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| Title | Description | Director | Writer | Starring | Genre | |
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Twelve Monkeys (1995) 
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James Cole, a convict volunteer, is sent back in time to find information on a deadly virus that will destroy 5,000,000,000 members of the human race in 19... more | Terry Gilliam | David Webb Peoples, Chris Marker | Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Madeleine Stowe, Christopher Meloni, Jon Seda, Joey Perillo, Bruce Kirkpatrick | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| 2. |
The Fifth Element (1997) 
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Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the fifth element, the perfect being named "Leeloo... more | Luc Besson | Luc Besson | Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Milla Jovovich, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker, Brion James, Mathieu Kassovitz, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Lee Evans, Luke Perry | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| 3. |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) 
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Skynet, the 21st century computer waging a losing war on humans sends a second terminator back in time to destroy the leader of the human resistance while ... more | James Cameron | William Wisher Jr. | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Xander Berkeley, Robert Patrick, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Castulo Guerra | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| 4. |
Der Name der Rose aka The Name of the Rose (1986) 
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1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on t... more | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Andrew Birkin, Umberto Eco | Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Ron Perlman, Elya Baskin, Valentina Vargas, Helmut Qualtinger, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Urs Althaus, Vernon Dobtcheff | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| 5. |
Blade Runner (1982) 
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In the future man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. Ric... more | Ridley Scott | Philip K. Dick, David Webb Peoples, Hampton Fancher | Daryl Hannah, Harrison Ford, James Hong, M. Emmet Walsh, Rutger Hauer, Joanna Cassidy, Brion James, Edward James Olmos, Sean Young, Kevin Thompson, Morgan Paull | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| 6. |
American Gigolo (1980) 
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Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, wit... more | Paul Schrader | Paul Schrader | Richard Gere, Bill Duke, Hector Elizondo, Brian Davies, Lauren Hutton, Nina Van Pallandt | Drama, Crime, Romance, Thriller |
| 7. |
Payback (1999) 
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Porter is bad, but his neighbors are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie w... more | Brian Helgeland | Donald E. Westlake, Terry Hayes | Mel Gibson, Maria Bello, Lucy Liu, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Duke, David Paymer, Deborah Kara Unger, Gregg Henry, John Glover, William Devane | Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller |
| 8. |
Das Leben der Anderen aka The Lives of Others (2006) 
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The horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyma... more | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck | Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Ulrich Tukur | Drama, Thriller |
| 9. |
24 [TV series] (2001) 
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Jack Bauer is a counterterrorism agent for whom each day is more absurd and terrifying than the last one. In the first season/day, he had to deal with assa... more | Joel Surnow | Robert Cochran | Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Mary Lynn Rajskub | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| 10. |
Avatar (2009) 
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Paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker ... more | James Cameron | James Cameron | Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Julene Renee, Joel David Moore, Stephen Lang, Laz Alonso | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| 11. |
Suicide Kings (1997) 
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Five men born with silver spoons in their mouths and ivy league educations kidnap a former mobster with connections to help rescue a friend's sister. Thing... more | Peter O'Fallon | Gina Goldman, Josh McKinney | Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Jay Mohr, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jeremy Sisto, Nina Siemaszko, Brad Garrett, Frank Medrano | Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| 12. |
Man on Fire (2004) 
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In Mexico City, the former CIA assassin and presently an alcoholic decadent man John Creasy is hired by the industrialist Samuel Ramos, with the recommenda... more | Tony Scott | Brian Helgeland, A. J. Quinnell | Mickey Rourke, Dakota Fanning, Denzel Washington, Rachel Ticotin, Giancarlo Giannini, Marc Anthony | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| 13. |
Taken (2008) 
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Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. K... more | Pierre Morel | Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen | Liam Neeson, Xander Berkeley, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Leland Orser, Arben Bajraktaraj, Radivoje Bukvic | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| 14. |
Death Proof (2007) 
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Stuntman Mike is a former Hollywood stunt race car driver who targets and kills women with his "death-proof" stunt car. In Act I, Mike surfaces in Austin, ... more | Quentin Tarantino | Quentin Tarantino | Kurt Russell, Nicky Katt, Rose McGowan, Zoe Bell | Action, Film-Noir, Thriller |
| 15. |
The Dark Knight (2008) 
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Batman raises the stakes in his bourgeois war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to disman... more | Christopher Nolan | Jonathan Nolan | Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Eric Roberts, Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Anthony Michael Hall | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| 16. |
Mr. Brooks (2007) 
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Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer ... more | Bruce A. Evans | Raynold Gideon | Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, William Hurt, Dane Cook, Marg Helgenberger, Danielle Panabaker | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
| 17. |
Rambo (2008) 
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Vietnam veteran John Rambo has survived many harrowing ordeals in his lifetime and has since withdrawn into a simple and secluded existence in Thailand, wh... more | Sylvester Stallone | Sylvester Stallone | Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Graham McTavish, Matthew Marsden, Paul Schulze | Action, Thriller |
| 18. |
Alien (1979) 
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On what should have been a trip back to Earth, the Nostromo, a mining freighter, is automatically re-routed to a desolate planet after receiving an SOS com... more | Ridley Scott | Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett | Sigourney Weaver, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| 19. |
Full Metal Jacket (1987) 
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery ... more | Stanley Kubrick | Gustav Hasford | Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin | Action, Drama, Thriller, War |
| 20. |
Repulsion (1965) 
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A Belgian girl, Carol, works as a manicurist at a London beauty salon. While having lunch, a good looking young man, Colin, spots her and makes a date for ... more | Roman Polanski | Gérard Brach | Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, Yvonne Furneaux | Thriller, Horror, Drama, Film-Noir |
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