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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 311.

Final Draft (2007)

Horror, thriller film

Paul (James Van Der Beek) is an aspiring script writer with a big problem; he only has 18 days to release his last script, a script that could be his chance to be someone. He decides to lock his home and live in isolation until the job is done. But the main character of his story is a maniac clown, and the line between fantasy and reality is so thin, which makes Paul turn crazy.

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Before I Hang (1940)

Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film

Dr. John Garth is on trial for murder after performing a mercy killing on an elderly friend. In the trial, he reveals that he had been researching a cure for aging but had not had time to perfect it before his friend's pain became unbearable.

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Blackwood (2013)

Horror, thriller film

Following a shattering emotional breakdown, a college professor relocates to the countryside with his family. After a seemingly good start, he is plagued by spectral visions and investigates a local mystery that has put him and his family in danger.

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The Ugly (1997)

Horror, thriller film

Inside an old, decrepit insane asylum in Auckland, detained serial killer Simon Cartwright (Paolo Rotondo) seeks to be reevaluated by an outside psychiatrist to prove that he has been cured. He requests specifically for Dr. Karen Schumaker (Rebecca Hobbs).

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Blood Legacy (1971)

Horror, mystery film, Slasher, thriller film

Christopher Dean (John Carradine) has died. His four adult children—Greg, Veronica, Johnnie, and Leslie—along with their spouses, as well as Christopher's longtime three servants, have been summoned to the mansion to listen to Christopher's previously recorded last will. The servants are entitled to a monthly salary of $500 as long as they remain in service.

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Safer at Home (2021)

thriller film

Set in the fall of 2022, after the second and third strains of COVID-19 have extended the COVID-19 pandemic death toll to over 31 million in the United States, mass chaos in Los Angeles has turned the city into a police state. Three sets of couplesBen and Liam in New York City, Evan and Jen in West Hollywood, and Oliver and Mia in Los Angeles' Venice neighborhoodare joined by friend Harper in Austin, Texas, on a four way online birthday party for Evan via Zoom. The group agrees to take a designer drug that Oliver has had delivered to each home.

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The Intruder (1999)

Drama, Psychological Thriller

In a police station, a blood-splattered woman named Catherine confesses to killing her husband's first wife earlier that day. Although she produces the murder weapon, Detective Fordham does not believe her, as the crime occurred three years earlier. Catherine explains the events that lead up to the crime.

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Kvinden der drømte om en mand (2010)

Destiny, Drama, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, Romantic drama

Karen, a successful Danish fashion photographer, is working so constantly that she has little time for her husband and daughter. While working in Paris, she spots a handsome man on the street, becoming instantly attracted to him. Maciek is a professor at Warsaw School of Economics visiting from Poland, and she pursues him relentlessly, even going so far as to follow him all the way to Warsaw and ensconcing herself in an apartment right across the street from the apartment where he lives with his wife and family.

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Bombshell (1997)

Science fiction, thriller film

In the year 2011, a sophisticated Los Angeles Company, Nanolabs, prepares to advertise a cancer cure in the form of nano-engines, microscopic molecular machines which mutate and restore organic tissue cell by cell. Genius Buck Hogan (Henry Thomas) starts to have serious doubts when lab animals start to die. Profit-greedy CEO Donald (Brion James) ignores him and devises human tests and news conferences.

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For Sale by Owner (2009)

Horror

Will Custis (Scott Cooper) purchases a beat up older home in Virginia. Originally intent on making the house a fixer-upper project for the summer, Custis soon learns that house is not at all what it seems to be, with mysteries such as the man who sold him the house, Ferlin Smith (Kris Kristofferson) dying several years earlier in a car accident, and what the owners are of the sounds he continues to hear outside.

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Down Three Dark Streets (1954)

Crime, Noir

FBI agent Zach Stewart is assigned three new cases by his boss, John Ripley, which are added to his existing case load. One involves wanted fugitive Joe Walpo, who has killed a gas-station attendant. Another concerns a department store fashion buyer, Kate Martell, who is being extorted by a man threatening to kill her daughter.

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Hitman's Run (1999)

Action

A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list of new names for individuals in the FBI witness protection program. The list includes his dad, who separated from his mother years before and hadn't been seen since.

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World for Ransom (1954)

Drama, Noir

Mike Callahan is an Irish national and war veteran working in Singapore as a private detective. He takes a case from a former flame, now a nightclub singer, who suspects that her husband Julian March is involved in criminal activities. Callahan learns that a man named Alexis Pederas has involved Julian in a plot to kidnap prominent nuclear scientist Sean O'Connor and hold him for ransom to the highest bidder.

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The Donor (1995)

Action, thriller film

Billy Castle is a professional stuntman with a penchant for risky behavior. While on a bungee jumping trip, he gets drunk with his friends Mike and Eric at a bar, where he notices an attractive female customer being harassed by another patron. Castle promptly disables the man, which leads to a conversation, and ultimately a sexual encounter, with the woman, who claims to be from Norway and named Angel.

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