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Insidious
From the makers of Paranormal Activity, INSIDIOUS is the terrifying story of a family who, shortly after moving, discovers that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to realize that it was not their house that was haunted.

- Metascore52
- 2010
The Long Goodbye
Under the inimitable direction of Robert Altman, Elliot Gould stars as the laid-back, legendary private eye Philip Marlowe investigating a mysterious murder.

- Metascore87
- 1973
- 2009
Friday the 13th
Camp Crystal Lake sits dormant, haunted by drowning and double murder. A fresh crew of counselors arrives to resurrect it, optimistic, oblivious, and working against a clock they cannot see. Someone is watching from the treeline. The killings begin quietly, one counselor at a time pulled from the periphery, while the storm rolls in and the phones go dead. What started as a summer job collapses into a siege. Alice, the last one standing, finds herself not just fighting for survival but confronting the grief of a mother the world forgot to mourn.

- Metascore22
- 1980
Code Name: The Cleaner
Jake is a seemingly regular guy who has no idea who he is after being hit over the head by mysterious assailants; when he finds himself entangled in a government conspiracy, Jake and his pursuers become convinced that he is an undercover agent.

- Metascore33
- 2007
The Mist
After a brutal storms pounds a small town, the residents discover a malevolent mist that hangs over their homes, killing anyone who remains outside.

- Metascore58
- 2007
Night Train to Lisbon
This movie is about aging Swiss Professor Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) of classical languages who, after a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman, quits his job and travels to Lisbon in the hope of discovering the fate of a certain author, a doctor and poet who fought against Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar.

- Metascore30
- 2013
Dread
The outcast cinema student, Stephen Grace, does not drive cars due to the trauma of losing his brother in a car accident. He befriends Quaid, who since the age of 6 has experienced dreadful nightmares and daydreams about the death of his parents. Quaid proposes they research about each one's innermost fear. Stephen sees the chance of developing an original thesis for college and invites his friend, Cheryl, to work with them. Among the interviewees, Stephen talks to his colleague, Abby who works with him in the library. Abby has a complex about the way she looks. When the work is almost complete, Quaid has an outburst at one interviewee's and ends up destroying the camera and editing equipment. Stephen begins to re-evaluate the situation.

- 2009
Match Point
At a turning point in his life, a former tennis pro falls for a femme-fatal type who happens to be dating his friend and soon-to-be brother-in-law.

- Metascore72
- 2005
Case 39
A dedicated social worker takes a special interest in the case of a vulnerable 10-year-old girl whose parents appear to be abusing her. After rescuing the child and taking her into her own home, she begins to experience a series of terrifying and unexplained events involving the people around her. As she investigates the girl's disturbing past, she discovers a horrifying supernatural secret that turns the child she believed she was protecting into a deadly threat. Forced to confront her own fears and fight for survival, she must find a way to escape the terrifying force that has entered her life.

- Metascore25
- 2009
Hackers
Teenage hackers Zero Cool (Johnny Lee Miller) and Acid Burns (Angelina Jolie) may be young, but they're already in trouble with the authorities. Both have been banned from using computers until they turn eighteen. However, the situation turns from adolescent hi-jinks to deadly industrial espionage when they are framed by nefarious hacker The Plague - soon they are fighting for their lives.

- Metascore46
- 1995
Atlantic City
Atlantic City is a place where people go to realize their dreams, the promise of the future manifested by the demolition of the old crumbling buildings to be replaced by new hotels and casinos. Someone who recently came to Atlantic City for that promise is native Moose Javian (Saskatchewan) Sally Matthews, who currently works as a waitress at a hotel oyster bar, but who is training to be a black jack croupier and wants to be more cultured, such as learning French, in order to work at the casinos in Monte Carlo. Another dreamer who came to Atlantic City decades ago is Lou Pascal, who has long worked as a numbers runner and who claims to have been a cellmate and thus implied confidante of Bugsy Siegel. Although Lou still dresses to the standard to which he is accustomed, his dream long died as he only works penny ante stuff for Fred, most of his current income from being the kept man of widowed recluse, Grace Pinza. Grace too came to Atlantic City to fulfill her dreams - most specifically to participate in a Betty Grable lookalike contest - and ended up staying, marrying a player named Cookie Pinza. Sally, Lou and Grace all live in the same soon to be demolished apartment building - Sally and Lou who are next door neighbors - although Sally knows neither of her neighbors. Lou, however, secretly spies Sally through their respective apartment windows as she goes through a daily ritual. The dreams of this collective are potentially affected - largely dashed or reawakened - with the arrival into Atlantic City of Dave Matthews, Sally's estranged, deadbeat husband, and his very pregnant new ageist girlfriend Chrissie, who happens to be Sally's younger sister. It is the unknown to Sally that Dave and Chrissie bring with them that affects those dreams, namely a large cache of cocaine stolen from criminal sources.

