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Crime, Drama
Stevie finds a gun in his mother's closet, and on his way to school with his girlfriend, Rocky, decides to use the gun to rob a bank. The police come and surround the building. One FBI agent, Daniel Bender, tries to free the hostages.
Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
The story starts with Nick and Lori, a newlywed couple who, after eloping, want to take a mule ride down into the canyon with a guide, Henry. The next day the trio head down into the canyon. After traveling for a while the guide offers to take them to old petroglyphs, which are a half day's ride away.
Horror, thriller film
A girl named Anna is supposed to be babysitting a family but is kidnapped by Emelie Liroux and an unidentified man. Emelie then poses as Anna and enters the house of Dan and Joyce Thompson, whose kids, 4-year-old Christopher, 9-year-old Sally, and 11-year-old Jacob, Anna is supposed to be babysitting while Dan and Joyce are celebrating their 13-year anniversary. Emelie exhibits odd and often disturbing behavior after the parents leave as she seems to favor Christopher over his older siblings.
Drama, Family Drama
The seven Hook children, whose ages range from five to fourteen, live in a dilapidated Victorian house in suburban London. The older children help to care for their invalid single mother, whose chronic illness has led to her to convert to fundamentalist religion and refuse all medical help. When their mother dies suddenly, the children realise that they may be split up and sent to orphanages, so they decide to conceal their mother's death and carry on with their daily routine as if she were still alive.
Action, war film
Major Wright leads a group of commandos in Nazi-occupied Denmark to meet up with informant Carl Ludwig, who is being followed by a German patrol. Ludwig is shot, and before he succumbs to his wounds, utters the phrase, "vierundzwanzig, zwanzig" (2420), which Major Wright does not understand. Back in England, Major Wright, Major General Worden, Lieutenant Carol Campbell and a British Lieutenant Colonel meet in London to discuss German plans for developing a Fourth Reich in the Middle East.
Crime, Drama, mystery film, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
John Felton, who lives in Orly County in an unnamed southern state (probably, Louisiana, which has parishes and not counties), has a wife named Joanie, and two kids named Sam and John Jr.. John is a mild-mannered real estate agent who has just been fired, making his personal crisis go from bad to worse. John comes home and finds a foreclosure notice on the front door, and goes inside to a surprise birthday party thrown by Joanie and the kids.
thriller film
Jack Bishop (Simon Baker) works as a loan officer in Del Rio, Texas, and is remarried to Amaya Bishop (Paz Vega), living with her and his daughter Toby Bishop (Chloë Grace Moretz) from his first marriage. Toby is kidnapped by an unknown perpetrator, leading to the involvement of the local police and eventually the FBI. The FBI begins inquiring in Jack's past, only to find out he has no official records dating back farther than ten years, and there is no evidence showing how his first wife had died or where she was buried.
Action, thriller film
New Orleans journalist Donna Stiles (April Bogenschutz) is in her home, preparing to take a shower, when a man sneaks into her home and kills her. Donna's father, mayor David Stiles (Charles Napier), calls on Donna's former fiancée, cop-turned-bounty hunter Mace (David Keith), to stop chasing bail-jumpers and bring in the killer. Mitch McCallum (Robert Hays), who once dated Donna with disastrous results and is now accused of the murder, insists that he is innocent.
Action, spy film, thriller film
The film is set in November 1976, shortly after the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973–1974. A group of politicians within the Arab world support a radical agenda including a cap on international oil prices. Within 48 hours of this plan's becoming known to the Americans and Russians, the three top men in the group are assassinated — the Kuwaiti is defenestrated, the Saudi is shot, and the Tunisian (Adolfo Celi) is seduced, drugged, and asphyxiated.
romance film, thriller film
A promising young filmmaker named Mitchell Haven invites Laurel Graham, an unknown actress, to play Velma Duran, a person involved in a financial scandal that made headlines, in his new film. The director falls in love with his muse, and the sordid criminal affair on which the film is based resurfaces.
thriller film
Young Tristen Waters, her brother Troy and his friend Ricky go to their father William's holiday home, spending most of their time alone while William works as a policeman to pay off the damage caused by the gambling problem that ended his marriage with Tristan and Troy's mother. While there, the three of them start to spy on their neighbours and soon notice that one of their neighbours is hiring prostitutes who go into the house but never come out. When the man discovers they are filming him, they hide in the flat, only to be found and tied up by the murderer later.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Heist, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
Patricia Foster, an industrial designer for Femina Cosmetics, owned by Sir Jason Fox, is arrested for trying to sell a secret deodorant formula. She is fired from Femina and hired by Matthew Cutter, owner of rival company May Fortune. This is actually a scheme devised by Sir Jason for Patricia to steal the formula for a new water-repellent hairspray, invented by Dr Stuart Clancy, May Fortune's chief cosmetic chemist.
exploitation film, prison film
A woman is unsuspectingly used to carry her boyfriend's stash of cocaine in her skis and is caught by airport security. She is tried, convicted and sent to prison where she quickly learns to toughen up if she wants to survive.
