The Desperate Hours
Oct 05, 1955 | IMDB 7
112 min Watch NowCrime, Thriller
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
Crime, Thriller
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 2006
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IMDB 6.2 | Dec , 2005
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.Gorky Park
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 1983
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IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 2009
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IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 1974
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IMDB 6.5 | Aug , 2006
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IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 2000
The vice president is dead, and as the president makes his choice for a replacement, a secret contest of wills is being waged by a formidable rival. When Senator Laine Hanson is nominated as the first woman in history to hold the office, hidden agendas explode into a battle for power.D.O.A.
IMDB 6.3 | Mar , 1988
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney Fuller.Three
IMDB 5.5 | May , 2006
After a yachting accident, a millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked on a desert island along with their former deckhand, Manuel.Cellular
IMDB 6.4 | Sep , 2004
A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. She claims to have been kidnapped – and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.Mad City
IMDB 6.2 | Nov , 1997
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IMDB 5.3 | Jun , 2007
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IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1998
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IMDB 6.8 | Feb , 2001
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.Unbreakable
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 2000
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IMDB 6.7 | Mar , 2007
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.Tiger Zinda Hai
IMDB 6.3 | Dec , 2017
When a group of Indian and Pakistani nurses are held hostage in Iraq by a terrorist organization, a secret agent is drawn out of hiding to rescue them.Maigret at the Pigalle
IMDB 6.9 | Dec , 1966
Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.Knight Moves
IMDB 5.8 | Jan , 1992
A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster's innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.