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Malcolm Rivers has been convicted as the perpetrator of several murders and is sentenced to death. An eleventh hour defense by his lawyers and psychiatrist that Malcolm is insane based on new evidence has resulted in them meeting with the prosecutors and the judge to discuss if the verdict should be… overturned. Meanwhile, on a dark night during a torrential rainstorm in the Nevada desert, a series of chain reaction events results in several people needing to stay at an out of the way motel managed by Larry. They are: ex-cop now limo driver Ed, and his client Caroline, a diva of a once famous actress; quiet adolescent Timmy, his stepfather George, and his mother Alice, who was seriously injured when Ed accidentally ran over her as she watched George change their flat tire; prostitute Paris, who was the unwitting cause of George's flat tire; newlyweds Lou and Ginny, whose marriage is based on a lie; and Police Officer Rhodes, who was en route escorting prisoner Robert to his new institution. They all can't leave the area because of washed out roads, all the other businesses around the motel are closed because of the storm, and all communication in and out is not functioning also because of the storm. One by one, they are murdered, the murderer leaving a calling card of a motel room key, starting with the room 10 key and working his way presumably to the room 1 key when the last person will be dead. Those still alive band somewhat together under Officer Rhodes and Ed's direction… (Read More)
Subgenre: | murder mystery survival horror psycho thriller suspense |
Themes: | childhood trauma murder of a police officer murder investigation self sacrifice mental illness insanity death of mother paranoia psychopath anger memory escape fear marriage death …surrealism murder (See All) |
Mood: | ambiguous ending night rain |
Locations: | car fire storm motel police car wheelchair |
Characters: | ex prostitute little boy ex police officer psychiatrist actress lawyer detective police officer serial killer prostitute boy husband wife relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | clemency hearing legal hearing murder suspect escaped convict dissociative identity disorder ex cop suitcase of money room key limousine driver roadside motel motel clerk dark and stormy night false memory hidden corpse hit on the head with a fire extinguisher …fire extinguisher mentally challenged slur delayed execution chained to a toilet ancient burial ground sadistic teacher gardening tool reference to jean paul sartre repeated scene from a different perspective chain of events phone line cut locked in a bathroom going in circles orange grove surgical stitches stitching a wound flashback within a flashback held at knifepoint criminally insane psychobabble convicted media bias bad guy wins shiv power line isolated place son murders mother shower curtain handcuffed to a pipe faked pregnancy burial ground laundry room stitch cuckoo clock multiple personality disorder single location washed up star photocopier orchard hearing mental disorder clothes line crushed by a car frozen body bickering multiple personality murder by gunshot devastation knife held to throat shackles child abandonment death penalty butcher knife death row washing machine newlywed nevada killer child mugshot audio cassette head cut off macabre road accident shock clue coincidence body in a trunk split personality whodunit twist ending stranded stereotype cartoon on tv impersonating a police officer suffocation newspaper clipping blood on shirt flat tire characters killed one by one chauffeur loss of husband body count suspect capture rainstorm convict thunderstorm impostor faked death prison guard thunder watching television flood hooker reality schizophrenia fate time florida psychology shot in the stomach tape recorder sociopath cop identity poem freeze frame threatened with a knife loss of mother shot in the arm loss of father murderer date automobile disappearance convertible diary baseball bat scream lightning suitcase fugitive stabbed in the back key limousine transformation search hit by a car severed head judge exploding car nonlinear timeline tied to a chair stabbed to death prisoner widow strangulation decapitation telephone handcuffs car crash birthday tears gunfight camera face slap shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph bare chested male one word title violence interview bondage gun flashback blood (See All) |
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: | anger escape fear murder death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | motel police car |
Characters: | detective police officer serial killer prostitute |
Story: | ex cop clue shock cop disappearance scream key search severed head prisoner handcuffs tears camera face slap car accident …corpse beating cell phone photograph bare chested male one word title flashback blood violence (See All) |
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.
