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Thriller movies
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain's uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who's now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he's assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena's keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets. |
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During Harry Houdini's tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan... |
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Promising football player Brandon Lane (Matthew McConaughey) sustains a serious knee injury which puts the kibosh on his football career. Failing professional options he takes a job in a telephone service foretelling the outcome of games for sports betters. His talent to pick the winners soon attracts the attention of Walter Abrams (Al Pacino) who runs a large sports prognosticating business. He lures Brandon to join his enterprise, hoping to make lots of money off him. Brandon changes his name and personality and the perilous game starts!
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A masochistic cop (Maura Tierney), who hides her predilection from her cop husband (Terry Kinney), gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody), who has kidnapped a rich woman (Laila Robins) and has buried her somewhere in Manhattan while demanding a ransom from her tycoon husband (James Naughton). Failure to pay the ransom within 24 hours will lead the kidnapper to abandoning the woman. Dylan Baker also appears as the fed that is assigned to the case. |
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Set in Wichita, Kansas, the black comedy centers on mob lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) and his associate Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) who decide to give themselves a Christmas present and embezzle $2 million in cash from Charlie's crime boss, Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid). The lawyer is impatient to slip out of town with the alluring strip club owner Renata (Connie Nielsen). But you never know what surprises are in store for you. For Charlie, Christmas Eve proves to be a great surprise... |
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In a mountainous South American country, drug-dealing rebels kidnap Peter Bowman, a US engineer who works for an oil company's subsidiary. The company calls in a negotiator, Terry Thorne, an Aussie ex-soldier based in London. When the subsidiary goes bankrupt, the oil company washes its hands of the matter and pulls Thorne. Bowman's wife Alice begs him to stay. She and Peter's sister cobble together some money, Thorne talks ransom terms with the cash-strapped rebels, and Peter, chained high in the mountains, is sustained by a photo of Alice. When the politics of the situation change, so must Thorne's strategy. And what can Alice and he do about the attraction growing between them? |
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Fact-based story about Ira Einhorn (Kevin Anderson), a 70's peace-nik who is generally credited as one of the founders of Earth Day. In the late 60's and early 70's, Ira lived with Holly Maddux (Naomi Watts). But when she tries to leave him in 1977, she suddenly disappears. Later her body is discovered in a trunk in Einhorn's apartment. Let out on bail, Einhorn flees from the country and manages to elude authorities for years. Meanwhile he is convicted in absentia and sentenced to prison. Holly's father (Tom Skerritt) is determined to see his daughter's murderer brought to justice and has him tracked and is eventually caught in France in 1997. Martin Donovan appears as the assistant D.A. who put the case together. Today, Einhorn is now appealing his conviction. |
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Carl Rudolph Stargher (Vincent D'Onofrio) is a schizophrenic serial killer who abducts young attractive women and encloses them in a glass cell hidden in the basement of an abandoned facility. Then he turns on a shower and videotapes how the cell is being filled with water for 40 hours and his victims are slowly going mad and drowning. The maniac attaches chains to steel rings that pierce his flesh and views the footage while hanging under the ceiling. It's a tough task for the police to bring the killer to justice. After the most recent abduction the police finally track him down. Unfortunately, Carl suffers a seizure and falls into an irreversible coma. Time is short and the location of his latest victim is unknown. When FBI Agent Peter Novak hears about Catherine Deane (Jennifer Lopez), a psychotherapist experimenting with a unique way of entering the mind of comatose patients, he decides to enlist her help to get the information he needs. Using her incredible skills, Catherine travels into the killer's mind and finds it to be a bizarre, abstract, violent and scary world. It's easy to enter this world but it's almost impossible to get out of it... |
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This suspenseful drama tells the story of Cleveland Heep (Paul Giamatti), an apartment building superintendent in Philadelphia, who one night finds a mysterious naked woman swimming in the pool. The bizarre events that ensue make him believe that the young woman is none other than a narf called Story, a fairy tale character. She has come from the Blue World to warn mankind of a race of deadly wolf-type creatures that hide in the dark corners of the condominium, waylaying their victims. It’s up to Cleveland to assemble tenants to assist the nymph in accomplishing her mission, avoiding the violent scrunts, and returning to her watery world via an eagle. |
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Danielle, a young psychology student, is trying to rebuild her life when she sublets a century-old Victorian house. Unknowingly, she awakens an evil specter lurking in the dark recesses of her new home. To prove to her sister, Anna, that she isn't delusional again, Danielle sets out to document the haunting with horrifying results. She unleashes the soul of Edgar Crowe, a vicious child killer, who quickly seizes control of her life. Hungry to satisfy his taste for torturing boys, Crowe uses Danielle like a pawn to resurrect his ghastly "Panic Chair." Now, Anna faces an impossible task - destroy Crowe without destroying her sister. The solution comes to Anna, but is it buried too deeply in the long dead past for her to reach? |
