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Richard and Priscilla Parker's lives take a turn for the better when Eddy and Kay move into the house next door. Eddy's a risk taker and shows his new neighbours how to enjoy life at the expense of a rule or convention or two. What Richard doesn't realise is that Eddy's little games are just a prelu β¦de to something that's intended to destroy his neighbours' lives. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessparanoiaobsessionpsychopathextramarital affairvoyeurisminvestigationprisonadulterybetrayalchristmasinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
Locations: | police carnightclubbar |
Characters: | police arrestpolice detectivesecurity guardlittle girllawyerphotographermusicianpolice officerdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | insurance scaminsurance investigationchristmas treesex while asleepdouble indemnityrehab centerrisk takinginsurance claimlistening to the radiocarolerbad influenceschoonerjingleinsurance investigatorlife insurance β¦chequesparringsoftballsheet musicwife swappingcity parkmiscarriage of justicebailworking outneck bracehitchcockianspeedboataudio cassettepunching bagbusiness cardyuppietape recordingtraffic jamsailingsailboatbicyclingframed for murderschemeprivate investigatormusic bandrecording studiosirenframe upfaked deathinnocencescamcomposerfraudbuttocksguitaristjoggingtape recorderfireplaceuzimurdererstagepianistgymbaseball batrace against timesuburbcostumemicrophonebinocularshit by a carfalse accusationneighborcamerawatching tvmachine gunsingingfemale rear nudityfemale nuditybloodnudityviolencesex (See All) |
When Nick Parsons appears to be murdered his wife Libby is tried and convicted. Six years later Libby is paroled and with the help of Travis Lehman (her parole officer) she sets out to find her son and the truth behind the "murder".
Themes: | psychopathprisonbetrayalmurder |
Locations: | police carnightclubbar |
Characters: | police arrestlawyerpolice officerdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | tape recordingsailingsailboatframed for murdermusic bandframe upfaked deathbuttockscamerawatching tvsingingfemale nuditynuditybloodsex |
The pediatrician Alexandre Beck misses his beloved wife Margot Beck, 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 reopen the case and Alex becomes suspect again. The mystery increases when Al β¦ex receives an e-mail showing Margot older and alive. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessobsessionextramarital affairvoyeurisminvestigationadulteryinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | lawyerphotographerpolice officerdoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | hitchcockiantraffic jamframed for murderfaked deathinnocencemurderergymbaseball batbinocularsfalse accusationcamerawatching tvfemale rear nudityfemale nuditynudity β¦violenceblood (See All) |
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme β¦to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessparanoiaobsessionadulterybetrayalinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | insurance investigationdouble indemnityinsurance claiminsurance investigatorsoftballschemescamblood |
Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaprisonmurder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | police arrestsecurity guardlawyerphotographerpolice officerdoctormother daughter relationship |
Story: | miscarriage of justicehitchcockiansirenframe upscampianistcamerawatching tv |
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessparanoiaextramarital affairadulterybetrayalinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | police detectivepolice officerdoctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | softballcity parkbusiness cardsirenfraudbuttockssuburbfemale nuditynudityviolence |
On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark β¦question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife? (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessparanoiaobsessionpsychopathextramarital affairinvestigationadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | police arrestpolice detectivelawyerpolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | framed for murderframe upfireplacefalse accusationneighborcamerawatching tvfemale rear nudityfemale nudityviolenceblood |
Courtroom thriller about a slick, hotshot lawyer who takes the seemingly unwinnable case of a young altar boy accused of murdering an eminent catholic priest.
