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One of the unemployed (Rafat) asks a friend of his (Ismat) to marry his elderly rich aunt (Iqbal), provided that they share her wealth after her death. They agree on a plan to kill (Iqbal) while she is in Switzerland, but The plan goes wrong.
A private eye investigates fraud in the world of horse racing.
Sumesh is depressed due to the fact that he is impotent and cannot have children. However, he learns that he has an illegitimate half-sister and soon tries to form a bond with her and her family.
A rich woman accidently comes across a conversation on the phone about people talking about a murder.
"Tenth of a Second" is the account of one man's desperate attempt to fight the oppressive apartheid regime of South Africa. This political thriller centres around Michael Wilder (James Whyle), a schoolteacher and political activist, with a failing marriage. Wilder is a member of the "Organisation" which is involved in subversive activities against the state. One day, Raymond (Nicky Rebelo), a fellow member, visits Wilder and leaves him with a suitcase containing a bomb. Wilder is expected to place in a busy shopping centre. But things do not go according to plan and the consequences of his actions result in devastating effects for Wilder and his grip on reality.
In the storm is a Mexican film of the year 1980 directed by Fernando Vallejo. The film is about the time of La Violencia in Colombia. Vallejo wanted to make the film in Colombia, however he found numerous obstacles to film it in the country so he decided to do it in Mexico with Mexican actors and recreating the Colombian landscapes in that country.
A child witnesses a murder. He is chased by the murderer to an empty building. The child tries to reach help by telephone.
The Deadly Dream is a crime thriller film based on a story written and directed by Adel Al-Aasar in 1986. The screenplay and dialogue were written by Atef Beshay , and the film stars Elham Shaheen , Youssef Shaaban , Mahmoud Massoud , Randa, Sabry Abdel Moneim , and Medhat Morsi . The film revolves around Rami, a young graduate and the only son of a wealthy widow, and his friendship with the beautiful young woman, Nany, who devises a plan with her lover, "The Prince," to control the young man and then push him to kill his mother. The film was released in Egyptian cinemas on June 7, 1986.
Raul Araiza's chilling Spanish-language supernatural thriller tells the tale of two powerful beings, one good and one evil incarnate, fighting for control of Earth--and of a beautiful woman.
The young teacher Marelle goes in search of her husband who mysteriously disappeared while attending the funeral of a childhood friend.
As a small local theatre and its players prepare for the final performance of a mystery thriller play, they find themselves held hostage by two escaped convicts who have chosen the theatre as a hideout.
The evil 'overseer' Rightmonger, a computer genius, is blackmailing the world's leaders for one trillion dollars. His diabolical plan seems unstoppable: He has instructed his personal satellite to randomly destroy countries by programming the world's video games and televisions for instant destruction on his command. Special agents form around the world gather to find the 'overseer's' master computer terminal and to put an end to his wicked plan. U.S. agent Scattergood finds himself working very closely with his beautiful Russian rival Natasha. The two superagents meet at Rightmonger's futuristic palace in Bastavia where an international video game championship is underway. The action soon comes to a dramatic climax as the world awaits the results of the video game championship when the egomaniac Rightmonger is challenged by a teenage boy. The future of the world rests in the hands of this young competitor.
An Iranian girl marries a man who has been loved by a witch- daughter of a jin, who tries to frighten the poor woman by showing herself in evil ways that make the poor woman go unconscious several times and her sister convinces the poor woman's husband to divorce her.
The plot revolves around a mysterious murder that occurs during a storm, with the victim found in a room locked from the inside. The investigation focuses on a group of people, each with their own secrets. The solution to the crime is tied to an ancient artifact, the "Judas Eye," which plays a crucial role in solving the mystery.
French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.
Does the devil wear white? In a small province, a certain Miss B leaves corpses in her wake and fuels a lot of superstitious gossip. Despite warnings from the villagers, a writer becomes interested in the case and decides to visit the mysterious young woman dressed in white.
A robber breaks into a house in the Santa Teresa district of Rio de Janeiro and kidnaps the family's youngest son. Based on a true kidnapping that happened in Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, whose victim, Carlinhos, has never been found to this day.
Kim and her gang embark on a wild cruise from Cocoa Beach, Florida. The weekend ends in a horror trip when the boat crashes on a remote island and they are stalked by a psycho.
Four persons, each of whom represents a particular aspect of a dependent society, hide in a villa located in the north of Iran. They are all involved in Operation Eagle Claw waiting to see its success. When the operations fails, their relations change. The one who is a symbol of a system viewpoint based on the domination of world powers, kills all his friends, and at last he encounters the youngest member of the group who has found out about his true nature and is killed by him; but before he dies, he kills this young man too.
An ambulance heads towards the "crossroads of the crow's feet" in response to an accident. Unable to find the place, the driver stops at an intersection to ask for directions from a dull-eared local.
Within an all-purpose institution that might be part hospital, part museum, part asylum and part morgue, three characters (a thief, a nurse and a blind man) share indeterminate relationships of desire and power.
