Archive for the 'Thriller movies' Category
Walk All Over Me
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| Plot Summary: | A small town girl runs into big time trouble as she takes on her roommates identity as a dominatrix to pay the bills. |
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Get Shorty
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| Taglines: | 1: Attitude Plays a Part. 2: The Mob Is Tough. But It’s Nothing Like Show Business. |
| Plot Summary: | Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he’s struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he’s snagged up by a producer. The rest is history. |
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They Wait
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| Taglines: | 1: They wait… to ensure the past is not forgotten. |
| Plot Summary: | A couple (King and Chen) returns to North America for a family funeral, having lived in Shanghai, China for the previous six years. Soon after they arrive, their son Jamie (Oey) begins to see ghosts and suffer possession by one of the living dead, and it all ties in with the Chinese festival of Ghost Month, when the doors of hell supposedly open and angry spirits are given the chance to terrorize the living. |
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Children of Men
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| Taglines: | 1: He must protect our only hope. 2: In 20 years, women are infertile. No children. No future. No hope. But all that can change in a heartbeat. 3: No child has been born for 18 years. 4: No children. No future. No hope. 5: The future’s a thing of the past. 6: The last days of human race. 7: The last one to die please turn out the light. |
| Plot Summary: | With this dystopian world ravished by war, paranoia and the frustrations of Man the Orwellian vision of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the totalitarian future is now complete and amongst us. With female fertility becoming obsolete, Man cannot reproduce, and no child has been born on the face of the planet for eighteen years. Man, and his future, is dying. Soon he shall be extinct. Theo, the beaten, downtrodden and middle-aged ex-political activist will, unwittingly, become involved in a war of an underground revolt. Here he is active once more, in the perilous journey across England’s Home Counties, with a young girl, Kee, who, to Theo’s bewilderment is pregnant. The first pregnant woman for more than eighteen years. This secret must be protected, at all cost, and mother and child must flee to the mysterious and enigmatic Human Project, across the seas. Their flight is a constant fight for survival. Who can be trusted? Who can keep a secret? |
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New Jack City
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| Taglines: | 1: They’re a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime. 2: Where survival depends on friends, trust and power… An organized crime family out to run this city is up against cops who knows its streets. |
| Plot Summary: | In 1989, Nino Brown, a small time drug dealer, is convinced by one of his fellow thugs that the wave of the future is in the cocaine derivative, crack. Brown sees potential in crack and sets out to establish himself as chief kingpin by killing off his rivals and even going as far as to take over a whole apartment complex. Out to stop him are undercover cops Scottie Appleton and Nick Paretti. Appleton especially wants to get Nino because of the fact that he murdered Scottie’s mother as part of a gang initiaton. Also involved is Pookie, a former crackhead who wants to bring down Nino as well. |
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Jade
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| Taglines: | 1: Some fantasies go too far. |
| Plot Summary: | Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation. Through a web of blackmail and prostitution involving the Governor, an old lover of the law man emerges as a prime suspect and he has to deal with his personal feelings as well as the case. |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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| Plot Summary: | In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. |
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Fingerprints
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| Plot Summary: | Haunted railroad tracks lead a troubled teenager to discover the horrifying truth hidden in a small Texas town. |
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Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
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| Taglines: | 1: Loyalty. It’s all relative. 2: No one was supposed to get hurt. |
| Plot Summary: | Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed. |
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Crimson Tide
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| Taglines: | 1: Danger runs deep 2: In the face of the ultime nuclear showdown, one man has absolute power and one man will do anything to stop him 3: On The Brink Of Nuclear War, Two Men Clash Over The Fate Of The World. |
| Plot Summary: | In the near future, Russian rebels have taken over one of the ICBM bases in the USSR. Alarmed by the prospect of a rebel strike, the U.S. sends the U.S.S. Alabama, a nuclear ballistic submarine, to watch over the base and retaliate in case they launch. While on patrol, the submarine is attacked and the radio systems are knocked out. An emergency message received during the battle is only partially recovered. Captain Ramsey believes it to be the order to launch on the rebels, while XO Hunter wants to wait for a confirmation message. The conflict escalates into mutiny as Ramsey and Hunter fight for control of the Alabama’s nuclear missiles. |
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