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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 231.

When the Bough Breaks (1994)

Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Following a gruesome discovery of a bag of severed hands in the sewer system, State Profiler Audrey Macleah is called in to help the Houston police department investigate. After examination, the hands appear to be the hands of young girls from various ages, each with a number tattooed on her palm. Captain Swaggert sends Macleah to a nearby psychiatric hospital to talk to a doctor who called in a tip about one of his patients after hearing about the discovery.

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Demons of the Mind (1972)

Horror, thriller film

A wealthy widower locks up his two grown-up children, afraid that they will go mad, as did his wife. He then invites a doctor of dubious reputation to supervise their mental health and cure them of the unnatural attraction they have for each other. Meanwhile, in the vicinity of the mansion, murders are happening in the local village and a travelling priest arrives to help drive out any local demons.

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Vigilante Force (1976)

Action, Drama, thriller film, vigilante film

When a small California town is overrun with unruly and rowdy behavior from oil-field workers, Ben Arnold (Jan-Michael Vincent), one of the locals, and the brother of Aaron (Kris Kristofferson), a Vietnam War veteran, is hired to assist the police in restoring the peace. Aaron hires mercenaries trained in combat to help. After controlling the oil field workers, the veterans take over the town for their own not-always-legal purposes.

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Social Suicide (2015)

thriller film

The film is about a group of teenage friends who are content creators, posting their videos on the internet with the hope of becoming popular. The main characters are Balthazar, Reese, Marc, Julia, and Julia's cousin Ty. Other chief characters are Detective Dalton and her staff of investigators, including IT experts and a psychologist, Laurence Emerson.

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Shock (1946)

Noir, thriller film

thumb|The full film Janet Stewart arrives at a hotel expecting to find her husband Paul already checked in, but he hasn't arrived, causing her to wonder if he's had an accident. Adding to her distress, for the last two years he's been presumed dead. When the hotel clerk can't find her reservation and says they don't have any open rooms she nearly bursts into tears, but the hotel manager finds her a room.

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The Offspring (1987)

Horror, Mysterie, thriller film

Prologue In the small Tennessee town of Oldfield, historian Julian White relates four horror stories to local journalist Beth Chandler, who has just attended the public execution of Julian's niece, Katherine, a serial killer. The stories that Julian presents to Beth are about the history of Oldfield, which, according to Julian, is an inherent epicenter for pure evil. White's narration serves as a wraparound story for four otherwise unconnected segments set during different periods in the town's history.

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Sleep, My Love (1948)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Alison Courtland, a wealthy New Yorker, awakens on a train bound for Boston with no memory of how she got there. When she phones her husband, Richard, the police listen in and overhear that she had threatened him with a gun. On a flight home, fellow passenger Bruce Elcott is attracted to Alison.

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Sorted (2000)

Crime, thriller film

Carl has travelled to London to clear up the details of his brother's death. He finds that there is another side to his brother's life. A group of all-night ravers accept him into their family, as the brother of their late friend.

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The Unseen (1980)

Horror, thriller film

After a hotel reservation mix up, two sisters, Karen and Jennifer, and their friend Vicki Thompson, meet a friendly but shady character named Ernest Keller, the owner of a small town museum near Solvang, California. Ernest convinces the three women into accepting an invitation for cheap room and board at his large farmhouse outside of town, where he lives with his wife Virginia. Once there, Jennifer and Karen leave for the Danish cultural festival which Jennifer is completing a story on.

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The Lighthouse (2016)

Psychological Thriller, thriller film

In 1801, Thomas Howell and Thomas Griffith are stationed at the Smalls Island Lighthouse, which is located 25 miles west from the Welsh Coast in the Irish Sea. After a severe sea storm leaves the two men stranded at the remote lighthouse without aid, they begin to develop cabin fever and must fight for their lives and their sanity.

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To the Limit (1995)

Action, Erotic Thriller

Anna Nicole Smith plays Vickie Lynn, an ex-CIA agent going by the pseudonym "Collette" who is attempting to track down the leader of an organization of trained assassins to exact revenge for the murder of her husband. Joey Travolta is Frank DaVinci, an ex Vietnam War veteran who is also after the same man for his own reasons. In light of this, they agree to work together to track him down with the help of Lynn's boyfriend, assassin China Smith, played by Michael Nouri.

