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Erasure Protocol
Bastian Kreel
Sep 30, 202541 min
Thriller

Erasure Protocol

A municipal records technician discovers systematic deletions that erase people from civic memory. As she follows a trail tied to her missing brother, she must decide whether exposing a corporate‑backed program will restore truth—or make new casualties.

Afterimage
Mariel Santhor
Sep 30, 202550 min
Thriller

Afterimage

Afterimage follows Lena Hart, a municipal video-forensics analyst, who discovers a fabricated murder clip that frames her missing brother. As she peels back layers of manipulated footage, she races to expose a contractor that weaponizes synthetic media to rewrite lives and identities.

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6.23
The Hush Frequency
Damien Fross
Sep 28, 202542 min
Thriller

The Hush Frequency

On sleepless nights, forensic audio analyst Mara Voss threads her tinnitus through police tapes and hears something no one else does: a sub-bass hush that erases microphones and stills crowds. When a source dies and her home is breached, the signal pulls her toward a staged ‘calm.’

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6.07
Echo Protocol
Maribel Rowan
Sep 28, 202532 min
Thriller

Echo Protocol

A driven former engineer confronts the company that turned predictive safety into lethal selection. In a race against time she must break into a fortress of servers, force a public ledger into an opaque orchestration, and decide whether exposing the truth is worth the personal cost.

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6.56
Floodlight Static
Mariel Santhor
Sep 19, 202526 min
Thriller

Floodlight Static

When a Seattle sound archivist restores an anonymous cassette, hidden tones lead to a city’s smart-grid secret and a trail of missing persons. Juno Park dives into warehouses, gala halls, and tunnels, facing a polished enemy who thinks policy erases guilt. She uses the one thing they underestimate: the truth in sound.

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5.71
Static Under the City
Greta Holvin
Sep 18, 202532 min
Thriller

Static Under the City

An urban thriller about Lian, an acoustics engineer who uncovers a pattern in the city's background noise linked to disappearances. As he and a ragged group of allies trace the signal into the subterranean infrastructure, they confront a man determined to 'prune' the city. Risks, betrayals, and a painful cost lead to exposure and uneasy restoration.

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5.89
The Helios Shard
Elena Marquet
Sep 18, 202541 min
Thriller

The Helios Shard

In a near-future harbor city, a mechanic named Anya uncovers a missing sister's memory shard tied to a corporate trade in stolen recollections. With an old neuroscientist's decoder and a ragged crew, she breaks into archives, fights corporate security, and brings her sister back—exposing the market that would sell people's pasts.

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5.98
White Noise Protocol
Quinn Marlot
Sep 18, 202566 min
Thriller

White Noise Protocol

A techno-thriller about Raya, a sound archivist who uncovers a corporate program that strips and sells citizens' memories as curated audio. As she assembles allies—an old engineer, a hacker, and a detective—she risks everything to expose the truth and return stolen voices to a city on the brink.

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5.92
The Quiet Signal
Wendy Sarrel
Sep 18, 202538 min
Thriller

The Quiet Signal

In a coastal city, a young audio archivist discovers a pattern of hidden sound transmissions that manipulate people's memories and actions. She assembles a ragged team, learns to map and invert the harmful signals, and confronts who turned communal noise into a weapon, forcing the city to listen and reckon.

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6.33
The Liminal Wire
Arthur Lenwick
Sep 18, 202534 min
Thriller

The Liminal Wire

In a near-future city, archivist Iris Vale discovers an anomalous station announcement that links to sudden disappearances. Guided by a retired announcer and aided by a partial AI, she must follow the hidden signal threads beneath the metropolis, confront a manipulator of the transit network, and decide what it costs to reclaim names lost to sound.

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Quiet Code
Melanie Orwin
Sep 18, 202541 min
Thriller

Quiet Code

In a rain-slatted metropolis, a young sound designer discovers a damaged recording that alters citizens' sleep and behavior. Chasing its origin, she uncovers a corporate program weaponizing acoustics. To expose it, she and a ragged team reverse-engineer a counter-signal and broadcast the truth, forcing the city to confront its own hush.

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6.04
Veil & Echo
Delia Kormas
Sep 17, 202523 min
Thriller

Veil & Echo

An audio analyst finds an anonymous tape that pulls her into a city-wide conspiracy: a developer weaponizes subsonic sound to silence dissent and make people vanish. With a retired soundman and a hacker, she races to rescue her brother, expose the truth, and return to a city that learns to listen.

The Wheel and the Whine
Julius Carran
Sep 16, 202537 min
Thriller

The Wheel and the Whine

Eva, a structural acoustician in Prague, hears an illegal tunnel’s signature near the metro during a festival. With a retired signalman and a brass key to a forgotten floodgate, she descends into service tunnels to outwit a corporate sabotage that would flood stations. A thriller of sound and steel.

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6.04
Whalesong Under Static
Anton Grevas
Sep 15, 202538 min
Thriller

Whalesong Under Static

A coastal acoustics analyst decodes a whisper hidden beneath whalesong and is thrust into a conspiracy on an abandoned sea farm. With a retired lighthouse keeper and a missing woman’s voice as a guide, she races through fog and corporate muscle to broadcast the truth and bring everyone home.

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Echoes in the Fourth Rail
Orlan Petrovic
Sep 15, 202537 min
Thriller

Echoes in the Fourth Rail

Acoustic engineer Maya descends into Lidov City's subway after her graffiti-artist brother vanishes, following blue arrows and a hum only she can read. With a retired stationmaster's tuning fork and her own wits, she crosses maintenance mazes, exposes a smuggling ring, and brings its cold leader to light.

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