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Ghost-House-Movies, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, ghost film, horror film, psychological horror fiction
Dr John Markway narrates the history of the 90-year-old Hill House, which was constructed in Massachusetts, United States, by Hugh Crain for his wife. She died when her carriage crashed against a tree as she approached the house for the fi…
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Horror, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
On January 26, 2007, Leena Klammer, a 30-year-old Estonian psychiatric patient with the appearance of a 10-year-old, escapes the Saarne by seducing and killing a guard, then hiding in the car of art therapist Anna. After killing Anna in he…
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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film
In the American Old West, card sharp and con artist Bret Maverick is en route to a major five-card draw poker tournament held aboard the paddle steamer Lauren Belle, intending to determine how skilled a poker player he really is. Short $3,…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In 1989 Laborde, Texas, Ann Dane, startled by the sound of a door window breaking, wakes her husband, Richard. He accidentally shoots the intruder, identified as Freddy Russel, a wanted felon. Richard is shaken by the experience.
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Action, Thriller, action film, mystery film, thriller film
Michael MacCauley, a former NYPD officer turned insurance agent, takes the same daily train commute on the Hudson Line from Tarrytown to Grand Central Terminal. He is abruptly laid off from his job, endangering his family's financial secur…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Julia Banks is questioned by police after the body of her abusive ex-boyfriend Michael Vargas is found in her home. Despite Julia's restraining order against him, Detective Pope reveals intimate messages and photos from her on Michael's ph…
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Ghost-Movie, horror film, mystery film
Jamie Ashen and his wife Lisa receive an anonymous gift: a ventriloquist doll called "Billy" (Billy #57). When Jamie goes out, a figure kills Lisa. Jamie returns to find his wife dead with her tongue cut off.
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Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, survival film
An aircraft carrying 24 American military school cadet boys returning home ditches near an uninhabited jungle island in the Pacific Ocean. Captain Benson, the pilot of the plane and the only adult survivor, is seriously injured and delirio…
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Romantic Drama, crime thriller film, neo-noir
After Pennsylvania chemical company executive Tom Gruneman disappears, the police find an obscene letter in his office addressed to a New York City call girl named Bree Daniels, who had received several such letters. After six months of fr…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1972 Northern Ireland, eight-year-old Frankie McGuire witnesses his father gunned down for portraying republican sympathies. Twenty years later in Belfast, Frankie and three fellow IRA members are ambushed by the British Army and Specia…
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Political Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, science fiction film
While visiting the Ventana nuclear power plant outside Los Angeles, television news reporter Kimberly Wells, her cameraman Richard Adams and their soundman Hector Salas witness the plant going through a turbine trip and corresponding SCRAM…
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Since faking his own death, Arthur Bishop has been living quietly in Rio de Janeiro under the name Santos. He is approached by a courier, Renee Tran, who has tracked him down, and explains that her employer wants Bishop to kill three targe…
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Horror, drama film, psychological horror fiction, thriller film
A woman named Pauline travels with her teenage daughters Beth and Vera to their recently deceased aunt Clarisse's secluded home after they inherited it in her will. Beth reads an article about a string of home invasions where parents are m…
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Film Noir, Historie, Romance Film, Thriller, War Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, political thriller film, romance film, spy film, thriller film, war film
In April 1946, Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German spy, is recruited by government agent T. R. Devlin to infiltrate a group of German émigrés who escaped to Brazil after World War II.
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Mysterie, Psychodrama, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
After catching his wife Amy having an affair with their friend Ted, mystery writer Mort Rainey retreats to his cabin in upstate New York. Six months later, Mort, depressed and suffering from writer's block, has delayed finalizing the divor…
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Action Comedy, Super Hero, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
When James Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, dies, his estranged son Britt takes over the newspaper and fires most of his father's personal staff. Britt later rehires Kato, a mechanic skilled in martial arts and coffee brewing, as his…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, comedy film, crime film
In London, mob boss Lenny Cole rules the ever-growing real estate business, using a corrupt councillor for bureaucratic fixing, and his right-hand man Archy for the dirty side of things. A billionaire Russian businessman, Uri Omovich, plan…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, horror film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In Manhattan, paramedic Frank Pierce has depression, insomnia, and occupational burnout having not saved any patients in months after botching the resuscitation of Rose, a homeless teen. He has begun to hallucinate Rose's ghost. One night,…
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Action, Political Thriller, action film, crime film, political thriller film, thriller film
FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard and his Lebanese-American partner Frank Haddad intervene at the hijacking of a bus fully loaded with passengers, which contains an explosive device. The bomb turns out to be a paint bomb and the terrorists…
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Nazi exploitation, action film, horror film, prison film, sexploitation film, war film
In 1945, Ilsa is commandant of a Nazi concentration camp. She conducts sadistic scientific experiments designed to demonstrate that women are more capable of enduring pain than men are and should therefore be allowed to fight in the German…
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Horror comedy, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Odd Thomas is a psychic who lives in a small town in California. He can see mysterious creatures he calls "bodachs" which are otherwise invisible to everyone else. He knows they feed on fear and misery, and the greater the number of "bodac…
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Justice Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
David Gale is a former professor on death row in Texas. With only a few days until his execution, his lawyer negotiates a half-million-dollar fee to tell his story to Bitsey Bloom, a journalist from a major news network. She has a reputati…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Political Satire, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction horror film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film, zombie film
Seven years after the events of Dawn of the Dead, the zombie apocalypse has ravaged the entire world. The societal structures that used to safeguard civilization have mostly vanished, leaving the scattered remnants of human survivors vastl…
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Thriller, crime thriller film
The film opens with three men burying a burning body in a secluded field. Bull, a mysterious and seemingly unstoppable man, returns to exact vengeance on the people who tried to kill him. In flashback, Bull is shown murdering an unidentifi…
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