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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 271.

L'affaire Farewell (2009)

spy film, thriller film

In the early 1980s, a high-ranking KGB analyst, Sergei Grigoriev, disillusioned with the Soviet regime, decides to pass Soviet secrets, including a list of their spies, to the government of France, then under the newly elected President François Mitterrand, a Socialist in coalition with the Communist Party. Grigoriev (code-named Farewell by the French intelligence service) hopes to force change in the Soviet Union by revealing their extensive network of spies trying to acquire scientific, technical and industrial information from the West. He uses Pierre Froment, a naïve French engineer based in Moscow, as his unlikely intermediary.

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Justice for Annie: A Moment of Truth Movie (1996)

Drama, thriller film

Carol Mills (Peggy Lipton) is a mother who has a troubled relationship with her 19-year-old daughter Annie (Danica McKellar). Unable to live with her any longer, Annie moves out and marries her boyfriend Ken Carman (Martin Cummins). It soon turns out their marriage is a failure, and she decides to move in with another family, George and Helen Preston (Terry David Mulligan, Susan Ruttan).

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Nora Roberts' Blue Smoke (2007)

Drama, romance film, thriller film

After watching a fire burn her family's Baltimore pizzeria to the ground, 11‑year-old Reena Hale (Witt) decides she wants to be an arson investigator when she grows up. And with the help of mentor John Minger (Bakula), whom she met during the investigation of her family's restaurant, Reena realizes her dream. Years later, the grown up Reena buys a house in the old neighborhood, moving in next door to carpenter Bo Goodnight (Settle).

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Run for the Sun (1956)

Action, Adventure, Drama, thriller film

While working for Sight magazine, journalist Katie Connors goes to San Marcos, a remote Mexican fishing village. She seeks novelist and adventurer Mike Latimer, who has abandoned writing "at the peak of his fame" and dropped from sight. He is in the village, indulging in drinking, fishing, hunting, and flying his aircraft.

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Permission to Kill (1975)

Drama, Political Thriller, spy film

Alexander Diakim, leader of the socialist "National Freedom Party", wants to return to his fascist controlled country in order to organise resistance to the government. An organisation calling itself "Western Intelligence Liaison" (WIL), has orders to stop him and the operation is led by agent Alan Curtis. Curtis has identified five individuals who would be useful to the operation, and has 'persuaded' them to travel to the town of Gmunden, Austria using a mixture of bribery, blackmail and subterfuge.

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Columbus Circle (2012)

Crime, Drama, Noir, thriller film

An heiress has shut herself inside her Columbus Circle apartment for nearly two decades. A detective investigating the death of one of her neighbors and the duo who move into the subsequently vacant apartment force her to face her fears of the outside world.

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Cause for Alarm! (1951)

Drama, Noir

During World War II, Ellen works as a nurse in a naval hospital. While dating military doctor Ranney Grahame, Ellen meets Ranney's pilot friend George Jones and they fall in love and marry. Years later in their suburban house, George is gravely ill with a heart condition and confined to his bed.

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Benefit of the Doubt (1993)

thriller film

Karen, a life-weary single-mother and waitress finds her life disrupted when her father, Frank, is finally released after 20 years in the State Pen. It was she who provided the key testimony that had him convicted of uxoricide. She still believes he did it, but is unable to remember the exact details of the traumatic event.

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Assassin (2015)

thriller film

Hitman Jamie (Danny Dyer) has been hired to kill a man, a not unfamiliar prospect for him. However things grow complicated when he ends up falling for the daughter of his hit, especially after the deed is done and she begins to question who killed her father and why. This puts her in the path of John and Lee Alberts, the two gangsters that hired Jamie, requiring him to protect his new love while also trying to avoid the two brothers.

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Die Screaming, Marianne (1971)

Crime, Drama, Horror, thriller film

A young women jumps from a window and runs through town and country to escape some men who are pursuing her. As the story unfolds, it emerges that she is Marianne, a nightclub dancer, who is on the run from her father, a disbarred corrupt judge who lives in a villa in Portugal with Marianne's half-sister Hildegarde. On her 21st birthday, Marianne is due to receive a large inheritance from Ruth, her mother and a former lover of the judge.

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Scared to Death (1947)

Horror, Mysterie

thumb|left|Lugosi and Rossitto thumb| The film opens with the disclosure by morgue examiners that a beautiful woman has literally died of fright. The plot reveals how she reached the fatal stage of terror. The woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment.

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Paydirt (2020)

Action, crime thriller film, Heist, thriller film

Criminal gang leader Damien Brooks is recently out on parole. He was caught during a drug bust gone awry ten years ago. He reconnects with his old crew to find the cash they stole and buried as a result of that DEA bust.

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Believers (2007)

Horror, thriller film

While on duty, two paramedics, David Vaughn and Victor Hernandez, receive a call from a young girl named Libby, whose mother has lost consciousness in a deserted area. However, when they arrive there they are captured by members of a cult called the Quanta Group. The two men discover that the Quanta Group is composed of scientists, philosophers and mathematicians and led by a man who calls himself "The Teacher".

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Iron Cross (2009)

Drama, Mysterie

Joseph is a retired NYPD cop and Holocaust survivor. He travels to Nuremberg to visit his son Ronnie years after turning his back on him for rejecting a promising career in the NYPD and marrying a local artist, Anna. No sooner does Joseph attempt to heal the rift with Ronnie than he swears that an elderly man living in Ronnie's building, under the false name of Shrager, is the Nazi SS Commander who slaughtered his entire family during World War II.

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After Alice (2000)

thriller film

A troubled cop makes a discovery that really has him worried in this thriller. Police detective Mickey Hayden (Kiefer Sutherland) is ordered to take a new look at a case he'd worked on ten years ago. A brilliant but demented serial killer known as Jabberwocky went on a killing spree before dropping out of sight.

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The Big Cube (1969)

thriller film

Adriana Roman, a successful stage actress, retires to marry Charles Winthrop, a wealthy tycoon. Winthrop's daughter, Lisa, is instantly distrustful of Adriana solely because she is "the other woman" taking her father's affection. Charles is killed in a boating accident, which also leads to Adriana suffering from a concussion.

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Blackout (2008)

Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

During a citywide power outage, three strangers—Karl, Tommy, and Claudia—are trapped in a stalled elevator. Karl, a photographer and physician, seems tense and evasive. Tommy, a volatile young man, bristles when Karl takes his picture and soon begins arguing with Claudia, a student who enters the elevator covered in blood after leaving a hospital.

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