Category: Thriller
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Evils of the Night
Sex-hungry teens are kidnapped by auto mechanics, who take them to a rural hospital run by aliens who need their blood as the key to their own longevity.
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Execution Of A Dead Man
Mansour (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz) is sentenced to death by hanging for communicating with Israel before the October War, and intelligence officer Mohy (Farid Shawky) devises a plan to replace Mansour, the “spy” with Egyptian officer Ezzeldin , because of the big resemblance between them so that he obtains important information about the Dimona reactor.
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Paranın Esiri
An ex-con musician returns to Istanbul to take a sweet and silent revenge from the ingenue with whom he once was in love, insensibly to her extramarital affairs.
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Kidnapped Girls Agency
Aspiring actress Cathy and her roommate are kidnapped and tortured by Cathy’s evil stepmother and her lover. It’s up to private eye Tracey Tailor and her partner Andy Baltimore from the Kidnapped Girls Agency to rescue them.
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Strictement personnel
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after his mother died. The trio move…
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Cop au Vin
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
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Trial Run
Housewife Rosemary Edmonds leaves her family to take up residence in a remote cottage on the Otago coastline so that she can conduct a photographic essay on the yellow-eyed penguin. No sooner has she moved in than she becomes the victim of a series of increasingly more malevolent attacks from an unknown assailant.
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Ghost Story
A young student starts working as a night watchman in the Icelandic TV-house which is supposed to be haunted. Together with a make-up girl working there, he pretends to be a red-haired ghost. But what started out as a joke, soon becomes no laughing matter.
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The Holcroft Covenant
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.
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Dangerous Orphans
Three orphaned boys – O’Malley, Rossi and Moir – become blood brothers. When they grow up, they plot revenge on the crooks who got away with shooting O’Malley’s father. The crooks are doing very nicely importing heroin and laundering money. The boys begin by killing one of the crooks, stealing his indentification and cleaning out…
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Pursuit of a Killer
This is one of those -“who did it” -murder movies put out by Shaw Brothers. In this one, a bunch of Mainlanders come to Hong Kong for a better life. Instead, these Mainlanders are jobless and wind up killing, robbing, and selling drugs for a Dai Lo. Tired of getting chicken scratch from their Dai…
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Like a Savage
Young writer Tamako, who is wrongfully accused of killing the head yakuza, must find a way out of trouble.
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DEFCON-4
Two men and a woman circle the globe in a satellite armed with a nuclear device. The third world war breaks out, and a few months later the satellite crashes. They survive the crash but one man gets killed by survivors and the other man gets caught. The woman stays by the remains of the…
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Where Evil Dwells
Loosely based on an infamous 1984 Long Island murder case involving Satan-worshiping, teenage drug freaks (Knights of the Black Circle), David Wojnarowicz and Tommy Turner’s Where Evil Dwells is a low-budget D.I.Y. movie that walks the jagged lines between splatter flick, experimental film and transgressive art. The original footage was destroyed in a fire and…
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A Distress Call From The Other World
A bizarre supernatural mystery thriller that frequently borders on the surreal, the tour-de-force scene in this one blends live action and animation to depict an elevator ride that just keeps on going… beyond the elevator shaft, beyond the local bridge, and down into the waters below where a murdered man’s restless soul attempts to communicate…
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Generation
Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie “Rollerball,” revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium family on the Great Eve (the night before the year 2000 begins) planning for a reunion. Son Richard Beymer is an inventor working with prosthetic devices to help young athlete brother Drake Hogestyn perfect his game of…
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A Killing Affair
Peter Weller stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fall for him, but continues to question whether or not she…
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Hostage Flight
A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.