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Thrillers, Vol. II
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Another playlist of Thrillers…both movies & tv shows that I happen to like


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Movie: The Reef ( 2011 )
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
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Movie: Sanctum ( 2011 )
An underwater cave diving team experiences a life-threatening crisis during an expedition to the unexplored and least accessible cave system in the world.
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Movie: Ond tro ( 2010 )
Mona has just moved to a new town and a new job, when she witness a grisly murder. She's shocked but also fascinated, and when the police won't listen, she starts her own investigations.
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Movie: The Tournament ( 2010 )
A tournament is watched by dozens of wealthy men betting on which one of the 30 assassins will survive the next 24 hours "kill or die" and claim the USD10,000,000 prize. It takes place in an English town with plenty of CCTVs.
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Movie: Shanghai ( 2010 )
A '40s period piece which revolves around an American expat who returns to Shanghai in the months before Pearl Harbor due to the death of his friend.
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Movie: 13 ( 2010 )
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
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Movie: Peacock ( 2010 )
A train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's bank clerk.
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Movie: Centurion ( 2010 )
A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack.
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Movie: The Ghost Writer ( 2010 )
A ghost writer, hired to complete the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister, uncovers secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
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Movie: Tell Tale ( 2009 )
A man's newly transplanted heart leads him on a dangerous journey to find out who murdered its donor.
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Movie: Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler ( 2009 )
Kaiji, a young gambler who is constantly in debt, enters a deadly gambling competition in order to wipe away his loans.
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Movie: Fifty Dead Men Walking ( 2009 )
Martin McGartland joins the I.R.A. and feeds information to Britain's Special Branch Agent Fergus.
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Movie: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( 2009 )
Remake of the 1956 film noir film "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt" in which a writer's plan to expose a corrupt district attorney takes an unexpected turn.
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Movie: The Butcher ( 2009 )
For nearly twenty years after his boxing career ended Merle Hench works for Murdoch, the capo of a San Fernando mob outfit. Merle spends his days cracking heads and collecting debts, it is not a job he enjoys.
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Movie: The Informers ( 2009 )
One week in L.A. in 1983, featuring movie executives, rock stars, a vampire and other morally challenged characters in adventures laced with sex, drugs and violence.
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Movie: Acolytes ( 2009 )
Three teenagers blackmail a serial killer.
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Movie: Five Minutes of Heaven ( 2009 )
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
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Movie: Thick as Thieves ( 2009 )
A veteran thief recruits a younger crook to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mob.
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Movie: The Lazarus Project ( 2008 )
A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a psychiatric facility.
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Movie: Krabat ( 2008 )
A boy learns the black arts from an evil sorcerer.
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Movie: A Wednesday ( 2008 )
A retiring police officer reminisces about the most astounding day of his career. About a case that was never filed but continues to haunt him in his memories - the case of a man and a Wednesday.
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Movie: Funny Games ( 2008 )
In this English-language remake of a deconstruction in the way violence is portrayed in the media, a family settles into its vacation home, which happens to be the next stop for a pair of young, articulate, white-gloved serial killers on an excursion through the neighborhood.
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Movie: The Last Deadly Mission ( 2008 )
In Marseilles, the discredited and alcoholic Detective Schneider hijacks a bus and forces the bus driver with a gun to drive him home. He is arrested by the swat force and his washed up career in the police department practically ends. Schneider is removed from the investigation of a serial-killer that is committing hideous crimes against women and assigned to a bureaucratic work in the night-shift in the precinct. Through glimpses from his recollections, Schneider recalls the tragic accident that killed his daughter and left his wife attached to a life support system. Meanwhile, the sick criminal Charles Subra, who killed the parents of two girls many years ago, convinces the probation committee in the prison that he has found God and is regenerated and may be released. Justine, one of the daughters that survived, has never overcome the trauma of her loss and is worried with the possibility of the freedom of the criminal. When Schneider discovers the identity of the serial-killer, he finds also the corruption in the high command of the police, and he decides to go to his last mission on Earth in his descent to Hell.
