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Horror
A package is delivered to Gail, a young blonde woman with a roommate named Peggy. Gail opens the package to find a pair of binoculars, but when she uses them to look out a window, she screams and collapses, dying. The binoculars are revealed to have two spikes emerging out of the eyepiece.
Crime, mystery film
A lodge in Kanab, Utah, is where Los Angeles lawyer David Hewson goes for a peaceful vacation. He is quickly attracted to Beth Dixon, a switchboard operator and a personal assistant to lodge owner Edmund Parry. thumb|left|160px|Drive-in advertisement from 1958 The murder of playgirl Marsha Morgan, her throat cut, disrupts the peace and quiet.
Crime, Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film
In 1950, one Monday, the British Prime Minister receives a letter from a man who says he has stolen a nuclear weapon and will destroy the centre of London next Sunday at noon, unless the British government declares that the country is going to stop making such devices. The letter is signed "Professor Willingdon", which is the name of the senior researcher at Britain's atomic weapons development facility, the fictitious Wallingford Research Centre; Detective Superintendent Folland of Scotland Yard's Special Branch is charged with investigating whether the letter is a fraud or represents a genuine threat. At the Research Centre, Folland…
Action, Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Eight-year-old Sean Donovan watches helplessly when his parents are attacked in a carjacking attempt. Sean's father, Terry, is knocked unconscious and his mother is murdered. Afterward, Terry moves them to a nicer neighborhood.
Action, Crime, thriller film
A group of particularly violent armed robbers, who are committing bank and payroll robberies across London, are taking just £60,000 from each robbery, leaving behind cash in excess of this sum. The robbers are willing to kill anyone who gets in their way: they even kill badly injured members of their team to ensure they cannot inform. As Regan puts it after the first raid, "I've never seen so many dead people".
Action, action thriller, Adventure, Science fiction, teen film, thriller film
Teenage brothers 18-year-old Nick and 14-year-old Tyler come across a small UFO when it lands right in front of their truck on an empty road near their town. Soon after evading government agents, mainly Agent Armstrong, and keeping the UFO in seclusion, Tyler undergoes dramatic physical changes and gains superhuman powers due to his dramatic trip into space via the UFO, including enhanced strength and telepathy. The situation becomes even more difficult to cover up considering Tyler is being constantly blown off by Nick, due to Nick's efforts at chasing Julie Gunn, as well as Nick having to make a science project to graduate high school…
Action, Crime, Drama, Heist, thriller film
Master thief Thomas Taylor (Slater) is released on parole. Later, he uses his job as a Paramedic to rob an off-track betting office, inadvertently stealing cash that a corrupt FBI agent named 'Cornell' (Kilmer) had planned to steal himself. Cornell retaliates by kidnapping Taylor's daughter and forcing him and his crew to steal a large shipment of cash.
Drama, Mysterie, thriller film
Tom is an introverted and troubled young man living with his struggling mother Elaine, the pair having just moved into a house that they have inherited. They have come from a distressing family background. Tom explores the nearby 'turlach', a winter lake fed by a mysterious and dangerous intermittently flowing underground river.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Clem Morgan, demobilised from the Royal Air Force and unemployed after the war, helps in the stealing and transporting of black market goods in coffins to crime boss Narcy's (short for Narcissus) headquarters in a funeral parlour. Clem finds the activity harmless enough, until one day he finds drugs in the latest coffin. Clem objects and tells his girlfriend, Ellie, that he will quit after one last job that night, the looting of a warehouse.
Detective, mystery film, spy film
Alfred Pettibone, a British secret agent carrying a vital secret document, is murdered on his way to deliver it in the U.S. The British government turns to Sherlock Holmes for help. He deduces that Pettibone converted the document to microfilm.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime Comedy, Heist
The Byzantine Fire, a sacred ruby on loan from Turkey to the United States for exhibition, no sooner arrives in Los Angeles than it is stolen by Eastern religious extremists and hidden inside the safe of a local jewelry store. When professional burglar and jewel thief Gus Cardinale (Christopher Lambert) breaks into the store and inadvertently steals the Byzantine Fire, he finds himself being chased around Los Angeles by the LAPD, the entire Los Angeles criminal element (whom the police have been mercilessly harassing to find the thief), two less-than-competent CIA agents, Turkish government agents and a not-too-tightly wrapped female…
Action, Crime, thriller film
In Athens, Azad, Ralph, Renzi, and Helen execute a heist, pilfering a suitcase of emeralds from a wealthy Greek citizen, M. Tasco, during his absence. Breaking into the house, they crack the safe and abscond with the jewels.
