Detour
A young law student, grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
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Run
1991★ 6.0
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A Dry White Season
1989★ 6.7
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2013★ 6.4
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The International
2009★ 6.3
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2001★ 6.6
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The Black Book
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1996★ 7.2
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Ca$h
2010★ 5.8
A stroke of good luck turns lethal for Sam Phelan and his wife Leslie when they are faced with a life-changing decision that brings strange and sinister Pyke Kubic to their doorstep. As Pyke leads Sam and Leslie on a tumultuous adventure through the streets of Chicago, each are pulled deeper and deeper into a desperate spiral of deception and violence – all in the name of money.
Hellion
2014★ 5.9
When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to bring Wes home.
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When twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
Phantom Halo
2014★ 5.9
Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do bring home. They hatch a plan for a robbery but at what price?
The Safety of Objects
2002★ 6.5
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Strange Weather
2016★ 5.8
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Body Cam
2020★ 6.2
As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.
Nightman
2023★ 5.9
A young pregnant woman discovers that her perfect boyfriend may be a dangerous sleepwalker when she finds out of strange disappearances and murders taking place in the region.
Border Hunters
2025★ 6.2
After his police officer brother is killed by a drug dealer who flees to the protection of his cartel-connected uncle in Mexico, an American man with a diverse law enforcement/military background goes south of the border to get revenge
Point Blank
2019★ 6.0
A nurse is forced to spring a wounded murder suspect from the hospital when the man’s brother kidnaps his pregnant wife and wants to make a trade.
Alex of Venice
2015★ 5.9
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.
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2022★ 6.3
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Dead Man Down
2013★ 6.2
In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.