- Metascore85
- 1980
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
An observable, fast-talking party man Darnell Wright, gets his punishment when one of his conquests takes it personally and comes back for revenge in this 'Fatal Attraction'-esque comic thriller.

- 1996
Bad Santa 2
Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke (Billy Bob Thornton) teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Along for the ride is chubby and cheery Thurman Merman, a 250-pound ray of sunshine who brings out Willie's sliver of humanity. Mommy issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, Sunny Soke, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior.

- Metascore38
- 2016
This Girl for Hire
Bess Armstrong, a private investigator hired to protect a mystery writer, but when the writer is murdered her suspects include a former agent, lover, chauffeur and writers.

- 1983
Soaked in Bleach
Reveals the events behind Kurt Cobain's death as seen through the eyes of Tom Grant, the private investigator that was hired by Courtney Love in 1994 to track down her missing husband (Kurt Cobain) only days before his deceased body was found at their Seattle home. Cobain's death was ruled a suicide by the police (a reported self-inflicted gunshot wound), but doubts have circulated for twenty years as to the legitimacy of this ruling, especially due to the work of Mr. Grant, a former L.A. County Sheriff's detective, who did his own investigation and determined there was significant empirical and circumstantial evidence to conclude that foul play could very well have occurred. The film develops as a narrative mystery with cinematic re-creations, interviews with key experts and witnesses and the examination of official artifacts from the 1994 case.

- Metascore50
- 2015
Daybreakers
10 years from now, vampires make up the vast majority of the population with only 5% of the human race remaining. This presents particular challenges as the vampires' food supply - human blood - is dwindling and rationing is now the norm. There is growing evidence that vampires deprived of an adequate blood supply are themselves evolving into wild, vile creatures that attack anyone and anything in order to survive. Dr. Edward Dalton, a vampire and hematologist who works for a pharmaceutical firm, has been working on finding an artificial blood supply that will meet the vampire society's needs. He is sympathetic to humans and sees his work as a way of alleviating their suffering but his views on finding a solution change considerably when he meets someone who found a way to transform himself from being a vampire to again take human form.

- Metascore57
- 2009
Dog Soldiers
A British Squad is sent on a training mission in the Highlands of Scotland against Special Operations squad. Ignoring the childish "campfire" stories heard about the area, they continue with their mission and come across the bloody remains of the Special Ops Squad, and a fierce howling is pitching the night sky... With two mortally wounded men, they make an escape, running into a zoologist by the name of Megan - who knows exactly what hunts them. What began as what they thought was a training mission turns into a battle for their lives against the most unlikely enemies they would have expected - werewolves.

- 2002
Throw Momma from the Train
In this black-comedy spin-off of Alfred Hitchcock's STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, a writing student tries to persuade his instructor to "trade murders"...he will murder the instructor's ex-wife if the instructor will return the favor and kill his demented, domineering mother.

- Metascore56
- 1987
Welcome to Sudden Death
Jesse Freeman is a former special forces officer and explosives expert now working a regular job as a security guard in a state-of-the-art basketball arena. Trouble erupts when a tech-savvy cadre of terrorists kidnap the team’s owner and Jesse’s daughter during opening night.

- 2020
Dance with a Stranger
Bar manager Ruth Ellis becomes embroiled in an abusive relationship with alcoholic womaniser, David Blakely. Ruth is so consumed by Blakely that she neglects her son Andy and torments her other suitor, Desmond. After losing her job, flat and unborn baby, Ruth loses her mind - and murders Blakely.

- 1985
Broken City
In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart (Mark Wahlberg) seeks redemption – and revenge – after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor (Russell Crowe). Billy’s relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise toughness, makes him an unstoppable force – and the mayor’s worst nightmare

- Metascore49
- 2013
Extraction
Harry Turner works for the CIA like his father Leonard. He wants to do fieldwork but he's constantly being denied. He is stationed in Prague and his father's good friend keeps an eye on him. Later they receive word that Leonard, who was in New Jersey making sure a piece of hardware called Condor arrives, that Leonard and the Condor's been taken. The Director tries to find it and Harry wants to help but won't let him. So he bolts and goes to New Jersey. The director decides to let one of their agents who is Harry's ex to find Leonard and the Condor. She was also told to find Harry and send him back to Prague. But when she finds him, he convinces her to let him find his father and the Condor.

- Metascore25
- 2015
The Limehouse Golem
Victorian London is terrorized by an unknown serial killer who leaves cryptic messages with the victim's blood. When the killings increase, Scotland Yard assigns the case to a famous inspector.

- Metascore63
- 2016