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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 274.

11/11/11 (2011)

Horror, Occult Horror, Parody, thriller film

Jack and Melissa Vales become increasingly frightened as their young son, Nathan, expresses violent and bizarre behavior; what the couple soon learn is that their son's upcoming birthday of November 11, the Apocalypse will occur and Nathan is the gateway.

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Deadly Sins (1995)

Drama, Horror, Mysterie, mystery film, Slasher

The story begins with the discovery of Gwendolyn 'Gwen' Jones (April Telek), a student at an Eau Claire, Wisconsin Catholic school, who is found dead, hanged from the church bells. Over the last five years, eleven girls have disappeared from the school under mysterious circumstances. Deputy Sheriff Jack Gates (David Keith) is sent from Seattle to investigate the growing string of deaths.

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Invasion of the Pod People (2007)

B movie, Horror, independent film, LGBTQ-related film, Science fiction, thriller film

The film is about Melissa (Erica Roby), a young woman living in Los Angeles, who works for a large corporation. One night, there is a freak meteor shower. The next morning, Melissa goes about her day but as time passes, slowly becomes aware that those around her have changed since the meteorites fell.

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Raw Nerve (1991)

Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

A series of grotesque murders plagues the city of Mobile, Alabama where an unknown serial killer is killing women with a pump-action shotgun. A young race car driver, named Jimmy Clayton (Ted Prior), goes to the police where he talks with Lt. Detective Bruce Ellis (Jan-Michael Vincent) and his superior Captain Gavin (Glenn Ford) claiming that he has been having visions about the killer.

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Hellmaster (1992)

Horror, Psychological Thriller

Part of a secret government eugenics project, crazed biochemistry professor Jones (John Saxon) committed terrible crimes on his college campus in the late 1960s before one of his colleagues burned the college to put a deadly end to his spree. Jones is presumed dead, but a series of murders twenty years later raises questions of whether he has somehow managed to return. In actuality, Jones's drug experiments have turned him into a superhuman.

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Sirocco (1951)

Action, Adventure, Drama, Noir, romance film, war film

In 1925 Damascus, the native Syrians are fighting a guerrilla war against the French colonial rule of Syria. Harry Smith is an American black marketeer secretly selling weapons to the guerrillas. As the situation deteriorates, French general LaSalle orders the execution of civilian sympathizers each time that his soldiers are killed, but his head of military intelligence Colonel Feroud persuades him to simply detain civilians for 48 hours.

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The Aviary (2022)

Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Two women escape from a dangerous cult into the New Mexican desert. They fear the cult's charming and controlling leader might be following them. With dwindling supplies and fraying nerves, they must confront the challenge of evading an enemy who seems to haunt their thoughts.

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The Stickup (2001)

Action, Crime, thriller film

Former police detective John Parker is accused of stealing a half million dollars from a small-town bank. Police detective Ray DeCarlo launches a daring high-speed chase through narrow mountain passes to catch him. In order to prove his innocence, Parker finds Natalie Wright, DeCarlo's ex wife.

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Place Vendôme (1998)

Crime, Drama

Vincent Malivert is the head of a prestigious jewel broker's firm on the exclusive Place Vendôme. Hampered by debt and implicated in trafficking of stolen jewels, he commits suicide, leaving his wife Marianne to pick up the pieces. Marianne, who has spent the last few years in and out of a clinic recovering from alcoholism, discovers a set of perfect cut diamonds in her husband's safe.

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Killer Force (1976)

Action, Heist, thriller film

Head of security Harry Webb fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at the company's major mining complex in the desert. He quickly manages to become very unpopular, particularly with Claire Chambers, a celebrated cover girl and daughter of the mine administrator. She is visiting the man she loves, Mike Bradley, who is responsible for security at the mine.

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Atomic Twister (2002)

Action, disaster film, katastrophe, thriller film

A series of tornadoes cripple Hellman-Klein Nuclear Power Plant located in Basset County, West Tennessee by damaging a power transformer and a generator, killing the plant's security guard Stu (Carl Lewis) in the process, and leaving the plant with very little power to operate. Hellman-Klein's shift supervisor Corrine Maguire sets out to try and contact the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), while an operator, Neville erroneously shuts down non-vital systems, which include the electric pumps in an attempt to reduce power. Just then, a second tornado hits the plant, damaging the diesel pumps, losing almost all controls.

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The Librarians (2003)

Action, thriller film

William Clark (played by Michael Parks), a former associate of Simon (played by William Forsythe), hires Simon who, along with his pal mercenaries Toshko and G-Man, call themselves The Librarians. Their goal is to find Clark's missing granddaughter Amanda. With the help of his old friend, Irish (played uncredited by Burt Reynolds), Simon runs into Sandi (played by Erika Eleniak) at the strip club where Amanda was working before she disappeared.

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Command Performance (2009)

Action, thriller film

In August 1991, Communist military hard-liners attempted a coup against Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The coup failed, and all its members were arrested; from the ashes of the old Soviet Union, the modern Russian Federation was born. At the request of Russian president Alexei Petrov, whose daughters Anna and Yana are fans, pop sensation Venus performs a concert in Moscow.

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Playback (2012)

Horror, Obsession, thriller film

On October 21, 1994, Harlan Diehl (Luke Bonczyk) murders his family at their farmhouse and he is shot by the police, as he kills his sister. The tragedy leaves behind video footage (which he had taped) and his sister's baby, who lives. Fifteen years later in Marshall, Michigan, an ambitious high school student Julian Miller (Johnny Pacar), is tasked with completing a film assignment on forgotten local stories for journalism class.

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The Gay Falcon (1941)

Crime, Mysterie, mystery film

Ladies' man and amateur crime solver Gay Laurence, the Gay Falcon, reluctantly agrees to give up both habits to mollify his fiancée, Elinor Benford. He and his uncouth sidekick, Jonathan "Goldie" Locke, become unenthusiastic stockbrokers. When Elinor asks him to attend a party given by Maxine Wood to mingle with potential clients, he refuses.

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The Masks of Death (1984)

Crime, Horror, thriller film

In 1913, Sherlock Holmes, virtually in retirement, is persuaded by Inspector Alec MacDonald of Scotland Yard to take on a baffling case. Three dead bodies have been found in London's East End, all with no discernible cause of death, but the expressions on their faces suggest that they all died in a state of terror. Holmes, accompanied by Dr Watson, begins an investigation, but before he can make any real progress he is visited by the British Home Secretary and a German Diplomat, Count Udo von Felseck, who tell Holmes that a German envoy, on a secret mission to Britain, has disappeared from Felseck's house in Buckinghamshire.

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Roadflower (1994)

Action, thriller film

Jack Lerolland, his brother Glen and family and friends go for a short country trip. When young Rich Lerolland is nearly run down, his father takes off after the car that was involved. The driver, a psychopath named Cliff leads a gang of thugs.

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Trapped (1949)

Crime, Noir

The U.S. Treasury Department needs to locate the source of a high-grade counterfeit operation. A counterfeiter in prison, Tris Stewart, agrees to be released on early parole in a pretend jail break, remaining under supervision, in order that he may assist in locating the persons currently doing the forging and the plates which years ago belonged to him.

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The River's Edge (1957)

Adventure, Noir

Ben Cameron is a struggling New Mexico rancher who is devoted to his wife Meg. They married while she was on parole for a ten-year prison sentence. Meg has not adjusted to ranch life and she still loves her former partner in crime, Nardo Denning, who abandoned her after her arrest.

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