Where Danger Lives (1950)
Noir, thriller film
Dr. Jeff Cameron treats a mentally disturbed attempted-suicide victim. She signs herself out of the hospital, but sends a telegram inviting him to meet her.
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Noir, thriller film
Dr. Jeff Cameron treats a mentally disturbed attempted-suicide victim. She signs herself out of the hospital, but sends a telegram inviting him to meet her.
Action, Horror, thriller film
The film begins with a man running for his life through the forest. As he looks around, something comes up from behind him, throwing him up into the air. The man screams as something begins eating him, and the camera turns to a pair of dog tags.
Action, Drama, Historie, thriller film
Late one night in 1814, a young Mohawk woman named Okwaho or "Oak" (Kaniehtiio Horn) and one of her lovers, Calvin, gets into an argument with her mother Wentahawi (Sheri Foster) over whether her neutral tribe, who are being violently slaughtered by new Americans, should get involved in the War of 1812. Her two lovers — a Mohawk warrior named Calvin (Justin Rain) and a British soldier named Joshua (Eamon Farren), one of whom is the father of her unborn child — push for retaliation, which ultimately leads to Calvin sneaking off later that same night to light a nearby American encampment on fire, killing 22 sleeping American soldiers. Six…
Horror, Slasher
Claire is ending her night shift at a convenience store. She expects her boyfriend to arrive to drive her home, but instead, someone else, who identifies himself as Duke, is driving her boyfriend's truck. After an unsettling ride home during which Duke makes increasingly overt sexual comments about her, Claire closes herself into the safety of her house.
Drama, legend, thriller film
On 20 July 2014, Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian-American diplomat, arrives in Lagos, Nigeria. He was immediately taken to First Consultants Medical Center after suffering from worsening symptoms. One of his attending physicians, Dr.
Action, thriller film
After winning a gold medal for East Germany in the pentathlon in the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, athlete Eric Brogar (Dolph Lundgren) flees from his abusive trainer, Heinrich Mueller (David Soul) and the Olympic team. Eight years later, Mueller is no longer a trainer. He has become a neo-Nazi terrorist, responsible for a series of attacks on German government officials, and Mueller has discovered that Eric is in Los Angeles.
fantasy film, Horror, thriller film
Margaret, having endured the tragic loss of her twin sister Elizabeth due to a drowning accident in their childhood, grapples with persistent suicidal ideation even in her adulthood. Upon returning to her family home, she experiences a transition to an alternate dimension where Elizabeth may still be alive.
Action, Comedy, Gangster Film, thriller film
The plot involves moonshine runners in Florida who are trying to stay independent in the face of attempts by organized crime to take over their business.
Erotic Thriller
A woman's infidelity leads her into a web of larceny and danger in this noir-flavored independent thriller. Mia DuBois (Monica Calhoun) is a behavioral psychologist who until recently worked with the police department, counseling the surviving victims of violent crime. While Mia has entered into a successful private practice, she's persuaded by her former colleagues to take on new client, Tammy (Chrystale Wilson), who is still dealing with the recent murder of her husband.
Action, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film
Marshall Lawson (Steven Seagal) is the commander of an elite U.S. military unit. During an overseas assignment in Paris, Lawson loses all three of his men in a seemingly random attack on their hotel room.
Horror, Slasher
Teenager Ellie Masters is orphaned after her prostitute mother and one of her johns are beaten to death with a hammer, and the house set on fire. Calvin Carruthers, a detective investigating Ellie's mother's murder, takes an avid interest in her well-being. Ellie is sent to an isolated orphanage run by the sadistic Mrs.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film
In Australia, a young woman called Mickey reads a poem to an audience at a bar. When she leaves, she gets into an unseen person's car. Jill Fitzpatrick is a former police officer turned private detective, who investigates missing persons.
girls with guns, Martial arts, thriller film
She Shoots Straight turns on three plot axes. The first concerns the complications of a workplace romance and marriage between a dedicated policewoman “Mina Kao” (Joyce Godenzi) and her supervisor “Huang Tsung-pao” (Tony Leung). The second theme concerns opposition by the Huang family to the couple's impending union.
Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Post-apocalyptic, thriller film
As the film opens, Hunter (C. J. Thomason) is on a highway where he meets Jennifer and her young brother Satchel.
thriller film
An ambitious journalism student falls under the yoke of a renowned but ruthless journalist whom she strives to impress, even if it means manipulating her latest article and the very idea of truth.
Crime, Heist, Noir, thriller film
In Los Angeles, criminal mastermind Dave Purvis devises a scheme to rob an armored car on its last pickup of the day at Wrigley Field. He recruits Benny McBride, who brings fellow low-level professional crooks Al Mapes and Ace Foster to complete the gang. Benny needs money to feed his hopeless plan to win back his wife Yvonne LeDoux, a gorgeous blonde strip-tease dancer who is now seeing Purvis.
thriller film
By the end of each summer, children from the fundamentalist Catholic community in the suburbs of New Jersey visited Camp Hope. Deep in the woods, away from civilization, the children are taught the ways of Christianity, the temptations of the flesh, and the horror of Satan. The head priest, who teaches the children these doctrines of fundamentalist Catholicism, has unknowingly brought evil with him by solely focusing on sin instead of salvation.
Drama, Heist, Noir, thriller film
Four friends enrolled at Midwestern University—Brick, Al, Ronnie and Roy—visit the Harold's Club casino in Reno, Nevada, during a weekend trip. After an hour of gambling and socializing, Ronnie is broke. He and Roy go to the cashier's window to cash a check, but the cashier is being threatened by a would-be robber with a gun.
Horror
Danny Sloan is an art student who works in a record shop. He visits his friend Billy, who is in drug rehab in hospital. Billy suggests Danny goes to see the "psycho ward" before he leaves, to see Byron Volpe, a serial killer kept in a padded cell after being convicted of murdering his wife Madeline by hypnotizing her into jumping from a building.
Action, Drama, thriller film
A troubled lawyer takes on a high profile murder case that forces him to come to terms with his own past.
crime thriller film
A young white girl, Lia Eltham, is left in Fu Manchu's care. A British regiment, chasing Boxer rebels, fires on Fu Manchu's home, killing his wife and child. When Lia Eltham grows up, he uses her as an instrument for revenge, killing all descendants of those who killed his family.
Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, thriller film
In a coffeehouse, Officer Joe Vickers, a serial killer empowered by Satan, overhears Brian and Larry, a pair of white-collar workers, discussing a bachelor party that they are planning to throw in their workplace for their friend Gary. Vickers follows the two to their office, and stakes it out in his car (which is full of body parts and demonic imagery) until after hours, which is when Larry bribes the security guard into letting in three strippers. Vickers tricks the guard into letting him in, then stabs him in the eye with a pencil.
thriller film
A man calling himself Marlow kidnaps Jonathan Chester, the young son of wealthy industrialist Anthony Chester, and locks him in a rented house with a golliwog containing a time bomb. He then goes to see the boy's father and announces that he will only reveal his whereabouts once he has been paid £50,000 (a large sum at the time) and is safely in Brazil. The boy's nanny alerts the police and Inspector Parnell arrives to discourage Chester from paying up lest it encourages giving in to blackmailers' demands.
Drama, Horror, thriller film, Zombie
In the 1980s, a zombie plague spreads worldwide and causes the deaths of an estimated 100 million people. An unprecedented amount of research goes into finding a cure, but the resulting medicine requires daily doses to be effective. If the infected miss even a single dose, they quickly and irrevocably degenerate to a feral zombie state.