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Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir |
Country | USA |
Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective |
Country | USA |
Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woman is murdered during his shift, Bart becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigation closes in, Bart makes a personal connection with a beautiful guest named Andrea, but soon realises he must stop the real murderer before she becomes the next victim.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China |
Duration | 01:37 |
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | China, USA |
PALI ROAD is a mysterious and thrilling journey in search for true love between two different worlds. Lily, a young doctor, wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is living a completely different life. Now married to her boyfriend’s rival, Dr. Mitch Kayne, and a mother to a 5-year-old son, she has an established life she remembers nothing about. Everyone around her denies that her boyfriend Neil ever existed. As Lily begins to doubt her own sanity, memories of Neil resurface, causing her to encounter unexplainable incidents. While desperately searching for the truth of her past life, she questions her entire existence; but in the end, she discovers the meaning of true love.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:20 |
Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:19 |
After arguing with his girlfriend, Ali, Tyler lands in the arms of sexy new girl, Holly. The next morning, he finds that not only does Ali agree to take him back, but Holly is a new student at their school and is dead set on her new man.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA, France |
Duration | 02:13 |
A married couple's life is turned upside down when the wife is accused of a murder. Lara Brennan is arrested for murdering her boss with whom she had an argument. It seems she was seen leaving the scene of the crime and her fingerprints were on the murder weapon. Her husband, John would spend the next few years trying to get her released, but there's no evidence that negates the evidence against her. And when the strain of being separated from her family, especially her son, gets to her, John decides to break her out. So he does a lot of research to find a way.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:19 |
The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
Leanne is salutatorian when she needs to be valedictorian to get her scholarship to Harvard. The only class she is worse than the leader in is history, taught by Mrs. Tingle, and the teacher hates her. When an attempt to get ahead in Mrs. Tingle's class goes awry, mayhem ensues and friendships, loyalties and trust are tested by the teacher's intricate mind-games.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, film noir |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
Suffering from her mother's recent suicide, a delusional young girl falls for an alluring Goth, against the objections of a life-size talking muslin doll. The Melancholy Fantastic is a psychological thriller set during the holidays.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, crime |
Country | USA, Argentina |
Duration | 02:01 |
John J. is a seasoned hit man sent on a job to Argentina. When the General he's sent to kill delays his return to the country, John passes the time with Manuela, a beautiful dancer who becomes his teacher and guide into Argentina's sensual world of the tango.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | thriller, melodrama, drama, film noir |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:50 |
A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:31 |
On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:55 |
The irreverent host of a political satire talk show decides to run for president and expose corruption in Washington. His stunt goes further than he expects when he actually wins the election, but a software engineer suspects that a computer glitch is responsible for his surprising victory.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | melodrama, drama |
Country | USA, Canada |
Bestselling author Angela Young needs to get away from the media circus surrounding her book, but her boyfriend/manager Brad is too busy making deals to listen. Determined to take a break, Angela pulls a disappearing act and drives off to see the fall foliage.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, cartoon, short, anime |
Country | USA, Japan |
This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US. According to Blade Runner 2049’s official timeline, this failure leads to cities shutting down, financial and trade markets being thrown into chaos, and food supplies dwindling. There’s no proof as to what caused the blackouts, but Replicants — the bio-engineered robots featured in the original Blade Runner, are blamed.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, military, sport |
Country | United Kingdom, China, USA |
Duration | 02:11 |
19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | action, thriller, melodrama, drama, military |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:52 |
John Wayne stars as U.S. Air Force aviator Jim Shannon, who's tasked with escorting a Soviet pilot (Janet Leigh) claiming -- at the height of the Cold War -- that she wants to defect. After falling in love with and wedding the fetching flyer, Shannon learns from his superiors that she's a spy on a mission to extract military secrets. To save his new wife from prison and deportation, Shannon devises a risky plan in this 1957 drama.
Mark | imdb: 1.6 |
Genre | action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
On the 100th anniversary of the original voyage, a modern luxury liner christened "Titanic 2," follows the path of its namesake. But when a tsunami hurls an ice berg into the new ship's path, the passengers and crew must fight to avoid a similar fate.