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Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving, is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist that may affect Arian and Ernest's fates. |
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Michael Jennings (Ben Afleck) is a brilliant computer engineer who works for high-tech companies. As soon as the job is done, all memory of what he has been working on is erased from his mind so that he can’t let out any secrets to competitor companies. For his most recent top-secret project that has taken him 5 years, Jennings expects to receive a huge sum of money. When he awakens one day, he, however, receives not his paycheck of four billion dollars, but an envelope filled with 19 random objects he has sent himself before the procedure. Having no opportunity to claim his rights due to his wiped memory, Michael suddenly realizes that the envelope contains the clues to his own past. With the help of his old flame, Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman), Michael must somehow solve a puzzle until his ex-employers who want him dead find him. |
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Once upon a time in Mexico, there lived a legendary gun-toting guitar player, El Mariachi (Antonio Banderas), whose name resounded throughout the country. Now the Avenger in Black no longer wishes to fight and leads a quiet solitary life in an obscure country village. But there comes a day when he is recruited by a corrupt CIA agent, Sands (Johnny Depp), to thwart drug lord Armando Barillo (Willem Dafoe) and General Marquez (Gerardo Vigil) to assassinate the Mexican President. Mariachi agrees to come out of retirement for the reason that he wants to wreak vengeance upon his archenemy Marquez who killed his wife, Carolina (Salma Hayek), and his beloved daughter. With a guitar in his hand and blood revenge in his heart, El Mariachi sets out on a warpath for the last time... |
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Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) is a successful defense attorney - she has the perfect career, happy marriage... But once she gets to know something about her husband Tom's (Jim Caviezel) past - he turned out to be a government secret agent who is now arrested for a military high crime: somebody has killed seven civil people during the mission in the 1980s and Tom is apparently a scapegoat. She is to defend him in the top-secret military court, encountering lots of unfamiliar rules and strict directions. But what is more difficult is to risk her career, at the same time being uncertain about her husband's guilty... |
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Gail (Meryl Streep) is a professional at water rafting. She twigs every day, and she is in a very good shape. She takes her family, one day, to a rafting trip down the river, but she has no idea that the planed trip is about to become a nightmare. Two escaping robbers with a handgun, meet the family in the way, and join them to the trip. Only later the Gail realize that their new friends are dangerous criminals, but it's too late. The two men force them to stay together, and to keep cruising down the river. The family's life are risked not only by the 2 men, but also by the river which becomes more stormy and wilder. |
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Harvard Medical School graduate Dr. Ted Grey arrives at one of the nations most prestigious Pathology programs and is quickly noticed by the program's privileged and elite band of pathology interns who invite him into their crowd. It is also here, where he is introduced to Dr. Jake Gallo, who brings him to a secluded wing, where he and four other indulge in there after-hours, extra-curricular activities...finding ways to commit the perfect murder! |
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Based on a true story, the pulse-pounding, gory thriller depicts the perilous adventure of Grace (Diana Glenn), her boyfriend Adam (Andy Rodoreda), and her younger sister Lee (Maeve Dermody). During the vacation in Northern Australia, the travelers venture to navigate the treacherous waters of the outback, along with local guide Jim (Ben Oxenbould). What at first seems to be a typical river tour later becomes a real threat, turning their adventure into every tourist's worst nightmare. Stuck in a crocodile-teemed mangrove swamp, the three hapless holiday makers desperately try to survive a deadly struggle with hungry predators. |
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Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide in a closet in the teacher's lounge, they witness the strangulation of Nurse Harper by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments later, the nurse seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like all the teachers and most of the students. Only Casey, Delilah and four others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens can spread out over the whole country. |
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Shot on-location in Australia, this is the second television adaptation of Steven King's Salem's Lot. Ben Mears (Rob Lowe), a journalist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being almost invaded by vampires. Decedes ago, as a boy he took a dare and broke into the Marsten House, a local mansion having a misfortune of discovering the corpses resulting from a scandalous murder or suicide. In present, he returns to find that a mysterious antiques dealer (Donald Sutherland) and his mysterious business partner (Rutger Hauer) have moved into the Marsten House. Townspeople begin disappearing soon... only to return, flying by the window frames of their loved ones and begging to be let in. Only Ben and a few allies of him are convinced that something unholy has overtaken their town... something from the haunting nightmares of Rob Lowe's character. |
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In the city of Frank (in fact, deep inside the body of Frank Detomello (Bill Murray), a zoo worker) there are houses, donut shops, parks, a TV station, hospitals, traffic jams and, of course, a police station. Osmosis Jones (voiced by Chris Rock) is a white blood cell hero of our time. He is a cop to keep order and peace in the city. When Frank eats a germ-infected egg, the villainous virus Thrax (voiced by Laurence Fishburne) invades his body. Ozzy teams up with a recruit cold pill Drix (voiced by David Hyde Pierce) to prevent the entire city from the deadly epidemic. |
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