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Thriller films based on actual events
Phantom
The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.
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Lizzie
Massachusetts, 1892. An unmarried woman of 32 and a social outcast, Lizzie lives a claustrophobic life under her father's cold and domineering control. When Bridget Sullivan, a young maid, comes to wo...
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The Riverman
A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
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Open Water
Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
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White Mile
An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.
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Ted Bundy
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college studen...
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The Crush
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Aftermath
A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he happens to be the air traffic controller who failed...
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Above Suspicion
The chilling true story of a newly married FBI poster boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes hi...
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Billionaire Boys Club
A group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establishes a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.
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