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Thrillers, Vol. I
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A playlist dedicated to movies & tv shows that are Thrillers


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TV Show: The Blacklist ( 2013 )
The Blacklist is a crime drama involving a former government agent who turned into a high-profile criminal turning himself in to the FBI offering to help catch criminals.
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TV Show: Tell Me Your Secrets ( 2021 )
Tell Me Your Secrets revolves around a trio of characters, each with a mysterious and troubling past: Emma is a young woman who once looked into the eyes of a dangerous killer, John is a former serial predator desperate to find redemption, and Mary is a grieving mother obsessed with finding her missing daughter. As each of them is pushed to the edge, the truth about their pasts and motives grows ever murkier, blurring the lines between victim and perpetrator.
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Movie: I Care a Lot ( 2021 )
Poised with sharklike self-assurance, Marla Grayson is a professional, court-appointed guardian for dozens of elderly wards whose assets she seizes and cunningly bilks through dubious but legal means. It's a well-oiled racket that Marla and her business-partner and lover, Fran, use with brutal efficiency on their latest "cherry," Jennifer Peterson - a wealthy retiree with no living heirs or family. But when their mark turns out to have an equally shady secret of her own and connections to a volatile gangster, Marla is forced to level up in a game only predators can play - one that's neither fair, nor square.
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Movie: Body Brokers ( 2021 )
Utah (Jack Kilmer) and Opal (Alice Englert) are junkies living on the streets of rural Ohio until a seemingly chance encounter with the enigmatic Wood (Michael Kenneth Williams) brings them to Los Angeles for drug treatment. Utah appears to find sobriety with the help of treatment center shrink, Dr. White (Melissa Leo), and tech turned love interest, May (Jessica Rothe). They soon learn that drug treatment is but a cover for a predatory business, enlisting addicts to recruit other addicts. Utah is no exception. Wood and his drug treatment mogul partner, Vin (Frank Grillo), take Utah under their wing, introducing him to the good life, though Utah's addiction remains his biggest obstacle.
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TV Show: Your Honor ( 2020 )
Your Honor follows the son of a respected judge who is involved in a hit and run. Soon after they are both drawn into a high-stakes game of lies, deceit and impossible choices when it comes to light that the victim was the son of a notorious crime boss.
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TV Show: Into the Dark ( 2018 )
Into the Dark is a horror event series from prolific, award-winning producer, Jason Blum's independent TV studio. The series includes 12 super-sized episodes, with a new installment released each month inspired by a holiday and will feature Blumhouse's signature genre/thriller spin on the story.
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Movie: Bird ( 2020 )
Fed up with the meaninglessness of her life, Samantha Flores, an unassuming and shy young woman, living in the city of Los Angeles is convinced by a friend, Juliette, a vivacious call-girl, to go out one night posing as her. What was supposed to be a night of fun and excitement for Samantha, turns into a night of sheer terror after she witnesses a brutal murder. Now stranded and wandering aimlessly along a dark road, Samantha crosses paths with Greg Vargas, a reluctant criminal talked into participating in a jewel heist that is occurring nearby. After Greg initially picks her up to get her away from the crime scene, they are suddenly attacked by unknown assailants. After barely escaping with their lives, Greg and Samantha now must not only work together to solve the mystery of who is after them, but also learn to trust each other. The only clues that can help them uncover the secrets of that night are locked away in Samantha's traumatized, fragmented memories, and they are running out of time.
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Movie: Q&A ( 1990 )
Dirty cop, Mike Brennan thinks he got away with murder. But during a routine Q&A, the righteous assistant DA finds a clue that sets them both on a collision course.
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Movie: Don ( 2006 )
Vijay is recruited by a police officer to masquerade as his lookalike Don, the leader of an international gang of smugglers. Things go wrong when the officer is killed and Vijay is left to fend for himself.
