Peril

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows peril

poster The Danger Game
The Danger Game
(3.4/5)
50mn - Comedy
Wealthy Clytie Rogers writes a novel in which a society girl commits a burglary, but it is "roasted" by critic Jimmy Gilpin, who writes that her story is completely implausible. To prove him wrong, Clytie…
poster Doomsday for Pests
Doomsday for Pests
15mn - Animation, Documentary
Facing mounting insect deaths, concerned bugs view a documentary film about Sherwin-Williams's lethal new PESTROY pesticide coating.
poster The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
The Hazards of Helen: Episode13, The Escape on the Fast Freight
13mn - Thriller
Two tramps hold up small-town Ferndale's railway station night operator Helen, lock her in a closet, and escape. Later, standing on a bridge over the freight yards, Helen sees the two bandits aboard an ou…
poster The Danger Girl
The Danger Girl
30mn - Comedy
Madcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her beau, Bobbie.
poster An Unseen Enemy
An Unseen Enemy
16mn - Drama
The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores…
poster Meltdown: Days of Destruction
Meltdown: Days of Destruction
90mn - Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
When a reckless experiment to destroy an asteroid goes catastrophically wrong, Earth's orbit shifts dangerously closer to the sun, triggering rapid global heating and chaos as LAPD detective Tom Bracket m…
poster Madame Mystery
Madame Mystery
25mn - Comedy
A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite w…
poster Dunces and Dangers
Dunces and Dangers
(3.2/5)
10mn - Comedy
Larry and his wife are desperately poor—with no food. However, the butcher and grocer show up to collect money they are owed and they won't take no for an answer. They are ready to take anything and every…
poster Our Man Flint
Our Man Flint
(3.2/5)
108mn - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agent Derek Flint.
poster The End of the World
The End of the World
(3.3/5)
73mn - Sci-Fi, Action, Drama
Foreman West lives in a small mining town with his daughters Edith and Dina. When entrepreneur and mine owner Frank Stoll comes to town to inspect the work, he falls in love with Dina. Against her father'…
poster Dangerous Days
Dangerous Days
(3.1/5)
70mn - Drama
Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodrama.
poster On the Roof
On the Roof
1mn - Crime, Comedy
Two crooks throw a lady off a roof, and a hapless policeman tries to capture them.
poster The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress
The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress
(3/5)
61mn - Adventure
Count de Faber is working on a new type of explosive, but finds out that Professor Plussman has beat him to it. After an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the formula from Plussman, he breaks into the profe…
poster This Is Not a Test
This Is Not a Test
(2.7/5)
73mn - Drama, Action, Thriller
Late one night on a rural road in the western US, a policeman sets up a roadblock and begins stopping all traffic. When several cars and a big truck have stopped, he tells everyone why: a nuclear attack o…
poster Isn't Life Terrible?
Isn't Life Terrible?
25mn - Comedy
Charley is plagued with failure and with his brother-in-law, who's allergic to labor. When he decides to take the family on a camping trip, his wife learns about a contest sponsored by a pen company, with…
poster Trapped in a Purple Haze
Trapped in a Purple Haze
(3.5/5)
95mn - Drama, Crime, Short
When a charismatic teenager falters under constant pressure from his parents and school, he makes a potentially deadly mistake.
poster Suspense.
Suspense.
10mn - Drama, Thriller, Horror
An isolated house is too remote for a lone servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Left alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp has watched …
poster Welcome Danger
Welcome Danger
(3.0/5)
115mn - Comedy
A mild-mannered botany student must step into his late father's shoes as San Francisco's police chief and track down a mysterious crime boss known as "The Dragon" in Chinatown, armed with nothing but an o…
poster Dangerous Afternoon
Dangerous Afternoon
(3.1/5)
59mn - Drama
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
poster The Dark Mist
The Dark Mist
101mn - Action, Adventure, Fantasy
With the future of the world hanging in the balance, one fearless hero's quest to solve "The Riddle of the Chosen". As the Lord Protector makes his way through a land of magic and mystery, his allies grow…
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