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Thriller movies
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A group of troubled teens are sent to a rehabilitation program housed in a remote camp on the island of Fiji. What their parents believe is a state-of-the-art deluxe institution in a beautiful natural environment turns out to be a prison-like boot camp where they are abused and brainwashed. |
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This horror thriller focuses on young woman Christy (Nora Zehetner) who comes back to her small hometown several years after a dreadful car accident in which she was the driver. The most shocking thing was that her attractive older sister was horribly disfigured. Guilt-ridden and haunted by terrifying visions of the accident, she returns home only to find that her worst nightmares are about to come true. |
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A young man whose job is to watch over the Cube endeavours to rescue an innocent woman trapped in one of its rooms. |
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A New York police officer (Wahlberg) goes undercover in a dangerous crime scene to investigate abductions and drug-trafficking operations. He obtains backup with the help of another brave Hong Kong police officer (Yun-Fat) who works for the NYPD. They partner up together to stop the operation before the city goes down. The criminal orginization is called the "Fukanese Dragons" who are likely terrorists and illegal immigrants who are about to tear up Chinatown in New York City. |
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A retired special operations instructor, L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones), gets recruited to join the FBI agents tracking down a brutal assassin who slaughters poachers in the green woods of Oregon. An elusive killer skilled in hand-to-hand combat proves to be Aaron Hallam (Benicio Del Toro), one of Bonham's best students, who has become unhinged after four years of his successful assassination in Kosovo. He needs no house in the woods because he feels invulnerable. He wants no money as he can get everything necessary for life himself. He needs no weapon because a stick or a stone in his hand is more dangerous than a machinegun. He is a perfect soldier, and Bonham who taught the cool-headed tough guy how to stalk, hunt and kill prey is the only man able to stop the man hunter. |
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Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) leads a double life working as a hitman for his crime boss Paris (Avery Brooks) and maintaining two relationships, one with his unsuspecting Jewish fiancee Pam Shulman (Christina Applegate), and another with a gold-digging, hypocritical mistress Chantel (Lela Rochon). Unbeknownst to their boss, Mel and his teammates, Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips), Crunch (Bokeem Woodbine), Vince (Antonio Sabato Jr.), and Gump (Robin Dunne), decide to take an independent job for extra money and kidnap Keiko Nishi (China Chow), the daughter of a Japanese tycoon. In an ironic twist of fate, Jiro Nishi (Sab Shimono), whose business has recently gone burst, can’t pay a ransom of $1,000,000 for the release of his teenage daughter. Furthermore, Keiko proves to be the godkid of their powerful boss Paris, who orders his huge cohort to discover and send the captors to kingdom come. On top of it all, Mel falls for his kidnaping victim.
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The movie tells an intriguing story about dark and dangerous streets of Essex, where drug, guns, and murder are quite natural for many people. Jason Locke (Sean Bean) is a crime boss who gets out of jail and comes back to Essex so as to regain his power over the town's criminal underworld. Locke is a half-psychotic, hot-tempered man who can kill anybody in his way without a moment's thought, and besides, he is so suspicious that doesn't trust even his wife, Lisa (Alex Kingstone). However, to claw back his old influence is no easy matter as it seems to be... |
| Reaping, The
[2007,
USA]
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| Thousands of years ago there was a series of bizarre occurrences that many believed to have been the Ten Biblical Plagues. No one thought they could happen again. Until now. (3 more taglines...) |
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Christian missionary Katherine Winter (Hilary Swank) lost her faith on God after her dearly loved husband and daughter were sacrificed by the Sudanese who blamed them for the long drought. Since then Katherine, a college professor, has become a famous expert in refuting superstitions, mysteries and miracles, finding a scientific explanation for a particular event. One day she arrives in a sleepy town of Haven, Louisiana, to examine a series of inexplicable incidents that appear to be the ten biblical plagues. In the course of her investigation Katherine comes to the conclusion that science can't explain all phenomena; and she ultimately regains her faith which grants her the power to withstand the dark forces.
