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Suddenly Laura Mars can see through the eyes of a serial killer as he commits his crimes. She contacts the police and with the aid of a police detective, tries to stop the killer. But first, they have to figure out who it is.
Subgenre: | murder mysterycult film |
Themes: | fashionphotographyparanoiasupernatural powerfuneralbetrayaldeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | new york citycityelevator |
Characters: | fashion photographerpolice lieutenantserial killerdriverex husband ex wife relationshipkillerphotographerfemale protagonistfriendpolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | fashion modelkiller copfemale photographerbirthday partyfoot chasekilled by policequestioned by policeshot by the policepolice protectionkilling one's lovercar crashes through a windowpoliceman shot23rd psalmwoman shoots a manpsychic link β¦north american giallomurdered womanex husbanddisco musiccrime scene photographman dressed as a womanends with freeze frameextrasensory perceptionbody part in titlenypdmurder witnesswoman in dangerclose up of eyeunwanted kissimplied sexpsychic powernaked dead womanwoman kills a mankiss on the lipspremonitionscene before opening creditstaking a photographdivorceelieutenantfemale leadwoman in jeopardyphoto shootvisionphone boothwalkie talkiescene during opening creditsshot in the stomachlove interestcharacter says i love youstalkingpolice officer killedfour word titlerevolverbirthdaybookcamerachasecharacter name in titlenudityviolence (See All) |
A psychic doctor, John Clancy (Sir Anthony Hopkins), works with an F.B.I. Special Agent (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) in search of serial killer Charles Ambrose (Colin Farrell). After having lived in isolation for two years, since the death of his daughter, Clancy is asked by his friend Joe, an F.B.I. Speci β¦al Agent to help him solve several murders committed by a serial killer. The problem is that Ambrose is also psychic, and far ahead of Clancy. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powerfuneraldeathmurder |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | serial killerkillerfriendpolice |
Story: | foot chasepsychic powerpremonitionvisionwalkie talkiepolice officer killedrevolverchaseviolence |
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 β¦ 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. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | fashionphotographyparanoiamurderdeath |
Characters: | fashion photographerphotographer |
Story: | fashion modelmurder witnessphoto shootphone boothwalkie talkiebookcameranudity |
Johnny Smith wakes from a coma due to a car accident, only to find he has lost five years of his life, and yet gained psychic powers. Foreseeing the future appears to be a 'gift' at first, but ends up causing problems...
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powerdeathmurder |
Characters: | serial killerphotographer |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | killer copextrasensory perceptionpsychic powerkiss on the lipspremonitionvisionlove interestcharacter says i love youpolice officer killedrevolverchase |
Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azaze β¦l is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powerbetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | police lieutenantserial killerkillerpolice |
Story: | foot chasescene during opening creditscharacter says i love youstalkingpolice officer killedrevolverbookchaseviolence |
Frank Keller is a New York detective investigating a case of a serial killer who finds the victims through the lonely hearts column in newspapers. Keller falls in love with Helen, the main suspect in the case.