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Movie: Tall Tales ( 2019 )
1945, Hungary. Shortly after the end of World War II, when chaos and insecurity reign supreme in the country, a con man tries to take advantage of such confused times. Forced to flee Budapest, he's given shelter in the woods by a mysterious woman and his son. Still trying to confront his demons, he soon finds himself in a passionate love affair with the woman whose husband is about to return home from the front.
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TV Show: 24 Japan ( 2020 )
Genba Shido is the director of Team A in the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). He is excellent at his job. He is a reasonable person, but he often has to make drastic decisions to save lives. He is separated from his wife because of marital problems. They have a daughter. Meanwhile, Urara Asakura is the leader of the Minsei Party. She has strong support from the people. She is married and has a son and daughter. Urara Asakura is expected by many to become Japan's first female prime minster. On the day of the election for the Prime Minister office, an assassination plot on Urara Asakura's life is revealed. Genba Shido must stop the assassination attempt, but his daughter is also kidnapped at the same time.
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TV Show: Bloodlands ( 2021 )
When a car containing a possible suicide note is pulled out of Strangford Lough, Northern Irish police detective Tom Brannick quickly connects it to an infamous cold case with enormous personal significance. Bloodlands follows his dogged hunt for a legendary assassin, an explosive cat-and-mouse game where the stakes have never been higher.
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Movie: Rogue City ( 2020 )
Caught in the cross hairs of police corruption and Marseille's warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
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Movie: World War III ( 1982 )
Soviet paratroopers drop into Alaska to sabotage the oil pipeline in retaliation against a United States grain embargo. A skirmish occurs at a pumping station, lightly defended by Col. Jake Caffey and a National Guard recon unit. A stalemate ensues while the possibility of World War III hangs in the balance. The danger escalates as the Soviet Secretary-General and the American President play a cat-and-mouse game.
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Movie: Dirty War ( 2004 )
A terrorist group detonates a radiological dispersal device (RDD) in Central London. Due to a lack of preparation, training, and resources, chaos ensues.
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Movie: Unhinged ( 2020 )
After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes the target of his rage.
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Movie: Broken City ( 2013 )
In a city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure: Mayor Nicholas Hostetler.
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Movie: Body of Lies ( 2008 )
A CIA agent on the ground in Jordan hunts down a powerful terrorist leader while being caught between the unclear intentions of his American supervisors and Jordan Intelligence.
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Movie: Tenderness ( 2009 )
A policeman works to figure out whether a violent teen murdered his family.
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Movie: The Burnt Orange Heresy ( 2020 )
An ambitious art critic, James Figueras, is approached by a wealthy art collector, Joseph Cassidy, with a proposition. Cassidy has the reclusive artist Jerome Debney living on his estate: if Figueras can procure for him, by whatever means, a Debney painting he can get an interview with Debney, something no one has done for 50 years, and Cassidy will help Figueras's career. Getting the painting becomes an obsession for Figueras.
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Movie: Parallel ( 2020 )
A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.
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Movie: The Debt ( 2011 )
In 1965, three Mossad Agents cross into East Berlin to apprehend a notorious Nazi war criminal. Thirty years later, the secrets the Agents share come back to haunt them.
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Movie: The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day ( 2009 )
The MacManus brothers are living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, but when they learn that their beloved priest has been killed by mob forces, they go back to Boston to bring justice to those responsible and avenge the priest.
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Movie: The Boondock Saints ( 1999 )
Two Irish Catholic brothers become vigilantes and wipe out Boston's criminal underworld in the name of God.
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Movie: Faster ( 2010 )
An ex-con gets on a series of apparently unrelated killings. He gets tracked by a veteran cop with secrets of his own and an egocentric hit man.
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Movie: Death Sentence ( 2007 )
Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.
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Movie: Assassination Tango ( 2003 )
An aging hitman gets a contract to kill a General in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But when his mark becomes unavailable, he becomes involved in Argentinian tango culture.
