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Crime, Drama, Noir
In Washington D.C., federal agent Rigby is briefed on a racketeering ring that has been selling and retrofitting war surplus aircraft motors for profit, off the coast of Central America. The government suspects Tugwell 'Tug' Hintten and his wife Elizabeth are part of the racket. Tasked to recover the motors and raid their headquarters, Rigby travels to Los Trancos on the island of Carlotta, posing as a sportsman.
Crime, Drama, neo-noir
Ever since his assistant Velda went missing, private detective Mike Hammer has been drinking and he is now homeless. Although Hammer hasn't worked a case in seven years, his old police friend Capt. Pat Chambers asks for his assistance on a job.
Crime, thriller film
A young man with a gambling gets into serious debt by losing all his money. To pay off the bookies, his uncle pulls a few strings and gets him a job working for a gangster named Deepthroat, who needs a "runner" to place bets with bookies. The gangster keeps his new runner on a short leash and, for the most part, the young gambler behaves himself.
Crime, thriller film
Michael Dixon (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is an agent working linewatch for the United States Border Patrol on the U.S. Mexico Border in New Mexico. He is well-respected by his peers at US Border Patrol and loved by his wife Angela (Sharon Leal) and 5-year-old daughter Emily (Deja Warrior).
thriller film
Struggling to come to terms with his mortality, construction contractor Charlie LeBlanc seeks to test the fidelity of his wife, Lilly, a former model who is 30 years his junior. Accompanied by his henchman Dot Collins, Charlie visits one of his construction sites in New Orleans and propositions freelance carpenter Jimmy Mulate to seduce Lilly. Charlie offers Mulate $10,000 upfront, with an additional $50,000 if he succeeds, plus a further $40,000 if he can accurately describe Lilly’s tattoo to Charlie in perfect detail.
Noir
Father Roth counsels another priest named George, who wants to leave the parish because he is discouraged by the difficulties of caring for the parishioners. Roth tells him the story of Martin Lynn, a murderer who brought him "nearer to God". Martin struggles for money to marry his girlfriend and to take his sick mother to Arizona to recuperate.
Action, Science fiction, thriller film
Alex wakes up in the desert with a bullet in the back of her head and total amnesia. Following her footprints back the way she came, she encounters a man named Farnsworth 2, who offers to help her and get her medical attention. He gives her "a shot of endo" to repair the affected part of her brain and she starts to have flashes of memories; when she remembers a woman warning her not to let Farnsworth 2 get her DNA, she kills him with his own gun before he can complete a blood test on her.
American football film, thriller film
Lionel Powers and Julian Messenger are filthy rich men with vast media holdings and dirty family secrets. They play dirty as well, fighting for control over a professional football team in Los Angeles with every weapon at their disposal. Powers' bid attracts particular controversy since he intends to retain ownership of a successful football club in Tucson.
Horror, thriller film
Angie Albright starts college in a town far away from home and her deeply religious mother. Her college roommate likes to indulge in smoking weed, and in trying to escape that, Angie finds a job as a babysitter. The couple who live on the outlying farm of Stanton have a son named Sam who is quiet and loves to wear a cowboy outfit, even when sleeping.
Action, Martial arts
Samurai master Tatsuya Sanga adopts a baby named Andrew Collins who is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Japanese mountains. Andrew and the samurai's son, Kenjiro, are trained in the warrior’s way. Andrew excels and soon surpasses his stepbrother.
Crime, Drama, Noir
Rocky Mulloy was sentenced to life in prison for a robbery and murder that he did not commit. He is released five years later when Delong, a one-legged former Marine, suddenly appears and provides a fake alibi. Delong is an opportunist who hopes that by freeing Rocky, he can claim a share of the missing $100,000 from the robbery.
thriller film
Action, Drama, Martial arts
In 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War, GI Billy Thomas saves captain Scott Monroe's life, but gets shot in the head in the process. The extensive brain damage leaves him with diminished mental capabilities. After the war, Scott opens a bar in Los Angeles and keeps Billy under his wing, but they soon find themselves on shaky financial ground and targeted by mafiosi.
thriller film
After being released from prison, a man infiltrates his ex-wife and her wealthy husband's lives with a vengeance. He plots to rob his ex-wife's husband's bank and expects her to succumb to his evil sexual advances and mind games.
Science fiction, thriller film
Virus is based on the medical fiction novel Outbreak by Robin Cook.
thriller film
Sir Paul is an art critic and writer who was blinded in a car crash. He lives alone in a large mansion in the UK. He is looking for an amanuensis or "ghost writer" to help him write his final book, an autobiography, and interviews several unsuccessful candidates until Jane Ryder applies for the position.
Drama, mystery film, Political Thriller, thriller film
Reno Davis is an American writer who has recently retired from boxing. Now unemployed and broke in France, he encounters the wealthy widow of a French general. Anne de Villemont is attracted to Reno, and he to her, but she keeps him at arm's length.
Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Salem is an inmate of an insane asylum, having been forced to take an insanity plea when wrongly convicted of murdering a farmhand. After two years of confinement, Salem escapes from the fortress-like asylum in the dead of winter and heads for the family farm, which is now run by his younger sisters Emmie and Ester and the latter's husband, Dr Anton Jenks, who had accused Salem of the murder. For revenge, Salem kills the people he believes responsible for his confinement.
Crime, Drama, Noir, prison film
Joe Hufford is arrested after a fistfight in which a man is killed. District attorney George Knowland knows that Hufford did not intend to kill the man and offers his attorney a viable line of defense, but the attorney refuses to listen and Hufford is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to prison. Several years into Hufford's sentence, Knowland is appointed as the prison's new warden and gives Hufford a highly desirable job as his personal chauffeur, which mostly involves driving Knowland's pretty daughter Kay around town.
Horror, prison film, thriller film
Five individuals unknown to each other—Jordan, Grant, Luke, Anna, and Alex—wake up in complete darkness surrounded by stone walls. They realize they have been abducted and make their way through a dark corridor trying to find a way out. The group discovers another room and realize that they have been placed at the bottom of an abandoned well.
Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, mystery film, spy film
Chick Larkin and Mervyn Milgrim both work at the soda counter of a local radio station's headquarters. Their true passion, however, is to become writers on a radio mystery show. They attend a broadcast of the radio program Murder at Midnight along with one of the writers, Jimmy Turner, and the producer, Jane Little.
Action, Adventure, Crime, thriller film
After serving a five-year prison sentence for marijuana possession, Daniel "Poke" Jackson returns to his hometown in Texas where he is greeted by the man who convicted him, Sheriff Duke Calley. Poke assures Duke that he will soon be leaving to go to California, but Duke warns Poke that he is under close watch. Poke calls his old girlfriend Mary Lee Carter and arranges a meeting to see their son Kevin, whom he has never met.
Horror, thriller film
The story centers on a group of strangers trapped in a time warp house where a terrible event transpired exactly 100 years prior.
Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film
In the summer of 2014, Sophie Kessler, a waitress and single mother, who lives with her diabetic mother Kristin and her son Garret in Iowa, discovers that her son is vomiting in his sleep. Fearing that he had developed a new kind of flu, she rushes him to the doctor who reassures her. Garret then develops a rash that neither a pediatrician, dermatologist, or psychologist can diagnose.