Themes: | psychopathinvestigationmurder |
Locations: | police carnightclubbar |
Characters: | police arrestlawyerphotographerpolice officer |
Story: | sirenbuttocksmicrophonecamerawatching tvsingingfemale nuditynudityblood |
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaobsessionpsychopathinvestigationbetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | police carnightclubbar |
Characters: | police detectivesecurity guardpolice officerdoctorfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | speedboatframed for murderframe upjoggingrace against timecostumebinocularshit by a carcameramachine gunsexviolenceblood |
Detroit, the early 1960s. Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman, breaks into the music business with big dreams. He signs a trio of young women, the Dreamettes, gets them a job backing an R&B performer, James "Thunder" Early, establishes his own record label and starts wheeling and dealing. When Early β¦flames out, Curtis makes the Dreamettes into headliners as the Dreams, but not before demoting their hefty big-voiced lead singer, Effie White, and putting the softer-voiced looker, Deena Jones, in front. Soon after, he fires Effie, sends her into a life of proud poverty, and takes Deena and the Dreams to the top. How long can Curtis stay there, and will Effie ever get her due? (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulterychristmasinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | nightclubbar |
Characters: | musiciandoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | christmas treetape recordingrecording studiocomposerfraudguitaristpianistmicrophonecamerawatching tvsingingsex |
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull β¦ it off? (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiaobsessionextramarital affairinvestigationprisonadulterymurder |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | police detectivelittle girllawyerpolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | music bandsirenframe upfaked deathbuttocksjoggingfemale nudityblood |
After a chance encounter at a theater, two men, Benigno and Marco, meet at a private clinic where Benigno works. Lydia, Marco's girlfriend and a bullfighter by profession, has been gored and is in a coma. It so happens that Benigno is looking after another woman in a coma, Alicia, a young ballet stu β¦dent. The lives of the four characters will flow in all directions, past, present and future, dragging all of them towards an unsuspected destiny. (Read More)
Themes: | obsessionprison |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | little girllawyerphotographermusiciandoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | buttocksguitariststagebaseball batcostumemicrophonehit by a carcamerawatching tvsingingfemale nuditysexbloodnudity |
In the third movie of Rodriguez's "Mariachi" trilogy, a Mexican drug lord pretends to overthrow the Mexican government, and is connected to a corrupt CIA agent who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government.
Themes: | betrayalmarriagedeathmurder |
Locations: | nightclubbar |
Characters: | little girlmusicianpolice officerdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | sheet musiccity parkbicyclingsirenguitaristtape recorderstagepianistcostumehit by a carwatching tvmachine gunsingingbloodviolence |
Middle aged Sy Parrish works as a technician at a one hour photo lab located in a SavMart store in a suburban mall. Sy is a lonely man, never having had any friends. He knows much about his customers through the photographs they have developed. But he knows more about the Yorkin family - specificall β¦y Nina Yorkin and her adolescent son Jake Yorkin, the two in the family who drop off and pick up the family's photofinishing - the family about whom he is obsessed, than anyone else. Nina's husband, Will Yorkin, is incidental to his obsession since Sy has only seen him in photographs. Sy's obsession includes fantasizing about being their favorite "Uncle Sy". He has even been making an extra set of prints for himself of all of their photographs since Jake was a newborn. After an incident at work and after Sy finds out more about the family through a set of photographs, he decides to right the injustices he sees in the only way he knows how. His actions demonstrate his true mental state. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessparanoiaobsessionpsychopathextramarital affairvoyeurismadulterybetrayalchristmasinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
Characters: | police arrestsecurity guardphotographerpolice officerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | buttocksfireplacesuburbcamerawatching tvfemale rear nudityfemale nuditysexbloodnudity |
Charles is worn down by his home life where he and his wife struggle to cope with the demands of their daughter's illness and his job. When he meets Lucinda on the train to work in Chicago, there is an immediate spark between them. Soon they are doing lunch; dinner and drinks follow. This leads to a β¦n adulterous rendezvous in a hotel. However, no sooner have they torn each other's clothes off than their room is invaded by a thief who beats Charles and rapes Lucinda. Because of the illicit nature of their relationship, Charles agrees with Lucinda who is reluctant to go to the police and soon finds he is powerless to resist the demands of the thief. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairinvestigationprisonadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | police detectivesecurity guardlawyerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | hitchcockianscamfalse accusationwatching tvviolenceblood |
A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | psychopathextramarital affairinvestigationadulterybetrayaldeathmurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | police detectivephotographerpolice officermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | framed for murderprivate investigatorframe upfireplacerace against timehit by a carfalse accusationcameramachine gunfemale rear nudityfemale nudityviolenceblood |
Max and Page are a mother and daughter con team. Max seduces wealthy men into marrying her, then Page seduces them into infidelity so Max can rake them over the divorce court coals. And then it's on to the next victim.
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymarriagedeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | security guardlawyermother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | sailboatframe upscamfraudmicrophonebinocularssingingsex |
Betty Anne Waters (Swank) is a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's (Rockwell) unjust murder conviction.
