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Fury(2014)

Κ-12
| 2h 15min | War, Drama, Action
3.8/5 (with 5,368 votes)

In the last months of World War II, as the Allies make their final push in the European theatre, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant named 'Wardaddy' commands a Sherman tank called 'Fury' and its five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

Directed by David Ayer - With Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña, Jon Bernthal, Jason Isaacs, ...
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Infinity Pool(2023)

1h 57min | Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 236 votes)

While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and find themselves in a culture filled with violence, hedonism, and untold horror. A tragic accident leaves them facing a zero tolerance policy for crime: either you'll be executed, or, if you’re rich enough to afford it, you can watch yourself die instead.

Directed by Brandon Cronenberg - With Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman

What Happened to Monday(2017)

2h 3min | Science Fiction, Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Action
3.6/5 (with 2,804 votes)

In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.

Directed by Tommy Wirkola - With Willem Dafoe, Noomi Rapace, Glenn Close, Pål Sverre Hagen, Vegar Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, ...

Looper(2012)

Κ-15
| 1h 58min | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 4,661 votes)

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Directed by Rian Johnson - With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels, ...

Hitman: Agent 47(2015)

K18
| 1h 36min | Action, Crime, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 1,348 votes)

An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.

Directed by Aleksander Bach - With Rupert Friend, Angelababy, Dan Bakkedahl, Nils Brunkhorst, Michaela Caspar, Ciarán Hinds, ...
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Hitman(2007)

16
| 1h 29min | Action, Thriller, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1,428 votes)

A genetically engineered assassin with deadly aim, known only as "Agent 47" eliminates strategic targets for a top-secret organization. But when he's double-crossed, the hunter becomes the prey as 47 finds himself in a life-or-death game of international intrigue.

Directed by Xavier Gens - With Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Robert Knepper, Olga Kurylenko, Ulrich Thomsen, James Faulkner, ...
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within(2010)

1h 55min | Drama, Action, Crime
3.9/5 (with 783 votes)

After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human Right Aids member Diogo Fraga of execution of prisoners. Matias is transferred to the corrupted Military Police and Nascimento is exonerated from the BOPE by the Governor.

Directed by José Padilha - With Wagner Moura, Milhem Cortaz, Maria Ribeiro, Adriano Garib, André Mattos, André Ramiro, ...

No Escape(2015)

K15
| 1h 43min | Thriller
3.5/5 (with 1,128 votes)

In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.

Directed by John Erick Dowdle - With Lake Bell, Owen Wilson, Pierce Brosnan, Sterling Jerins, Claire Geare

Fallen(1998)

2h 4min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 610 votes)

Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.

Directed by Gregory Hoblit - With Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini, Elias Koteas, ...
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War Horse(2011)

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| 2h 26min | War, Drama, Action
3.6/5 (with 1,521 votes)

On the brink of the First World War, Albert's beloved horse Joey is sold to the Cavalry by his father. Against the backdrop of the Great War, Joey begins an odyssey full of danger, joy, and sorrow, and he transforms everyone he meets along the way. Meanwhile, Albert, unable to forget his equine friend, searches the battlefields of France to find Joey and bring him home.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Peter Mullan, Niels Arestrup, Benedict Cumberbatch, ...

Two Mules for Sister Sara(1970)

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| 1h 54min | Adventure, War, Western
3.5/5 (with 236 votes)

When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.

Directed by Don Siegel - With Clint Eastwood, Shirley MacLaine, Alberto Morin, Armando Silvestre, Manolo Fábregas, Enrique Lucero, ...

Oxen Split Torturing(1976)

1h 20min | Horror, Drama
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1 - During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. After Iori refuses to participate any longer he is exiled, but vows to get her back no matter what it takes. 2 - When Sutezo is forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, he becomes friends with a young girl named Sato in process. Together, they both escape and try to get by on scams and petty theft.

Directed by Yūji Makiguchi
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Pink Flamingos(1972)

1h 32min | Comedy, Crime
3.1/5 (with 203 votes)

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Directed by John Waters - With Divine, Danny Mills, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, ...

Love and Death(1975)

1h 25min | Comedy, History, War
3.8/5 (with 374 votes)

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, Jessica Harper, Harold Gould, James Tolkan, Féodor Atkine, ...
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1900(1976)

5h 17min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 271 votes)

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci - With Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda, Alida Valli, ...

New Order(2020)

1h 28min | Thriller, Drama
3.3/5 (with 132 votes)

In the near future, a popular uprising in Mexico City interrupts a wedding held at the home of a wealthy family. After the riots have been quashed, they discover the bride has gone missing and plea with the military to help locate her.

