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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 240.

Saw (2003)

Crime, Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

A young man, David , is in an interrogation room talking to an unnamed, unsympathetic police officer . David is in handcuffs, and he has blood on his face and shirt. He is smoking a cigarette.

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Five Fingers (2006)

Drama, Psychological Thriller

Martijn, a gifted Dutch jazz pianist, flies to Morocco to set up a food assistance program. When he arrives, however, he and his British-accented travel guide, Gavin, are quickly kidnapped by terrorists, taken to an undisclosed location, bound and blindfolded. The captors swiftly shoot Gavin and then begin methodical attempts to extract information from Martijn about where he obtained the money to set up the program by cutting off his fingers one at a time.

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The Disappearance (1977)

Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Jay Mallory is a contract killer living in Montréal who works for an unknown international criminal organization. He returns home to his downtown apartment one cold winter day to find that his wife, Celandine, is gone. Mallory initially thinks that Celandine has left him of her own volition, since their marriage was a sometimes stormy, albeit passionate, relationship.

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Crash and Burn (1990)

Action, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction

Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to ensure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability." When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man, must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm."

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Dirty Weekend (1993)

thriller film

In the coastal town of Brighton, Bella is a mild-mannered secretary who works from home in a basement flat. Soon, she finds herself the victim of Tim, a voyeur who watches her through her windows and plagues her with obscene phone calls in which he threatens to assault and rape her. After the police refuse to offer any assistance, Bella visits Nimrod, an Iranian clairvoyant who suggests that she take matters into her own hands.

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Long Time Dead (2002)

Horror, Slasher, thriller film

In 1979, a group of demon worshippers in Morocco try to invoke a spirit using a Ouija board. It had resulted in 8 deaths and 2 survivals. In present-day London, 3 teenagers; Liam (Alec Newman), Rob (Joe Absolom) and Webster (Lukas Haas) prepare to go to a big party held at an abandoned warehouse.

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Breeders (1986)

Horror, Science fiction

When five Manhattan women, all virgins, are accosted under mysterious circumstances, the police think they have a twisted serial rapist on their hands. But as NYPD Detective Dale Androtti (Lance Lewman) and Dr. Gamble Pace (Teresa Farley) soon discover, the reality is much worse.

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Gotham (1988)

Mysterie, thriller film

Down-and-out New York detective Eddie Mallard finds himself involved in the weirdest case of his career when a wealthy man asks for his help in stopping his ex-wife from harassing him. Mallard finds that the case may be too much for him when he discovers that the woman died ten years ago – and that he is falling in love with her.

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Harlequin (1980)

fantasy film, Political Thriller, thriller film

The young son of up-and-coming United States Senator Nick Rast is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan, are less happy with events.

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J.D.'s Revenge (1976)

Blaxploitation, Horror

Isaac "Ike" Hendrix is a young law student who lives with his girlfriend, Christella and works as a taxi-cab driver in New Orleans. While out on a night of fun with Christella and their best friends, Tony and Phyllis, he participates in a hypnosis act and becomes an unwilling host for the restless spirit of J.D. Walker - a hustler and pimp from the 1940s who ran numbers during World War II and managed a black-market meat plant.

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Snake Eater (1989)

Action

Jack "Soldier" Kelly is a New York City police officer and Vietnam veteran. Having served in the Marine Special Forces (nicknamed the "Snake Eaters"), he has retained a penchant for unorthodox methods and makeshift traps. Kelly learns that his parents have been killed and his sister abducted in rural Tennessee, and travels to the backwater town where the attack took place.

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Octopus (2000)

Action, Animal horror, fiction film, Horror, monster film, thriller film

In October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet submarine delivers barrels of nuclear material to Cuba, and has to outrun an American submarine. When one of the crewmen suggests that the submarine should slow down and identify itself, the captain shoots him. The submarine is hit by torpedoes and damaged, drowning the crew and releasing radioactive material into its nearby waters.

