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Heist, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Lynn Kang is a gifted Thai American high school student who receives a scholarship to an elite private school. After helping her classmate Grace cheat on a test, Lynn is approached by other students who offer to pay her for answers. Using …
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Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film
In 1997, Rachel Singer is honoured by her daughter Sarah during a release party in Tel Aviv for Sarah's book, based on the account Rachel, Stefan, and David gave of the events in 1965. Concurrently, David is escorted from his apartment by …
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Military Film, Psychodrama, War Film, action film, drama film, flashback film, mystery film, thriller film, war film
While serving in the Persian Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling fires on and destroys one of his own tanks during a confusing nighttime battle, killing his friend, Lieutenant Tom Boylar. The United States Army covers up the fri…
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Drama, thriller film
Alice is enslaved on a 19th-century style plantation in Georgia, owned by Paul Bennet. Attempting to escape, she runs through a vast forest and emerges onto a Georgia highway in 1973. She meets Frank, a truck driver who helps her adjust to…
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Thriller, survival film
Protracted storms and heavy rain cause low-lying parts of London to be flooded just as a woman goes into labour, giving birth to a baby son, Zeb. With incessant rain, the flooding spreads to other areas of Britain, triggering a country-wid…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, psychological horror fiction, psychological thriller, thriller film
Waitress Agnes White works at a lesbian bar while living in a run-down motel in rural Oklahoma. Unable to move on after the disappearance of her young son Lloyd nearly ten years before, Agnes binges on drugs and alcohol with her lesbian fr…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, Melodrama, drama film, historical film, romance film, war film
Wealthy planter John "Jack" Robert Sommersby left his farm to fight as a Confederate officer in the early days of the American Civil War and is presumed dead after six years. Despite the hardship of working their farm in Vine Hill, Tenness…
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Drama, Horror, Thriller
At a church in Guatemala, a man and a boy, Ben Mears and Mark Petrie, are filling small bottles with holy water. When one of the bottles begins to emit an eerie supernatural glow, Mears tells Mark that "they've found us again." Knowing an …
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Political Thriller, spy film, thriller film
Robert poses as an MI-5 agent, and asks three peopleSophie, Mae and Ianfor assistance in capturing members of the IRA. After a few months of training, he suddenly wakes them in the middle of the night and drives them away saying they would…
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Action, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
Will and Samantha (Sam) are a young couple expecting their first child. He flies from Seattle to visit her parents in Chicago, intending to ask her father Tom for permission to marry Sam. At dinner, Tom and Will get into an argument, and W…
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Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, drama film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, superhero film, thriller film
After Hank, a scientist, is mysteriously killed while assisting a top-secret bioengineering project, government worker Alice Cable arrives at the bogs to serve as his replacement. Alice immediately notices that one of the team's swamp sens…
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Biographical picture, Mysterie, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, trial film
Sunny von Bülow, a millionaire heiress and socialite, lies in a hospital bed in a persistent vegetative state after falling into a coma from diabetic shock on December 21, 1980. She had previously fallen into a coma on December 26, 1979, b…
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Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, satanic film
In the Summer of 1948 in Los Angeles, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is laid off from his job at Champion Aircraft and needs money to pay his mortgage. Easy's bartender friend Joppy introduces him to DeWitt Albright, a white private investigator l…
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Slasher Horror, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
While aboard a houseboat on Crystal Lake, teenager Jim tells his girlfriend Suzi the legend of Jason Voorhees, before playing a prank on her with a hockey mask, similar to Jason's old mask, and a prop knife. The boat's anchor damages some …
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Detective Film, Komödie, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Los Angeles Times undercover reporter Irwin M. "Fletch" Fletcher (who writes as "Jane Doe") is writing an article exposing drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles. While posing as an addict, he is approached by Boyd Aviation executi…
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Buddy Cop, Gangster Film, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film, thriller film
A week before LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh's retirement, he and Sergeant Martin Riggs are demoted to uniform duties after failing to defuse an office building bomb. While on street patrol they witness the theft of an armored car, and help …
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
An unnamed U.S. military operative, known as "the Mother," brokers an arms smuggling deal between ex-SAS Captain Adrian Lovell and arms dealer Hector Álvarez. Romantically involved with them both, she ends up becoming pregnant.
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
Since 1945, various countries have set up Divisions to track, categorize, and experiment on people with psychic abilities to turn them into soldiers. 10 years ago, two Movers, Jonah Gant and his young son Nick, were pursued by the U.S. Div…
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Kindergarten teacher Emily organizes the first-time meeting of the "Daughters for Aryan Unity", an organization of white supremacist women, which includes ex-convict Leslie, small grocer owner Kim, and disgruntled retail worker Marjorie. T…
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Thriller, horror film, thriller film
In a Louisiana slave plantation run by Confederate soldiers, enslaved Black people are treated harshly and not allowed to speak unless spoken to. Those who attempt to escape are killed and their bodies burned in a crematorium. After a fail…
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Arranged Documentary, Conspiracy Thriller, thriller film
The film opens with President John F. Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech. In 1967, ambitious CIA agents Matt Johnson, Owen Williams, Andy Apelle, and Jared Raab convince their superiors to let them infiltrate NASA—disguise…
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Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1986, on Orcas Island in Washington, Lou is a loner living with her dog Jax, who goes to the village to buy some supplies. The sheriff talks to her about a copper bracelet that could help her arthritis, as it helped him. A mother, Hanna…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, cyberpunk, thriller film
Tasya Vos is an assassin who takes control of other people's bodies to carry out her hits. Through an implant installed in the unwitting host's brain, Vos' consciousness is inserted into their minds. She returns to her own body by forcing …
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, arthouse science fiction film, comedy drama, comedy thriller, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the post-nuclear United States of 2024, Vic is an 18-year-old boy, born in and scavenging throughout the wasteland of the former southwestern United States. Vic is most concerned with food and sex; having lost his parents, he has no for…
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