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Thriller movies
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Can you imagine a near-future world? The time is out of joint: it's July, 2021, but snow falls in New York City, people freeze in Uganda, gravity loses its power in Africa. Despite world-wide chaos John (Joaquin Phoenix), a Polish academic on his way to Calgary, stops in New York to meet his wife Elena (Claire Danes), a world-famous figure skater, in order to get a divorce. But when John arrives at Elena's hotel, he realizes that something is wrong. John soon discovers that Elena and her staff have a secret — David (Alun Armstrong), her manager, has cloned Elena with the intention of killing her as soon as her talent finally runs short. They are soon on the run from David and his mates. Is there a corner of the world where they can seek shelter to keep themselves safe and sound? |
| Passenger 57
[1992,
USA]
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| He's an ex-cop with a bad mouth, a bad attitude, and a bad seat. For the terrorists on flight 163 . . . he's very bad news. |
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Charles Rane (Bruce Payne) is the pitiless and dangerous offender who killed many people during his terrorist acts. Today he is going to capture the flight 163. But when the seizure happens, it turns out to be that the chair of the passenger 57 is vacant. He is out in the closet, but the bandits cannot find him anywhere. The man is John Cutter (Wesley Snipes), he is a cold-blooded cop who was onboard for flight security purposes. So the terrorists will disappear one by one until the fight between Rane and Cutter will end already on the ground. |
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This engaging romantic drama stars Jennifer Lopez as Sharon Pogue, one of the best and most beautiful Chicago police officers. One day while chasing a drive-by suspect she finds herself in a potentially dangerous situation. The ruthless criminal tries to get rid of the tough policewoman by shooting her twice when a mysterious stranger named 'Catch' (James Caviezel) appears from out of the blue and saves Sharon's life. Who is this courageous man who wasn't afraid to give her a helping hand during the shoot-out? How did he happen to walk down the deserted street at the right moment? And why does Sharon feel as though they have met somewhere before? |
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American diplomat Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber) and his young wife Katherine (Julia Stiles) wait expectantly for the birth of their first kid. But events take a tragic turn in the delivery room: Katherine loses a baby, and worst of all, she will not have another pregnancy due to womb damage. In order to avoid traumatizing his wife, Robert takes a baby boy whose mother died in childbirth and presents him as his own. The local priest who encouraged Robert to make a substitution convinces him that it is a pious fraud and so the lord will forgive him for his sin. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions: Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) might be the little Antichrist who grows older and stronger under the ideal nanny’s supervision...
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Long ago in Central Africa, a little girl and a baby gorilla were left orphans after their respective mothers had been killed by ruthless poachers. Twenty years later zoologist Gregg O'Hara (Bill Paxton), who was leading a safari expedition in the Pangani Mountains, came upon beautiful jungle girl Jill Young (Charlize Theron) and Joe, a gigantic awesome gorilla that was actually an innocent and good-natured creature. Aware of threats from ferocious and greedy trophy-hunters, Gregg was able to convince Jill of the need for moving the endangered gorilla to a California animal conservancy. But Joe wasn’t safe at the facility for long as the very same hunter, Andrei Strasser (Rade Serbedzija), appeared with the nefarious intention of stealing and selling Joe on the black market.
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A luxurious cruise liner sets sail on its maiden voyage with many rich passengers. When sailing through the South China Sea, the ship is unexpectedly boarded by a gang of armed bandits, led by Hanover (Wes Studi), to grab jewellery and money. The mercenaries, who have taken the crew hostage, are utterly shocked to find the shattered remnants of the party and no passengers in sight. The fact is that the sea vessel has collided with a gigantic underwater object shortly before the intruders board the liner. The unknown object turns out to be a formidable sea monster which sucks the water from its preys, leaving only their skeletons. Among survivors is a gorgeous pickpocket, Trillian Jamesen (Famke Janssen), who is caught red-handed and locked up in the safe room, and the liner owner, Simon Canton (Anthony Heald). Thus begins a struggle for survival. The pirates were armed to the teeth but there are only three of them. |
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Ladies and Gentlemen! Elvis has left the building. And he has taken $ 3 million. It’s also important to mention that THIS Elvis is armed to the teeth and abnormally dangerous. We strongly recommend you not to ask him to sing ‘Love Me Tender’, otherwise you will go to the next world.
Recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane (Kurt Russell) and his cellmate Thomas Murphy (Kevin Costner) decide to rob one of the largest casinos in Las Vegas during International Elvis Week. Dressed up to the nines as Elvis impersonators and teamed up with Hanson (Bokeem Woodbine), Franklin (Christian Slater) and Gus (David Arquette), they manage to hit the jackpot. As usual things go awry when the guys begin sharing the stolen loot. As it turns out Murphy intends to keep all the money for himself and to eliminate his partners-in-crime in a traditional way, that is, to shoot them point-blank.