Themes: | paranoiadeathmurder |
Locations: | new york cityelevator |
Characters: | police lieutenantserial killerkillerpolice |
Story: | ex husbandrevolver |
While taking a shower, Kate Miller, a middle-aged, sexually frustrated New York City housewife, has a rape fantasy while her husband stands at the sink shaving. Later that day, after complaining to her psychiatrist Dr. Robert Elliott about her husband's pathetic performance in bed, she meets a stran β¦ge man at a museum and returns to his apartment where they continue an adulterous encounter that began in the taxicab. Before she leaves his apartment, she finds papers which certify that the man has a venereal disease. Panicked, Kate rushes into the elevator, but has to return to his apartment when she realizes she's forgotten her wedding ring. When the elevator doors open, she's brutally slashed to death by a tall blonde woman wearing dark sunglasses. Liz Blake, a high-class call girl, is the only witness to the murder and she becomes the prime suspect and the murderess's next target. Liz is rescued from being killed by Kate's son Peter, who enlists the help of Liz to catch his mother's killer as Detective Marino who's in charge of the case is uncooperative in the investigation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | photographyparanoiamurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | new york citycityelevator |
Characters: | serial killerkillerfriendpolice |
Story: | north american giallomurder witnesswoman in jeopardystalkingchasenudityviolence |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo β¦k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiadeathmurder |
Characters: | serial killerkillerphotographerpolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | murder witnessscene before opening creditsphone boothstalkingbirthdaybookcameraviolence |
The film starts in the early 1980s. Young Martin Asher took a bus for Canada. He meets another teen on the bus Matt Soulsby. When the bus broke they decided to rent a car and drive to Seattle. On the road the car gets a flat tire, and Matt starts changing the tire Martin comments on how he and Matt β¦are about the same height and he quickly pushes Matt in the way of an oncoming truck causing a huge accident where Matt and the driver both die. He took Matt's guitar and left singing like Matt did. Twenty years later, an FBI profiler, Illeana Scott comes to Canada to help hunting down a serial killer Martin Asher who killed multiple men and lived by their identities. Martin's mother claims that she saw Martin in Quebec city and she tells the police that Martin is evil. The police also has an eyewitness James Costa who saw Asher kill his last victim... (Read More)
Themes: | betrayaldeathmurder |
Locations: | cityelevator |
Characters: | serial killerdriverkillerpolice |
Story: | foot chasewoman kills a manscene before opening creditswalkie talkiestalkingpolice officer killedrevolverchase |
Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Ame β¦lia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father's suicide and thinking she's next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiabetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | serial killerkillerpolice |
Story: | nypdwoman in jeopardywalkie talkiepolice officer killedrevolvercamerachaseviolence |
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. When he learns of Carl's betrayal, Sam must seek the help β¦of psychic Oda Mae Brown to set things right and protect Molly from Carl and his goons. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powerfuneralbetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | friendpolice |
Story: | foot chasepsychic powerwoman in jeopardystalking |
When three girls are kidnapped by a man with 23 different personalities, they have to work out which of those personalities will help them escape and which of those personalities will try to stop them.
Themes: | paranoiafuneralbetrayaldeathmurder |
Characters: | serial killerkiller |
Story: | birthday partyman dressed as a womanscene before opening creditswoman in jeopardywalkie talkiestalkingbirthdaychaseviolence |
Loosely based on serial killer 'Henry Lee Lucas' (qv), the film follows Henry and his roommate Otis who Henry introduces to murdering randomly selected people. The killing spree depicted in the film starts after Otis' sister Becky comes to stay with them. The people they kill are strangers and in on β¦e particularly gruesome attack, kill all three members of a family during a home invasion. Henry lacks compassion in everything he does and isn't the kind to leave behind witnesses - of any kind. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Characters: | serial killerkiller |
Story: | naked dead womanstalkingcharacter name in titleviolencenudity |
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: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiafuneraldeathmurder |
Locations: | cityelevator |
Characters: | serial killerkillerpolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | extrasensory perceptionmurder witnessclose up of eyepsychic powerstalkingrevolverbookcamerachaseviolence |
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)
Themes: | paranoiabetrayaldeathmurder |
Locations: | new york cityelevator |
Characters: | photographerpolice |
Story: | foot chasenypdwoman kills a manscene during opening creditsstalkingpolice officer killedrevolvercamerachaseviolence |
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and ma β¦ke them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story." (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiafuneralbetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | serial killerkillerpolice |
Story: | foot chasenypdmurder witnesscharacter says i love youcamerachaseviolence |
In TRIPLE 9, a crew of dirty cops are blackmailed by the Russian mob to execute a virtually impossible heist. The only way to pull it off is to manufacture a 999, police code for "officer down". Their plan is turned upside down when the unsuspecting rookie they set up to die foils the attack, trigge β¦ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiabetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | police lieutenantpolice |
Story: | foot chaseends with freeze framescene before opening creditslieutenantwalkie talkiescene during opening creditspolice officer killedrevolverchaseviolence |
The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized β¦ city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiabetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | cityelevator |
Characters: | female protagonistpolice |
Story: | foot chasewoman kills a manscene before opening creditsphone boothscene during opening creditslove intereststalkingpolice officer killedrevolvercamerachaseviolence |
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Gh β¦ostface, putting Sidney, Gale, and Dewey, along with Jill, her friends, and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | betrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | serial killerfemale protagonistpolice |
Story: | foot chasewoman in dangerwalkie talkiepolice officer killedbookchaseviolence |
A teenage girl, trying to enjoy her birthday, soon realizes that this is her final one. That is, if she can figure out who her killer is. She must relive that day, over and over again, dying in a different way each time. Can she solve her own murder?
