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Drama, thriller film
In the fictional Adelaide suburb of Sunshine Hills, three teenage girls have disappeared: Jenny Wells (found in a dumpster with her body cut open), Teresa Fields (found impaled and hanging from a clothesline), and Amanda Howatt, who disappeared three days earlier. 14-year-old Danny Hobson is a loner, who lives with his police officer father Alan and stepmother Sherrie. He is obsessed with his 17-year-old neighbour, Suzy Thomson.
Action, thriller film
When Steve Mitchell is covertly dispatched to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania, to neutralize a long-undetected nuclear device left there since the Cold War's conclusion, he finds himself entangled in unforeseen complications. Teaming up with Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché whose true identity remains obscured, they must collaborate to input the correct computer code, deactivating the weapon and fulfilling the mission. However, while monitoring video feeds from an abandoned surveillance room, Steve witnesses an unexpected and perilous takeover of the embassy by the Serbian Liberation Front.
thriller film
Claire Elliot is the abused wife of vicious schoolmaster Michael, who takes great delight in belittling and emotionally abusing her both in public and in private. Michael is also openly carrying on an affair with one of the school's teachers, Vicky, who he sometimes physically assaults. Having grown tired of his cruelty, the two women conspire to murder him and stage the act to look like an accident.
Adventure, Drama, thriller film
During the 1982 Lebanon War, an Israeli fighter pilot, Yoni, is shot down over Beirut and captured by the Palestine Liberation Organization. Fahed, a precocious young Palestinian refugee who is angered by the death of his father in an Israeli air attack, agrees to help Yoni escape and lead him out of the city if Yoni will get him over the border and back to his family's ancestral village, where Fahed intends to plant an olive tree that his father had been tending in Beirut. As they embark on a hazardous road trip across the war-ravaged country, Yoni and Fahed move from suspicion and mutual antagonism to a tentative camaraderie as they…
Crime, Drama, Noir
Crane Stewart (Charles D. Brown), the editor of the New York Star, while playing poker with his friends, tells a story about a cop involved in a murder investigation. In flashback, the editor tells the tale of police lieutenant Tony Cochrane (William Gargan), a family man who cheats on his wife with socialite femme fatale Jill Merrill (Janis Carter).
independent film
Strangers opens in Berlin during the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Rana Sweid (Lubna Azabal), a Palestinian from Ramallah currently living in Paris, meets Eyal Goldman (Liron Levo), an Israeli who grew up on a kibbutz, after they accidentally switch bags on a train. They eventually strike up a friendship and decide to watch the World Cup together.
Science fiction, thriller film
A scientist (Lance Henriksen) leads a team in an experimental miniaturized craft injected into the bloodstream of a dying terrorist (Yulian Vergov) whose body conceals a computer chip that will trigger a nuclear explosion in the U.S. Capitol Building in less than 24 hours.
Drama, thriller film
Lucas is an introverted 11-year-old boy who lives with his policeman father Frank and blind mother Miriam. He spends most of his time at a school for the blind where his mother teaches knitting. He also has a habit of spying on others.
Crime, crime thriller film, thriller film
The RCMP, the CIA, and the KGB are all in pursuit of a free-lance hit man who kills randomly-selected women, in addition to the targets he's been paid to kill. CIA agent John Hyde (Martin Sheen) and his Canadian Mountie counterpart, Derek McKenzie (Michael Ontkean), investigate the murder of a Korean embassy employee, and end up in the middle of this jurisdictional nightmare, as does Hyde's ex-wife Amanda O'Rourke (Beverly D'Angelo), who is the assassin's next target.
