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Biographical picture, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film
"The following is based on a true story. It began October 6, 1970 in Istanbul, Turkey." On vacation in Istanbul, American college student Billy Hayes straps of hashish bricks to his chest. As he and his girlfriend Susan are about to board …
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Jack Reacher, a drifter and former Major who commanded the US Army's 110th CID Military Police (MP), helps the current commander, Major Susan Turner, bust a corrupt Oklahoma Sheriff who is running a human trafficking ring on Army land. Ret…
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Forensic, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, historical film
In 1998, Robert Bilott, from Cincinnati, is a corporate defense lawyer at law firm Taft Stettinius & Hollister. Wilbur Tennant, a farmer and friend of Bilott's grandmother, asks him to investigate the deaths of numerous dairy cattle at his…
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Komödie, Romance Film, Thriller, Werewolf, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror, ghost film, werewolf film
Two American graduate students from New York City, David Kessler and Jack Goodman, are trekking across the North York Moors. As night falls, they stop at the Slaughtered Lamb, a local pub. Jack notices a five-pointed star on the pub's wall.
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Action, Animalhorror, action film, adventure film, horror film, kaiju, science fiction film, thriller film
Jonas Taylor is a rescue diver who attempts to save the crew of a damaged nuclear submarine as the hull is being rammed by an unidentified creature. He is forced to flee and leave two of his crew members trapped in the sub, as attempting r…
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, drama film, neo-noir, slasher film, teen film, thriller film
Seventeen-year-old Kale Brecht and his father spend an idyllic day fishing. While Kale is driving them home, a car accident kills his father. One year later, Kale is a troubled, sullen, withdrawn outcast, wracked with guilt and grief over …
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, adventure film, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, hard science fiction, science fiction film, survival film
After an oil crisis, Lunar Industries makes a fortune by building Sarang Station, a facility on the far side of the Moon to mine the alternative fuel helium-3. The facility requires only one human to maintain operations and launch canister…
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Crime, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film
Recently divorced Meg Altman and her eleven-year-old daughter, Sarah, move into a four-story brownstone in New York City's Upper West Side. The house's previous owner, a reclusive millionaire, had installed a "panic room" to protect himsel…
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Thriller, crime film
Cal Starr, a young boy living in a small South Dakota town, develops an obsession with Native American culture after watching numerous Western films on television and comes to believe he is the reincarnation of Lakota leader Sitting Bull. …
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Police Film, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
Former CIA analyst Jack Ryan now teaches history at the United States Naval Academy. In London with his wife Cathy and their young daughter Sally, Ryan witnesses and intervenes in a terrorist kidnapping attempt on Lord William Holmes, the …
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, rape and revenge film
Scriptwriter David Sumner and his wife Amy, an actress, relocate to the rural small of Blackwater in Marshall County, Mississippi, where Amy grew up. They are going to live in the house of Amy's recently deceased father to allow David to f…
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Family Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
In 1968, Rose Fairbairn brings her four children: Jack, Jane, Billy, and Sam from England to her childhood home, the Marrowbone Residence, in rural Maine. She tells them they will use 'Marrowbone', Rose's maiden name. A local girl named Al…
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Ghost-Movie, ghost film, horror film
Ghost hunter Cyrus Kriticos and his psychic assistant, Dennis Rafkin, lead a specialized team on a mission to capture a spirit in a junkyard. Cyrus and several of his men are killed, but the team successfully captures the ghost. His nephew…
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Drama, Fantasy, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, science fiction action film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
Gloria is an unemployed writer struggling with alcoholism. Her boyfriend Tim, frustrated with her behavior, breaks up with her and kicks her out of their New York City apartment. Moving back to her family home in Mainhead, New Hampshire, G…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Slasher Horror, black comedy film, comedy horror, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film, time-travel film
After a night of drunken partying, Tree Gelbman wakes up on her birthday in the dorm room of classmate Carter Davis. She dismisses him, returning to her room. Her sorority housemate Lori Spengler gives her a cupcake, which she throws away.
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film
En route to a football game, Carly Jones, her delinquent twin brother Nick, her boyfriend Wade Felton and their friends – Dalton Chapman, Paige Edwards and Blake Johnson – set up camp for the night in a wooded area. A stranger in a pickup …
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film, mystery film, thriller film, vigilante film
An older woman, Evelyn Mercer, is murdered at a convenience store in Highland Park, Michigan when a robbery occurs that results in the death of the store clerk and her, the sole witness. The incident brings her four adopted sons back home …
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Aliens, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, crossover fiction, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
A Yautja ship leaves Earth carrying captured Xenomorph facehuggers and Scar's body before a chestburster emerges, with characteristic traits of both species. The chestburster quickly matures into an adult Predalien, and starts slaughtering…
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Political Satire, Psychodrama, Utopia & Dystopia, drama film, dystopian film, independent film, political drama, political thriller film, science fiction film
In a dystopian 1984, Winston Smith endures a squalid existence in the totalitarian superstate of Oceania under the constant surveillance of the Thought Police. He resides in London, the capital city of the territory of Airstrip One, former…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, superhero film
In 1944 during World War II, Grigori Rasputin, his disciples Ilsa von Haupstein and Obersturmbannführer Karl Ruprecht Kroenen, and a group of Nazis build a dimensional portal to free demonic entities called Ogdru Jahad: The Seven Gods of C…
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Action, Crime, Crime Comedy, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, comedy thriller
In Los Angeles, ruthless drug lord Cullen Crisp murders a man who had provided information about the whereabouts of Crisp's ex-wife, Rachel, who went into hiding years earlier with their young son, Cullen Jr. Crisp is arrested by John Kimb…
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Action, Action Comedy, action film, thriller film
An elite group of mercenaries named The Expendables, who are based in New Orleans, deploys to the Gulf of Aden to save hostages on a vessel from Somali pirates. The team consists of leader Barney Ross, blade specialist Lee Christmas, marti…
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Ghost-Movie, action film, ghost film, horror film, monster film
The Grudge is a curse, born when someone dies in extreme rage or sorrow and lingers where the person dies. Those who encounter it will die, and the curse is reborn repeatedly, passing from victim to victim in an endless growing chain of ho…
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
After foiling an assassination attempt by an Islamic jihadist on President Reagan, Secret Service agents Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are assigned as counterfeiting investigators in the Los Angeles field office. Days away from retirement,…
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