Themes: | murderdeath |
Characters: | serial killerkillerfemale protagonist |
Story: | foot chaselove intereststalkingpolice officer killedbirthdaychaseviolence |
A new film is currently in production, and a killer is on the loose. The murders draw a reporter, ex-cop, and young woman to the set of the movie inspired by their life. They soon find out that they are dealing with a trilogy, and in a trilogy...anything can happen.
Themes: | paranoiabetrayaldeathmurder |
Mood: | nightmare |
Characters: | serial killerkillerfemale protagonistpolice |
Story: | birthday partyfoot chasewoman kills a manstalkingrevolverbirthdaychaseviolence |
A young man transporting a car to another state is stalked along the road by a cunning and relentless serial killer who eventually frames the driver for a string of murders. Chased by police and shadowed by the killer, the driver's only help comes from a truck stop waitress.
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiadeathmurder |
Characters: | serial killerdriverkillerpolice |
Story: | stalkingchasecharacter name in titleviolence |
"Sorority Row" sees a group of sorority sisters try to cover up the death of their house-sister after a prank gone wrong, only to be stalked by a serial killer.
Themes: | betrayaldeathmurder |
Characters: | serial killerkiller |
Story: | woman in jeopardyscene during opening creditscharacter says i love youstalkingchaseviolence |
Two years after the events of Scream, Sidney Prescott and Randy are attending Windsor college. They are trying to get on with their lives...Until a new Ghostface killing spree begins. With the help of Dewey and Gale, Sidney must find out who's behind the murders. As the body count goes up, the list β¦of suspects goes down. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiabetrayaldeathmurder |
Characters: | serial killerkillerfemale protagonistpolice |
Story: | foot chasewoman kills a manshot in the stomachcharacter says i love youstalkingpolice officer killedchaseviolence |
Waking up in a undisclosed location in a unknown room two men, adam and gordon are trapped into a single room with a dead body. Given random tools with riddles hidnen around the room. Wondering who could have done this there are clues to who might of done it; the jigsaw killer. The question is not j β¦ust who but why would a serial killer leave two men in a room. Both adam and gordon hiding secrets they must trust and work together to get out or die...can they survive jigsaws game or die trying? (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | serial killerkillerphotographerpolice |
Story: | police officer killedrevolvercameraviolence |
Kevin Chan (aka Jackie) is a Hong-Kong cop, who scores his first big hit by virtually single-handedly capturing and arresting a big drug- lord. Of course, the drug-lord isn't too happy about this, and frames Kevin with the murder of another cop (who happened to be on the take). Kevin has to clear hi β¦s name, whilst keeping himself from getting killed or arrested, and keeping his girlfriend from leaving him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | betrayalmurderdeath |
Characters: | police |
Story: | birthday partyfoot chasepolice protectionwoman in jeopardyphone boothpolice officer killedrevolverbirthdaychaseviolencenudity |
In San Francisco, the criminal psychologist Helen Hudson is specialized in serial-killers. During a trial, the accused Daryll Lee Cullum kills a police officer and tries to kill her and she becomes agoraphobic. Now Helen lives a reclusive life with her gay friend Andy that helps her. Sometime later, β¦ there is a wave of crimes and Detectives M.J. Monahan and Reuben Goetz are investigating the murder cases. Helen identifies that the murderer is copycatting notorious serial-killers and she anonymously contacts the Police Department. After fourteen phone calls, she is identified by the police. Detectives M.J. and Reuben visit her and Helen teams up with them and prepares the profile of the killer that wants to be famous. But soon the copycat killer Peter Foley contacts and stalks Helen and M.J. and Reuben give protection to her. Will they be capable to stop Foley before the next murder? (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiamurderdeath |
Characters: | serial killerkillerfemale protagonistfriendpolice |
Story: | naked dead womanwoman in jeopardystalkingpolice officer killedviolence |
A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.