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Movie: Black Water ( 2008 )
A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia
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Movie: Untraceable ( 2008 )
FBI agent Jennifer Marsh is tasked with hunting down a seemingly untraceable serial killer who posts live videos of his victims on the Internet. As time runs out, the cat and mouse chase becomes more personal.
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Movie: Gabriel ( 2007 )
GABRIEL tells the story of an archangel who fights to bring light back to purgatory - a place where darkness rules - and save the souls of the city's inhabitants.
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Movie: Rogue ( 2007 )
An American journalist on assignment in the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile while trapped on a rapidly flooding mud island.
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Movie: Ripley Under Ground ( 2007 )
Professional swindler hides the death of a famous artist in order to earn money by selling pictures on his own behalf.
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Movie: Lust, Caution ( 2007 )
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
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Movie: Land of the Blind ( 2007 )
A soldier recounts his relationship with a famous political prisoner attempting to overthrow their country's authoritarian government.
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Movie: Elite Squad ( 2007 )
1997, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his occupation while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope comes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Movie: After the Wedding ( 2007 )
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
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Movie: The Invisible ( 2007 )
A teenager is left invisible to the living after an attack.
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Movie: Grindhouse ( 2007 )
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's homage to exploitation double features in the 60s and 70s with two back-to-back cult films that include previews of coming attractions between them.
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Movie: The Lookout ( 2007 )
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
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Movie: The Contract ( 2006 )
A father and his son attempt to bring in an assassin to the authorities, but his dangerous associates have other plans.
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Movie: Macbeth ( 2006 )
A contemporary retelling of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" set in the ganglands of Melbourne.
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Movie: Look @ Me ( 2006 )
Tina has been using the internet and her perfect body to achieve financial success. After being kidnapped and imprisoned by her biggest and most twisted web fan, she must use both like never before to escape.
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Movie: Ask the Dust ( 2006 )
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
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Movie: Cargo ( 2006 )
A young backpacker gets into some trouble in Africa and stows away on a cargo ship heading to Europe.
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Movie: Dead Fish ( 2006 )
Traitors, killers and lovers collide in London.
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Movie: Sweeney Todd ( 2006 )
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
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Movie: 8MM 2 ( 2005 )
David Huxley, low-born self-made legal counsel at the US embassy in Budapest, may expect his career to be boosted by his impending marriage to Tish, daughter of old money tycoon and ambassador to Hungary Harrington. But when the happy couple spends a night of hot sex at a spa, including a threesome with an exhibitionist model, they are secretly filmed, and the suspect is found murdered in their hotel. To handle the blackmail, they venture into a sex club where porno movies are made. Tish volunteers to 'act' so David can snoop around, but that only gets them into even greater danger, which ultimately proves most deceptive.
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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: Disappeared ( 2004 )
Harry Sands is a self made man, happily married with two children. When he learns that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to find her. To Harry's horror, he discovers from Olivia's best friend, that the two of them have been working as nightclub dancers and not as the charity workers like Harry was led to believe. So begins the hunt for his missing daughter and a journey that turns into a nightmare as Harry is forced to face his own prejudices and mounting paranoia....
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Movie: Imagining Argentina ( 2003 )
Antonio Banderas and Emma Thompson star in this gripping political thriller about a man with the power to see the fate of missing people - with the exception of his own beloved wife.
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Movie: The Pentagon Papers ( 2003 )
Defense worker Daniel Ellsberg seeks to publish a series of classified government documents detailing the true nature of America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
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Movie: Dark Blue ( 2003 )
A robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
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Movie: The Quiet American ( 2002 )
An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.
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Movie: The Man from Elysian Fields ( 2002 )
A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
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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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Movie: Tempted ( 2002 )
A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.
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Movie: Frailty ( 2002 )
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact "demons."