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Movie: Momentum ( 2015 )
Alex, a mysterious thief, is pulled in by her former partner for one last heist. She quickly finds it was never just about the diamonds. A brutal murder sparks a cat and mouse chase between Alex and a master assassin. Now she must uncover the lies behind the heist and discover the secrets behind the men who have made her a target.
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Movie: Naked Weapon ( 2002 )
40 13 y.o. girls are kidnapped and the next 6 years forcefully trained to be sexy assassins. The survivors go on to be top int'l assassins known as China dolls. A CIA agent's on track of them.
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TV Show: Der Pass ( 2019 )
When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian counterpart Gedeon though seems to have lost any ambitions in his job. Very soon, they discover more crime scenes with symbolically posed victims, reminiscent of pagan rituals. It all seems to be part of a bigger, sinister plan. Ellie finds herself under increasing pressure to understand the deranged killer's motives so she can stop him. The hunt leads them ever deeper in the dark valleys and archaic Alpine customs - and the paranoid world of the killer.
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Movie: The Ripper ( 1997 )
In 1888, in London, a prostitute is slaughtered on the street. The Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Jim Hansen is in charge of the investigation and realizes that the killer is a person with skill in dissection. Hansen belongs to the lower class and aspires to socially climb. Soon there are other murders and the ex-prostitute Florry Lewis witnesses the killer killing a prostitute and is forced to go to the precinct to provide a lead to the Scotland Yard. Inspector Hansen assigns Sgt. Tommy Bell to protect Florry and he investigates the murder cases. Prince Albert Victor, who is the heir of the throne of England, becomes his prime suspect but his chief Sir Charles Warren tells that they need to have strong evidences against the prince to proceed the case. Sir Charles decides to use Florry as bait but Inspector Hansen has fallen in love with her and objects. But his chief makes clear that this is the only way to stop the ripper. What will Inspector Hansen do?
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Movie: Ice House ( 2020 )
Ice House follows the story of two friends, Grant and Wayne, on one night's excursion to a fish house on a frozen Minnesota lake for an evening of camaraderie. What seems to be a harmless outing between two friends slowly evolves into a murderous plot between two men, both with hidden secrets and mysterious agendas.
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Movie: Morgan ( 2016 )
A corporate risk-management consultant must decide whether or not to terminate an artificially created humanoid being.
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Movie: Phoenix Forgotten ( 2017 )
Phoenix Forgotten tells the story of three teens who went into the desert shortly after the incident, hoping to document the strange events occurring in their town. They disappeared that night, and were never seen again. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of their disappearance, unseen footage has finally been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition. For the first time ever, the truth will be revealed.
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Movie: Trespass Against Us ( 2016 )
A man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw family.
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Movie: The Fan ( 1996 )
Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins the San Francisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.
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Movie: The East ( 2013 )
An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities changing dramatically after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
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Movie: The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 )
A Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Movie: The Legend of Alfred Packer ( 1980 )
Alfred (also known as Alferd) Packer promoted himself as a guide to a group of pioneers hoping to find silver in the mountains of Colorado. After wandering through the wilderness with his clients, insisting that he knew where he was going, it soon became evident that the group was hopelessly lost, and would have to face the harsh winter on their own. As food supplies ran out and the men began to starve, Packer made the fateful decision to save himself by any means possible, and use his unlucky clients as food.
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Movie: The Man with Thousand Faces ( 2016 )
The story of a man who fooled an entire country. A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.
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Movie: Project Gutenberg ( 2018 )
Hong Kong police are hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter". In order to crack this true identity, the police recruit gang member Lee Man to unmask "Painter's" secret identity.
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Movie: Red Lights ( 2012 )
Psychologist Margaret Matheson and her assistant debunk paranormal activity, which leads them to investigate a world-renowned psychic who has resurfaced after many years out of the limelight following the suspicious death of his toughest critic.
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Movie: The Son of No One ( 2011 )
A young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, and an old secret threatens to destroy his life and his family.
