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Thriller Movie Summaries & Endings Explained
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The Student Teachers
1973 · Thriller
Massage Parlor Murders
1973 · Crime
Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off
1973 · Thriller
Enter the Dragon
1973 · Action
Happy Mother’s Day, Love George
1973 · Thriller
High Crime
1973 · Crime
No, the Case Is Happily Resolved
1973 · Thriller
The Day of the Jackal
1973 · Drama
Gehri Chaal
1973 · Thriller
The MacKintosh Man
1973 · Thriller
Lady Ice
1973 · Thriller
Cleopatra Jones
1973 · Action
Live and Let Die
1973 · Action
Terminal Island
1973 · Action
The Last of Sheila
1973 · Drama
The Candy Snatchers
1973 · Crime
Invasion of the Bee Girls
1973 · Thriller
The Corruption of Chris Miller
1973 · Horror
The Offence
1973 · Drama
Soylent Green
1973 · Sci-Fi
Thriller: A Cruel Picture
1973 · Crime
Coffy
1973 · Action
Scorpio
1973 · Action
Voices
1973 · Drama
Sisters
1973 · Mystery
Night of Fear
1973 · Horror
The Long Goodbye
1973 · Drama
The Baby
1973 · Horror
Walking Tall
1973 · Action
The Norliss Tapes
1973 · Horror
Nothing But the Night
1973 · Thriller
Black Caesar
1973 · Thriller
Shamus
1973 · Comedy
Birds of Prey
1973 · Action
Black Mama White Mama
1973 · Drama
Shock Treatment
1973 · Crime
Death Carries a Cane
1973 · Thriller
Fear Is the Key
1972 · Action
The Godfather’s Friend
1972 · Thriller
The Outside Man
1972 · Crime
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