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Thriller, crime film, neo-noir, psychological thriller
One night in 1990, a teenaged girl drives on a deserted highway, stalked by a motorist. After pulling into a gas station, she finds it closed. A terrifying pursuit on foot begins.
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Gangster Film, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1975 in New York City, after having served five years of a thirty-year prison sentence, career criminal, Carlito Brigante, is freed on a legal technicality that has been exploited by his lawyer, and close friend, Dave Kleinfeld. Carlito…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Police Film, Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1964, three civil rights workers – two Jewish and one black – went missing while they were in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi (the actual events took place in Neshoba County), organizing a voter registry for African Americans. The …
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Ex-LAPD officer Brian O'Conner has escaped to Miami and is in hiding, after aiding wanted felon Dominic Toretto in Los Angeles escape from authorities. He makes a living by street racing, driving his 1999 Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R in events …
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, cyberpunk, science fiction action film, science fiction film, superhero film, wuxia film
Having been rescued by the crew of the Mjolnir in the real world, Neo's body lies in the ship's medical bay. His consciousness is trapped in a subway station named Mobil Ave, a transition zone between the Matrix and the machine world. He m…
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Action, Detective Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, buddy cop film, chase film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In Marseille, a man is shadowing Alain Charnier, who runs a heroin-smuggling syndicate. Charnier's hitman, Pierre Nicoli, murders the man. Charnier plans to smuggle million (equivalent to $million in ) worth of 89% pure heroin into the Uni…
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LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, drama film, independent film, teen film, thriller film
On April 20, 1999, an ordinary day at a high school in Portland, Oregon, is shown through the perspective of several students. Among them are John, who has a strained relationship with his alcoholic father; Elias, a photography student who…
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Monster Film, Satanism, splatter film, thriller film
During the German Autumn of 1977, Susie Bannion, an American from a Mennonite family in Ohio, is admitted at the Markos Dance Academy in West Berlin. The academy is reeling from the disappearance of a student, Patricia Hingle, who vanished…
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Drama, Thriller, survival film, thriller film
Chris Lemons, Duncan Allcock, and David Yuasa are members of a team of saturation divers who work to maintain undersea gas lines in the North Sea. While on rotation, the divers live onboard a vessel in pressurized chambers which maintain c…
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Crime, Drama, Horror, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, horror film, psychological horror film
In 2007, David Moran witnesses a man struck in a hit-and-run incident on a New York City street. As he rushes to assist the victim, he is flooded with memories of a traumatic summer in 1958, when, as a teenager, he met Meg Loughlin—his fir…
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Action, Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Detective Film, Komödie, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
Axel Foley is a plainclothes Detroit police detective whose latest unauthorized sting operation goes sour when two uniformed officers intervene, resulting in a high-speed chase through the city that causes widespread damage. Axel's superio…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, buddy cop film, dystopian film, science fiction film
The future United States is a dystopic irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. On the east coast lies Mega-City One, a violent metropolis with 800 million residents and 17,000 serious crimes reported daily. The only force for order…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Brynn is a seamstress who lives alone in her childhood home in a forest on the outskirts of a small town. Mourning the loss of both her best friend, Maude, and her mother, Sarah, Brynn copes by constructing a model town in her living room.…
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Crime, Drama, Western, Western film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, epic film, thriller film
Osage Nation elders bury a ceremonial pipe, mourning their descendants' assimilation into White American society. Wandering through their Oklahoma reservation during the annual "flower moon" phenomenon of fields of blooms, several Osage fi…
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Action, Buddy Cop, Thriller, action film, action thriller, buddy cop film, buddy film, heist film
The Bonwit Teller department store in New York City is blown up by a bomb during the morning commute. A man identifying himself as "Simon" telephones the New York Police Department (NYPD) and claims responsibility. Making demands in the fo…
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
A truck driven by a paraplegic man disguised in drag and filled with dozens of dogs is stopped by police in New Jersey. The driver, Douglas “Doug” Munrow, is arrested. Psychiatrist Evelyn is called to interrogate him, and the film unfolds …
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Fugitive Drama, Justice Drama, Melodrama, Political Thriller, action film, drama film, romance film, swashbuckler film
thumb|The Azure Window of Gozo appears in the background of some scenes (picture from 2003). In 1815, Edmond Dantès, second mate of a French merchant vessel, and his friend Fernand Mondego, a representative of the shipping company, seek me…
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LGBTQ-related film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, thriller film
The Federation starship USS Enterprise arrives at Starbase Yorktown for resupply and shore leave for its crew. Struggling to find meaning in the third year of their five-year exploration, Captain James T. Kirk has applied for a promotion t…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Mike McCann, a seasoned ice-road trucker, is grappling with survivor's guilt following the death of his younger brother, Gurty, who perished in the events of The Ice Road. To honor Gurty's final wish, Mike travels to Nepal to scatter his a…
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Phil Broker, a DEA agent, leads a raid on a methamphetamine lab owned by Danny "T" Turrie, a biker gang boss who leads the Outcasts MC. Danny T is arrested, but his son is killed when police shoot him. Broker retires from the agency as a r…
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Thriller, drama film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
After attending her grandmother's funeral, Lisa Reisert arrives at Dallas Love Field to take a red-eye flight back to Miami, Florida. She meets a handsome young man named Jackson Rippner, also traveling to Miami. While waiting to board her…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, biographical film, crime film, detective film, drama film, historical film, mystery film, political thriller film
During his farewell address in 1961, outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns about the build-up of the military-industrial complex. He is succeeded by John F.
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, action film, post-apocalyptic film, thriller film
Thirty years after a nuclear holocaust, Eli travels on foot across the wasteland of the continental land of the former U.S. nation in search of water. He arrives in a ramshackle town ruled by a warlord named Carnegie, who seeks to control …
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film, satanic film, thriller film
American diplomat Robert Thorn and his wife Katherine are living in Rome, where Katherine gives birth to a boy. Father Spiletto, the hospital chaplain, tells Robert his baby died after one breath and persuades him to secretly adopt another…
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