Subgenre: | survival horror psycho thriller suspense |
Themes: | mental illness insanity paranoia psychopath escape fear death surrealism murder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | psychiatrist police officer serial killer |
Story: | dissociative identity disorder multiple personality disorder macabre split personality twist ending characters killed one by one body count capture schizophrenia sociopath loss of father murderer baseball bat transformation nonlinear timeline …birthday shot in the chest shot to death corpse cell phone surprise ending title spoken by character bare chested male one word title violence flashback blood (See All) |
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… obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psycho thriller suspense |
Themes: | paranoia psychopath anger escape fear death murder |
Locations: | motel wheelchair |
Characters: | lawyer detective prostitute husband wife relationship |
Story: | body in a trunk impersonating a police officer rainstorm faked death fate tape recorder sociopath threatened with a knife diary lightning stabbed in the back limousine stabbed to death prisoner widow …strangulation telephone shot in the chest shot to death corpse beating cell phone fire surprise ending title spoken by character photograph bare chested male violence bondage blood gun (See All) |
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 …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)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder of a police officer murder investigation psychopath escape fear murder death |
Mood: | night rain |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | detective police officer serial killer |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | surgical stitches son murders mother faked pregnancy whodunit blood on shirt flat tire suspect impostor freeze frame threatened with a knife hit by a car severed head exploding car stabbed to death strangulation …decapitation handcuffs car crash face slap shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating cell phone fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph bare chested male blood flashback (See All) |
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…ring a breakneck, action-packed finale filled with double-crosses, greed and revenge. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder of a police officer paranoia anger escape fear murder death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Locations: | car fire police car |
Characters: | detective police officer prostitute husband wife relationship |
Story: | ex cop body in a trunk suffocation blood on shirt rainstorm convict sociopath threatened with a knife baseball bat lightning limousine severed head exploding car prisoner handcuffs …car crash gunfight shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph bare chested male violence blood (See All) |
Serial Killer Michael Myers is not finished with Laurie Strode, and their rivalry finally comes to an end. But is this the last we see of Myers? Freddie Harris and Nora Winston are reality programmers at DangerTainment, and are planning to send a group of 6 thrill-seeking teenagers into the childhoo…d home of Myers. Cameras are placed all over the house and no one can get out of the house... and then Michael arrives home! (Read More)
Themes: | murder of a police officer psychopath fear murder death |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | psychiatrist serial killer |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | butcher knife head cut off whodunit newspaper clipping characters killed one by one body count rainstorm reality fate threatened with a knife murderer disappearance lightning stabbed in the back severed head …stabbed to death strangulation decapitation camera corpse cell phone fire surprise ending violence flashback blood (See All) |
Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous convict Jericho Stewart (Kevin Costner). When he wakes up …with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and make the deal with him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoia psychopath memory escape fear death murder |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | car fire police car |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | multiple personality disorder death row loss of husband convict prison guard schizophrenia sociopath loss of father fugitive key exploding car nonlinear timeline tied to a chair stabbed to death prisoner …widow strangulation handcuffs car crash gunfight shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph bare chested male one word title flashback blood violence (See All) |
Dr. Miranda Grey is a psychiatrist who works in a penitentiary, in the mental institution sector. She is married with Dr. Douglas Grey, the chief of department where Dr. Pete Graham also works. Chloe Sava, a patient of Dr. Miranda formerly abused by her stepfather, claims that she is frequently rape…d by the devil in her cell. After leaving the asylum in a stormy night, Dr. Miranda has a car accident, and when she wakes up, she is an inmate of the institution, being accused of an horrible crime and having no memory of the incident. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psycho thriller suspense |
Themes: | mental illness insanity paranoia psychopath memory escape fear marriage death murder |
Mood: | night rain |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | psychiatrist lawyer serial killer husband wife relationship |
Story: | criminally insane shock newspaper clipping rainstorm thunderstorm prison guard thunder murderer lightning fugitive prisoner car crash tears car accident corpse …cell phone fire surprise ending explosion photograph bare chested male gun violence interview flashback blood (See All) |
