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Christmas film, Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Slasher
A wealthy invalid, Benjamin Morgan, believes his second wife, Elizabeth, is trying to poison him. Alex, his daughter, believes him. Thus, she summons her three sisters—Freddie, Jo, and Chris—to the Morgan farmhouse for Christmas.
Action, Horror, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film, Vampire, Zombie
An epidemic disease has overwhelmed humanity, turning nearly everyone into blood-thirsty infected who resemble vampires and zombies. There is no known cure and there are very few survivors left fighting "against the dark". Tao (Seagal) is in charge of a group of vampire/zombie hunters.
Action, Crime, thriller film
The film opens with archival footage from a press conference where NYPD officers Dave Greenberg and Robert Hantz are being commended by Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy for the sheer volume of drugs and weaponry that the two cops have removed from the streets. After a credits sequence, the narrative begins at the New York City Police Academy, where Greenberg and Hantz graduate as probationary officers.
Action, Fairy tale, fantasy film, Low Fantasy, Science fiction, thriller film
The film begins with a businessman, John Sullivan (Chris Kelly), in a hurry to get into his car. He appears to be severely stressed as he begins driving down the city streets. When he goes through a lighted intersection he is broadsided by another driver that is distracted by hot coffee in his lap.
Action, Drama, sport film, swashbuckler film, thriller film
Alexander Villard (Eric Roberts) is a former fencing champion who runs a highly competitive fencing school. One of his students describes him as "a freak who thinks he's living in the fourteenth century". Max Suba (F.
Drama
A young man (Marc-André Grondin) in France shaves off all his body hair and turns himself in to the police. The man claims to be a 16-year-old boy from Louisiana named Nicholas Mark Randall, who had been missing for four years. His story is that he was kidnapped by a child prostitution ring in France who physically altered his appearance.
Crime, Mysterie, mystery film
When Philo Vance's dog does not make it into the final of the Long Island Kennel Club's dog show, fellow competitor Archer Coe is disappointed, having hoped to savor a victory over Vance. The next morning, Coe is found dead, inside his locked bedroom. District Attorney Markham and Police Sergeant Heath assume it was suicide because Coe was found holding a pistol.
buddy film, Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Bonnie, aged 14, and Hillary, aged 15, meet at a bus stop in Los Angeles, California, and begin a friendship. They stroll around their city, chuck rocks onto a highway from an overpass bridge, run rampant in shopping malls, and play video games. In a stream of careless chatter, Hillary reveals to Bonnie that her father is in prison for raping her and Bonnie recounts of how joking around with her brother turned into intercourse, and that she has kept this to herself.
Action, Horror, independent film, romance film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Brilliant but irresponsible electrodynamics scientist Dr. Tony Nelson develops an electronic amplifier, intending to use it to convert any object into a fourth-dimensional (4D) state, allowing it to pass freely through any other object. Tony, however, ignores the overload, which sparks an electrical fire that burns down his laboratory.
Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, thriller film, war film
In the film's opening sequence, young reporter Jim Benton asks train engineer Mr. Wilson about three menGriffin, Cook and Landiswho hopped his freight train five years earlier, in 1961. "He ran all the way to hell," the engineer remarks about Griffin.
Action, Drama, thriller film
The film follows three Vietnam veterans who are stimulated by violence, and by the subjugation and debasement of those they victimize. Every year they go on vacation in the wilderness, where they engage in a spree of brutality and violence. They choose unsuspecting pairs of victims and hunt them down like wild animals.
Crime, thriller film
In the aftermath of the massacre in Kidwell, Nevada, police examine the crime scene. At the press conference lead Detective Burquez, tells reporters that the police are looking into the matter. After the conference, a disheveled Detective Reese asks to be put on the case, to which Detective Burquez assents.
Drama, Horror, thriller film
16-year-old Gail Osborne is a typical high school student with a passion for photography. Six months ago, she and her parents moved from San Francisco to a smaller town due to her father Neil's claim the city was too dangerous following a burglary. Gail, a high-spirited romantic, initially started dating classmate E.K.