Subgenre: | murder mystery |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | new york cityelevator |
Characters: | photographerfriendpolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | birthday partyman dressed as a womanphone boothscene during opening creditscameraviolence |
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.
Themes: | paranoiabetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | new york citycityelevator |
Characters: | female protagonistpolice |
Story: | foot chasemurder witnesswoman kills a manwoman in jeopardystalkingchaseviolence |
A newlywed couple Ben and Jane move to Japan for a promising job opportunity - a fashion shoot in Tokyo. During their trip on a dark forest road they experience a tragic car accident, leading to the death of a young local girl. Upon regaining consciousness, they find no trace of her body. A bit dist β¦raught the couple arrives in Tokyo to begin their new life. Meanwhile Ben begins noticing strange white blurs in many of his fashion shoot photographs. Jane believes that the blurs are actually spirit photography of the dead girl who they hit on the road, and that she may be seeking vengeance. (Read More)
Themes: | fashionphotographydeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | photographer |
Story: | fashion modelphoto shootcamera |
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner wh β¦o has been missing for 30 years. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | supernatural powerbetrayaldeathmurder |
Characters: | police |
Story: | birthday partyfoot chaseclose up of eyewoman kills a manlieutenantlove interestcharacter says i love youpolice officer killedcamerachasenudityviolence |
A "story inside a story," in which the first part follows a woman named Susan who receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband, a man whom she left 20 years earlier, asking for her opinion. The second element follows the actual manuscript, called "Nocturnal Animals," which revolves around a man wh β¦ose family vacation turns violent and deadly. It also continues to follow the story of Susan, who finds herself recalling her first marriage and confronting some dark truths about herself. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiamurderdeath |
Locations: | new york cityelevator |
Characters: | police lieutenantex husband ex wife relationshippolice |
Story: | ex husbandwoman in jeopardyscene during opening creditsbooknudityviolence |
Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.
Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powerfuneraldeath |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | friendpolice |
Story: | foot chaseends with freeze framescene during opening creditsrevolvercamerachase |
Bomber terrorist's elevator plan backfires, so he rigs a bomb to a LA city bus. The stipulation is: once armed, the bus must stay above 50 mph to keep from exploding. Also if LAPD Officer tries to unload any passengers off, Payne will detonate it. Joe Morton co-stars as Jack's superior, and Jeff Dan β¦iels supports Jack helping him try to defuse the bomb. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | murder |
Locations: | cityelevator |
Characters: | friendpolice |
Story: | foot chaselove interestpolice officer killedrevolvercamerachaseviolence |
In New Orleans, English teacher of the high school Rampart High, Will Gerard, and his wife, musician Laura Gerard, are in love with each other. One night, Laura leaves a rehearsal and is assaulted, while Will is playing chess with his friend Jimmy. Will is visiting her in hospital when, out of the b β¦lue, a stranger named Simon tells him that he belongs to an organization of vigilantes and offers to eliminate the assailant. In return, the organisation would want a favor from Will in the future. Will agrees, and the criminal is murdered. Six months later, Simon collects his debt with Will. He demands that Will kill Alan Marsh, a pedophile. Will accidentally kills Alan and soon he learns that the victim was an awarded journalist that was investigating the organization. Now he seeks evidences to prove his innocence but the network of the organization is powerful and is seeking Will out to eliminate him. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoiabetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | police lieutenantfriendpolice |
Story: | foot chasequestioned by policescene during opening creditscharacter says i love youstalkingrevolverchase |
The teacher Gail Hartman is facing problems with her marriage with her husband, the workaholic architect Tom Hartman. On the birthday of their son Roarke, Gail decides to leave her daughter with her parents and take her family to raft down a wild river where she was a guide. On the departure, a youn β¦g man named Wade befriends Roarke and leaves the place with his friends Terry and Frank. Later the family encounters Wade and Terry, who do not have rafting experience, and Gail helps them to cross a whitewater. They get closer to the family and soon Gail and Tom learn a dark secret about Wade and Terry. What will they do to get rid of the men? (Read More)
Themes: | murder |
Characters: | serial killer |
Story: | foot chasewoman in dangerwoman in jeopardywalkie talkiestalkingpolice officer killedrevolverbirthday |
The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miser β¦ably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiafuneralbetrayaldeathmurder |
Locations: | new york citycity |
Characters: | friendpolice |