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: | paranoia escape fear murder death |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | actress detective police officer serial killer |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | ex cop body in a trunk whodunit newspaper clipping blood on shirt characters killed one by one faked death sociopath cop threatened with a knife baseball bat scream stabbed in the back tied to a chair stabbed to death …strangulation handcuffs car crash birthday shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating cell phone surprise ending photograph bare chested male violence blood (See All) |
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… 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: | murder of a police officer paranoia psychopath escape death murder |
Mood: | night rain |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | psychiatrist serial killer husband wife relationship |
Story: | escaped convict convicted handcuffed to a pipe death penalty death row mugshot blood on shirt convict prison guard tape recorder threatened with a knife automobile fugitive judge handcuffs …gunfight shot in the chest shot to death corpse beating shootout fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph bare chested male flashback blood (See All) |
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder of a police officer insanity psychopath escape fear murder death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending night |
Locations: | car fire motel police car |
Characters: | police officer boy |
Story: | killer child blood on shirt flat tire shot in the stomach sociopath freeze frame threatened with a knife fugitive transformation hit by a car exploding car stabbed to death strangulation gunfight face slap …shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout fire surprise ending explosion bare chested male violence blood gun (See All) |
Phoenix officeworker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday Marion is trusted to bank $40,000 by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to …take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into The Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psycho thriller suspense |
Themes: | mental illness insanity psychopath fear marriage murder death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | storm motel police car |
Characters: | psychiatrist serial killer |
Story: | murder suspect dissociative identity disorder motel clerk hidden corpse shower curtain split personality twist ending characters killed one by one body count rainstorm impostor threatened with a knife murderer scream stabbed to death …widow corpse surprise ending photograph bare chested male one word title flashback interview violence blood (See All) |
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: | psycho thriller suspense |
Themes: | mental illness insanity paranoia psychopath escape fear death murder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | police officer |
Story: | crushed by a car body in a trunk blood on shirt flat tire characters killed one by one body count faked death flood sociopath stabbed in the back hit by a car exploding car nonlinear timeline tied to a chair strangulation …handcuffs car crash car accident corpse beating cell phone fire surprise ending explosion one word title violence blood (See All) |
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…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: | murder of a police officer insanity paranoia psychopath escape fear death murder |
Characters: | psychiatrist lawyer detective serial killer prostitute boy husband wife relationship |
Story: | suitcase of money fire extinguisher knife held to throat sociopath threatened with a knife shot in the arm tied to a chair stabbed to death prisoner handcuffs camera face slap shot in the chest shot to death corpse …cell phone fire explosion title spoken by character photograph bare chested male violence interview blood (See All) |
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 …of suspects goes down. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder of a police officer insanity paranoia psychopath escape fear death murder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | detective police officer serial killer |
Story: | ex cop whodunit characters killed one by one body count shot in the stomach threatened with a knife shot in the arm scream lightning stabbed in the back hit by a car stabbed to death telephone car crash face slap …shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating cell phone surprise ending bare chested male violence blood interview (See All) |
In a world destroyed in a war between man and machine, a hand-stitched doll with the number 9 written on its back comes to life. The world he has awakened in is frightening, but he quickly learns that he is not alone and that there are others like him, also with a single digit written on their back.… The first one he encounters is 2 who tells him something of what happened to the world. 2 is also thrilled with the disk 9 is carrying, one with three unique symbols on the front. 9 soon learns that the disk and some of the other dolls who are prepared to die for the good of humankind may be the last hope for man's salvation. (Read More)
Subgenre: | survival horror |
Themes: | self sacrifice fear surrealism murder death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending rain |
Story: | dark and stormy night stitch bickering multiple personality devastation butcher knife head cut off stranded capture threatened with a knife disappearance key transformation decapitation shot to death …corpse fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character one word title flashback (See All) |
