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Action, Dark Comedy, Thriller, action film, black comedy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
"Ghetto" Pat Calhoun and Perfidia Beverly Hills are lovers and members of a far-left militant revolutionary group, the French 75. While breaking out detained immigrants from Otay Mesa Detention Center, Perfidia sexually humiliates the comm…
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Super Hero, action film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
Russian terrorist group Anarchy 99 acquires the biochemical weapon "Silent Night", presumed missing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Undercover NSA agent Jim McGrath is assigned to recover the weapon, but is killed by Anarchy 99 …
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Crime, comedy film, detective fiction, mystery film
After punching a fellow deacon, former boxer-turned-Catholic priest Jud Duplenticy is reassigned to Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude, an upstate New York parish led by Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, the grandson of Reverend Prentice Wicks. Dupl…
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Action, Gangster Film, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
The film revolves around Raya, a gangster, set in pre-Independence Goa under the rule of the Portuguese. In the 1920s, as a child, his mother killed his father, and his elder sister, Ganga, raised him. In 1947, Raya and Ganga both take rev…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, mystery film, police film, thriller film
When Captain Jackie Velez of the Miami-Dade Police Department is murdered, suspicion falls on her specialized unit, the Tactical Narcotics Team (TNT), amid rumors of a crew of crooked cops robbing drug houses. Her second-in-command, Lieute…
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Crime Comedy, adventure film, comedy film, family film, mystery film
In the English village of Denbrook, shepherd George Hardy spends his time reading murder mystery novels to his flock of sheep. The sheep live in blissful ignorance, believing that death only exists in fiction and that they turn into clouds…
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Family Saga, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In the mid-1940s, Michael Corleone is a World War II veteran and the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone. Vito is head of the Corleone mafia family and runs it with his eldest son Santino Sonny and adopted son Tom Hagen, a lawyer who is the …
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, crime film, science fiction film, superhero film
In Kuala Lumpur, Yelena Belova destroys a laboratory on behalf of CIA director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, who is attempting to destroy any evidence of her involvement with the O.X.E. Group's "Project Sentry". As de Fontaine faces immin…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
The family of wealthy mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey attends his birthday party at his estate. The next morning, Harlan's housekeeper Fran discovers him dead with a slit throat. Police detectives Lieutenant Elliot and Trooper Wagner beli…
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Drama, Komödie, alternate history, alternate history film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film, drama film
In February 1969, Hollywood actor Rick Dalton, a former Western TV star, copes with a fading career, his most recent roles being guest appearances as TV villains. Agent Marvin Schwarz suggests working in spaghetti Westerns in Italy, which …
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Heist, crime film, heist film, thriller film
Ten years after the Horsemen's last performance, three young illusionists—Charlie, Bosco, and June—impersonate the Horsemen using deepfakes and holograms to drain a corrupt cryptocurrency exchange owner's wallet and share the stolen funds.…
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Crime, Historical drama, crime film, drama film, epic film
Amidst the Birmingham Blitz in November 1940, Nazi Germany initiates a plot to economically subdue the United Kingdom by introducing copious amounts of counterfeit British currency – manufactured by the inmates of the regime's concentratio…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
In Phoenix, Arizona, real estate secretary Marion Crane embezzles $40,000 in cash from her employer after hearing her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, complain that his debts are delaying their marriage. She sets off to drive to Sam's home in the to…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Late Western, Thriller, Western film, action film, adventure film, contemporary Western film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1980, hitman Anton Chigurh is arrested in Texas. He escapes by strangling the sheriff's deputy to death and steals a car by killing the driver with a captive bolt pistol. Later, he spares the life of a gas station owner for correctly ca…
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Crime, crime thriller film
In Los Angeles, Mike is an elusive and disciplined jewel thief, carefully planning robberies to avoid violence and DNA evidence while escaping via U.S. Route 101. Intercepting a diamond delivery carrying decoys, he steals $3 million in gen…
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels and his new partner Chuck Aule travel to Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane on Shutter Island in Boston Harbor. They are investigating the disappearance of Rachel Solando, a patient o…
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Justice Drama, buddy film, crime film, drama film, prison film
In 1947, Portland, Maine, banker Andy Dufresne arrives at Shawshank State Prison to serve two consecutive life sentences for murdering his wife and her lover. He is befriended by Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, a contraband smuggler serving a li…
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Action, Detective Film, Super Hero, action film, crime film, detective film, drama film, superhero film, thriller film
On Halloween, Gotham City mayor Don Mitchell Jr. is murdered by a masked serial killer, the Riddler. Reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated for two years as the vigilante Batman, investigates the murder alongside Lieutenant Ji…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, superhero film, thriller film
A gang of masked criminals rob a mafia-owned bank in Gotham City, betraying and killing each other until the sole survivor, the Joker, reveals himself as the mastermind and escapes with the money. The vigilante Batman, district attorney Ha…
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Crime, Tragic Comedy Film, biographical film, crime film, romantic comedy film
In 1998, Jeffrey Manchester is a divorced U.S. Army veteran living in North Carolina. Struggling to provide for his three young children, Jeffrey is reminded by Steve, his friend and fellow member of the 82nd Airborne Division, of his powe…
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Action, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, heist film, mystery film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, thriller film
Dom Cobb and Arthur are "extractors" who perform corporate espionage using experimental dream-sharing technology to infiltrate their targets' subconscious and extract information. Their latest target, Saito, is impressed with Cobb's abilit…
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Dark Comedy, Western, Western film, black comedy film, comedy film, contemporary Western film, crime film, drama film, horror film, satirical film, thriller film
In late May 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ted Garcia, mayor of the small town of Eddington, New Mexico, implements a lockdown and mask mandate based on the governor's orders. Conservative Sevilla County Sheriff Joe Cross publ…
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Christmas film, Family Comedy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, family film
The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Peter and Kate's home in a Chicago suburb the night before their departure. Their youngest son, Kevin, is the subject of ridicule by his older siblings because o…
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Buddy Cop, Computeranimation, Crime Comedy, Political Drama, action comedy film, adventure film, buddy cop film, comedy film, detective film, family film
In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, Judy Hopps, a rabbit from rural Bunnyburrow, fulfills her childhood dream of becoming the first rabbit police officer in the city of Zootopia. On her first day at the Zootopia Police Departm…
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