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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 11,132 films · Page 381.

Daughter of the Tong (1939)

Crime

Ralph Dickson is an FBI agent assigned to investigate the killing of a colleague. He is chosen to investigate due to an uncanny likeness to the presumed killer. Dickson goes undercover and learns the identity of the gang leader, Carney, who is also known as "the Illustrious One" and the "Daughter of the Tong." Carney stays holed up at the Oriental Hotel while she has her henchmen doing her dirty work.

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Trunk Crime (1939)

thriller film

Sensitive university student Bentley is bullied by his peers. After a particularly unpleasant attack he snaps and seeks revenge. Drugging the gangleader Grierson, he takes him in a trunk to his country cottage, planning to bury him alive in the marshes.

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The Avenging Arrow (1921)

Adventure, serial film, silent film, thriller film, Western

Episodes Fifteen episodes of The Avenging Arrow were released weekly from March 13 to June 19, 1921: “The Vow of Mystery” “The Enemy Strikes” “The Hands” “A Life in Jeopardy” “The Message Stone” “The Midnight Attack” “The Double Game” “The Strange Pact” “The Auction Block” “Outwitted” “Dangerous Waters” “The House of Treachery” “On Perilous Grounds” “Shifting Sands” “The Toll of the Desert”

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Joy de V. (2013)

thriller film

A young con artist, playing the system and collecting checks for a mental disability, is planning a public show to prove his madness when threatened with losing his disability checks. Before he is able to stage his rant, his pregnant girl friend disappears and he must search the city for her.

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Dark Tale (1991)

thriller film

On a desert island where she stays with her sister Beatrice and her nanny Martina, Angelica wishes she could have a handsome prince to play with. Not far from the island, a terrorist named Roy escapes while being transported between two prisons by boat. Together with the policeman he is handcuffed to, Roy is found by Angelica, who takes care of him, sure that he is her "handsome prince".

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The Flying Fool (1931)

thriller film

Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentlemen's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he suspects of smuggling drugs into Britain from France on a regular basis. Floyd has so far struggled to gain evidence on Marlowe, but through a series of incidents finds himself bound for Paris on the same plane as Marlowe. Marlowe succeeds in doping Floyd and taking him to his underground hideout beneath a Parisian back-alley nightclub.

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The List (2023)

thriller film

A wealthy exile family returns from the United States to reclaim their lives, after the fall of a brutal dictatorship. However, the new government accuses them of collaborating with the regime and the newcomers must survive a night without law. There are 12 hours that is granted to those who seek to take revenge by their own hands.

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A Honeymoon Adventure (1931)

thriller film

On the wedding day of Peter Martin (Peter Hannen), a brilliant scientist, and Eve Harvey (Benita Hume), Walter Creason (Harold Huth), an agent of a foreign power, learns that Peter has designed a revolutionary electric storage battery and taken the plans and specifications to Scotland to look over on his honeymoon. Creason plots to attend the wedding and follows the couple on their honeymoon in an attempt to discover and steal the plans. Peter receives a telegram from his father-in-law instructing him to return by express train with his plans for an upcoming government conference.

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Cielito Lindo (2007)

Drama, thriller film

This is the life of Pablo Pastor (Alejandro Alcondez). Corrupt and deceitful people have stolen a precious stone known by the indigenous tribe as the Cielito Lindo, which is believed to bring the much needed rain back to the desert village of the Tahuromara Tribe. Pablo Pastor is forced to abandon his quest to reunite with his family, and thrown into the center of the chaos around Cielito Lindo .

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