Description: Another playlist of Thrillers…both movies & tv shows that I happen to like
Creator: Arcangel2020
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Mean Dreams
( 2017 )
Mean Dreams is a thriller about a fifteen-year-old boy who steals a bag of drug money and runs away with the girl he loves while her corrupt cop father hunts them down. This coming-of-age fable brings together the desperation of life on the run and the beauty and wonder of first love.
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Siesta
( 1987 )
Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory.
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The Chosen
( 2016 )
A man named Jacques Mornard arrives in Mexico in 1940, claiming to be a Belgian who is fleeing the war in Europe to join his girlfriend, one of refugee Leon Trotsky's secretaries. But nobody knows that in reality this conventional and cheerful young man is in fact an agent of the GPU (Soviet Secret Service) and has been sent to assassinate Trotsky.
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Ultimate Target
( 2007 )
A double-dealing member of an elite group of hit men becomes the ultimate target when his organization discovers his deceit.
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The Keeper
( 2006 )
When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.
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Cliff Walkers
( 2021 )
In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning to China, embark on a secret mission. Sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides.
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The Divide
( 2012 )
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
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Lord of the Flies
( 1990 )
After a plane crash in the ocean, a group of military students reach an island. Ralph organizes the boys, assigning responsibilities for each one. When the rebel Jack Merridew neglects the fire camp and they lose the chance to be seen by a helicopter, the group split under the leadership of Jack. While Ralph rationalizes the procedures, Jack returns to the primitivism, using the fear for the unknown (in a metaphor to the religion) to control the other boys, and hunting and chasing pigs, stealing the possession of Ralph's group and even killing people.
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Captain Phillips
( 2013 )
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
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The Da Vinci Code
( 2006 )
A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
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Angels & Demons
( 2009 )
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church.
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Inferno
( 2016 )
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
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Devil Girl
( 2009 )
Fay is a small town girl on a cross country road trip, trying to escape her own reality after the death of her father. When her muscle car breaks down during a drag race she finds herself stranded along route 66 in an isolated desert town. Short on cash, she makes a series of choices to make enough money to repair her car. After encountering a neurotic, drug abusing clown she finds herself sliding down a dark spiral. Soon thereafter, her road trip starts to devolve into a living nightmare. Trapped and desperate, she fights to regain her identity while navigating through a host of locals; a creepy motel clerk, an overzealous preacher, and a sexy temptress with horns and a tail.
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The Day of the Jackal
( 1973 )
A professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" plots to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France.
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The Ice Road
( 2021 )
After a remote diamond mine collapses in the far northern regions of Canada, an ice driver leads an impossible rescue mission over a frozen ocean to save the lives of trapped miners despite thawing waters and a threat they never see coming.
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Zipper
( 2015 )
A successful family man with a blossoming political career loses all sense of morality when he becomes addicted to using an escort agency.
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Hard Candy
( 2006 )
A teenage girl raids a man's home in order to expose him under suspicion that he is a pedophile.
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A Kind of Murder
( 2016 )
In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with a clever killer and an overambitious detective, while at the same time lusting after another woman.
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Unthinkable
( 2010 )
Follows a black-ops interrogator and an F.B.I. agent who try to press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons set to detonate in the U.S.
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Triple Frontier
( 2019 )
Five former Special Forces operatives reunite to plan a heist in a sparsely populated multi-border zone of South America. For the first time in their prestigious careers these unsung heroes undertake this dangerous mission for self instead of country. But when events take an unexpected turn and threaten to spiral out of control, their skills, their loyalties and their morals are pushed to a breaking point in an epic battle for survival.
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Knives Out
( 2019 )
A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
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Legend of the Muse
( 2020 )
A painter's life is changed forever when a mythical and deadly spirit from Celtic lore becomes his muse and lover.
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The Handmaiden
( 2017 )
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
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Hell or High Water
( 2016 )
A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.
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Citizenfour
( 2014 )
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.
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Wild Thing
( 1987 )
A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.
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Day Night Day Night
( 2007 )
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.
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Fair Game
( 2010 )
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
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The Clearing
( 2004 )
As an executive is held captive by an employee, it's up to his wife to deliver the ransom.
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One Hour Photo
( 2002 )
A mentally unstable photo developer targets an upper middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.
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Tell No One
( 2006 )
Pediatrician Dr. Alexandre Beck (François Cluzet) misses his beloved wife Margot Beck (Marie-Josée Croze), who was brutally murdered eight years ago when he was the prime suspect. When two bodies are found near where the corpse of Margot was dumped, the Police re-open the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Alex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive.
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22 Bullets
( 2010 )
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
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Offering to the Storm
( 2020 )
It has been a while since Inspector Amaia Salazar confronted her mother. But despite the fact that both the Civil Guard and Judge Markina consider the case closed, Amaia feels that she is not free from danger. The sudden death of a baby girl in Elizondo is suspicious and the forensic analysis leads Amaia to investigate other deaths of similar origin that will lead the inspector to the final resolution of the events that have devastated the Baztán valley.
