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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 223.

Incognito (1997)

Crime, romance film, thriller film

Talented New York painter Harry Donovan is an expert of copying famous artists' paintings, but is struggling to become a legitimate artist in his own right. Until now, he has avoided detection by forging third and fourth tier masters, but that is about to change. Frustrated by the cancellation of an exhibition of his paintings, Harry accepts a job forging a long lost Rembrandt for $550,000 from three art dealer clients—Alistair Davies, Ian Hill, and Agachi—against the wishes of his artist father who wants his son to give up forgery and concentrate on his own work.

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Survival Quest (1989)

thriller film

There are two sets of campers on California's Sierra Madre Mountain. One group is the Blue Legion, a gun-happy squad of teenaged boys under the command of tyrannical survivalist Jake Cannon. The other bunch, Survival Quest, is a sort of backpacking self-help group led by humane mountain man Hank Chambers.

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Death in Love (2008)

Drama, Erotic Thriller

In 1940s Nazi Germany, a young Jewish woman in a Nazi concentration camp saves her own life by seducing the young doctor who performs medical experiments on prisoners. Decades later in the year 1993, that same woman (Jacqueline Bisset) is living in New York City and married with two grown sons. The two siblings have developed differently under a mother with a long history of erratic behavior.

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The Black Castle (1952)

Drama, Horror, mystery film

British gentleman Sir Ronald Burton investigates the disappearance of his two friends at the Austrian estate of the sinister Count von Bruno, who secretly seeks revenge against the leaders of a British force who set the natives against him in colonial Africa. Burton's missing friends are among Bruno's victims, and Burton is now also in the trap. Burton plans to escape with Bruno's abused countess, but the count's henchmen bar the way.

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Something Evil (1972)

Ghost-House-Movies, Horror

A married couple with two young children move into a Pennsylvania farmhouse that turns out to be inhabited by demons. Paul is a TV producer and his wife Marjorie is an artist. The home and countryside seem idyllic until strange things start to occur.

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Wild Thing (1987)

Action, Drama, thriller film, vigilante film

When his parents are killed in a botched drug deal, a young boy is taken in by a bag lady who teaches him about the Blue Coats (Cops) and White Coats (Doctors). After her death, he becomes an urban Tarzan defending innocents in a large city. He soon becomes an urban legend and champion of street justice, espousing a 1960s philosophy and coming to the aid of the helpless and oppressed.

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Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

Drama, Noir, thriller film

In the early 1950s, wealthy Texas rancher Richard Trevelyan sits on death row for murdering his wife, being counseled by a priest before his execution. He is granted a surprise reprieve granting him a new trial, which ends in a hung jury freeing him. Actress Shelley Carnes, on her way to a Texas dude ranch, meets local ranchers J.D.

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Asylum (2008)

Horror, Science fiction, Slasher, thriller film

A college student discovers her dorm was once a notorious asylum. According to Winthrop's campus newspaper, The Johnsonian, a group of college freshmen with troubled pasts and nightmares are at Richard Miller University for orientation a couple of weeks prior to the beginning of classes. They stumble into an old restricted area and awaken the spirit of a mad doctor, who then proceeds to torture and torment the students in the same way he tortured the patients in 1939 at Burke Asylum.

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The Stranger Beside Me (1995)

Crime, Drama

Jennifer Morgan is a young painter, who has secluded herself from the world since being raped two years earlier. At a family party, she meets Chris Gallagher, who falls in love with her. She is reluctant to be intimate with him, but he convinces her to marry him, and she hopes to let go of her traumatic past.

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Past Midnight (1991)

mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film

Parolee Ben Jordan has spent the past fifteen years behind bars for the murder of his pregnant wife. He is monitored by his parole officer Lee Samuels and social worker Laura Mathews after he is released. Mathews begins looking into his case and becomes convinced that he was convicted under circumstantial evidence and starts becoming convinced of his innocence in the crime.

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Compromising Positions (1985)

Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, Mysterie, mystery film

Judith Singer is a former Newsday reporter who misses her old life, now that her husband Bob spends most of his time at work and her time at home on Long Island has become a bore. When her dentist, Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, is found murdered, Judith sees the possibility of a story that she might be able to sell to the newspaper's editor, maybe even get her old job back.

