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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 335.

A Crime (2006)

Crime, Drama, Erotic Thriller, neo-noir

In the evening, while returning to his home, Vincent Harris (Reedus) passes a taxi coming from his house. When he arrives, he finds his wife Ashley has been brutally murdered. Three years later, Vincent moves to New York, and his neighbor, Alice Parker (Béart), is frantically in love with him, but Vincent's obsession with discovering his wife's killer, leaves him oblivious to her interest.

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Room to Let (1950)

thriller film

After a fire at an insane asylum during the Edwardian era, a young journalist named Curly Minter becomes convinced that one of the patients has escaped and taken lodgings at a local middle-class household. The mysterious "Doctor Fell" comes to dominate the three women in the house – mother, daughter and maid – and increasingly shuts them off from all outside contact. Despite a lack of assistance from the authorities, the journalist suspects that the Doctor is in fact the notorious Jack the Ripper who is planning a fresh series of attacks.

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Celia (1949)

Comedy, thriller film

Celia, an unemployed actress, is reluctantly persuaded by private detective Larry Peters to once again help him with a case. She has a flair for undertaking character rôles but mainly agrees so she can buy a fashionable hat with the fee Larry offers to pay her. Celia poses as a cockney maid for a week in a large house where Lester Martin is suspected of marrying Aunt Nora, a much older woman, for her money and plans to kill her with poison.

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Red Line (2013)

thriller film

Terrified subway passengers fight for their lives after a terrorist bombing leaves them trapped underground in Los Angeles' subway tunnels. With another bomb ticking down and the perpetrator among them, it's a race against time for survival.

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While I Live (1947)

Drama

In Cornwall in 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan is struggling with the ending of a piano tone poem she is composing. Driven to complete the piece by her domineering elder sister Julia, Olwen becomes agitated and despondent, and one night sleepwalks to the edge of a cliff near their home. Julia follows her and shouts her name but Olwen, abruptly awakened, loses her balance and falls to her death on the rocks below.

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Scene of the Crime (1996)

Crime, Drama

Over a year after a chase to catch a serial slayer dubbed the 'LADYKILLER' ended in the death of his old partner, police officer Lt. Jack 'Jigsaw' Lasky sees a chance to redeem himself when another serial killer, 'The Piggy Bank Murderer', starts preying on female students at a local campus. He slasheds his victims' throats with a switchblade before stuffing loose change into their mouths, leaving behind the words "She Needed The Money" wherever he goes.

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Dark Harvest (2016)

crime thriller film

On the eve of its becoming legal, a marijuana grower is murdered. His best friend Carter (James Hutson), against the advice of his mentor Ricardo (Cheech Marin), teams up with narcotics investigator Bernie (A.C. Peterson) to discover the reasons and find the killer.

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Bryan Loves You (2008)

Horror

The plot revolves around a 32-year-old psychotherapist as he begins to suspect that the local religious cult has been murdering the town's citizens. He soon becomes sucked into a web of mysterious happenings, with the cult of the 'Bryans' being the focal point. The film uses the 'found footage' format, and claims that the film is a compilation of security footage.

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Raptor Island (2004)

Action, Adventure, Horror, monster film, Science fiction, thriller film

A team of SEALs chases a group of terrorists onto the island after destroying a weapons cache and rescuing a hostage special agent. While tracking the terrorists, mutated dinosaurs appear and the mission changes into simple survival. The dinosaurs use their skilled sense of smell and ability to swim to hunt down the SEALs and terrorists.

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The Bleeding House (2011)

Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Slasher

The Smith family with a secret past is visited by a sweet-talking southern gentleman who is looking for small town humanity. But they will soon find out kindness towards strangers is not always rewarded and the secretive stranger will find redemption does not always come easy.

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The Secret Fury (1950)

Drama, mystery film, Noir, thriller film

Wealthy touring classical pianist Ellen Ewing is standing at the altar with fiancé David McLean when an intruder stops the marriage ceremony and accuses her of already having wed a few months prior. The stranger claims that this can be verified by the registrar at the small seaside village of Fairview (where Ellen's family has a home, and she indeed had spent time overlapping the date of the alleged nuptial). A call is placed by the Ewing family's longtime lawyer, Gregory Kent, accompanied by the district attorney, Eric Lowell, a recent former suitor still smarting sharply from his jilting.

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