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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film, film noir, neo-noir
Ex-boxer Kevin "Kid" Collins is a drifter and an escapee from a mental hospital. In a desert town near Palm Springs he meets widow Fay Anderson who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her husband left and lets him sleep in a …
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Action, Crime, Komödie, Sexploitation Film, action film
In Texas in 1932, after stopping her youngest daughter's wedding, Wilma McClatchie takes over her late lover's bootlegging business, but gets caught while doing the delivery route with her two daughters. After handing over all her money an…
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Drama, drama film
Film producer Mike Max meditates on the paranoia of fear of attack, in the film industry and life in general, as his wife Paige announces she is leaving him. He receives a document via email from a NASA employee whom he met earlier at a co…
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Slasher Horror, comedy horror, crime film, horror film, sexploitation film, slasher film
Abby Russell works as a nurse in Manhattan but is secretly a serial killer who targets unfaithful men. She murders a man by severing his femoral artery and then throws him off of the roof of a nightclub. The following day, she attends the …
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crime film
Mycroft presents doctored footage of Charles Augustus Magnussen ("His Last Vow") being shot, so that it will appear to the public as though Magnussen was shot accidentally by a sniper. Sherlock and a committee chaired by Lady Smallwood are…
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Crime, Film Noir, action film, drama film, thriller film
The film opens in Los Angeles with Treasury Agent Jimmy Mercer and his partner Brady doing some undercover work, when Mercer's fellow agent is shot and killed by a new man, Ronnie, whom criminal Rudolph "Red" Diamond pulled out of jail. No…
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Romantic Drama, Werewolf, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, teen film, werewolf film
Nineteen-year-old werewolf Vivian was born in Bucharest to Romanian parents who emigrated to America. Her parents and two siblings were murdered when she was nine. Orphaned, she lives in Bucharest with her aunt Astrid who owns a chocolate …
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Crime Comedy, adventure film, comedy film, crime comedy film, heist film
A British bartender, Monte, hopes to marry Lucy, a waitress at the upscale restaurant where they work, ostensibly so he can obtain his green card and become an American citizen. Monte alludes to likely being killed if he returns to Britain…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, biographical film, crime film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
San Francisco-based Dashiell Hammett, trying to put his Pinkerton detective days behind him while establishing himself as a writer, finds himself drawn back into his old life one last time by the irresistible call of friendship and to hono…
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Crime, crime film, docudrama, drama film
Martha Beck is a sullen, overweight nursing administrator living in Mobile, Alabama, with her elderly mother. Martha's friend Bunny surreptitiously submits Martha's name to a "lonely hearts" club, which results in a letter from Raymond Fer…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film
Outside Mount Pleasant Baptist Church on West 81st Street in Manhattan, Bernard Gilbert is attacked by another man wielding an ice axe. Meanwhile at Mother Cabrini Hospital, Barbara Delaney is undergoing emergency surgery. The NYPD arrive …
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Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, action film, exploitation film, women in prison film
A young woman named Collier enters prison, having been found guilty of killing her husband and sentenced to 99 years. As she familiarizes herself with the prison, she meets five other women. Alcott, a political prisoner, Grear, a prostitut…
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crime film, drama film
Reuben James, a Black British man born in Saint Lucia and raised in the United Kingdom, joins the army paratrooper regiment. In 1979, he is attacked by IRA militants while leaving a pub in Northern Ireland, and is saved by fellow soldier a…
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Cartoon, action film, adventure film, musical film
In the opening scene, a man physically identical to Fred Flintstone, later revealed to be secret agent Rock Slag, is being chased through Bedrock. His pursuers, Ali and Bobo, think that they have finally killed Slag when they push him off …
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Crime, Drama, drama film
Brandon "Blue" Monroe, a 16-year-old half-Navajo gang member from East L.A., is serving time in prison for murdering his abusive stepfather. On an annual medical visit, Blue is told by Dr. Michael Reynolds, a wealthy, materialistic oncolog…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, spy film
Johnny Worricker is a long-serving MI5 officer. His best friend and superior, director general Benedict Baron, summons Worricker to a meeting with fellow MI5 agent Jill Tankard and Home Secretary Anthea Catcheside regarding a potentially e…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Brothers Dova (Matt Dillon) and Milo (Gary Sinise) are small-time crooks. They and their partner, Law (William Fichtner), pull a holdup in New Orleans that goes terribly wrong. A police officer is killed, as are two other men.
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Crime, Film Noir, Mysterie, caper story, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Kansas City Confidential (1952) The ruthless Mr. Big is timing the arrival of an armored car collecting money from a bank and a flower delivery truck driven by deliveryman Joe Rolfe. He plans to rob the armored car with …
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Crime, Crime Comedy, comedy film, heist film
Crunch Calhoun is given a seven-year prison sentence after a heist went wrong and his partner and brother Nicky betrayed him. They were doing a job in Warsaw, Poland, which was a 'smooth switch' - essentially they have a narrow time frame …
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Ben Chase is a brash young defense attorney whose success is built on his willingness to manipulate the judicial system for the benefit of his clients. In spite of his career success as an attorney, Ben is starting to show signs of serious…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Tom Ripley's friend Philip Derwatt, a successful young artist, is killed in a car accident. Ripley, along with Jeff Constant, Derwatt's gallerist; Bernard Sayles, another artist; and Cynthia, Derwatt's girlfriend, concoct a scheme in which…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, horror film, slasher film
Martin Bristol, a young boy with congenital analgesia, is kidnapped by psychotic and bereaved serial killer Graham Sutter. At an abandoned slaughterhouse once operated by his family, Graham cuts Martin's cheek before butchering a captive y…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, crime film, horror film, science fiction film
In New York City, a gunman perched atop a water tower opens fire with a .22 caliber rifle on the crowded streets below, randomly killing fifteen pedestrians. Peter Nicholas, a devout Catholic NYPD detective, climbs the tower to talk to the…
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biographical film, crime film
The film is based on the early life of Aileen Wuornos in 1976 when she married wealthy yacht club commodore Lewis Fell, only to inflict mayhem within her new family and Florida's high society.
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