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The Equalizer(2014)

18
| 2h 12min | Thriller, Action, Crime
3.7/5 (with 4,167 votes)

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua - With Chloë Grace Moretz, Marton Csokas, Melissa Leo, Haley Bennett, Denzel Washington, David Harbour, ...
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Taxi Driver(1976)

18
| 1h 54min | Crime, Drama
4.1/5 (with 5,628 votes)

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, ...
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Heat(1995)

15
| 2h 50min | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
4.0/5 (with 3,084 votes)

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

Directed by Michael Mann - With Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, ...
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Zombieland(2009)

15
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Horror
3.6/5 (with 5,654 votes)

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

Directed by Ruben Fleischer - With Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Amber Heard, Bill Murray, ...
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The Accountant(2016)

15
| 2h 8min | Crime, Thriller, Drama
3.6/5 (with 2,709 votes)

As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

Directed by Gavin O'Connor - With Ben Affleck, Jeffrey Tambor, Anna Kendrick, Jon Bernthal, J. K. Simmons, John Lithgow, ...
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Predestination(2014)

15
| 1h 37min | Science Fiction, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 2,804 votes)

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

Directed by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig - With Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Christopher Kirby, Jim Knobeloch

I Don't Kiss(1991)

1h 55min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp.

Directed by André Téchiné - With Manuel Blanc, Philippe Noiret, Emmanuelle Béart, Grégory Herpe, Hélène Vincent, Ivan Desny, ...

Lou(2022)

1h 47min | Action, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 273 votes)

A young girl is kidnapped during a powerful storm. Her mother joins forces with her mysterious neighbour to set off in pursuit of the kidnapper. Their journey will test their limits and expose the dark secrets of their past.

The Haunting(1999)

12
| 1h 53min | Horror, Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery
2.7/5 (with 590 votes)

Dr. David Marrow invites three distinct individuals to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself — and they soon see the true nature of its horror.

Directed by Jan de Bont - With Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor, Bruce Dern, Marian Seldes, ...
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Pig(2021)

15
| 1h 32min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 578 votes)

A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.

Directed by Michael Sarnoski - With Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin, Gretchen Corbett

Ma(2019)

15
| 1h 39min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 971 votes)

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

Directed by Tate Taylor - With Octavia Spencer, Luke Evans, Juliette Lewis, Missi Pyle, Allison Janney

Harry Brown(2009)

18
| 1h 43min | Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
3.4/5 (with 434 votes)

An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.

Directed by Daniel Barber - With Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, David Bradley, Iain Glen, Plan B, Jack O'Connell, ...
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He Was a Quiet Man(2007)

15
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 131 votes)

A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him?

Directed by Frank Cappello - With Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H. Macy, John Gulager, Jamison Jones, Michael DeLuise, ...

Beast(2018)

15
| 1h 47min | Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Drama
3.3/5 (with 117 votes)

A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.

Directed by Michael Pearce - With Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James
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Crows Explode(2014)

2h 9min | Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.1/5 (with 42 votes)

A month after Genji Takiya graduates, a new battle for supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School begins. Transfer student Kaburagi Kazeo combats Kagami Ryohei for the coveted top spot, amidst a brewing inter-school conflict with Kurosaki Industrial High.

Directed by Toshiaki Toyoda - With Yūya Yagira, Taichi Saotome, Ryo Katsuji, Masahiro Higashide

A Single Shot(2013)

15
| 1h 56min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 98 votes)

The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

Directed by David M. Rosenthal - With Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, Ted Levine, Kelly Reilly, Jason Isaacs, Joe Anderson, ...
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Love Object(2003)

1h 28min | Drama, Horror, Romance / Love, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 33 votes)

The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.

Directed by Robert Parigi - With Desmond Harrington, Melissa Sagemiller, Rip Torn

Vincent N Roxxy(2016)

1h 50min | Drama, Crime, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 41 votes)

A small town loner and a rebellious punk rocker unexpectedly fall in love as they are forced on the run and soon discover violence follows them everywhere.

