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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films · Page 3.
Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, trial film
In a small Western Massachusetts town, Dr. Carolyn Ryan and her sculptor husband Ben live with their two children Jacob and Judith. Their world is shattered when Sheriff Fran Conklin tells them that Martha Taverner has been killed and witn…
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Forensic, Social Drama, drama film, trial film
In the 1920s, in the town of Hillsboro, Tennessee, a female voice sings "Old-time Religion" as schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for violating state law by conducting a lesson on Charles Darwin's Descent of Man. The event makes headl…
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Crime, Drama, drama film, mystery film
In 1944 during World War II, Vernon Waters, a master sergeant in a company of Black soldiers, is shot to death with a .45 caliber pistol outside Fort Neal, a segregated Army base in Louisiana. Captain Richard Davenport, a Black officer fro…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
Miami liquor wholesaler Michael Gallagher, the son of a deceased criminal, finds himself a front-page story in the local newspaper which reports he's being investigated in the disappearance of longshoremans' union official Joey Diaz. Repor…
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Forensic, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film, thriller film, trial film
Annie Laird is a New York City sculptor who lives with her son Oliver and works a day job as a data entry clerk. Annie is selected to be a juror in the trial of crime boss Louie Boffano, who is accused of ordering the murders of federal in…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
Detroit engineer Preston Tucker has been interested in building cars since childhood. During World War II he designed an armored car for the military and made money building gun turrets for aircraft in a small shop next to his home in Ypsi…
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Destiny, Family Drama, drama film
In the small town of Sam Dent, British Columbia, a school bus hits a patch of ice, runs through a barrier, and crashes into a lake, killing 14 children. The grieving parents are approached by an out-of-town lawyer, Mitchell Stephens, who i…
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Drama, War Film, trial film
In 1902, three Australian soldiers are tried for war crimes committed during the Second Boer War in South Africa. Lieutenants Harry "Breaker" Morant, Peter Handcock and George Witton; all officers of the elite Bushveldt Carbineers, are cha…
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Drama, Forensic, Historie, biographical film, drama film, trial film
On April 14, 1865, five days after the Civil War ends with Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, Union veteran Frederick Aiken, with his friends, William Thomas Hamilton and Nicholas Baker, and …
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Drama, drama film
Khaila Richards (Halle Berry) is an African-American woman struggling with an addiction to crack cocaine. Desperate for drugs, she places her infant son, Isaiah, in a box and leaves him in an alley behind a crack house. Khaila promises to …
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Biographical picture, Justice Drama, biographical film, drama film
Kenny and Betty Anne Waters were children of an indifferent mother. Forced to fend for themselves, they were very close before they were eventually sent to separate foster homes. Now a wife and mother of two sons, Betty Anne's life is stil…
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Forensic, Komödie, Mafia Film, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, trial film
In the mid 1980s, Lucchese crime family New Jersey faction soldier Jackie DiNorscio and 19 of his peers have been waiting a year for their federal racketeering trial to begin. While out on bail, Jackie is shot by his drug addict cousin Ton…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
On 19 May 1983, at approximately 10:48 p.m, Diane Downs drives to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield, Oregon with a gunshot wound to her arm. She claims that an unknown assailant attempted to carjack her and shot her three childre…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film, trial film
Elizabeth Quinn, a law clerk, stumbles onto something while working on the transcripts of a 17-year old case. She approaches the trial judge, who gives her a cassette tape before committing suicide. The clerk is found murdered shortly ther…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film, trial film
In 1950 San Francisco, petty criminal and prostitute Barbara Graham faces a misdemeanor charge for soliciting sex. She returns to her native San Diego, but is soon charged with perjury after she provides two criminal friends a false alibi.…
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Drama, drama film, prison film, thriller film
As a 17-year-old orphan, Henri Young went into a grocery store where he was denied work. This leads him to steal $5.00 from a grocery store to feed himself and his little sister Rosetta, both of whom are destitute. He is apprehended by the…
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Crime, Forensic, Marital Tragedy, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
thumb|left|Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall in The Letter thumb|Bette Davis as Leslie Crosbie Leslie Crosbie, the wife of a British rubber plantation manager in Malaya, shoots dead Geoffrey Hammond, a well-known member of the expatriate co…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, black comedy, crime film, drama film, mystery film, trial film
Vice squad detectives Frank Divinci and Jake Rodriguez set up narcotics runner Lionel Hudd in a bogus drug trafficking deal at a motel. They murder Hudd, pocket his money, and recover the cocaine he purchased from them. The detectives retu…
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Crime, Forensic, Komödie, Thriller, comedy thriller, crime film, romantic comedy
Tom Logan, an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, has his sights set on being the next District Attorney. Laura Kelly, an attorney representing performance artist Chelsea Deardon, seeks out Logan to dis…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
In 1965 Alabama, Peter Joseph "Peejoe" Bullis is an orphan living in a small town during the Civil Rights Movement. His eccentric aunt, Lucille Vinson, kills her husband Chester with poison, after suffering years of domestic violence. She …
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Forensic, Thriller, drama film, film noir, mystery film, romance film, trial film
In London, Maddalena Anna Paradine is a very beautiful and enigmatic young Italian woman who is accused of poisoning her older, blind husband, a wealthy retired colonel. It is not clear whether she is a grateful and devoted wife who has be…
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Forensic, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, trial film
Close friends Judd Steiner and Artie Straus each believe they fit Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of a "superman" (Übermensch), and thus are above the law. From wealthy, socially prominent families, both are graduate law students under ag…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
When NYPD Detective Eddie Santos surprises drug dealer Tino Zapatti on a Brooklyn street corner, Tino opens fire; the two men gun each other down, and a stray bullet from Zapatti kills a 6-year-old boy. As Mayor John Pappas responds to the…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film, trial film
Rick Magruder is a successful attorney in Savannah, Georgia, with a reputation for underhanded dealings and a tense relationship with his ex-wife, Leeanne. After a party hosted by his firm, waitress Mallory Doss has her car stolen and Rick…
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