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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 296.

All Cheerleaders Die (2001)

Horror, thriller film

A group of high school football players gets into an argument with their cheerleader girlfriends over the difficulty of their respective sports. The cheerleaders insist that forming a human pyramid is difficult, while the players insist that their boot camp is more strenuous. As a result, the players decide to set up a camping weekend with the idea of putting the girls through football training.

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Memories of Murder (1990)

Action, Crime, thriller film

Jennifer (Nancy Allen) is a woman who is suffering from amnesia to the extent that she does not even recognize her husband and daughter. Extremely confused and tormented, she desperately seeks to piece together her life and, in doing so, stumbles upon some startling secrets from her shadowy past. She discovers that a female killer connected to her from her earlier life is intent on stalking her and seeking revenge by killing her and her family.

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Sonny Boy (1989)

Drama, Horror, thriller film

In 1970, Harmony, a small town in New Mexico, is run by a small-time crime boss named Slue, who accepts the delivery of a Lincoln Continental car stolen by his henchman Weasel, who brings it after killing a couple who was travelling with their child. When the crime boss finds the couple's baby in the backseat he wants to kill him, but he is stopped by his transvestite “wife”, Pearl. Slue decides to keep the baby - which Pearl names “Sonny Boy” - but he cuts out the boy’s tongue and raises him as a mute accomplice in their crimes, training and treating him like a wild dog, and sending Sonny Boy to kill anyone who wants to steal from or…

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Crackerjack (1994)

Heist

Jack Wild is a Chicago police officer dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder after the murder of his wife and two children during an investigation into organized crime. Nicknamed "Crackerjack" by his colleagues due to his reckless behavior, Jack is forced into a family vacation with his older brother, Michael, and sister-in-law, Annie, at an isolated Rocky Mountains resort. Meanwhile, a kidnapped ice scientist named Oliver Green has been forced to plant bombs in the surrounding glacier in a mysterious plot organized by the terrorist Ivan Getz.

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Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979)

romance film, thriller film

After the fall of Indochina to the communists in 1954, a mixed-race group of orphan girls and a Catholic nun escape on a plane, but the flight soon runs into a storm. In 1979, six men from an oil company are trying to reach Guam in a sea plane, so that one of them, who has been blinded by an injury, can have his sight restored at a hospital. They go off course after their radio and navigation equipment are damaged in an electrical storm, landing on the shore of a remote island.

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How Awful About Allan (1970)

Horror, thriller film

Allan Colleigh has psychosomatic blindness following a fire that killed his father, a renowned academic who punished Allan as a child. The fire also facially scarred Allan's sister Katherine. Allan had accidentally left some cans of paint thinner near a heater which caught fire.

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Back in the USSR (1992)

thriller film

Set in Moscow during the last years of the Soviet Union, with Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika in full swing, the film follows Archer Sloan, a young American student from Chicago, who arrives hoping to sample the delights of Moscow, but runs into a number of people interested in stolen art works.

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The Man in the Net (1959)

Drama, mystery film, Noir

Ex-commercial artist John Hamilton (Alan Ladd) and wife Linda (Carolyn Jones) have left New York and moved to Stoneville, Connecticut, in the New England countryside. John spends his time sketching the town's children, to whom he is a close friend, but his ambitions to be a fine artist are at this point frustrated by a failed art show and bad reviews. Meanwhile Linda longs to return to the city, where John has been offered a lucrative job at his old firm.

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Suspense (1913)

thriller film

thumb|thumbtime=5|Suspense 1913, full film A servant leaves a new mother with only a written letter of notice, placing her key under the doormat as she leaves. Her exit attracts the attention of a tramp to the house. As the husband has previously phoned that he is working late, the wife decides not to ring back when she finds the note but does ring back when she sees the tramp.