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The thriller revolves around two buddies, Lou (Kenny Johnson) and Ryan (Ryan Fox), who are driving to Las Vegas on the legendary desolate highway Zzyzx. Lou unexpectedly wonders if he could get off scot-free with murdering someone in the middle of nowhere. Guided by the irresistible impulse, he runs over a stranger crossing the desert road. Unfortunately, Lou gets more than he bargained for when the dead man's bride, Candice (Robyn Cohen), appears out of nowhere... |
| Point of No Return
[1993,
USA]
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| The Government gave her a choice. Death. Or life as an assassin. Now, there's no turning back. |
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If you like Luc Besson's "Nikita", you will maybe found this movie at least noteworthy, if not - perhaps you will enjoy it anyway because it's just another look at the same story of the young girl played by Bridget Fonda who became an offender and was sentenced then (the story is almost the same except an ending, it differs from "Nikita"). She killed the police officer during the armed robbery in which she took a part. Then she was enlisted by government to execute some covert and dangerous missions which involve dynamic and brutal action and style. |
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Jake Lo (Brandon Lee) is a student and a biker, who accidentally becomes a witness of the brutal murder. The murder is mafia's doing, and the head of Brandon Lee's character instantly grows in price. False FBI agents and the hordes of scumbags try to do off the steadfast biker in this stunning action movie which is the star debut of Brandon Lee. The only one person who Jake can trust, is Powers Boothe's hero named Ryan Mace who addicted his life to drug mafia eliminating. |
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Mac Mckussic is an unlikely drug dealer who wants to go straight. His old and best friend Nick Frescia is now a cop who is assigned to investigate and bring him to justice. Mac is very attracted to Jo Ann, the owner of a stylish restaurant. Nick gets close to Jo Ann attempting to know more about Mac's drug dealing plans and his connections with the Mexican dealer Carlos, who the police believe is coming to town to meet with him. Nick also falls for Jo Ann's charms and his friendship with Mac is in danger. |
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Big money can cause big problems. Duke (Brian Geraghty) and Amber (Jenna Dewan) are two young lovers who stumble across a large duffle bag stuffed with money after a shootout in their apartment complex. Inspired by the newfound riches, the newly married couple hit the road with the hopes of a better life. All of a sudden, their euphoria changes into a suffocating fear and their honeymoon turns into a desperate struggle for survival when a corrupt DEA agent, Pollen (Christian Slater), who will stop at nothing to retrieve what he believes is rightfully his, goes on a hair-raising, nonstop, action-packed chase. |
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Widowed psychologist David Callaway (Robert De Niro) tries to do his best for his traumatized 9-year-old daughter Emily (Dakota Fanning) to get over the loss of her mother (Amy Irving). However, the little girl needs far more care and attention than her loving and solicitous father can lavish on her. And Emily finds comfort in her imaginary friend Charlie with whom she enjoys playing hide-and-seek. At first, David sees this make-believe friendship as a good way for his kid to experience positive emotions. But when 'Charlie' begins making Emily commit weird, and sometimes mad, acts, David calls his colleague Katherine (Famke Janssen) for assistance.
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Two used car salesmen, Sid French (Joe Carnahan) and Bob Melba (Dan Leis), desperately need a large amount of money to pay off their debts. The guys can see no way out of the pickle they are in but they are unexpectedly offered an extraordinary deal. If they keep a cherry Pontiac Le Mans on their lot for two days, they will get $250,000. The buddies are fully aware that they get involved in a shady affair but, broken and driven to the wall, they see this as their only chance to get out of a financial hole and agree to keep the car. But when they smell trouble, it's too late to back up... |
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The thrilling movie tells the story of American journalist Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez) assigned to travel to Juбrez, a Mexican bordertown, so as to investigate 400 unsolved cases of raped and murdered women. In Juбrez, she meets up with her former colleague and boyfriend, Alfonso Diaz (Antonio Banderas), who is now the editor of the local newspaper. The two join efforts to uncover the shocking truth and soon find the sole survivor of the atrocious attack, Eva Jimenez (Maya Zapata), who shudders at the mere thought of it. After a great deal of reluctance Eva finally breaks the silence and tells what has happened to her. While tracking down the serial killers, Adrian and Diaz are unaware that their investigation may be fraught with serious consequences...
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This psychological erotic thriller classic follows Dr Barr (Richard Gere), a well-known psychiatrist who is interested in his patient's sister. This movie was strongly influenced by Hitchcock's movies. Dr Barr begins to court the beautiful woman (Kim Basinger) but gets into the web of intrigue: her man is a Greek mobster... and one of these characters will die in this tangled story. |
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Henry Durand is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves. |
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Xander "XXX" Cage is the notorious underground thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons forces XXX to cooperate with the government to infiltrate an underground Russian crime ring and avoid going to prison. Betting XXX can succeed where other conventional spies have failed, Gibbons sends XXX to enter this world of crime undetected, using his natural athletic prowess and a whole lot of attitude. Enlisted for a dangerous covert mission, he must combat a clever, organized, and ruthless enemy far beyond the scope of his experience. |
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The gripping thriller discloses to viewers the truthful story about one of the most intriguing unsolved crimes of the last century. Ace police detectives and reporters struggled to discover the identity of a sophisticated remorseless Zodiac killer who walked around San Francisco unhindered, keeping its citizens in a constant state of abject terror. Moreover, the elusive criminal dared scoff at law enforcement officers by leaving perplexing ciphers at the crime scenes and sent a barrage of threatening messages to several newspapers.
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