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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 355.
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Lynn Matthews (Melissa Gilbert) is a Manhattan-based successful clothing designer who has recurring nightmares of a woman (Kat Green) falling down an elevator shaft. She decides to visit Dr. James Portman (Jay Robinson) and undergoes hypnotherapy, during which she learns that the woman falling is Lynn herself in her previous life, pushed down the shaft by a man in San Francisco in 1963.
Adventure, Drama, thriller film
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The Four Just Men are British World War I veterans who unite to work in secret against enemies of the country. They aren't above a spot of murder or sabotage to achieve their ends, but they consider themselves true patriots.
Drama, thriller film
The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood.
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After his best friend dies in a racing accident, biking star Joe agrees to participate in an exhibition race in Chile. While on a test run with his girlfriend, Stephanie, they stumble upon a badly injured man who is dying from a mysterious virus. This discovery sets off a chain of events that leads to a dangerous situation as they become the targets of ruthless killers who will do anything to keep their secret from leaving the mountains.
Horror
Banker Walter Craig (Gus Glassmire) has disappeared and his best friend, Ed Moline (Paul McVey) hires Nick Trayne (James Dunn), a retired private detective who now earns a living as a quasi-psychic and "listening ear", to take the case. Everyone who lives on the estate is under suspicion—including Craig's second wife Helen (Edna Johnson), his daughter Tina (Jan Wiley) and her fiance Arthur Wallace (Howard Banks), Craig's eccentric sister Delia Phillips (Minerva Urecal) and her husband George (J. Arthur Young), Craig's friend and former partner Tony Weldon (George Eldredge), Craig's cheeky secretary Billie Hilton (Joan Woodbury), and…
Action, Adventure, Secret Agent, thriller film
A freelance photographer discovers an ancient treasure, the Peking Medallion, which also attracts the attention of a number of criminal gangs.
Drama, prison film
Joaquin Shannon, a fisherman, takes the blame for a crime to protect his brother-in-law Chris Nelson, whom he thinks accidentally killed the odious Joe Fenderson in a drunken brawl, but who really died from injuries from a mugging. He is sentenced to 10 years in prison for the crime. Joaquin asks Joe's sister and his girlfriend Jean Fenderson to wait for him, expecting to be paroled in one year for good behavior.
Drama, fantasy film, Horror, thriller film
When a woman starts bleeding from Christ's crucifixion wounds, her boyfriend must shield her from a manipulative evangelist.
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Ijogbon, the coming-of-age adventure film tells the story of four teenagers from a remote village in the south-west area of Nigeria. These four teenagers saw a pouch of diamonds in the strangest of ways and they chose to keep these diamonds, their decision to keep and conceal these diamonds despite the owners coming out to look for their diamonds led to some perilous events ahead of them, putting one of them in serious trouble.
Drama, mystery film, thriller film
In 1961, Tom Alder (Janssen) is a private investigator in Los Angeles who specializes in locating lost heirs. Prompted by a Los Angeles police friend to poke his nose into the murder of a movie star's fan club secretary, he becomes intrigued by its potential connection to the disappearance of a then 16-year-old Doris Delaney, a wealthy young woman who went missing from her New York City school 13 years earlier. In spite of a search that had cost her father three-quarters of a million dollars in 1948, not a clue as to why or where she had gone was ever found.
Erotic Thriller, thriller film
A hitman who wishes to leave his line of work is tasked by his agency with killing one final target in Buenos Aires, but the situation becomes complicated when he falls in love with his target's lover and asks her to flee to Nepal with him.
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A series of interweaving stories tell the journey of a handgun, specifically, a .38 Special revolver, as it passes from one owner to another. The opening credits run over scenes of the manufacture of the weapon. It is shipped to a gun store, where it is purchased by an older business owner whose home was recently burglarized.
Drama, thriller film
Adventurer Johnny O'Flynn attempts to track down thieves who have stolen a secret military formula for producing hardened steel; but ruthless others who will stop at nothing are also on the trail.
Crime, Drama, thriller film
In the late 1990s, the National Security Agency (NSA) and a computer software firm, Wendell Crenshaw work together to implement a surveillance technology, the Echelon, which enables NSA to monitor almost anybody in the world. When classified information about the Echelon system accidentally finds its way into a young woman's hands, a terrible clash occurs in the opinions of a top-executive at Wendell Crenshaw and an NSA operative, the former determined to find out what the lady knows even if it means using violence and the latter, equally determined to save an innocent woman's life.
Crime
Triads, Yardies and Onion Bhajees is primarily an action movie but it has a mythological and spiritual vein running through it. The character of Chacha worships the Hindu goddess Kali, and a statue of Kali is shown both in his home and in his office. Chacha is seen praying to the goddess in a temple.
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A CIA operative is tasked with finding and apprehending five members of a terrorist organization, but they keep getting killed before he can bring them in.
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Reporter Mark Kingston is informed that his brother, a student at Cambridge University, has committed suicide, but he is not convinced. The police dismiss his suspicions, so he begins his own investigation with the help of Mary Johnson, whose father, a professor, has gone missing.
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Zachariah Dodd, a rich lawyer, hires Michael Nash (played by Luke Perry), a private investigator, to obtain evidences that is wife, Eve Dodd (played by Gloria Reuben) is unfaithful so he can divorce her. Michael Nash discovers instead that Eve is rather physically abused by her husband and has committed no adultery. She attempts to commit suicide to escape from the torments of her marriage by drowning herself naked into the sea.
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A hostess at a strip joint awakens to find her two children are missing. A police lieutenant suspects that she killed them and questions her for days.
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Drama, thriller film
The film begins with an interrogation in an immigration office of an illegal immigrant working as a prostitute on the verge of being deported. Throughout the film it becomes apparent that one of the interrogators (Damien Richardson) has had sex with the girl at an illegal brothel, negating his encouragement to her to tell the truth. The film then backtracks to three weeks before when Ashley (Veronica Sywack), a bored, single insurance clerk, unwittingly becomes involved when she meets a Chinese woman, Sunee (Amanda Ma), as a blind-date airport pickup goes wrong.
mystery film, thriller film
Multimillionaire Ernesto De Cardi and Sandra, his new American bride, arrive at his spacious villa in Batres, Spain, where they are welcomed by an elderly servant, Juanito. Sandra is awestruck by the scale of the villa, but they're interrupted by frequent blasting nearby to widen a mountain road. Sandra wants to be alone with Eduardo, so he allows Juanito to go home to his farm.