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We Ate The Children Last (2011)

Political Thriller, Science fiction, Utopia & Dystopia

A man dying from intestinal cancer volunteers for an experimental treatment which involves receiving the transplanted digestive system of a pig. The transplant is successful, but leaves him with a pig-like penchant for consuming garbage. Considering this an acceptable trade-off for a medical breakthrough, society initially accepts the widespread adoption of the technique, but eventually collapses as the transplant recipients' insatiable appetites evolve into cannibalism.

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Fascination (2004)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, romance film, thriller film

The wealthy Doherty family of three live on a remote Florida island, still untouched by developers. Soon after his father's presumed accidental drowning, Scott Doherty is surprised and resentful when his mother plans to wed Oliver Vance. Scott soon meets Kelly, Oliver's daughter, and a heated romance begins.

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Kounterfeit (1996)

thriller film

A counterfeiter of money is attacked by two masked men and threatened to reveal where a certain amount of counterfeit money is. The counterfeiter pleads ignorance and is subsequently killed. Tommy 'Hopscotch' Hopkins, who has the money, learns of the death of the counterfeiter and begins to fear for his own safety.

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Cyclone (1978)

Action, Adventure, disaster film, Drama, Horror, survival film, thriller film

The Caribbean Sea. The local authorities receive reports about an approaching cyclone and issue a general alert, but a small passenger plane, a tour boat and a fishing trawler fail to receive - or heed - the warning and are caught in the storm. The fishing vessel springs a leak and sinks, forcing the fishermen to abandon it; the airplane crashes into the sea, killing most of the passengers and forcing the rest to evacuate; the tour boat's motor is damaged, and one of the tourists is swept overboard and drowns.

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Super Shark (2011)

Action, Adventure, Animal horror, Comedy, Comedy horror, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, suspense film, thriller film

Persistent exposure of ocean wildlife to a toxic goo used in oil drilling leads to a shark growing in size and becoming bulletproof, and even attaining the ability to move around on land. It destroys the oil rig that caused it, and then moves to Los Angeles where it eats several divers and threatens to disrupt a bikini contest. Marine biologist Dr.

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Hotel California (2008)

Crime, thriller film

The film follows Troy as he returns to Los Angeles from Miami to meet with his former partners: Al and Pete , whom Troy betrayed years before. Naturally they are dismayed to see him and call their boss, infamous crime syndicate leader Dmitri to inform them that Troy has returned. The three of them, along with Troy's former love Jessie attempt to exact their revenge, while Troy tries to convince them that he is not the man he was before.

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Independence Daysaster (2013)

Action, Adventure, independent film, Science fiction, thriller film

In Moose Ridge, Oregon, Andrew Garsette, his two friends, Nick and Eliza, and his uncle Pete, a local firefighter, prepare to meet Andrew's father and Pete's brother, U.S. President Sam Garsette, who is coming home for the Fourth of July celebrations. Sam approaches on Marine One, but it is unexpectedly rerouted to nearby Dixon Airbase.

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The Angry Hills (1959)

Drama, spy film, thriller film, war film

Set in Greece in 1941, before and after the Axis invasion, the film follows an American journalist who possesses a list of Greek resistance leaders. Having memorized the list he destroys it and is then pursued by various groups of people keen to have it: Communist resistance fighters, the Gestapo and Greek collaborators.

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Luckytown (2000)

Drama, thriller film

When she turns 18, unhappy Lidda Daniels leaves Southern California to look for Charlie, her father, a professional gambler who abandoned her years before. On her way to Las Vegas, she picks up Colonel, a video store clerk who she finds attractive even though they have never spoken.

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Captive (1986)

thriller film

Gregory Le Vay is a wealthy business man whose daughter Rowena is kidnapped by a terrorist group. Through psychological manipulation she is subordinated by them and led from the cultural and emotional imprisonment of her former life to the so-called liberation of theirs.

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Battle Beneath the Earth (1967)

Action, spy film

Scientist Arnold Kramer believes that rogue elements of the communist Chinese Army headed by fanatic General Chan Lu are using advanced burrowing machines in an effort to conquer the U.S. by placing atomic bombs under major cities. In the opening, Las Vegas police are called to a report that Dr.

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