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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 346.

Goodnight, My Love (1972)

thriller film

In 1946, Los Angeles Susan Lakely hires private detectives Francis Hogan and Arthur Boyle when her boyfriend Michael Tarlow does not call for four days. Upon visiting his apartment the detectives are attacked by an unknown assailant, who flees. They press Susan for more information about her boyfriend's associates but she claims to be unaware of the nature of his business.

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Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero (1995)

Action, Martial arts, thriller film

Air Force courier Nick Corrigan is dispatched to a remote nuclear missile base in the Midwest. Unbeknownst to him, a group of terrorists has seized control of the base with the intention of launching missiles at major cities across the nation. They imprison Nick within the base to prevent him from thwarting their scheme.

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Crimes at the Dark House (1940)

Crime, Drama

A villain murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia (by hammering a tent peg into his ear as he sleeps) and assumes his identity in order to inherit his estate in England. On arriving in England, he schemes to marry an heiress for her money. With the connivance of the enigmatic Dr.

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Last flight to Abuja (2012)

Action, disaster film, Drama, thriller film

On board the last flight of Flamingo Airways from Lagos to Abuja, it is a Friday night in 2006. The plane leaves on time, and everything goes well until disaster strikes. While the pilots try to regain control of the flight, flashbacks reveal the reasons why each passenger took the flight and now has to face their destiny.

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The Man with My Face (1951)

Noir, thriller film

Chick Graham has settled in Puerto Rico after the war to operate a small business with his army buddy and brother-in-law Buster Cox. Graham returns home one evening to find his wife Cora acting as though he is an insane stranger. A man who exactly resembles Graham named Bert Rand has taken his place and is playing cards and drinking in his living room.

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Cuba Crossing (1980)

fiction film, Political Thriller, thriller film

Hud is an American who survived the Bay of Pigs Invasion and has sworn revenge against Fidel Castro. Many years later, he gets his chance when he is engaged by Mr Rossellini, who blames Castro for his losses when his gambling enterprises and he had to leave Cuba, and the mysterious Mr. Bell, who finances Hud for a mission to Cuba.

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Deadbolt (1992)

thriller film

When medical student Marty Hiller (Justine Bateman) places an ad for a roommate, her ad is answered by handsome, clean-cut Alec Danz (Adam Baldwin). At first Alec seems to be a wonderful roommate; supportive, considerate and a real friend. However, Alec's affection turns to obsession as he plots to manipulate and control all aspects of Marty's life, imprison her in her own apartment and make her his.

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The Galloping Ghost (1931)

Action, American football film, Crime

Red Grange is thrown off the Clay College football team in disgrace when his friend, Buddy Courtland, takes a bribe to throw the big game and Red attacks him in anger. Red then proceeds to investigate and hunt down the head of the gambling ring responsible, a criminal enterprise operated out of the Mogul Taxi company offices. Red eventually clears his name, and both he and Buddy are reinstated on the team.

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Rogues' Regiment (1948)

Action, exploitation film

An American Intelligence Agent and Nazi hunter is on the trail of a former SS war criminal reminiscent of Martin Bormann believed to be hiding in the French Foreign Legion in French Indochina. He joins forces with a French Intelligence agent investigating supplies of weapons to the Việt Minh from the Eastern Bloc.

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Blast-Off Girls (1967)

Action, Drama, musical film, thriller film

Boojie Baker is a ruthless, greedy talent manager who "discovers" and then exploits unknown rock bands. The film opens in a nightclub with one of Boojie Baker's protégé acts, a band named Charlie, who have clearly been put through the grind already. They begin griping about the royalties they've been fleeced out of, then walk out on him.

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Signs & Wonders (2000)

Drama, Psychological Thriller

Adopting the serio-comic visual associations celebrated in Gombrowicz's novel, the film unfolds largely in Athens as an expatriate American businessman struggles to find coherence in his radical "pursuit of happiness". Alec Fenton is a happily married man with two children who nonetheless is maintaining a torrid affair with colleague Katherine . At the start of the film, impelled by signs clearly decipherable to him, he abruptly ends the liaison after voluntarily confessing its existence to his wife Marjorie .

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Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)

Crime, Mysterie, mystery film

When a prominent racehorse owner winds up dead-allegedly kicked to death by his prized stallion, Charlie Chan is called in to investigate. But when the indomitable detective discovers evidence of foul play, he's soon hot on the hooves of an international gambling ring with an evil plot to turn the racetracks of the world into a trifecta of terror!

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Flu Bird Horror (2008)

Horror

Six teenagers on a chaperoned rehabilitation camping trip find themselves being hunted by mutant giant birds infected with a mysterious virus that changes the birds into deadly predators. Porky is the first to be injured by the birds. Counselor Guy gets killed by birds.

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Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)

Crime, Mysterie, thriller film

Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond has just returned to England and as he is driving home in the dark, a young woman jumps out in front of his car. He misses her, but she falls to the ground. As he tries to revive her, he hears a shout for help, then gunshots and when he goes to investigate, the woman drives away in his car.

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Love Is a Gun (1994)

thriller film

Jack Hart (Roberts), a novice LAPD crime-scene-photographer, is experiencing marital problems when he discovers a poster of an enigmatic woman. After attempting to enter a photo contest at the Forensics Department, he tracks down the model, a photographer in her own right, Jean Starr (Preston). Hart becomes infatuated with Starr, and the two enter an affair, much to the dismay of their respective spouses.

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The Sky Is Falling (1979)

Drama, Horror, thriller film

A heroin-addicted poet named Chicken, struggling to separate reality from fantasy, lives in a small, secluded Spanish village with his girlfriend Susannah and other expatriates. These include a washed up actress named Treasure Evans; Terence, a retired British Air Corps captain and his alcoholic wife Heather; and a jaded flamboyant homosexual man named Allen. Chicken struggles with his addiction while having vivid hallucinations about his religious mother.

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Monogamy (2010)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, Marital Tragedy, Psychological Thriller

Theo is bored with his job as a wedding photographer—the generic backgrounds, the artificial posing, the stilted newlyweds—so he develops an unconventional side business, called "Gumshoot," a service where clients hire him to stalk them with his camera. Becoming infatuated with one of his clients, a mystery woman who goes by the name Subgirl, Theo develops a voyeuristic obsession that forces him to confront uncomfortable truths about himself and his impending marriage with Nat.

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