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Action, Drama, Political Thriller, romance film, thriller film
The subject of her professor's romantic designs, Elizabeth Carlson, a college girl from Wisconsin, packs up and moves to New York City, finding a job as a waitress. At the same time, she attempts to launch a career as a fashion model. As her career takes off, she meets Daniel Jelline, a violinist, who stalks Elizabeth until they begin an affair.
Drama, Horror, Mysterie, mystery film
Captain Briggs and Captain Morehead are best friends. Morehead is in love with Sarah, and he brings Briggs to New York to meet her. However, Briggs and Sarah fall in love with one another.
Action
Grizzled L.A. cop Roland Sallinger (Steven Seagal) is shot by his corrupt partner during a raid. After recovering, an old friend named Connor Wells (Steph DuVall) hires him to be a bodyguard for his daughter Nikita (Liezl Carstens).
Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Three young men, Scott, CJ and Scott's younger brother Robbie, stop at a roadhouse in snowy Wisconsin in search of a good time. Soon, CJ gets into a fight in the bar and Scott is forced to come inside and bail him and Robbie out. Leaving the roadhouse, the three set off for Minnesota, their home state.
Action
After 9/11, the United States government realized that narcotics were responsible for financing the majority of terrorist cells. That is why they created the International Drug Task Force (IDTF). The IDTF task forces are fully funded and overseen by the United States government.
Crime Comedy, thriller film
Phillip is a naive nobody with an uncanny knack for winning in a casino. Not much caring if he wins or loses, Phillip goes on a weeks-long hot streak in Las Vegas that ultimately comes to the attention of a lot of people who want his money. Lusting after it most is Louise, a lounge singer and con artist who seduces Phillip in the Liberace museum, then lies to him that she is $150,000 in debt from medical and funeral expenses for her parents.
Secret Agent, spy film
In the mid-1960s height of the Cold War, U.N.C.L.E. agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are assigned to meet and bring the "most wanted" former Nazi, missile expert Dr. Heinrich von Kronen, in to the agency.
Drama, thriller film
In October 1969, anti-war activist Jerry Savage (Sylvester Stallone) accepts a ride from a group of hippies, on their way to New York City to sell their wares, during the journey Jerry takes an instant liking to Laurie, a sweet-natured girl who makes jewelry. Meanwhile, at a New York City dance studio, Estelle Ferguson receives a phone call, informing her that “the merchandise has arrived,” which she collects from a chemical company later that evening. The next day, Jerry meets his friend, Tommy Trafler, at a park.
Horror, monster film, natural horror film, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film
Dr. Donald Blake, a science professor at Dunsfield University, receives a coelacanth. A student, Jimmy, asks Blake if the fish is really a million years old.
Horror, thriller film
In the opening scene, Henry Jekyll, a young boy, witnesses his father having sex with a prostitute in a barn. His father catches him and violently whips Henry for spying, scarring him for life and leading to repressed sadomasochistic longings. Many years later, in late 1880s England, the adult Dr.
Action, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
Alex, a wealthy young man, hosts a party at his mansion to introduce his new girlfriend, Tatiana, to his close friends. Among the guests are Patricia, a free-spirited videographer, and Delilah, Alex's ex-girlfriend who still harbors feelings for him. Tensions rise when Delilah arrives uninvited, leading to awkward interactions.
Mysterie, thriller film
Six kidnapped strangers wake up in an endless cornfield. Not knowing who abducted them, they must survive in a hostile environment by solving puzzles using their respective abilities and with provided objects including matches, a compass, a canteen, a single-bullet gun, a lantern, and a knife.
mockumentary
An unemployed cameraman, Ron Kobeleski (Haggerty), is asked by his reclusive neighbor, a retired Marine named Walter Ohlinger (Barry) who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer, to document a startling confession: that he, not Lee Harvey Oswald, killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. A stunned Kobeleski learns that the conspiracy theory that says there was a second gunman on the grassy knoll is true — because he was that second gunman.