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Movie: Heaven ( 2002 )
A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.
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Movie: Enigma ( 2001 )
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
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Movie: The Triangle ( 2001 )
A group of friends wind up in the Bermuda Triangle.
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Movie: Original Sin ( 2001 )
When a man selects a mail order bride, he is surprised to see the beauty who appears before him. She alleges that she sent false photos to him to assure that he would love her for what she is and not for her beauty. However, what she is is a con artist, prostitute, and actress, who teams with a fellow actor to steal money from men. What she does not expect is that she falls in love with her new husband and ultimately must decide between him and her sadistic former lover. Contains explicit sex including sadistic acts as Thomas Jane cuts Jolie's back with a knife as part of their lovemaking.
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Movie: Black and White ( 2001 )
Thriller starring Gina Gershon as hard-edged, experienced cop Nora 'Hugs' Hugosian, who is assigned a new partner--rookie cop Chris O'Brien (Rory Cochrane)--to help her with the serial-killer case she is working on. The two begin a passionate affair, but it isn't long before Chris has suspicions about Nora's real involvement with the murders.
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Movie: The Hole ( 2001 )
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
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Movie: Laguna ( 2001 )
Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.
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Movie: Vertical Limit ( 2000 )
A climber must rescue his sister on top of K2, one of the world's biggest mountains.
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Movie: Contaminated Man ( 2000 )
In 1986, David Whitman came home, contaminated his wife and child, and watched them die. Years later, he leads a hazmat team investigating an industrial accident near Budapest. One contaminated man escaped. Terrorist expert Holly Anderson is part of a unit which operates on the premise that the contaminated man is a terrorist murdering his victims. Whitman, on the other hand, believes the contaminated man to be an innocent victim. Either way, the contaminated man must be found, because after he touches people, they live only a few minutes.
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Movie: Under Suspicion ( 2000 )
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. This will only take ten minutes, they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer...
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Movie: Gossip ( 2000 )
Three college students base their class project around gossip and how fast it spreads, which soon spirals out of control.
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Movie: Fail Safe ( 2000 )
Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclear warhead on Moscow.
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Movie: Taboo ( 1999 )
The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad.
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Movie: The Minus Man ( 1999 )
A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced with the killing of an asthmatic junkie. The killer settles into a seaside rooming house run by an unhappy married couple and waits for his next victims to unveil themselves. Dream cops plague his nights, while plotting his murders. Meanwhile, he also starts a relationship with a postal clerk.
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Movie: Instinct ( 1999 )
When noted anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell (Sir Anthony Hopkins), who left society to live in the jungle is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychiatrist Theo Caulder (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) to get through to him.
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Movie: The Cyberstalking ( 1999 )
In the near future, a young woman's dream of becoming a holographic singing star is subverted by a immoral entertainment company.
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Movie: In Dreams ( 1999 )
A suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again.
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Movie: Blackjack ( 1998 )
Dolph Lundgren plays Jack Devlin, a U.S Marshal who protects high-profile clients when it comes to a matter of security.
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Movie: Cry, the Beloved Country ( 1995 )
A South African preacher goes to search for his wayward son, who has committed a crime in the big city.
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Movie: The Crossing Guard ( 1995 )
Freddy Gale is a seedy jeweller who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.
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Movie: Naked Killer ( 1995 )
The story of a young flirty feral woman named Kitty who is trained by a martial arts specialist to become a professional assassin. She's subsequently recruited by the real killer, a hit woman who targets rapists at large and practices on drooling sex-mad psychos chained up in the attic. When they finally head out for the real thing, they take out victims in a display of midair somersaults, cracking whips, flying ropes, and flashing guns. This kind of foreplay attracts the lustful attentions of rival assassin Carrie Ng, a lesbian killer ready to abandon her purring sex kitten for the savage Chingmy.