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Honest Thief
( 2020 )
They call him the In-and-Out-Bandit because meticulous thief Tom Carter (Liam Neeson) has stolen $9 million from small-town banks while managing to keep his identity a secret. But after he falls in love with the bubbly Annie (Kate Walsh), Tom decides to make a fresh start by coming clean about his criminal past, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.
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24 Exposures
( 2014 )
Billy, a fetish photographer who specializes in staged depictions of dead women, becomes involved in a murder mystery when one of his models turns up dead for real. Michael, a depressed police detective, investigates the crime and probes him as to why he chooses to involve himself in the world of exploitation and fetish. He can not explain why he does what he does, except that he accepts that he is attracted to certain ideas and women. As the two men become friendlier, Michael becomes more involved in his photo shoots. Eventually, the true killer is revealed.
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Red Heat
( 1985 )
An American woman visiting her fiancée in West Germany is caught up with a defecting spy and captured by those in the East. After brutal interrogation she is placed in a prison along with sadistic guards and in-mates. As she tries to survive in a world of deprivation and rape, her fiancée fights his own bureaucracy in an attempt to find her.
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The Last Wave
( 1977 )
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.
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Oldboy
( 2003 )
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days.
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Oldboy
( 2013 )
Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.
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Baby
( 2015 )
An elite counter-intelligence unit learns of a plot, masterminded by a maniacal madman. With the clock ticking, it's up to them to track the terrorists' international tentacles and prevent them from striking at the heart of India.
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Talaash
( 2012 )
Inspector Surjan Shekhawat, who is dealing with a depressing past, has to investigate a high profile murder case, deal with his crumbling marriage and use the help and solace of a prostitute by the name of Rosie.
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1 - Nenokkadine
( 2014 )
A rock star must overcome his psychological inhibitions to seek revenge for his parents' death.
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Mahira
( 2019 )
Maya and Adya, a mother-daughter duo, live a happy existence in a coastal Karnataka town, running their beach cafe. Though, this idyllic life is disrupted when both police and some criminals set out in the hunt of Maya. What is Maya's real identity? Why are these people after her?
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Parasite
( 2019 )
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
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No Sudden Move
( 2021 )
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
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Ek Hasina Thi
( 2004 )
A woman falls for a charming and mysterious businessman. The whirlwind romance turns sour when she is framed for his underworld crimes. Now, finally out of prison she is ready for sweet revenge.
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Company
( 2002 )
A small-time gangster named Chandu teams up with Malik, a low-level enforcer for a criminal syndicate. Together they eliminate all their enemies, becoming the most feared gangsters in Mumbai.
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Homecoming Revenge
( 2018 )
A successful married woman's life is put in turmoil when she reunites with an old high school friend.
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Room 37: The Mysterious Death of Johnny Thunders
( 2019 )
Famed rock and roll guitarist Johnny Thunders arrives in New Orleans to get his life together after a toll of hardships, but instead falls into a dark journey and trail of events that are based on his real life unexplained mysterious death.
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On the Job
( 2013 )
Filipino crime thriller inspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.
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The Passion of Darkly Noon
( 1996 )
After the death of his strictly religious parents, forlorn young Darkly gets lost in the woods. A truck driver, Jude, rescues the exhausted man, who has only a bible for comfort. He brings him to the house of Callie and Clay, two lovers who live in the forest. While Clay is away in the forest, beautiful Callie nurses Darkly back to health, and he develops an obsession with her that is totally contrary to his upbringing - a sexual obsession. When Clay returns home and Darkly sees the two lovers kiss, it is too much for him. Every night he hears them making love. Darkly's descent into madness has begun... An extremely dramatical and exciting ending!
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Breakout
( 2013 )
An innocent camping trip takes a dark turn for a young brother and sister, when they witness a murder. The young siblings become the killers' next target as they are chased and hunted through the wilderness. Serving time over a protest gone terribly wrong, their father, Jack Damson (Fraser), devises a plan to break out of prison and rescue his kids from the pair of criminals, Tommy (Purcell) and Kenny (Suplee). A fight for survival ensues in the action-packed thriller where the hunters become the hunted.
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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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Legally Declared Dead
( 2019 )
Insurance agent Shun is called to visit Tak's home to follow up on a life insurance policy, and shocked to see his son's corpse hanging above him. Shun begins to suspect Tak may have murdered his son for the insurance money.
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MoniKa
( 2013 )
The film is a violent, edgy ride focusing on down and out Reagan Tyler, a man who is troubled by visions and premonitions that ultimately lead him to old school Las Vegas. It's there that Reagan meets the beautiful and mysterious Monika, a young woman who turns out to have been killed the night before he even met her. Reagan is then forced to put the puzzle together of what happened, how she is still present, and help Monika with her revenge on the killers of her younger sister.