Story: | woman kills a manwalkie talkiecharacter says i love youpolice officer killedrevolvercamerachaseviolence |
1 year after her mother's death, Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell), and her friends started experiencing some strange phone calls. They later learned the calls were coming from a crazed serial killer, in a white faced mask and a large black robe, looking for revenge. His phone calls usually consist of β¦ many questions, the main one being: Whats your favorite scary movie? Along with many scary movie trivia, ending with bloody pieces of innocent lives scattered around the small town of Woodsboro. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiabetrayaldeathmurder |
Characters: | serial killerkillerfemale protagonistpolice |
Story: | foot chasewoman in dangerstalkingchaseviolence |
An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The nearest New York Police officer immediately responds to a screaming woman and calls dispatch. More Officers arrive with SWAT and tactical command along with fire-fighters. The police then dispatch a police psycho β¦logist personally requested to talk him down from the ledge. However, things aren't as they seem. (Read More)
Themes: | funeralbetrayaldeath |
Locations: | new york cityelevator |
Characters: | police |
Story: | foot chasenypdwalkie talkielove interestfour word titlechase |
Turk and Rooster, two aging NYPD detectives and longtime partners, are hunting a serial killer who is murdering sociopathic criminals. They both have personal issues, and when they start working with a younger investigative team, Perez and Riley, tensions between the two teams is inevitable, especia β¦lly since Turk is now living with Perez's ex-girlfriend, also a homicide detective. (Read More)
Themes: | murderdeath |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | serial killerkillerpolice |
Story: | nypdpolice officer killedchase |
Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son's and her own β¦life. (Read More)
Themes: | photographysupernatural powerfuneralmurderdeath |
Mood: | nightmare |
Locations: | cityelevator |
Characters: | serial killerfemale protagonist |
Story: | psychic powercamera |
A film about two homicide detectives' ('Morgan Freeman (I)' (qv) and ('Brad Pitt' (qv) desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopath β¦ic "John Doe" ('Kevin Spacey' (qv)) sermonizes to Detectives Somerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Somerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills (Pitt) scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer... (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Characters: | serial killerkillerphotographerpolice |
Story: | fashion modelfoot chaserevolverchaseviolence |
For nineteen-year-old Jay, Autumn should be about school, boys and week-ends out at the lake. But after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by strange visions and the inescapable sense that someone, something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her friends β¦ must find a way to escape the horrors, that seem to be only a few steps behind. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powermurderdeath |
Characters: | female protagonistfriend |
Story: | foot chasevisionlove intereststalkingbookchaseviolence |
Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, calls a midnight summit for all the area gangs, with all asked to send nine unarmed representatives for the conclave. A gang called The Warriors are blamed for killing Cyrus as he gives his speech. They now have to cro β¦ss the territory of rivals in order to get to their own 'hood. The Warriors slowly cross the dangerous Bronx and Manhattan territories, narrowly escaping police and other gangs every step of the way. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiabetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | killerpolice |
Period: | 1970s |
Story: | foot chasescene during opening creditsrevolverchaseviolence |
Will Graham is a former FBI agent who recently retired to Florida with his wife Molly and their young son. Graham was a 'profiler'; one who profiles criminal's behavior and tries to put his mind into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of β¦his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford to help the FBI catch an elusive serial killer, known to the press as the 'Tooth Fairy', who randomly kills whole families in their houses during nights of the full moon and leaves bite marks on his victims. To try to search for clues to get into the mind of the killer, Will has occasional meetings with Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, a charismatic but very dangerous imprisoned serial killer that Will captured years earlier which nearly drove him insane from the horrific encounter that nearly cost Will's life. With some help and hindrance, Will races against the clock before the next full moon when the 'Tooth Fairy' will strike again. Elsewhere, a local photographer named Francis Dollarhyde, the killer that Will is looking for, struggles to stay undetected while seeing a hope of redemption when be begins a relationship with a blind woman who is not aware of his double life. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | murderdeath |
Characters: | serial killerkillerphotographerpolice |
Story: | ends with freeze framewoman in dangerkiss on the lipscharacter says i love youstalkingrevolverviolence |
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.
