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Gothic film, Horror, Mysterie, crime film, horror film, mystery film, police film, thriller film
In October 1830, alcoholic retired detective Augustus Landor is asked by the military to investigate the hanging of Cadet Leroy Fry at the United States Military Academy. Landor is a widower whose daughter Mattie ran off two years before. …
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Action, Mysterie, action film, disaster film, mystery film, science fiction film
In October 1959, an elementary school in Lexington celebrates its opening with a competition in which students draw what they believe will happen in the future. Lucinda Embry fills her paper with numbers while being guided by whispering vo…
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Action, Christmas film, action film, action thriller, crime film, thriller film
On an unspecified day during Christmas week, two years after the events of the previous film, John McClane is now a lieutenant with the LAPD, who arrives at Dulles International Airport to pick up his wife, Holly. He is met with hostility …
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, science fiction action film, speculative fiction film, spy film, thriller film
A Drax Industries Moonraker Space Shuttle orbiter on loan to the United Kingdom is hijacked in midair while on a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. The carrier is destroyed but no wreckage of the shuttle is found. M, head of MI6, assigns James Bond…
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Family Drama, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In a quiet Amish community outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania, friends and family attend the funeral of Jacob Lapp, leaving behind his wife, Rachel, and eight-year-old son, Samuel. Rachel and Samuel travel by train to visit Rachel's sister, w…
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Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, thriller film
In 1990s Los Angeles, obsessive fan Paul Duerson arrives at the mansion of pop star and actress Sofia Minor. Paul is under the delusion that he and Sofia are in love and plans to propose. When confronted by Sofia's bodyguard, Bell, Paul th…
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Drama, action film, drama film, sport film, thriller film
Former pro-pool player "Fast Eddie" Felson has given up the game and is now a successful liquor salesman in Chicago. However, he partners with pool players, including a hustler named Julian, who is outmatched at nine-ball by the young and …
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Action, action film, action thriller, girls with guns
In Chicago, Wesley Allan Gibson works at a dead-end desk job with an overbearing boss, takes medication for panic attacks, and lives with his abrasive girlfriend Cathy who cheats on him with his co-worker and best friend, Barry. One evenin…
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Action, action film, contemporary Western film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
At the Tarasco bar in Mexico, Buscemi, an American man, talks about witnessing a massacre in another bar, committed by El Mariachi, a Mexican with a guitar case full of guns. Tarasco's patrons are uninterested until Buscemi mentions drug l…
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Horror, Obsession, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
A dollmaker named Samuel Mullins and his wife Esther grieve for the loss of their seven-year-old daughter Annabelle, nicknamed "Bee", who dies when she accidentally steps in front of a driving car. Twelve years later, the Mullins open thei…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, found footage film, horror film, thriller film
While swimming with her family at a dam in Ararat, Australia, 16-year-old Alice Palmer disappears. Days later, her body is found in a stormwater drainage basin. Alice's parents, Russell and June, are called to identify the remains; Russell…
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LGBTQ-related film, Marital Tragedy, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, psychological thriller
Laura Burney appears to have an idyllic life and a happy marriage to Martin, a successful Boston investment counselor. Beneath Martin's charming, handsome exterior, however, is an obsessive and controlling person who has physically, emotio…
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, horror film, romance film, survival film
Jack and Jennifer are a wealthy couple who are yachting in the Caribbean during Christmas. One of their crew is the handsome Manuel, who is immediately found attractive by Jennifer and her friend Gail. Shortly after, Manuel is cursed by hi…
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Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In early May 2002, a last-minute midnight hearing is held before serial killer Malcolm Rivers' scheduled execution the next day. A tape of Malcolm reciting the poem "Antigonish" is played. Journals belonging to Malcolm are discovered havin…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Three years after four Neo-Nazis invaded her family's lake house and killed her father, 16-year-old Becky has escaped from several foster homes. She now lives off the grid. Eventually, Becky and her dog Diego settle in with Elena Cahn, a m…
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Buddy Cop, Christmas film, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film, thriller film
Following the recent death of his wife, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) narcotics Sergeant Martin Riggs, a former Special Forces soldier, has become suicidal and erratic. Despite the protests of police therapist Stephanie Woods, Capta…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1986 in Atlanta, Georgia, Richard Jewell is working as an office supply clerk at the Small Business Administration, where he builds a rapport with attorney Watson Bryant before leaving to pursue a law enforcement career. He is hired as …
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Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
The El Royale, once popular with the wealthy until losing its gambling license, is a hotel that straddles the California–Nevada border. In 1959, Felix O'Kelly hides a money bag under the floorboards of his room. His accomplice arrives and …
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
While working an undercover prostitute sting operation in a nightclub to arrest a pimp named Neptune, Miami-Dade Police detectives James "Sonny" Crockett and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs receive a frantic phone call from their former informant Alo…
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Animalhorror, Horror comedy, Komödie, action film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, kaiju, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, thriller film
In the isolated desert town of Perfection, Nevada, handymen Valentine "Val" McKee and Earl Bassett decide to leave for the nearby town of Bixby after growing dissatisfied with their work. Before they can depart, they discover resident Edga…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, thriller film
In the year 2678, the spaceship Hunter-Gratzner is struck by micrometeoroids that penetrate the hull, killing the captain and sending it off course toward a nearby planet. First Officer Owens and docking pilot Carolyn Fry attempt an emerge…
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Horror comedy, Thriller, black comedy film, horror film
Bee, a young working-class woman from Eastern Europe, travels with her wealthy girlfriend Sophie to a "hurricane party" at a mansion owned by the family of David, Sophie's best friend. Other guests include David's girlfriend and so-called …
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, action film, adventure film, crime thriller film, mystery film, steampunk film
In 1891, a series of bombings blamed on political radicals bring France and Germany to the brink of war. Detective Sherlock Holmes narrowly intercepts one such bomb instead intended for expert surgeon Dr. Hoffmanstahl and Holmes' former lo…
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Thriller, black comedy film
Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA officers Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Easter Island by their bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, and as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and p…
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