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Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, drama film, film noir, romance film
thumb|left|Bogart as Dixon Steele Dixon "Dix" Steele is a down-on-his-luck Hollywood screenwriter who has not had a successful movie since before World War II. While driving to meet his agent, Mel Lippman, Dix's explosive temper is reveale…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1985 in rural Kinnakee, Kansas, 8-year-old Libby Day is the sole survivor after her mother and older sisters are murdered. Responding to the police's leading questions, she says that her teenage brother, Ben, committed the crime. In the…
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Obsession, horror film, science fiction film, slasher film, teen film
In 1989, Barbara Lang claims that her daughter Rachel is possessed, having seen her display telekinesis. Barbara is diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized, while six-year-old Rachel is placed in foster care. Ten years later, Ra…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
Moscow militsiya officer Arkady Renko is called to a clearing near the Gorky Park ice rink, where three mutilated bodies – two men and one woman – have been discovered. All were shot in the chest and their faces and finger tips removed; th…
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Drama, action film, drama film, thriller film
Roman Melnyk, a construction worker, is allowed to leave work early to prepare for the arrival of his wife Olena and pregnant daughter Nadiya from New York City, aboard flight AX 112. At the airport to welcome his family, Roman receives th…
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Action, action film, boxing film, drama film, martial arts film, prison film, thriller film
Heavyweight boxing champion George 'The Iceman' Chambers is convicted of rape and sentenced to six to eight years at Sweetwater, a new prison in the Mojave desert. The high-security facility is populated by hardened criminals. Unaware of t…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film
An attractive drug mule, Lisa, flies from Montreal to New York City, smuggling heroin inside a stuffed doll. Disembarking, she sees a threatening man staring at her; using a ruse, she gives the doll to a fellow passenger, professional phot…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, apocalyptic film, disaster film, science fiction film, thriller film
Former U.S. Army medic and recovering addict, Jill Adams, works as a security guard at a local college where she steals drugs from the research lab to sell. She has two children, Noah and Matilda.
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Conspiracy Thriller, Thriller, mystery film, techno-thriller, thriller film
United States Under Secretary of Defense Michael Bergstrom commits suicide after being informed that he has tested positive for HIV. The relationships of freelance Venice, Los Angeles systems analyst Angela Bennett are almost completely on…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film
Luke Wright, an ex-cop and cage fighter, unintentionally wins a fixed fight. Emile Docheski, the head of the Russian mafia, tells his son Vassily and his men to kill Wright's pregnant wife as punishment, then kill anyone Luke interacts wit…
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Action, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1985, two years after the Westworld tragedy, the Delos Corporation owners have reopened the park after spending $1.5 billion in safety improvements, and also shutting down Westworld. For publicity purposes, newspaper reporter Chuck Brow…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Wilee is a disenchanted Columbia Law School graduate who has put off taking the bar exam, dreading the humdrum life of the legal profession. He enjoys working as a New York City bicycle messenger, despite arguments with his ex-girlfriend a…
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Thriller, crime film, horror film, science fiction film
Dr. Susan Wheeler, a surgical resident at Boston Memorial Hospital, is devastated when her friend, Nancy Greenly, a young healthy woman, is left brain dead after undergoing a routine procedure there. Her suspicions are aroused when, soon a…
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Exorcism Film, Obsession, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Michael Kovak is the son of a successful funeral home owner and businessman, Istvan. Disillusioned with his job as a mortician, Michael decides to enter a seminary and renounce his vows upon completion, thereby getting a free college degre…
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Drama, Thriller
Six years after the end of Petals on the Wind, Cathy and Chris are happily married and living in California with Cathy's sons, Jory and Bart. Bart feels lonely and outshone by his older brother whom his parents seemingly favour. One day, a…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, action film, drama film, horror film
Teenagers Travis, Jarod, and Billy Ray drive to meet a woman named Sarah in response to an invitation for group sex. Along the way, they accidentally sideswipe the parked vehicle of Sheriff Wynan as Wynan is engaged in sex with another man…
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Fantasy, Military Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
A squad of Federation troops and psychic soldiers find themselves pinned down on a planet overrun by Arachnids. General Jack Shepherd (Ed Lauter) makes a last stand with four of his best soldiers, allowing the majority of his surviving tro…
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Horror, Mysterie, fantasy film, horror film
Tom Witzky is a phone lineman living in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago with his pregnant wife Maggie and his son Jake, who possesses the ability to communicate with the dead, although neither Tom nor Maggie yet know about it. At a…
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Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Larry Lipton, an editor at HarperCollins, and his wife Carol have a pleasant encounter in the elevator with older neighbors, Paul and Lillian House. They are invited to an evening with the Houses where the women exchange information on exe…
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Action, Adventure, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, satanic film, swashbuckler film, sword and sorcery film, thriller film
In the year 1600, in North Africa, English privateer Solomon Kane leads his ship's crew into battle against the Ottoman defenders of a fortress town. After defeating the defenders, Kane and his men raid the fortress, where most of the crew…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In June 1959, Louis Simo, a sleazy Los Angeles private investigator, is spying on the wife of a man named Chester Sinclair to learn if she is having an affair. On a visit to his own ex-wife Laurie, Simo learns that his son is upset over th…
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Psychological Thriller, psychological thriller
Scott (Michael Ealy) and Annie Howard (Meagan Good) purchase a Napa Valley house called "Foxglove" from its previous owner, Charlie Peck (Dennis Quaid). Charlie explains his wife, Ellen, died of cancer two years earlier and he will soon be…
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Crime, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, mystery film
In a Brooklyn housing project, a group of clockers — street-level drug dealers — work for Rodney Little, a local drug lord. Rodney orders Ronald "Strike" Dunham, one of his lead clockers, to kill Darryl Adams, another dealer who has been s…
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Animalhorror, Horror comedy, Splatter Film, comedy horror, science fiction film
A year after the massacre by prehistoric piranhas in Lake Victoria, Arizona, a massive eradication program has left the lake uninhabitable and the town largely abandoned. At Cross Lake, two farmers search the waters. Piranha eggs laid insi…
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