Directed by Michel Franco - With Diego Boneta, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Naian González Norvind, Mónica del Carmen

Circle(2015)

1h 27min | Science Fiction, Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Horror
3.0/5 (with 848 votes)

In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.

Directed by Mario Miscione, Aaron Hann - With Carter Jenkins, Julie Benz
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Frontier(s)(2007)

1h 48min | Drama, Horror, Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 331 votes)

A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

Directed by Xavier Gens - With Karina Testa, Samuel Le Bihan, Amélie Daure, Adel Bencherif, Aurélien Wiik, Chems Dahmani, ...

Ted Bundy(2002)

1h 39min | Crime, Drama, Horror
2.9/5 (with 66 votes)

Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, escape from prison (twice), his final killing spree to his trial, conviction and execution.

Directed by Matthew Bright - With Michael Reilly Burke, Boti Bliss, Steffani Brass, Eric Da Re, Tricia Dickson, Tracey Walter, ...

Dark Night of the Scarecrow(1981)

1h 36min | Horror, TV Movie
3.3/5 (with 62 votes)

Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.

Directed by Frank De Felitta - With Larry Drake

The Walking Dead(1936)

1h 6min | Crime, Horror, Science Fiction
3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Down-on-his-luck John Ellman is framed for a judge's murder. After he's convicted and sentenced to death, witnesses come forth and prove his innocence. But it was too late for a stay to be granted and Ellman is executed. A doctor uses an experimental procedure to restore him to life, though the full outcome is other than expected.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Barton MacLane, Henry O'Neill, ...

The Odessa File(1974)

2h 10min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 76 votes)

After reading the diary of an elderly Jewish man who committed suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself involved with the powerful organisation of former SS members—called ODESSA—as well as with the Israeli secret service. Miller probes deeper and eventually discovers a link between the SS-Captain, ODESSA and his own family.

Directed by Ronald Neame - With Jon Voight, Maximilian Schell, Maria Schell, Derek Jacobi, Hannes Messemer, Mary Tamm, ...
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The Medusa Touch(1978)

1h 45min | Horror, Thriller, Science Fiction, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 71 votes)

A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.

Directed by Jack Gold - With Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jeremy Brett, ...

Salem Witch Trials(2002)

4h | Drama, History, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 15 votes)

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women.

Directed by Joseph Sargent - With Kirstie Alley

Sebastiane(1976)

1h 26min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 34 votes)

Rome, AD 303. Emperor Diocletian demotes his favourite, Sebastian, from captain of the palace guard to the rank of common soldier and banishes him to a remote coastal outpost where his fellow soldiers, weakened by their desires, turn to homosexual activities to satisfy their needs. Sebastian becomes the target of lust for the officer Severus, but repeatedly rejects the man's advances. Castigated for his Christian faith, he is tortured, humiliated and ultimately killed.

Directed by Derek Jarman - With Leonardo Treviglio, Lindsay Kemp, Barney James, Richard Warwick

Mary of Scotland(1936)

2h 3min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

Directed by John Ford - With Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, John Carradine, Ian Keith, Moroni Olsen, Donald Crisp, ...

The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots(1895)

1min | History, Horror
3.1/5 (with 44 votes)

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it. The executioner lifts his axe ready to bring it down. After that frame Mary has been replaced by a dummy. The axe comes down and severs the head of the dummy from the body. The executioner picks up the head and shows it around for everyone else to see. One of the first camera tricks to be used in a movie.

Directed by Alfred Clark - With Robert Thomae

Mary, Queen of Scots(1971)

2h 8min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the age of 23 by her cousin Elizabeth Tudor, the English Queen and her arch adversary. Nineteen years later the life of Mary is to be ended on the scaffold and with her execution the last threat to Elizabeth's throne has been removed. The two Queens with their contrasting personalities make a dramatic counterpoint to history.

Directed by Charles Jarrott - With Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Timothy Dalton, Nigel Davenport, Patrick McGoohan, Trevor Howard, ...

The 13 Roses(2007)

1h 40min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 36 votes)

True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.

Directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro - With Goya Toledo, Asier Etxeandía, Pilar López de Ayala, Gabriella Pession, Miren Ibarguren, Adriano Giannini, ...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge(1961)

28min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 37 votes)

A southerner in the American Civil War is about to be hanged from a bridge for sabotage when the noose suddenly breaks. After he plunges into the water below, he must find a way to free himself, evade enemy forces and flee to safety.

Directed by Robert Enrico
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