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giallo, Horror, Slasher
Diablo, the leader of the Demons motorcycle gang, is about to be executed for the murder of a young woman Sarah. Confronting the victim's sister Gail Jackson, he proclaims his innocence and vows to return before being killed via the electric chair. A year passes, and Spring Break has come to Miami.
thriller film
Christine Carlson, an American college student, travels to West Germany to visit her fiancé Mike, a US Army soldier. She tries to convince him to marry her promptly, but he chooses to delay marriage in order to re-enlist. Distraught by Mike's decision, Christine takes a late-night walk where she witnesses a kidnapping by the East German Stasi and gets kidnapped herself as well.
Horror, monster film, Werewolf
In the Louisiana Bayou town of Marsh Island, two farmers (Royal Dano and John Davis Chandler) discover the mauled, dead body of a local young woman. Sheriff Aaron Whitaker (David Janssen) is called. The victim's temperamental brother, Lawrence Burrifors (Geoffrey Lewis), arrives at the crime scene.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Set along the All-American Canal, Mexican farm workers, known as "braceros," camp near the California–Mexico border to receive their work permits so they can enter legally into the United States, while others cross the border illegally. These illegal migrant workers are usually robbed and beaten by bandits as they cross the desert. To combat this problem, two agents, Pablo Rodriguez, a Mexican PJF, and Jack Bearnes, an American Border Patrol agent, are assigned by their respective countries to investigate the gang of bandits.
Crime, mystery film, Noir
A murder occurs, and a witness tells the police that she will never forget the killer’s face. Mob attorney Walter Colby (Scott) is called by crime boss Hap Richie (Douglas Kennedy) in the middle of the night to arrange bail for his hood Caesar (Jack Overman). After doing so Colby tells his girlfriend, showgirl Flaxy Martin (Virginia Mayo), that he wants to quit the organization and become respectable.
Horror, thriller film
A farmer is murdered by an elderly insane woman with a burned face. After stabbing the farmer and accidentally setting his barn on fire, the woman stumbles home to her family. The family, an older couple and a young woman, argue about the best way to handle the situation and make vague references that the elderly woman may have killed people in the past.
Horror, thriller film
Adolescent David and his teenage sister Lynn are orphaned after their father dies unexpectedly, and are sent to live with their maternal grandparents at their Victorian home in rural California. The children previously lived in the home with their mother when they were very young, but have little memory of it. En route by bus, the children witness an ominous woman standing in the middle of the road near their grandparents' home, almost causing the driver to get into an accident.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Horror, thriller film
Tucker Williams, dressed in shiny, chest-exposing clothing, spins platters as the "Disco Godfather" at his "Blueberry Hill" discotheque during the late-1970's height of the disco era. In the audience is his nephew Bucky, a basketball star, who ignores the entreaties of his girlfriend and goes outside to score some angel dust. Bucky's girlfriend comes screaming back inside, telling Tucker that Bucky has taken drugs.
Crime, thriller film
The film opens with DI West (Spall) interviewing Harvey Miller (Treadaway) who had been framed by a gangster called Roper. In flashback we are shown how Harvey, 6 weeks earlier, had been released from prison where he had used information heard in prison to plan his revenge on Roper. Harvey tells how he has planned and executed his revenge using his friends.
thriller film
Young Steven Walker, when accompanying his mother to a Toronto bank, accidentally gets locked in the bank's vault. With less than 10 hours of oxygen remaining in the vault, it becomes a race against time to save him.
Comedy, Horror, thriller film
Despite an approaching winter storm a near-empty airliner takes off from London for New York. One by one the passengers begin to disappear, while one passenger who frequents the route notices the plane has turned whereas it should be flying straight. Soon it is discovered that the pilots are dead and that the plane is on autopilot; and it is revealed that two on board are hijackers who have murdered the pilots to take control of the plane.
