrophe, thriller film
Comedy, Crime, Secret Agent
With the Cold War rapidly coming to an end, retired CIA operative Sam Boyd has taken up freelancing as a corporate spy for cosmetics giant Maxine Gray, only to find that his hands-on style of espionage is being rendered obsolete by the capabilities of younger computer hackers. Boyd is suddenly called back in to the CIA by his superior, Elliot Jaffe, for a seemingly straightforward prisoner exchange with the KGB overseen by Colonel Pierce Grissom. Jaffe and Grissom explain that they have to use Boyd instead of an active agent to keep the operation off-the-books, since the $2 million that the Russian side demanded in addition to their own…
Crime, Drama, mystery film
The grisly murder of a high-end call girl, Elizabeth Loftus, is being investigated by tough detective Kennesaw and his less experienced partner Braxton. (Braxton has an illegal gambling debt of $20,000; upon being asked, Kennesaw agrees to cover half of it to get Braxton out of trouble with the bookie.) The two bring in textile company heir James Wayland for questioning about the murder. Wayland is an epileptic, which causes memory lapses and occasional acts of violence during epileptic episodes.
Comedy horror, Splatter Film, Zombie
Two brothers, Michael (Rick Burks) and George Tutman (Carl Crew) are brainwashed by their serial killer uncle Anwar Namtut (Drew Godderis) into completing his task of resurrecting the ancient Lumerian goddess Sheetar (Tanya Papanicolas). Their mission is given to them once they resurrect him from his grave. Anwar Namtut is from then on a brain in a mason jar that commands the brothers.
Crime, Drama, Historie, Political Thriller, propaganda film, spy film
HUAC investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter are sent to Hawaii to track Communist Party activities and gather evidence toward convictions. Their trail leads to insurance fraudsters, saboteurs and infiltrators of labor unions on the Honolulu docks, who interfere with the loading and unloading of ships. After receiving information from a local newspaper reporter, the agents search for Willie Nomaka, a former party treasurer.
Crime, thriller film
In 2002, hitman Jon lives a life of relative solitude, until one day he happens upon an old friend, Andy, and is plunged into an unneeded relationship. The truth slowly unravels about Jon and what he does, endangering the lives of those close to him, and Jon is faced with an ultimatum. He must make his most difficult decision ever: whether to save the woman he loves or kill her and the child.
thriller film
Twenty-four-year-old Christina Perasso, a tough, resilient girl, wakes up trapped in a room and has no idea where she is being held or who did this to her. She has been left access to her laptop. Through the use of an intermittent Wi-Fi signal, she reaches out to friends, family and an audience through social media.
thriller film
John is on the run after betraying his powerful crime boss father. He travels north to evade his brother and takes refuge in an isolated village. The village is a small community of strict religious conformists.
Drama, exploitation film, prison film, thriller film
Dinah Hunter is an advertising executive living in Los Angeles who quits her job after arguing with client Mr. Bigelow and comes home to find her boyfriend David in the swimming pool with another woman, Candy. Sick of his constant philandering, she calls her friend Allison and gets her old job back in New York City.
Drama, Science fiction, thriller film
In 2000, Gabe, a professor from Toronto goes to Princeton, New Jersey, for a conference but does not return. He is eventually presumed dead, devastating his wife Marika and his young son Erol. Twelve years later, Erol talks with his grandfather Sal, who suggests that Gabe's disappearance might have been the result of a scientific experiment involving time travel.