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Movie: Bad Company ( 1995 )
Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent individuals. Crowe, working with Margaret Wells (another former Covert Operations operative), blackmails and bribes a State Supreme Court judge, but the deal sours. One of Crowe's co-workers, Tod Stapp, discovers Crowe's current CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow Grimes, and blackmails him to be cut in on the deal. More blackmail occurs as Wells manipulates Crowe to kill Grimes, then the CIA uses that discovery to blackmail Wells into killing Crowe. Who can you trust???
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Movie: The Vanishing ( 1993 )
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
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Movie: Illicit Behavior ( 1992 )
Melissa Yarnell is the wife of burned-out cop Mike Yarnell who takes out his frustrations on her. When she stood her limit, she turns to Matt Walker and Bill Tanner, other cops for protection. Their advances border on Illicit Behavior.
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Movie: The Indian Runner ( 1991 )
A Vietnam vet comes home to his small town and finds himself in conflict with rules that his brother has vowed to uphold.
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Movie: Run ( 1991 )
When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
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Movie: Wild Search ( 1989 )
The police are staking out a Hong Kong flat, waiting to catch some major gun-dealers. While the suppliers are conducting their deal, they move in. Both buyers are killed in the gunfire, but not their young daughter. The suppliers escape, and as their ruthless boss covers his tracks, he goes after the girl, the only witness. They trace her to a safe house, but are killed in the ensuing gunfight.
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Movie: Physical Evidence ( 1989 )
A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.
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Movie: The Sign of Four ( 1987 )
The disappearance of a young woman's father and a mysterious note years later after the strange regular annual delivery of valuable pearls to her puts Sherlock Holmes on the case.
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Movie: Someone to Watch Over Me ( 1987 )
A married New York cop falls for the socialite murder witness he's been assigned to protect.
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Movie: Slam Dance ( 1987 )
An artist, framed for the murder of a woman, is drawn into a web of corruption, blackmail and deceit.
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Movie: Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity ( 1987 )
Lovely and resourceful Daria and Tisa escape a space gulag only to crash land on a nearby world where a guy in tight pants named Zed is playing The Most Dangerous Game. Zed turns the girls and another guest loose in his jungle preserve to serve as the prey in a mad hunt. Armed only with knives and their wits, the girls must battle their way accross the jungle to a hidden arms cache before Zed catches and kills them.
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Movie: Sword of Gideon ( 1986 )
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
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Movie: The Name of the Rose ( 1986 )
An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.
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Movie: The Star Chamber ( 1983 )
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.
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Movie: Eye of the Needle ( 1981 )
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
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Movie: Berlin Tunnel 21 ( 1981 )
In Berlin in 1961, an American soldier and a German engineer join forces to build a tunnel under the Berlin Wall in order to smuggle out refugees, including the soldier's East German girlfriend.
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Movie: Brass Target ( 1979 )
In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.
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Movie: Sorcerer ( 1977 )
Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.
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Movie: Twilight's Last Gleaming ( 1977 )
An imprisoned rogue USAF general with a secret personal agenda, escapes the brig and takes over an ICBM silo, threatening to start WW3.
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Movie: The Cassandra Crossing ( 1976 )
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
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Movie: Two-Minute Warning ( 1976 )
A crazed sniper is set to kill spectators at an L.A. Coliseum football championship game and the police races against time to eliminate him.
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Movie: Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 )
A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
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Movie: The Blood of Fu Manchu ( 1968 )
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
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Movie: The Vengeance of Fu Manchu ( 1967 )
In his remote Asian hideaway, the evil Fu Manchu plots the death and discredit of his archrival, Inspector Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, as the first step in his plan to become leader of the world's most terrible criminals.
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Movie: The Brides of Fu Manchu ( 1966 )
Fu Manchu blackmails several industrialists and scientists into helping him construct a super-weapon by kidnapping their daughters and wives.
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Movie: The Face of Fu Manchu ( 1965 )
After cheating death, master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu returns with a plot to contaminate the River Thames with a powerful toxin extracted from Tibetan poppies.