thriller film
Melanie (Rachael Blake) is a waitress who works at an unnamed restaurant, in New Zealand. One night, she meets a man (Sam Neill), they spend some time together, before Melanie asks him if he wants to go home together. Choosing to go to his place, they go to a dock where a small boat is.
Action, Drama
During the rage of Hurricane Katrina, Detective Andy Devereaux (Val Kilmer) discovers the body of his former partner in a warehouse. Quickly forgetting about his discovery, he joins a newly transferred detective named Stan Johnson (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) trying to end a conflict involving looters. Post-Katrina, Andy and Stan are now partners.
Crime, Drama, Noir, romance film
Pete Ritchie runs a narcotics smuggling operation to the U.S. from Mexico that the Los Angeles Police Department and the federal government have unsuccessfully tried to stop. Because of Ritchie's careful operating procedures, federal authorities have not determined the identities of his sources or customers and are desperate for a breakthrough.
thriller film
Taylor and Scott Dolan (Jaimie Alexander and Frank Grillo) are on their honeymoon in Morocco where Taylor plots to kill her rich husband with help from her lover, Travis (Charlie Bewley). The plan goes awry when all parties are involved in a bloody car accident on a remote desert road. They escape the multi-car pileup at a desert intersection and encounter the group of survivors, including a wanted smuggler, Omar (Moussa Maaskri), a French woman, Audrey (Marie-Josée Croze), with a sick baby and Saleh, a mysterious "repairman" (Roschdy Zem).
thriller film
Drama
The film opens as school pariah, Dina Van Cleve (Jenn Proske) walks down the hallway of her school. When she opens her locker, a pile of condoms that were put inside as a prank comes falling out. Later, Dina is shown alone in her bedroom recording a video diary.
Erotic Thriller, thriller film
found footage film, Ghost, Horror, thriller film
Drawn by stories of widespread cannibalism during the Holodomor man-made famines (an act of genocide against Ukrainian people by Stalin) of the 1930s in Soviet Ukraine, an amateur filming crew from America interviews subjects in Kyiv. They find that the urban legends confirm what had happened, and are they led to a local psychic-cum-clairvoyant, who tells them that paranormal entities were behind the bloodshed. The crew does not take her warning seriously, in drunkenness they perform a séance involving a pentagram, in which they mockingly summon the disembodied ghost of Andrei Chikatilo, a notorious serial killer and cannibal who was…
Crime, Drama, thriller film
Beneath his likable exterior, Lou Ford, a deputy in a small Montana town, is a sadistic sociopath with violent sexual tastes. When Lou gets involved with a local prostitute's blackmail schemes, the carefully crafted facade he maintains begins to unravel into a killing spree.
Action, Adventure, Drama, thriller film
Obsessive bird egg collector J.P. Whittier is determined to obtain the eggs of a newly discovered species of bald eagle nesting high up on the private island of reclusive Vietnam veteran Jim Malden. Whittier hires mountaineer Mike Walker to pose as a photographer and win Malden's confidence in order to gain access to the eggs.
Action
Captain Frank Tate leads a four-member SWAT team consisting of Tony Hunt, Jannard and Blanco. They manage to stop the robbery of a grocery store and save the hostages, but their reckless methods cause substantial property damage and emotional distress to the owner. Their superior gets angry and orders them to go through retraining, which they do not take seriously.
Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, fantasy film, mystery film, romance film
Alan Desland is an English antique dealer who specializes in ceramics. A solitary man, he is a bachelor with no romantic ties. On a business trip to Copenhagen, he hires a German-born secretary, Karin Foster fluent in English, Danish, and German.