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Sci-Fi, science fiction film, thriller film
Firelight follows a group of scientists—particularly Tony Karcher and UFO believer Howard Richards—as they investigate a series of colored lights in the sky and the subsequent disappearance of people, animals and objects from the fictional…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Psychological Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
Luke McNamara is a student aspiring to become a lawyer. An orphaned "townie" who grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks", he did well enough in school to attend college on a scholarship where he is a champion rower. His best friends at c…
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Action, action comedy film, thriller film
In Iraq, John Triton, a U.S. Marine, arrives at an al-Qaeda hideout, where a group of terrorists are preparing to behead several hostages. Disregarding direct orders to wait for reinforcements, Triton attacks the extremists and rescues the…
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Action, Crime, Komödie, Romantic Drama, action comedy film, buddy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
Book editor George Caldwell rides the Silver Streak train from Los Angeles to Chicago to go to his sister's wedding. During his travel he meets salesman Bob Sweet. Bob hits on a woman named Hilly Burns, who rebuffs him and has dinner with …
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Fantasy, Military Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, science fiction film
In the eleven years of "The Second Bug War", the Mobile Infantry has improved their weapons and tactics. However, the Arachnids have countered these developments with new and tougher variants. The United Citizen Federation, now finding its…
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horror film, thriller film
A group of ambitious young executives embark on a luxury team-building escape, only to be drawn into a brutal, blood-soaked fight for survival.
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Action, Thriller, action film
Eddie Deacon, a former Marine Corps Security Captain, finds a job as a mall security guard. He meets fellow guards Vance, Ruby, Mason, and Johnny. Meanwhile, a US Marshal convoy transporting a girl named Jamie is ambushed by mercenaries.
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Heist, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romantic comedy, spy film, thriller film
Ray Koval, an MI6 agent, meets Claire Stenwick, a CIA officer, at a party in Dubai. Unaware of her identity, he attempts to seduce her, but she drugs him and steals his classified documents. Three years later, Ray confronts Claire in Rome,…
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Horror, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Bree goes for a swim at the Ketea Aquatic Center and is joined in the Olympic-sized pool by her sister, Jonna, a recovering drug addict who is three months clean. When the pool manager, McGradey, catches the janitor, Clara, who is an ex-co…
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Detective Film, film noir, police film, thriller film
In 1939 Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by glamorous heiress Clare Cavendish to find her missing lover, Nico Peterson, a prop master at Pacific Film Studios. Marlowe discovers that Peterson was killed after being run…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
On a cargo ship, two workers open a container with toxic waste and die from fumes. The captain, knowing the cargo, disposes of their bodies. Meanwhile, Frank Martin, returning from Miami to the French Riviera, unsuccessfully fishes with Ta…
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Family Drama, Thriller
The film follows Maureen Dabbagh (played by Kate Beckinsale), whose life is shattered when her ex-husband abducts their young daughter and takes her to the Middle East. Years of grief and failed attempts to find her child leave Maureen des…
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Thriller, drama film, film noir, thriller film
A young woman meets a mysterious employer in a confession booth and implores him to employ her as his sole contract killer. To prove her worth, she offers to eliminate his other contractors. In exchange for her efforts, she asks if he can …
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Action, Drama, drama film, thriller film
The film opens with a shot of the Lower Manhattan skyline on the early morning of September 11, 2001. Michael is a bicycle courier and wishes his young daughter a happy birthday before setting out on his delivery route. Metzie is getting c…
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Crime, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Roy Courtnay is an aging British con artist who manipulates people into giving him access to their finances utilising a string of false identities. In 2009, Roy targets Betty McLeish, a recently widowed woman who has savings in excess of £…
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Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In 1948 Los Angeles, businessman Julius "Jake" Berman hires seasoned private investigator J. J. "Jake" Gittes to catch his wife, Kitty, committing adultery.
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Psychological Thriller, drama film
Tom Tom is the owner of a used bookstore in New York City. One day, a woman named Sandra comes in looking for a book, and after initially declining his advances, begins a romance with him. Weeks into their relationship, Sandra tells Tom th…
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Natural Disaster, action film, disaster film, drama film, thriller film
Former college football star and current construction engineer Stewart Graff argues with his wife, Remy, after she fakes another suicide attempt which was interrupted by a mild earthquake in Los Angeles. Furious, Graff visits Denise Marsha…
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Drama, Fantasy, drama film, fantasy film
On assignment in Thailand, French television journalist Marie Lelay is caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Onlookers find her lifeless in the water and presume her dead, but she gasps back to life having glimpsed the afterlife. Didier…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Science teacher Abigail Brooks lives with her husband Craig and their son Ricky. One morning, after Abigail takes Ricky to the bus stop, intruders break into her house, kill her housekeeper Rosario, kidnap and confine her in an attic, and …
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Crime, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
A series of murders has shaken the community of Limehouse in the docklands of Victorian London. Journalists dub the murderer the Golem, after the Jewish legend. When music-hall star Elizabeth Cree is accused of poisoning her husband, John,…
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Adventure, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, science fiction film, time-travel film
In 1893 London, popular writer H. G. Wells displays a newly invented "time machine" to his skeptical dinner guests and explains how it works, including having a "non-return key" that keeps the machine at the traveler's destination and a "v…
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Buddy Cop, Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, action film, comedy film, drama film
Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an officer of the Garda Síochána (police) in the Connemara district in the west of Ireland. He is crass and confrontational, regularly indulging in drugs and alcohol even while on duty. He is also shown to be well r…
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Thriller, psychological thriller film
As Hal Porterfield (Christopher Abbott) orders room service in a fancy hotel, Rebecca Marin (Margaret Qualley) arrives to interview him for the position of CEO at this hotel chain. Her questions become increasingly personal and eventually …
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