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Movie: Big Sky ( 2015 )
A teen traveling with her mother to a treatment center for her agoraphobia has to fight for their lives against a gunman who attacks them.
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Movie: Wheelman ( 2017 )
A getaway driver for a bank robbery realizes he has been double crossed and races to find out who betrayed him.
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TV Show: The Girlfriend Experience ( 2016 )
The Girlfriend Experience is an anthology series, which explores the complex dynamics of transactional relationships.
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Movie: Body Heat ( 1981 )
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
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Movie: Everly ( 2015 )
An action/thriller centered on a kidnapped woman who faces down hitmen sent by a mob boss/her captor while trying to protect her family from his wrath.
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Movie: Life Like ( 2019 )
An idealistic, attractive young couple acquires a stunning, life-like robot for guilt-free help; but, as the three grow closer, their perception of humanity will be altered forever.
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Movie: The Treacherous ( 2015 )
The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.
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Movie: Crisis ( 2021 )
Set against the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, stories of an undercover cop, a professor and a grieving mother collide.
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Movie: The Marksman ( 2021 )
A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who've pursued him into the U.S.
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Movie: Stone ( 2010 )
A convicted arsonist looks to manipulate a parole officer into a plan to secure his parole by placing his beautiful wife in the lawman's path.
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Movie: Ghajini ( 2008 )
A short-term memory loss patient sets out on his journey to avenge the death of his beloved girl.
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Movie: Insomnia ( 2002 )
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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Movie: The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 )
An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
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Movie: The Haunted Airman ( 2006 )
An injured RAF pilot, confined to a wheelchair is committed to an eerie hospital where he starts to lose his mind
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Movie: Dog Eat Dog ( 2016 )
A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.
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Movie: The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch ( 2008 )
After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.
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Movie: The Devil All the Time ( 2020 )
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his "prayer log." There's Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There's the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.
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Movie: Green Room ( 2016 )
A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar.
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Movie: Edison ( 2005 )
Josh Pollack, a naive and ambitious reporter, is convinced the F.R.A.T., an elite force within the Edison Police Department, is corrupted. Working on a homicide case, he begins to unearth evidence which suggests that the entire justice system is willingly turning a blind eye to the abuses of the this force. When his life and that of his girlfriend are threatened from his research, he join forces with his editor, a once-famous reporter, and a renown private detective to bring down the F.R.A.T. and every one behind it.
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Movie: Unleashed ( 2005 )
A man enslaved by the mob since childhood and raised into behaving like a human attack dog escapes his captors and attempts to start a new life.
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Movie: Fist of Legend ( 1994 )
In 1937, a Chinese martial artist returns to Shanghai to find his teacher dead and his school harassed by the Japanese.
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Movie: Kiss of the Dragon ( 2001 )
Liu Jian, a police officer from China, comes to Paris to help the vice squad apprehend a Chinese drug lord and his unknown French connection. The French connection is Richard, the head of the vice squad, who intends to kill the drug lord then frame Jian. Jian ducks a bullet and escapes with a tape of what really happened. By chance, Jian turns to Jessica - a US farm girl who is one of Richard's hookers - for help. She has her own problems, including the fact that Richard has her daughter locked in an orphanage to keep Jessica on the streets and silent about his activities. Can Jian protect Jessica, rescue her daughter, and give Richard the kiss of the dragon?
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Movie: War ( 2007 )
An FBI Agent seeks vengeance on a mysterious assassin known as "Rogue" who murdered his partner.
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Movie: Black Coal, Thin Ice ( 2014 )
An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again.
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Movie: The Great Wall ( 2017 )
In ancient China, a group of European mercenaries encounters a secret army that maintains and defends the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
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Movie: Dragon ( 2011 )
A papermaker gets involved with a murder case concerning two criminals leading to a determined detective suspecting him and the former's vicious father searching for him
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Movie: Lonely Hearts ( 2006 )
Based on the true story, two homicide detectives track Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely Hearts Killers" who lured their victims through the personals.
