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Cops and Robbersons
When police discover that a mob hitman has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they want to find out what he is up to. So they set up a stakeout in the Robbersons' home. Hard-nosed, tough-as-nails Jake Stone is assigned to the stakeout. But now it's a question of whether Jake can last long enough to capture the bad guys. The Robbersons want to help so they are driving him crazy.

- 1994
House of Games
A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for "tells", or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much more complex.

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- 1987
Borderline
The psychiatrist Dr. Lila Colleti is a woman with a trauma in her childhood that is divorcing her husband. She works in a penitentiary with disturbed prisoners that like her. Her ex-husband Paul Colleti and she are disputing the custody of their two daughters in court, and Paul wins the dispute. Paul brings the daughters to his house and Lila becomes depressive and upset. She goes to a bar, where she meets the former prisoner and patient Ciro Ruiz, and uses drugs with alcohol, having a blackout. In the night, Paul and her girlfriend are murdered, and Lila becomes the prime suspect. Det. Macy Kobacek, who is her boyfriend, is in charge of the investigation with his partner Det. Frank Hagen, and Lila accuses her manipulative patient Ed Baikman to her boyfriend. However, all the evidences are against Lila and Macy is not sure of who is the killer.

- 2002
Night Watch
Ellen Wheeler (Dame Elizabeth Taylor), a rich woman, is recovering from a nervous breakdown with the help of her husband and a good friend. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?

- 1973
Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison
Another in a unrelated series of Warner's penitentiary tours in three different decades. This one is California's notorious Folsom Prison prior to its 1944 reformation make-over. Ben Rickey, the prison's sadistic old-school warden who believes that the prison system if for punishment rather than reformation, rules Folsom with an iron-hand. He highly resents his university-trained assistant, Mark Benson, who does not share Rickey's beliefs. Rickey, hoping the results will be disastrous, gives Benson permission to try his modern method. He tolerates Benson's innovations until convict "Red" Pardue is killed by another prisoner. Benson blames Rickey, who had refused Pardue protection after he had reported an escape attempt. Benson resigns and Rickey brings back his concentration-camp program. Chuck Daniels, a hardened convict, then stage his long-planned prison break. A bloody riot ensues in which Rickey is murdered and the escapees are accidentally killed by a dynamite blast while taking revenge on a treacherous convict.

- 1951
The Prowler
The film begins with the return home of a wwII veteran who was the recipient of a "Dear John Letter". After swiftly dispatching a courting couple in a Gazebo we leap to present day where a college celebration becomes the hunting ground for a uniform clad killer.

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- 1981
Blind Heat
The beautiful wife of a wealthy computer magnate is kidnapped and held ransom. A top hostage negotiator is called in, but the husband seems ambivalent about getting his wife back, but the negotiator is intent on finishing his job.

- 2001
Bottle Rocket
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hare-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry. With the help of their pathetic neighbor and pal Bob, Anthony and Dignan pull a job and hit the road, where Anthony finds love with motel maid Inez. When our boys finally hook up with Mr. Henry, the ensuing escapade turns out to be far from what anyone expected.

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- 1996
Anatomy 2
Dr. Jo Hauser--soccer player in his leisure time--decides to move to Berlin to be an intern in a famous clinic, expecting to increase his knowledge and expertise, and to help his handicapped brother Willi Hauser. He joins a secret fraternity of doctors under the leadership of Prof. Muller-LaRousse, who is researching the use of bionic muscles in human beings with no ethics or respect for laws. to the laws. The team also volunteers in experiments and is under investigation by Paula Henning. When Jo gets close to a Filipino nurse and becomes addicted in the drugs used in experiments, he realizes the truth hidden in the methods used by the secret society in the development of science.

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- 2003
Zoot Suit
A kind of musical accompanying the story of the early 1940's and the effect that the "zoot suit" (a man's suit of long jacket and pegged pants, always worn with a long keychain that looped almost to the ankle.... the rebellious fashion of young men) had on the morals and attitudes of the people of that era.

- 1981
Pete's Meteor
Micky is a tough, loudmouth but lovable 12 year old who lives with his younger brother and sister at his grandmother's house. One day, a meteorite lands in his backyard and the kids believe that it was sent down to them by their dead parents (who they believe live up in the stars). The government ships away the rock and sends it to the local university. In the children's efforts to retrieve the meteor they believe is theirs, they meet a dorky scientist who finds a place in his heart for the kids. Meanwhile, Micky's parent's best friend, a drug addict (who had promised the parents to take care of the kids) owes drug dealers money and eventually has to hide out after barely escaping a hit.