Drama, war film
In May 1940, as the German invasion of the Netherlands is under way, the British government decides to send a team to the Netherlands on board to secure stocks of industrial diamonds before the invaders can get to them. According to this plan, two Dutch diamond experts, Jan Smit and Walter Keyser (Alexander Knox), with a British Army Intelligence officer, Major Dillon, are dropped by ship off the Dutch coast. They survive a German air raid and escape the attention of a suspicious Dutch policeman.
Science fiction, thriller film
After receiving a phone call from herself, a woman must break into a top-secret facility to travel back in time in order to prevent a murder.
thriller film
At Ken's bachelor party, a group of men are partying with two stripper sisters named Serena (Taylor Dayne) and Kelly (Jenny McShane). Serena steals one of the men and has sex with him, while a group of men party with her sister Kelly. Kelly accidentally falls onto the stone floor and dies.
Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film
Japanese bride Midori Takada (Youki Kudoh) arrives in Sydney with her new husband Yukio (Kenji Isomura). She believes her marriage is a mistake and uses the honeymoon as a means to escape. Colin O'Brien (Russell Crowe) is an experienced getaway driver.
thriller film
A mystery novelist discovers a plan to murder an American heiress while on vacation in Spain. He enlists the help of a taxi driver to travel across the Spanish countryside in order to thwart the crime.
Crime, Gangster Film, Noir, thriller film
Diner waitress Bonnie Parker is just as tired of her job in 1932 Texas as she is of customers like Guy Darrow, who try too hard to make her acquaintance. When she goes too far, fending off Guy with hot oil, Bonnie is fired. With her husband Duke Jefferson still in prison and no means of support, Bonnie teams up with Guy on a series of small holdups.
Drama, Horror, mystery film, thriller film
Dawn, a young medical student is charged with uncovering the murder of a mental patient's mother. The patient, Don, holds many secrets and disturbs Dawn with his insane ramblings. As Dawn continues to investigate the murder, she believes Don's paranoia is out of control at the mention of a menacing figure named Malachi.
Action, fantasy film, thriller film
Harpooner Ishmael (Corey Sevier) joins Ahab (Danny Glover) and his crew on the Pequod, in this instance an armored land boat that hunts for dragons. The seven-strong crew ostensibly seeks the precious "vitriol", a highly explosive liquid substance found inside the fire-breathing winged creatures, which powers the mythical realm they live in. Ishmael joins their quest, and soon learns that in fact, Ahab's mission is one of revenge on a particular great white dragon that decades ago scarred and injured him, and killed his sister.
Drama, Psychological Thriller
Gray Evans, a movie star, is losing his grip on reality, unable to adjust to his own celebrity, and addicted to romantic fantasies about idealistic love and his once simple life. With his celebrity marriage to the beautiful actress Mia already strained by jealousy and frustration after only a year together, Gray is looking for escape. An avid photographer, his voyeuristic nature leads him to a local video store, where an encounter with the video clerk's wife Jane leads to a dangerous obsession over what he imagines to be an ideal love.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A maniac bomber is ruthlessly targeting Seattle, claiming civilians and bomb disposal teams alike as apartment blocks and office complexes collapse under the impact of his ingenious, complex devices. Calling in ex-bomb squad operator John Pierce (Sam Elliott) to help them, and using computer assisted disposal techniques and virtual reality simulations, the squad comes to a horrifying realization - the bombs are constructed with tricks and traps intended to kill the disposal teams; and Pierce, as a fellow bomb squad officer, is the only person who would know such schemes. With the police marking Pierce as their number one suspect and the…
Horror, thriller film
Drama, Horror, thriller film
Believing she is being rejected by her boyfriend Sam, Joey attempts suicide with sleeping pills, but recovers after having her stomach pumped. When she looks forward to a brand new life, she discovers that she is pregnant. Being tortured by the thought of an abortion and unable to contact Sam, Joey finds herself becoming delusional and emotionally unstable.
Science fiction, thriller film
Lee Ray Oliver is a death row inmate who is given a lethal injection before a room of witnesses. He awakes in the morgue to find that he had only been administered saline and anaesthetic. A neuropharmacologist, Dr.