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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 359.

Kiss Me Deadly (2008)

thriller film

The film begins in Germany while the Berlin Wall is still intact, with Marta and Jacob on a secret spy mission that goes horribly wrong. A few days later, after the fall of the wall, they meet their boss Yale in a West Berlin cafe and are given a debriefing, effectively telling them the cold war is over, and their jobs are done. Now the movie fast forwards through the years with a montage of news stories showing the 911 attacks on the World Trade Center, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and ends up at present day where the story picks up.

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Elevator Baby (2019)

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Dare (Timini Egbuson) is a wealthy, entitled and unemployed engineering graduate whose father was killed in a vehicular accident. He drinks, spends time with his jobless friends, and is unthankful for his mother's financial support. On his way to a job interview, he enters a lift with Abigail (Toyin Abraham), a poor and pregnant domestic worker.

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Danger Zone (1951)

thriller film

Claire Underwood hires San Francisco private eye Dennis O'Brien to purchase a saxophone case at a yacht-party auction, but O'Brien is slugged and the case is stolen by Larry Dunlap. O'Brien learns that Claire and Dunlap are rivals in a smuggling racket, and he seizes Claire just as she is about to leave the country with the case and its stolen jewels. He is then framed for the murder of Vicki Jason's husband.

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The Mask of Diijon (1946)

Horror, Noir, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Diijon, a tired magician, gives up his act to study the power of the mind. His wife Victoria, once supportive, now is struggling to pay bills. She urges her stubborn and older husband to return to the magic field where Diijon was considered one of the greats.

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Girl in the News (1940)

Crime, thriller film

Nurse Anne Graham is leaving the service of her bedridden employer Gertrude Blaker, who confesses that she set Anne up by planting a silver ring in her trunk, intending to report the theft. Her malice is aggravated by chronic insomnia; the nurse won't give her sleeping pills on demand. Her contriteness convinces Anne to stay, and she leaves her purse on a bureau in Gertrude's bedroom.

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The Black Ninja (2003)

Action, Martial arts

Maliq Ali is a defense attorney whose guilt over freeing guilty criminals, and the death of his family, leads him to become a costumed ninja vigilante who stalks these same criminals at night. After refusing to defend Tony Fanelli, a small-time mobster accused of murder, he finds himself involved in protecting the only witness, Tracey Allen, from Fanelli's hired thugs. While protecting this young woman, he is confronted by The Red Ninja, a Japanese assassin, who years before killed his family rather than pay Ali for defending him.

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Red Balloon (2010)

Horror, thriller film

A young teenage girl named Julie is babysitting a younger child named Dorothy whilst the parents are out by themselves. Dorothy interrupts Julie's phone conversation with her friend, telling her she needs more money and so is babysitting. After hearing the child yell, she comes up to her bedroom and reassures her she has just had a nightmare.

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The Man from Yesterday (1949)

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Julius Rickman returns from India to visit his old friend, Gerald Amersley. Before long Rickman comes to dominate the household and appears to harbour a grudge against them. Aunt Doris's former fiancé Cedric Fox's death, twenty-five years earlier had been ruled an accident, but Rickman intimates to her that Fox was murdered by Gerald, her brother, who greatly disliked him.

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Four Assassins (2013)

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Marcus Nang (Will Yun Lee), an ace hitman in the underworld was summoned to meet with three professional colleagues in a luxury hotel suite after completing a recent contract. The first to arrive are Cordelia Leigh (Mercedes Renard) and Chase (Oliver Williams). The sexy Cordelia is Marcus's ex-girlfriend and an equally deadly killer.

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Forget and Forgive (2014)

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Left for dead after a brutal interrogation apparently gone wrong, vice detective Anna Walker (Elisabeth Röhm) awakes in the hospital with no memory of who she is. She recognizes no-one; not her husband Tate (Neil Napier), her daughter Emily (Vivien Endicott-Douglas), nor Derek (Tygh Runyan), her partner on the police force, who tells her most of the rest of the force is occupied with solving the recent murder of the mayor, her own assault being less of a priority. On her return home Anna discovers that hers is not a happy family: her relationship with Emily was extremely strained; Anna herself was on the verge of leaving Tate.

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Countdown: Jerusalem (2009)

thriller film

The film talks about the Seven signs of the Apocalypse, in this case created by a sect, which aims to take the company to the brink of a world war. Before the searches for her daughter as a series of catastrophic disasters push a destabilized society toward the brink of global war. A mother and father search for their only child against the backdrop of the Tribulation.

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War Games (2011)

Action, Horror, thriller film

The film follows an adventure seeking group of friends who visit a National Park to spend the day playing Airsoft. However, after discovering a building filled with dark secrets they are hunted down one by one, by the building's vicious occupants: three ex soldiers intent on keeping them from telling anyone. Their war game is turned into a reality, where they will be forced to fight for their survival.

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