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The God Committee
( 2021 )
As a donor heart arrives at a New York hospital, the intended recipient dies. Due to this unexpected crisis, an organ transplant committee must convene within one hour to decide which of three other patients currently waiting for a transplant deserves the life-saving heart. God's work is now left in the hands of five doctors, including Boxer (Kelsey Grammer), a cynical but brilliant heart surgeon; Jordan (Julia Stiles), an idealistic up-and-comer; and Gilroy (Janeane Garofalo), a weary bureaucrat. As the debate over the heart heats up, ethics and bribes clash, leaving the committee members to question what's more valuable: morals or money?
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Red Herring
( 2015 )
A detective investigating his best friend uncovers an assassin hunting through Las Vegas's power elite.
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Still
( 2015 )
Tom (Game of Thrones' Aiden Gillen) gets into a feud with a teenage gang after a seemingly harmless encounter with a neighborhood kid. As his personal life also starts to unravel, the feud escalates to a shattering climax.
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The Ambassador
( 1985 )
An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at every turn and his personal life threatened.
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Lost in the Sun
( 2016 )
The story of John, a small-time crook, who finds an unlikely accomplice in Louis, a newly-orphaned teenage boy. As their open-road adventure progresses and John drags the kid on a string of robberies, the pair forge an unexpected and powerful bond.
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Side Effects
( 2013 )
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
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Sabotage
( 2014 )
Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house.
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Come and Find Me
( 2016 )
When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be.
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Mine
( 2016 )
After a failed assassination attempt, a soldier finds himself stranded in the desert. Exposed to the elements, he must survive the dangers of the desert and battle the psychological and physical tolls of the treacherous conditions.
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
( 2010 )
Inspired by a true crime, a man begins to experience mystifying events that lead him to slay his mother with a sword.
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Mystic River
( 2003 )
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
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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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The Life of David Gale
( 2003 )
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
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Earthquake Bird
( 2019 )
In 1989 Tokyo, Lucy Fly, an enigmatic expat haunted by a painful past, enters into an intense relationship with Teiji, a handsome yet similarly troubled local photographer. Lucy's imperturbable exterior begins to crack when a naive newcomer, Lily Bridges, becomes entangled in their lives and ends up missing - suspected dead.
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Submergence
( 2018 )
James and Danielle meet on vacation and fall in love. She's going to the dark North Atlantic bottom to find life. He's going to Somalia to find a terrorist but gets a dark cell.
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Turks & Caicos
( 2014 )
Worricker is a retired spy living in the Caribbean. He realizes he is in trouble when four "businessmen" show up. They look like mob bosses, but one actually works for the CIA. He gets help from two former MI5 colleagues back in London.
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Free Ride
( 2014 )
A single mom caught up in the Florida drug trade during the late 1970s tries to make a better life for her two girls.
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Twelve
( 2010 )
A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
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Where the Truth Lies
( 2005 )
Karen O'Connor, a young journalist known for her celebrity profiles, is consumed with discovering the truth behind a long-buried incident that affected the lives and careers of showbiz team Vince Collins and Lanny Morris.
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Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball
( 2010 )
Hords of insane assassins (2 cute) gather in or near a bar waiting to kill an insignificant FBI pencil pusher at 3AM and collect $3M. He's kept in a safe house/bunker nearby surrounded by FBI agents. Action awaits.
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Half Moon Street
( 1986 )
A brilliant researcher in London who works as a high-class hooker in her spare time, becomes a pawn in a dangerous political game, when her latest client, a nobleman who is negotiating an Arab-Israeli peace treaty, falls for her.
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Straw Dogs
( 2011 )
Los Angeles screenwriter David Sumner relocates with his wife to her hometown in the deep South. There, while tensions build between them, a brewing conflict with locals becomes a threat to them both.
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Blow-Up
( 1967 )
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. Then he meets a mysterious beauty, and also notices something frightfully suspicious on one of his photographs of her taken in a park. The fact that he may have photographed a murder does not occur to him until he studies and then blows up his negatives, uncovering details, blowing up smaller and smaller elements, and finally putting the puzzle together.
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Nocturnal Animals
( 2016 )
A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale.
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The Final Storm
( 2010 )
A blood red moon, dying animals and torrential rain are just some of the catastrophes that are wreaking havoc on the world on a global scale. Even more unsettling is how quiet everything is. Could these events signify Armageddon?
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Beast of Burden
( 2018 )
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.
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Blue Smoke
( 2007 )
Detective Reena Hale (Witt) is revisited by the stalker who traumatized her years ago by offing any man she fell in love with.
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Whispers and Lies
( 2008 )
Jill Robinson takes her cousin on a vacation to an island, not knowing of the danger awaiting them. No one on the island has ever aged or gotten sick, because its inhabitants kill an outsider every year. It turns out that this year's intended victim is Jill's cousin.
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mkmikas : i was struggling through it a little bit, maybe it was just because the roles were so real...