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Mysterie, horror film, thriller film
Hospice aide Caroline Ellis quits her position at a nursing home and is hired as the caretaker of an isolated plantation house in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. Violet Devereaux, the aging matron of the house, needs help looking after her h…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Forensic, Political Thriller, action thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Assassin Khamel kills two Supreme Court justices, Jensen and Rosenberg. Tulane University law student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing a motive for the murders. Her law professor and lover Thomas Callahan, a former clerk of Rosenb…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, action comedy film, crime comedy film, heist film
While driving through the Alps, thief Roger Beckerman is murdered by the local Mafia and his body disposed of in the river below. In the United Kingdom, his friend and fellow thief, Charlie Croker, is released from prison. After reuniting …
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Ghost-Movie, Horror, ghost film, horror film, thriller film
In a textile factory during closing hours, an employee named Esther says goodbye to her boss Paul. On her way out, she encounters a silhouette of a strange-looking woman with claw-like hands, who disappears when the lights are turned on an…
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Action, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film
L.A.–based Englishman Chev Chelios works as a hitman under Don "Carlito" Carlos's crime empire. Chelios is contracted by Carlito to kill Don Kim, a mafia boss, because members of the Triads have been encroaching on Carlito's business. Chel…
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LGBTQ-related film, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, detective film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, thriller film
Amidst a hot summer in New York City, the dismembered body parts of men begin appearing in the Hudson River. Police suspect a serial killer is targeting gay men at West Village bars such as the Eagle's Nest, the Ramrod and the Cock Pit, lu…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1999, Seth Davis runs a successful casino from his apartment, catering to college students. His father, federal judge Marty Davis, views him as a disappointment for his illegal activities and dropping out of Queens College. Cousin Adam …
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Thriller, action film, crime film, psychological thriller
When the body of a young woman is found on a lumber truck in Minnesota, Detective Walter Marshall suspects that the victim leapt to her death to escape from a captor. A breakthrough is inadvertently made in the case when former judge Micha…
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Action, Girls with Guns, Thriller, action film, drama film, girls with guns, vigilante film
In 1992, in Bogota, Colombia, drug baron Don Luis Sandoval sends his enforcer Marco and a gang of armed men to kill his gang member Fabio Restrepo and his family because Fabio has defied him by trying to leave his prolific drug crime activ…
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Horror, Mysterie, Obsession, horror film, thriller film
On August 22, 2010, in rural Ohio, serial killer Edward Scarka is fatally shot during a police raid of his farmhouse. At the time of Edward's death, married couple Sarah and John give birth to their son, Miles, in Pennsylvania. Miles shows…
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Aliens, Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, science fiction film
Riya wakes up aboard a scientific research station on a distant, barren planet with no recollection of how she got there. While exploring the station, she suffers nightmarish flashbacks and finds several corpses. She encounters a man named…
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Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, crime film, slasher film, splatter film
Police informant Michael Marks awakens in a room with a spike-filled mask locked around his neck. Billy the Puppet on a screen says that the key to open the death mask has been surgically inserted behind his eye. He cannot bring himself to…
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Drama, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, Thriller, drama film
After securing a research grant to study stellar structures, American applied mathematician David Sumner moves with his wife Amy to a house near her home village of Wakely on the Cornish moorland. Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie Venner, along w…
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Drama, Mysterie, Vampirfilm, comedy film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film, vampire film
In the year 1536, an alchemist in Veracruz develops a mechanism that can give eternal life. In 1937, an old building collapses and the alchemist, who has marble-white skin, is killed when his heart is pierced by the debris. Investigators g…
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Horror, Thriller, mystery film, psychological horror fiction
After escaping the "sole survivor" escape rooms orchestrated by the Minos Corporation, Zoey Davis convinces Ben Miller to confront the shadowy organization after finding coordinates to its New York City–based headquarters. Zoey is encourag…
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Mysterie, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film
Washington Post columnist John Klein and his wife Mary are involved in a car accident when Mary swerves to avoid a huge, flying, black figure that only she witnesses. John survives the crash unscathed, but Mary is hospitalized. There she i…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Aging Reno, Nevada, police detective Jerry Black attends a retirement party hosted by his department during which Captain Pollack presents tickets to Jerry for a fishing trip in Mexico as a gift. The celebration is interrupted by the disco…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1930, toddler Daisy Armstrong, daughter of British Army Colonel Hamish Armstrong and his American wife Sonia, is kidnapped and murdered. In December 1935, Hercule Poirot travels from Istanbul to London on the Orient Express. His old fri…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Super Hero, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In a dystopian future, a plague (called Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration) kills nearly 90 percent of the children in the United States. Those who survive develop superpowers. They are classified by color: Green (increased inte…
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Historie, Vampirfilm, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, vampire film
In 1818, Abraham Lincoln lives in Indiana with parents Nancy and Thomas, who work at a plantation owned by Jack Barts. There, Lincoln befriends a young African-American boy, William Johnson, and intervenes when Johnson is beaten by a slave…
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Psychological Thriller, horror film, psychological thriller film
Animalhorror, Horror, Thriller, horror film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
In New York City, cockroaches are spreading the "Strickler's disease" that is killing hundreds of the city's children. Unable to develop a cure for the disease, Dr. Peter Mann, deputy director of the CDC, recruits entomologist Dr.
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LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
During a Friday afternoon tryst in a Phoenix hotel, real-estate secretary Marion Crane and her boyfriend Sam Loomis discuss their inability to get married because of his debts. Returning to work, she decides to steal a cash payment of $400…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, mystery film, thriller film
In Chicago, Harry Rawlings and his criminal gang's getaway van is blown up during a police standoff after stealing $2 million from crime boss Jamal Manning. Jamal threatens Veronica, Harry's widow, demanding compensation, needing the money…
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