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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 366.

The Key Man (2011)

crime thriller film

A previously successful, but currently down on his luck, thirty-something insurance salesman is targeted by an aging gangster and his sociopathic business partner, who is also a Shakespearean actor. The salesman is lured into an illegal insurance deal with the promise of cash that will enable him to buy a new house for his family. Of course the deal goes sideways and violence ensues.

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Formula for a Murder (1985)

Horror, thriller film

A handsome teacher named Craig marries a wealthy, wheelchair-using woman named Joanna who has PTSD and is tormented by a traumatic event that happened in her past. As a child, she was raped by a psychotic priest and thrown down a flight of stairs. The priest used a doll to lure her to the crime scene.

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Trouble Sleeping (2016)

thriller film

Vanessa, a middle-aged woman, is haunted by the ghost of her late husband. Her stepson has just been released from a mental institution - four years ago he discovered his father's body, shot in the head, a supposed suicide. Now he's returning home and will inherit his late father's estate on his twenty-first birthday.

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Farhope Tower (2015)

thriller film

The film begins with a man killing his pregnant wife in their penthouse apartment in Farhope Tower after learning she had cheated on him, and there was a chance the baby was not his. The man then calmly puts a record on before hanging himself. Decades later, five amateur paranormal investigators – Jake, Andre, Zoe, Judy, and Simon – are struggling to get their own television series.

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Badamasi (2021)

Biography, historical film, thriller film

Badamasi tells the story of Babangida from his origin in the village of Wushishi in Northern Nigeria to his joining the army and time as a Nigerian military head of state. It also portrays significant events in Babangida's life including the period of the Nigerian civil war where Babangida sustains injuries in an attempt to rescue a colleague. The subsequent military coups and annulment of the June 1993 presidential elections were also portrayed.

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The Chaos Factor (2000)

Action, political film, Political Thriller, thriller film, war film

In this military thriller, intelligence officer Jack Poynt (Antonio Sabàto Jr.) discovers evidence of a CIA-backed raid on a medical facility in Cambodia in 1972, which led to the torture and killing of a number of civilians. Poynt decides it's high time that the men responsible were exposed and brought to justice, but the deeper he digs in search of the truth, the more he finds himself in danger.

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Murder by Night (1989)

thriller film

Allan Strong is out jogging one evening when he sees a brutal attack of a woman by a hammer-wielding serial killer. As the woman tries to escape in her car, she crashes into a construction site, and her car explodes. The murder is the third in a series of brutal slayings by the serial killer.

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Warn That Man (1943)

Comedy, thriller film

At a country house during the Second World War, a German actor, who looks uncannily like a British peer, takes his place as part of a German attempt to kidnap the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, when he visits the estate. Unfortunately for their plans, the niece of the peer arrives unannounced, along with her RAF pilot fiancé, and two of his new friends, who had rescued him at sea when he was shot down.

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Return of a Stranger (1961)

Detective, thriller film

The quiet suburban world of Pam and John Allen is shattered when a strange man begins stalking them with late night phone calls and sudden disturbing appearances. It emerges that the man, Homer Trent, was a part of Pam's teenage past at an orphanage. He was besotted with her then, and was eventually imprisoned for her rape.

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Call to Danger (1973)

thriller film

The bold kidnapping of a crime syndicate turncoat (Roy Jenson), while in the midst of giving testimony before a Federal investigating committee, calls for an equally bold move by Justice Department investigators Inspector Douglas Warfield (Peter Graves) and Carrie Donovan (Diana Muldaur). With the help of chief ally Emmitt Jergens (Clu Gulager), an expert beekeeper/archer/computer science wizard and private citizen, the team attempts to infiltrate the syndicate boss's hideaway—a heavily fortified and intricate farm enclave on the west coast. Even with additional support from a gangsters fashion-model gal pal (Tina Louise) and a Justice Dept.

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Semana Santa (2002)

Drama, Mysterie, thriller film

During the Spanish Civil War the 14-year-old Doña Catalina (Yohana Cobo) is captured by war criminal Antonio Alvarez. She is forced to witness how her father is murdered with a traditional bullfighting weapon known as „rejón de muerte“. Following that her father's murderer rapes her.

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More Milk, Yvette (1966)

Crime, Drama, musical film, thriller film

The film unfolds on a bare set with no pretense of realism. It opens with harmonica music and three figures, one resembling Bob Dylan. Lana Turner, known as the "Sweater Girl" from her role in the film They Won't Forget (1937), sings about modeling sweaters while her boyfriend Johnny Stompanato waiting at home with her "son" Cheryl—played by Richard Schmidt, who poses like a juvenile delinquent.

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