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Anthony Zimmer (2005)

Romantic drama, thriller film

Anthony Zimmer is a genius career criminal wanted by police around the world. He has used ingenious methods to launder money legally, using dummy corporations that file lawsuits against firms outside France. Zimmer is also being pursued by the "White Collar Barons"—a powerful Russian mafia with whom he once did business.

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Butter (1998)

thriller film

Several corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a lethal injection rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her foster brother for the murder forcing him to go on the run and to try to get the goods on the real killers.

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Reclaim (2014)

Crime, Drama, Horror, mystery film, thriller film

After a car accident that left her unable to have children, Shannon (Rachelle Lefevre) and her husband, Steven (Ryan Phillippe), decide to adopt a Haitian girl, Nina, orphaned after the 2010 earthquake, through the IRA (International Rescue Adoption), an organization run by Gabrielle Reigert (Jacki Weaver) and based in Puerto Rico. Having paid $60,000, the two move to a resort while they wait for Nina's United States passport to arrive. Steven takes an instant dislike to his neighbors, Benjamin (John Cusack), Salo (Jandres Burgos), and Paola (Veronica Faye Foo) especially after a misunderstanding with Salo at a bar, where he tells them…

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Heartthrob (2017)

thriller film

Shortly after high school graduation, Henry (Keir Gilchrist), the shy valedictorian, encounters Samantha (Aubrey Peeples), who suffers from a reputation as a bimbo at school. They argue at first about their preconceptions of each other, but later Henry apologizes and offers Samantha a ride home when her shift at work ends. He is overjoyed to find romance with her, but is incensed by the knowledge of her past relations with others and kills one of her former lovers.

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El Gringo (2012)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Following an ambush in which he is wounded, and his undercover DEA partners are killed, The Man escapes into Mexico with a case holding two million dollars, and arrives in the dusty town of El Fronteras. He faces danger from the local sheriff and his thugs, a local drug cartel, his checkered past and his former DEA boss.

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Ground Control (1998)

disaster film, Drama, katastrophe, thriller film

Chicago air traffic controller Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland) was cleared of liability for an ill-fated flight under his authority which resulted in the loss of Transair flight 290, a Lockheed L-1011 with all 174 souls aboard. He subsequently left the job and went on to design air control software, until five years later when T.C. Bryant (Bruce McGill), his ex-colleague who had since transferred to Phoenix, pleads for help on New Year's Eve, due to a critical staff shortage and with torrential weather predicted.

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Sorority House Massacre II (1990)

Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, thriller film

Five women, Linda, Jessica, Kimberly, Suzanne, and Janey, buy a new sorority house. They get it cheap because of the bloody incidents that took place five years earlier, committed by a murderer known as Hockstatter. They decide to stay in it for the night so they can meet the movers in the morning.

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Kansas (1988)

Crime, Drama

Wade Corey (Andrew McCarthy) is on his way to a friend's wedding in New York City when his car burns up in Utah, leaving him stranded. Without options, he hops a freight train where he's pulled onto a moving boxcar by Doyle Kennedy (Matt Dillon). Doyle tells Wade about himself and convinces him to accompany him to a small town in Kansas where Wade can get help and they can attend a local festival.

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Sole Survivor (1983)

Horror, Mysterie, thriller film, Zombie

Denise (Anita Skinner), a television commercial producer, emerges unscathed as the sole survivor of a plane crash. However, she feels as if she is about to be "caught" by something. She flirts with Brian (Kurt Johnson), a doctor at the hospital, who is convinced that she is simply experiencing "survivor's syndrome".

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End of the World (1977)

disaster film, Mysterie, Science fiction

NASA Professor Andrew Boran is a research scientist who discovers strange radio signals in outer space that appear to originate from Earth. The signals seem to predict natural disasters that are occurring around the globe. When he and his wife Sylvia decide to investigate the source of the signals, they end up being held captive in a convent that has been infiltrated by aliens.

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