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…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: | insanity paranoia anger escape fear death murder |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | psychiatrist detective police officer husband wife relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | mugshot newspaper clipping schizophrenia sociopath threatened with a knife shot in the arm loss of father scream exploding car stabbed to death telephone handcuffs tears gunfight camera …shot in the chest shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph flashback violence blood (See All) |
Clue is a movie about six guests, a butler, and a maid, who are all involved in the murders of six people. The guests all meet at Hill House, where you learn that Professor Plum works in D.C., where everyone else lives. Colonel Mustard is a client of Miss Scarlet, who is the ex-employer of Yvette, t…he maid, who had an affair with the husband of Mrs. White, etc. Blackmailer Mr. Boddy gives each guest a weapon and tells them to kill butler Wadsworth to avoid being exposed. Add in Mrs. Peacock's craziness and Mr. Green's clumsiness, and meet a whole group tangled in a web of murder, lies, and hilarity. (Read More)
Themes: | murder investigation fear murder death |
Mood: | night rain |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | psychiatrist detective police officer serial killer prostitute |
Story: | dark and stormy night clue whodunit body count suspect thunderstorm thunder automobile lightning key search widow strangulation face slap corpse …fire surprise ending one word title flashback violence gun blood (See All) |
Baby is a young and partially hearing impaired getaway driver who can make any wild move while in motion with the right track playing. It's a critical talent he needs to survive his indentured servitude to the crime boss, Doc, who values his role in his meticulously planned robberies. However, just …when Baby thinks he is finally free and clear to have his own life with his new girlfriend, Deborah, Doc coerces him back for another job. Now saddled with a crew of thugs too violently unstable to keep to Doc's plans, Baby finds himself and everything he cares for in terrible danger. To survive and escape the coming maelstrom, it will take all of Baby's skill, wits and daring, but even on the best track, can he make it when life is forcing him to face the music? (Read More)
Themes: | childhood trauma self sacrifice death of mother paranoia psychopath anger escape fear death murder |
Locations: | car fire police car wheelchair |
Characters: | little boy police officer boy husband wife relationship |
Story: | hearing crushed by a car washing machine audio cassette body in a trunk blood on shirt flat tire prison guard watching television tape recorder sociopath loss of mother shot in the arm loss of father fugitive …hit by a car judge exploding car prisoner handcuffs car crash gunfight shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph flashback blood violence gun (See All) |
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: | psycho thriller suspense |
Themes: | murder investigation death of mother paranoia psychopath fear death murder surrealism |
Locations: | police car wheelchair |
Characters: | little boy psychiatrist police officer serial killer husband wife relationship |
Story: | body count rainstorm sociopath loss of mother murderer lightning telephone handcuffs car crash gunfight shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse shootout …fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph blood flashback (See All) |
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…osely. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | insanity paranoia psychopath anger death surrealism murder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | police car wheelchair |
Characters: | psychiatrist actress serial killer boy |
Story: | butcher knife macabre clue whodunit twist ending characters killed one by one body count watching television psychology tape recorder murderer stabbed in the back key search hit by a car …severed head stabbed to death strangulation decapitation telephone camera face slap corpse beating shootout fire surprise ending photograph flashback gun violence blood (See All) |
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…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: | suspense |
Themes: | murder investigation paranoia escape fear death murder |
Locations: | police car wheelchair |
Characters: | little boy detective police officer serial killer |
Story: | ex cop handcuffed to a pipe clue whodunit suffocation newspaper clipping rainstorm time sociopath cop lightning handcuffs camera shot in the chest shot to death …corpse surprise ending title spoken by character photograph bare chested male violence blood (See All) |
It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there …as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. (Read More)
Subgenre: | psycho thriller suspense |
Themes: | insanity paranoia psychopath memory escape murder surrealism death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending rain |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | psychiatrist detective serial killer husband wife relationship |
Story: | dark and stormy night phone line cut criminally insane rainstorm prison guard schizophrenia psychology tape recorder murderer disappearance lightning exploding car widow strangulation handcuffs …shot in the chest shot to death corpse fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph bare chested male flashback violence gun blood interview (See All) |
Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more …each time. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoia memory murder |
Locations: | motel wheelchair |
Characters: | prostitute husband wife relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | false memory flashback within a flashback mental disorder body in a trunk time identity freeze frame murderer nonlinear timeline strangulation telephone car crash car accident corpse beating …fire surprise ending photograph bare chested male one word title violence flashback (See All) |
Alton Meyer is a boy unlike any other in the world with bizarrely powerful abilities and strange weaknesses. In the middle of the night, his father, Roy, spirits him away from the isolated cult that practically worships him and is determined to regain him at all costs. At the same time, Alton's abil…ities have been noticed by the US government as well and they are equally insistent on getting to the bottom of this mystery with Paul Sevier of the National Security Agency leading the Federal pursuit with his own questions. These rival hunts force father and son into a desperate run towards a looming date with destiny that could change everything. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | paranoia escape fear surrealism death murder |
Mood: | ambiguous ending night rain |
Locations: | motel police car |
Characters: | little boy police officer boy |
Story: | cartoon on tv impersonating a police officer time shot in the stomach tape recorder threatened with a knife date fugitive search exploding car prisoner telephone handcuffs car crash gunfight …shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion photograph blood gun interview (See All) |
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…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: | psycho thriller |
Themes: | murder investigation insanity psychopath anger murder death |
Mood: | rain |
Characters: | lawyer detective serial killer prostitute husband wife relationship |
Story: | bad guy wins clue cartoon on tv body count time tape recorder sociopath freeze frame murderer hit by a car severed head decapitation handcuffs car accident shot to death …corpse shootout surprise ending title spoken by character photograph bare chested male one word title interview violence blood (See All) |
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | insanity paranoia psychopath escape fear murder death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Locations: | police car wheelchair |
Characters: | detective police officer prostitute husband wife relationship |
Story: | newspaper clipping flat tire rainstorm impostor shot in the stomach sociopath lightning fugitive hit by a car exploding car nonlinear timeline car crash gunfight camera face slap …shot in the chest car accident corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion photograph bare chested male violence blood gun flashback (See All) |
In 2029 the mutant population has shrunken significantly and the X-Men have disbanded. Logan, whose power to self-heal is dwindling, has surrendered himself to alcohol and now earns a living as a chauffeur. He takes care of the ailing old Professor X whom he keeps hidden away. One day, a female stra…nger asks Logan to drive a girl named Laura to the Canadian border. At first he refuses, but the Professor has been waiting for a long time for her to appear. Laura possesses an extraordinary fighting prowess and is in many ways like Wolverine. She is pursued by sinister figures working for a powerful corporation; this is because her DNA contains the secret that connects her to Logan. A relentless pursuit begins - In this third cinematic outing featuring the Marvel comic book character Wolverine we see the superheroes beset by everyday problems. They are aging, ailing and struggling to survive financially. A decrepit Logan is forced to ask himself if he can or even wants to put his remaining powers to good use. It would appear that in the near-future, the times in which they were able put the world to rights with razor sharp claws and telepathic powers are now over. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | self sacrifice paranoia anger escape fear death murder |
Locations: | motel police car wheelchair |
Characters: | little boy husband wife relationship |
Story: | limousine driver crushed by a car killer child blood on shirt chauffeur body count time sociopath threatened with a knife shot in the arm baseball bat fugitive stabbed in the back limousine hit by a car …severed head exploding car stabbed to death strangulation decapitation handcuffs car crash shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating cell phone fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph bare chested male one word title blood violence gun (See All) |
CIA chief Hunley (Baldwin) convinces a Senate committee to disband the IMF (Impossible Mission Force), of which Ethan Hunt (Cruise) is a key member. Hunley argues that the IMF is too reckless. Now on his own, Hunt goes after a shadowy and deadly rogue organization called the Syndicate.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | escape murder death |
Mood: | rain |
Story: | impersonating a police officer newspaper clipping capture impostor faked death sociopath shot in the arm fugitive stabbed in the back key limousine hit by a car judge exploding car stabbed to death …handcuffs car crash shot in the chest shot to death beating shootout cell phone surprise ending title spoken by character photograph bare chested male flashback violence (See All) |
