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Mister Foe

2007 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 Stars

In a darkly twisted plot, teenage voyeur Hallam Foe spies on his stepmother through binoculars, finding himself irresistibly attracted to her even as he becomes convinced that she murdered his mother.
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Under Still Waters

2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 Stars

While sorting out their relationship problems at a remote lake house, married couple Charlie (Lake Bell) and Andrew (Jason Clarke) cross paths with a mysterious stranger named Jacob (Clifton Collins Jr.), whose unexplained presence threatens to derail their progress and puts their lives at risk. Writer Carolyn Miller also directs this psychological thriller with a surprising twist. Frankie Ingrassia co-stars.
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Blood River

2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 Stars

Scratch beneath their smooth yuppie surface and a wealth of secrets emerges after husband and wife Clark (Ian Duncan) and Summer (Tess Panzer) encounter car trouble and find themselves injured and stranded in the Nevada desert. Salvation -- they think -- comes in the form of a ghost town named Blood River and the gospel-spewing itinerant they encounter there. But soon they realize that the helpful stranger might not be so helpful after all.
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Blood Pressure

2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 Stars

Discontent with her family life and career, a woman begins receiving letters from a secret admirer. Intrigued by this mystery figure, she agrees to continue accepting the correspondence, which contains increasingly strange messages and instructions.
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Obsession

1976 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

While vacationing in Italy, Michael Courtland (Cliff Robinson) spots a mysterious woman (Genevive Bujold) bearing an eerie resemblance to his late wife -- who, along with his daughter, was killed 15 years earlier. Blinded by grief, Michael pursues the beautiful doppelganger, but winning her heart turns out to be a dubious prize. Brian De Palma helmed this unabashed homage to director Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller Vertigo.
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Hanky Panky

1982 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

While searching for her brother's killers and being pursued by a dangerous foe (Richard Widmark), Kate Hellman (Gilda Radner) and Michael Jordan (Gene Wilder) embark on a harried cross-country journey that takes them everywhere from the Grand Canyon to New York City. The two can't help but find themselves in myriad hilarious quandaries in director Sidney Poitier's quixotic, Hitchcock-inspired thriller. Robert Prosky and Josef Sommer co-star.
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The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

1990 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

Comic Andrew Dice Clay stars as a private investigator trying to make sense of a rash of murders that has left a string of music-industry victims in its wake. The most recent casualty: a disc jockey with a penchant for verbal attacks.
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Freedomland

2006 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

When a single mother reports that her infant son was murdered by a black man from the projects, an intrepid African-American detective and a white journalist team up to dig for details but what they unearth is hard to believe.
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House of 9

2005 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

Nine unsuspecting victims are trapped in a mansion and their every move is being filmed. Promising $5 million to the player who emerges victorious, their unseen captor uses them as pawns in a horrifying and demented "game."
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Afterwards

2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

Hotshot New York attorney Nathan Del Amico (Romain Duris) is skeptical when the strange Doctor Kay (John Malkovich) claims that he can sense when someone is about to die -- until inexplicable events cause Nathan to change his mind. Now believing that he sees signs of his own death, Del Amico takes the doctor's advice and begins making amends with his ex-wife (Evangeline Lilly) before it's too late. Gilles Bourdos directs this stylish thriller.
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Loft

2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

Five married men split the cost of renting an impressive loft, which they use for secret rendezvous with mistresses and one-night stands. But after discovering a woman's corpse in their apartment, the friends begin to turn against each other. This stylish and engrossing Belgian thriller from director Erik Van Looy stars Bruno Vanden Broucke, Matthias Schoenaerts, Filip Peeters, Koen De Graeve and Koen De Bouw.
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Tell Tale

2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

A single father is kept alive by another man's heart, which suits him fine until he discovers that the organ's original owner was murdered. Worried that he might come to a similar end, he embarks on a desperate search for the donor's killer.
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Buried

2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

While on a job in Iraq, civilian contractor Paul Conroy is attacked and kidnapped, then awakens to find himself buried alive in the middle of the desert with nothing but a lighter, a candle, a cell phone and a knife.
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True Nature

2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 Stars

The Pascal family has it all-- wealth, power, privilege-- but their lives change forever when their daughter disappears one night while running. She mysteriously returns a year later with no memory of what happened but haunted by strange visions.
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Anamorph

2007 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

NYPD detective Stan Aubray (Willem Dafoe) is obsessed with catching a serial killer whose slayings resemble a case Aubray solved years earlier. But the bizarre crime scenes require Aubray to study everything -- including his own dark past -- in a new light. The intricately plotted psychological thriller also stars Scott Speedman as a young maverick detective and Clea DuVall as a woman with a mysterious history.
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

Brad McCullum begins to have visions that make him believe he's living in a Sophocles play in this psychological thriller inspired by true events. The events he thinks he experiences lead him to commit a brutal, bloody crime with a sword.
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Freaky Faron

2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

After shooting and nearly killing a weatherman when she was 11 years old, Faron Hallowell (Courtney Halverson) claimed that alien beings ordered her to murder him. Now, fresh out of a five-year stay in a mental hospital, Faron finds herself beset by unexplained events. She'll have to use her supernatural powers to protect herself and those around her -- and to finally learn the truth about her identity -- in this sci-fi spine chiller.
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Stone

2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

Edward Norton plays a convicted arsonist who hopes to get out of prison early by putting to work the seductive talents of his beautiful wife, Lucetta. Robert De Niro plays the parole officer who's the target of the couple's cat-and-mouse scheming.
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Inspector Bellamy

2009 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

From renowned French director Claude Chabrol comes this intriguingly low-key police thriller in which vacationing detective Paul Bellamy (Gérard Depardieu) can't keep himself from getting involved when a mystery rears its head on holiday. Of course, his wife (Marie Bunel) is less than thrilled to share her vacation with criminals, and when Bellamy's brother pays an unexpected visit, the family tensions ratchet up as high as the professional ones.
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The Fields

2011 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

Based on chilling real-life incidents that occurred in Pennsylvania in 1973, this gripping horror film tells the tale of a young boy and his family whose ancestral farm has been mysteriously possessed by an evil, unfathomable presence.
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Bad Girl Island

2007 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

After 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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Stoker

2013 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 Stars

An impressionable teenager grieving for her late father lives with her unstable mother and is bewitched by her enigmatic uncle, who has mysterious motives for his sudden appearance in her life.
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The Limits of Control

2009 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 Stars

An enigmatic stranger (Isaach de Bankolé), with no friends to speak of and no one to trust, journeys to Madrid on a shadowy criminal mission. His moves are always marked with the knowledge that the law is never far behind.
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Twixt

2011 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 Stars

In this gothic horror film from Francis Ford Coppola, a has-been writer becomes embroiled in a murder mystery during a stop on his book tour. The ghost of a girl appears in his dream and reveals some surprising and dark secrets.
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