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1) Prey
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
BAFTA nominated John Simm stars as Detective Constable Marcus Farrow in this fast-paced thriller. Farrow is a well-liked copper with an ex-wife and two kids. But when Farrow is found at the scene of a brutal crime, with all the evidence pointing towards him, his world collapses. Arrested and charged, it seems his fate is sealed. So when he gets the opportunity to escape, he seizes it with both hands. Now on the run, Farrow is not just trying to evade...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
When Ruth Blacksmith's new partner, Aidan, reveals that he once hurt a woman called Mary Trelease, Ruth is deeply worried. She raises her concerns with Detective Sergeant Charlie Zailer who is intrigued. But when Charlie decides to call in at Ruth's house, she finds a disturbing scene. Ruth's ex-husband, Jason Blacksmith, has been murdered. Charlie and Detective Simon Waterhouse investigate the case and find themselves divided over motives and suspects....
3) Whitechapel
Publisher
BBC Studios
Description
The streets of Whitechapel are awash with blood in this compelling crime drama. A murderer stalks the night, picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered. The locals live in fear and the police remain clueless. But this is not the 19th Century and the time of Jack the Ripper. This is now. Assigned to the case is fast-tracked DI Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing. Can Chandler...
Publisher
IFC Films
Formats
Description
While high up in the mountains, a group of climbers finds an eight-year-old girl who is terrified, dehydrated, and unable to speak a word of English. Alison, the leader of the group, convinces the others to help her rescue the girl. But when they attempt to bring her to safety they become involved in a kidnapping plot and soon must fight for their lives.
6) Rendition
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
What if someone you knew just ... "disappeared"? Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep and Alan Arkin star a harrowing thriller--a story that could happen to anyone today--a tale of RENDITION. When an Egyptian engineer "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington, D.C., his American wife (Academy Award winner Witherspoon--Walk the Line) and a CIA analyst (Academy Award nominee Gyllenhaal--Brokeback Mountain) who witnesses his torture...
7) Trafficked
Publisher
Epic Pictures Releasing
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Inspired by real characters, three girls attempt a daring escape from an elaborate human trafficking network.
10) Shadow Dancer
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When a young mother and true believer from a violent IRA family is captured by British spies, she is forced to betray everything she believes in for the sake of her son in this taut, high-stakes thriller.
11) The Perfect Host
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Warwick is the consummate host. John is a career criminal. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend. We become deeply intertwined in the lives of these two men and discover just how deceiving appearances can be. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**
12) The Dig
Publisher
Electric Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
After serving fifteen years for murder, Callahan returns home to find his victim’s father searching for the body on an endless bog. When he asks the local police officer to remove the man from his land, he soon realizes that the police and community want the killer in their midst gone for good. With no memory of the murder and no way of stopping Sean, Callahan’s only option is to join THE DIG.
14) Never Here
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Disturbing events lead an artist who photographs strangers to suspect that someone out there is watching HER. Boundaries blur between real and imaginary, crime and art, the watcher and the watched.
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Paulina Escobar is a political activist whose husband is a prominent lawyer in an unnamed South American country just out of a dictatorship. One day a storm forces her husband to ride home with a neighbor. That chance encounter brings up demons from her past, as she is convinced that the neighbor (Dr. Miranda) was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her, while blindfolded. Paulina takes him captive to determine the truth. Paulina...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Sarah Collins (Sarah Bolger, "Mayans M.C.", "The Tudors", Emelie) is a single mother struggling to raise two young children while searching for answers about the unsolved murder of her husband. After being coerced into helping a low-level drug dealer, she finds herself the target of a dangerous crime boss. Desperate to keep her family safe, Sarah turns the tables on her victimizers in one final act of brutal vengeance. Set in the dark underbelly of...
17) Surge
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Set over 24 hours in London, this stripped-back thriller follows a man who goes on a bold and reckless journey of self-liberation.
18) Exploited
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
As Brian checks into his dorm room, he discovers a thumb drive which includes files of a web cam model interacting with clients. But the last session ends in what may be a murder. He becomes obsessed with unravelling the story, but his quest becomes complicated when he falls in love with his roommate, who is already taken.
19) Last Seen Alive
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
When Will Spann’s (Gerard Butler) soon-to-be ex-wife Lisa (Jaimie Alexander) mysteriously disappears during a stop at a gas station, a frantic Will engages the local Sheriff (Russell Hornsby) in an increasingly desperate attempt to find her.
20) The Runner
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
After getting busted by the cops for drug possession, a troubled teenager is forced into a dangerous deal that will require him to go deep undercover and risk his life to help bring down a notorious drug kingpin.
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