The lists are in alphabetical order. This is not a comprehensive collection.
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Emoji notations: 🕵️ (thriller), 🥊 (action), 💫 (sci-fi), 💀 (horror), 👻 (supernatural), 🧟 (zombie), ⏳ (time travel)
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Movies
- A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) 💀👻: Psychological horror about two sisters returning home to their stepmother after psychiatric treatment, experiencing disturbing supernatural events revealing dark family secrets.
- Carry-On (2024) 🕵️🥊: Thriller about a flight security guard blackmailed into smuggling dangerous goods on a flight, forcing him to make difficult moral choices.
- Christopher Nolan's films 🕵️💫: Mind-bending narratives with complex time structures exploring themes of memory, perception, and reality through stunning visuals and innovative storytelling.
- Coherence (2013) 💫🕵️: Mind-bending sci-fi where dinner party guests experience strange phenomena after a comet passes, creating parallel realities and identity crises.
- Escape from Pretoria (2020) 🕵️: Based on true story of two political prisoners who ingeniously craft wooden keys to escape South Africa's Pretoria Prison during apartheid.
- Fight Club (1999) 🕵️: An insomniac office worker and soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into a destructive anti-consumerist movement.
- Flightplan (2005) 🕵️: A mother desperately searches for her missing daughter on a transatlantic flight, while crew members claim the child was never onboard.
- Get Out (2017) 🕵️💀: A young Black man visits his white girlfriend's family estate, uncovering a disturbing conspiracy involving hypnosis and body swapping.
- Gone Girl (2014) 🕵️: When his wife disappears, a husband becomes the prime suspect as media frenzy reveals their troubled marriage and shocking secrets.
- In Time (2011) 🕵️💫: Dystopian thriller where time is currency and the wealthy live forever, following a man wrongly accused of murder who kidnaps a tycoon's daughter.
- Jerry & Marge Go Large (2022) 🕵️: Retired couple exploits a mathematical loophole in the lottery system to win millions and revitalize their small town.
- Looper (2012) 💫🕵️ ⏳: Sci-fi thriller where hitmen kill targets sent from the future until one confronts his future self, creating a paradoxical chase.
- Nobody (2021) 🥊: Seemingly ordinary family man reveals his violent past skills when thieves target his home, unleashing brutal vengeance against Russian mobsters.
- Non-Stop (2014) 🕵️: Air marshal receives threatening messages demanding money while airborne, racing to identify the blackmailer before passengers are killed.
- Oldboy (Korean) (2003) 🕵️🥊: Man imprisoned for 15 years without explanation seeks revenge after release, uncovering a devastating conspiracy and forbidden relationship.
- Papillon (1973) 🕵️: Based on Henri Charrière's autobiography about his repeated escape attempts from the brutal French Guiana penal colony.
- Planet of the Apes series (1968) 💫🥊: Chronicles intelligent apes' evolution and conflict with humans after a simian virus decimates humanity, exploring themes of prejudice and coexistence.