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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 357.

The Doorway (2000)

Ghost, Ghost-House-Movies, Horror, thriller film

Four college students occupying the old Van Buren mansion are menaced by demons who've escaped hell through a concealed doorway in the house. To combat the dark forces, the students solicit help from Professor Lamont (Scheider), an expert on the paranormal. Written and directed by Michael B.

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The Undying (2011)

romantic thriller

Dr. Barbara Haughton (Robin Weigert) discovers the farmhouse she's recently rented is inhabited by the ghost of Elijah Parmenter, a Civil War soldier. As her interest in Elijah grows and his presence comes to dominate her dreams, she assists in emergency surgery to save Jason Donovan (Anthony Carrigan), a young stabbing victim.

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Silver Tongues (2011)

Drama, Erotic Thriller, mystery film, neo-noir

Gerry and Joan (Tergesen and Graham) are a middle-aged couple who travel from town to town under false personas to mutilate and change the lives of any and all unsuspecting victims in their paths. Using their immense acting skill, the duo start to fall apart when their relationship strains under the pressure of their performances.

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New Town Killers (2008)

Crime, Drama

Two private bankers, Alistair (Scott) and Jamie (Mackenzie), who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a twelve-hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald (Pearson) a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast.

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Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)

Mysterie, mystery film

Phyllis Clavering, the girlfriend of Captain Drummond, is kidnapped. Murderer Mikhail Valdin and his sister, Irena Soldanis, seek revenge for the death of her husband, sent to the gallows a year ago through Drummond's actions. Though Valdin could shoot Drummond, he informs the captain that it would be too quick.

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The Holding (2011)

Mysterie, thriller film

The film opens on the dead body of Dean (Christopher Brand) being dragged into a shallow grave in the dead of night by his wife, Cassie Naylor (Keirston Wareing) and the old farm hand Cooper (David Bradley). As they carry out a rudimentary and hurried burial, all the while, they are unknowingly being watched by Cassie's eight-year-old daughter, Amy (Maisie Lloyd). The story then jumps to eight months later.

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Ginostra (2002)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

As the film opens, we learn that Benson, a New Yorker, has been entrusted with protecting the 11-year-old boy. The style of the film is intentionally ambiguous, and details about only obtained through the dialogue between the main characters, in many cases, in a way that only makes sense once later scenes are viewed. The boy, as is revealed later, is with Benson because his father had appealed for protection from the authorities in return for his testimony against a local mobster, Manzella.

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Duress (2009)

Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Richard is mourning his wife's recent suicide while attempting to mend his relationship with his only daughter, Sarah, while still haunted by his recent trauma. He is particularly upset that his wife's wedding ring is missing, and she claimed that she would never take it off. A nanny, Rosa, primarily takes care of Sarah: picking her up from school and cooking for her.

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The World Gone Mad (1933)

Crime, Drama

When a district attorney who has been investigating a utility company's directors for fraud is suddenly killed, his wisecracking newspaperman friend (Pat O'Brien) gets curious. He and the upstanding new district attorney (Neil Hamilton) separately pursue the case. Cultivated but sinister businessmen, a shady nightclub owner specializing in "import and export", several beautiful young women always seen in evening gowns, a "Latin lover" type who reads Casanova and an abundance of suave men in evening dress provide eye-candy for the duration.

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The Secret of Hidden Lake (2006)

thriller film

A young woman named Maggie Dolan (Rena Sofer) who works at a legal aid center in Chicago, suddenly hears that her father, Frank Dolan (Winston Rekert) got injured while hunting. Maggie then returns to her hometown in Colorado to be at her father's side. During her stay, she learns that her father's injury was not an accident.

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Second Name (2002)

Horror, thriller film

Daniella investigates her family's past in the wake of the suicide of her father. The plot gets to involves a sect called the Abrahamites, who sacrifice their first borns following an alternative interpretation of God's Will in the near-sacrifice of Isaac.

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Trafficked (2017)

Drama, thriller film

In California, Sara is eighteen and has to leave her foster home; she is offered training to be a waitress working on cruise ships. She accepts, but instead is sold to sex traffickers by Diane. In India, young teen Amba is partying with her friends when a guy she'd rejected tries to hit on her again.

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The President (1961)

Drama, flashback film, political film, Political Thriller, thriller film

Aged 73 and in ill-health, a former prime minister of France, the widower Émile Beaufort, spends his days in his country house near Evreux dictating his memoirs to his secretary. He gets to the point, some twenty years earlier, when he had to devalue the currency. After secretly meeting the governor of the central bank and the minister of finance, he agreed to make the announcement one Monday.

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