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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 353.

How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate (1998)

teen film

Upon being caught cheating in his Leaving Certificate exam and being banned from sitting the exam for another three years, a young man commits suicide. A close friend of his subsequently plots to cheat in his own Leaving Certificate in order to get revenge against the system. With the help of a rag-tag group of friends this young man organizes a complex scheme to steal copies of the test papers from the Department of Education and, upon winning, show the world he has beaten the system.

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Twists of Terror (1997)

Horror

A collection of three macabre tales, presented by an agoraphobic middle-aged man, named Philip, who lives in a seedy section of Los Angeles. As he sorts through his piles of yellowed newspaper clippings, he relates his paranoid nightmares through three stories. "The People You Meet" is based on a couple, Joe and Amy, who are on their second honeymoon, when they are forced off the road by a speeding sportscar.

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Deadly Intruder (1985)

Horror, Slasher, thriller film

In a place called Midvale, a sanitarium patient escapes after dispatching security specialists there and heads off to looking for the love of his life. The disturbed individual is obsessively jealous, slaying anyone whom he fears may be endangering his relationship with his girlfriend.

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The Man with Icy Eyes (1971)

thriller film

A state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man with "icy eyes" as the killer. An Italian reporter finds a stripper who claims that she actually witnessed the man commit the crime. But the reporter later finds holes in her story, and eventually comes to believe that the police have the wrong man.

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Floods of Fear (1959)

thriller film

During a flood, prison convict Donovan escapes while helping build a barrier for an impending flood. He gets swept away in the waters, along with his prison guard, Sharkey, and a fellow prisoner, Peebles. They wash up at a farm house of Dr Mathews, who is away helping victims of the flood.

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Down 'n Dirty (2001)

Action, thriller film

Dakota Smith is a tough cop who tries to track down his partner's killers. In the course of Smith's quest to find the killers of his partner, he discovers that the chain goes right up from the lower regions of the police department to city government. Along the way, Smith teams up Nick Gleem, a timid photographer.

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Murder by Television (1935)

mystery film

James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present. Houghland's assistant, Arthur Perry, has apparently accepted a bribe of $100,000.00 to be a personal spy for a large industrial company.

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Barracuda (2017)

thriller film

A young British woman named Sinaloa comes to Texas to find Merle, her half-sister by way of their dead country musician father. It doesn’t take long for Sinaloa to charm her way into Merle’s life. Her singing awakens something in Merle and erases any lingering doubts about their shared bloodline.

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They Made Me a Killer (1946)

Crime, Drama, Noir

After his brother is killed in an accident, Tom Durling quits his job and drives across country. He gives an attractive girl a ride and is subsequently forced at gun point to be the driver in a bank robbery. During the crime another innocent man, Steve Reynolds, is involved and killed in the escape.

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American Exorcist (2016)

Christmas film, Horror, Science fiction, science fiction horror film, supernatural horror film, thriller film

American Exorcist is about a paranormal investigator, trapped in a haunted high rise on Christmas Eve. She is horrified once confronted with the reality of the supernatural and risks life and limb to escape the stranded 11th floor.

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Quake (1992)

thriller film

During the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, a young couple, Jenny and David, is terrorized by their neighbor Kyle. Jenny is knocked unconscious during the earthquake. She is then kidnapped by Kyle in her collapsing apartment building as David attempts to navigate the ruins of San Francisco to rescue her.

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The Learning Curve (2001)

Crime, Drama

Paul Cleveland (Carmine Giovinazzo) fights off Georgia's (Monet Mazur) attacker. A strong bond develops between the two and the ambition of Cleveland begins to surface rapidly as he starts to participate in scams with Georgia to raise enough money to leave his job as a hospital orderly behind. When they try to scam Marshal (played by Vincent Ventresca) by staging a road accident using Georgia as a distracting female hitchhiker it seems that they have struck a very dangerous individual as he produces a gun and kidnaps them.

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