Drama, Forensic, Melodrama, thriller film
Within a small American town on the Mexican border in 1923, a promiscuous, married woman is found dead in her bedroom. Her grieving, jealous and widely disliked husband Bryan Talbot is convicted of her murder and sentenced to hang on purely circumstantial evidence despite his fierce denials. The presiding judge, Hochstadter, departs for a fishing trip, leaving it to the inexperienced Mexican-American judge Ben Morealis Lewis to oversee the execution.
Crime, crime thriller film, Drama, thriller film
Robert Forrester is going through a painful divorce from his wife Nickie. He begins spying on Jenny Thierolf, a girl living in the countryside, because to him she represents a state of harmony, a stark contrast to his own personal life. Jenny catches him one night, but instead of being upset, she invites him in and they talk.
Action, Cannibal, Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, thriller film
A group of Texas youths are celebrating a birthday at a posh San Antonio restaurant when they cross paths with a ravenous clan of cannibals called the Boneboys. Mercilessly stalked through the darkened streets of the city, the young revelers must fight back against their attackers with sheer ferocity in order to avoid having their bodies defiled, and their flesh devoured. Butcher Boys is described as an updating of Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical essay A Modest Proposal, which suggested poor people sell their children to the rich as food.
Horror
In the dead of winter in a large unnamed American city, Isabelle smokes a joint on a cheap hotel bed while one of her johns finishes showering in the bathroom. At the sink, the unseen man puts on latex gloves. Isabelle makes an oblique reference to the man about a sex tape that was used as blackmail.
Crime, Noir, thriller film, trial film
James Curtayne, once a successful New York district attorney, lost his career to alcoholism. After a long time away from the profession, he now practices civil law. When Johnny O'Hara, a boy from the old neighborhood, is accused of murder, his parents beg Curtayne to take the case, although they are unable to pay, and he accepts, acknowledging that it will be tough, both personally and professionally.
Action, thriller film
In Wasatch County, Utah, a militia of psychosexual thrill-killers led by Art Dacy and his lover Cyndi commit a string of vicious rapes and murders targeting women. After the pursuit of a kidnapper hits a dead-end, FBI criminal profiler Kelly McCord is assigned to head the investigating task force and partnered with veteran agent Nick Travis to assist Sheriff Glen Dobson. Travis confides to McCord that he has become disillusioned with the FBI following his supervisor John Taggart's unnecessary deadly escalation of a standoff at Highland Gorge that Travis was attempting to resolve through crisis negotiation.
Horror, thriller film
A man named Mario comes home, having just sold his bingo hall. Seemingly in a daze, he dances around to the tune of classic Spanish music playing on vinyl. He begins speaking to himself, and then a picture of his dead wife Patricia about the sale.
Action, thriller film
The film begins with a man going into a church. He enters the confessional booth where he tells the priest he would like to make a donation to the church, but before the father can accept, the man shoots himself in the head. The film then turns to Amy Nash (Evigan) and her husband, David (Faris).
Action, disaster film, Drama, thriller film
On a beach in Australia, two American surfers say goodbye to each other as one is about to leave for his flight back to California. The two men don't notice the large number of dead birds on the beach. On the flight, the surfer returning home starts coughing up blood and dies before the plane can land.
Erotic Thriller
Will Griffith (Andrew Stevens) is hired to secure and protect the mansion of South American diplomat Héctor Mejenes (Richard Chaves), following attempts on his life. However, his wife Marilyn (Shannon Tweed) ends up attracted to Will.
thriller film
As a boy, Matt Stone became a homicidal maniac after killing his mother's abusive boyfriend in self-defense. As a playboy conman in adulthood, he has a history of swindling women out of their money, then killing them and moving on to find his next wealthy victim. Matt thinks he has spotted the perfect target for his next deadly scam, the alluring single mom Ann Moy, but Moy's adolescent daughter Tina sees through the grifter and tries to warn her mother to steer clear.