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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,131 films · Page 327.

Bunker 6 (2013)

Post-apocalyptic, Science fiction, thriller film

On October 30, 1962, young Grace (Sophie Elliott) knows her father (Glenn Lefchak), who is a high-ranking military officer, is afraid that the United States and the Soviet Union are about to unleash nuclear attacks on each other's homeland. He takes her and her mother (Geneviève Steele) to a fallout shelter. A tragic accident, however, separates the girl from her parents, and she is trapped in Bunker #6 where Lewis (Daniel Lillford), a kind technician at the shelter, looks after her.

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Brotherhood of Death (1976)

Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, rape and revenge film

In the mid-to-late 1960s, three young men leave their small Southern hometown to join the United States Army and fight in the Vietnam War. Upon their return home, they take up the cause of battling the racial injustices prevalent in the town. When the town's Ku Klux Klan members offer a murderously violent reaction to their efforts, the trio uses the lessons they learned in the Special Forces, fighting the Vietcong, to conduct an all-out war against the Klan.

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Kill Speed (2010)

thriller film

Best friends Strayger (Andrew Keegan), Rainman (Brandon Quinn) and Forman (Nick Carter) calling themselves "Fly Guyz" come up with a scheme to fund their Hollywood, rock-star lifestyle. Using high speed aircraft to deliver Mexican manufactured illegal crystal meth for drug baron Escondido (Christian Monzon) throughout rural California is the way they make their money. They team up with computer techie Einstein (Graham Norris).

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Disconnected (1983)

Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Psychological horror, Slasher, thriller film

Alicia is a young woman working as an employee at a video rental store in Waterbury, Connecticut. One afternoon, she is met outside her apartment by an elderly man dressed in black who asks to use her phone. She obliges, but finds after the two enter her apartment that the man has strangely disappeared.

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Devil's Island (1939)

Drama, prison film

In the early 20th century, respected French surgeon Dr. Charles Gaudet is sentenced to ten years imprisonment to the infamous French penal colony on Devil's Island for treating Gustave LeBrun, a fugitive revolutionary. His appeal rejected, and assigned to hard labor, it isn't long before Gaudet speaks out against the inhuman conditions at the prison, incurring the anger of the brutal prison commander, Colonel Armand Lucien.

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The Place of the Dead (1997)

Adventure

The film largely tells the story of the expedition itself, but occasionally flashes to the present where the members of expedition are giving evidence in a military court. The enquiry is to determine which members were at fault for the failure of the expedition, meaning that the story is told in flashback as the men remember it. Initially, the soldiers are shown training while a voiceover by expedition leader Lt.

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The 'Human' Factor (1975)

Action, Drama, thriller film

John Kinsdale is an American NATO computer specialist living with his wife and two children in Naples, Italy. Trying to find a new housekeeper, he calls the number in an ad in the domestics section of a local English-language newspaper. When Kinsdale arrives home from work, he finds his family brutally murdered and the perpetrators nowhere in sight.

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Nightmare Nurse (2016)

Crime, thriller film

A young couple, Brooke and Lance, are injured in a car accident. At the hospital, Brooke is awakened by a nurse named Barb who informs her that Lance has been seriously injured and is in surgery. Not being able to remember everything that happened, Brooke eventually tells them that she remembers a man crossing the road in front of them just before they hit him, which is strange since Brooke and Lance are the only people who were transported to the hospital.

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Slaughter (2010)

Animal horror, Horror, thriller film

Faith is a young woman trapped in a relationship with her abusive boyfriend, Jimmy. She flees from him and moves to Atlanta to start over again. As Faith begins her new life, she meets a fun and free-spirited young woman named Lola.

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The Flying Serpent (1946)

Horror, monster film

Source: The opening sequence features an introductory text in the form of a scroll which reads: Near the little city of San Juan, New Mexico, stand the Aztec ruins. Archeologists tell us they are the remains of a once great temple, abandoned by the Aztecs when they migrated south to the Valley of Mexico, where they founded a rich empire. To defeat the greed of Cortez and his Spanish adventurers who had inaugurated a campaign of loot and murder, the wily Emperor Montezuma hid his fabulous treasure far to the north and implored his native gods to guard it.

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The Night Has Eyes (1942)

Mysterie, thriller film

Two young female teachers travel to the Yorkshire Moors where their friend had disappeared a year before, and it is not long before they encounter a man they believe to be her murderer. That night, a violent storm breaks out, and they become stranded in the house where they are staying.

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Summerfield (1977)

thriller film

The story begins with Simon Robinson arriving in a small seaside community to take over as teacher at the local school. He makes the acquaintance of siblings Jenny and David Abbott (Alexander and Waters, respectively), and Jenny's daughter Sally, who live on the island estate of Summerfield. The discovery that his predecessor vanished without a trace, and that Sally has a rare blood disorder lead Simon to try to uncover the truth behind the mystery.

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Plague (1978)

Horror, Science fiction

When a group of scientist work to develop a bacterium to increase food yields is delayed by bureaucratic processes, Dr. Celia Graham (Brenda Donahue) ignores protocols and develops a bacteria called M3. The new bacteria is accidentally released and causes sickness in children and death in others around the world.

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Appointment with Fear (1985)

Horror, thriller film

A mysterious and unidentified man in a white Ford van gets out and stabs his wife on the portico of a house. Before she dies, she gives her infant son to Heather and urges her to keep him safe, knowing that his father will try to kill him. Detective Kowalski, an off-beat, seedy-looking detective, follows the case.

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So Dark the Night (1946)

mystery film, Noir

A Parisian detective, Henri Cassin (Steven Geray), falls in love with country innkeeper Pierre Michaud's daughter Nanette (Micheline Cheirel) while on a long overdue vacation. She is a simple girl with a jealous boyfriend, Leon (Paul Marion). Nonetheless, the detective becomes engaged to her.

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Memory (2005)

Drama, Horror, thriller film

While lecturing in Brazil, Taylor Briggs, an American authority on memory, consults on a patient found deep in the Amazon. While examining the patient, Taylor is accidentally exposed to a substance which unlocks memories that do not belong to him.

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Newman's Law (1974)

Action, Crime, thriller film

Vince Newman (George Peppard), a hard-nosed Los Angeles cop, is loyal to his partner Garry (Roger Robinson), devoted to his family and far too principled to take a bribe. So when he gets booted from duty after being falsely accused of extortion, he decides to go rogue and keep investigating an organized crime case he was working on. As he digs deeper, he stumbles upon a conspiracy that might extend beyond the local mob scene, perhaps even to the highest reaches of his own department.

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The Pretender (1947)

Crime, Noir

The story tells of Kenneth Holden (Dekker), a crooked investment businessman, who embezzles a large sum of money from an estate. He hopes to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress, Claire Worthington (Craig). However, Worthington is already engaged, so Holden arranges for her fiancé to be killed.

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Locusts (2019)

crime thriller film, thriller film

The plot is set in a fictional post mining boom town where drugs, unemployment, and desperation have become rife. A tech entrepreneur, Ryan Black, returns reluctantly to his hometown for his father's funeral. He gets reunited with his ex-con brother, Tyson.

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Mind Games (1989)

thriller film

Rita and Dana Lund's marriage is in a crisis, Rita's frustrated from being just a housewife. To save their marriage, they set out for a camping trip through California with their son. At a camping site they meet the hitch-hiker Eric, who befriends their son.

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