Themes: | obsessioninvestigationprisonchristmasmarriagemurderdeath |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | lawyerphotographermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | christmas treemiscarriage of justiceframe upinnocencefalse accusationcamerawatching tvnuditybloodviolence |
An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | obsessionpsychopathadulterymurderdeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | photographerdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | schoonersailingsailboatmurderermicrophonebinocularsfemale rear nudityfemale nudityviolencebloodsex |
Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force β¦performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals. (Read More)
Themes: | death |
Locations: | police carnightclubbar |
Characters: | police arrestlittle girllawyerphotographermusicianpolice officer |
Story: | sailboatrecording studiosirenbuttocksguitaristtape recorderstagemicrophonecamerawatching tvsingingfemale nuditysexbloodnudity |
A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via HAM radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that chan β¦ging history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history--again. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaobsessionpsychopathinvestigationmurderdeath |
Locations: | nightclubbar |
Characters: | police detectivehusband wife relationship |
Story: | frame upmurdererbaseball batrace against timefalse accusationblood |
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue. After they recover the box, they discover that it has the β¦ capability to decode all existing encryption systems around the world, and that the agents who hired them didn't work for the Government after all... (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaextramarital affairvoyeurismbetrayalchristmasmurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | security guardhusband wife relationship |
Story: | christmas treebusiness cardframed for murderframe upfaked deathtape recorderrace against timebinocularswatching tvmachine gun |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate β¦ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiavoyeurisminvestigationbetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | police detectivesecurity guardlittle girlphotographerpolice officerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | speedboatsirenfireplacerace against timecamerawatching tvsingingviolenceblood |
When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessparanoiaextramarital affairprisonadulteryinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | lawyerphotographerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | innocencerace against timefalse accusationcamerawatching tvfemale rear nudityfemale nuditynudity |
A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so cl β¦osely. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiapsychopathinvestigationchristmasinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | musiciandoctorfather daughter relationship |
Story: | christmas treetape recordingcomposertape recorderfireplacemurdererpianisthit by a carneighborcamerawatching tvsingingviolenceblood |
Sexual harassment is the theme, but here it is the man who is harassed by his new female boss. A high-flying executive, Meredith, is out to ruin her former lover, who she's just beaten to the top job in an electronics company, using every trick in the book.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaobsessionbetrayalmarriage |
Characters: | security guardlawyerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | miscarriage of justiceframe uptape recorderrace against timefalse accusationwatching tvsex |
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | investigationmurderdeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | police detectivelittle girlphotographerpolice officer |
Story: | business cardsirenbuttocksrace against timecamerawatching tvnuditybloodviolence |
New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few years later, the FBI tra β¦cks him down in France; he's extradited, tried, and jailed for passing more than $4,000,000 in bad checks. Along the way, he's posed as a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, and an attorney. And, from nearly the beginning of this life of crime, he's been pursued by a dour FBI agent, Carl Hanratty. What starts as cat and mouse becomes something akin to father and son. (Read More)
Themes: | extramarital affairinvestigationprisonadulterybetrayalchristmasinfidelity |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | police arrestsecurity guardlawyerpolice officerdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | christmas treechequescamfraudtape recorderrace against timebinocularssinging |
Jake Scully comes home to find his girlfriend with another man and has to find a new place. In between his acting workshops and his job in a vampire B-movie, he scans the paper looking for anything. He happens to meet Sam Bouchard, a fellow actor who needs a house sitter. Both are pleased with the a β¦rrangement that will have Jake staying in the house and for a sweetener, Sam shows him his favorite neighbor, a well-built woman who strips with her window open each night. Jake becomes obsessed with meeting her and is able to help recover her purse from a thief, but shows his own phobia, he is incapacitated by claustrophobia when the thief runs through a tunnel. When Jake witnesses a murder, he finds out that the police love to pin crimes on peeping Toms. Jake discovers that here are just too many coincidences but must hunt them down himself without the police. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | obsessionvoyeurisminvestigationinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | police carnightclubbar |
Characters: | police officer |
Story: | hitchcockiansirenbuttocksjoggingstagebinocularsneighborwatching tvsingingfemale rear nudityfemale nuditynuditysexblood |
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into β¦ obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaobsessionpsychopathinvestigationprisonbetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | lawyerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | private investigatorfaked deathtape recorderuzisuburbbinocularsfemale rear nudityfemale nuditysexviolenceblood |
Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiapsychopathinvestigationchristmasinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | police carnightclubbar |
