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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 735 films · Page 21.
Gangster Film, action film, buddy film, crime film, drama film
Biggs (Errol) (Ky-Mani Marley) and Wayne (Spragga Benz), are two young men who grow up together in the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston. They rob a soda truck and shoot the truck driver while they are still children. The robbery mon…
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Action, Crime, Crime Comedy, Western film, buddy film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
In Hollywood in the late 1920s, during the waning days of the industry's transition to sound film, producer and studio head Alfie Alperin wants to produce an epic Western film about Wyatt Earp. Tom Mix is cast as the great United States Ma…
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Drama, biographical film, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, teen film
In 1974, college-educated Jim Ellis is having a hard time finding employment. While struggling to find something better, Jim, a former competitive swimmer, works at the decrepit Marcus Foster Recreation Center in a poor neighborhood of Phi…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Komödie, action film, comedy film, crime film
Two LAPD cops, Detective Mitch Preston and Officer Trey Sellars, both from the Central Division, are paired for a television police reality show and run into trouble with a crime lord. Mitch shoots a news camera after a failed confrontatio…
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Komödie, buddy film, children's film, comedy film
Devon Butler is an eight-year-old boy who lives in Tampa, Florida with his grandmother Rachel in a small apartment. Devon dreams of being a cop. He watches police TV shows, knows police procedures and plays cops and robbers with his friend…
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Komödie, buddy film, crime film, screwball comedy film
Joe Waters and Gus Green are bumbling, blue-collar, yet happy best friends and next door neighbors who live modestly in Newark, New Jersey and have known each other since childhood. They share the hobby of fishing and win a stay in the Flo…
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Komödie, action comedy film, blaxploitation film, boxing film, buddy film
Two friends, Billy Foster and Clyde Williams, need to quickly find a way to raise funds for their fraternal lodge, the Sons and Daughters of Shaka. It is incumbent on Billy to find the money because he is the treasurer of the struggling lo…
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buddy film
Seth and Jay are holed-up in a filthy cockroach-infested apartment while something terrible but unspecified is going on outside. After a series of trivial arguments, they decide that the need for water is such that one of them must go outs…
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Buddy Film, Komödie, comedy film, female buddy film
When Suzette is fired from her job as bartender at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles by a younger corporate manager with no time for nostalgia, she feels alone, aware of getting older, and in need of money, so on a whim sets out for Phoeni…
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Crime Comedy, blaxploitation film, buddy film, parody film
While enjoying themselves at Madame Zenobia's club on Saturday night, Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin are held up by robbers who raid the club and steal Steve's wallet. When they realize that a winning lottery ticket worth $50,000 is in…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, buddy film
Con man Eddie Dash, required to complete community service for past crimes, reluctantly chooses the easiest assignment: accompanying mental patient and reformed pathological liar George as he adjusts to life outside the sanitarium. Althoug…
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Classical Western, Western film, buddy film
Guthrie McCabe is living the good life as Tuscosa town marshal, supplementing his income with a percentage of the profits of local businesses, including the saloon run by his mistress, Belle. Meanwhile, the white relatives of Comanche capt…
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Crime, buddy cop film, crime film, thriller film
Tough lieutenant Jim Brannigan of the Chicago Police Department is sent to London to extradite a notorious American mobster, Ben Larkin. Brannigan is assigned a local officer, Detective-Sergeant Jennifer Thatcher, to help while he is in Lo…
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Drama, Social Drama, drama film, female buddy film
Two determined mothers, a car dealer/bartender (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and a teacher (Viola Davis), look to transform their children's failing inner-city school in Pittsburgh. Facing a powerful and entrenched bureaucracy and corruption from th…
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Action, buddy cop film
In 1991, after taking down the Katana crime organization, LAPD Detective Joe Marshall plans to settle down with his girlfriend Jennifer when she is suddenly murdered by a young boy at a park. Twenty-five years later, Katana boss Fuj Fujiya…
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American football film, Komödie, Raunchy comedy, buddy film, romantic comedy
Wide receiver Marvin "Shake" Tiller and running back Billy Clyde Puckett are football buddies who play for a Miami pro team owned by "Big Ed" Bookman. Bookman's daughter Barbara Jane is roommates with both men, and the film depicts a subtl…
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Road Movie, drama film
Mark is a former hippie who has settled down in Portland, Oregon, and is expecting a child with his wife Tania. His old friend Kurt, who has not seen Mark in some years, calls Mark to invite him on an overnight camping trip to Bagby Hot Sp…
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Komödie, buddy film, musical film, romantic comedy, teen film
After high school graduation and his father's death, Kid, with scholarship money provided by the congregation of his church, goes off to college with his girlfriend, Sidney. Play, now driving a 'Foxbody' Ford Mustang instead of his beat up…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
Freebie and Bean are a pair of maverick detectives with the San Francisco Police Department Intelligence Squad. The volatile, gratuity-seeking Freebie is trying to get promoted to the vice squad to garner perks for his retirement while the…
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comedy film, female buddy film
Destiny is a bossy, overconfident, victory-obsessed cheerleader who often ignores input from her peers, including her best friend, Willow. Though largely self-centered, she does have a high degree of respect for Cheer Goddess, a retired ch…
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Animation, buddy film, comedy drama, musical film
The film opens in springtime, the year after Charlotte has died. Her three daughters, Nellie, Aranea, and Joy, are now in the stages of adolescence, with Wilbur serving as a companion and mentor. During this time, Wilbur befriends Cardigan…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, buddy film, romantic comedy
Compulsive gambler Charlie Gordon cons his brother-in-law, widower Herb Sullivan, whose wife Susie was Charlie's sister, to take an all expenses-paid luxury Holland America Mexican cruise. The catch, which Charlie does not reveal to Herb u…
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Dark Comedy, buddy film, comedy drama, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film
Small-time marijuana harvesters in Northern California Jack, Carter and Harlan witness their boss Malcolm shot dead by the pilot who flies him to visit his flourishing marijuana plantation. After getting over the initial shock, Jack organi…
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female buddy film