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Pilot (2008)

Horror, mystery film, Science fiction, thriller film

A man on an international flight injects himself with an insulin pen, which releases a biological agent that quickly kills everyone aboard by causing their flesh to crystallize. The airplane's autopilot system lands the plane at Boston's Logan Airport, where various federal agencies create a task force to investigate what occurred during the flight. F.B.I.

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Games (1967)

Crime, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Businessman Paul Montgomery and his heiress wife Jennifer are two wealthy, but blasé, Upper East Side New York socialites who amuse themselves in a bizarre, chic, and upscale fashion. They frequently host parlor tricks and other social games for their peers at their spacious townhouse, occasionally revealing what appears to be a playfully sadistic streak. Lisa Schindler, an older German woman, arrives at their door one day selling cosmetics.

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Urban Justice (2007)

Action, hood film

In Los Angeles, two rival gangs war with each other: the Hyde Park Gang, led by El Chivo, and the East Side Gangsters, led by Armand Tucker. Vice cop Max Ballister receives a call he assumes to be from his informant, Gary Morrison. Max leaves a romantic dinner with his wife and is gunned down.

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Uwantme2killhim? (2013)

Drama, Horror, thriller film

In 2003, Detective Inspector Sarah Clayton (Joanne Froggatt) tries to establish why British schoolboy Mark (Jamie Blackley) would want to stab John (Toby Regbo). The two were supposed to be friends, yet Mark claims that the crime was necessary. As she looks deeper into the crime and the two teenagers, she discovers that Mark frequented chatrooms and became fascinated with Rachel (Jaime Winstone), a woman he met in one such room.

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Copkiller (1983)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film

Corrupt NYPD narcotics detectives Fred O'Connor and Bob Carvo spend their illegal earnings on an apartment, viewing it as an investment. However, friction forms between them, as Carvo feels guilty about their scams and wants to abandon their association, asking O'Connor to pay him his share of the apartment so he can sell it, despite O'Connor's reluctance. O'Connor begins to notice a young man who follows him.

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'R Xmas (2001)

Christmas film, Crime, Drama

An unnamed married couple outwardly lives as affluent socialites - sending their daughter to a private school, living in a high-rise with doormen - but earn their money commuting to a drab Flushing apartment where, with their relatives, they package and sell heroin. Before Christmas, one of the husband's regular associates asks him to hold a large quantity of heroin for him over the holiday. On Christmas Eve, the husband takes an ostensibly routine meeting while the wife visits an illicit pawnshop hoping to obtain a popular sold-out "Party Girl" doll for their daughter.

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Husk (2011)

Drama, Horror, thriller film

Awakening after a murder of crows causes them to veer off the road, Chris, Scott, Brian, and Natalie discover their friend Johnny is missing. Natalie and Chris stay with the car while Brian and Scott enter a cornfield to search a nearby farmhouse. In the field, they find a scarecrow mounted in a clearing and a rusted and derelict car, with its windshield covered in crow carcasses.

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Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines (2014)

Action, thriller film, war film

While on an unsanctioned covert mission in Africa, a small team of Navy SEALs uncovers intelligence pointing to the imminent sale of a massive quantity of weapons grade uranium. Now, with no mission prep and zero support, they have less than 36 hours to fight their way past a ruthless warlord's army guarding this secret mining operation, hidden deep in the treacherous Congo, in order to secure the yellowcake and expose the unknown buyer. As the story moves along, the asset that the SEAL team was asked to secure turns out to be the warlord.

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Scandal Sheet (1952)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Mark Chapman, editor of the New York Express, has made the newspaper a success by pursuing sensationalism and yellow journalism. His protégé is ace reporter Steve McCleary, while successful feature writer Julie Allison is frustrated by the paper's drift towards muckraking. One night, during a lonely hearts dance organized by the Express, Chapman's estranged wife, Charlotte Grant, who is coincidentally at the dance, see him.

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Bonded by Blood (2010)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were murdered by shotgun fire, whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining their empire with fear and violence.

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