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Jaws
( 1975 )
When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to the local police chief, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
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The Silence of the Lambs
( 1991 )
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
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The Lovely Bones
( 2010 )
Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
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The Edge
( 1997 )
An intellectual billionaire and two other men struggle to band together and survive after getting stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with a blood-thirsty Kodiak Bear hunting them down.
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Unlawful Entry
( 1992 )
A burglar holds a knife to Karen's throat while her husband does nothing. The couple ends up befriending the cop that comes. The friendship ends when the cop beats up the culprit. Karen isn't ready to end it. Things get ugly with the cop.
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Open Water
( 2004 )
Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark infested waters after their tour boat has left.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
( 2011 )
Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.
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Case 39
( 2010 )
A social worker fights to save a girl from her abusive parents, only to discover that the situation is more dangerous than she ever expected.
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The Vanishing
( 1993 )
The boyfriend of an abducted woman never gives up the search as the abductor looks on.
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Hannibal
( 2001 )
Living in exile, Dr. Hannibal Lecter tries to reconnect with now disgraced F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling, and finds himself a target of revenge from a powerful victim.
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Red Dragon
( 2002 )
A retired FBI agent with psychological gifts is assigned to help track down "The Tooth Fairy", a mysterious serial killer. Aiding him is imprisoned forensic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter.
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Hannibal Rising
( 2007 )
Trauma and tragedy during World War II warp young Hannibal Lecter's mind.
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Manhunter
( 1986 )
Former FBI profiler Will Graham returns to service to pursue a deranged serial killer dubbed "the Tooth Fairy" by the media.
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The Impossible
( 2013 )
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Se7en
( 1995 )
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.
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Citizen X
( 1995 )
During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
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The Deliberate Stranger
( 1986 )
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.
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Falling Down
( 1993 )
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
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Fatal Attraction
( 1987 )
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
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The Grifters
( 1991 )
A small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
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No Country for Old Men
( 2007 )
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong and over two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
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Psycho
( 1960 )
A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
( 2011 )
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for 40 years by hacker Lisbeth Salander.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
( 2010 )
Influential industrialist Vanger's niece Harriet disappeared under mysterious circumstances 40 years ago. As a last attempt at solving the case, he hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
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After Dark, My Sweet
( 1990 )
After he escapes from a mental hospital, a former boxer works for a widow. When she asks him to get involved in a kidnapping, he has second thoughts.
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Eyes of Laura Mars
( 1978 )
Fashion photographer Laura Mars, whose photographs contain violent images, develops the ability to see through a killer's eyes. Those around her include her driver Tommy, her manager Donald, her ex-husband Michael, and policeman John.
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Three Days of the Condor
( 1975 )
A bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust.
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Disclosure
( 1994 )
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
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The Andromeda Strain
( 1971 )
Top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what killed the citizens of a small town and how the deadly contagion can be stopped.
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Coma
( 1978 )
A young and ambitious female doctor's best friend falls into an unexplained coma after a routine medical procedure. Noticing an unusually high number of similar comas occurring in her hospital, she's determined to uncover the cause.
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Twister
( 1996 )
Two storm chasers on the brink of divorce must work together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.
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Strange Days
( 1995 )
A black-marketeer tries to save a woman in 1999 Los Angeles.
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Spider
( 2002 )
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
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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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Coriolanus
( 2012 )
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
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The Good Shepherd
( 2006 )
The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
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Spy Game
( 2001 )
Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors.
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Deliverance
( 1972 )
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
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The Beguiled
( 1971 )
While recuperating in a Confederate girls' boarding school, a Union soldier cons his way into each of the lonely women's hearts, causing them to turn on each other, and eventually, on him.
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Play Misty for Me
( 1971 )
The life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.
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The Machinist
( 2004 )
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.
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Reign of Fire
( 2002 )
A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.
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Equilibrium
( 2002 )
In an oppressive future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system and state.
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Killer Joe
( 2012 )
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.
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The Cable Guy
( 1996 )
A designer makes a grievous mistake when he rejects the friendship of a borderline cable guy.
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The Village
( 2004 )
A series of events tests the beliefs of a small isolated countryside village.
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Signs
( 2002 )
A widowed former reverend living with his children and brother on a Pennsylvania farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields, which suggests something more frightening to come.
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Law Abiding Citizen
( 2009 )
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free.
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Stir of Echoes
( 1999 )
A man has visions of a missing neighborhood girl.
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Duel
( 1971 )
A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
( 1999 )
In late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
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Ripley's Game
( 2003 )
A dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.
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Sexy Beast
( 2001 )
Brutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them.
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The War Zone
( 1999 )
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
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Mortal Thoughts
( 1991 )
Two detectives interrogate a hairdresser on two homicides she may or may not have been involved in.
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Project X
( 1987 )
An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
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Last Rites
( 1988 )
Angela, the beautiful Mexican mistress of a NY mobster, asks virginal Father Michael for protection after Zena, the mobster's wife, kills her cheating husband. Michael becomes torn between his vows, Angela and his sister - Zena.
