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Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2029 Los Angeles, the Mercy Capital Court responds to a surge in crime by using artificial intelligence (AI) judges to try defendants for violent offenses. To assemble evidence, all devices are also registered to the municipal cloud to …
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Action, Hard Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, detective film, dystopian film, neo-noir, science fiction film
In the year 2035, humanoid robots serve humanity, which is protected by the Three Laws of Robotics. Del Spooner is a homicide detective in the Chicago Police Department who hates and distrusts robots after one rescued him from a car crash …
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Action, action film, action thriller, neo-noir
Eve Macarro is the daughter of assassins Javier of the Ruska Roma crime syndicate and his Cultist wife. As a child, Eve was taken away from the Cult by Javier, which led to the death of her mother. To retrieve Eve, the Cult and its Chancel…
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Ghost-House-Movies, Horror, Marital Tragedy, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, drama film, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Jack Torrance takes a caretaker position to look after the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rocky Mountains while it is closed for the winter. On arrival hotel manager Stuart Ullman informs Jack that a previous caretaker, Charles Grad…
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Horror, horror film, thriller film
In Boulder, Colorado, two LDS Church missionarieseager Sister Paxton, age 19 and self-assured Sister Barnes, age 20arrive at the home of Mr. Reed, a middle-aged man. After informing Reed that they can only enter a home if a woman is presen…
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Thriller, drama film, thriller film
The affluent Taylor clan gathers for the 25th wedding anniversary of liberal Georgetown professor Ellen and restaurateur Paul. Attending are their four children: Cynthia, an environmental lawyer like her husband Rob; Anna, a caustic lesbia…
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Horror, horror film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
17-year-old Andy and his visually impaired step-sister Piper find their father Phil, who has been undergoing treatment for cancer, dead in the shower. They are sent to live with eccentric former counselor Laura, who is also fostering a pre…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, psychological thriller, trial film
Martin Vail is an arrogant Chicago defense attorney, known for defending undesirable but high-profile clients, including alleged mob boss Joey Piñero. Vail was previously a state prosecuting attorney, but after finding it to be a dead-end …
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In Chandler, Arizona, FBI special agents Kate Macer and Reggie Wayne lead a raid on a Sonora Cartel safe house, where they discover dozens of decaying corpses hidden in the walls. Outside, an explosive booby trap kills two police officers.…
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Dark Comedy, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, independent film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
A young Butch Coolidge is visited by Captain Koons, an Air Force pilot. Koons reveals a gold watch to Butch and explains that the watch is a family heirloom and belonged to Butch's father, who served with Koons and died in a POW camp in th…
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Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, katastrophe, science fiction film, thriller film
Industrialist John Hammond has created Jurassic Park, a theme park featuring de-extinct dinosaurs, on the tropical island Isla Nublar, off the coast of Costa Rica. After a Velociraptor kills a dinosaur handler, the park's investors, repres…
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Action, Super Hero, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, superhero film, thriller film
Bane, a former member of the League of Shadows, leads an attack on a CIA plane over Uzbekistan to abduct nuclear physicist Dr. Leonid Pavel. Meanwhile, eight years after the death of Gotham City district attorney Harvey Dent and the arrest…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In September 2019, Yale philosophy professor Alma Imhoff and her therapist husband Frederik Mendelssohn host a dinner party. Alma recently returned to her post after an extended medical leave; she is prescribed medication for chronic pain.…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Heist, Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Neil McCauley, a Los Angeles professional thief, and his crew—Chris Shiherlis, Michael Cheritto, Gilbert Trejo, and new recruit Waingro—rob $1.6 million in bearer bonds from an armored car. Waingro, who unbeknownst to McCauley is an active…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, Super Hero, action film, action thriller, cyberpunk, dystopian film, film noir, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
In 1999, in an unnamed city, Thomas Anderson, a computer programmer known as "Neo" in hacking circles, investigates the mystery of the "Matrix", bringing him to the attention of hacker Trinity. She tells him that Morpheus can answer Neo's …
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Horror, horror film, thriller film
On the night before a job interview, Tess Marshall arrives at a house she has booked on Airbnb in Brightmoor, Detroit. However, the house has been double-booked and is occupied by a man named Keith. Initially unnerved, Tess warms to Keith …
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
At the Coopers Chase retirement village, psychiatrist Ibrahim Arif, former trade union leader Ron Ritchie, and mysterious Elizabeth Best are members of the Thursday Murder Club (TMC), which meets weekly to discuss cold cases. They are soon…
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Crime, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Police Film, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, police procedural film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee at Quantico, is recruited by Behavioral Science Unit chief Jack Crawford to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant and cannibalistic psychiatrist imprisoned at the Baltimore State Hospital for the …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller, action film, disaster film, post-apocalyptic film, survival film, thriller film
Five years after the impact of interstellar comet Clarke destroyed civilization and most life on Earth, the environment is chaotic, with sudden electromagnetic storms, lingering radioactive fallout, deorbiting fragments of Clarke's debris …
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Exorcism Film, Ghost-Movie, Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, Obsession, Occult Horror, ghost film, horror film, thriller film
In 1968, renowned demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren investigate the Annabelle case, in which friends Debbie and Camilla have a possessed doll. They allowed a spirit, who claimed to be a seven-year-old girl named Annabelle Higgins, to po…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, vigilante film
In the fictional city of Conyers, Pennsylvania, the Dover and Birch families celebrate Thanksgiving together. After dinner, girls Anna Dover and Joy Birch go missing after playing on a parked RV. Detective Loki responds to a police call ab…
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Gangster Film, Mafia Film, Police Film, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
In 1980s Boston, Irish mob boss Frank Costello introduces himself to a young Colin Sullivan. Years later, Sullivan has been groomed as Costello's spy inside the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) and joins the Special Investigation Unit. Ano…
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Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, arthouse science fiction film, epic film, mystery film, space adventure film
In a prehistoric veld, a tribe of hominins is driven away from a water hole by a rival tribe, and the next day finds an alien monolith. The tribe learns how to use the bones of dead animals as weapons and, after a successful first hunt, us…
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Thriller, survival film, thriller film
Friedrich Ritter and Dore Strauch flee their native Germany in 1931, repudiating the bourgeois values they believe are corroding humankind. On the isle of Floreana in the Galápagos Islands, Friedrich focuses on writing his manifesto, while…
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