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The Time Shifters (1999)

Science fiction, thriller film, Time travel

Tom Merrick (Van Dien) is a TV reporter filming a live segment on a fire at a power plant. He spots a creepy-looking man (Richings) dropping his watch. This momentary distraction saves his life when parts of the building collapses on top of his crew.

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Schizo (1976)

Horror, Slasher, thriller film

Samantha Gray, a famous figure skater, is engaged to London businessman Alan Falconer. On the day of Alan and Samantha's wedding, ex-convict William Haskin begins stalking Samantha. Over the next few days, Haskin terrifies Samantha by leaving bloody knives in various locations, including her home.

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Without Evidence (1995)

docudrama, Drama, thriller film, trial film

Without Evidence is based on the true story of Michael Francke, who was the Head of Corrections for the state of Oregon before being murdered. Just before his murder, Francke visits his brother and informs him he's been "stepping on some toes, found some things and got to clean house." involving his prison colleagues. When Michael is killed, his brother begins his own investigation into the murder, leading him to more lies and deceit.

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Echoes of War (2015)

Drama, thriller film

In post-Civil War Texas, two neighboring families are grieving tragic losses while they struggle to survive. The cattle-ranching McCluskeys have lost both a son and their entire herd to the war. The Rileys, mourning the loss of wife and mother Mary to illness, eke out a living trapping animals and selling their pelts.

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Human Experiments (1979)

Drama, exploitation film, Horror, thriller film

Rachel Foster is a country singer traveling alone through the USA. She resists the advances of lecherous bar owner Mat Tibbs and, in her hurry to leave town, she accidentally wrecks her car. Looking for assistance, she finds what appears to be an abandoned house—but after stumbling inside the place, she discovers the scene of a grisly multiple homicide perpetrated by a young boy.

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Seduced by Madness (1996)

Crime, Drama

In the film, the story begins with three teenage boys breaking into the house of Ruben Borchardt with the intention of killing him for payment. The film then jumps back seven months earlier to the fall of 1993. Ruben's wife, Diane, is portrayed as mentally unstable and abusive towards Ruben and their children.

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I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

Crime, Drama, Heist, Noir, romance film

Roy "Mad Dog" Earle, an aging bank robber, intends to pull off one last heist before retiring. Sprung from prison by crime boss Big Mac, Earle agrees to plan the robbery of a resort hotel. His partners include the hotheaded Babe Kossuck, easy-going Red Hattery, and an "inside man" at the hotel, Louis Mendoza.

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Paranoid (2000)

crime thriller film, Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

The film begins at a fashion show, where Chloe Keene (Jessica Alba) takes the catwalk. She returns home to her boyfriend Toby (Oliver Milburn) and tells him what a great time she had in New York. The phone rings, but no one is on the other end, and she tells her friend she will change her number.

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The Salzburg Connection (1972)

spy film, thriller film

In 1971, the British photographer Richard Bryant (Patrick Jordan) dives into a deep mountain lake, the "Finstersee", and retrieves a heavy box. Soon afterwards two local men confront him, demanding to know where he has put the chest. When Bryant refuses to answer, the younger man strikes him, causing Bryant to fall and strike his head on a rock.

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Illicit Dreams (1994)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller

Dr. Daniel Davis is married to Moira, both of whom have a rocky relationship; Dan has seduced several women who are his patients while treating his wife carelessly. Moira frequently dreams of visiting a large house and makes love to a man named Nick.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)

Drama, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film

The story follows respectable Dr. Henry Jekyll, who suggests to his colleagues that finding a means to separate the good and bad inherent in every human being, and eliminating the evil side, will help advance man's progress and survival. He has created a serum which he believes will accomplish this, but the very idea of it is rejected by his peers.

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Double Agent 73 (1975)

Crime, Erotic Thriller, Raunchy comedy, sexploitation film, thriller film

Chesty Morgan, a woman whose bust is in size, plays Jane Tennay, a large breasted secret agent. Her agency wants her to assassinate, one by one, an organized crew of low grade heroin pushers. In order for her to prove her killings, they plant a tiny camera in her big left breast.

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Affinity (2008)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film

Affinity is set in Victorian England; the story of an upper-class woman, Margaret (Anna Madeley), who becomes an official "Visitor" to a woman's prison; however, she becomes emotionally attached to one of the inmates, Selina (Zoe Tapper). As the story progresses through Selina's shady background, and Margaret's dislike of her home life; a plot to break out of the prison develops. But just what the plan is, and who calls the shots is yet to be discovered.

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The Hitchhiker (2007)

female buddy film, Horror, Psychological Thriller, rape and revenge film, thriller film

While travelling through Utah, Jack Carter picks up a hitchhiker, but kicks him out after a few minutes due to the man hitting on him. Hours later, Jack stops in a secluded area, and begins digging a grave for the woman he had bound and gagged in the back of his pickup truck. Four women (Melinda, Patty, Kristina, and Denise) from Colorado Springs are driving through the area on their way to a nurse's conference in Las Vegas.

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Wheels of Terror (1990)

Horror

On a desert highway in Arizona, a man and his daughter have broken down on the side of the road. After a truck does not stop to help them, they are then approached by a dirt-covered black 1974 Dodge Charger with a 400 V8. The driver of the Charger (who is never seen) then strikes the man, killing him, before backing up and abducting the screaming girl.

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Frauds (1993)

Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy

A boy named Roland Copping is celebrating his eighth birthday, where his mother gives him a pair of dice that belonged to his father. Roland and his brother Matthew make a raft, and Roland tells Matthew to get on the raft after rolling the dice. Sending it on the river, Matthew jumps onto an overhead crane while the raft goes over a waterfall.

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The Disappeared (2008)

Horror, thriller film

Matthew Ryan (Harry Treadaway) has just been released from a psychiatric hospital following a breakdown resulting from the disappearance of his younger brother, Tom. Feeling guilty and responsible for Tom's disappearance, he begins to hear Tom's voice and to see him around. He seeks advice from his friend Simon (Tom Felton), the parish priest Adrian Ballan (Alex Jennings), and his new neighbour, Amy Tyler (Ros Leeming).

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Doomsday Gun (1994)

Biography, Political Thriller

The younger Catholic Gerald Bull is fascinated with large-bore guns, inspired by Jules Verne's novel From The Earth To The Moon. The older Dr. Gerald Bull's career as a successful large-bore gun designer takes a turn as he is defunded by the U.S.

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The Killing Time (1987)

Action, thriller film

A stranger shoots a man named Brian Mars and buries him on the side of a road. Then he assumes his identity and moves to a small town in California to start a job as a deputy sheriff. His motives are unclear, but he has nightmares of being a child and finding his father's dead body hanging on a rope.

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Swamp Women (1956)

Adventure, Crime, exploitation film, Horror, thriller film

Three escaped female convicts, along with an undercover policewoman, Lee Hampton, begin a search for stolen diamonds in the Louisiana swamps. The escape, allowed by the authorities, is part of a larger plan by the authorities to trail the convicts and recover the diamonds. When notified that the stolen diamond cache has been recovered by the undercover officer, they plan to rearrest the women and return the diamonds to their rightful owner.

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