Characters: | security guardlawyerpolice officer |
Story: | christmas treebusiness cardyuppiesirenbuttockstape recorderfireplacemurderercamerawatching tvfemale rear nudityfemale nuditybloodviolence |
Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid $1m to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaextramarital affairbetrayalinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | police carnightclubbar |
Characters: | police arrestpolice officerdoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | business cardsirenbuttocksbinocularsmachine gunviolenceblood |
In New York City, detective Billy Taggart goes to court for the murder of the rapist Mikey Tavarez, but the Mayor Nicholas Hostetler and the Chief of Police Carl Fairbanks vanish with important evidence and Billy is declared not guilty by the judge; however, he leaves the police department. Seven ye β¦ars later, Billy is a private detective and lives with his girlfriend Natalie Barrow, who is an aspiring actress and the sister of Mikey's victim. His secretary Katy Bradshaw (Alona Tal) is trying to collect part of the debts to save their business. In the week of the elections, Hostetler summons Billy and offers $25,000 to investigate his wife, Cathleen Hostetler, whom he believes is having a love affair. Billy discovers that Cathleen is meeting Paul Andrews, who is the coordinator of the campaign of Jack Valliant, the opponent of Hostetler and favorite in the election. When Paul is found dead on the street, Billy finds that he had been double-crossed by Hostetler and he decides to investigate the truth behind Paul's murder. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiaextramarital affairinvestigationbetrayalinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | police detectivelawyerhusband wife relationship |
Story: | framed for murderprivate investigatorframe uptape recorderbaseball batrace against timefalse accusationcamerafemale nudityviolence |
After a clumsy operation trying to capture a drug dealer, the N.Y.P.D Detectives Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges are suspended for one month by their Captain Romans. Jimmy decides to sell his rare baseball card to pay for his daughter's expensive wedding while his jealous partner believes that his wife β¦ is cheating on him with their next-door neighbor. When Jimmy sells his card to a memorabilia store, the place is burgled by two small-time thieves and the detective loses his card. They track down the thieves. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiapsychopathinvestigationmurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | police detectivelawyermother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | schemeuzibaseball batcostumebinocularshit by a carfalse accusationneighborcameramachine gunbloodviolence |
A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to β¦ prison, Kimble's transport crashed. Kimble escapes and is now on the run. Deputy Samuel Gerard from Chicago takes charge of the chase of Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble takes up his own investigation to find who really killed his wife, and to lure Gerard and his team into it as well. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiapsychopathinvestigationprisonbetrayalinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | police detectivedoctorhusband wife relationship |
Story: | miscarriage of justiceneck bracehitchcockianframed for murdertape recorderrace against timefalse accusationblood |
When a prisoner transport plane crashes, one prisoner, Mark Sheridan, skillfully escapes and saves lives at the same time. Deputy Sam Gerard and his team of U.S. Marshals pursue relentlessly, but Gerard begins to suspect that there is more to the exceptional fugitive than what he has been told. Mean β¦while, Sheridan struggles to avoid capture while seeking answers of his own. Until the final scene, both Gerard and Sheridan are in jeopardy of the unknown. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | prisonmurder |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | police arrestphotographer |
Story: | miscarriage of justicesirentape recordergymcostumebinocularsfalse accusationwatching tvmachine gunviolenceblood |
During the psychedelic 60s and 70s Larry "Doc" Sportello is surprised by his former girlfriend and her plot for her billionaire boyfriend, his wife, and her boyfriend. A plan for kidnapping gets shaken up by the oddball characters entangled in this groovy kidnapping romp based upon the novel by Thom β¦as Pynchon. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessparanoiaobsessionextramarital affairinvestigationadulterybetrayalinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | little girllawyerphotographermusiciandoctormother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | schoonersailboatschemeprivate investigatorbaseball batbinocularsfalse accusationsingingfemale rear nudityfemale nuditybloodviolence |
JJ 'Jake' Gittes is a private detective who seems to specialize in matrimonial cases. He is hired by Evelyn Mulwray when she suspects her husband Hollis, builder of the city's water supply system, of having an affair. Gittes does what he does best and photographs him with a young girl but in the ens β¦uing scandal, it seems he was hired by an impersonator and not the real Mrs. Mulwray. When Mr. Mulwray is found dead, Jake is plunged into a complex web of deceit involving murder, incest, and municipal corruption all related to the city's water supply. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaextramarital affairinvestigationadulterybetrayalmurderdeath |
Characters: | police detectivesecurity guardlawyerpolice officerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | business cardprivate investigatorscambinocularsfalse accusationcamerafemale nudityviolence |
The story centers on a corporate climber who gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaobsessionpsychopathinvestigationbetrayalchristmasinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | police detectivesecurity guardpolice officer |
Story: | christmas treefaked deathhit by a carfalse accusationviolenceblood |
This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English emigre; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-con β¦vict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairprisonadulterybetrayalinfidelitymarriagedeathmurder |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | little girllawyerdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | sirenbuttocksmicrophonehit by a carwatching tvsingingfemale nudityblood |
