Desperation

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows desperation

poster Fear and Desire
Fear and Desire
(2.7/5)
62mn - Drama, War
After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly be…
poster D.O.A.
D.O.A.
(3.6/5)
83mn - Crime, Drama, Mystery
Frank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the h…
poster Carnival Lady
Carnival Lady
(2.9/5)
64mn - Drama
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
poster Denial
Denial
(2.6/5)
103mn - Drama
A young woman tries to leave her troubled past behind. She meets her old flame by accident and they fall in love again, but this obsessive relationship threatens to consume them.
poster Struggle Through Death
Struggle Through Death
(2.9/5)
92mn - Action
Those who enter the castle of Ching never return. Forced into slavery, every day becomes a punishing ritual down the Castle's secret gold mine. One worker, Kang, decides enough is enough, and tries but fa…
poster Pay or Die
Pay or Die
(2.7/5)
97mn - Action
An underworld kingpin's daughter is kidnapped by his own men. So, he calls in Cleopatra Wong, a beautiful karate queen. She brings a team with her - a 300+ pound psychic and a female impersonator
poster Carnival of Souls
Carnival of Souls
(3.6/5)
91mn - Horror, Mystery
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh …
poster Sin's Kitchen
Sin's Kitchen
(2.6/5)
91mn - Drama
Mobsters, ex-cons, grad students and other desperate persons see their various fates converge in the Mojave Desert.
poster Terror Take Away
Terror Take Away
(2.6/5)
87mn - Horror
A ruthless businessman exploits an urban legend about a notorious pizza delivery killer to create a twisted game show at his mansion. He invites five random contestants to compete for a job contract, unaw…
poster Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die
Durango Is Coming, Pay or Die
100mn - Western
A determined debt collector arrives in Tucson to collect his 10% commission after retrieving $100,000 for a corrupt bank president. When the banker refuses to pay and frames him for a crime, the collector…
poster Exposé
Exposé
(2.7/5)
Nonemn - Drama, Thriller, Horror
A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.
poster Trauma Therapy: Psychosis
Trauma Therapy: Psychosis
82mn - Horror, Thriller
Fleeing criminal charges in the US, charismatic self-help guru Tobin Vance secretly establishes a new base in remote Scotland. With his loyal assistant Elizabeth and devoted follower John, he lures troubl…
poster Fire in the Dark
Fire in the Dark
(3.4/5)
124mn - Drama, Short
A 75-year old widow with battles herself as she struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Though determined not to rely on her children, she is forced to move in with her daughter after a serious …
poster Too Late for Tears
Too Late for Tears
(3.7/5)
99mn - Crime, Mystery
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
poster The Proposition
The Proposition
0mn - Romance, Drama, Adventure
In early 19th century Wales, Catherine Morgan, a widow with two daughters, must endure the bumpy road to a distant market in order to sell her cattle to save her farm and family.
poster Tempting Fate
Tempting Fate
(2.9/5)
96mn - Sci-Fi, Short
A man who is still mourning the death of the woman he loves, meets a man who says he created a machine that can bring anyone to a parallel world. He goes and sees the woman he loves is still alive in that…
poster Samson and Delilah
Samson and Delilah
(2.8/5)
95mn - Short, Action, Adventure
A tale of passion and betrayal in which Samson, a judge of Israel who fled with his tribe during the Great Exodus from Egypt, uses his herculean strength in the fight against the Philistine oppressors. He…
poster Arachnicide
Arachnicide
91mn - Sci-Fi, Action, Horror
After years of experimenting, a researcher succeeds in creating an incubator that accelerates plant and animal growth. This technology is controlled by a powerful criminal organization and is being used t…
poster Ready 2 Die
Ready 2 Die
80mn - Thriller, Crime, Drama
Three desperate criminals flee through East L.A. with a blood-soaked bag of cash after a violent bank heist. As word of their score spreads through the underworld, they must outrun and outgun rival gangs …
poster Vacuum Killer
Vacuum Killer
74mn -
After losing an arm in an explosion caused by his attempt to resurrect his recently deceased mother, Chris Burst, a young laboratory assistant, seeks refuge in the home of a drug dealer known to his frien…
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