Action, thriller film
In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Madison Taylor (Nicky Whelan) is injured when she's caught in the crossfire of two corrupt cops, Pierce (Tito Ortiz) and Tull (Texas Battle). Madison wakes up in a hospital and as a witness of one of their vicious crimes, she’s placed under the protection of respected police lieutenant Steve Wakes (Bruce Willis). Madison's misfortune turns into a real nightmare when Pierce and Tull turn up to finish the job, realizing she is the key to tracing them back to the crime.
Action, thriller film
Kyle (Jeremy Sumpter) is the spoiled and entitled son of a wealthy father. He attends a party and meets Amy (Phoebe Tonkin), and they immediately hit it off. They leave the party together, and Kyle, still drunk, wrecks his car by losing control and flipping it over; he flees the scene and leaves Amy for dead.
Drama, thriller film
After his girlfriend of five years, Michelle, leaves him when he aggressively accuses her of cheating on him, college graduate Simon takes a trip to Paris. He writes multiple emails to her expressing his desire for communication, but he insults her privately as he writes. He also lies to her about having met someone.
Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Kate and Justin are expecting their first baby, and have new downstairs neighbours, Jon and Theresa, who are also expecting their first baby. They invite Jon and Theresa for dinner, during which it's revealed that Kate and Justin hadn't wanted children and were together 10 years before deciding to have a baby, and conceived quickly thereafter. Jon and Theresa tried for seven years to have a child.
Action, Martial arts, spy film, thriller film
Michael Gold (Lee) is a mercenary who is sent to convince Professor Braun (Borgnine), a laser specialist, to defect to the United States before the KGB acquire him, and use both his talent and a stolen diamond to create a nuclear weapon. Braun is captured by the KGB and Gold sets out to retrieve them. He has to enlist the help of Dr.
Crime, Drama, war film
In Europe, days after V-E Day, General Patton orders that hoarded Nazi gold be transported to the Reichsbank in Frankfurt. But before the shipment arrives in the city, the gold train is robbed and 59 U.S. Army military policemen are killed with poison gas in a railroad tunnel.
Action, Anti-War Film, Drama
The film opens on a ferry in Liverpool, as Fergus Molloy (Mark Womack) remembers the final messages sent to him by his lifelong friend Frankie (John Bishop), whose funeral he is to attend. The night before, Fergus unseals his friend's coffin to see his friend's badly injured corpse. At the funeral, Haynes (Jack Fortune) a director of the private military company that Fergus and Frankie worked for, gives a eulogy praising Frankie and describing military contractors as the "unsung heroes of our time".
animated film, Animation, Drama, Dystopian, mystery film, Science fiction, speculative fiction, thriller film
In a future Europe the world is running out of oil. A gigantic underground network is created by joining all the undergrounds together beneath Europe. Roger (Vincent Gallo), from a suburb of Stockholm, avoids the underground because he finds it disturbing.
comedy thriller
When Nikki South (Amanda Pays) inherits the contents of a bank strongbox left by her father, former gangland boss Jack South, shortly before his death in 1975, she realises that the contents form a clue to the number of a Swiss bank account used to stash her father's ill-gotten gains. Nikki is waylaid on her way to her birthday party. The masked attackers try to wrestle the clues, kept in an envelope, from her, but she is rescued by Terry McCann (Dennis Waterman), who is working as a temporary doorman at the club where the party is to be held.
Science fiction
The first expedition to Mars, led by physicist Dr. Lane, includes Professor Jackson, engineer and spaceship designer Jim Barker and his assistant Carol Stafford, who earned her degree in spaceship engineering in only three years. Journalist Steve Abbott, a decorated war correspondent, is also aboard to cover the historic mission.
thriller film
After orchestrating a robbery, bank Vice President Jeremy Stanton (Dean Cain) gets lost driving in the desert, en route to meeting his family with a deadline of eight hours. He listens to tapes by a lifestyle guru (the film is divided into sections titled according to chapters from the guru's best-selling book) and seeks help from a telephone route-finding service, which gives him guidance that does not agree with his map. At first it seems as if he has succeeded in the perfect crime, but things quickly deteriorate – he is pursued by one of his fellow robbers (Danny Trejo), a ruthless killer whom he double crossed; his wife begins to…