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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 358.

Urge to Kill (1960)

thriller film

While making her way home from the cinema one night in a particularly grey and drab town, a young woman is murdered in an unusually brutal and sadistic manner. Local suspicion immediately falls on Hughie, a strangely behaved and not very bright local youth who has a habit of wandering aimlessly around the town at all hours randomly collecting stray bits and pieces, with a particular fondness for broken glass – which unfortunately for Hughie happens to have been one of the weapons used in the fatal attack. Hughie lives in the lodging house run by his aunt, along with a selection of boarders including a kindly elderly gent with a penchant…

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Already Dead (2007)

Action, Crime, Drama, thriller film

Thomas Archer (Ron Eldard), a disconsolate man, is led to an underground room by a distorted male voice on his mobile phone. In flashback it is shown that his wife had been attacked and his son killed for no apparent reason. When he reaches the underground room he finds a man hooded and tied to a chair and told by the distorted voice that this is the man responsible for the attacks.

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The Spy Killer (1969)

thriller film

Former spy turned private eye John Smith (Robert Horton) is wrongly arrested for the murder of his ex-wife's new husband. Smith then finds himself acquitted for the crime by his former intelligence boss (Sebastian Cabot), but in return for a notebook from his time as a spy. This book lists the names of Western agents operating covertly in Red China, and as Smith discovers, others are also chasing the book.

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Exit (2000)

thriller film

Stanislas Dobschnik's father dies when Stanislas is seven years old. His distraught mother is later put into psychiatric care and Stanislas is left with a foster family but maintains an obsession with his ailing mother, sitting outside her window for extended periods of time. Stanislas has regular visits with a psychologist, Professor Olbek, who believes that Stanislas has been wrongfully convicted out of prejudice due to his profile.

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Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)

mystery film, thriller film

Mining engineer Larry Sutton arrives at the Ballard radium mine to take over as chief engineer from his missing brother-in-law Jack Parson, who is a suspect in the murder of ranch caretaker Adolph Borg. Sutton teams up with deputy sheriff Tex Murdock who is investigating the murder. Staying at the ranch with the ailing owner, Jim Ballard, are his niece Flora and nephew Fritz who have been notified of their uncle's failing health, and now wait to inherit his legacy.

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Occupant (2011)

thriller film

Occupant is a psychological thriller about the value of patience and the importance of human contact. The film opens as an old woman dies in her bed. The following day, her estranged grandson, Danny, comes to the rent-controlled apartment to ID the body, and the building's strange doorman encourages him to squat in the apartment until a lawyer can transfer the lease to Danny permanently.

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Socket (2007)

Erotic Thriller, Horror, LGBTQ-related film

Socket is a dark sexual tale of a gay man being drawn into a cult of electricity addicts after being struck by lightning. Bill (Derek Long), a surgeon, is struck by lightning and winds up recovering in his own hospital. There he meets an intern named Craig (Matthew Montgomery), who suffered the same natural accident and has developed an appetite - a capacitance - for electrical voltage.

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Inner Sanctum II (1994)

Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, thriller film

The main character, Jennifer Reed, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown after she was forced to kill her husband in self-defense, who attempted to kill her. This tragedy caused serious mental trauma to Jennifer, and now she has a nightmare every night in which her husband haunts her. Jennifer is trying to start a new life, but her late husband's relatives are trying to sue for part of his property, putting additional pressure on her.

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Hi-Riders (1978)

Action, Crime, thriller film

Mark and Lynn are drawn into acts of hatred and revenge after trying to collect on a bet with a drag-racing car club known for "jacking up" the rears of their cars much higher than stock. When a local hothead challenges the club to a race, both drivers are killed in a spectacular explosion. The local boy's father vows revenge.

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Rabin: The Last Day (2015)

Drama, Drama Documentary, thriller film

The film depicts the events leading up to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4, 1995. It follows and presents the stories of various characters on Rabin's last day, from the early morning hours until the moment of his death: the security agents, the political advisors, the religious extremists, the assassin, and his victim. The film integrates archival footage, amateur recordings, news segments, and dramatized scenes.

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Coffin (2011)

thriller film

Jack Samms' evening started normal enough. But then the mysterious masked stranger, known as Trick, pays him a visit. Within minutes, Jack is faced with a ticking clock after Trick reveals that Jack's estranged wife and her lover are buried in a wooden box - and will be out of oxygen in 75 minutes.

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Cycle Psycho (1973)

Horror, Motor-Bike Film, thriller film

A businessman hires a psychopath to murder his wife. After he accomplishes the deed, the psychopath blackmails the businessman into finding young girls for him to torture and kill. The man makes a deal with a motorcycle gang to kidnap two young girls for that purpose.

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The Missing Corpse (1945)

mystery film, thriller film

The publisher of The Tribune newspaper, Henry Kruger, who is used to ordering his staff around, finds that he is ignored by everyone in his own home. He is shocked when he discovers a scandalous picture of his own daughter, Phyllis, on the front page of the competing paper, The Daily Argus. Henry pays a visit to the dubious publisher of the competing paper, Andy McDonald, and warns him not to ever publish a picture like that again, or Henry will kill him.

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