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Movie: The Sentinel ( 2006 )
A Secret Service agent is framed as the mole in an assassination attempt on the President. He must clear his name and foil another assassination attempt while on the run from a Secret Service Protective Intelligence Division agent.
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Movie: Fail-Safe ( 1965 )
American planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted?
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Movie: The Towering Inferno ( 1975 )
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
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Movie: Bullitt ( 1968 )
An all guts, no glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.
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Movie: French Connection II ( 1975 )
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.
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Movie: The French Connection ( 1971 )
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
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Movie: Marathon Man ( 1976 )
A graduate history student is unwittingly caught in the middle of an international conspiracy involving stolen diamonds, an exiled Nazi war criminal, and a rogue government agent.
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Movie: Pusher ( 1996 )
A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
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Movie: Pusher II ( 2004 )
Tony is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done.
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Movie: I'm the Angel of Death: Pusher III ( 2005 )
Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything.
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Movie: Red State ( 2011 )
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda.
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Movie: Dead Fish ( 2006 )
Traitors, killers and lovers collide in London.
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Movie: Man Down ( 2016 )
When a U.S. Marine returns home from Afghanistan, he finds that the place he once called home is no better than the battlefields he fought on overseas. Accompanied by his best friend, he searches desperately for the whereabouts of his estranged son and wife. In their search, the two intercept a man carrying vital information about his family.
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Movie: Paranoia ( 2013 )
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.
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Movie: Heart of Darkness ( 1994 )
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.
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Movie: In the Electric Mist ( 2009 )
A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen.
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Movie: Bringing Out the Dead ( 1999 )
Haunted by the patients he failed to save, a monumentally burned-out Manhattan ambulance paramedic fights to maintain his sanity over three increasingly turbulent nights.
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Movie: Unknown ( 2006 )
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
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Movie: Let Him Go ( 2020 )
A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson.
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Movie: The Last Castle ( 2001 )
A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against the corrupt system that put him away.
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Movie: City of Industry ( 1997 )
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
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Movie: Circus ( 2000 )
Conman Leo Garfield is in hot water after accepting a contract to murder businessman Julius Harvey's alleged wife, Gloria. Leo's wife Lily brings trouble too when her old flame Elmo pops up again, years after she abandoned him mid-heist.
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Movie: All the King's Men ( 2006 )
Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
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Movie: The Getaway ( 1994 )
An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned.
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Movie: Persons Unknown ( 1996 )
When former cop and current security expert Jim Holland has a one night stand with Amanda after getting in her way roller-blading. That introduction turns out to be a well thought out plan by Amanda and her sister Molly, to obtain security codes to office of a client. The girls and their cohorts rob his client and stash the loot. All the while, detective Jim has been following them and he grabs the money for himself. Then his conscience gets the best of him and he falls in love with Molly. His client turns out to be drug dealers and he's forced to risk his life to protect Molly and Amanda.
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Movie: Edmond ( 2006 )
A fortune-teller's teasing rumination sends Edmond Burke lurching into New York City's hellish underworld.
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Movie: 10 Cent Pistol ( 2015 )
A story about two lifelong criminals who maneuver through the shady underbelly of Los Angeles in search of wealth, love and redemption.
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Movie: Acts of Desperation ( 2018 )
A desperate cop on the edge is obsessed over the fact that his beautiful but desperate wife is having an affair. At the same time, he tracks a desperately shrewd bank robber who is falling in love with a desperately obsessed woman whose life he just saved from suicide. As if that's not enough, he is also being blackmailed by two desperately unhinged street criminals w...Read all
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Movie: Imperium ( 2016 )
A young FBI agent, eager to prove himself in the field, goes undercover as a white supremacist.
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Movie: Kill Your Darlings ( 2013 )
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.