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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 266.
Crime, Drama, Horror, thriller film
An 1840s British surgeon, Dr. Thomas Bolton, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace.
Action, thriller film
Ex-Green Beret Matt Collins is kidnapped along with his fiancée, Lauren Sadler, by the crazed hunter extraordinaire Danton Vachs. Every year, Vachs holds a contest where people can purchase the right to hunt down and kill human beings. This time, Collins is to be the hunted while Vachs uses Lauren as motivation for him to really fight for his life, thus providing the buyers with an exceptionally entertaining hunt.
thriller film
Tom, a student, comes under suspicion of murder when he discovers a dead body in the flat of con artist Jo. After he touches the murder weapon, Jo convinces him it is in his interest to dispose of the body. The victim was Jo's partner in crime who has been murdered by a Soho gang boss.
Drama, Ghost, Horror, thriller film
Molly, Lizzie (two sisters), and their mother, Rachel, move from downtown Detroit to Ferndale, Michigan, into a very old house. After many strange things begin to happen, Rachel does some research on the house's history and finds out that the house was owned in the 1950s by a 17-year-old German girl, Greta, and her abusive husband, and that while she lived there, she went missing and was never seen again. Upon searching the house, Rachel and her brother discover the girl's skeleton boarded up inside the wall of Lizzie's bedroom with scratch marks on the wood inside, suggesting she was locked in there while still alive.
Crime, Drama, Noir, thriller film
Claude is a disaffected man who, in search of fast money to purchase a $28,000 house, decides to become a contract killer for a Mr. Brink. After proving his worth by killing targets in a barber shop and a hospital for a Mr.
Action, Action Comedy, Adventure, Comedy horror, Dark Comedy, Horror, thriller film, war film
After a commercial airliner crashes on an uncharted island, the surviving passengers, a multi-cultural cross-section of the US population with some of them coming from Tromaville, notice armed uniformed people of various countries apparently looking for survivors. When one of passengers surrenders herself, she is brutally shot. It becomes evident that the island is a terrorist infiltration camp.
thriller film
Sean McMurphy, a wealthy entrepreneur, meets a very beautiful woman and a passionate love affair ignites but soon it unfolds into a dark suspense/thriller where everyone around him is seduced into her dark web of lies, torture and deceit.
Action, girls with guns, sexploitation film, spy film, thriller film
A security agency becomes involved in a violent conflict over possession of a rare diamond.
Erotic Thriller, thriller film
Action, Drama, thriller film
August, a Lower East Side bartender, becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving Signe, a desperate woman, Angel, the brother of Jesus, a missing drug dealer and Nicholas, the scion of a powerful investment firm.
Drama, thriller film
A mother and her two children, an older sister and a younger brother, witness a man shoot their husband and father. Traumatized, the boy never speaks again. The children grow up and the girl becomes a beautiful young woman, who attracts the attention of some local men.
Horror, thriller film
Ian Stone is an average man. He loves ice hockey but lives for his girlfriend, Jenny Walker. Late one night while driving home from a painful loss on the ice, Ian thinks he sees a dead body near the railroad tracks.
Action, spy film, thriller film
Drama, Noir, Psychological Thriller
Police psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Collins tells a detective that he believes that he can help to turn a young suspect away from crime. Through an extended flashback he illustrates his claim with the story of how he came to work for the police.
Drama, Mysterie, mystery film, teen film, thriller film
A North Carolina sheriff investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of a working class college girl and discovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery.
Action, Adventure, fantasy film, Treasure hunt
The adventurer Allan Quatermain has been recruited to lead a British-American expedition in search of a fabled treasure deep within unexplored Africa. Throughout the film, Quatermain must avoid hidden dangers, violent natives and other unseen traps during their quest for the treasure of the Temple of Skulls, travelling by train, river and air to reach his goal, while being pursued by rival treasure-seekers and unfriendly natives who wish to sabotage his expedition.
Action, Drama, thriller film, war film
Special Air Service patrol Bravo Two Zero is inserted into Iraq by helicopter to locate and destroy Iraqi Scud missile launchers. En route they find an unexpected group of Bedouin tribesmen and hide until they are noticed by a shepherd and exchange fire with armed fighters. They escape and return to the initial landing point but there is no helicopter waiting for them.
Marital Tragedy, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
The film opens with a fire. Lyle Wilder (Charlie Sheen) is a decorated Los Angeles firefighter who saved an Afro-American baby's life in a crack house fire. He was honored for his bravery.
thriller film, Western
Wild West gunslinger and gambler John Wesley Hardin (Rock Hudson) is pardoned and released from a Huntsville, Texas prison in 1896, after serving 16 years of a 25-year sentence. He delivers a manuscript of his life, written during his incarceration, to a local printer, in the hopes of it being printed. The film's story is presented mostly as flashbacks, as the autobiography recounts Hardin's exploits outside the law.
Action, thriller film
John Steele is a Vietnam Vet who had trouble adjusting to life after the war. He hasn't been able to hold on to a job which includes being a cop. When his best friend Lee, who also served with him in Vietnam and who also became a cop, was killed by some drug dealers he was investigating, Steele was able to save his daughter and saw one of the shooters.
Comedy horror, Horror, thriller film
Action, thriller film
After a heated argument with her military police turned cop husband, Lawson (Michael Dudikoff); Russian immigrant house wife, Lara () storms off into the night convinced he's more married to his job than her. On her drive to a friend's house, she takes pity on a mournful hitchhiker Justin Mckay (Mark Hamill), desperately searching for a ride. Her offer of a lift to him plunges her into a night of pure terror as Justin is seriously disturbed, twisted by a tortured childhood which ended in being made to see his little sister's shocking murder and mutilation at the hands of his brutal alcoholic mother (who took a butcher knife to her head…
Drama, Horror, Occult Horror
Former minister Travis Jordan lives in Antioch, Washington, three years after losing his faith in God when his beloved wife was murdered and the criminals never found. Suddenly, miracles happen in the little town: the new veterinarian's son survives an accident whilst in a van without one single scratch, Travis's dog Max revives after being buried, a paraplegic walks, and a scarred teenager and her police officer father (who has a brain tumor) heal. In all these events, witnesses see either a group of three men wearing black nearby or their tall, (possibly) blond leader, who seems to want everyone to know that “he is coming”.
Horror
While at his family's lakeside lodge in northern Wisconsin, six-year-old Peter van Cleese witnesses his grandfather mysteriously become overtaken by an apparent supernatural force while listening to a reel-to-reel tape player and fishing on the dock. He falls into the lake, and his body is never recovered. Seventeen years later, Peter, now a recent college graduate, has inherited the lodge.