- 1998
The Atomic City
At Los Alamos, New Mexico, the maximum-security "atomic city" of U.S. nuclear-weapons research, top atomic scientist Frank Addison has a normal, middle-American life with his wife and son...until the boy is kidnapped by enemy agents to extort H-bomb secrets. Result, a fast moving chase thriller with some parental soul-searching.

- 1952
Dusk
John Whitmore wakes one morning to find himself in the midst of a real-life nightmare. His wife, Anne, disappeared from their bed during the night and a recorded ransom message now remains in her place. This mysterious recording instructs Whitmore to contact a man named David, who will escort John and his life savings to a cabin deep within the woods, where he will be reunited with his wife. He does as directed, but not before calling a life-long friend for help. David forces the men into a rusted RV and the three hit the road. John attempts to calm himself by piecing together the events of the previous evening, but instead he finds himself questioning David's motivation and, eventually, the entire situation. It becomes obvious he will need to take a stand to save his wife...and, quite possibly, himself. Told through fragments of the past that shatter the present, "Dusk" explores the darkest recesses of the mind through a night of chaos, deceit and paranoia.

- 2015
Gutterballs
A brutally sadistic rape leads to a series of bizarre gory murders during a midnight disco bowl-a-rama at a popular bowling alley. One by one, players of two teams meet blood-drenched gruesome deaths at the hand of a black bowling-gloved masked killer. This alley runs red with blood by sunrise.

- 2008
Happy Birthday to Me
Virginia Wainwright is a spirited young woman who has returned to a private school having survived a deadly accident and regenerative brain surgery. She is proud that she belongs to the Top Ten - the school's inner circle with the best students - and attempts to resume a normal life. But her friends are falling prey to a grueling series of murders, and soon there will be no one left to attend her 18th birthday party. Could it be her? Striving to rekindle the memory of her nightmarish accident, Virginia suffers from memory loss and traumatic blackouts. We soon learn the horrible truth behind her accident and what is going on before her birthday party...

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- 1981
Police Story: Lockdown
A man looking for the release of a long-time prisoner takes a police officer, his daughter, and a group of strangers hostage.

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- 2013
The Boys Next Door
Roy and Bo leave their small California town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to Los Angeles. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trail of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

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- 1985
The Hound of the Baskervilles
In this spellbinding Sherlock Holmes mystery, Peter Cushing stars as the great detective who must unlock the mystery of a hound's horrible cry and the systematic deaths of generations of Baskervilles.

- 1959
The Descent: Part 2
Refusing to believe her story about cave-dwelling monsters, the sole survivor of a spelunking exploration gone horribly wrong is forced to follow the authorities back into the caves where something awaits.

- 2009
Nothing Bad Can Happen
The young Tore seeks in Hamburg a new life among the religious group called The Jesus Freaks. When he by accident meets a family and helps them to repair their car, he believes that a heavenly wonder has helped him. He starts a friendship with the father of the family, Benno. Soon he moves in with them at their garden plot, not knowing what cruelty is there to come. True to his religious belief he stays with them although the increasing violence by Benno is torturing him. Tore is fighting the torment with his own weapons. So a dangerous struggle between libidinous actions and altruism begins. Inspired by true events.

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- 2013
The Counterfeit Traitor
Stockholm, 1942: Eric Erickson is a native American who has been granted Swedish citizenship. Because of his oil trade - Sweden is officially neutral, so trade with both warring parties is possible - he is blacklisted by people who collaborate with the enemy. The British put pressure on him to become an agent of the Allies. His business and frequent trips to Germany serve as a cover. It is not long before his new, feigned pro-Nazi attitude alienates him from his Swedish surroundings and his wife. In order to gain an insight into the Nazis' oil supply, Erickson pushes ahead with his plans for a new refinery. At a business meeting, he meets Marianne Möllendorf, an officer's wife who also works as an agent. The two fall in love. When one of his German friends dies, Erickson rushes to Germany to destroy a dangerous document. The Gestapo arrest him and question him about his relationship with Marianne. The noose tightens.

- 1962
Red Planet
Houston, we have a very big problem! In the mid-21st century, the nations of a dying Earth look starward for a solution and set out to colonize Mars. But something no one could have expected awaits this latest mission to the Red Planet. Because Mars may be barren but it's not uninhabited.

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- 2000
Amsterdamned
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.

- 1988
And Then There Were None
Seven guests, a newly hired personal secretary and two staff are gathered for a weekend on an isolated island by the hosts, the Owens, who are delayed. At dinner, a record is played and the host's message alleges that all of the people present are guilty of murder, and suddenly the first of them is dead, then the next. It seems that one of them is the murderer, but the leading person is always the person who is murdered next and at last, only two people are left.

- 1945