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Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf (2015)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Horror, independent film, monster film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film

Since its fight with the Pteracuda, the Sharktopus is still at large and is lurking in the waters of the Dominican Republic. An alcoholic boat captain named Ray (Casper Van Dien) and his sidekick Pablo (Jorge Eduardo de los Santos) are enlisted by a voodoo priest named Tiny (Tony Almont) to obtain the heart of the Sharktopus. Meanwhile, Dr.

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Cornered (1945)

Drama, mystery film, Noir

After the end of World War II, a former POW, Canadian RCAF flyer Laurence Gerard, returns to France to discover who ordered the killing of his bride of only 20 days, she being a member of the French Resistance. His father-in-law Étienne Rougon identifies Vichy collaborator Marcel Jarnac. He supposedly died in 1943, but Rougon has strong doubts.

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Murder in Three Acts (1986)

Detective, Drama, Mysterie, mystery film

Hercule Poirot joins his assistant Arthur Hastings in Acapulco, Mexico, where Hastings is staying. They go to a party at which the other guests include the writer Janet Crisp, the American actor Charles Cartwright, a clergyman called Babbington, Daisy Eastman and her daughter Egg, Dr Bartholomew Strange, and Ricardo Montoya. Babbington dies of poisoning, then Strange is poisoned, too, and Poirot hunts the murderer.

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Reckoning (2019)

thriller film

The Devil to Pay’ opens at a small house on an Appalachian mountain where Lemon Cassidy lives with her son, Coy. Her husband, Tarlee, works for a local landlady Tommy Runion. However, Tarlee is missing for a few days, and Lemon assumes he has gone on one of his benders.

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El Presidente (2012)

Political Thriller

In 1886, a young Emilio Aguinaldo and his best friend Candido Tirona receive cryptic prophecies from an old woman; Aguinaldo learns of his rise to power and eventual downfall while Tirona learns of his death. Ten years later, Aguinaldo, now the gobernadorcillo of his hometown Cavite El Viejo, is secretly inducted into the Katipunan by its leader Andrés Bonifacio, and assumes leadership of its Cavite chapter. When trouble breaks out in Manila in late August, the Philippine Revolution starts and Aguinaldo secretly mobilizes his army despite the lack of weapons.

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The Presence (2010)

Drama, Ghost-House-Movies, Horror, thriller film

A woman (Mira Sorvino) arrives at a cabin in an isolated forest on a small island inhabited by the apparition of a man (Shane West) whom she cannot see or hear, and who cannot leave the cabin. The Ghost, although undisturbed, is curious about her and starts watching her, something that she starts to perceive faintly. After a few days, her boyfriend (Justin Kirk) joins her unannounced and, although surprised, she happily shows him around.

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Final Exam (1981)

Horror, Slasher, thriller film

One night at March College, a young couple is making out in a parked vehicle. An unseen assailant slices the vehicle's roof open and murders them both. Meanwhile, the nearby Lanier College is preparing for its final exam date.

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Moon Child (2003)

Action, Drama, Horror, Vampire

In the year 2014, Japan suffers a major economic collapse and people are forced to emigrate to mainland China. The movie introduced the story with two vampires, Kei and Luka, of whom the first was probably made a vampire by the former, and in later Kei's flashback is revealed that Luka decided to end his existence by watching the sunrise. Three orphaned boys live in a fictional Chinese city called Mallepa, a 'melting pot' of different Asian groups.

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The Vagrant (1992)

Comedy, Comedy horror

Graham Krakowski is a middle class financial clerk who becomes paranoid that he is being stalked by a homeless man who camps across the street from his house. Ultimately he has the homeless man arrested for public urination. However, the homeless man is soon released from jail and appears to be ruining Krakowski's life.

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Illegal Tender (2007)

Drama, thriller film

In 1985, Bronx, New York, where Millie and Wilson De Leon are expecting their first child. Wilson is a drug dealer working for Javier Cordero. One night, Millie shows Wilson that she has laundered his illegal drug earnings and made high quality investments, eliminating the need for him to continue his life of crime.

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