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Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a shy common teenager, living with his mother, father and little brother in a suburban house. But he is also a very efficient undercover CIA agent. He is assigned by CIA director (Keith David), with the support of his instructor Ronica Miles (Angie Harmon), to date Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) in order to be invited to her birthday party and get close and spy Natalie's father, Dr. Connors (Martin Donovan). Dr. Connors is a brilliant scientist, who has developed some sort of micro-robots with the intention of controlling oil leakage from tankers. However, the investors of the experiment intend to use the device as a powerful weapon. |
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A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. But a bizarre plane crash draws him back into the fray when his family is viciously threatened. |
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Based on the comic books by Mike Richardson and Mark Verheiden, this riveting science fiction thriller is set in the future (actually 2004) where scientists create a time travel device., The government forms the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) to prevent criminals from exploiting the new technology for their villainous purposes. One day timecop Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) discovers that the power-hungry Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) concocts a nefarious plan to use the device to manipulate history. He must travel back in time to stop the corrupt politician. |
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In the future, the Greenhouse Effect has taken place on a now ravaged Earth covered in water, and a mysterious drifter aids a mother and daughter in seeking Dryland, a mythical place that a group of savage bandits seek out as well. |
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The satellite of a company owned by the millionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) locates in Antarctica an unidentified source of heat and a pyramid with indication of three different primitive cultures built six hundred meters below a deactivated whaling station. Weyland hires expertize, including an archeologist and an electronic engineer, and organizes an expedition leaded by Alexa Woods (Sannaa Lathan). When they reach their target, they realize that the place is indeed the stage of an ancient war between two breeds, and humans are only kettle in this game. They pick a side, based on the saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. |
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When Rowena Price (Halle Berry), a reporter for a major New York paper, launches an investigation into murdering her childhood friend Grace (Nicki Aycox), the trail leads her to Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), a powerful chief executive officer of a large advertising agency. What she needs to bring the supposed killer to justice is to get the goods on him. With the support of her associate Miles Haley (Giovanni Ribisi), she starts playing the bitter perilous game, posing as Katherine, a temp secretary at Hill's company, and Veronica, a girl the concupiscent Hill flirts with in an Internet chat room. Weaving an intricate web for her prey to get caught, she unwittingly becomes entrapped in a web of deceit, betrayal, manipulation and false truths.
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the terrifically funny sequel of the family-oriented movie "Home Alone". Kevin's (Macaulay Culkin) family goes to Florida to have a holiday, but the young boy gets lost in the NY airport. Now he is to turn the Big Apple into a huge playground, because he has credit cards enough to be independent, as it seems to him. But his old foes Harry (Joe Pecsi) and Marv (Daniel Stern) are out of prison and they accidentally meet the boy in New Yourk. Well, Kevin has a lot of tricks to put them away back to prison. |
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Based on the novel by Robin Hunter, the thriller tells of Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons), a British magazine editor living with his wife Maria (Briony Glassco) and three kids named Joanne (Anna Maguire), Julia (Holly Boyd), and Andrew (Joel Pitts). One day, determined to make a surprise for his family, Elgin buys tickets for the trip to India. Things, however, don’t go as planned: their plane is hijacked by terrorists. Then Elgin’s wife and both daughters are brutally gunned down in a terrorist attack. Back in London, Jack gets to know that the hijackers are arrested but soon released from incarceration. Jack tries to use all his journalist and political contacts but he is powerless to attain justice for his family. Desperate, Jack launches his own investigation to bring the killers to justice. FBI agent Jules Bernard (Forest Whitaker) who is cooperating with the International Police, suspects that Jack has a thirst for bloody revenge. When he puts all the pieces together, Bernard realizes that the terrorists must pay the full penalty for the deaths of people and he is intent on helping Elgin. |
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Set in the UK, the gangster drama revolves around Too Fine (Simon Webbe) and his close pals Finny (Vas Blackwood) and Rage (Roffem Morgan), who decide to break with their criminal past and devote their lives to hip-hop music. Expecting to obtain fame and wealth, they release the first CD of their band "Time Served". Unfortunately, their hopes go down the drain when Too Fine is murdered by a drug dealer, Temper (Patrick Regis), due to a large debt. Things get even more complicated when Too Fine's sister Hope (Naomi Taylor) is brutally raped by Temper and given an ultimatum to pay the debt within two days, otherwise her family will be slain. Hope feels so desperate that decides to wreak vengeance upon the merciless nemesis. She pays him a surprise visit and kills him with a sawn-off shotgun. One misdeed begets another. Hope, Finny, Rage and their friend Pushy (Robbie Gee) are forced to return to the vicious world of guns, drugs and street violence. |
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Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco 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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Vin Diesel reunites with the director (Rob Cohen) and the producer (Neal H.Moritz) of the blockbuster The Fast and the Furious. Diesel stars as Xander "XXX" Cage, the notorious underground thrill seeker who until now has been deemed untouchable by the law. NSA Agent Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson) 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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High school senior Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin) is destined to have a bright future. But no one can feel secured against a fatal case of mistaken identity. So one day Nick becomes the victim of a brutal attack by a school hoodlum. Nick stays alive, though his spirit has departed from his perishable body. His frightened soul, caught between the living and the dead, vainly attempts to go to its eternal rest. Nick tries to give his mother Diane (Marcia Gay Harden) a signal for help but she can neither hear nor see him. Meanwhile, the police led by Detective Brian Larson (Callum Keith Rennie) takes great pains to find the missing guy, without knowing that Nick is just hours away from truly perishing. By the irony of fate, the only person who can save his life is his sullen and cruel classmate, Annie Newton (Margarita Levieva), who beat him so unmercifully. |
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The movie depicts the story of Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), once an alpinist and now a wildlife photographer, who cannot obliterate from his memory a tragic event in his life. The Garrets enjoyed climbing mountains. One day while climbing in Utah, Peter, his father, Royce (Stuart Wilson), and his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), were eyewitnesses to the death of two amatures falling down the mountain. This caused the Garrets to move quickly and slide off the side of the mountain. As the rope could hardly hold that much weight, the father made Peter cut it to save his and his sister's lives. The father died and Annie condemned her brother for making a fateful decision. Three years later, Annie, determined to continue her father's dream of climbing the world's toughest peaks, makes a risky attempt to ascend the perilous K-2. Having heard about Annie being trapped in an icy grave, Peter assembles a rescue team to save the three survivors of the expedition, his sister, Tom McLaren (Nicholas Lea) and Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton). |
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