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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 306.

Moonshine Highway (1998)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Set in the 1950s, in backcountry Tennessee, the story focuses on Jed Muldoon (Kyle MacLachlan), a World War II veteran who smuggles illegal corn whiskey in his modified Lincoln. Muldoon is having an affair with Ethel Miller (Maria del Mar), whose husband is the corrupt, local sheriff Wendell Miller (Randy Quaid). Sheriff Miller is under pressure from federal agent Bill Rickman (Alex Carter) to arrest the moonshiners.

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Drive a Crooked Road (1954)

Heist, Noir

Mechanic and race car driver Eddie Shannon is chosen by two bank robbers, Steve Norris and his girlfriend Barbara Mathews, to help them with a heist. The heist requires someone with his ability to "soup up" engines and drive at high speeds over treacherous roads, to avoid capture after they pull the job. To bait the driver into the dangerous scheme, Steve uses Barbara to help persuade Eddie to assist with the crime—though his share of the heist would also make it possible for him to achieve his dream of racing competitively in Europe, the money alone wouldn't be sufficient inducement.

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Something Beneath (2007)

Action, Horror, Science fiction, thriller film

On the Cedar Gates Conference Center (CGCC) construction site, Dutch comes into contact with some black slime from the newly broken ground. He hallucinates that Bob (whose wife is sleeping with Dutch) and several others are chasing him down in bulldozers until he trips and is impaled on some exposed rebar— his death is attributed to drinking. A year later, an ecological conference is being held at the newly opened CGCC, led by the Episcopalian priest Father Douglas Middleton.

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The Midnight Man (2016)

comedy thriller

When Grady, an assassin with a genetic disorder that renders him unable to feel pain, is sent on a high-stakes assignment, his world is turned upside-down after an attack when he awakens to discover that he can feel pain for the first time in his life. With the clock ticking and his greatest asset gone, Grady will go head-to-head with his greatest fears and unspeakable enemies, while experiencing a tactile world he never could have imagined.

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Rx (2005)

romantic thriller, thriller film

Three American friends travel across the border to a secret outdoor party in Mexico. While there, they visit Jonny's drug dealer Pepe, an American who has set up a drug dealing business in Mexico. While they are waiting, a local mechanic named Carlos offers to fix a bump on their car but they decline the offer.

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Age of Kill (2015)

Action, thriller film

A black ops sniper, Sam Blake (Martin Kemp), is blackmailed by a psychotic terrorist known only as "Jericho" into killing six seemingly unrelated people in six hours. If he fails, misses a target, goes to the police or is caught, the death toll will be far higher.

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Bellman and True (1987)

Heist

Hiller (Hill) arrives at Paddington station in London with a boy (O'Brien) following a stay in Torquay. They do not realise they are being tailed by Gort (Bones) as they check into a nearby hotel. A few days later, the child is kidnapped by Gort and Hiller is also captured: both are taken to a derelict house where he encounters Salto (Hope).

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Fear of Clowns (2004)

Drama, Horror, Slasher, thriller film

Lynn Blodgett, an artist with coulrophobia, has a nightmare in which she is a young girl and encounters a clown with a decomposing face after a car crash at a carnival. Lynn's nightmares have been getting worse since she filed for divorce from her husband, Doctor Bert Tokyo, who hit her upon getting the news, and is fighting for full custody of their son, Nicholas. One night, a shirtless clown (Shivers) with black eyes and a battle axe gazes at Lynn's house, then walks away.

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The Crooked Way (1949)

Drama, Noir

After sustaining a head wound in combat, decorated World War II veteran Eddie Rice (John Payne) is treated at a San Francisco military hospital for a permanent form of amnesia. This leaves him with no knowledge of his life, family and friends prior to his enlistment. Army intelligence is unable to fill this void, as all they know about his past is that he enlisted in Los Angeles.

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Babycall (2011)

Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Anna and her son Anders, move into a large flat outside Oslo. Anna fears that her violent ex-husband will find them, as they have been relocated for safety. They receive occasional visits from child care workers Grete and Ole, who warn Anna that her ex-husband may reopen a custody case for Anders.

