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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 284.
Action, alien invasion, Aliens, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film
Just as the local grocery store is about to close, a group of six armed, masked people enter the building. They take the staff and remaining customers hostage and immediately shoot down one of the employees. One of the masked men named Spooky is then told to check whether "he" is among the hostages.
thriller film
Laurie has a brief affair with Ray, the contractor who is renovating her apartment; later, he refuses to accept the end of their relationship.
Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, thriller film
Frankie (Dennis Hopper) is a leg man for the mob, and works for Sal (Michael Madsen) and his sidekick, Vic (Dayton Callie). Frankie goes to the set of a porno one day, directed by his friend Joey (Kiefer Sutherland), a NYU film school graduate who owes Sal money. Frankie immediately becomes infatuated with Margaret (Daryl Hannah), a former junkie who wants to become a serious actress.
Drama, thriller film
Successful architect Jeremiasz Angust is on a business trip to Paris. While waiting for his flight, he meets a mysterious woman named Texel Textor and strikes up a conversation with her. However, their conversation takes an unexpected turn when Texel accuses Jeremiasz of something that he claims he has no idea about.
Crime, thriller film
In the Pepperhill Estate of Manchester, an ongoing battle rages between Triad gangs and street gangs. Gang leaders Ray and Terry, who are cousins and lifelong friends, always trusting and relying on each other, have been in prison. Ray doesn't want to be a gangster anymore, having also fallen for Clare.
Science fiction, thriller film
A group of students attempt to create a wireless neural network of collective consciousness connected through a quantum computer. They discover that motor skills can be transferred through quantum theory and freely spread their technology, which they believe is a step towards intellectual freedom. The group later discovers they are a part of a larger, more sinister experiment.
Adventure, family film, fantasy film, Science fiction, thriller film
The movie begins with a bunch of newscasters talking about the many accomplishments of genius Atticus Virtue before switching to high school student Max Winslow. Max lives with her mother and brother, her dad having left when she was five years old. Max is socially awkward and spends most of her time on computers and never connecting with people in real life.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
"A modern, gothic tale of crime and redemption about an aging police officer from a small Ontario Mennonite town who hides a violent past until a local murder upsets the calm of his newly reformed life." Stephen Holden, writing for The New York Times, explained the story:
Horror, thriller film
Writer Hilary Thomas is being pursued by psychopath Bruno Clavel, a man she once interviewed at his family's Massachusetts orchard while researching for a book. Clavel plays a cat-and-mouse game with Hilary, repeatedly breaking into her Manhattan apartment and tormenting her, often calling her "Catherine." Detective Tony Clemenza oversees the case, while Hilary struggles to find an explanation for why Clavel is targeting her. During one of the break-ins, Clavel is fatally injured, and found dead several blocks from Hilary's apartment.
Crime, mystery film
New York private detective Duncan "Mac" Maclain is blind, but he has keenly developed his other senses. Skilled in self-defense, he pursues his work with the help of his faithful guide dog Friday and assistant Marty. Retired actress Norma Lawry, an old friend, comes seeking advice.
Action, Drama, thriller film
Genn (Dolph Lundgren) is known by most in his life as a divorced father working for an investment company. Before this, for years, he had worked as a sleeper agent called Icarus in America before the Soviet Union collapsed. A mishap in Hong Kong blows Icarus' cover, past and present collide and he becomes a target.
Horror, thriller film
Harlan Thompson (David McCallum) is the head of the biology department at Southwestern University, a small school located in an isolated southern California town. Though he dresses casually and socializes with the students, he is frequently at odds with his fellow professors and the administrators, viewing them as shallow, elitist snobs who are more interested in status than education. However, he takes a semi-liking to a young and newly hired biology professor, Michael Fitzgerald (George Wyner), and tries to stop him from being sucked into the system.
Action, Adventure, Drama, thriller film, war film
Terrick (James Faulkner), a British South Africa Police officer in rural Rhodesia, looks forward towards the end of his police service and early retirement to his farm with his fiancée, Sally (Sybil Danning). Terrick's hopes for a peaceful life with Sally are shattered, however, when black nationalist guerrillas attack the farm. Sally is raped and murdered by the guerrilla leader, an albino known only by the moniker "Whispering Death" (Horst Frank).
Drama, romance film, thriller film
After Kelly Winters, a 17-year-old high school senior, falls in love with Christian Booth, a famous actor who is 9 years older than her, Rick (also a cinematographer) tries to intervene before the crush turns into a dangerous obsession.
Action, Horror, thriller film
Steve, Larry, and Rip are part of a paintball team known as "The Zero Boys". Fresh from a tournament win, the trio and their girlfriends take a leisure trip into the mountains, they stumble upon a gruesome massacre. Blood-chilling screams lead the group to a deserted cabin, where they gradually discover the horrors of the killings and the evil causing it.
Action, Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
Arthur Banks (Kiefer Sutherland) is an Ivy League-educated hitman for Latin American drug cartels who picks up solitary women, uses them as cover for a hit, then kills them. His trademark is a bullet with a tungsten core. Over the years, he has become wary of the FBI's attempts to catch him, including by use of satellite and security cameras, which leads him to mostly stay in rural desert areas when he is not working.
Horror
The story opens with Elmira Johnson, an elderly woman who uses a Ouija board to communicate with spirits. One spirit becomes angry, manifesting as a cymbal-banging monkey toy. The toy's eyes glow red, and its cymbals cause lightning to strike Elmira's house, killing her.
Horror, mystery film, thriller film
While dealing with her own mental issues, Roslyn takes the night shift at a recently closed hospital's psych ward. As she experiences possibly supernatural phenomena, she comes to suspect that her husband, Cole, is a serial killer active in the area.
Drama
Michelle Ramskill-Estey (Julie Benz), a single mother, is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to save her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
Cartoon, Drama, fantasy film
The Cat Piano is narrated by the main character, an anthropomorphic cat. It is clear that the narration is a poem, which the poet is typing on a typewriter. In the beginning, we are introduced to his city's love of music and musical prowess.
mystery film, Noir
In Northern California, while Virginia Wilson is taking an outside beach shower, an escaped madman from a sanitarium arrives. He stabs her dog, attacks her and is shot to death by her stepbrother, Charlie, with a rifle. After the attack, Virginia is committed to a sanitarium.
Action, crime thriller film, thriller film
The plot is split into four intermingling non-linear narratives; "Monsters", "Fiends" "Thugs" and "Criminals". The following synopsis presents the events in a chronological order. In an unspecified poverty stricken neighborhood in Los Angeles, local crime lord Teddy "Bear" Haynes operates a taco shack as a front for a human trafficking ring.
Action, Adventure, Drama, thriller film, Western
In 1901, Half-breed Juliette Flores sees her tribe and village slaughtered by Mexican troops. Still a child, she takes revenge by slipping into the home of the soldiers' commander, General Juarez, and cutting his throat in his bedroom. In 1912, Outlaw Ransom Pride (Speedman) is killed in a Mexican border town after an arms deal goes bad.
Animal horror, Horror, thriller film
In Ecuador, two reckless money-hungry pilots bribe officials in order to fly a load of coffee beans from South America into the United States. To pay off the officials, they sneak aboard three passengers whom they agree to smuggle into the U.S. Problems arise when sacks of the beans containing deadly tarantulas are loaded into the cargo bay.