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Film · 10 connectionsA forensic psychologist solves a mysterious case and a marital crisis at the same time. Can he resist the dark forces that tempt him to uncover the secrets of the case, or will he fall victim to them?
Directed byPeter Bebjak
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2023 · 101 min · Thriller
A journalist unearths a horrific conspiracy when she questions the events surrounding a celebrity’s death.
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2022 · 105 min · Mystery · Romance · Thriller
After spending time in prison following an assault charge, Connor Bates now works in a library and spends his free time running, swimming, and trying to piece his world back together. When he meets Marilyn Chambers, the wife of a wealthy businessman, they collide into an intense physical and emotional relationship that quickly escalates into idle talk about her husband’s murder.
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2019 · 111 min · Comedy · Drama
Karel and Saša's marriage has reached a dead end, so Saša moves out of the house for a while. She finds temporary refuge with Dušan, an old acquaintance who once played at their wedding. Both of them, sometimes together, sometimes separately, explore the elusive topic of relationships and shed light on it from their opposite perspectives.
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2019 · 98 min · Horror · Mystery · Thriller
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing at a local park, a detective investigates the case to help the boy's family find answers.
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2017 · 106 min · Documentary · Drama
Interpersonal relationships in a dysfunctional family under the microscope of the camera.
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2024 · 103 min · Action · Crime · Thriller
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
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2019 · 82 min · Drama
A successful obstetrician living a seemingly stable married life begins to question her relationship when emotional and physical intimacy fades. Suspecting her husband of betrayal, she seeks connection elsewhere, stepping into a hidden world that offers desire, control, and escape. As she navigates this parallel existence, the boundaries between loyalty, loneliness, and self-discovery slowly begin to blur.
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2018 · 89 min · Comedy · Crime
After he dies in a car crash, a policeman's ghost observes as his family grieves and learns more about his life and death than they ever knew.
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2022 · 99 min · Comedy
A well-known writer now aged 75 is aware of his increasing age and the risk that his literary style will grow worn. His everyday existence is enlivened by characters from his stories, who tend to enter reality in unexpected ways, at various stages of completeness and with all kinds of strange demands.
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2016 · 87 min · Drama · Romance · Thriller
Writer and Adderall enthusiast Stephen Elliott reaches a low point when his estranged father resurfaces, claiming that Stephen has fabricated much of the dark childhood that that fuels his writing. Adrift in the precarious gray area of memory, Stephen is led by three sources of inspiration: a new romance, the best friend who shares his history, and a murder trial that reminds him more than a little of his own story. Based on the memoir of the same name.
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