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and …disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | childhood trauma murder investigation mental illness insanity death of mother psychopath anger escape death murder |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | little boy psychiatrist detective police officer serial killer |
Story: | criminally insane bad guy wins son murders mother mental disorder suffocation schizophrenia sociopath loss of mother loss of father murderer diary hit by a car stabbed to death telephone car crash …shot in the chest car accident shot to death beating fire surprise ending title spoken by character bare chested male one word title flashback blood interview violence gun (See All) |
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | self sacrifice paranoia escape fear murder death |
Locations: | storm |
Characters: | psychiatrist detective police officer |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | room key convict prison guard shot in the stomach baseball bat stabbed to death prisoner telephone gunfight shot in the chest car accident shot to death shootout cell phone fire …surprise ending blood violence (See All) |
The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesi…s is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | anger escape murder death |
Locations: | police car |
Characters: | husband wife relationship |
Story: | impersonating a police officer sociopath freeze frame threatened with a knife suitcase limousine hit by a car prisoner strangulation car crash gunfight shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse …shootout cell phone surprise ending photograph violence blood flashback (See All) |
Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star develo…ping her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice paranoia memory escape fear murder death surrealism |
Mood: | ambiguous ending rain |
Locations: | car fire police car |
Characters: | police officer boy husband wife relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | nevada split personality impersonating a police officer blood on shirt rainstorm reality schizophrenia fate shot in the arm disappearance lightning key limousine search hit by a car …tied to a chair car crash gunfight shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion bare chested male gun violence blood flashback (See All) |
It's been seventeen years since Leo Barnes (Frank Grillo) stopped himself from a regrettable act of revenge on Purge Night. Now serving as head of security for Senator Charlie Roan (Elizabeth Mitchell), his mission is to protect her in a run for president and survive the annual ritual that targets t…he poor and innocent. But when a betrayal forces them onto the streets of D.C. on the one night when no help is available, they must stay alive until dawn...or both be sacrificed for their sins against the state. (Read More)
Subgenre: | survival horror suspense |
Themes: | self sacrifice insanity paranoia psychopath escape fear death murder |
Mood: | night |
Story: | crushed by a car blood on shirt sociopath threatened with a knife shot in the arm baseball bat fugitive stabbed in the back hit by a car severed head tied to a chair stabbed to death decapitation car crash gunfight …shot in the chest shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire explosion photograph bare chested male blood flashback violence (See All) |
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability t…o put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder investigation self sacrifice insanity paranoia memory escape marriage murder surrealism death |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | psychiatrist detective serial killer prostitute husband wife relationship |
Story: | ex cop false memory newspaper clipping identity threatened with a knife lightning suitcase fugitive key telephone shot in the chest car accident corpse surprise ending explosion …photograph flashback blood violence interview (See All) |
Donnas senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her dark past. But when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible, the man she thought was… gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive their Prom Night. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder of a police officer psychopath escape murder death |
Mood: | night |
Characters: | detective husband wife relationship |
Story: | escaped convict fire extinguisher mugshot body in a trunk blood on shirt characters killed one by one flood threatened with a knife limousine stabbed to death strangulation shot in the chest shot to death corpse cell phone …title spoken by character blood flashback violence (See All) |
Matt Scudder is a former cop now a private eye. He is asked by a drug dealer to find the men who kidnapped his wife. It seems like they killed her even after he paid them. Scudder refuses. But the man later goes to see him and tells him how his wife was killed. Scudder takes the job. He does some re…search and thinks the men he is looking for have done this more than once. And that everyone they grabbed is connected to a drug dealer. He was about to give up when they grab another girl and Scudder tries make sure she's returned alive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | psychopath murder death |
Mood: | rain |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | serial killer husband wife relationship |
Story: | ex cop suitcase of money handcuffed to a pipe butcher knife body in a trunk newspaper clipping faked death tape recorder cop freeze frame threatened with a knife stabbed to death strangulation telephone handcuffs …car crash shot in the chest shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone photograph flashback violence blood (See All) |
