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Kinostart: 1960

Studio: Screen Classics Inc.

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 82

Zusammenfassung: From dust-bowl days in Oklahoma to an opulent Florida hideout under siege, Ma Barker (Lurene Tuttle of "Psycho"), leads her sons astray while maintaining a consultation sideline for the likes of John Dillinger, Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis, Baby Face Nelson and Machine Gun Kelly.

Kinostart: 2004

Studio: Filmax Group

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 101

Zusammenfassung: Trevor Reznik is a machinist in a factory. An extreme case of insomnia has led to him not sleeping in a year, and his body withering away to almost nothing. He has an obsessive compulsion to write himself reminder notes and keep track of his dwindling weight, both scribbled on yellow stickies in his apartment. The only person he lets into his life in an emotional sense is Stevie, a prostitute, although he has an infatuation with Maria, a single mother waitress working in an airport diner. His co-workers don't associate with and mistrust him because of not knowing what is going on in his life that has led to his emaciated physical appearance. A workplace incident further alienates him with his coworkers, and in conjunction with some unfamiliar pieces of paper he finds in his apartment, Trevor believes that someone or some people - probably one or some of his coworkers - are out to get him, using a phantom employee named Ivan as their front. As Trevor goes on a search for evidence as to...

Kinostart: 2004

Studio: Paramount Pictures

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 129

Zusammenfassung: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened -- or didn't happen -- in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

Kinostart: 2000

Studio: Newmarket Capital Group

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 113

Zusammenfassung: Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each time.

Kinostart: 2007

Studio: Samuels Media

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 119

Zusammenfassung: Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm's fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling habits have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel.

Kinostart: 1978

Studio: Casablanca Filmworks

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 121

Zusammenfassung: On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who actually sold him the hash. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich, and one of the senior prisoners having already ...

Kinostart: 2019

Studio: B-Reel Films

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 147 min

Zusammenfassung: Obwohl ihre Beziehung kriselt, schließt sich Dani ihrem Freund Christian auf einen Sommertrip in einen kleinen Ort in Schweden an. Gemeinsam mit Christians Clique sind sie zu einem einmaligen Mittsommerfestival eingeladen. Doch der anfänglich idyllische Eindruck der abgelegenen Gemeinschaft trügt, die freundlichen Dorfbewohner verhalten sich nach und nach merkwürdiger: Sie bereiten sich auf ein besonderes Mittsommer-Ritual vor, das nur alle 90 Jahre zelebriert wird. Was als puritanisches Fest der Liebe und Glückseligkeit beginnt, nimmt bald eine unheimliche Wendung, die das sonnengeflutete Paradies bis in die Eingeweide erschüttert.

Kinostart: 2002

Studio: Lakeshore Entertainment

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 119

Zusammenfassung: John Klein is involved in a car accident with his wife, but while he is unharmed, his wife mentions a moth shaped creature appearing. After her death, John begins to investigate the secrets behind this mentioned Mothman. It takes him to a small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, where he discovers a connection with the same problem. Here he meets Connie Mills, while he continues to unravel the mystery of what the Mothman really is.

Kinostart: 2007

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 120

Zusammenfassung: Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer known as the Thumbprint Killer. He has been attending AA meetings and has kept his addiction to killing under control for two years now but his alter ego, Marshall, has re-appeared and is pushing him to kill again. When he does kill a couple while they are making love, he is seen and photographed by someone who also has his own death and murder fetish. In a parallel story, the police detective investigating the murder is having problems of her own. She is going through a messy divorce and a violent criminal who had vowed revenge some years before has escaped from prison and is after her.

Kinostart: 2003

Studio: Warner Bros.

Genre: Thriller

Länge: 138

Zusammenfassung: Childhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine and Dave Boyle reunite following the death of Jimmy's oldest daughter, Katie. Sean's a police detective on the case, gathering difficult and disturbing evidence; he's also tasked with handling Jimmy's rage and need for retribution.