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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 234.

The Conspirators (1944)

Noir, romance film, spy film, war film

During World War II, Vincent Van Der Lyn, a former schoolteacher who became a Dutch resistance fighter, causes so much trouble for the Nazis that they place a bounty on his head. As a result, he is ordered by his superiors to travel to England via neutral Portugal. On Van Der Lyn's arrival in Lisbon, Police Captain Pereira notes that his passport has no exit stamp on it, indicating that he sneaked across the border, however reassures Van Der Lyn that as long as his Portuguese visa is in order there is no issue.

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The Substitute (1993)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, thriller film

In Albany, New York, high school English teacher Gayle Richards finds out that her husband Doug is cheating on her with Claire, one of her students. She murders both him and his mistress in an outburst of rage, sets their house on fire, and flees into the night. One year later, Gayle has moved to Baker Springs, Minnesota, and takes a job as a substitute English teacher at another high school under the assumed name Laura Ellington.

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Scream for Help (1984)

Horror, thriller film

In New Rochelle, New York, Christie Cromwell, a teenage girl, discovers that her stepfather Paul Fox is trying to murder her and her mother Karen for her money, but when she tries to tell other people about it, no one will believe her. After a maintenance worker dies in the basement, Christie believes Paul set the trap for her mother after she saw him leave the basement the previous night. Christie begins following Paul everywhere and discovers he is having an affair with a young attractive woman named Brenda Bohle.

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Red Water (2003)

Action, Adventure, Crime, crime drama film, crime thriller film, Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film

A small oil rig located on a small river in Louisiana hits it big and former oiler John Sanders (who quit when a blowout occurred on a rig he was the boss of and four men died) and his friend Emery are hired to take his ex-wife Kelly and her boss to the location. Nearby, some thugs go diving for stolen goods that have been dumped in the river. Unfortunately, at the same time, a huge bull shark enters the river.

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Eye of the Cat (1969)

Horror, thriller film

Danielle, a rich, elderly woman, accompanied by her nephew, Luke, goes to a beauty parlor to get her hair done. While she is there, she begins to struggle breathing, due to two-thirds of her lungs being missing. When Danielle's beauty girl, Kassia Lancaster, sees this, she calls Danielle's other nephew, Wylie, who is with a girl when she comes to pick him up.

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The Caller (1987)

Mysterie, thriller film

A mysterious man ("The Caller") joins a woman ("The Girl") in a forest cabin. The Caller initially claims that his car has broken down and he needs to use her telephone. Things quickly become suspicious as they examine each other's stories for inconsistencies.

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Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999)

Action, disaster film, Natural Disaster

While Dori Thorell (Sharon Lawrence) and her 9-year-old son, Danny (Michal Suchánek), eat breakfast, Sam Thorell (Garwin Sanford) calls from his business trip. Ballerina Diane Agostini (Jennifer Garner) is on the phone with her father when a blender shakes off the counter. Dismissing it, she ends the call and rushes off to a rehearsal session at the New York City Ballet.

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The Samaritan (2012)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

Foley gets out of prison after 25 years, for killing his best friend and grifting partner. His partner's son, Ethan, takes him to Xavier's nightclub and tries to recruit him into a grift he's planning, and Foley turns it down, saying he wants to go straight. Ethan goes to the kitchen area where Xavier is dealing with someone who has been caught stealing from him.

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Mercenary for Justice (2006)

Action, Drama, thriller film

CIA dirty deeds man John Dresham (Luke Goss) and black ops organiser Anthony Chapel (Roger Guenveur Smith) hire mercenary John Seeger (Steven Seagal) and his crew for a mission in the French-controlled Galmoral Island in Southern Africa. Ostensibly, the purpose of the operation is to aid the local population, though in reality Dresham and Chapel plan to seize and profit off the island's rich oil and diamond reserves. Seeger gets steamed when the mission goes wrong.

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King Solomon's Mines (1937)

Adventure, fantasy film, Treasure hunt

In 1881, Irish dream chaser Patrick "Patsy" O'Brien and his daughter Kathy have failed to strike it rich in the diamond mines of Kimberley, South Africa (then the Cape Colony). They persuade a reluctant Allan Quartermain to drive them to the coast in his wagon. Along the way, they encounter another wagon carrying two men in bad shape.

