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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 298.

Running Time (1997)

Crime, thriller film

A prison inmate (Campbell) receives early release only to immediately rejoin his former criminal comrades in a heist. In the hour or so he rekindles a romance with an old flame (Barone) and realizes the "good ol' days" with his partner in crime (Roberts) just might not have been so good.

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Rain Fall (2009)

Action, thriller film

In Tokyo, a minister of public works is rumored to be taking evidence of corruption to a reporter: the CIA, the yakuza, and others want to grab the information and use it to squeeze the government. On the subway trip to meet the reporter, the official is murdered, but it looks like a heart attack. However, no one, including the murderer, can find the flash drive with the evidence.

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Disaster Zone - Volcano In New York (2006)

Action, disaster film, Natural Disaster

A volcano beneath New York City seems unlikely, yet nothing else can explain the bizarre tremors and terrifying explosions wreaking havoc on the city. Tunnel digger Matt MacLachlan, head of the team of "Sandhogs," has witnessed lava seeping into the city's aqueduct system and knows the unimaginable truth. A group of tramps trying to keep warm in Central Park near a heat vent die from carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide poisoning.

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Break in the Circle (1955)

Drama, Political Thriller, Secret Agent

Adventurer Skip Morgan and his friend Dusty hire out their boat, the Bonaventure, to do smuggling runs. German millionaire Baron Keller hires them to sneak a Polish scientist named Pal Kudnic out of Communist Europe to the West. Morgan learns that Keller is after a valuable fuel formula that Kudnic has developed, and he tells Keller he wants more money.

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Gamebox 1.0 (2004)

Horror, Science fiction

Charlie Colburn (Nate Richert) is a video game tester with a troubled past. One day, he receives a new console to test in the mail. This system, the Gamebox 1.0, is like no other system he's seen before: by tapping into the cerebral cortex of the brain, it literally immerses the player in a virtual reality world, killing them if they lose.

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Rainbow Drive (1990)

thriller film

Mike Gallagher is one of Los Angeles' top cops, who is acting head of Hollywood's homicide division. But Gallagher is soon wrenched out of his orderly existence into a dirty world of killing and corruption. Gallagher's affair with a married woman leads him to stumble across a vicious scene of multiple murders on L.A.

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Megaville (1990)

Cyberpunk, Dystopian, Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, thriller film

National boundaries have been broken, two giant super-states remain—a bleak, decaying Hemisphere, and the sprawling media state Megaville. Travel between the states is restricted. The "CKS" governs daily life in the Hemisphere.

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Calendar Girl Murders (1984)

Crime, Drama, Mysterie, thriller film

Millionaire adult magazine publisher Richard Trainor (Robert Culp) is celebrating the success of his new calendar, featuring twelve beautiful nude women. However, the party is ruined when Miss January is pushed off a high-rise hotel. Later in the evening, Miss February is knifed to death.

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Kiss or Kill (1997)

thriller film

A woman off-camera explains how she has difficulty trusting people, especially men, because of things she saw when she was young. This comment introduces a prologue in which a little girl watches helplessly as a man (Syd Brisbane), presumably her father, appears at the door, douses her mother with petrol, and sets her alight. The young girl, now a woman in her twenties, is Nikki Davies (Frances O'Connor).

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Escape Route (1952)

Crime, thriller film

An American, Steve Rossi, enters Britain by slipping past immigration at Heathrow Airport, leading to a national manhunt by the police led by Scotland Yard. Rossi heads into London where he tracks down Bailey, a barman, and asks him about Michael Grand. The barman passes him a note with an address which leads him to a woman, who says she does not know Grand.

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Sacrifice (2011)

Action, Drama, thriller film

A tough undercover cop named John (Cuba Gooding Jr.) inadvertently gets involved in a dangerous heroin ring when Mike (Devon Bostick), a young defector of the drug trade leaves his five-year-old sister, Angel (Arcadia Kendal) within his care. After Mike is killed, Angel is kidnapped and trapped in an underground drug ring. John then sets out to save the girl with the help of Father Porter (Christian Slater).

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Self Defense (1983)

Action, LGBTQ-related film, Martial arts, thriller film

A fascist group calling themselves the "New Order" murder the patrons of a gay bar in Halifax, Nova Scotia while the city's police force is on strike. Daniel, the sole survivor of the massacre, takes refuge in an apartment complex whose residents commit to protecting him from the murderous vigilantes awaiting outside.

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Death, Deceit and Destiny Aboard the Orient Express (2000)

thriller film

When an anonymous benefactor invites a party of celebrities and business magnates to a New Year's celebration aboard the Orient Express, it is the guests' greed which brings them all together. Apart from an enjoyable free trip on the luxury train, the businessmen among the passengers also expect to make a lucrative deal. However, just outside Paris the whole train is taken over by terrorists—without anybody noticing.

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