A Mighty Heart

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A Mighty Heart (2007)

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1994 ★ 7.1

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

Suburbia

Suburbia

1984 ★ 6.7

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like a family until a tragedy tears them apart.

Luckiest Girl Alive

Luckiest Girl Alive

2022 ★ 6.5

A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.

Cleveland Abduction

Cleveland Abduction

2015 ★ 7.2

A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

Hunting Season

Hunting Season

2025 ★ 6.9

When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.

The Brave One

The Brave One

2007 ★ 6.6

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

The Infernal Machine

The Infernal Machine

2022 ★ 6.2

Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he encounters leads to an emotional roller-coaster ride full of fear and danger, where things are not always as clear as they seem to be, and where past deeds can have dire consequences.

Brake

Brake

2012 ★ 5.8

A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.

Storm Warning

Storm Warning

1951 ★ 6.7

A fashion model witnesses the brutal assassination of an investigative journalist by the Ku Klux Klan while traveling to a small town to visit her sister.

Rampage: Capital Punishment

Rampage: Capital Punishment

2014 ★ 6.0

A man takes over a TV station and holds a number of hostages as a political platform to awaken humanity, instead of money.

The Rookie

The Rookie

1990 ★ 5.9

Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.

Unthinkable

Unthinkable

2010 ★ 6.8

The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.

Blindfire

Blindfire

2020 ★ 6.7

A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the person responsible while examining his own accountability and the ingrained racism which brought him to this point.

God Is a Bullet

God Is a Bullet

2023 ★ 6.0

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.

Midnight Express

Midnight Express

1978 ★ 7.4

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Profile

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2018 ★ 6.9

Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, a journalist creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

Essential Killing

Essential Killing

2010 ★ 5.9

A Taliban soldier struggles to survive after he escapes his captors and flees into the Polish countryside.

The Protector

The Protector

1985 ★ 6.0

Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate.

Murphy's Law

Murphy's Law

1986 ★ 6.1

A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974

2009 ★ 6.7

Yorkshire, 1974. Fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police investigation into a series of child abductions. When young Clare Kemplay goes missing, Eddie and his colleague, Barry, persuade their editor to let them investigate links with two similar abductions that draw them into a deadly world of secrecy, intimidation, shocking revelations and police brutality.

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