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Sarah Collins (Sarah Bolger, "Mayans M.C.", "The Tudors", Emelie) is a single mother struggling to raise two young children while searching for answers about the unsolved murder of her husband. After being coerced into helping a low-level drug dealer, she finds herself the target of a dangerous crime boss. Desperate to keep her family safe, Sarah turns the tables on her victimizers in one final act of brutal vengeance. Set in the dark underbelly of...
2) Test pattern
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Kino Lorber
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Part psychological horror, part realist drama, this exhilarating debut feature from Shatara Michelle Ford is set against the backdrop of national discussions around inequitable health care and policing, the #metoo movement, and race in America. TEST PATTERN follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit....
3) Silo
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Oscilloscope Laboratories
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Inspired by true events, SILO follows a harrowing day in an American farm town. Disaster strikes when teenage Cody becomes the victim of a grain entrapment accident. Family, neighbors, and first responders must put aside their differences to rescue him from drowning in the 50-foot-tall silo where corn quickly turns to quicksand. Shedding light on an issue plaguing rural America, SILO shows how dangerous modern farming can be, while also highlighting...
4) Possessor
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Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to possess civilians and execute priority targets. But the tables turn when while on assignment, Vos is suddenly trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.
5) Wildland
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Film Movement
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Following a car accident that kills her mother, seventeen-year-old Ida moves in with her estranged aunt and her aunt's grown sons. The home is filled with physical tenderness and love, but outside of the home, the family leads a violent and criminal life. When an unforeseen murder pressures the family and their loyalty to each other, tension builds as love and violence become impossible to separate. Ida is faced with the same question her mother faced...
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Kino Lorber
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Discovering that exiled Algerian OAS terrorist Sadiel (Gian Maria Volontè, For a Few Dollars More) is about to return to France, both the CIA and the French Secret Service go on red alert. They blackmail a journalist, François Darien (Jean-Louis Trintignant, The Conformist), into helping them to entice Sadiel to Paris, in order to assassinate him. Meanwhile Michael Howard (Roy Scheider, The Seven-Ups) discovers the double-cross, only to be warned...
7) Clarissa
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BBC Video
Pub. Date
2005
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2 DVDs (ca. 201 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Based on the 18th century novel by Samuel Richardson, this is the original tale of fatal attraction and dangerous liasons. A wealthy young heiress, famed for her virtue, is sought by a man wishing to seduce and destroy her reputation. For the first time in his life he becomes genuinely infatuated with his prey, and sows the seeds of his own fate.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
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xv, 284 p. ; 22 cm.
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Discusses how to design, draft, write, and revise a thriller novel or screenplay, with examples from books and movies, covering topics such as characters, opening scenes, how to maintain tension and create conflicts and obstacles, incorporate plot twists, and other related topics.
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Vertical Entertainment
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Three childhood friends in a working-class New England town come together for a whiskey-fueled celebration that rapidly escalates in SMALL ENGINE REPAIR, a pitch-black comedic drama with a wicked twist from writer, director and actor John Pollono (Stronger), adapted for the screen from his award-winning play.
10) Nuts
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The pending case: the People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she’s shocking. Outspoken. Explosive. Defiant. But is she “nuts?” Barbra Streisand is Claudia and Richard Dreyfuss is her public defender in the blistering courtroom thriller NUTS and their first-time pairing results in “the dramatic performances of their careers” (Pat Collins, WWOR-TV New York). The sterling...
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IFC Films
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Three years ago, master criminal Jacob Sternwood escaped London during a daring robbery that left detective Max Lewinsky physically and emotionally scarred. When a failed heist puts Sternwood's son in a hospital, the fugitive is forced to come out of hiding, giving Max his second chance to get the one criminal who got away. But as Max returns to the pursuit of his arch-nemesis, he begins to uncover evidence of a vast conspiracy that may put him in...
12) Freaks
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Kept locked inside the house by her father, 7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, where Abnormals create a constant threat -- or so she believes. When a mysterious stranger offers her a glimpse of what's really happening outside, Chloe soon finds that while the truth isn't so simple, the danger is very real.
13) October Gale
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Patricia Clarkson and Scott Speedman star as a doctor and a hunted man being stalked by a killer on a remote island in this edge-of-your-seat thriller. Tim Roth co-stars.
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IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (97 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Dev Patel stars as a man with a secret who is forced on the run across East Asia after kidnapping a bride to be in this noir thriller from director Michael Winterbottom.
15) The Dig
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find his victim’s father searching for the body on an endless bog. When he asks the local police officer to remove the man from his land, he soon realizes that the police and community want the killer in their midst gone for good. With no memory of the murder and no way of stopping Sean, Callahan’s only option is to join THE DIG.
16) Hidden Agenda
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
1990.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Frances McDormand and Brian Cox confront danger and deception at every turn in this chilling and explosive story set in strife-torn Northern Ireland. American activist Paul Sullivan (Brad Dourif) and his fiancé Ingrid Jessner (McDormand) journey to Belfast to probe allegations of human rights abuses by British security forces. Now, with their safety in jeopardy, they must decide whether to risk everything to uncover a shocking high-level conspiracy....
17) Rendition
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (122 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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What if someone you knew just ... "disappeared"? Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep and Alan Arkin star a harrowing thriller--a story that could happen to anyone today--a tale of RENDITION. When an Egyptian engineer "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington, D.C., his American wife (Academy Award winner Witherspoon--Walk the Line) and a CIA analyst (Academy Award nominee Gyllenhaal--Brokeback Mountain) who witnesses his torture...
18) Trafficked
Publisher
Epic Pictures Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Inspired by real characters, three girls attempt a daring escape from an elaborate human trafficking network.
19) Wake in Fright
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
1971.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Considered a classic of Australian New Wave cinema, WAKE IN FRIGHT tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s descent into demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in the outback.
20) Monos
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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MONOS is a breathtaking saga where the mission of teenage soldiers descends into chaos and the strong begin to prey on the weak on a remote mountain in Latin America. Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
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