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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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Stoker
( 2013 )
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
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The Ninth Gate
( 2000 )
A dealer of rare books finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text capable of summoning the devil.
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Eyes Wide Shut
( 1999 )
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
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To Die For
( 1995 )
A beautiful but naïve aspiring television personality films a documentary on teenagers with a darker ulterior motive.
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Funny Games
( 1998 )
Two violent young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
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The Rover
( 2014 )
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his only possession, his car. Along the way, he captures one of the thieves' brother, and the duo form an uneasy bond during the dangerous journey.
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The Devil All the Time
( 2020 )
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of compelling and bizarre characters from the end of World War II to the 1960s. There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific, who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing death by cancer no matter how much sacrificial blood he pours on his "prayer log." There's Carl and Sandy Henderson, a husband-and-wife team of serial killers, who troll America's highways searching for suitable models to photograph and exterminate. There's the spider-handling preacher Roy and his crippled virtuoso-guitar-playing sidekick, Theodore, running from the law. And caught in the middle of all this is Arvin Eugene Russell, Willard and Charlotte's orphaned son, who grows up to be a good but also violent man in his own right.
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L.A. Confidential
( 1997 )
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
( 2002 )
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friend", escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
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Brimstone
( 2017 )
From the moment the new Reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows that she and her family are in great danger.
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The Paperboy
( 2012 )
A reporter returns to his Florida hometown to investigate a case involving a death row inmate.
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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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Memento
( 2001 )
A former insurance investigator who now suffers from anterograde amnesia uses notes and tattoos to hunt down his wife's murderer.
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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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A Killer in the Family
( 1983 )
A father serving time for murder convinces his three teenage sons that his life is being threatened by fellow inmates and that they should break him out of jail. However, when his sons succeed in the jailbreak attempt, the father brings along his cell-mate, a former two time killer, and soon the sons find themselves involved in the pair's murderous crime spree.
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Bad Influence
( 1990 )
A soft and hesitant young man is in danger when he tries to break toxic relationships with a mysterious stranger claiming to be his friend.
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Jack's Back
( 1988 )
A serial killer in Los Angeles celebrates Jack the Ripper's 100th birthday by committing similar murders.
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Driftwood
( 1997 )
A distant, desolate shore in a remote part of Ireland. Sarah, a lonely young sculptress, discovers a man washed-up on the water's edge. He is barely conscious but she manages to nurse him back to health and finds he suffers from amnesia.
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Elephant
( 2003 )
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
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The Human Stain
( 2003 )
When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
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Strangerland
( 2015 )
A family's dull life in a rural outback town is rocked after their two teenage children disappear into the desert, sparking disturbing rumors of their past.
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Wolf Creek
( 2005 )
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
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Heavenly Creatures
( 1994 )
Two teenage girls share a unique bond: their parents, concerned that the friendship is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.
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The Day of the Locust
( 1975 )
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
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Don't Look Now
( 1973 )
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
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The Quiet
( 2017 )
Following the unexpected death of her father, a deaf teenager moves in with her godparents, where she discovers the cruel behaviour of their daughter may be indicative of a dark secret within the family.
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Border
( 2018 )
A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
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The Passion of Darkly Noon
( 1995 )
A young man who has spent his life as a member of an ultraconservative Christian cult loses his parents and becomes disoriented, wandering into a forest and meeting a coffin transporter, a caring woman, her mute boyfriend, and his mother.
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The Pledge
( 2001 )
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
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Suspect Zero
( 2004 )
A mysterious serial killer is hunting other serial killers, and one F.B.I. Agent suspects there may be more to the vigilante than they imagine.
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Zodiac
( 2007 )
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
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Baby Blues
( 2008 )
On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his siblings from the mother they have always known and loved.
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Monster
( 2004 )
The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her life, she tries to find legitimate work but with little education and limited social skills, she fails at every turn. She starts working as a hooker hitching rides along the local interstate highway and after robbing a few clients has an encounter with a vicious client whom she kills in self-defense. After that however she just takes to killing clients taking their money and car. Once arrested she claims self-defense but is eventually convicted.
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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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State of Grace
( 1990 )
An undercover officer rejoins Irish mob pals in Hell's Kitchen.
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21 Grams
( 2003 )
A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.
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The Killing Room
( 2009 )
Four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program.
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Midnight Express
( 1978 )
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
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The Mosquito Coast
( 1986 )
An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.
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The Hole
( 2001 )
Four teenagers discover an underground fallout shelter thanks to a friend, who agrees to have them hide there with the door locked for a few days to escape a school trip. Yet, time passes, and their friend doesn't come back to get them.
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The Last King of Scotland
( 2007 )
Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
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Helter Skelter
( 1976 )
Chilling story of the investigation and trial of Charles Manson, leader of a strange cult which under his direction and 'control' committed numerous murders.
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expresso : Contains spoilers. Click to show. One of my favorite TV show lines of all time! This really is his best role to date. Nobody...