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Midnight Movie (2008)

Horror, Slasher

Forty years after directing and starring in a slasher movie, entitled The Dark Beneath, centred on a group of friends being killed by a masked killer, Ted Radford suffers a mental breakdown and is admitted to a psychiatric ward. In an attempt to cure Radford, his doctor shows him the movie. When another doctor, Dr Wayne, arrives at the ward the following morning, he discovers evidence of a mass slaughter, however no bodies are to be found.

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Hot Tamale (2007)

Action, Comedy, Comedy drama, Crime, thriller film

Harlan Woodruff (Randy Spelling) is a Salsa musician from Wyoming, on a road trip to Los Angeles to realise his dream of making it big as a percussionist. It is revealed that Harlan had a troubled childhood, having found his dead father frozen in a fishing hole. En route to Los Angeles, he runs into Jude (Jason Priestley), a career criminal on the run from two hit men, Al and Dwayne (Mike Starr and Sean Blakemore), who want to retrieve stolen merchandise from him.

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Two of a Kind (1951)

Crime, Drama, Noir

Mike Farrell is induced by con artists Brandy Kirby and attorney Vincent Mailer to purloin a rich couple's $10 million-dollar estate by having Farrell pose as their long-lost son. When the old man refuses to change his will, Mailer decides to kill the couple and Kirby plays along. Farrell refuses to assist and Mailer plans to kill him as well.

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Endangered Species (2002)

Horror, Science fiction

The film opens with another gym killing, yet another in a killing spree by an unknown person, who only attacks local spas and gyms. Among those investigating is Mike "Sully" Sullivan, Wyznowski and Yamata at the crime scene, Sully spots a mysterious man leaving, and does not believe him to be one of the police force. They find that there was one sole survivor, a young woman who hid in her locker, and is currently at the hospital, under heavy medication.

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The Majorettes (1987)

Comedy horror, Horror, Slasher, thriller film

A camouflage-clad serial killer has begun mysteriously killing the members of the school's majorette squad under the guise of "saving their souls" before they reach adulthood. Local Sheriff Braden and a federal agent investigate the killings. Pregnant teenager Nicole Hendricks is among the first victims, who is attacked and murdered alongside Tommy Harvack, a male acquaintance.

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It's Only Money (1962)

Comedy

Lester March is a 25-year-old orphan who is an electronics repairman. However, his real passion is detective novels, and he dreams of becoming a detective himself someday. His best friend, Pete Flint, is a detective, and they see a television program about a wealthy single woman, Cecilia Albright, who is looking for her long-lost nephew.

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Tattoo (2002)

Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered into traffic. As Schrader and Minks investigate the murder, the case is complicated by a finger found in the stomach of the victim.

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Ace Up My Sleeve (1976)

Comedy, Crime, Drama, thriller film

André Ferren learns from his girlfriend and co-worker Susan Winters that the biggest client of his brokerage firm, Hermann Rolf, not only wants to replace André with Susan, but asked Susan on a date. André orders Susan to go on the date and Rolf asks Susan to marry him. Susan agrees on the condition that Rolf entrust his fortune to André as a gift.

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Women in Chains (1972)

Drama, thriller film, women in prison film

Parole officer Sandra Parker (Lois Nettleton) becomes aware of the death of one of her cases, Ginger Stratton, at the hands of brutal prison guard Claire Tyson (Ida Lupino). All too aware of Tyson's impeccable record, Parker and her friend, Assistant District Attorney Helen Anderson (Penny Fuller), come to the conclusion that Tyson is basically untouchable. Parker hatches a scheme to expose Tyson by going undercover in prison herself.

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The Human Shield (1991)

Action, thriller film, war film

In 1985, during the Iran–Iraq War, Colonel Doug Matthews, is a U.S. Marine hired to help train Iraqi troops to fight off the Iranians. He arrives somewhere in the northern part of Iraq only to discover that stormtroopers are killing people in the nearby village.

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