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Explore suspense, danger and tense conflicts.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 347.

The Fear Inside (1992)

Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Agoraphobic children's book illustrator Meredith Cole is unable to leave her own home, and since her husband leaves, she decides to place an ad in the paper for someone to rent her guest bedroom. Jane Caswell rents the room, whilst her alleged brother Pete Caswell soon joins the household too, although it becomes clear that they are both not what they seem. Jane claims she's a vet and her brother claims he's a cop.

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Atomic Dog (1998)

Animal horror, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, thriller film

At an industrial plant in Devil's Canyon, a worker secretly cares for a three-month-old puppy named Cerberus. When a radiation leak occurs in the plant's second reactor, the staff are evacuated. The worker tries to retrieve Cerberus but is prevented from re-entering the contaminated area, leaving the puppy behind.

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Deathlands: Homeward Bound (2003)

Dystopian, Science fiction

left|thumb|220px|From left to right: Jenya Lano, Vincent Spano, Cliff Saunders, Nathan Carter Earth is devastated by a nuclear war in 2084. The sky is red from chemical waste and what was once the United States has become "Deathlands" inhabited by mutants. Communities ruled by powerful survivors are called "villes" and the one known as Front Royale had been ruled by a good man Baron Titus Cawdor (Colin Fox) who is killed by his wife, Lady Rachel Cawdor (Traci Elizabeth Lords).

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Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

Drama, thriller film

Finishing school student Marcia Bradburn has good news for her boyfriend, Roy Todwell. Her father has given his permission for their engagement. However, when she refuses to elope with him immediately, Roy inexplicably picks up a flagstone and kills his dog with it, then drives off.

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Gator Bait II: Cajun Justice (1988)

Adventure, rape and revenge film, thriller film

A sweet city girl is initiated into the rugged ways of the Louisiana bayou by her good-natured Cajun husband "Big T," she ends up getting kidnapped and violated by Big T's chief rival, Leroy, and his swarthy, brutish family as part of an ongoing feud. She manages to escape and return armed with some Cajun justice.

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Nicole (1978)

Erotic Thriller

Nicole (Leslie Caron) is a wealthy, reclusive widow who lives alone with her murderous chauffeur Malcolm (Ramon Bieri). When she falls for Fletcher (Bruce Graziano), a successful car salesman, and makes friends with Sue (Catherine Bach), a young dancer, things begin to turn out for the better. However, when she begins to suspect that Fletcher is cheating on her, she snaps and slips into an "alternate reality of violence, sex and paranoia".

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Time Bomb (1953)

thriller film

In England in 1952, a freight train loaded with naval mines is destined for HM Dockyard, Portsmouth. As it passes through a Birmingham railyard at night, a man jumps off. After a scuffle with a railway constable, he escapes, but without the bag he was carrying.

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The Bloody Brood (1959)

Crime, Drama

A man begins to investigate on his own the death of his brother, who died from eating a hamburger laced with ground glass. With the police case stalled because of ineptness, the man's own investigation leads him toward a beatnik hang-out frequented by Nico (Peter Falk), a shady character who supplies drugs to the patrons and philosophizes about the ills of the world.

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A Taste for Killing (1992)

Action, thriller film

Blaine Stockard III (Bateman) and Cary Sloan (Thomas) are best friends from well-to-do families who both set off for adventurous summer jobs on a Texas offshore oil rig between college graduation and law school. Openly resentful of their high society background, the boys' blue-collar bad-tempered boss Elray (Deckert) makes their lives as miserable as possible. Soon the boys meet happy-go-lucky Bo Landry (Biehn), who befriends the naive kids, shows them the ropes and helps them survive.

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Black Heat (1976)

Action, Blaxploitation, thriller film

Kicks Carter is a streetwise policeman whose beat is Las Vegas. A crime gang is running guns, selling drugs, loan-sharking, and running a prostitution ring out of an upscale hotel in the city and Kicks is trying to put them out of business. But the interference of a woman reporter is making his job more difficult.

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Marta (1971)

Psychological Thriller

A rich landowner named Don Miguel is haunted by his deceased mother's ghost, as, years earlier, he murdered her when she walked in on his lovemaking. Pilar, a beautiful fugitive on the run for killing a man, seeks to stay for a while at Miguel's mansion and the two develop a sexual relationship. The woman bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife Marta, who disappeared years earlier.

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The Clay Pigeon (1949)

Noir

Jim Fletcher, a former inmate in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, awakes from a coma at a Naval hospital, and is then informed that he has been accused of murder. As Fletcher is uncertain of his guilt, he escapes from the hospital to search for his best friend Mark Gregory, another ex-POW.

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Trunk to Cairo (1965)

Drama, spy film, thriller film

Mike Merrick (Audie Murphy) is an American agent who is sent to meet with Professor Schlieben (George Sanders) a German scientist. During the mission it is revealed that the professor is developing a weaponized rocket that can be used against the Western world. Merrick now must destroy the rocket plans hidden in Schlieben's lab.

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