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1) High-rise
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Laing is the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her...
3) Gold
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the not too distant future, two drifters traveling through the desert stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and the dream of immense wealth and greed takes hold. They hatch a plan to excavate their bounty with one man leaving to secure the necessary tools. The other man remains and must endure harsh desert elements, ravenous wild dogs, and mysterious intruders while battling the sinking suspicion that he has been abandoned to his fate....
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader based on his original screenplay, Master Gardener follows Narvel Roth, the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel's spartan...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Career con artist Roy Courtnay can hardly believe his luck when he meets well-to-do widow Betty McLeish online. As Betty opens her home and life to him, Roy is surprised to find himself caring about her, turning what should be a cut-and-dry swindle into the most treacherous tightrope walk of his life.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Able goes on the run from the high-level conspiracy, kidnapping Angela. Evelyn attempts to uncover where Able's mission went wrong, unassisted by bumbling morons she must climb over and elbow through while fighting to bring Able and his mysterious bag back in.
11) Cat Chaser
Author
Language
English
Description
Superstars Kelly McGillis ("The Accused," "Top Gun") and Peter Weller ("Robocop," "Leviathan") ignite a smoldering passion with chilling consequences in the erotic thriller CAT CHASER. Also starring two-time Academy Award-nominee Charles Durning.
12) 36 Saints
Author
Language
English
Description
Bodies are piling up and Manhattan police detectives Joseph and Michael are confronted with a series of ritualistic murders. As evidence mounts and more body bags are gathered, the detectives uncover the serial killer's sinister motive – that with the murder of 36 righteous individuals, the world will descend into eternal darkness.
13) My Stepdaughter
Author
Language
English
Description
Jill strives to connect with her new teenage stepdaughter, Casey, who is struggling with a dark past that leads her down a path of destruction.
14) Shuttle
Author
Language
English
Description
Two friends returning home from a weekend vacation in Mexico find themselves stranded at the airport. Trying to get home safely, they board an airport shuttle. The girls quickly realize that their night started like any other, but once their feet crossed the threshold of the shuttle, their ride home was going to be a descent into darkness.
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men who meet for the first time at that moment: Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at the university hoping to study with Seldom. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try...
16) The Life Zone
Author
Language
English
Description
Three pregnant women are kidnapped from abortion clinics and detained against their will for seven months until they give birth. The Life Zone cuts right down the middle, examining the topic of abortion from both sides. A rollercoaster suspense, from the mind of best-selling author Kenneth Del Vecchio, the film offers a powerful climatic twist, where there's room for only one side to succeed: pro-life or pro-choice.
17) Mortem
Author
Language
Français
Description
Mortem is a metaphysical thriller, the story of JENA a young woman who defies her own death during all one night. Multi Award Winning Film!
18) Gone Missing
Author
Language
English
Description
Loving but overprotective mom Rene's worst fears come true when her 18-year-old daughter Kaitlin and best friend Matty go missing during spring break. Rene will stop at nothing to find her daughter, even if it means starting her own investigation. With the help of her son and Matty's mom, she navigates San Diego's spring break scene, discovering some unsettling facts about Kaitlin's secret life. With the clock ticking, Rene gets closer and closer...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Woman In The Fifth follows American novelist Tom Ricks as he arrives in Paris determined to renew a relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. When the longed-for meeting goes poorly, he ends up in a seedy hostel on the outskirts of the city. Unable to pay for his room and board, he agrees to work as a night guard at a warehouse for the proprietor and spends the hours writing elaborate, imaginative letters to his daughter.
20) Sweet Karma
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of her sisters apparent murder, Karma sets off to infiltrate the criminal underworld to avenge her death. Her journey takes her through the twisted underbelly of society leaving behind death and mayhem in her wake.
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