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Joe Newman, formerly Joachim Deutsch, returns to his small hometown in Bavaria, after living in the UK since the outbreak of World War II. He seeks information of what has become of his father, Kurtz. He finds out that his father is dead, but that he escaped from behind the Iron Curtain, went to live with a certain Dr von Brecht, and later married a woman named Lisa.
Drama, Melodrama, war film
On the eve of the 1989 revolution in Romania, Dr. Daniel Pavenic sits down to dinner with some friends and discusses his past and his obsession with his housekeeper. His shocking honesty eventually leads to his guests also disclosing some of their own secrets.
thriller film
thumb|Baja California's location Sam Farragut (Andy Griffith) is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees, Warren Summerfield, Paul McIlvain, and Terry Maxon to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business. Warren Summerfield (William Shatner) is a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain (Robert Reed) is inattentive to his wife (Angie Dickinson); and brash art designer Terry Maxon (Marjoe Gortner) feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is…
Aiden Ashley's life is torn apart thirteen years ago, when an online stalker tracks down her home and murders her parents. The stalker fled the crime scene without revealing his face to Aiden. As a consequence, she shuns the Internet for the next thirteen years, attending therapy sessions and living in seclusion.
Drama
Soldiers Martin and Jack are very good friends during World War II. While their friendship grows, they do not realize they are brothers-in-law. Martin eventually learns that Jack is married to his sister Josie.
Horror, thriller film
The film deals with the feelings of a young woman sailing solo on a yacht around the world. The loneliness makes her start losing her sanity.
disaster film, Drama, thriller film
Passengers on a plane headed from the Midwest to the West Coast (Winnipeg to Vancouver in the original; Minneapolis to Seattle in the film) get quite ill after eating the chicken pot pie entree. Both pilots also eat the chicken. Passenger George Spencer, a man who has not flown since the Vietnam War (single-engine planes in the original, helicopter/war choppers in the film), is reluctantly pressed into flying the plane, where he makes an emergency landing.
Horror, thriller film
Drama
thumb|right|220px|Loren in a publicity photo for the movie In Palestine shortly before the end of the British mandate, the Haganah has learned that a former German tank commander, General Gustav Schiller, is teaching the Arabs battle tactics, but they are unable to locate him. Then they learn of the existence of his Jewish former wife, Judith Auerbach Schiller, and arrange for her to be smuggled into Palestine via the port of Haifa. She is placed in the care of Aaron Stein, a Haganah commander, at a kibbutz.
Action, fantasy film, Horror, mystery film, thriller film
In 1992, a group of backcountry skiers led by Jake Tanner ascends Glacier Peak, one of the most remote mountains in the Cascade Range, and disappears without a trace. Years later, Jake's son, Brian, is determined to find the truth behind his father's disappearance. As Brian searches the mountain, he follows tracks that lead into a ravine, where he is attacked by a large, unidentified creature.
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Drama
Professor Andrew Patterson (Glenn Ford) returns to his alma mater, the College of St. George in San Francisco. He is attending the initiation of a new member into a secret society, the Brotherhood of the Bell.
Science fiction, thriller film
In a dystopian future, the environment is so toxic that everyone is obliged to remain shielded from the sun and live in virtual reality for interaction. Father of three, Adam Bird, a worker in tech, struggles with his family relationships and what it means to be human in such a world. The government has instituted an insurance system for parents of three children or more where if one parent dies a clone takes their place.
Drama, Noir
Leslie Calvin, the shaken survivor of a ship sunk by a submarine, travels to her aunt and uncle's Louisiana plantation to recuperate, but her relatives, whom she has never met, have other ideas. She is befriended by a young local doctor, George Grover. Mr Sydney (Thomas Mitchell) is a mysterious and fussy guest at the plantation.
Horror
Sire Alain de Maletroit plots revenge on his younger brother Edmond for stealing Alain's childhood sweetheart, who died giving birth to Edmond's daughter Blanche. Alain secretly imprisons Edmond in his dungeon for 20 years and convinces Blanche that her father is dead. Alain intends to further debase Blanche as revenge against Edmond.
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Jonathan Dunbar is a metal sculptor who works at a Santa Barbara art gallery. He is involved with the gallery owner Marion Easton, who keeps the sole rights to his work and promises to give him a one-man show for his art. Jonathan meets Eric Hinsley, a wealthy but psychotic art collector who is responsible for a string of burglaries and assaults.
Drama
Sally Cambridge is the divorced mother of two sons, 16-year-old Jack and 9-year-old Leo. As the film opens, she is arrested on suspicion of child abuse, and during questioning, she reveals the story of what actually happened, told via flashback. One evening, a call to Jack's basketball coach reveals that he has been given a two-week suspension from the team due to poor grades, which Jack did not tell her.
Drama, romance film
Having suffered the death of her boyfriend, Claire McKay is brought by her mother to Ironbound Island in the hopes that time away from the city will allow her to recover emotionally. On the island where her mother was born, Claire meets an eccentric writer, Celia, who in flashbacks, relates her own story as a grief-stricken teenager in 1949. Celia—Silly in the flashbacks—is the next chosen victim of a Viking curse which was placed on the island centuries ago when their longship sank in the bay.
Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, thriller film
A banker goes to Louisiana to land a deal with millionaire but instead gets involved with the millionaire's wife, Mardi Gras, and a sinister cult.
Crime, Mysterie, thriller film
Olivia, a young, beautiful, brilliant, and effortlessly charming woman, works as a dedicated charity worker, responsible for establishing free clinics across the country for poor women. When she meets millionaire Danny Keegan, the pair soon form a relationship and he falls for her. However, it soon becomes clear that not everyone admires Olivia.
Horror, Psychological Thriller
Socialite Jessica Flagmore Shelley is killed when her bed catches fire. Three years later, her adolescent daughter, Susan, is released from St. Marie's Convent and Hospital, after recovering from a nervous breakdown.
Drama, thriller film
Tim and Cheryl are happy when they adopt a little girl named Mona. As they begin to form a family bond with each other, Mona's biological father (Kevin) stalks them. Kevin attempts to take Mona back but is stopped by Tim and Cheryl.
Erotic Film, thriller film
A married couple, Frank and Lee, have problems with their sexual relationship. The psychotherapist recommends them to hire a mysterious woman who will give them new imaginations to restore their passion. Soon they find themselves drawn to a disastrous web of violence, insanity, and murder.
Comedy, Crime, mystery film
During the filming of a death scene of The Death Kiss, leading man Myles Brent is really shot and killed. Tonart Studios manager Joseph Steiner is assigned to handle the situation. The studio wants to pass it off as a simple accident, but screenwriter Franklyn Drew digs a bullet out of a wall and tells Homicide Detective Lieutenant Sheehan that it is a .38 caliber, while the guns used in the film are all .45s.