Action, buddy film, Drama
A Los Angeles Police Officer (Edwards) investigates the death of his partner in the swamps of Louisiana. He enlists the help of an ex-cop (Henriksen) who lost his hand to an alligator years before.
thriller film
The film follows a Hollywood actress whose rising career is cut short when an influenza pandemic sends her back to the small town she fled years before. She soon finds something more dangerous than any virus waiting for her.
thriller film
The crew of a lighthouse, led by skipper Rigby and his assistants Johnny and Matt, rescue what they assume to be the survivors of a shipwreck, two men and a woman, Linda, Luigi and Mark, their leader. However, they turn out to be criminals on the run from a bank robbery. The criminals try to persuade the lighthouse employees to help them escape in another boat in exchange for part of the loot, but the skipper refuses to help, and destroys the boat's engine.
Crime, mystery film
thumb|upright=1.2|Keye Luke and Warner Oland in Charlie Chan at the Circus Charlie Chan takes his wife and twelve children on an outing to a circus after receiving a free pass from one of the owners, Joe Kinney. Kinney wants Chan to find out who is sending him anonymous threatening letters. Nearly all of the circus workers are suspects since Kinney is very unpopular.
Drama, Horror
The Coltrane family's life has been devastated by an untimely death. Widowed Helen Coltrane (Melora Walters), along with her teenage son, Conrad (Jackson Rathbone) and daughter Lenore, are given shelter by her reclusive and quirky gun-loving brother-in-law, Daryl. As they grapple with the reality of their shattered, altered life and twist of fate, coincidence steps in with a seemingly lovely foster child, Sarah (Sofia Vassilieva), who appears touting a story that Helen's husband had pledged to take her in.
thriller film
An embezzler driving through the Nevada desert picks up a Las Vegas showgirl and her psychotic boyfriend after their vehicle crashes. The boyfriend, a not-very-bright hitman, has no intention of letting him get away with the stolen cash. Alliances between the three shift as they face further complications in their attempt to leave the desert alive.
thriller film, war film
Two Airmen are tasked with deciding the fate of a terrorist with a single push of a button. As the action plays out in real time, their window to use a deadly military drone on the target slowly closes. With time running out, the Airmen begin to question what the real motives are behind the ordered lethal attack.
Drama, thriller film
Vietnam war hero, accused of murdering his brother, recruits his socialite girlfriend to hunt for the real killer.
thriller film
Drama
A fashion model embarks on a romantic affair with her psychiatrist. The relationship is thrown into question when the protagonist espies her lover with another woman. The man she sees winds up being his evil twin, further complicating matters.
Crime, Drama, romance film, thriller film
Former Eighth Air Force bomber crewman Captain Jeff Eliot returns to Germany in 1947 to visit the family who rescued and hid him from the Nazis after his plane was downed over Munich in World War II. He learns that most of the family was killed by an American air raid. The only survivor is the daughter, Wilhelmina "Willie" Lehrt, who is working as a hostess in a nightclub and hates Americans.
Crime, Drama, mystery film
While Charlie Chan and his number one son, Lee, are aboard a New York-bound transatlantic liner returning from Germany in their previous adventure (Charlie Chan at the Olympics), they have a run-in with a mysterious woman, named Billie Bronson, who secretes a package in the trunk of the Chans. After the liner docks, Chan and Lee are met at the pier by Inspector Nelson and two rival reporters, Joan Wendall and Speed Patton. Billie, who left the country hurriedly a year ago when sought as a material witness in a political scandal, has returned to "blow the lid off the town".
Action, Martial arts, thriller film
LGBTQ-related film, mystery film, thriller film
Keegan Dark (Blaise Embry), the protagonist, has a condition called hyperthymesia, a condition that makes a person remember almost every single moment of their life. Keegan Dark and his boyfriend (Timo Descamps) arrive at the mansion of Keegan's estranged mother Mrs. Celeste Dark (Shannon Day) where not only is he constantly being haunted by his past, but also discovers a plot that puts his life and lives of his loved ones in danger.
Heist
Haskell (Michael Caine) is a hardened gangster assigned to a job by his boss, Landon-Higgins (James Fox), to steal sheets of watermarked paper to print fake money.