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#FridayThrillerClub

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Movies from the #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon

Every Friday (7.30pm US Eastern time), watch a thrilling movie and join in by posting on Mastodon with the #FridayThrillerClub hashtag.

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This collection is a work in progress, working backwards. Currently goes back to start of 2025.

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Dirty Harry 2 Magnum Force (1973)
Magnum Force
director: 泰德·珀斯特 actor: Clint Eastwood / 哈尔·霍尔布鲁克 …
other title: Magnum Force / 辣手神探追魂枪 …
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who have taken justice into their own hands. When shady characters are murdered one after another in grisly fashion, only Dirty Harry can stop them.
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Dirty Harry (1971)
Dirty Harry
★ 7.0 (7 ratings) director: Don Siegel actor: Clint Eastwood / Harry Guardino …
other title: Ispettore Callaghan: Il caso Scorpio è tuo!! / A Fúria da Razão …
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
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Bullitt (1968)
Bullitt
director: Peter Yates actor: Steve McQueen / Robert Vaughn …
other title: 布利特 / 浑身是胆 …
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hitmen enter the scene, Bullitt follows their trail through a maze of complications and double-crosses. This thriller includes one of the most famous car chases ever filmed.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
The Thomas Crown Affair
director: Norman Jewison actor: Steve McQueen / Faye Dunaway …
other title: Il caso Thomas Crown / Thomas Crown & Co. …
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
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The Cincinnati Kid (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Cincinnati Kid
director: Norman Jewison actor: Steve McQueen / Edward G. Robinson …
other title: Cincinnati Kid / Højt spil i New Orleans …
An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
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The Great Escape (1963)
The Great Escape
★ 7.3 (9 ratings) director: John Sturges actor: Steve McQueen / James Garner …
other title: La grande fuga / Den store flugt …
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.
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The Desperate Hours (1955)
The Desperate Hours
director: William Wyler actor: Humphrey Bogart / Fredric March …
other title: Ore disperate / Desperate Timer …
Escaped convicts terrorize a suburban family they're holding hostage.
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In a Lonely Place (1950)
In a Lonely Place
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gloria Grahame …
other title: Il diritto di uccidere / Matar ou Não Matar …
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
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The Petrified Forest (1936) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Petrified Forest
director: Archie Mayo actor: Leslie Howard / Bette Davis …
other title: La foresta pietrificata / A Floresta Petrificada …
Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.
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Cruel Jaws (1995) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cruel Jaws
director: Bruno Mattei actor: David Luther / George Barnes Jr. …
other title: Fauci Crudeli - Cruel Jaws / The Beast - Unheimliche Tiefe …
A tiger shark bred by the Navy as a killing machine is wreaking havoc in the sleepy tourist town of Hampton Bay.
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Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Jaws: The Revenge
director: Joseph Sargent actor: Lorraine Gary / Lance Guest …
other title: Lo squalo 4 - La vendetta / Dødens gab 4: Hævnen …
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
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Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day
★ 6.9 (19 ratings) director: Roland Emmerich actor: Will Smith / Bill Pullman …
other title: Dia da Independência / Dia de la independencia
Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
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Jaws (1975)
Jaws
★ 8.0 (47 ratings) director: Steven Spielberg actor: Roy Scheider / Robert Shaw …
other title: Lo squalo / Dødens gab …
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled hunter embark on a desperate quest to destroy the beast before it strikes again.
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52 Pick-Up (1986) WikiData IMDb TMDB
52 Pick-Up
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Roy Scheider / Ann-Margret …
other title: 52 gioca o muori / Afpresning …
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
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Outbreak (1995)
Outbreak
★ 4.2 (5 ratings) director: Wolfgang Petersen actor: Dustin Hoffman / Rene Russo …
other title: Virus letale / Outbreak - Fora de Controlo …
A deadly airborne virus finds its way into the USA and starts killing off people at an epidemic rate. Col. Sam Daniels' job is to stop the virus spreading from a small town, which must be quarantined, and to prevent an over reaction by the White House.
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The Stepford Wives (1975)
The Stepford Wives
★ 8.1 (8 ratings) director: Bryan Forbes actor: Katharine Ross / Paula Prentiss …
other title: La fabbrica delle mogli / Dukke-kvinderne …
Joanna Eberhart has come to the quaint little town of Stepford, Connecticut with her family, but soon discovers there lies a sinister truth in the all too perfect behavior of the female residents.
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