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… 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: | suspense |
Themes: | death of mother paranoia psychopath escape fear death murder |
Characters: | serial killer husband wife relationship |
Story: | whodunit blood on shirt characters killed one by one convict faked death threatened with a knife scream stabbed in the back tied to a chair stabbed to death telephone handcuffs car crash face slap shot in the chest …car accident shot to death corpse cell phone fire surprise ending title spoken by character bare chested male one word title violence blood (See All) |
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He… needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars. (Read More)
Themes: | self sacrifice escape murder death |
Characters: | lawyer |
Story: | twist ending convict prison guard flood shot in the stomach sociopath freeze frame threatened with a knife shot in the arm exploding car tied to a chair prisoner strangulation handcuffs shot in the chest …shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion bare chested male flashback violence blood (See All) |
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins, Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new district attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as the Joker appears in Gotham, creating a n…ew wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against the Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent and Rachel Dawes. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | self sacrifice insanity paranoia psychopath anger escape fear death murder |
Mood: | ambiguous ending night |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | lawyer detective police officer husband wife relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | newspaper clipping convict impostor faked death prison guard watching television schizophrenia sociopath threatened with a knife key limousine hit by a car judge exploding car tied to a chair …prisoner handcuffs car crash gunfight face slap shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character bare chested male interview blood violence (See All) |
Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as THE GRAVEDIGGER. Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Sean Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he an…d Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night. (Read More)
Themes: | murder of a police officer escape death murder |
Mood: | night rain |
Characters: | police officer husband wife relationship |
Story: | limousine driver flashback within a flashback shot in the stomach sociopath freeze frame fugitive stabbed in the back limousine nonlinear timeline stabbed to death handcuffs car crash face slap shot in the chest shot to death …corpse beating shootout cell phone fire explosion photograph flashback violence blood (See All) |
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…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: | suspense |
Themes: | murder of a police officer self sacrifice insanity paranoia psychopath escape fear surrealism death murder |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Characters: | detective police officer serial killer |
Story: | death row macabre twist ending cartoon on tv prison guard shot in the arm fugitive nonlinear timeline prisoner strangulation telephone handcuffs gunfight shot in the chest shot to death …corpse shootout fire surprise ending title spoken by character photograph one word title violence gun flashback blood (See All) |
Small-town fry cook Odd Thomas ('Anton Yelchin' (qv)) is an ordinary guy with a paranormal secret: he sees dead people, everywhere. When a creepy stranger shows-up with an entourage of ghostly bodachs - predators who feed on pain and portend mass destruction - Odd knows that his town is in serious t…rouble. Teaming up with his sweetheart Stormy ('Addison Timlin' (qv)) and the local sheriff ('Willem Dafoe' (qv)), Odd plunges into an epic battle of good vs evil to try to stop a disaster of apocalyptic proportions. Based on the best-selling thriller by Dean Koontz. (Read More)
Themes: | paranoia memory escape fear death murder surrealism |
Locations: | motel police car wheelchair |
Characters: | police officer prostitute husband wife relationship |
Story: | body in a trunk newspaper clipping blood on shirt fate sociopath freeze frame shot in the arm baseball bat limousine hit by a car severed head exploding car handcuffs car crash gunfight …shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph violence blood flashback (See All) |
Best-selling novelist Paul Sheldon is on his way home from his Colorado hideaway after completing his latest book, when he crashes his car in a freak blizzard. Paul is critically injured, but is rescued by former nurse Annie Wilkes, Paul's "number one fan", who takes Paul back to her remote house in… the mountains (without bothering to tell anybody). Unfortunately for Paul, Annie is also a headcase. When she discovers that Paul has killed off the heroine in her favorite novels, her reaction leaves Paul shattered (literally)... (Read More)
Subgenre: | survival horror psycho thriller suspense |
Themes: | murder of a police officer mental illness insanity psychopath anger escape murder death |
Locations: | wheelchair |
Characters: | serial killer |
Story: | dark and stormy night newspaper clipping thunder psychology sociopath murderer search car crash shot in the chest car accident shot to death beating surprise ending title spoken by character one word title …gun violence blood (See All) |
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they g…o beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive. (Read More)
Subgenre: | survival horror suspense |
