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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 356.

Inhumanoid (1996)

Horror, Science fiction, thriller film

A family of three is travelling in space, when they encounter a spaceship with one survivor. They discover the rest of the people on the ship were killed, and the survivor turns out to be an emotionally unstable android programmed without morals.

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Rushlights (2013)

thriller film

A dark and gritty mystery thriller, Rushlights centers on two delinquent young lovers from the suburbs of Los Angeles traveling to a small Texas town to falsely claim the inheritance of a dead friend. The teens, haunted by their dubious pasts, wind up in a nightmare of greed and betrayal as they encounter the twisted underworld of Tremo, Texas – population 2870.

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Desperate Moment (1953)

Drama

In the years immediately after World War II, a Dutchman, ex resistance, is sentenced to life imprisonment for a murder, committed during a robbery, that he confessed to but did not commit. After discovering that the girl he has loved since childhood is not dead, as he had been told, he escapes from prison and goes on the run through a devastated Germany in search of the witnesses who can clear him, with her help. But the witnesses begin to die apparently accidental deaths shortly before he finds them...

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9/Tenths (2006)

Drama, thriller film

The film takes place sometime in the not too distant future where terrorist attacks are on the rise and cities are the primary targets. Jessica (Gabrielle Anwar) and husband William (Henry Ian Cusick) have fled the city amid the increasing terrorist threats. William is excited to relocate to his newly purchased ranch hundreds of miles from nowhere.

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Interceptor Force 2 (2002)

Action, Science fiction

Over Grozny, Russia, a pair of fighter jets chase down an unidentified spacecraft moving at supersonic speeds. Within minutes, it is the jets that are chased and eventually blasted out of the sky by the spacecraft. Minutes later, residents report a "meteor" flying past the city and landing somewhere in the distant hills.

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Gone Missing (2013)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

Rene's daughter, Kaitlin, and her best friend, Maddy, disappeared from a resort in San Diego during spring break. Dissatisfied with the responses of the authorities, Rene, with the help of her son, Kennedy, and Maddy's mother, Lisa, investigates the case and discovers some disturbing facts about the secret life of one of her missing daughter.

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The Phantom of 42nd Street (1945)

Crime, Drama, mystery film

An actor is killed during the performance of a play while critic Tony Woolrich (Dave O'Brien) is attending. Initially Woolrich is reluctant to investigate, even though he's encouraged to do so by his friend Romeo (Frank Jenks), who is also the taxi driver who brought him to the show, and acts as a sort of sidekick throughout the story. Tony is chewed out by his editor for not investigating when he happened to be at the scene of the crime, and so he takes an initially reluctant interest.

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Puppy (2005)

Attempting suicide, sultry but down-on-her-luck swindler Liz (Nadia Townsend) is rescued by lonely tow truck driver Aiden (Bernard Curry). But instead of rushing her to the hospital, Liz's saviour abducts her to his remote farmhouse, convinced that she is the wife who abandoned him years earlier. Cut off from civilisation, kept prisoner and guarded day and night by vicious attack dogs, Liz realizes she must rely on her skills as a con artist to talk her way out of this hostage situation.

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Mutual Needs (1997)

Drama, thriller film

Michael is a manager at an accounting firm and his girlfriend has just dumped him. He has a ten year high school class reunion coming up and he doesn't want to go alone, so he hires Charlene through an escort service to accompany him as his girlfriend. However, Charlene has an agenda of her own - she's perturbed that her acting career never materialized because of Hollywood executives failing to recognize her acting skills, so she's out for revenge against all men.

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Scorched (2008)

In 2012, Sydney is suffering from a severe water drought. CPN reporter Susan Shapiro launches an investigation into the crisis and interviews the NSW Premier Angela Boardman, who is harboring a secret with Chief of Staff Tom Daily. Meanwhile, ER Doctor Michael Francia suddenly has his estranged daughter from a previous relationship, Emily, spend the night at his house after she argues with her mother.

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Balladyna (2009)

thriller film

thumb|270px|Faye Dunaway and Mirosław Baka in Balladyna by Dariusz Zawislak The film is based on one of the dramas from the Epoch of the Romanticism - Balladyna, written in Geneva in 1834 (and published for the first time in Paris in 1839) by poet and dramatist Juliusz Słowacki. Although the original drama was influenced by William Shakespeare's plays King Lear, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth, Balladyna is an original romantic work. The plot is set at the time of Poland's origins.

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Im toten Winkel (2023)

thriller film

In a remote Kurdish village, in northeastern Turkey, a documentary is shot by German film crew. They spot an old woman performing ritual to memory of her missing son. In the village, Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl lives, whose nanny is the Kurdish translator of the film crew.

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