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Action, Gangster Film, action film, blaxploitation film
The movie opens to a narration (by Ron O'Neal) detailing the poor economic state of a gang-ridden Gary, Indiana. The narrator explains to the audience of how the city came into such a state. After the opening narrative, the scene switches …
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Crime, crime film, drama film
On June 15, 1904, the steamboat General Slocum catches fire and sinks in New York's East River. Two boys, Blackie Gallagher and Jim Wade, are rescued by a priest, Father Joe, but are orphaned by the disaster. They are taken in by another s…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Charged with a murder he did not commit, truck driver Frank Webster has broken out of jail. While on the run toward the Mexico–United States border, and the subject of radio news reports, he is cornered in a small Southern California coffe…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
Los Angeles police detective Lieutenant Bill Doyle and his partner, Captain Charlie Alidos, track a female fugitive wanted for murder to San Francisco. Bill meets Kathy Ferguson, a San Francisco newspaper advice columnist, who has helped t…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film
Beth is becoming bored with her life in Florida, doing stripteases and lap dances for private customers. Her dad, Jerry, unaware of the nature of her earning, tells her to follow her dream of moving to Las Vegas, where she seeks honest wor…
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Action, Crime, crime film, drama film
A.J., an ex-con who served 13 years in Angola for manslaughter, returns home to New Orleans and fights to protect the woman he loves and her young daughter from his dangerous former best friend. In better times, AJ (Triple H) would have do…
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Crime Comedy, Drama, drama film, heist film
Richard Gaddis is a small-time crook with a penchant for con games. To hook marks, he acts and dresses like a well-to-do businessman, believing that one must look like a professional in order to be a successful conman. Gaddis is searching …
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Thriller, crime film
thumb|The plaster cast of Trajan's Column at the Victoria and Albert Museum is discussed in the film. In 1993, Martin (Elijah Wood), a US student at the University of Oxford, wants Arthur Seldom (John Hurt) as his thesis supervisor. He ido…
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drama film
Rudy and Mogie Yellow Lodge are Lakota Sioux brothers on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Mogie is unemployed and has a teenage son. Rudy, a police officer, struggles to care for his brother, nephew and the rest of the to…
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Crime, crime film
London, autumn 1888. Chief Inspector Frederick Abberline of Scotland Yard is assigned by his superiors to investigate the murder and brutal mutilation of a prostitute in the East End of London. As the mutilated corpses of other "shilling w…
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Crime, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In 1970 Framingham, Massachusetts, an unemployed carpenter, James Blaine "JB" Mooney, plots to steal four Arthur Dove paintings from the local art museum. He borrows money from his mother under the pretense of using it for work so he can p…
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Crime, mystery film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, Jill LaBeau is a friend and personal assistant to movie star Heather Anderson. Heather has decided to drop out of an upcoming film, upsetting numerous people, as the movie will not go forward without her in it. Late one nig…
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Action, Crime, Ninja Film, musical film, ninja film
A cocaine deal in Miami is interrupted by a group of motorcycle-riding ninjas led by Yashito, who steal the drugs and ride back to Orlando to party. At a club, Yashito's close associate, Jeff, sees his sister Jane onstage. She has become r…
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Erotic Thriller, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, erotic film, thriller
Marie Clifton is set to inherit two diamonds, called the "mother and daughter", which her late mother bestowed to her. Marie's stepfather, Jay Clifton, challenges the will, claiming Marie is not ready for the responsibility, but actually j…
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Justice Drama, Police Film, Political Thriller, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2054, a "Precrime" pilot program is running in Washington, D.C. in the United States. Three clairvoyant individuals known as "precognitives" or "precogs" receive psychic visions about imminent homicides.
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Victor "Vic" Rosa is a drug dealer in New York City who sells a specific brand of heroin called "Empire". His territory is located in the South Bronx, where he and his other rivals, Hector ("Exorcist"), Tito ("Severe"), and Negro ("Dancing…
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Family Saga, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In rural Arkansas during the Depression, middle-aged Kate 'Ma' Barker, disturbed by the childhood incestuous rape that she experienced by her father and brothers, also brutalizes those around her while indulging in her monstrous sexual app…
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Christmas film, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
At Christmas time, New York City convicts Dave and Alvin Firpo are paroled early and placed in the custody of their younger brother Bill, a restaurant manager. Dave and Alvin ask Bill to take them to Paradise, Pennsylvania to do a favor fo…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, romance film
The plot revolves around the intimate relationship developing between Tony, a teenage boy from Little Italy, and Tye, a teenage girl from Chinatown, while both of their older brothers become engrossed in a heated gang war against each othe…
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Crime, Film Noir, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, film noir
In San Francisco, chemist and blackmailer Albert Baker is killed by hitman Philip Raven, who recovers a stolen chemical formula. Raven is double-crossed by his employer, Willard Gates, who pays him with marked bills and reports them to the…
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Crime, Thriller
Four 19-year-old friends – Joanne, Cassandra, Shannon, and Kerrys from London – all meet one other at a diner, where they see Dillon and Smoothy. As the police turn up, Dillon and Smoothy run off and Dillon accidentally drops a stolen diam…
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Crime, drama film
In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, Brazil, exiled Americans Sinatra and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted to cocaine. Sinatra is married to a former prostitute named Angie, with whom he has a son.
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In the town of Edison, a police pursuit by tactical unit F.R.A.T. (First Response Assault and Tactical) ends with a shootout, in which veteran detective Francis Lazerov kills a criminal by shooting him through the sleeve of a hostage. Late…
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Crime Comedy, black comedy film, crime film, drama film
Tommy Spinelli is a wiseguy hired by Benny and Rico, a pair of dimwitted hitmen, to transport a duffel bag full of severed heads across the United States to crime boss "Big Sep" (as proof of the deaths). While on a commercial flight, his b…
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