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Thriller, action film, crime film, heist film, thriller film
A man calling himself Ryder and his accomplices – Bashkin, Emri, and former train operator Phil Ramos – hijack Pelham 123, a New York City Subway 6 train, at 77th Street. Uncoupling the front car of the train below 51st Street, Bashkin kil…
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Accident, action film, disaster film, docudrama, drama film, survival film
A group of photographs of the Stella Maris College's Old Christians Rugby Team are seen as Carlitos Páez points out several members of the team and reflects on the accident in a brief monologue. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 flies over th…
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Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Nine-year-old Emma Grossman expresses to her father, widower David Grossman, her hope to win a Citizenship medal. She shows no emotion when a cat drowns in the backyard. To her shock and disappointment, her classmate Milo Curtis is the win…
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Action, action film, thriller film, vigilante film
Retired CIA officer Bryan Mills visits his daughter, Kim, to deliver an early birthday gift. After an awkward visit, he invites his former wife, Lenore, to dinner. Although she declines, she later shows up at his apartment and tells him ab…
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Adventure, Drama, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, political thriller film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, spy film, thriller film
An American family – Dr. Ben McKenna, his wife, popular singer Jo Conway, and their son Hank – are vacationing in French Morocco. Traveling from Casablanca to Marrakesh, they meet Frenchman Louis Bernard.
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cyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller anime
Final Flight of the Osiris Captain Thadeus and Jue engage in a blindfolded sword fight in a virtual reality dojo. They do not harm each other, only damage clothing. At some point, they are interrupted by an alarm, and the simulation ends.
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Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
On the night of October 31, 1978 in the town of Haddonfield, Illinois, Laurie Strode is narrowly saved from Michael Myers when his psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis shoots him off a balcony. Michael wanders the alleys, stealing a kitchen knife f…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
In sultry South Florida, womanizing low-rent lawyer Ned Racine begins an affair with Matty Walker, the young wife of shady businessman Edmund Walker. The affair becomes a consuming passion, but the two keep it secret. Matty tells Ned that …
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Biographical picture, Fairy-Tale Film, Historie, adventure film, comedy film, crossover fiction, fantasy film, horror film, werewolf film
In 1811, Will and Jake Grimm are traveling con artists who use Jake's extensive knowledge of folklore to fool people into believing they exorcise the supernatural, along with their sidekicks Hidlick and Bunst, in French-occupied Germany. I…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
Dean Russell falls asleep at a diner and is attacked by Freddy Krueger, a burned man wearing a bladed gardener's glove on his right hand. In the dream, the burned man cuts Dean's throat; in reality, Dean cuts his own throat as his friends …
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, action film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film
In 35,000 B.C. during the Ice Age, in what will become North Texas, two cavemen hunters encounter an extraterrestrial life form in a cave, which kills one and infects the other with a black oil-like substance. In 1998, a boy falls into a h…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, detective film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
Expat heiress Linnet Ridgeway hires her friend Jackie de Bellefort's fiancé, Simon Doyle, as her English estate manager. Linnet and Simon marry following a whirlwind courtship. Honeymooning in Egypt, they are surprised by the jilted Jackie…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Drama, Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, political thriller film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
While in post-production on the low-budget slasher film Co-ed Frenzy, Philadelphia sound technician Jack Terry is instructed by his producer Sam to obtain a more realistic-sounding scream and better wind effects. As he records potential so…
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime thriller film, drama film, trial film
In 1969 Seattle, law student Ted Bundy meets Liz Kendall, a young secretary and divorced mother. The two begin dating, and Ted helps Liz raise her young daughter, Molly. By 1974, news reports announce the recent murders of multiple young w…
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Zombiefilm, action film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
In the fictional town of Ogden Marsh, Iowa, resident Rory interrupts a local baseball game, entering the outfield with a shotgun. Sheriff David Dutten attempts to dissuade Rory but is forced to kill him when he raises his weapon. David's w…
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Heist, action film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
After being nearly caught during a burglary, master safe-cracker Nick Wells considers retiring to live with his girlfriend Diane and run his Montreal jazz club as a legitimate businessman. He declines another job from his fence Max, and is…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Seasoned 9-1-1 operator Jordan Turner receives a call from 15-year-old Leah Templeton, fearing for her life as a man breaks into her home while her parents are away. Jordan calmly advises her to hide, which she does under the bed. After th…
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Psychological Thriller, mystery film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Child psychologist Anna Fox lives alone in a Manhattan brownstone after separating from her husband Edward. He lives away with their daughter Olivia, but Anna talks to them on a daily basis. Anna has agoraphobia and entertains herself by w…
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Drama, Found Footage, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, psychological thriller, screenlife
David Kim lives in San Jose, California with his daughter, Margot. His wife, Pamela, was diagnosed with lymphoma and died before Margot entered high school. Margot tells David that she is with a study group and will be there all night.
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Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 2003, Amy Loughren is a single mother and nurse working in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Parkfield Memorial Hospital in New Jersey, who is suffering from cardiomyopathy, unbeknownst to anyone at the hospital, and fears dismissal. Hav…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
Cameron Vale, a vagrant who apparently suffers from auditory hallucination in the form of hearing voices in his head, causes a rude woman in a mall food court to have a seizure by what appears to be purely psychic means. Vale is then hunte…
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Action, Animation, Fantasy, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, teen film, thriller film
After her mother dies, 17-year-old Mary Katherine ("M.K.") moves in with her eccentric scientist father Professor Bomba in Danbury, Connecticut. Bomba spent his life researching the Leafmen, tiny humanoid soldiers who protect the neighbori…
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Mysterie, psychological thriller
The Surfer drives his teen son to Luna Bay to surf, hoping to show his son the house above the beach, which he is desperately trying to purchase. It used to be his father's, and it is where he grew up surfing before his father's untimely d…
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Action, Historie, action film, drama film, historical film, thriller film
At a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1863, a slave named "Peter" is praying with his family when his owner, John Lyons, and a group of white men drag him out of his home at gunpoint. As the wagon carrying him pulls away, Peter cries out to …
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