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Thriller, thriller film
Madison is an influencer who has been using her vacation in Thailand as a way to promote herself and several advertisers online. The reality is that Madison spends most of her time in her hotel drinking and getting new products and upset t…
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Psychological Thriller, Teen Horror Film, horror film
High schooler Brent is driving with his father Dan when a bloodied man appears in the middle of the road. Swerving to avoid the man, Brent crashes his vehicle into a tree, accidentally killing his father. Six months later, Brent politely t…
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crime film, drama film, thriller film
A Christian musical procession waits with a symbolic block of tofu outside a prison for the release of Lee Geum-ja, a reformed female prisoner. Convicted of kidnapping and murdering a 5-year-old schoolboy, Won-mo, 13 years earlier, Geum-ja…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Con artist and fixer Teddy Murretto is on the run in a bullet-riddled unmarked police car, which breaks down near Gun Creek, Nevada. As rookie police officer Valerie Young breaks up a brawl outside a casino, Murretto sucker-punches her to …
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Thriller
The story begins with Samantha Andretti, discovered after going missing for 15 years. She was abducted as a teenager and kept in captivity, enduring years in a hidden, isolated underground labyrinth. When she is found, she is disoriented, …
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Crime Comedy, Silly Movie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, stoner film
Dale Denton, a process server and marijuana enthusiast, visits his drug dealer Saul Silver. Dale and Saul smoke the rare "Pineapple Express" strain together before Dale leaves to resume working. He arrives at the home of local drug lord, T…
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Komödie, comedy film
Chili Palmer is a Miami-based loan shark and movie buff. When his leather jacket is taken by rival mobster Ray "Bones" Barboni, Chili retrieves it and breaks Bones' nose. Bones ambushes him at his office but Chili shoots first, grazing Bon…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Norman Bates is released from a mental institution, despite the protests of Marion Crane's sister Lila Loomis. Against the advice of Dr. Bill Raymond, he moves to his old home behind the Bates Motel and starts working in a diner.
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Military Film, action film, drama film, thriller film, war film
A coup d'état led by exiled General Mustafa Yakubu overthrows the President of Nigeria, Samuel Azuka, sending Nigeria into chaos and causing an ethnic conflict between Yakubu's tribe, the Fulani Muslims, and Azuka's Christian Igbo. Samuel …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Vampirfilm, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, romance film, vampire film
In March 1983, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a disfigured man is taken to the hospital. An unnamed police detective tries to question him about a recent murder. While the detective answers a call outside the room, the disfigured man jumps out…
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Thriller, Western
In 1849, a recently freed slave believes her mysterious Caucasian daughter is possessed due to everything she touches dies. A widowed physician believes otherwise that the girl carries a sickness. The mother then convinces a group to set o…
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Action, Thriller, action comedy film, action film, thriller film
A delivery man is tasked with bringing a new healthy liver to a sick girl and is forced to escort the man who brought the liver while evading ruthless mercenaries who plan on taking the liver for their benefit.
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Adventure, Komödie, action comedy film, buddy film, comedy thriller
Chuck Clarke and Lyle Rogers are inept songwriters who are down on their luck, but dream of becoming a popular singing duo like Simon and Garfunkel. Though they are poorly received at a local open mic night, agent Marty Freed offers to boo…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, mystery film, teen film, thriller film
Nathan Harper is an 18-year-old high school senior living in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with his parents Kevin and Mara. He is troubled by recurring nightmares and has been seeing Dr. Geraldine "Geri" Bennett, a psychiatrist,…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film, treasure hunt film
A sea plane flying on a stormy night malfunctions and crashes in the sea off the coast of The Bahamas. Sam and Jared are a couple living a rustic life in a trailer, next to the beach in The Bahamas. Sam works as a guide in the local aquati…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller film
British diplomat and avid horticulturalist Justin Quayle is confronted by Amnesty International activist Tessa during a lecture in London. They strike up a romance, and marry after she accompanies him to his posting in Kenya. She befriends…
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Action, Thriller, action film, action thriller, mystery film, techno-thriller
Stanford University dropout Jerry Shaw learns that his identical twin brother Ethan, an officer in the U.S. Air Force, has been killed in a car crash. Following the funeral, he is surprised to find a large sum of money in his bank account …
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Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, comedy film, horror film, science fiction film
On June 19, 1987, as the Earth crosses the tail of a rogue comet, Rhea-M, previously inanimate machines spring to life; an ATM insults a customer (Stephen King) and a bascule bridge rises during heavy traffic, causing all vehicles upon the…
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Gangster Film, action film, crime thriller film, drama film
During the 2008 financial crisis and 2008 United States presidential election, Johnny "Squirrel" Amato plans to rob a Mafia-controlled private poker game in Boston. He enlists Frankie, a former business associate, and Russell, a heroin-add…
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Dark Comedy, comedy film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film
In West Dallas, 22-year-old drug dealer Chris Smith comes to the trailer park home of his dimwitted father Ansel. Ansel lives with his wife Sharla, who has a reputation for lasciviousness. Chris's mother (and Ansel's ex-wife) Adele has thr…
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Action, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
Cris Johnson can see into his future. He can only see two minutes ahead, with the exception of a vision he once had of a woman walking into a diner. Knowing no details other than the time, he goes to the diner twice each day at 8:09 to awa…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, prison film, science fiction action film, thriller film
In 2012, the United States' failed economy and rising crime rates led to an increased number of privatized prisons. At one such prison, Terminal Island Penitentiary, Warden Claire Hennessey profits from livestreaming Death Race, a three-da…
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Forensic, Thriller, crime film, trial film
Senior barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts is nearing retirement after a heart attack. He agrees to defend Leonard Vole, despite Nurse Plimsoll's objections and Sir Wilfrid's doctor having warned against taking stressful criminal cases. Leonard …
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Drama, Historie, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
On April 14, 2013, Boston Police Department Sergeant Tommy Saunders captures a suspect and fails to convince Commissioner Ed Davis to let him off from a punishment duty the next day, working the Boston Marathon. During the marathon, brothe…
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