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Horror, Thriller, horror film, thriller film
With plans to open a safari park from home, John Gaveneau buys a Bengal tiger named Lucifer from a travelling circus. Meanwhile, his stepdaughter, Kelly Taylor, takes her autistic younger brother, Tom, to a special hospital to be cared for…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
About 20 years before the story takes place, solar flares irradiate the Earth, killing over 99% of the world's population. The survivors gather in a network of safe cities and build primitive humanoid robots, called Pilgrims, to help rebui…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, science fiction film, thriller film
After a tipping point catastrophe, Earth is void of plants and global oxygen levels have dropped to 5%. Darius, his wife Maya, daughter Zora, and father survive together near Brooklyn in an armored bunker with an oxygen generator that Dari…
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Harold Speck was a traveling salesman, making the rounds in a small town when he encountered an old man in a diner. The man approached him with a strange, uncomfortable question, before abruptly leaving. Shortly after his visit, Harold was…
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Thriller, biographical film, crime film, horror film
Growing up on a farm in rural Wisconsin, Ed Gein is abused by both his Christian fundamentalist mother, Augusta, and his alcoholic father, George. George dies of a heart attack in 1940, and four years later, Ed kills his older brother, Hen…
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drama film, thriller film
Following a brutal attack in a parking lot, violinist Ellen Ashland wakes up in the hospital to learn that she has been blinded. During her recuperation at the hospital, she receives a phone call from her brother, who says he has found an …
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action film, adventure film, drama film, epic film, horror film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film, war drama, war film
Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
During a mission, CIA agent Avery Graves steals a thumbdrive and kills Japanese arms supplier Kenji in Tokyo, who is using a business façade to ship arms to terrorists. Avery had been assigned to investigate Kali, a mysterious assassin who…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
thumb|upright=0.9|Michael Caine plays Milo Tindle, who seeks revenge on Andrew Wyke for a game of humiliation. Andrew Wyke, a successful crime fiction author, lives in a country manor house filled with elaborate games and automata. He invi…
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Action, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, thriller film
A woman named Jen Kornfeldt travels to Nice, France, with her parents after a break-up. She meets a man named Spencer Aimes and agrees to join him later for drinks. He sneaks aboard a boat, planting a bomb on a helicopter, then arrives for…
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Forensic, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Steve Everett, an Oakland journalist recovering from alcoholism, is assigned to cover the execution of convicted murderer Frank Beechum following the death of Everett's colleague, Michelle Ziegler, who had originally been assigned to the s…
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Secret Agent, War Film, action film, spy film, thriller film
thumb|left|MiG-31 Firefox, the film's fictional aircraft A joint British–American plan is devised to steal the MiG-31 "Firefox", a highly advanced Soviet fighter jet. Capable of Mach 6 hypersonic flight, the Firefox is invisible to radar a…
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Drama, Horror, Thriller, comedy film, comedy horror, drama film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, rape and revenge film, suspense film, thriller film
Carol Ledoux, a shy Belgian manicurist, lives in London with her older sister Helen. Carol is remarkably detached and struggles in her daily interactions. A suitor, Colin, is enamoured of her and makes fervent attempts to court her, but Ca…
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Drama, Romantic Drama, thriller film
James is working at a trust fund run by his father. Upon the death of his father, he becomes CEO of the company. James and his wife Sophie move away from the city into a suburban mansion.
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Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, slasher film, thriller film
In 2127, Dr. Paul Merchant, an engineer, seals himself in a room aboard The Minos, a space station that he designed. As armed guards attempt to break through the door, Merchant manipulates a robot into solving the Lament Configuration, des…
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Action, Crime, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
A mob informant under FBI protection in a remote wood cabin is ambushed by a hit squad, who slaughter him and his bodyguards. One of the agents killed is Blair Shannon, the son of a senior FBI agent Harry Shannon, who vows to exact revenge…
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Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, crime film, mystery film, psychological drama, superhero film, thriller
While out on patrol one evening, Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) fails to stop a robbery in progress but, with the help of Batman, manages to apprehend one of the criminals involved. The perpetrator is Paris Franz, nephew of a powerful mob boss. …
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Horror comedy, Thriller, comedy horror film, detective film, werewolf film
PJ Palfrey and his girlfriend Brianne vacation in Snow Hollow, Utah, where PJ gets into a verbal altercation with two hunters. At their rental house that night, Brianne is attacked. PJ discovers her mangled body and a paw print in the snow.
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Thriller, drama film, thriller film
The film explores how people experience the negative sides of modern communication technology by following three interconnecting stories. The first plot goes on an ambitious, up-and-coming reporter Nina Dunham interviews an underage video …
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Political Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, mystery film, political thriller film, romance film
The story is set in 1952 in Saigon, Vietnam (French Indochina at that time), toward the end of the First Indochina War (1946–1954) in which French forces fought the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. On one level, The Quiet American is a love…
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Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, romance film
thumb|200px|left|Lana Turner in the trailer for the film Drifter Frank Chambers hitches a ride with District Attorney Kyle Sackett. Kyle drops Frank off at "Twin Oaks", a rural diner/service station on a highway in the hills outside Los An…
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Mysterie, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
As nuclear explosions ravage New York City, residents of an apartment block rush downstairs to escape from the building, only to be forced into the basement by further explosions. Only eight of the residents – Eva and her boyfriend Sam, Jo…
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Biographical picture, Destiny, Justice Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, erotic thriller, romance film
In Paris, the incarcerated Marquis de Sade is confined to the asylum at Charenton, overseen by the Abbé du Coulmier. The Marquis has been publishing his work through laundress Madeleine "Maddy" LeClerc, who smuggles manuscripts through an …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film, thriller film
In the near future, Sarah is a depressed alcoholic in a lacklustre relationship with her boyfriend Peter and generally disconnected from her pestering mother. One day, Sarah awakens to find a pool of blood in her bed and later learns she i…
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