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Deep Cover (1992) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Deep Cover
director: Bill Duke actor: Larry / Jeff Goldblum …
other title: Massima copertura / Cobertura Total …
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
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Frenzy (1972) Douban TMDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb ReviewDB NeoDB WikiData
Frenzy
7.8 (5 ratings) director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Jon Finch / Barry Foster …
other title: Vildt Raseri / Frenzy — Perigo na Noite …
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
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Sleuth (1972) NeoDB TMDB IMDb Douban Skybridge WikiData
Sleuth
8.4 (5 ratings) director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Laurence Olivier / Michael Caine …
other title: Gli insospettabili / Dobbeltspil …
A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.
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Scared Stiff (1987) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
小生夢驚魂
director: Lau Kar-Wing actor: Michael Miu Kiu-Wai / Eric Tsang Chi-Wai …
other title: Hallucinations / 小生夢驚魂 …
Alan and Halley are partners in a pest control company. Handsome Alan gets the girls and puffy Halley gets nothing. One night the two are injured in a car crash. Halley suffers slight injuries but Alan is dead for all purposes except his brain wave which still works actively.
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Manhunt (1976) NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
君よ憤怒の河を渉れ
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Ryoko Nakano …
other title: 君よ憤怒の河を渉れ / Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare …
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
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Crossplot (1969) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Crossplot
director: Alvin Rakoff actor: Roger Moore / Martha Hyer …
other title: Circolo vizioso / Tödlicher Salut …
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.
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A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Cottage on Dartmoor
director: Anthony Asquith actor: Norah Baring / Uno Henning …
other title: Un cottage dans le Dartmoor
A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.
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301/302 (1995) WikiData TMDB IMDb
삼공일 삼공이
director: Park Cheol-su actor: Pang Eun-jin / Hwang Shin-hye …
other title: 301, 302 / 삼공일 삼공이 …
Two obsessive-compulsives, a chef and an anorexic writer, are neighbors in an apartment building. The chef (301) tries to entice her neighbor to eat with fabulous meals. The writer (302) refuses to eat, and this refusal begins a turbulent relationship that forces both women to delve into their pasts of torment.
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Second Wind (1966) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Le Deuxième Souffle
director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Lino Ventura / Paul Meurisse …
other title: Tutte le ore feriscono... l'ultima uccide / O Segundo Fôlego …
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
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Zero Hour! (1957) WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Zero Hour!
director: Hall Bartlett actor: Dana Andrews / Linda Darnell …
other title: Ora zero / 714 antwortet nicht …
In 1950s Canada, during a commercial flight, the pilots and some passengers suffer food poisoning, thus forcing an ex-WW2 fighter pilot to try to land the airliner in heavy fog.
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Outbreak (1995) Douban TMDB NeoDB KevGa-NeoDB IMDb WikiData Skybridge
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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Eagles of the Republic (2025) Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
نسور الجمهورية
director: Tarik Saleh actor: Fares Fares / Linda Mutawi …
other title: Le aquile della Repubblica / As Águias da República …
George Fahmy, Egypt's most adored actor, is pressured to star in a film commissioned by the highest authorities. He reluctantly accepts and finds himself thrown into the inner circle of power. Like moth drawn to flame, he begins an affair with the mysterious wife of the general overseeing the project.
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Class of 1984 (1982) IMDb TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Class of 1984
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Perry King / Tim Van Patten …
other title: Os Donos do Amanhã / Classe 1984 …
Andy is a new teacher at an inner city high school that is unlike any he has seen before. There are metal detectors at the front door and the place is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and Stegman will stop at nothing to protect his turf and drug dealing business.
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Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Seance on a Wet Afternoon
director: Bryan Forbes actor: Kim Stanley / Richard Attenborough …
other title: Ventimila sterline per Amanda / An einem trüben Nachmittag …
Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance of her under-employed, asthmatic husband, Billy. In an attempt to enhance her credibility as a psychic, Myra hatches an elaborate, ill-conceived plot to kidnap a wealthy couple's young daughter so that she can then help the police "find" the missing girl.
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The Stepford Wives (1975) NeoDB IMDb KevGa-NeoDB TMDB Douban Skybridge
The Stepford Wives
8.1 (7 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.
June 6, 2026 watched
Still scarily relevant. Perhaps even more so now as we approach the technological capability & many men don't seem any more accepting of women as real people with their own minds.

Watched at some point decades ago, rewatched in the #FridayThrillerClub watch party on Mastodon.
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Cairo Station (1958) TMDB IMDb
باب الحديد
director: Youssef Chahine actor: Farid Shawqy / Hind Rostom …
other title: Stazione centrale / Estação Central do Cairo …
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
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King of Robbery (1996) WikiData TMDB IMDb
悍匪
director: Billy Chung Siu-Hung actor: Simon Yam / Roy Cheung Yiu-Yeung …
other title: 悍匪
After robbing countless Hong Kong jewelery shops, Ye Kuan (Simon Yam) sets out on a murderous rampage killing everything in his path. Police informants, criminals and members of the public — nobody is safe from the Hong Kong Thug.