Action, Drama, thriller film, trial film
After community activist Eddie Rios, charged with the murder of two NYPD officers, one of them his ex-wife, is found not guilty due to legal technicalities, arresting detective Steve Donohue takes the judge, jury, and Rios hostage, and decides to have a new trial, presenting evidence that was not previously allowed. His captain Lou Unger tries to convince Donohue to end his hostage taking peaceably.
Crime, thriller film
Michael Logan is a detective sergeant in London, working as part of a specialised taskforce alongside his friends and colleagues Chris, Martin and Keith. The taskforce's unconventional and corrupt operations bring the officers into contact with European drug syndicates, with them happy to turn a blind eye to their dealings for either a cut, or electing to confiscate suppliers' merchandise for their own profit. Logan meets with a contact in a Turkish drug cartel, who is organising a large scale shipment that he has invested £100,000 into with the hope of netting an even better profit.
Post-apocalyptic, thriller film
A viral pandemic causes people to become violent and bestial. Twenty-five years later, young adult Anna and her brother, David, scavenge through the ruins of a nearby city. Spooked by the arrival of a ragged survivor, they flee back into the woods.
Animal horror, Horror, natural horror film, television film
Sean Stover, Ritch Petroski, Wes Harding and Lauren Findley celebrate their high school graduation by breaking into Saranac Grotto, a forest heavily marked with "No Trespassing" signs and surrounded by a tall fence. While speeding down a dirt road, they hit and kill a grizzly bear cub, sending their Jeep Cherokee into a tree and cracking the radiator. As they argue over whether they should bury the dead cub, they hear its mother coming and run.
Horror
A gang of thieves works as security guards in a traveling carnival. They plot to steal the rich owner's fortune. Lucy, one of the thieves, attempts to take the fortune by herself by seducing the Boss and marrying him.
Drama, thriller film
In March 2016, a drone strike in Pakistan kills the intended target but it also results in collateral damage, taking the lives of several innocents who found themselves at the wrong place at the wrong time. One year later, on the anniversary of the drone strike, Imir Shaw finds himself at the home of Neil Wistin, a contract drone operator for the CIA. Wistin and his family, particularly his distant son, are dealing with the loss of Wistin's father, for whom Wistin is struggling to write a eulogy.
thriller film
Paul Dynan (Kevin Zegers) and his mother Marsha Dynan (Nola Augustson) are unemployed. At school, two students Jenna (Tatiana Maslany) and Dean (Devon Bostick) are aware they are two of a kind, possessing malevolence towards the world around them. Paul, seducing Jenna and befriending Dean, comes up with a plan to kidnap three kids of wealthy families for ransom.
Action, Action Comedy, Heist, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film
During World War II a crew of Wehrmacht soldiers driving a cargo truck is stopped by a road block of SS commandos who hijack the cargo and kill the passengers. In 1975, Harry Morgan and Sylvester "Sly" Wells plan to recover the cargo - six million dollars of Nazi gold. Harry Morgan, wealthy but heavily in debt, reminisces with old friend Ernst Furben at the London Embassy Hotel and Ernst tells Harry about his connection to the missing gold, which he saw as it was being prepared for transport to the Balkans by Nazi party official Reinhardt Holtz.
Action, thriller film
After killing a woman and cutting her open, Keech calms her crying baby boy. Investigative reporter Louis has a rocky marriage to Gina, a girlfriend named Felecia, and a slumping career. District Attorney Felicia tells Louis she is ending the relationship.
Action, disaster film, katastrophe, Science fiction, thriller film
Brian, the head drilling engineer of an unnamed company, sabotages the drilling operation as he is concerned that Alan the CEO is drilling too deep without taking necessary precautions. Alan restarts the drilling operation on an island off the coast of China and while drilling using a mole-like machine, the drilling team hits a magma flow which kills them. This then causes a large volcanic eruption and earthquake.
Crime
The story takes place in modern-day Chicago. Lou Marazano was once a feared hit man, but his reputation has dimmed significantly twenty years after his retirement. Unable to help his daughter financially after her ex-husband fails to pay child support, he asks the current local mob boss, Lorenzo Galante, for work.