Directed by Gary Michael Schultz - With Emile Hirsch, Zoë Kravitz, Zoey Deutch, Emory Cohen, Kid Cudi, Jason Mitchell, ...

Conquest(1983)

1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
2.8/5 (with 22 votes)

A young man, armed with a magical bow and arrows, embarks on a mystical journey through a mystical land to rid it of all evil and joins forces with an outlaw to take down an evil witch bent on claiming the magic bow for evil.

Directed by Lucio Fulci - With Jorge Rivero, Andrea Occhipinti, Sabrina Siani, Gioia Scola, Conrado San Martín

Red Mist(2008)

18
| 1h 38min | Thriller, Horror
2.6/5 (with 29 votes)

A young doctor in a US hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition.

Directed by Paddy Breathnach - With Arielle Kebbel, Stephen Dillane, Andrew-Lee Potts, Sarah Carter, Katie McGrath

P(2005)

1h 50min | Horror, Drama
2.7/5 (with 37 votes)

An orphan girl taught magic by her sick grandma must find work in seedy Bangkok, where she encounters a number of unsavory characters. She uses the magical skills her grandmother taught her to her advantage and to increasingly horrific consequences.

Directed by Paul Spurrier - With Suangporn Jaturaphut
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Daphne(2017)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 26 votes)

Daphne is a young woman negotiating the tricky business of modern life. Caught in the daily rush of her restaurant job and a nightlife kaleidoscope of new faces, she is witty, funny, the life of the party. Too busy to realise that deep down she is not happy. When she saves the life of a shopkeeper stabbed in a failed robbery, the impenetrable armour she wears to protect herself begins to crack, and Daphne is forced to confront the inevitability of a much-needed change in her life.

Beautiful(2009)

1h 37min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.5/5 (with 21 votes)

After another teenager disappears from the idyllic suburb of Sunshine Hills, Suzy, the girl-next-door of every boy's dreams, persuades Daniel, a fourteen-year-old with an obsessive crush, to help her uncover the truth.

Directed by Dean O'Flaherty - With Deborra-Lee Furness, Peta Wilson, Sebastian Gregory, Tahyna Tozzi, Erik Thomson, Asher Keddie, ...

Ballade vir 'n Enkeling(2015)

2h 16min | Romance / Love, Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

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Directed by Quentin Krog

Light of My Eyes(2001)

2h 3min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.

Directed by Giuseppe Piccioni - With Luigi Lo Cascio, Sandra Ceccarelli, Silvio Orlando, Toni Bertorelli, Valeria Sabel, Massimo Gaudioso, ...

His Memoir(2019)

50min | Action, Thriller

Partially inspired by real events, this thrilling non-linear actioner features Prashast Singh in the lead role of his own name, as a white collar worker who turns to violence when he is humiliated for being left-handed. He lands into physical and mental troubles when the tables end up turning a lot more than he expected. Knocked to the ground with almost nothing in his favor, he must prepare for an ultimate battle!

The Girl from the Wardrobe(2013)

1h 30min | Drama, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.

Directed by Bodo Kox - With Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Olga Bołądź

The Pigeon(2018)

1h 18min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Yusuf is a youngster living with his sister and brother in one of Adana’s suburbs. On the roof of the house where they live, he passionately feeds and raises the pigeons bequeathed by his father. He has got a special bond with a female pigeon named Maverdi. His brother forces him to work and to earn money. Yusuf who doesn’t know any other world than the one with his pigeons on the roof will face the labor life and the realities of his neighborhood.

Directed by Banu Sivaci

The Projectionist(1971)

1h 28min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.

Directed by Harry Hurwitz - With Chuck McCann, Rodney Dangerfield, Ina Balin, Jára Kohout, Harry Hurwitz, João R. Fernandes, ...

Beheaded(2019)

46min | Action, Thriller

Troubled by his traumatic past, Jagan plans to exact revenge on 13 people by giving each one of them similar punishments they all gave him.

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