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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 287.

Power Play (1978)

Drama, Political Thriller, thriller film

A small group of military officers frustrated by the corruption and brutality of a fictional contemporary European government decide that they must overthrow the current administration. But the coup's leader worries that there is a spy in their group. Colonel Narriman, an idealistic and soon-to-retire army officer, becomes sickened by the government's use of extrajudicial killing and torture to suppress the terrorist insurgency that their incompetence and corruption has fostered.

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The Escapist (2002)

thriller film

Denis Hopkins (Jonny Lee Miller) seems to have the perfect life, a job as a pilot, a beautiful home and wife Valerie (Paloma Baeza) who is expecting their first child. One night, Denis and Valerie's home is broken into by a borderline psychotic thief named Ricky Barnes (Andy Serkis) who shoots and kills Valerie, coldly saying to Denis: 'I'm going to let you live'. Valerie dies while being transported to the hospital, and the baby narrowly survives childbirth, leaving Denis devastated.

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Top of the World (1997)

Action, crime thriller film

In Las Vegas for a quickie divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Cowboy Country Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged diversion and the two of them become suspects.

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The Throwaways (2015)

Action, fantasy film, thriller film

When infamous hacker Drew Reynolds is captured by the CIA, he is given a choice: Spend his life in prison or work for them. He agrees to work for the CIA in the condition that he can form his own team, the "Throwaways". This team was seen as expendable and deemed the worst in the whole organization.

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Turtle Beach (1992)

Drama

Judith, an Australian photojournalist, leaves her family to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people in a Malaysian refugee camp. There she befriends Minou, a Vietnamese streetwalker, who has married a diplomat and together they try to bring awareness to the terrible conditions suffered by the people there.

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Behind The Wall (2008)

Horror, thriller film

For several generations the Parks family lived on a quiet hillside where Katelyn's grandfather and her father were keepers to the town's lighthouse. At the age of ten, Katelyn watched her mom enter the basement in their lighthouse home where minutes later she was brutally beaten and found dying on the floor. Her father, Christopher, was arrested and convicted for the killing, and Katelyn placed in foster care out of town.

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Bloodwork (2012)

thriller film

Two college students — irresponsible slacker Greg (Travis Van Winkle) and his straightlaced best friend Rob (John Bregar) — decide to take a trip to Europe for their spring break. Lacking in money, they research odd jobs and find an opportunity with Ravexin Pharmaceuticals to participate in a two-week trial for the company's new allergy drug. When they travel to the unexpectedly run-down, remote facility where the test is to take place, they are troubled by the stringent rules in place but enroll in the trial anyway, as it will earn them each over three thousand dollars.

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Dressed to Kill (1941)

Noir

Private investigator Michael Shayne and his singer fiancée Joanne La Marr hear a woman screaming from a room in their hotel. The hotel maid Emily has discovered two dead people - producer Louis Lathrop, owner of the hotel and the adjoining theater, and Desiree Vance, one of Lathrop's actresses. Both are dressed in medieval costumes, and Lathrop is wearing the head from a dog costume.

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Forbidden (1949)

thriller film

In Blackpool, chemist Jim Harding has been reduced to making a living peddling potions and medicines from a fairground stall with a former army colleague Dan Collins. Trapped in a loveless marriage with Diana, a vulgar, shrewish and domineering woman who harbours ambitions of breaking into showbusiness, Jim finds himself attracted to the kinder working-class Jane Thompson, who sells candyfloss and ice cream at an adjacent stall. Jim does not reveal to Jane that he is married as the two fall in love and begin an affair.

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The Thirst (2006)

Horror, Vampire

Recovering drug addicts Maxx (Matt Keeslar) and Lisa (Clare Kramer) are persuaded by vampire clan leader Darius (Jeremy Sisto) to give up their humanity and join him as vampires. They do so, but then give up the vampire's blood addiction – the Thirst. After enduring the withdrawal symptoms, the couple turns against the band of vampires who made them.

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Volition (2019)

thriller film, Time travel

Jimmy is a reformed ex-criminal living a low-key existence. He uses his gift of clairvoyance to make small bets on sports matches. While walking home, he spots two men harassing a woman in an alley and he picks a fight with them.