Themes: | paranoia psychopath fear murder |
Mood: | night |
Locations: | car fire |
Characters: | serial killer |
Story: | held at knifepoint shower curtain butcher knife blood on shirt flat tire nonlinear timeline tied to a chair stabbed to death car crash shot to death corpse beating cell phone surprise ending violence …blood flashback (See All) |
Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choos…e between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long... (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | murder of a police officer self sacrifice paranoia murder death |
Characters: | lawyer detective |
Story: | blood on shirt flat tire convict tape recorder hit by a car telephone handcuffs car crash birthday gunfight car accident shot to death corpse shootout cell phone …surprise ending title spoken by character photograph bare chested male flashback gun blood violence (See All) |
While being transported by two detectives in a car, the dangerous criminal Krug is rescued by his brother Francis and his girlfriend Sadie, and they brutally kill the detectives. Meanwhile Emma, her husband John, and their daughter Mari Collingwood head to their summer home near the lake. Mari borro…ws the family car to meet her friend Paige that is working in a store in the town. While in the store, they befriend a teen boy named Justin, who offers some marijuana to Paige in the motel where he is lodged. While they are smoking marijuana in Justin's room, Krug, Francis, and Sadie arrive and abduct the girls. Krug drives Mari's car and she causes them to crash into a tree. Krug stabs Paige and rapes Mari; however Mari manages to escape, swimming in the lake, but Krug shoots her in the back. They walk through the isolated road in the woods and they reach Collingwood's house telling that they have just had a car accident. Emma and John welcome the strangers until they discover what has happened to their beloved daughter. (Read More)
Themes: | murder of a police officer psychopath escape murder death |
Locations: | storm motel |
Characters: | serial killer boy husband wife relationship |
Story: | escaped convict hit on the head with a fire extinguisher knife held to throat butcher knife convict rainstorm sociopath threatened with a knife murderer fugitive stabbed in the back stabbed to death strangulation car crash shot in the chest …car accident corpse beating cell phone bare chested male blood violence (See All) |
He thought it was over. After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen - a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls - rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a normal life. He couldn't have been more wrong. Formida…ble though they may have been, Rama's opponents in that fateful building were nothing more than small fish swimming in a pond much larger than he ever dreamed possible. And his triumph over the small fry has attracted the attention of the predators farther up the food chain. His family at risk, Rama has only one choice to protect his infant son and wife: He must go undercover to enter the criminal underworld himself and climb through the hierarchy of competing forces until it leads him to the corrupt politicians and police pulling the strings at the top of the heap. And so Rama begins a new odyssey of violence, a journey that will force him to set aside his own life and history and take on a new identity as the violent offender "Yuda." In prison he must gain the confidence of Uco - the son of a prominent gang kingpin - to join the gang himself, laying his own life on the line in a desperate all-or-nothing gambit to bring the whole rotten enterprise to an end. (Read More)
Themes: | murder of a police officer murder death |
Mood: | ambiguous ending |
Characters: | detective prostitute husband wife relationship |
Story: | shiv crushed by a car body in a trunk blood on shirt body count convict prison guard shot in the stomach cop identity threatened with a knife shot in the arm baseball bat stabbed in the back limousine …hit by a car stabbed to death prisoner strangulation car crash gunfight face slap shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone photograph bare chested male violence blood flashback (See All) |
In England, retired Royal Marine Harry Brown spends his lonely life between the hospital, where his beloved wife Kath is terminally ill, and playing chess with his only friend Leonard Attwell in the Barge pub owned by Sid Rourke. After the death of Kath, Len tells his grieving friend that the local …gang is harassing him and he is carrying an old bayonet for self-defense; the widower suggests him to go to the police. When Len is beaten, then stabbed to death in an underground passage, Inspector Alice Frampton and her partner Sergeant Terry Hicock are sent to investigate. They pay Harry a visit but don't have good news; the police have not found any other evidence, other than the bayonet, in order to arrest the hoodlums. This mean that should the case go to trial the gang would claim self-defense. Harry Brown sees that justice will not be granted and decides to take matters into his own hands. (Read More)
Subgenre: | suspense |
Themes: | death of mother psychopath escape fear murder death |
Characters: | lawyer detective police officer prostitute husband wife relationship |
Period: | 2000s |
Story: | suffocation blood on shirt shot in the stomach sociopath threatened with a knife shot in the arm baseball bat stabbed in the back exploding car tied to a chair stabbed to death strangulation handcuffs car crash gunfight …shot in the chest car accident shot to death corpse beating shootout cell phone fire surprise ending explosion title spoken by character photograph bare chested male interview blood gun violence flashback (See All) |