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Last updated April 28, 2024
No Way Out
1987 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsAt a Washington, D.C., bash, Navy officer Tom begins a steamy liaison with Susan, later learning she's the mistress of the Secretary of Defense. When Susan ends up dead, Tom gets caught in a conspiratorial web that endangers national security.
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Fatal Attraction
1987 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsMarried Dan Gallagher gives in to the tantalizing flirtations of attractive Alex Forrest, and they embark on a steamy weekend fling. But Dan's passing indiscretion comes back to haunt him as an increasingly unhinged Alex refuses to let go.
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American Psycho
2000 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWith a chiseled chin and physique, Patrick Bateman's looks make him the ideal yuppie -- and the ideal serial killer. Bateman takes pathological pride in his business card and his CD collection, all while plotting his next victim's vivisection.
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Internal Affairs
1990 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen a newly minted Internal Affairs investigator trains his crosshairs on a manipulative, corrupt cop who's been involved in police brutality for years, the pursuit of justice turns into a personal vendetta in this slick thriller.
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Masquerade
1988 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsWhen her mother dies, millionaire heiress Olivia dives into an abyss of mourning, but resurfaces when she meets a sea captain who seems to love her for herself, not for her money. But Olivia slowly discovers that his intentions may not be so pure.
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Darkness Falls
1999 | NR | 3.3 out of 5 StarsWhile his pregnant wife languors in a coma after a car crash, John Barrett discovers she's been secretly carrying on with a married man who escaped from the accident alive. Now, John will do anything to find out what really happened that night.
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Black Day, Blue Night
1995 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsScorned wife Hallie (Mia Sara) and tough Rinda (Michelle Forbes), the woman who's been sleeping with Hallie's husband, forge a bond and leave their sleepy town on a road trip. When the unlikely pair picks up a mysterious hitchhiker (Gil Bellows), the women don't realize he may be a murderer. As the two spar over their new friend's affections, a police lieutenant (J.T. Walsh) trails the threesome, and details of the crime unfold.
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Rainbow Eyes
2007 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsCops Kyeong-yoon and Eun-ju investigate two grisly murders and learn both victims were once stationed at the same military base, along with one other. The police determine whether this third person may be the next victim in this intense thriller.
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4.3.2.1
2010 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsFour young women have three days to navigate two cities in their one chance to extricate themselves from a diamond heist into which they've stumbled. But with a fortune in stolen ice on the line, nobody's looking to let them off the hook.
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Second to Die
2001 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen snagging a rich husband fails to bring her happiness, Sarah Morgan decides he's worth more dead than alive. But her plan hits a snag when she can't collect on his insurance policy and realizes she may have to kill again to cover up her crime.
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Breaking the Girls
2013 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsCollege sophomores Sara and Alex, roommates who've become intimate, idly joke about killing each other's enemies. But now someone's been murdered. Was one of them taking things too far, or is someone else playing a deadly game with the lovers?
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Cold Sweat
1994 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsMark Cahill is a good family man with a loving wife and two wonderful children. Mark also happens to be a hit man who is haunted by his last victim, a blonde, who keeps appearing in his bedroom at the worst of times.
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Don't Look Now
1973 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter losing their daughter in a drowning accident, John and Laura Baxter relocate to Italy, where they meet a psychic who claims that she sees the child's spirit. Though Laura believes, John is dubious -- until he begins having psychic flashes.
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Swimming Pool
2003 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsFamous British mystery writer Sarah Morton (Charlotte Rampling) needs a break, so when her publisher, John Bosload (Charles Dance), offers to let her use his vacation home in southern France during the off-season, Sarah deems it the perfect opportunity for a breather. Her hopes for a carefree idyll are shattered, however, when John's shiftless and brazenly promiscuous daughter (Ludivine Sagnier) arrives and sweeps Sarah into her reckless world.
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Suspicious Minds
1997 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen a private eye agrees to trail the wife of a corporate fat cat who suspects she's cheating, it seems like a straightforward case. But the woman's lover turns up dead, and the detective is drawn into a plot to pin the murder on his client's enemy.
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Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen the daughter of prominent Tokyo businessman Mr. Nagara (Takeo Nakahara) commits suicide, Nagara's heartbroken employee Ishida (Hideo Sakaki) hires part-time hit woman Ryu (Rinko Kikuchi) to kill the man (Sergi López) perceived as responsible for the daughter's death. Meanwhile, a curious sound engineer becomes obsessed with Ryu and her life in this lyrical and mysterious drama from acclaimed Spanish director Isabel Coixet.
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X
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis steamy thriller follows veteran call girl Holly Rowe and teen runaway turned hooker Shay Ryan, strangers who find themselves thrown together and running for their lives through the sinister world of Sydney, Australia's underground sex trade.
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The Taste of Money
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this suspenseful erotic drama, the private male secretary and lover of Madam Baek, a Korean conglomerate's middle-aged matriarch, falls for her more genuine daughter. Meanwhile, Madam Baek's husband has an affair with the Filipino nanny.
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Pathology
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter a recent med school grad lands an internship at a prestigious pathology unit in a Philadelphia hospital, he soon finds his new colleagues have some pathological tendencies themselves.
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Body of Evidence
1993 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsA powerful, intelligent, successful and breathtakingly beautiful woman is on trial for the murder of her wealthy, older lover, whom the D.A. is convinced died as a result of an intense lovemaking session.
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The Chambermaid
2004 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsA hotel manager falls hard for a beautiful new chambermaid and unwittingly steps into a love triangle with the girl and her thuggish paramour. But he doesn't take kindly to being deceived -- and he intends to hold the guilty accountable.
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Hot Target
1985 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsChristine is married to a wealthy businessman, but she's bored with her role as a wife and mother. A chance meeting with a charming stranger ignites a spark, but little does she know that he's a thief, and she's his next target.
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The Advocate
1993 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsHow far jurisprudence has come! This medieval court drama is set in the days when humans and animals were believed to harbor the devil. Courtois, an educated lawyer (Colin Firth), leaves the big city to find peace in the countryside but soon discovers acts of murder and mayhem that are holding a small hamlet in fear. To the townsfolk, Courtois's intelligence is nearly as mysterious as witchcraft.
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Complicity
2000 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsCameron is a young journalist who has an interest in exposing the wrongs committed by the rich and powerful. His life turns upside down when someone starts murdering the people in his articles. All evidence points to Cameron, but is he guilty?
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Bad Girl Island
2007 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAfter a gorgeous temptress mysteriously appears on an exotic island in the Bermuda triangle, a film producer dreams of her seducing him -- then wakes to a nightmare with his best friend murdered and himself the prime suspect in this sexy thriller.
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