Themes: | paranoiamurder |
Characters: | photographerfemale protagonistpolice |
Story: | foot chasewoman in jeopardystalkingrevolvercamerachase |
Sometime in the 1970's, police officers from New York City wanted a safe haven to live, away from the dangers of the streets of New York City, this is when they established a "Cop Land" in the small New Jersey town of Garrison. Freddy Heflin who was always admired by the New York cops wanted to beco β¦me one, but because he was deaf in one ear this prevents him from achieving his goal, but has become sheriff of Garrison. Recently there have been a dark omen surrounding the NYPD, and Freddy is now investigating on this case, then Internal Affairs officer Mo Tilden is also on the case and asks Freddy for help, but Freddy could not. Now Freddy suspects that a New York City cop named Ray Donlan might be one of the many cops who is corrupted by the mob and other criminals. Now, Freddy must find a cop who is nicknamed "Superboy" who can testify against Donlan and protect him, before Donlan finds Superboy and kills him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | paranoiafuneralmurderdeath |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | ex husband ex wife relationshippolice |
Story: | foot chasenypdwalkie talkieshot in the stomachpolice officer killedrevolverchaseviolence |
Inspector Wing of the Hong Kong Police Force has become the victim of a gang, led by the evil Joe. When his entire team is killed, Wing becomes a hapless drunk, feeling guilty for the deaths of his team. A young man with a troubled past pretends to be a police officer working on the case with Wing, β¦to get him back on his feet and begin an adventure to get revenge on the evil Joe and his Gang of Five, especially when it becomes personal. (Read More)
Subgenre: | cult film |
Themes: | funeralbetrayalmurderdeath |
Locations: | elevator |
Characters: | police |
Story: | foot chasewoman kills a manphone boothwalkie talkiepolice officer killedrevolverbirthdaycamerachaseviolence |
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)
Themes: | paranoiasupernatural powerdeathmurder |
Locations: | new york city |
Characters: | serial killerpolice |
Story: | woman in jeopardystalkingrevolver |
Richard Haywood, a Californian high school's coolest kid, secretly teams up with another rich kid in his class, brilliant nerd Justin 'Bonaparte' Pendleton, whose erudition, specially in forensic matters, allows them to plan elaborately perfect murders, just for the kick, for which they set up Richa β¦rd's marijuana supplier, their school's janitor Ray Feathers, as a psychotic serial killer. The case is assigned to detectives Cassie 'the hyena' Mayweather, who carries a sequoia-size chip on the shoulder from her previous life, and her brilliant new partner, Sam Kennedy, who just transferred from the vice squad; they can work together very well, and even fit romantically, but fall out over different professional attitudes towards the investigation, which Captain Rod Cody and her understandably vindictive abused ex, Assistant D.A. Al Swanson, soon ban her from when she disobeys instructions and hand to him. When the plotting boys both dig class-mate Lisa Mills, their unnatural bond comes under stress- will it break, allowing the hard-pressed police to bring them down? (Read More)
Themes: | photographymurder |
Characters: | serial killerex husband ex wife relationshipkillerphotographerfemale protagonistfriendpolice |
Story: | questioned by policeimplied sexrevolver |