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Living in Bondage: Breaking Free (2019)

thriller film

Twenty-five years after the events of the original movie, Andy Okeke is now an ordained Man-of-God, having renounced his allegiance to the secret cult now known as the Brotherhood of the Six. The sect has expanded into an international organisation, with most Nigerian members who survived the 1996 Otokoto riots fleeing the country apart from Chief Omego – now an Imo state governorship aspirant – and fellow ritualist Mike Ekejimbe. The film opens with Omego's son Obinna murdering his young daughter Kosi in a forest as part of a money-making ritual, and in a nod to the original story, her spirit torments her father throughout the movie,…

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The Web (1947)

Noir, thriller film

Leopold Kroner, formerly of Colby Enterprises, is released after five years in prison for embezzlement. Andrew Colby, claiming that Kroner has threatened him, hires lawyer Bob Regan as a personal bodyguard. That evening, Regan hears a gunshot from Colby's study and finds Kroner there, apparently trying to kill Colby.

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Blue Seduction (2009)

Erotic Thriller, thriller film

Mikey Taylor is a once-famous rock star in long-time retirement. Everything was as usual in his previous life, parties, drugs, casual sex, with different women, until he met his future wife, Joyce, a broker in a reputable real estate company, who helped him cope with his dangerous addictions. But along comes his big fan, a gorgeous young woman, who wants to use him to become famous herself.

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Murder by Phone (1982)

Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Science fiction, Slasher, thriller film

The movie begins with a woman hearing a phone ring at a subway train and goes to the public phone booth to answer it. She hears nothing at first until high pitched beeping sounds slowly climb up, which makes the woman shake vibrantly and make her eyes bleed and is then thrown onto the escalator due to the explosion that sounded like thunder. Nat Bridger, an ecology professor, goes to the Thorner home after teaching his class.

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Anna to the Infinite Power (1983)

Science fiction, teen film

Twelve-year-old Anna Hart of Flemington, New Jersey, a student at a school for gifted children, is a genius and a kleptomaniac who insults her teachers, has perfectly parted hair, gets headaches when she stares at fires and flickering lights, and suffers from strange, prophetic dreams. Michaela Dupont, a piano teacher who has been watching Anna and has kept photos of her and a similar-looking girl taken in 1970, moves in next door. Then Anna sees her exact double on local TV news when a commuter plane makes a forced landing nearby, and she learns that her double, Anna Smithson, has the same family setting as hers — the child of a…

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Avalanche Sharks (2013)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Comedy horror, disaster film, Ghost, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, television film, thriller film

In a small town alongside a mountain, spring break is approaching. One of the residents, Wade, attempts to search for his brother, Shredder who went missing along with his friend, Hucker, while skiing on the mountain. On the night after his brother's disappearance, he and his girlfriend Madison attempt to get ski patrolman Dale to send out a search and rescue party, although to no avail.

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Little Murder (2011)

Crime, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, thriller film

The story centers on a humiliated detective Ben Chaney (Josh Lucas) who gets a sudden shot at salvation when the ghost of a murdered cellist Corey Little (Lake Bell) solicits his help in finding her killer as he was on a stakeout of a serial killer suspect, Drag Hammerman. As Chaney unravels the truth behind Little's night of murder, a little turn of events revealed the killer to all of the murders, including Little's, to be the very same man all along.

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The Jerusalem File (1972)

action thriller, Political Drama, Political Thriller

American archaeology student David Armstrong is studying at the University of Jerusalem. His old Arab friend from Yale University Rashid Rifaat draws him into a power struggle between rival Arab terrorist groups. Both are nearly killed in an assassination attempt on Rifaat who then goes into hiding.

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Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969)

thriller film

Cathy Palmer, a young British woman, moves to San Francisco, where she meets Kenneth Daly and begins a relationship with him. She becomes pregnant, but when she sees another side of Kenneth's personality, she decides to break off their engagement and abort the pregnancy. Some time later, Cathy meets and marries Jack Byrnes, who has political ambitions.

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