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#FridayThrillerClub

90 movies  

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.

Additional info in collection entries

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  • Watch party announcement
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  • Stream in Mexico (& maybe elsewhere)

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

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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) [Movie]
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) [Movie] 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) [Movie]
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) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
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) [Movie]
In a Lonely Place
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Humphrey Bogart / Gloria Grahame …
other title: Il diritto di uccidere / Matar ou Não Matar …
A screenwriter with a violent temper is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him. However, she soon starts to have her doubts.
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The Petrified Forest (1936) [Movie] 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) [Movie] 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) [Movie]
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) [Movie]
Independence Day
6.9 (18 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) [Movie]
Jaws
8.0 (46 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) [Movie] 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) [Movie]
Outbreak
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) [Movie]
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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Falling Down (1993) [Movie]
Falling Down
7.4 (9 ratings) director: Joel Schumacher actor: Michael Douglas / Robert Duvall …
other title: Un giorno di ordinaria follia / Um Dia de Raiva …
An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
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Assassination Tango (2003) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Assassination Tango
director: Robert Duvall actor: Robert Duvall / Rubén Blades …
other title: Killing Moves
John J. is a seasoned hit man sent on a job to Argentina. When the General he's sent to kill delays his return to the country, John passes the time with Manuela, a beautiful dancer who becomes his teacher and guide into Argentina's sensual world of the tango.
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Colors (1988) [Movie]
Colors
director: Dennis Hopper actor: Sean Penn / Robert Duvall …
other title: Colors - Colori di guerra / Los Angeles a Ferro e Fogo …
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
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