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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 374.

The Roadhouse Murder (1932)

thriller film

Chick Brian, a young reporter, is stranded during a storm with his girlfriend Mary at the remote roadhouse called Lame Dog Inn. There they discover two murders were taking place: that of the doorman Charles Spengler and that of the only guest, Emil Brugger. Chick has the silly idea of incriminating himself in the crime, thinking that this will give him the opportunity to write a great story.

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The Big Hurt (1985)

thriller film

A reporter investigating the death of a research scientist discovers further deaths connected to the case - some of which have been deemed suicides. He discovers that the scientist may have been murdered to cover up a government plot concerning illegal drug testing. Together with the scientist's daughter, he attempts to clear her father's name.

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Funeral for an Assassin (1974)

Crime, Drama, Political Thriller

Michael Cardiff is a professional revolutionary highly trained in a variety of techniques of assassination, infiltration and evading law enforcement. After escaping from prison he places identification items on a decomposed body to make him appear dead as he plans his revenge against the government. Cardiff uses his skills to murder a prominent judge making his death look like an accident in order to plant an improvised explosive device at his funeral attended by the movers and shakers of the regime.

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Voice From The Grave (1996)

Crime, thriller film

A segment from the Unsolved Mysteries TV series, the February 1977 murder of 47-year-old respiratory therapist Teresita Basa in Chicago, Illinois, inspired this story, in which a nurse (Megan Ward) claims that she is possessed by a murdered co-worker's spirit which identifies the killer.

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Circle of Deceit (1998)

Drama, thriller film

Having walked out on her cheating husband Jeff, Terry Silva moves in with her best friend Donna Avedon. This set-up proves most untenable when Terry finds out that Donna is Jeff's longtime mistress. Vowing to get revenge on both Jeff and Donna, Terry fakes her own death — intending to frame her husband and her faithless friend for murder.

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Mystery Woman (1935)

thriller film

Top-secret documents being transported by French captain Jacques Benoit are stolen in Constantinople, resulting in his arrest and sentencing to Devil's Island. Determined to vindicate him, wife Margaret learns that Jacques had met wealthy Dr. Van Wyke in transit.

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The Millions (2019)

Comedy, thriller film

The story revolves around the lives of five guys who come together to carry out a massive money heist in Nigeria. Bem Kator a charismatic con man plays the lead character to successfully launch the heist as planned. But things don't go in the way he would have expected with an interesting climax forming up the crux.

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Movement and Location (2014)

Drama, Science fiction, thriller film

Kim Getty is an immigrant from 400 years in the future, who has traveled back in time to live out an easier life. It turns out to be an isolating, one-way trip, but in the three years since her arrival Kim has built a life that she is almost satisfied with. She has a job, an apartment with a roommate, and is beginning to fall in love.

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Dreamkiller (2010)

A revolutionary form of psychotherapy designed to rid patients of their phobias yields deadly results when test-subjects begin dying in the same manner as their worst fears. When the Nazis were at the height of power, Adolf Hitler began working with doctors Carl Clauberg and Joseph Mengele to develop a weapon capable of inducing psychosis in enemy combatants. In 1945, Hitler's concentration camps were liberated, and Allied forces were said to have confiscated and destroyed all evidence of the experiments.

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The Way of All Men (1930)

Action, Drama, thriller film

Billy Bear is a broker's clerk who has recently been fired because some information has been leaked to a rival broker. Billy goes to work with the rival broker, offering him valuable information about his former employer. Fairbanks falls in love with his employer's daughter, Edna, a wealthy socialite.

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Hideout (1949)

thriller film

A couple of thieves, Beecham and Evans, rob a Chicago socialite's diamond necklace. They give it to the man they're working for, Arthur Burdette, who promptly double-crosses them. A diamond expert who examines the necklace is then found dead.

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The Warning (2015)

thriller film

The 'Satanic Panic' occurred in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. Parents were stricken with fear that their children would fall into the hands of Satan, and begin his worship. In the fall of 2011, a major television network's new series, Investigating Urban Legends, began filming its first episode, set to air in the coming months.

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Force of Darkness (1985)

Drama, thriller film

This is a film about a man who is under demonic possession. Gloria Ramsey witnesses the murder of her man who is a doctor. Detective Ben Johnson believes that Gloria is innocent of the crime and he goes after the killer who was the doctor's last patient, who has multiple personality disorder.

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Slices of Life (2010)

anthology film, Horror

"Sexual parasites, disembowelment, zombies, serial killers, demon children, violent vixens, rabid office workers, aliens, mummies, skeleton warriors, vampires, werewolves, dragons, medusa, beasts, giants, robots, cyclops' and angry embryos all spring to life from the flesh covered sketch books featured in Anthony G. Sumner’s (Gallery of Fear) Slices of Life. Mira (Kaylee Williams) awakens in front of a seedy roadside motel with amnesia.

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