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Marital Tragedy, Social Drama, crime film, drama film
In coastal Rockport, Maine, Matt and Ruth Fowler enjoy a happy marriage and a good relationship with their son Frank, a recent college graduate home for the summer. Frank has fallen in love with a divorced older woman with children, Natali…
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Erotic Thriller, crime film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Carly Norris, a beautiful book editor and divorcee in her mid-30s, moves into the exclusive New York City sliver building "113". She meets other tenants including Zeke Hawkins, a video game designer; Jack Landsford, a novelist; Vida Warren…
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Horror, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
In 1984, young guitarist Euronymous forms black metal band Mayhem, the first of the genre in their country of Norway, with Necrobutcher on bass and Manheim on drums. Manheim leaves and is soon replaced by new drummer Hellhammer, and they r…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
In December 1977, Jake Van Dorn, a devout Calvinist businessman and single father from Grand Rapids, Michigan, faces a parent's worst nightmare when his teenage daughter, Kristen, vanishes during a church-sponsored trip to Bellflower, Cali…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Secret Agent, drama film, spy film, thriller film
While studying nonlinear cryptography at MIT, James Clayton helps to create "Spartacus", a surveillance program that can enslave any computer's audiovisual hardware. Showcasing the software at a campus job fair, James impresses Bill Rudolp…
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Dark Comedy, Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film
In suburban Connecticut, upper-class high schooler Amanda euthanizes her crippled horse with a knife, resulting in charges of animal cruelty. Sometime later, Amanda arrives at the home of the more popular and academically inclined Lily. Th…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, thriller film
Following his retirement from the U.S. Navy, Casey Ryback settles in Denver, where he runs a restaurant. When he receives news of the death of his estranged brother, James, in a plane crash, Casey meets James's daughter, Sarah, whom he wil…
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, drama film
Henry Letham sits next to a car crash on the Brooklyn Bridge. Then, he gets up and leaves. Psychiatrist Sam Foster and his fiancée Lila meet up before work.
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Action, Girls with Guns, Vampirfilm, Werewolf, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film, vampire film, werewolf film
Two decades have passed since a war began between a legion of vampires and the first clan of werewolves, a breed unable to take human form. Lucian is the first werewolf born capable of taking human form and the first to be called a Lycan. …
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Horror, Thriller, horror film
Two millennials scam unsuspecting tenants by renting out expensive New York City apartments that they do not actually own. The scheme works until they encounter an apartment owner with a hidden agenda, who turns the tables on them.
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, an undercover agent of the United States Army Criminal Investigation Division Command (CID), masquerades as First Sergeant Frank White to broker an illegal arms trade with a self-proclaimed freedom fight…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, crime film, drama film, spy film, thriller film
Issa Karpov, a political refugee from Chechnya, who has been tortured by Russian security forces, illegally enters Hamburg, Germany. Günther Bachmann leads a covert German government team that seeks to recruit local informants with ties to…
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Splatter Film, Torture Porn, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
One night a married couple, Larry and Gena Wharton, return home and discover a large trunk upstairs. Opening it, they are horrified by its contents before being attacked by an unseen assailant. Former convict Arkin O'Brien works as a handy…
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Drama, Ghost-Movie, Horror, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1941 Romania, following the commencement of Operation Barbarossa, a motorized Gebirgsjäger unit of the Wehrmacht, under the command of Captain Klaus Woermann, arrives at an uninhabited citadel known as 'the Keep', with the aim of taking…
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Thriller, Time Travel
Franklin Fausti is a tech blogger determined to expose unethical practices in the pharmaceutical industry, particularly those of Sig Thorensen, whose company manufactured Zonastin—a painkiller that led to the addiction and eventual death o…
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Action, Fantasy, Western, Western film, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, horror film
Confederate soldier Jonah Hex refuses an order from his commanding officer Quentin Turnbull to burn down a hospital and is forced to kill Turnbull's son Jeb, his best friend, who had drawn a pistol on Hex. A vengeful Turnbull later tracks …
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Marital Tragedy, Thriller, mystery film, neo-noir
In a Massachusetts town, newlyweds Andy and Tracy Safian are having sex when they notice the young boy next door at his window, seemingly watching them. Andy is an associate dean at a women's college. When a student on campus is wounded by…
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Action, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, martial arts film, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1863 Gainesville, Georgia, a time traveler armed with futuristic weapons slaughters five Confederate soldiers and steals their shipment of gold bullion. By 1994, time travel has been invented by Dr. Hans Kleindast, prompting the U.S.
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film, thriller film
After an extinction event, an automated bunker that is designed to repopulate humanity activates. A robot named Mother grows a human embryo and cares for her over several years. Years later, a teenage girl named Daughter fixes Mother's han…
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Horror comedy, action film, comedy film, comedy horror, fantasy film, horror film, thriller film
Colleen Collette and Colleen McKenzie are two 15-year-old girls who spend their days studying yoga with their guru, Yogi Bayer, and working an after-school job at a Manitoba convenience store called Eh-2-Zed. They are also in a cover band …
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Action, Thriller, action film
An ex–black ops team reunites to pull off a desperate heist and save the life of the leader's eight-year-old daughter.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Thriller
After rising sea levels cause most of Earth's landmass to become submerged, only two small continents remain, locked in war. The southern continent controls Sentinel, a sea outpost between them. A four person crew consisting of Sergeant He…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Federal police detectives Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper investigate money laundering facilitated by Daniel Bailey at his firm, Bailey Tennants Finances. They coerce employee Alice Russell to obtain evidence, in return for immunity for her p…
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Drama, drama film, romance film
Clayton Hammond is doing a reading of his new book, The Words. He begins reading the book, which centers on the fictional character Rory Jansen, an aspiring writer who lives in NYC with his girlfriend, Dora. Rory borrows some money from hi…
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