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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 282.

Gone, But Not Forgotten (2003)

Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, thriller film

Mark (Matthew Montgomery) falls while rock climbing. Drew (Aaron Orr) a forest ranger saves him and watches over him at the hospital. Drew, seeing Mark suffering from amnesia, offers Mark to move in with him to try to help him out until he regains his memory.

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Conflict of Interest (1993)

Action

In Los Angeles, Mickey Flannery's wife Patty is killed in front of their young son, Jason. Seven years later, he returns to his job at the police department in homicide, working under Captain Garland. He has investigated a car ring deal, but the captain has no interest in it, because it has no connection to homicide.

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Night Boat to Dublin (1946)

spy film, thriller film

During the Second World War, a captured German spy is executed at the Tower of London, without revealing the whereabouts of Professor Hansen, a refugee Swedish scientist in Britain. He is believed to be unwittingly passing information on the atomic bomb to Germany through the neutral Irish Free State. British intelligence attempts to locate him and break this link.

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The Happiness Cage (1972)

Drama, Science fiction

After an altercation at a party given by his girlfriend, U.S. Army private James Reese is arrested for assault. Reese comes to the attention of Major, the head of Army program attempting to help those with terminal illnesses deal with their pain via a brain implant.

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Locusts - The 8th Plague (2005)

Action, Animal horror, Drama, Horror, Science fiction

The film starts in a genetics laboratory 15 miles outside Prairie, Idaho. Inside the laboratory, Gary Wolf (David Keith) and Russ Snow (Jeff Fahey) have made a completely new species of locust that is genetically engineered to eat insects that destroy crops. In the main room in the crop dome, Russ releases the locusts into a crop field filled with insects for one minute, luring them back into the main holding pen using a strong pheromone lure.

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Jill Rips (2000)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

In 1977 Boston, Matt Sorenson, a former police officer who moved across country, returns for the funeral of his high-powered younger brother Michael. His body is found washed ashore, tied up in a manner suggesting bondage play, with a brutal series of cuts and stabs, some made after death. Intent on finding his brother's killer, Sorenson initially believes a major construction magnate, "Big Jim" Conway, whom Michael opposed on a subway project, is responsible.

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Invisible Ghost (1941)

Horror

The home of Charles Kessler is beset by a series of unsolved murders. Kessler, who lives with his daughter and servants since his wife left him, is shown to be the murderer, unbeknownst to himself. His wife, who became brain-damaged in a car accident not long after leaving him, has been visiting the grounds of the house and the sight of her through his window puts Kessler into a trance-like state which makes him homicidal.

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Sketch Artist (1992)

thriller film

During a homicide investigation, a police sketch artist realizes a witness is describing a suspect resembling the wife of the artist, Jack Whitfield, down to the last detail. Conflicted by this revelation, he withholds pertinent information and begins his own search for the truth.

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The Figurine (2009)

Drama, fiction film, mystery film

In the year 1908, a folktale originated about the goddess Araromire who asked a priest to invoke her spirit into a figurine carved out of the bark of a cursed tree. When villagers of Araromire touched the figurine, Araromire granted them good fortune for seven years. After that, their blessings reversed and their lives took a turn for the worse.

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Last Hour (2008)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

The film follows five characters who are lured to an abandoned house in China by letters sent to them by a dead man. Trapped with a deadly threat and surrounded by the police, the five are forced to confront their pasts to survive.

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Amnesiac (2014)

mystery film, Psychological Thriller

The film begins with a family of three traveling along a highway. The scene ends with a child screaming, and the man (Wes Bentley) is seen resting in a bed, in a large room, attached to hospital equipment. The woman (Kate Bosworth) visits him dressed in formal business attire, which is a frequently re-occurring theme in the film.

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I Am Here (2014)

Drama, thriller film

Hamburg-based businesswoman Maria, in her 40s, has achieved everything in her job and is married, but her being childless makes her unhappy. After another miscarriage, she learns that she will never be a mother of her life because of her age. Maria decides to check a rumor that prostitutes in Eastern Europe may sell their newborns for money.

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Carnifex (2022)

Horror, thriller film

An aspiring documentarian and two conservationists venture into the Australian outback to record the animals displaced by bushfires, hoping to preserve the forests, whereupon they discover a terrifying new sub-species descended from the supposedly extinct Thylacoleo carnifex.

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The Scorned (2005)

Comedy horror, Slasher

Raina (Schneider) tells her best friend, Nichola, that she and her fiance Matt (Guiney) have been arguing. Nichola — who happens to be living in a room of the couple's beach house — assures her that it's merely "pre-wedding jitters," and voices a recurring line: "Your happily ever after is just around the corner." The two return home, and it's not long before Matt and Raina run into yet another argument, resulting in Matt storming from the house in anger. Later that night, Raina awakens and begins to search the house for Matt.

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Sunset Grill (1993)

Erotic Thriller, mystery film, neo-noir

Ryder Hart is a private investigator and former police officer who is down on his luck and drinks too much alcohol. His estranged wife Anita runs the Sunset Grill, a bar and restaurant. Anita is romantically involved with Jeff Carruthers, a Los Angeles police detective who formerly worked with Hart.

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