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Animalhorror, Thriller
Shortly after the death of her mother from cancer, medical student Nancy Adams travels to a secluded beach in Mexico, the same one her mother visited while she was pregnant with her. Carlos, a friendly local resident, gives her a ride and …
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Detective Film, Forensic, Komödie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, trial film
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, small-town lawyer Paul Biegler, a former district attorney who lost his re-election bid, spends most of his time fishing, playing the piano, and hanging out with his alcoholic friend and colleague Parnel…
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Ghost-Movie, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film, screenlife, thriller film
In Fresno, California in 2013, high school student Laura Barns dies by suicide via gunshot after an anonymous user uploads a video of her passing out and defecating at an unsupervised party, making it go viral. One year later, her former c…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, film noir
Newcastle-born gangster Jack Carter has lived in London for years in the employ of organised crime bosses Gerald and Sid Fletcher. Jack is having an affair with Gerald's girlfriend Anna, and plans to escape with her to South America. First…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, teen film, thriller film
Stacy, a teenage babysitter, receives a wrong number phone call during one of her nighttime babysitting jobs. The calls continue with heavy breathing on the other end. Police later arrive to find Stacy and the three children she was watchi…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, alternate history film, comedy drama, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, romantic comedy, science fiction film, thriller film
On July 4, 2005, El Paso and Abilene, Texas are destroyed and hundreds of thousands are killed by twin nuclear attacks, sending the United States into a state of a Third World War, with the government re-introducing the draft. The PATRIOT …
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, Thriller
The alcoholism and explosive temper that cost Jack Torrance his teaching job also threatens to tear apart his family, after assaulting his 7-year-old son Danny in a drunken rage. Horrified, Jack tells his wife Wendy that should he ever sta…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Bradley Thomas is laid off from his job at an auto repair shop. When he arrives home, he finds a hickey on his wife, Lauren, who admits to an extramarital affair. Bradley orders her inside the house before he violently dismantles her car.
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Buddy Cop, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, martial arts film, thriller film
Lorna Cole is pregnant with LAPD Sergeant Martin Riggs's baby; they are not married, but both are thinking about it. LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh's daughter Rianne is also pregnant but will not reveal who the father is. The officers and Le…
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action thriller, war film
In December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge of World War II, US Captain John Castle, 324th Engineering Battalion of Charlie Company, and his men (minus one named Cash, who is compelled to resign due to combat injuries) are sent to blo…
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Action, action film, spy film, thriller film
United States Air Force Major Vic "Deak" Deakins and his co-pilot Captain Riley Hale are flying a stealth bomber with two B83 nuclear bombs on a secret exercise. Deakins suddenly attacks Hale and ejects him from the plane. He then jettison…
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Drama, Thriller, psychological thriller
Richard returns to his home town of Matlock, Derbyshire, after serving in the British Army. Richard vows to take revenge on a group of drug dealers who horrifically abused his younger, mentally impaired brother Anthony. Richard antagonizes…
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Ghost-Movie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film, psychological horror fiction
Six months after the first film and the short film Rings, Samara Morgan's cursed videotape has been circulating through Astoria, Oregon. Jake Pierce is on his seventh day after watching the cursed videotape. Desperate, he convinces a schoo…
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Horror, Thriller, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, vampire film
Charles Brady and his mother/lover Mary are sleepwalkers, nomadic shapeshifting energy vampires who feed off the lifeforce of virgin women. Though they normally maintain a human form, they can transform into human-sized bipedal werecats, t…
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Dark Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller, adventure film, comedy film, drama film, parody film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In the mid-22nd century, mankind has begun to colonize interstellar space. Armed with Artificial Intelligence "Exponential Thermostellar Devices" (bombs which can talk and think), the scout ship Dark Star, with its crew of five and a senti…
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Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film, teen film, thriller film, war film
A group of teenagers from Angel Grove, California secretly serve as the Power Rangers, a team of super-powered humans who use their abilities to defend the Earth from otherworldly threats. After participating in a charity skydive for the l…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, thriller film
In South-Central Los Angeles, a local gang, Street Thunder, steals a cache of assault rifles and pistols. At 3:00 am on a Saturday in Anderson, a crime-infested ghetto, a team of heavily armed LAPD officers ambush and kill six members of t…
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Action, Ninja Film, action film, drama film, ninja film, thriller film
The Ozunu Clan, led by the ruthless Lord Ozunu, trains orphans from around the world to become the ultimate ninja assassins to offer assassin services to rich clients. The clan charges 100 pounds worth of gold for their services and always…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Thriller, action film, apocalyptic film, disaster film, fantasy film, katastrophe, thriller film
University of Central Arkansas student Chloe Steele has flown home from college to New York to surprise her father, pilot Rayford Steele, for his birthday party. However, her mother, Irene, informs her that her father cannot make it. While…
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Horror, Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
Five years after killing mass murderer Jason Voorhees, a teenage Tommy Jarvis is tormented by nightmares of him, resulting in his internment in numerous psychiatric hospitals. He is eventually transferred to the Pinehurst Halfway House, ma…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
In Cape Town, South Africa, junior CIA officer Matt Weston is serving as a "housekeeper", an operative in charge of securing and maintaining a local CIA safe house in case of an operation. He calls his mentor and immediate superior David B…
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Action, Secret Agent, action film, thriller film
CIA Officer James Silva leads a top secret CIA Special Activities Division unit, code-named Overwatch, to infiltrate a Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) safe house in the United States. Under the supervision of James Bishop, Overwatch…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, psychological film
The film begins with real archive news footage from 1979 of a 12-year-old Martin Bryant being interviewed in a burns unit of a hospital after playing with fireworks. He is asked whether he has learned his lesson not to play with them again…
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Historie, Military Film, Political Drama, drama film, war film
In August and September 1941, several weeks after Nazi Germany launched its invasion into the USSR, sweep behind the relentlessly advancing German forces across the occupied parts of western Soviet Union, systematically exterminating the J…
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