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Doctor Sleep (2002)

Crime, Horror, thriller film

While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. She is found to be the escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer. The girl has become mute because of her experience, and Strother is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds.

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Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)

Christmas film, Horror, Slasher, thriller film

A man in a Santa suit and a woman meet in an alleyway to have sex in a car, and are stabbed to death by a man wearing a grinning translucent mask. During a party, another man dressed like Santa Claus has a spear thrown through his head, and dies in front of his daughter, Kate Brioski. At Scotland Yard, Chief Inspector Ian Harris and Detective Sergeant Powell discuss the murders, and interview Kate, and her boyfriend Cliff.

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The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth (2024)

crime documentary, documentary television film, miniseries, thriller film

The documentary revisits the Sheena Bora murder case, which gained national attention in India following Bora’s disappearance on April 24, 2012. Initially reported as Indrani Mukerjea’s sister, Sheena was later revealed to be her daughter. In 2015, a burnt body discovered in Raigad, Maharashtra, was identified as Bora’s through DNA testing, leading to Mukerjea’s arrest alongside her driver Shyamvar Rai, ex-husband Sanjeev Khanna, and then-husband Peter Mukerjea.

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Home Sweet Home (1981)

Horror, Slasher

A parked motorist is strangled by escaped mental patient Jay Jones, a PCP addict who was institutionalized after bludgeoning his parents. Jay carjacks his victim, and runs down an old woman while driving through Los Angeles. On the outskirts of the city, nine people have gathered to celebrate Thanksgiving at the ranch of Harold Bradley.

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Number One with a Bullet (1987)

Action, Crime

Nick Barzack ("Berserk"), an irrational, unkempt and unpredictable cop, and Frank Hazeltine, his cultured, polite, and suave partner, follow a circuitous and highly circumstantial trail of clues, evidence, witnesses, and accomplices through Los Angeles. Barzack pauses only briefly for his mother, but repeatedly for his ex-wife. Hazeltine is almost too busy with every attractive woman he sees to pay attention to the thugs trying to kill him and his partner.

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Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)

Adventure, Animal horror, Drama, fantasy film, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, thriller film

After a mechanical failure aboard the spaceship Odyssey, Captain Lee Norsythe is forced to crash land on a planet with atmosphere and conditions much like that of Earth, although it is many light-years away. As the ship sinks into the lake that it landed in, Cindy realizes that she forgot the radio in the ship and attempts to retrieve it, with the assistance of fellow crew-member navigator Chuck. En route, Cindy is attacked and killed by an unidentified aquatic creature, prompting Chuck to return to shore without the radio.

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Bang Bang You're Dead (2002)

Drama, teen film

16-year-old Trevor Adams attends an American high school where he is one of the outcasts harassed and humiliated by the school's jocks. He made a false threat to bomb the school a few months ago, narrowly escaping expulsion. Since then, Trevor has been trying to fit back in to normal high school life.

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Neverwas (2005)

Drama, fantasy film, mystery film

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist who leaves a job at a prestigious university to take up a position at the privately run mental institution, Millwood, belonging to Dr. Reed. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L.

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Yôsei Gorasu (1962)

Science fiction, thriller film

On September 29, 1979, the Interstellar Exploration Agency launches a Japanese rocket ship, the JX-1 Hawk, into space on a nine-month journey to investigate Saturn. At its conclusion, however, the crew is given a new mission after scientists discover that a runaway star, which the International Astronomical Union nicknamed "Gorath", is somehow running amok. Upon encountering and while investigating Gorath's rapid movement through the Solar System, the JX-1 Hawk crew discover that it is smaller than Earth, yet has 6,000 times its gravity.

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Flesh Feast (1970)

Horror

Dr. Elaine Frederick, a mad scientist, is working on developing maggots that prefer human flesh, while her services are used to make a clone of Adolf Hitler. She cooperates with the plan to resurrect Hitler as a way of exacting revenge for the death of her mother, a political prisoner executed in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

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