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Detective Film, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, treasure hunt film
In San Francisco, private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer meet prospective client Ruth Wonderly. She claims to be looking for her missing sister, who ran off from their home in New York and came to the city with a man named Floyd …
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Adventure, Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
The SS Poseidon, an aging ocean liner slated for retirement, sails from New York to Athens on her final voyage before being scrapped. Despite safety concerns from Captain Harrison, Linarcos, the new owner's representative, insists he go fu…
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Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, science fiction film, time-travel film
thumb|The operation of time travel in Primer. Two engineers, Aaron and Abe, supplement their day jobs with entrepreneurial tech projects, working out of Aaron's garage. During one such research effort involving electromagnetic reduction of…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller, flashback film, political thriller film, spy film
In 1991, the United States and China are close to a major trade agreement, with the President due to visit China to seal the deal. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) learns that its asset Tom Bishop has been arrested at a People's Liber…
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Psychological Thriller, thriller film
Melinda begins the graveyard shift as an attendant at a gas station. A man named Billy parks his stolen vehicle outside and enters the store with a concealed handgun. A police officer named Liu pulls up and strikes up a conversation with M…
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Drama, action film, disaster film, drama film, katastrophe, thriller film
Architect Doug Roberts returns to San Francisco for the dedication of The Glass Tower, a mixed-use skyscraper that he designed for developer James Duncan. The tower, tall and 138 stories, is the world's tallest building. During testing, an…
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Psychological Thriller, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Ray is driving home with his wife Joanne and daughter Peri after a Thanksgiving visit to Joanne's parents and argue about the state of their relationship. Peri needs to use the restroom, so they take a break at a gas station. After returni…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, psychological thriller film, supernatural thriller
An unseen Presence roams through a dark, empty suburban house. A realtor, Cece, shows the house to Rebekah and Chris Payne, and their teenage children, Tyler and Chloe. Rebekah and Chris discuss the move and its implications for Tyler, who…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, action film, buddy film, crime thriller film, drama film, vigilante film
In Boston, Irish American fraternal twin brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus attend Mass, where the priest mentions the fate of Kitty Genovese. Later, while Connor and Murphy are celebrating Saint Patrick's Day with friends, three Russian …
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Slasher Horror, drama film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
On Halloween 1990 in Haddonfield, Illinois, having already exhibited signs of psychopathic tendencies, a ten-year-old boy, Michael Myers murders his school bully Wesley, his abusive stepfather Ronnie, his promiscuous older sister Judith an…
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Cannibal-Movie, Horror, horror film, slasher film, splatter film, teen film, thriller film
Two college students, Rich Stoker and Halley Smith, are rock climbing in a remote forest of West Virginia. Rich reaches the top of a cliff and before he can help Halley up, he is attacked and killed. Someone begins to yank Halley up the cl…
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Drama, Thriller, Western, Western film, action film, drama film, horror film, horror western, revisionist Western, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
A mysterious, unnamed stranger rides out of the desert into the isolated mining town of Lago in the American Old West. He jerks upon hearing the sound of a horse whip from a passing buckboard. While sitting for a shave in a barber’s chair,…
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Action, Thriller, action film, heist film, thriller film
Afghanistan Marine veteran Will Sharp, desperately needing money for his wife Amy's surgery, reaches out to Danny, his adoptive brother and life-long criminal. He is talked into being the getaway driver for a $32 million bank heist. Though…
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Horror, Thriller, comedy film, horror film, thriller film
Recent graduates James, Day, and Fisher are picked up by their friend Tyler, whom they have not seen for a year. Tyler drives them down a forested road while James and Fisher have theoretical discussions about which animals would win in a …
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Action, action film, thriller film
The Expendables—led by Barney Ross and formed by Lee Christmas, Gunner Jensen, and Toll Road—extract former member Doctor Death, a medic and knives specialist, from a dictator’s fortress prison-camp during his transfer on a train. They rec…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, thriller film
Convenience store robber Herbert ("H.I." or "Hi") McDunnough meets police officer Edwina ("Ed") when she takes his mugshot after each of several arrests in Tempe, Arizona. He learns that Ed's fiancé has left her for a younger woman and, af…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, spy film, thriller film
In modern-day Russia, famous ballerina Dominika Egorova supports her infirm mother. Her career abruptly ends after her dance partner injures her during a performance. After the Bolshoi cuts her off, Dominika's Uncle Ivan, the deputy direct…
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Adventure, Girls with Guns, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, girls with guns, science fiction film, treasure hunt film
Adventurer Lara Croft defeats a robot in an Egyptian tomb, revealed to be a training exercise arena in her family manor, where she lives with her technical assistant Bryce and butler Hillary. In Venice, as the first phase of a planetary al…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
In the fictional city of Bulwark, recent parolee Henry Johns chastises his mother for returning to prostitution and taking drugs, before reuniting with his handicapped younger brother Ethan. Three weeks later, police detectives Brett Ridge…
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, melodrama
In 1875, after world-famous opera singer Alice Alquist is murdered at her home in Victorian London, her orphan niece Paula is sent to Italy, eventually studying opera to follow in Alice's footsteps. During her voice lessons, Paula is charm…
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Psychological Thriller, coming-of-age film, drama film, mystery film, teen film, thriller film
On her 18th birthday, India Stoker, a girl with a strong acuteness of the senses, is left with her unstable mother Evelyn after her loving father Richard dies in a car crash. At Richard's funeral, Evelyn and India are introduced to Richard…
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Action, Drama, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, drama film, horror film, independent film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, thriller film, zombie film
The United States is devastated by a mysterious phenomenon that reanimates recently-dead human beings as flesh-eating zombies. At the dawn of the crisis, it has been reported that millions of people have died and reanimated. Despite the go…
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crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, romance film, spy film, war film
Hong Kong, 1938 During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a shy and inexperienced university student, Wong Chia Chi, travels from Shanghai to Hong Kong to begin studying at Lingnan University. Male student Kuang Yumin invites her to join his pa…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, girls with guns, spy film, thriller film
In November 1989, days before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin kills MI6 agent James Gascoigne and steals his watch, which contains a microfilm document with a list of the names of every intelligence agent active in …
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