When a Congressman's soldier son is gunned down in Germany, Military Investigator James Luke (Marland Proctor) is sent to solve the crime. Getting grief from his CO, Luke teams up with German cop Paul Steger (Hans Grabinger), who is not known for his subtlety with crooks (he kills them). The duo eventually uncover a radical terrorist organization led by a guy named The Professor who are planning to assassinate Jimmy Carter when he arrives in Munich.
During August 1943 the Nazis advance is stopped. In Sweden there are both German Gestapo agents and Norwegian Resistance men active.
Paroled pickpocket Charly Logan arrives in the Namibian coastal town of Angra Pequena where he very soon finds himself being hunted down for a murder he didn't commit.
A couple of rich women get captured by a group of terrorists, a crack team of mercenaries called Operation Hit Squad are called in to rescue them.
A patient escapes from a asylum and rapes some women.
Underground communists transport covert treasury to safe place secretly.
Flash (1987) A couple becomes hostage when a frantic soldier takes over their house. This social drama depicts the state of the Israeli society following the devastating 1984 war.
Roger Cunningham and his wife Valerie go on a camping trip with another couple and find themselves stranded. Arguments arise, and secrets begin coming out: accusations of affairs, marriages of convenience, and homosexuality
Raoul Duval is a physiotherapist in Cannes, dissatisfied with his marriage to the wealthy and capricious Véronique. When a notary informs him that he has inherited a fortune from an unknown biological father, Raoul sees it as a chance to free himself from his wife. But his joy is short-lived: a serious car accident leads him to discover an unknown woman in the hospital, hovering between life and death. He decides to take care of her, but soon realizes that she is connected to Véronique and that both women are involved in a complex scheme to deprive him of the inheritance.
Sami is a police officer who is chasing a drug smuggling gang without knowing that his wife Laila's brother Kamal is involved in their business, and that he had just returned from the British capital, London.
A black comedy dealing with oedipal conflicts, burning hot pizza and disfigurement. A tracking camera reveals a sleeping man named Melvin. In a period-piece dream (of his own childhood?) we see a young mother with a baby carriage and an older, heavy-set man with a cigar. When the carriage rolls down a staircase toward the man, his bulk fortunately stops it and saves the baby. Later, they meet again at a pizza parlor, where hot cheese from the slice he orders inadvertently slides in slow motion onto the baby. The dreamer awakens with a start revealing a face marred by burn scars. Showing the traumatic memory from the pizza parlor
Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror
A beach becomes a battlefield, where only the strongest will survive.
Bebawi: The Via Lazio Murder retraces the killing of an industrialist in 1964 and the attempt to bring to justice the two perpetrators who managed to escape after the first trial.
Sherine marries Ashraf against the wishes of her wealthy businessman father. Then Sherine disappears and her husband informs the police and tells them that the kidnappers offered him a million pounds to return her. The police officers discover Ashraf's involvement in his wife's disappearance and they locate Sherine and rescue her. Ashraf flees and the police chase him.
Fernando (Ace Vergel), a homicidal killer with a bent childhood is quickly sought out by the police. In hiding, he poses as a bus driver for an all girls high school, as they make their way to a retreat for relaxation and self discovery. The murderer raises the body count with the class' fodder, while keeping his 'protective' eyes singled on Chiqui (Snooky Serna).
The story, which was motivated by the Spanish flu epidemy in 1918, goes about total helplessness. In a non-identifiable country at the beginning of the century an organisation kidnaps a doctor from his apartment and alongside with several others transports him into a camp.
Cash-strapped Oregon winemakers turn to growing pot in order to finance their vineyard.
A Feature film by Mohamed Benayat.
The film revolves around Ekster. Ekster is the nickname of a shrewd extortionist who plays a game with the police. The action takes place in the diamond world.
Border guards discover footprints in the snow near the border and become suspicious.
A successful but highly stressed researcher goes to a psychiatrist after being plagued by creepy mysterious phone calls.
A journalist went to Shennongjia and kidnapped by the savages in the forest.
Graduation short from Paul Duane.
A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of placing a dummy on the side of the road and a dead man found found on the side of the road.
When a member of a group of occultists is violently slain, the rest repair to the woods, where they are haunted by an apparently supernatural force.
Five men escape from prison to get revenge on the accomplices who set them up for arrest.
Evil poachers killing rhino’s who turn to butchering humans instead, blah, blah, blah... Deon Stewardson kills the main villain in a fight at a taxidermists workshop - impaling him on, wait for it, wait for it... a rhino horn!
Strange occurrences in the home of a young man who believes he sees the ghost of his dead brother, in this 1980 short, low-budget, "HItchcockian" horror film, written, directed and originally edited by film auteur, Jose Pelaez.
Blanca, a brilliant young journalist who is writing a thesis on violence, is unaware that a psychopathic killer is on her trail.
A young man with telekinetic powers comes to stay in an old house inhabited by two sisters and there he has to face supernatural phenomena that reach their culmination when he is saved from dying by an old man murdered some time ago.
Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror