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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 280.

Spy Smasher (1942)

spy film

Alan Armstrong as the Spy Smasher is a costumed vigilante and freelance agent, not associated with the US government, as the country has not yet joined its allies in World War II. After discovering information about Nazi activities in occupied France, he is captured and ordered to be executed, but with the help of Pierre Durand, he escapes back to the United States, meeting with his twin brother Jack. Jack is incorrectly recognized and attacked by a Nazi agent on American soil.

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The Last Heist (2016)

action thriller

Bernard (Henry Rollins) arrives at a small bank in Los Angeles to withdraw his belongings from a safety deposit box due to the bank closing down. He meets the mild-mannered employee Danny (Michael Aaron Milligan), his manager Mark (John O'Brien), the elderly Ms. Waxman (Fay DeWitt) and Cynthia (Courtney Compton).

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W (1974)

thriller film

Within 24 hours, three near-fatal accidents have occurred. At the scene of each, the letter "W" is scrawled over the injured person. Katie Lewis (Twiggy) and her husband Ben (Michael Witney) discover that these accidents are in fact the work of a mysterious killer, and that they are the real targets.

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Ruben Brandt, a gyujto (2018)

action thriller, Adventure, Cartoon, Crime, Detective, Heist, Noir, Surrealist, thriller film

Unlikely as it seems, Ruben Brandt travels by train along with Duveneck's Whistling Boy and is attacked by Velázquez's Infanta Margarita Teresa. It is revealed that he had been having a nightmare. Acrobatic thief Mimi steals Cleopatra's Fan from the Louvre Museum.

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Inescapable (2012)

Secret Agent, thriller film

Adib Abdel-Kareem was an officer in the Syrian military force before being labeled a traitor and having to flee to Canada. With his wife, two daughters, and a steady job in Toronto, Adib is confident he has put his past behind him. That is until he learns that his eldest daughter Muna has gone missing in Damascus, after taking a secret detour to Syria while on an assignment in Greece.

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Strategic Command (1997)

Action, thriller film

Rick Harding (Michael Dudikoff) is a former US Marine officer, now working as biological weapons scientist for the FBI. Harding's lab is infiltrated, which results in terrorists getting their hands on a deadly nerve agent, Bromax 365. Led by Carlos Gruber (Richard Norton), the terrorists hijack Air Force Two, the aircraft of the vice president), a Boeing VC-25 en route from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.

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Black Gunn (1972)

Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Heist, thriller film

In Los Angeles, a nighttime robbery of an illegal mafia bookmaking operation is carried out by the militant African-American organization BAG (Black Action Group). Though successful, several of the bookmakers and one of the burglars are killed. The mastermind behind the robbery, a Vietnam veteran named Scott, is the brother of a prominent nightclub owner, Gunn.

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La casa de las mil muñecas (1967)

Crime, Drama, Horror, sexploitation film, thriller film

Stephen Armstrong, vacationing with his wife Marie in Tangiers, runs into an old friend and learns he is searching for his missing girlfriend who was kidnapped by an international gang of white slavers. The kidnappers are nightclub magician Manderville and his mentalist partner Rebecca. Under the guise of their nightclub act, they hypnotize and kidnap young women for the white slavers, and spirit them away to an exclusive brothel called "The House of 1000 Dolls." Stephen continues the investigation when his friend is murdered.

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Dying to Belong (1997)

Drama

University freshman Lisa Connors has high expectations for a position at the campus newspaper. Her mother pushes her to join Pi Gamma Beta, the most prominent sorority on campus, while her first day. Her plans, however, are derailed when Shelby, a friend of hers, is killed on initiation night as a result of a typical hazing gone wrong at the same sorority.

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Shark Swarm (2008)

Animal horror, Horror, natural horror film, television film

Corporate real estate tycoon Hamilton Lux (Armand Assante) sets his sights on developing the quaint seaside town of Full Moon Bay, California into a prime getaway for the wealthy, but runs into some unexpected problems. Lifelong fisherman Daniel Wilder (John Schneider) and wife Brooke (Daryl Hannah) own property exactly where Lux wants to build high-priced condos, and are not planning to sell. Lux secretly laces the local waters with a toxin deadly to marine life, devastating the local fishing industry in an attempt to starve Daniel out.

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Prowl (2010)

Horror, thriller film, Vampire

Amber is a young woman who works at a butchery and dreams of escaping her small town existence and her alcoholic, widowed mother. Lately, meat and blood have started to upset her and her sleep is plagued by unsettling dreams in which she's either confronted by bloodthirsty creatures, or she runs at breakneck speed, something she excels at in everyday life, too. After learning she's been adopted, Amber decides to leave her old life behind and move to Chicago, but the owner of the apartment she plans to rent requires an advance deposit to be delivered before the following day at noon.

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Bad Blood (1981)

Drama, thriller film

In October 1941 Stan Graham, a Westland smallholder, develops a persecution complex and starts to threaten his neighbours, in which he is encouraged by his wife. He then refuses to conform to a government order for all citizens to surrender their firearms for the duration of the war. Eventually a party of four policemen arrive to confiscate his firearms, which causes a flashpoint for Graham.

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The Fifth Floor (1978)

Drama, thriller film

The film focuses on Kelly McIntyre, a disco dancer played by Dianne Hull who through no fault of her own accidentally overdoses on drugs and collapses at a disco. She is misdiagnosed as suicidal and sent to a psychiatric ward which is on the fifth floor of Cedar Springs Hospital. There she finds herself alone with no help, not even from her boyfriend who refuses to get her out of there.

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Girls in Prison (1994)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

An aspiring young singer is sent to prison after getting wrongly convicted of murdering a record company president in 1950s Hollywood. With the help of two other convicts, she must survive as the real culprits send "hit girls" to kill her inside. One of these convicts connects her to a private investigator who tracks the culprits down, but the real murderer is determined to silence her.

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Man on a Swing (1974)

thriller film

Police detective Lee Tucker is investigating the murder of a woman named Maggie Dawson. He has little evidence until factory worker Franklin Wills approaches him, identifying himself as a clairvoyant. Wills goes into trances during which he says that he can see the murder taking place.

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The Corpse (1970)

Drama, Horror, thriller film

Walter Eastwood is a wealthy and controlling patriarch who demeans and abuses his diminutive artist wife, Edith, and their teenage daughter, Jane. Walter's misogyny is shared by his son Rupert, who repeatedly refuses his mother's request that he pick up art supplies for her and mocks the idea of his younger sister getting a job since her father refuses to give her an allowance. During dinner at the family's large estate one night, Walter's friend, Gregson, arrives, and is greeted by Jane at the door.

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Mansion of the Doomed (1976)

Horror, thriller film

Nancy Chaney, the daughter of Los Angeles surgeon Leonard Chaney, loses her eyesight following a violent car accident. Leonard becomes determined to restore her eyesight, along with the help of his assistant, Katherine, first experimenting with the idea of an animal corneal transplant. He soon becomes obsessed with the idea of performing a full human eye transplant, despite Katherine's insistence that it would destroy Nancy's optic nerve.

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Hate Crime (2005)

Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, thriller film

Robbie Levinson (Seth Peterson) and Trey McCoy (Brian J. Smith) are an openly gay couple living in a suburban home near friend and next-door neighbor Kathleen Slansky (Lin Shaye). The couple plans to hold a commitment ceremony to exchange rings.

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Sket (2011)

Crime, thriller film

Sisters Kayla (Aimée Kelly) and Tanya (Kate Foster-Barnes) move from Newcastle upon Tyne to commence a new life near their estranged father after their mother has died. Kayla is reluctant to reconcile with him. Meanwhile, drug dealer/gang-boss Trey (Ashley Walters) has instructed his female companion Shaks (Riann Steele) to murder a crackhead who has fallen behind on the payments for her drugs.

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Rose Plays Julie (2019)

Drama, Mysterie, thriller film

Rose is a veterinary student at university in Dublin. Adopted as a young child, Rose's adoptive mother has recently died and she has begun looking into who her biological parents are. She discovers her mother is an actress named Ellen who lives in London, and travels there to meet her.

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