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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 247.

Cyclone (1987)

Action, Science fiction, spy film

Teri leaves the gym and stops by a motorcycle repair shop to pick up parts for her inventor boyfriend Rick. Rick has developed the ultimate motorcycle, the Cyclone. It is a $5 million bike equipped with rocket launchers and laser guns, which only needs oxygen to operate.

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The Perfect Weapon (2016)

Action, thriller film

In the near future, the world has become a totalitarian state under the control of the Director (Steven Seagal). When Condor (Johnny Messner), an elite assassin, fails to terminate his target, he finds himself on the run from the organization that employs him. Condor is sent on a mission and fails due to his emotional instability and the Director has him go into a sleep state to fix him, but he escapes after learning he is going to be killed either way.

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Flight Into Danger (1956)

Drama, thriller film

While on a flight from Toronto, Ontario, to Vancouver, British Columbia, the pilots at the controls of a Canadair North Star, a large commercial airliner, fall victim to food poisoning. Approximately half of the passengers have also been incapacitated by eating the same fish served to the pilots. After the stewardess (Corinne Conley) asks for help from the passengers, George Spencer (James Doohan), an ex-Second World War Spitfire fighter pilot, is forced to take over, with the stewardess's assistance.

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Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark (2014)

Action, Adventure, Comedy horror, disaster film, Horror, independent film, katastrophe, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film

A tugboat pulling a huge iceberg arrives at a port in Alexandria, Egypt, when suddenly, the iceberg shatters and releases a megalodon from suspended animation. The Mega Shark begins its reign of terror by flipping the tugboat to the air until it crashes and decapitates the Sphinx hundreds of miles away in Giza. Following the incident, several countries around the world place their ports on lockdown and impose a ban on fishing, adversely affecting the world's economy as the megalodon terrorizes the seas.

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Joy House (1964)

Drama, thriller film

In Monte Carlo, Marc, a handsome card sharp, escapes American gangsters who have been ordered to kill him because he had an affair with the boss's wife. Marc hides in a mission for the poor where Barbara, a wealthy widow, finds him and hires him as her chauffeur. At Barbara's chateau, her niece Melinda becomes attracted to Marc, and Marc discovers that Barbara is hiding her lover Vincent in the secret rooms and passageways of the chateau.

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The First Daughter (1999)

Action, thriller film

A domestic terrorist group make an unsuccessful attempt on the life of US President Jonathan Hayes and the group's leader, Michael Smith, is subsequently captured. Some members of the group manage to evade capture and continue with terrorist activities. Eight weeks later, believing the threat is past, the President organizes an outdoors activity trip for his teenage daughter, Jess, who has grown tired of the public life and constant Secret Service supervision.

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Inner Sanctum (1991)

Crime, Drama, Erotic Thriller, thriller film

Jennifer Reed, heiress to a huge fortune, believes that her husband Baxter, an insurance agent in Los Angeles, is unfaithful to her. Unable to reconcile with it, she takes a full pack of sleeping pills and falls down the stairs. A few weeks later, Jennifer, now in a wheelchair, becomes even more jealous of her husband because he does not spend time with her, giving more attention to nurse Lynn Foster.

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Girls Nite Out (1982)

Horror, mystery film, Slasher, thriller film

At Weston Hills Sanitarium in rural Ohio, psychiatric patient Dickie Cavanaugh commits suicide by hanging himself. Cavanaugh's sister gives permission to two gravediggers to bury the body. While the two men are digging the hole for Cavanaugh's body, they are attacked and murdered by an unseen killer who throws their corpses into the burial plot.

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Do or Die (1991)

Action, sexploitation film, spy film, thriller film

In Hawaii, L.E.T.H.A.L. agents Donna Hamilton and Nicole Justin are confronted by underworld businessman Kane. As retribution for damaging his organization, Kane has devised a "game" to hunt and kill Hamilton and Justin using six teams of professional assassins.

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Shadow on the Wall (1950)

Noir, Psychological Thriller

David Stirrling returns from a business trip with gifts for his six-year-old daughter Susan, and for his wife, Susan's step-mother, Celia. He also has some World War II souvenirs, including a handgun. Celia is not there when David arrives, she's with Crane Weymouth, with whom she is having an affair.

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Badge 373 (1973)

Crime, Gangster Film, thriller film

Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall), a tough, no-nonsense, abrasive and racist Irish NYPD cop, has to turn in his badge after scuffling with a Puerto Rican suspect who then falls to his death from a rooftop, but that doesn't stop him from heading out on a one-man crusade to find out who killed his partner of three years, Gigi Caputo (Louis Cosentino), all the while neglecting his new live-in girlfriend, Maureen (Verna Bloom). Ryan's search leads him to Puerto Rican drug kingpin Sweet Willie (Henry Darrow), and a shipment of guns for Puerto Rican independentistas.

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American Dreamer (1984)

comedy thriller, Crime, romantic comedy

A voice over says, "No, that's not right." The scenario is repeated with adjustments until the voice is eventually satisfied. The screen fades to Cathy Palmer sitting at a typewriter, finishing up the story. She seals it in an envelope and sends it off.

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So Cold the River (2022)

Drama, Horror, thriller film

Erica is a documentary filmmaker who gave up on her career after one of her prior subjects did something unspeakable. She's persuaded to once again return to this field by Alyssa, the daughter of dying and mysterious billionaire Campbell Bradford. She is tasked with profiling his life, including his ties to his hometown, but Erica is given few clues as to his past other than a bottle of water from a local spring.

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門徒 (2007)

thriller film

Undercover officer Nick had spent the last seven years penetrating into the core of a drug ring, working his way up from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo deliveries for Kwan – the biggest player in the local heroin market. When the ailing Kwan makes Nick his protégé, Nick cannot help but sway before money and power and starts to perform his role like a real drug trafficker. This, together with his affair with heroin-addict Fan, causes Nick to become more and more confused about his true identity, and eventually leads to a disastrous end.

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Blessed (2004)

Horror, thriller film

The Howards are a young married couple living in New York City. Craig, an unpublished writer, and Samantha, a school teacher, are desperate to have a baby. Their hopes are dashed when Samantha is diagnosed as infertile and the couple cannot afford the medical treatments that might allow her to conceive.

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