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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 377.

The Phobos (2010)

Horror, thriller film

On a rainy summer day a group of young people go to a club called "Phobos", which is under construction and in the past used to be a bomb shelter. Suddenly all the club doors are automatically closed and the lights are switched off. Initially the characters perceive everything as a joke but later realize that they are trapped: their cell phones do not work and they did not tell anyone about their intention to go to this club.

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Death on the Nile (2004)

Detective

Jacqueline De Bellefort introduces her fiancé, Simon Doyle , to her wealthy friend Linnet Ridgeway in the hope that Linnet will give him a job. Instead, Linnet marries Simon herself and they head off for a honeymoon in Egypt . A bitter Jacqueline follows them to Egypt, appearing wherever they go.

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Layla Fourie (2013)

thriller film

Layla Fourie is a single mother in Johannesburg who has trained as a polygraph operator. After obtaining work with a lie-detection and security company, she travels with her young son Kane to a new assignment because Kane's father is unable to care for him. During the journey, an accident occurs, forcing Layla and Kane into a series of lies.

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Caught in the Fog (1928)

thriller film

Bob Vickers, a young society scion, arrives unexpectedly at his family's houseboat off the Florida coast to retrieve his mother's jewelry—only to walk straight into a heist in progress. Inside, he surprises a bobbed-hair bandit and her slick gunman accomplice, a self-styled “sheik”, as they attempt to crack the safe. Mistaken for a rival thief, Bob is pulled into a tense standoff.

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Deeper and Deeper (2010)

When bank teller Ryan (David Lago) meets beautiful but icy business executive Angelica (LisaMarie Lamendola) he becomes instantly infatuated with her. He stumbles upon the perfect opportunity to spy on her when he is hired by Dolores (Cyndi Williams) as a part-time maintenance man and moves into an apartment across the street from Angelica. He uses his position and his apartment's view to start spying on her, and slowly inserts himself into Angelica's life.

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Midnight Episode (1950)

thriller film

An indigent street performer of Shakesperian verse chances upon a wallet filled with money and private papers. For its loser's desperate acquaintances, the papers have more value than any finder could conceive. A value for them its retrieval makes imperative, and, for the seemingly- fortunate finder, its longed-for riches only involve him in their violent world, and in more trouble than he ever knew, as a poorer man.

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Light in the Dark (2019)

Drama, thriller film

The film features a couple, Emeka and Jumoke, who have been married for 11 years, and they have a daughter who they love dearly. Jumoke has been trying hard to have another child and hopes it would be a boy to appease Emeka's family. A gang attacks them one night and the gang leader rapes Jumoke.

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Mr. Satan (1938)

thriller film

News correspondent Tim Garnett and his photographer Connelly have been on assignment in a country on the edge of revolution. At the airport as they wait to leave, Connelly snaps a throwaway shot of an attractive woman boarding a plane. When the photograph is developed, they realise that the woman's male companion is Emile Zubova, a notorious illegal arms dealer who had recently been reported as having committed suicide while on the run from agents wishing to track him down.

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Midnight Warrior (1989)

Action, thriller film

Stringer Nick Branca (Bernhardt) is considering getting out of the sensationalist TV news business when he and his partner, Sam (Marty Brinton), are called to a jumper on Hollywood Boulevard. Despite it being a great scoop, Nick's conscience gets the better of him and he tries to talk the woman down but is unsuccessful. He gives the footage to a distressed man claiming to be the dead woman's husband, but he turns out to be a rival stringer, costing Nick and Sam thousand of dollars.

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A Stab In The Dark (1999)

thriller film

A lady is betrayed when her best friend, starts a relationship with her father after the family helps her by taking her in. This five film series (A Stab in the Dark 1,2, Ripples: A Stab in Dark 3, Ripples 2, and Ripples 3) follows the lives of young women in domestic dramas and represents a variation of the social issues in drama. In A Stab in the Dark, the main character, Effe, is a pretty young woman who prefers dating much older, usually married men.

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Saigon Eclipse (2007)

thriller film

The story relates the destiny of a young, beautiful, and talented Vietnamese woman who sacrifices herself for her family. The film chronicles the fate of Kieu, who soon after her secret engagement, returns home to find her father is about to be imprisoned on trumped-up charges. Kieu offers herself in payment for her father's debt without fully understanding the ramifications of this decision.

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Motor Patrol (1950)

crime thriller film

Two Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officers respond to a report of a traffic accident and find that a pedestrian was killed by a hit-and-run driver. Detectives determine that the incident was related to a stolen car ring. An LAPD academy recruit volunteers for an undercover mission to penetrate the stolen-car ring posing as a car thief from Chicago.

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The Last Trimester (2006)

Crime, Drama, thriller film

Tracy (Chandra West) and Eric Smythe (Jim Thorburn) are a happily married couple who find it difficult to have children. After numerous failed in-vitro fertilization treatments and a heartbreaking near adoption, Eric decides to get an old girlfriend Gabby (Lara Gilchrist) to allow Tracy and himself to adopt her baby, although Eric's connection to Gabby is kept secret from Tracy. Gabby agrees to let Eric and Tracy to adopt her unborn child as she is already late in her second trimester.

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