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Romantic Comedy, coming-of-age film, drama film, female buddy film, romantic comedy film
Childhood friends Bridget Vreeland, Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Rollins, and Carmen Lowell have completed their first year of college and will spend their summers apart. Bridget finds letters from her grandmother Greta her father had hidden, but…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, Silly Movie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
In Los Angeles, longtime friends Justin Miller, a struggling video game designer, and Ryan O'Malley, an unemployed former college quarterback, recall a pact they once made: if they had not achieved success by age thirty, they would move ba…
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Komödie, comedy film
Lawrence Bourne III is a spoiled kid who just graduated from Yale, Class of 1962, with a $28,000 gambling debt. When his father, Lawrence Bourne Jr., refuses to pay his son’s debt, involving the 1962 NBA Finals the son escapes his angry cr…
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Coming Of Age, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, Social Drama, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, romantic comedy film
Roland is getting married and is currently missing. Slim, who scoffs at the idea of marriage, is furious at Roland for disappearing. The story flashes back to Mike as a youth in the 1980s when he first encounters Roland and Slim, his first…
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Buddy Cop, Parodie, Police Film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime film
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday's nephew and namesake, whose anachronistic views reflect those of his deceased uncle, is involuntarily assigned a cocky, streetwise new partner, Pep Streebek, as Friday's previous longtime partner in the Robbery-Ho…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
Jack Mosley is an alcoholic, burned-out NYPD detective. Despite a grueling late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Eddie Bunker, from local custody to the courthouse sixteen blocks away to testify on a p…
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Action, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, comedy thriller, heist film
Foster brothers John and Charlie Robinson are decoy transit cops patrolling the New York City Subway. Chasing muggers into a subway tunnel, John and Charlie are furious when one of the teenage thieves is gunned down by officers guarding th…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
One night, in the late 1950s in the Southern United States, a truck loaded with prisoners swerves to avoid another truck and crashes through a fence. The rescuers clear up the debris and discover two prisoners have escaped, an African-Amer…
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Action, Sitcom, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Cynical NYPD Lieutenant John Moss pursues a serial killer known as the "Party Crasher" through a local nightclub, but fails to prevent the murder of a local drug dealer. During an interview with the press, Moss vents his frustration at the…
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Adventure, Romance Film, drama film
thumb|left|upright|Jean Arthur as Bonnie Lee Geoff Carter is the chief pilot and manager of Barranca Airways, a small, barely solvent company owned by "Dutchy" Van Ruyter carrying airmail from the fictional South American port town of Barr…
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LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama
A group of childhood friends have a sleepover as a bachelorette party for Jamie, where the conversations evolve from the topic of their relationships with men to sex and related fantasies. The group includes two sisters, Rachel and Jill, b…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, action comedy film
Two undercover agents—an FBI agent (Sprouse) and a DEA agent (Gooding)—separately infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel. When they mutually reveal their identities at a remote border meet-up, they become trapped in a sniper-led ambush. Realizin…
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Family Drama, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film, female buddy film
In 1937 Louisiana, four little girls in the woods at night take a blood oath of loyalty to one another, led by Vivi Abbott, who dubs the group the "Ya-Ya Sisterhood." In 2002 New York City, Vivi's eldest daughter, playwright Siddalee "Sidd…
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Action, action film, buddy cop film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Walter "Walt" Coogan, a deputy sheriff of fictional Piute County, Arizona, is sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman. NYPD Detective Lieutenant McElroy informs him that Ringerman is recovering from an overdose of…
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Police Film, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, science fiction film
In 1988, a spaceship bearing 300,000 enslaved aliens known as "Newcomers" lands in the Mojave Desert. By 1991, they have settled in Los Angeles and some of them have joined the Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Matthew Sykes' partne…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Sport, biographical film, buddy film, drama film, sport film
In 1987, an 8-year-old boy in Santa Cruz, California, named Jay Moriarity is saved from drowning by his next door neighbor, surfer Frosty Hesson (Gerard Butler). This ignites his passion for the sport. One morning, Jay (Jonny Weston), now …
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Silly Movie, buddy cop film, comedy film
FBI agent Malcolm Turner is elated to learn that his stepson, Trent Pierce, has been accepted to attend Duke University. However, Trent, who is a rapper under the alias "Prodi-G", instead wants Malcolm to sign a recording contract for him …
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Action Comedy, Gangster Film, action film, buddy film, comedy film, heist film
In 1971, a policeman pulls over Elmo McElroy, a recent college graduate with a degree, for driving under the influence of marijuana. Due to his arrest and conviction, McElroy cannot find work as a pharmacologist. In the present day, drug l…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Russian mafia boss Konstantine Konali is laundering money under the guise of a legitimate business: a highly addictive video game that allows him to bring down almost any security system controlled by a computer on which the game has been …
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Komödie, comedy film
Jack Brown is an unemployed writer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in danger of having his house repossessed. After numerous unsuccessful attempts to get a job working for the local paper, the Bugle, he becomes so desperate that he ends up taki…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, action film, comedy film
Vic Manning, an aggressive Los Angeles Police Department detective, is in pursuit of notorious drug lord Oka Tedjo, who six months earlier murdered Vic's partner, Sara Morris, after which Vic's superior, Captain McHenry, places him on leav…
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Action, Secret Agent, action film, buddy film
After retrieving a truck load of plutonium stolen from a US military base in Croatia by freelance international terrorist Stavros, anti-terrorist agent Jack Paul Quinn retires to Southern France with Kathryn, his pregnant wife. A governmen…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action film, black comedy film, buddy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime film, crime thriller film, gangster film
Italian American Harry Valentini and his Jewish friend and next-door neighbor Moe Dickstein occupy the bottom rung of Newark Mafia boss Anthony Castelo's gang. Making a living by doing Castelo's lowest jobs, such as looking after his goldf…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, crime thriller film
In New Orleans, hitman Jimmy Bobo and his partner Louis Blanchard kill a corrupt former WDCPD policeman, Hank Greely. Decompressing at a bar, Blanchard is murdered by another hitman, Keegan, whose attempt to also kill Bobo fails. WDCPD Det…
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