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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 258.
Horror, thriller film
A serial killer is terrorizing a community, in which he has stalked and killed five young women, each with a physical disability. The criminal investigation is headed by Lieutenant Fields. Helen Mallory, a beautiful young woman, has been unable to speak a word since she saw her husband and daughter die in a house fire.
Action, Crime, thriller film
Detective Tom (Sean Patrick Flanery) and his partner Ryan Alba (Greg Serano) have spent the last three years unsuccessfully trying to locate the Lion (Joe Pantoliano), an international hitman that has always eluded their grasp. They believe that they've found his location via a tipster but instead find Tom's wife Kelly (Michelle Greathouse) tied up in a basement filled with explosives, surrounded by a black outline. The Lion calls Tom and commands him to kill Kelly or risk the entire house blowing up and killing everyone inside.
Crime
Phyllis tells her story, beginning with how she met rich vintner Paul Hochen from Napa Valley in a bar and married him soon after. Not long after the marriage, Phyllis begins having an affair with a local rodeo rider, San Sanford, seeing him every time her husband is away, which is frequently. One night, her elderly mother-in-law thinks a burglar is breaking into the house, so she calls the police.
Horror, thriller film
Four men on a bachelor party in New York ride the subway and, along with two strippers from the club, accidentally get off at a station that closed down in the 1970s. Trapped in the tunnels beneath New York, they witness the murder of a transit cop by three transients and find themselves on the run for their lives.
Aliens, Sex Film, sexploitation film, thriller film
When a horror writer named Howard Hansen buys an oversized jar containing a strange-looking pickled monster from a tiny shop in Chinatown, he quickly falls under its supernatural influence. Not only can he churn out manuscript pages like never before, he also becomes more sexually aggressive. His unusual change begins to trouble his wife, Peggy, particularly after the arrival of his new sexy blonde live-in secretary, Carol McKay.
Noir
Bank teller Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) dreams that he stabs a man in an octagonal room of mirrors and locks the body in a closet. When he wakes up, he discovers marks on his throat, a strange key and a button in his pocket, and blood on his cuff. Cliff Herlihy (Paul Kelly), his police officer brother-in-law, tries to convince him it was just a dream.
Action, prison film, thriller film
After the New Alcatraz massacre, long time inmate Twitch (Kurupt) gets himself transferred to another. He claims it's to be closer to his lady, but his real motives are a bit more grandiose than that. There he crosses paths with Burke (Bill Goldberg) a bulky prisoner who is unfriendly and doesn't want to talk about anyone.
Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Science fiction, thriller film
In Providence, a husband and his wife die in a botched robbery; we see flickers of his last memories. His heart goes to Terry Bernard, a single father raising a girl with a rare degenerative disease. After the operation, Terry has flashes of memory from the last moments of the dead donor's life.
Aliens, Hard Science Fiction, Retro Science Fiction, Science fiction, thriller film
thriller film
Paul Gregory is a blind but successful pop music composer, married to the beautiful Anne. Anne is having a secret affair with struggling artist Rickie Seldon, and persuades Paul to commission Rickie to paint her portrait as a pretext to enable them to spend time together. Paul agrees, but after a recording session with Ronnie Carroll he is told by his business partner Mike Williams that Anne and Rickie have been seen about town together in circumstances which leave no doubt that they are more than friends.
Action, thriller film
The film begins with Francisco Francis (Forest Whitaker) running in the jungle with his family while soldiers are shooting and killing people around them. The scene changes to an office building where Tony Green (Steven Bauer) is speaking to Bruce (Kim Coates) in Clearbec corporate offices telling him that Francisco had broken into the local offices and stolen their files. As he converses with Bruce, he orders Renaldo (Devon Bostick), a young aide in his office, to hurry.
Action, thriller film
13-year-old Nicole is the daughter of the wealthy businessman Raymond Stone. She is arguing with her parents, from the parents' point of view because of her school performance, from the daughter's point of view because she feels neglected by her parents. As she is flying in her father's private plane, lightning strikes the plane and the explosion tears a hole in the cabin wall.
