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Explore suspense, danger and tense conflicts.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 300.

Darkness Falls (1999)

independent film

With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett (Ray Winstone) invades the home of Mark Driscoll (Tim Dutton) and holds both Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally (Sherilyn Fenn) hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ending up in a coma.

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The Eighteenth Angel (1997)

Horror, thriller film

An ancient Etruscan prophecy claims that the return of Satan will be precipitated by the arrival of eighteen physically perfect beings. To enable the prophecy to come to fruition, a secret sect of monks joins an obsessed geneticist to create the perfect specimens artificially. Music scholar Hugh Stanton lives in America with his wife Norah and their teenage daughter Lucy.

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Hit List (1989)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Gangster boss Vic Luca (Rip Torn) is scheduled to appear in court and so hires a hit man/shoe salesman Chris Caleek (Lance Henriksen) to kill the witnesses. He has a mole in the police force who tells him names and locations of the witnesses. Unfortunately, during the last hit, the professional killer enters the wrong house.

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Danger Route (1967)

Drama, Secret Agent, spy film

Jonas Wilde, a leading British agent, returns home from a mission in Guyana to Jersey, where he has a cover identity as the owner of a boatyard. He finds his handler Peter Ravenspur in the company of a mysterious woman named Mari, who claims to be Ravenspur's long lost niece. Responding to a personal message placed in The Times, Wilde travels to London to meet his superior Canning.

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Final Examination (2003)

Crime, Erotic Thriller, exploitation film, Horror, Slasher

A police officer Shane Newman fails in capturing a drug dealer in Los Angeles, so his boss Hugh Janus transfers him to Hawaii for disciplinary reasons. On the island some former female students are just gathering in a luxury hotel. The young ladies once belonged to the sorority "Omega Kappa Omega" and are now invited to an erotic photo shoot which is organised by Derek Simmons, the editor of the Cavalier Magazine.

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Rabia (2024)

Drama, thriller film

A young French girl, Jessica, leaves France to Syria in 2014, with her friend Laila, on the promise of a husband among the ISIS fighters. However, once in Raqqa, her name is changed to Rabia and she is introduced to the formidable Madame.

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Serpent's Lair (1995)

Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, Horror

Newlyweds Tom and Alex move into a gloomy old apartment in Los Angeles. Soon cats start congregating around the house, one of them causes Alex to fall from the stairs, effectively sending her to the hospital and leaving Tom alone in the apartment. While she is away, Tom is visited by a strange, seductive woman, Lilith, who informs him that she has come to collect the remaining property of a former tenant, her recently deceased brother.

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Skinheads (1989)

thriller film

A group of neo-Nazi skinheads violently rob a Jewish grocery. After they flee the scene of the crime, they stop at a roadside diner where they encounter some traveling students. The neo-Nazis terrorize the students and the owner of the diner, leaving two survivors who escape to the nearby Colorado mountains.

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Stonehenge Apocalypse (2010)

Action, disaster film, Natural Disaster, Science fiction, thriller film

An ancient prophecy comes to pass when archaeologists unearth an Egyptian chamber 10,000 feet below ground in Maine USA, sparking a devastating electromagnetic pulse that triggers Stonehenge and, in turn, sends destructive shockwaves around the globe. When the Aztec pyramids crumble and the stones take on a life of their own, a renegade radio host, a team of scientists, and a team of British commandos race to prevent the same force responsible for creating life on Earth from cleansing the planet in order to herald the dawn of a new age. Dr.

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Blackout (1978)

Action, exploitation film, thriller film

Four sadistic criminals who, after escaping during a transfer, take over a posh Manhattan apartment complex and start looting and terrorizing its occupants during New York City's 1977 blackout. Police officer Dan Evans sets out to rescue the hostages.

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Locker 13 (2009)

thriller film

Skip (Jason Spisak) works at an Old West theme park and is told several stories by his supervisor Archie (Jon Gries). Each story contains not only a strange locker with the number 13 on it, but also involves themes about making the right choices and the consequences of not doing so. The stories range from an aging boxer faced with a big choice to a young man desperate to take his own life.

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Shark in Venice (2008)

Action, Horror

The film takes place in Venice, where archeologist David Franks (Stephen Baldwin) and his girlfriend Laura (Vanessa Johansson) are meeting with Venetian police to learn more about the mysterious disappearance of David's father. During the boat ride to where they think David's father may have last been seen, David sees the dorsal fin of a large shark. In a double-take he looks back and the fin is gone.

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The Brothers Rico (1957)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Eddie Rico (Richard Conte) is the happily married owner of a prosperous laundry company in Bayshore, Florida. Later in the film we discover that years ago he had been the accountant for a major crime syndicate. He has given up his ties to the syndicate, and hopes to adopt a child with his wife, Alice (Dianne Foster).

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American Fable (2016)

Drama, thriller film

Young Gitty, an 11-year-old girl living on a farm in 1980s rural America, tries not to worry about her family losing the farm and seeks to escape the stress of her home by exploring the farm and its lands. She is shocked to discover, however, that the developer buying up local farms is now seemingly being kept prisoner in the family's old abandoned grain silo at the edge of the farm. Gitty begins spending time with the man, ultimately finding herself torn between loyalty to what she thinks is right, and loyalty to her own family.

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Bullies (1986)

Action, Drama, thriller film

When the peaceful Morris family move to a small town and buy the town grocery store, they run afoul of the Cullen family. The Cullen's have been bullying the town's folk for years, and now they are harassing the Morris family every chance they get. Matt meanwhile meets and starts seeing a lot of Becky who also likes him.

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Doublecross (1956)

Crime, thriller film

The story takes place in a Cornish fishing town in the 1950s. Local fisherman assemble in a local pub, apparently to practise their bell-ringing. They are approached by two foreign men (and one woman) who are interested in making use of a boat and ask questions about going to the French coast.

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Night Trap (1993)

neo-noir, Slasher

Veteran cop Mike Turner (Robert Davi) is brought in to help solve a string of baffling satanic homicides. He soon finds himself along with Captain Hodges (John Amos) seeking to catch a murderous psycho called Bishop (Michael Ironside) who's gone on a killing spree during New Orleans' Mardi Gras. Only problem is that this killer has lost his soul to the devil and is no longer human...

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The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

Noir

Arriving at New York City's Pennsylvania Station after a trip to Cuba, Sheila Bennet, who is smuggling $50,000 worth of diamonds into the country, realizes that she is being followed by the authorities. She mails the diamonds to her husband Matt Krane instead of carrying them around, and then tries to shake the Treasury agent following her. Feeling sick, Sheila nearly faints on the street, and a police officer takes her to a local clinic.

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