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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 294.

The Telling (2009)

Horror, Mysterie

In the prologue, Brianna (Najarra Townsend), after being harshly rejected from a sorority, is found dead at a party from overdosing on prescription drugs and alcohol. Scrawled in lipstick on a nearby mirror are the words "You made me do this." One year later, the exclusive and cruel sorority on campus, headed by Stephanie (Holly Madison), is in their final days of rush. For their final task, the three remaining pledges are required to tell the scariest story they know.

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The Spaniard's Curse (1958)

thriller film

Guy Stevenson is a British man of Spanish heritage, in poor health and on trial for the murder of an actress called Zoe Trevor. He is convicted and given the death sentence. He protests his innocence and places a curse on the trial judge, Justice Manton; the prosecuting counsel, Sir Robert Wyvern; the foreman of the jury; and the real murderer.

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Dangerous Touch (1994)

Erotic Thriller

Radiotherapist Amanda Grace's life turns hellish after she becomes involved with young hustler Mick Burroughs. Mick seduces the radio host to get hold of a file she has on a criminal who also happens to be one of her patients. Soon, the two are having steamy, erotic encounters that include kinky sex.

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Eye of the Storm (1991)

thriller film

At a highway gas station/motel where they live, two young brothers witness their parents murder. The younger brother is blinded in the same incident. Ten years later both brothers are still there and the tragedy may have turned one of them psychotic: customers never check out.

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Jimmy and Judy (2006)

Action, Drama

A teenage outcast road movie, Jimmy and Judy follows a pair of outsiders who fall in love and out of control as they travel across an American landscape dotted with hypocrisy, materialism, drugs and violence. The film focuses on themes such as adolescent rebellion, love, and anger. Jimmy and Judy are modern-day Bonnie and Clyde: destructive young lovers who leave the comfort of their suburban community in rural Kentucky in search of a better life.

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Sun Don't Shine (2013)

Crime, Romantic drama, thriller film

Crystal and Leo are a couple on the run after Crystal murdered her husband when he accused her of cheating on him with Leo. Leo tries to help the weak and needy Crystal by taking them to St. Petersburg, Florida where they hope to ditch the body and he hopes to get help from a friend that Crystal suspects is one of his ex-girlfriends.

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Dogs of Hell (1982)

Animal horror, Horror, thriller film

A U.S. military funded scientist (an animal behavior specialist), Adam Fletcher (Bill Gribble) has developed and surgically implanted a chip that controls a pack of specially-bred Rottweilers. A military colonel arrives at his facility and announces that this new weapon will be moved to be tested in the field.

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Shattered Image (1998)

thriller film

Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman, Jessie (Anne Parillaud) recovering from rape and an apparent attempted suicide. In one reality, she is a killer destroyer of men. In another she is the new wife on a Jamaican honeymoon with her new husband Brian (William Baldwin), who is trying to help her recover.

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Sand (2000)

Drama, thriller film

The Briggs family comes together for the first time in over twenty years to attend the funeral and read the will of Marina. It is a very uneasy experience for Tyler, her son. Having been abandoned by his father Gus when he was an infant, Tyler grew up only with his mother Marina and felt no real ties to Gus or his two stepbrothers Barker and Hardy, who were not only alcoholic cocaine addicts but also very ill-mannered and an embarrassment.

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Snow Beast (2011)

Drama, Science fiction, thriller film

A snowboarder at a Canadian ski lodge is enjoying the slopes when he finds himself in an unfamiliar isolated forest area. He attempts to find his way back but is followed and killed by a large beast. A few days later, wildlife researcher Jim Harwood and his resentful daughter Emmy, along with his research team of Rob and Marci, travel to the Canadian ski lodge as part of a study on the annual patterns of the Canadian lynx.

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Hellgate (2011)

Horror, thriller film

Jeff Mathews, an American businessman, is involved in a car crash in Bangkok, Thailand. When he wakes up in a hospital, his nurse, Choi Luang, informs him that his wife Som and son Kyle have died. Inexplicably, Mathews can feel no grief for his loss.

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Hell High (1987)

Horror, Slasher, teen film, thriller film

As a child, Brooke Storm goes to play with her dolls in a shack along a biking path in the marsh near her home. A man and his girlfriend arrive by motorcycle, and Brooke hides behind the shack while the man violently attempts to force his girlfriend to have sex with him. When she refuses, the two depart on his motorcycle.

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Jake Speed (1986)

Action, Action Comedy, Adventure

In Paris, a girl named Maureen Winston (Becca C. Ashley) is abducted by two evil-looking men. While her family prays for her safe return, Maureen's father heaps guilt on her sister Margaret (Karen Kopins), since she convinced her to go see the world.

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Trap for Cinderella (2013)

thriller film

20-year-old Micky (Tuppence Middleton) regains consciousness in a hospital after suffering severe burn injuries requiring reconstructive surgery, and she's still suffering from amnesia. She is shown photographs of friends and relatives, but she can't recognize anybody. The doctors tell her she lives in London and her parents died in a car accident when she was 9.

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A Crooked Somebody (2017)

thriller film

Michael Vaughn (Sommer) is a fake psychic touring the U.S. to promote his "mediumship" and book. Unknown to other audience members, Vaughn's girlfriend Chelsea (Froggatt) participates as a shill for his hoaxes, which have finally alienated his elderly parents (Harris and Madigan).

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Caroline at Midnight (1994)

romantic thriller

Jack Lynch (Clayton Rohner) is an investigative reporter who comes into possession of a ledger detailing the criminal activities of two corrupt narcotics detectives, Ray Dillon (Tim Daly) and Phil Gallo (Judd Nelson). While pursuing the story, Jack is contacted by a woman named Caroline, who promises to provide further evidence. However, before they can meet, Caroline is killed in a suspicious car accident.

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Freezer (2014)

Action, thriller film

Robert Saunders (Dylan McDermott) wakes up to find himself bound and locked inside a meat locker. After he is able to cut himself loose, two Russian mobsters Kiril and Stepan enter the freezer to question him. It becomes apparent that neither understand English, but before they leave they tell a confused Robert they want "money".

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Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Crime, thriller film

Just out of jail, Gruesome goes to the Hangman's Knot saloon, where his old crime crony, Melody, is now playing piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer, where X-Ray and a mysterious mastermind are in possession of a secret formula and hatching a sinister plot. Ignoring a warning not to touch anything, Gruesome sniffs the gas from a mysterious test tube; he escapes the toxic fumes but collapses upon returning to the Hangman's Knot and is taken to the city morgue, where his body stiffens dramatically.

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Masquerade (1965)

Comedy, Crime, Parody, spy film, thriller film

The contract giving Britain the right to the oil fields in the fictitious country of Ramat in the Middle East is coming to an end. The current ruler wishes to sell the rights to the Eastern Bloc. However, the heir to the throne, prince Jamil, is coming of age (turning 14) and is more lenient to British interests.

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Seventh Code (2013)

Action, thriller film

Akiko (Atsuko Maeda), a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga (Ryohei Suzuki), a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning her not to trust strangers in a foreign country.

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Brave (1994)

musical film

The film tells the story in pictures accompanied by the entire Brave record minus "Paper Lies" and the final song "Made Again". On the recording, it is left ambiguous as to whether the main character, played by Josie Ayers, commits suicide in the end. In the film, she does.

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