woman-in-jeopardy movies

Copycat (1995)

Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Weaver, Sigourney | Hunter, Holly | Mulroney, Dermot | McNamara, William | Connick Jr., Harry | Freeman, J. E. | Patton, Will | Rothman, John | O'Hurley, Shannon | Greene, Bob | Haney, Tony | Kovacs, Danny | Rounds, Tahmus | DeVenney, Scott | Silverman, David Michael
Directors: Amiel, Jon
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Criminal profiler and psychologist Dr Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) becomes entangled in the deadly mind game of a vicious copycat serial killer Peter Foley (William Mcnamara). Due to the horrific attack Helen suffered in her past as an agoraphobic she is confined to her apartment. The killer uses this against her in his murderous attempts to become a famous serial killer. Detectives M. J Monahan (Holly Hunter) and Reuben Goetz (Dermot Mulroney) they have the challenge of trying to capture the killer before he kills again and uses his chance to commit another atrocious murder.

Enough (2002)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lopez, Jennifer | Campbell, Bill | Allen, Tessa | Lewis, Juliette | Futterman, Dan | Wyle, Noah | Ward, Fred | Carroll, Janet | Cobbs, Bill | Maher, Christopher | Young, Bruce A. | French, Bruce | Madera, Ruben | Martin, Dan | Kober, Jeff
Directors: Apted, Michael
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn’t who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there’s only one way out of the marriage: kill him. ‘Fred Ward (I)’ (qv) has a guest-starring role.

Astronaut’s Wife, The (1999)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Theron, Charlize | Morton, Joe | DuVall, Clea | Murphy, Donna | Cassavetes, Nick | Eggar, Samantha | Grubbs, Gary | Brown, Blair | Noonan, Tom | O'Brien, Tom | Lin, Lucy | Crider, Michael | Stein, Jacob | Wicker, Timothy
Directors: Ravich, Rand
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Astronaut Spencer Armacoust was on a mission when he suddenly lost contact. When he got home, to friends he was the same, but to his wife he was different. She becomes pregnant, but as time progresses she begins to feel like the lives inside of her are not of this world.

Kiss the Girls (1997)

Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Freeman, Morgan | Judd, Ashley | Elwes, Cary | McArthur, Alex | Goldwyn, Tony | Sanders, Jay O. | Nunn, Bill | Cox, Brian | Jones, Richard T. | Maffia, Roma | Piven, Jeremy | Ravera, Gina | Converse-Roberts, William | Martin, Helen | Ali, Tatyana
Directors: Gary Fleder
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Washington DC detective Dr. Alex Cross travels to North Carolina to investigate the apparent kidnapping of his niece. Aided by escaped kidnapee Kate McTiernan, Cross hunts down the kidnapper, who operates under the pseudonym “Casanova”.

Net, The (1995)

Monday, December 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | Northam, Jeremy | Miller, Dennis | Diane Baker | Gazelle, Wendy | Howard, Ken | McKinnon, Ray | Schorr, Daniel | Caldwell, L. Scott | Gossett, Robert | Krofft, Kristina | GarcĂ­a, Juan | Perez, Tony | Winkler, Margo | Kirkwood, Gene
Directors: Winkler, Irwin
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Angela Bennett’s a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years she becomes embroiled in a web (sic) of computer espionage.

Hearse, The (1980)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Van Devere, Trish | Cotten, Joseph | Gautreaux, David | Hotton, Donald | Flory, Med | Petrie, Donald | McDonald, Christopher | Lang, Perry | Franklyn, Fred | Dunbar, Olive | Hansen, Al | Barto, Dominic | Shields, Nicholas | Mitchell, Chuck | Balson, Allison
Directors: Bowers, George
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Jane Hardy decides to stay the summer in the house her aunt left her when she died, to try and recoup from a bad divorce. Little does she know, her aunt practiced witchcraft and is still thought of very badly by the town’s citizens. As soon as she moves in, she is haunted by a old black hearse and it’s creepy driver. Is she going insane or is she truly being menaced? She meets a friendly young man and becomes involved with him, but is he and the creepy driver one and the same?

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roberts, Julia | Bergin, Patrick | Anderson, Kevin | Lawrence, Elizabeth | Secor, Kyle | Nevins, Claudette | Abatemarco, Tony | Geraghty, Marita | Venton, Harley | Fish, Nancy | Shackelford, Sandi | Johnson, Bonnie | Harrington, Graham | Ward, John | Robinson, Sharon J.
Directors: Ruben, Joseph
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Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.

Demon Seed (1977)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christie, Julie | Weaver, Fritz | Graham, Gerrit | Kroeger, Berry | Lu, Lisa | Blake, Larry J. | O'Leary, John | Dennis, Alfred | Roberts, Davis | Wilson, Patricia | Beagle, E. Hampton | Glass, Michael | Barbarao | Laurita, Dana | MacLean, Monica
Directors: Cammell, Donald
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Scientist Alex Harris, doing research on artificial intelligence, is working on a special kind of computer. This computer grows more and more powerful and eventually rapes the scientist’s wife, Susan Harris.

Narrow Margin, The (1952)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: McGraw, Charles | Windsor, Marie | White, Jacqueline | Gebert, Gordon | Leonard, Queenie | Clarke, David | Virgo, Peter | Beddoe, Don | Maxey, Paul | Harvey, Harry | Brocco, Peter | Browning, Ivan | Chandler, George | Conaty, James
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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When a mobsters wife decides to testify against his evil deeds she goes undercover to avoid being killed. Now that he’s coming to trial she has to be escourted across country via train in order to testify. Cop Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their trail.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Cattrall, Kim | Dun, Dennis | Hong, James | Wong, Victor | Burton, Kate | Li, Donald | Wong, Carter | Kwong, Peter | Pax, James | Pai, Suzee | Chi, Chao Li | Imada, Jeff | Mor, Rummel | Ng, Craig
Directors: Carpenter, John
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Somewhere in the 80s, trucker Jack Burton arrives in a small town to deliver his cargo and win a few bucks playing cards with the locals down at the Chinese market. Practically bankrupting nearly all of his opponents, his friend Wang bets him a game of “double or nothing” to try and regain his cash and loses. Jack wants his well earned money, but Wang explains he doesn’t have the cash on him and that’ll he pay later because he’s due to pick up a long, lost girlfriend from the airport. Convinced Wang’s pulling something sly, Jack insists he drive Wang to the airport so they can stick together. However, at the airport Wang’s girlfriend is captured by the Lords of Death, a streetwise Chinatown gang. She is essential for an upcoming plan to revive a thousand year old Chinese sorcerer and bring him back to the world as a mortal again. So begins a daring adventure to rescue Wang’s girl and stop the ruthless operation that’s going on down in Little China. Teaming up with a cast of very different individuals, Jack and Wang delve deep into an uncovering conspiracy in which everything’s not exactly as it seems. Here comes big trouble…