Action, Drama, thriller film, war film
In post-war Berlin, British Major Haven recruits members of what's left of a returning German bomb disposal unit—Hans Globke, Peter Tillig, Wolfgang Sulke, Franz Loeffler, Karl Wirtz and Eric Koertner—to defuse unexploded Allied bombs throughout the city. Karl bets Eric that he will outlive him. The other men soon agree that half of their salaries will go to the survivors in three months' time.
Erotic Thriller, Horror, Slasher, Splatter Film
Nancy Weston, a reporter for The Globe, approaches Abraham Gentry, an obnoxious private investigator, and offers him $25,000 on behalf of The Globe to investigate the brutal murder of stripper Suzie Cream Puff. She sweetens the deal with a $25,000 bonus for solving the case. Of course this comes contingent that The Globe gets the exclusive story.
Drama, Psychodrama, thriller film
Hedda Amerson was once involved in an abusive relationship with her ex-boyfriend, whose abuse impacted her once-promising career in swimming. Since Hedda left him, he has driven three women to attempt suicide, with the last one succeeding. Hedda is subpoenaed to testify on his abusive behavior in court, but she is reluctant to go through with it.
Action, Blaxploitation, exploitation film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
Kane, a hate-fuelled racist redneck absconds from jail with his sidekicks (an Asian and a Mexican). They hole up in the secluded house of Ted Turner, a black minister, and his family. After threats and harsh epithets are exchanged, the minister is forced to take action to defend his family.
Erotic Thriller, neo-noir
Bridget Gregory, a femme fatale hiding from the law in Spain, cons a phone-sex entrepreneur while being pursued by a relentless private investigator.
Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Mitchell and Carter, old friends who have begun to drift apart, agree to go on a road-trip. Along the way, their truck breaks down in the California desert. Mitchell is relieved when a motorist stops and offers help, but Carter admits he has sabotaged their truck in order to give them time to reconnect and force a dialogue between them.
Coming-of-age, thriller film
Described as "a coming-of-age drama that evolves into a crime thriller", the film begins with teenagers Jonas and Casey meeting, introduced by Casey's faithful dog Blaze. Jonas spends his days working on his father's cattle ranch in the Great Lakes region of North America; Casey and her father Wayne, a police sergeant, are the new neighbors. Wayne tries to quell the romance blossoming between Casey and Jonas.
Crime, crime thriller film, Horror, monster film, Science fiction
A group of criminals, led by ruthless Alexander Ward, hatch a plan to steal gold bars from a bank vault in Deadwood, South Dakota. Ward sends one of his henchmen, Marty Jones, to plant a time bomb in a nearby gold mine. The detonation will occur the next morning and act as a diversion for their heist.
Action, fantasy film, Martial arts, thriller film
The Shadow Men are immortal beings of darkness and destruction. One such Shadow Man, Os, is confronted by the White Warrior, a being of light, and given the chance to change his ways or die. The White Warrior stops the combat and opens Os' heart to the power of love, and charges him to find the warriors who are the representation of the five elements and will save the world from the threat of the Shadow Men and their leader, Slate.
Science fiction, thriller film
The USS Essex is travelling in the furthest reaches of the known Universe when it encounters a gigantic creature. After pirates steal their cargo and most of their supplies the captain decides to capture the creature. The creature is a rare and nearly extinct species and the captain soon becomes obsessed with succeeding in its capture.
Horror
De Havilland plays Laura Wynant, a wealthy former mental patient who has travelled to her country estate to recuperate. While there, she discovers, when hearing faint calls for help, that a woman has been buried alive on her property. Laura tries to inform others of what she has found but nobody believes her, and her family begins to suspect a relapse in her mental condition.
thriller film
Married couple Lynn and Doug Kaines (De Mornay and Silver), owners of an exotic furniture design company, visit Mexico, while Lynn is in the first term of her pregnancy. On their nighttime return trip, with her at the wheel, they accidentally run into and kill a Mexican police officer in the middle of the road. They make no report of the accident, wary of the perils of a Mexican jail, but slide the dead cop to the side of the road and return to the United States.