This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction led by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money for 'th β¦e bosses'. Eventually, the group become big-time when Black himself becomes a boss; all the while, Pistone collects evidence. However, the trials and tribulations of the undercover work become more than Pistone can bear. His marriage falls apart, and to top it off, the mafia suspect a mole in the organization. The real dilemma is afforded to Pistone, who knows if he walks away from the mafia, Ruggiero will be the one punished. (Read More)
Themes: | betrayalchristmasmarriagedeathmurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | police arrestpolice officerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | christmas treechequeaudio cassettesirentape recorderstagecamerawatching tvsingingviolenceblood |
In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival ma β¦gicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessobsessionextramarital affairprisonadulterybetrayalinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | little girllawyerpolice officerfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | business cardframed for murderfaked deathfireplacestagecostumeblood |
A small community is torn apart by a tragic accident which kills most of the town's children. A lawyer visits the victims' parents in order to profit from the tragedy by stirring up the their anger and launching a class action suit against anyone they can blame. The community is paralyzed by its ang β¦er and cannot let go. All but one young girl, left in a wheelchair after the accident, who finds the courage to lead the way toward healing. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairinvestigationadulterybetrayalinfidelitydeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | lawyerfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | neck bracemusic bandsirenbuttocksguitaristsingingfemale nuditybloodsex |
Norman Spencer, a university research scientist, is growing more and more concerned about his wife, Claire, a retired concert cellist who a year ago was involved in a serious auto accident, and who has just sent off her daughter Caitlin (Norman's stepdaughter) to college. Now, Claire reports hearing β¦ voices and witnessing eerie occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home, including seeing the face of a young woman reflected in water. An increasingly frightened Claire thinks the phenomena have something to do with the couple living next door, especially since the wife has disappeared without apparent explanation. At her husband's urging, Claire starts to see a therapist; she tells him she thinks the house is being haunted by a ghost. His advice? Try to make contact. Enlisting the help of her best friend, Jody, and a ouija board, Claire seeks to find out the truth of What Lies Beneath. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | unfaithfulnessextramarital affairvoyeurismadulteryinfidelitymarriagemurderdeath |
Characters: | musicianmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | hitchcockiansailboatfireplacemurdererbinocularsneighborwatching tvblood |
A large spider from the jungles of South America is accidently transported in a crate with a dead body to America where it mates with a local spider. Soon after, the residents of a small California town disappear as the result of spider bites from the deadly spider offspring. It's up to a couple of β¦doctors with the help of an insect exterminator to annihilate these eight legged freaks before they take over the entire town. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiainvestigationdeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | little girlphotographerpolice officerdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | sirengymrace against timefalse accusationneighborcamera |
'Louisa May Alcott' (qv)'s autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of ho β¦w the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world. (Read More)
Themes: | christmasmarriagedeath |
Characters: | little girldoctormother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | christmas treesheet musicfireplacestagepianistcostumebinocularsneighborsinging |
Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins the San Francisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. But Rayburn plays the worst season of his career and Renard tries to do everything to help him, but goes too far.
Themes: | obsessionmurderdeath |
Locations: | police carbar |
Characters: | photographerdoctor |
Story: | sirentape recorderfireplacebaseball batmicrophonebinocularscamerawatching tvblood |
A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | obsessionvoyeurisminvestigationmurderdeath |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | little girlphotographerdoctorfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | joggingbaseball batsuburbneighborcamerawatching tvblood |
Finding himself in considerable debt, Chris, a Texan drug dealer, decides the only solution is to murder his mother to collect the insurance money. Getting together with his father, the ex-husband of Chris' mother, they decide to hire Joe Cooper (a contract killer) who also happens to be a police de β¦tective. The plan is that the money will go to Chris' sister Dottie. However due to the size of the contract fee, Chris agrees that Joe can take Dottie as a retainer until the insurance comes through. (Read More)
Themes: | unfaithfulnesspsychopathextramarital affairadulteryinfidelitymurderdeath |
Locations: | bar |
Characters: | police detectivefather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
Story: | insurance scaminsurance claiminsurance investigatorlife insurancewatching tvfemale rear nudityfemale nuditynuditysexviolenceblood |
Tom Farrell is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is to report to the secretary of defense David Brice. He starts an affair with Susan Atwell not knowing that she is Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a β¦KGB mole! Tom could soon become a suspect when a Polaroid negative of him was found at Susan's place. He now has only a few hours to find the killer before the computer regenerates the photo. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoiaextramarital affairinvestigationadulteryinfidelitydeathmurder |
Locations: | nightclub |
Characters: | security guard |
Story: | hitchcockiansailboattape recordergymrace against timehit by a carfalse accusationfemale nudityviolence |