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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, romance film
thumb|upright=1.1|Several shots in the film obscure Anna Holm's disfigurement via a selective angle or costumes. Anna Holm is on trial in Stockholm for murdering an unnamed victim. Her hat conceals her face.
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Nico "Nick" Garcos is a veteran of World War II, who arrives, from Asia, at his family home in Fresno, California to find that his foreign-born father, who became a produce truck driver, has lost his legs and was forced to sell his truck. …
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Action, association football film, crime film, drama film
Danny Harvey was once the leader of the Green Street Elite, a group of hooligans supporting their beloved West Ham United. However, grown tired of the lifestyle, he leaves home and sets up shop as a mixed martial arts gym owner in Scotland…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, rape and revenge film
While getting into her car one night, Marjorie is attacked at knifepoint by a masked assailant who forces her to drive to a remote location, where he tries to sexually assault her. She manages to flee but leaves her purse behind. While at …
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Drama, crime film, drama film
While in a restaurant, Carla Davenport, the restaurant cashier; Charlie Archenault, a driving-school teacher; Bruce Laraby, an emergency room physician; Anne Hagen; her father; and her best friend, Jimmy Jasperson, suddenly hear gunshots. …
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Martial-Arts, action film, martial arts film, ninja film, science fiction film
On a remote Caribbean island, US Army Rangers Joe Armstrong and Curtis Jackson investigate the disappearance of several Marines. They soon discover that the disappearances are the work of a drug lord called "The Lion". The Lion has also ki…
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Drama, drama film
In West Germany in the late 1960s, Stefan finishes his mathematics studies and decides to experience life. He hitchhikes to Paris and befriends a petty criminal called Charlie after gambling at a bar. Charlie takes him to a party where he …
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crime film, drama film
Melissa Connell is a college freshman who is invited to a party by a guy, Scott Baker, with her roommates Jordan McCann and Kellie Salter. Scott is a member of the college's most popular fraternity (to which her brother, Michael, also belo…
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crime film
Joseph "Mr. Joe" Scoleri (Paul Sorvino) was a major Mafia mob boss back in the 1980s, somewhat like John Gotti. He is let out of a prison in Pennsylvania after serving 20 years, but is released conditionally, on probation, because of ill h…
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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, psycho-biddy, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
Lucy Harbin has a solution for adultery—an axe. When she finds her husband in bed with his lover, it's off with their heads. Unfortunately, Lucy's three-year-old daughter, Carol, witnesses the deed.
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Martin Rome, a hardened criminal, is in a hospital room awaiting surgery for critical wounds he received in a shootout where he killed a police officer. At the hospital, he is visited by members of his family and his girlfriend, a priest f…
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Forensic, Romantic Drama, crime film, drama film, romance film
The film is set in Turin, Italy. It opens with a prologue sequence showing the young Italian Carabinieri clerk Filippo (Ribisi) learning to fly a helicopter using a flight simulator. When he accidentally crashes the virtual helicopter by a…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, spy film, thriller film
Cross is an experienced, but retiring Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent and assassin who is training freelance hitman Jean Laurier, alias Scorpio, to replace him. Cross is teaching him as much about protecting himself from his patron…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Police detective Jim Wilson is known for employing physical violence to extract information from suspects and witnesses. After Wilson ignores his chief's warnings, he is relegated to a case upstate. He joins a manhunt pursuing the murderer…
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Crime, Drama, drama film
Jack Kelson has just been released from prison in Seattle after serving a five-year sentence for robbing a jewelry store. His 14-year-old son Nick, whose mother has been dead for many years, is in desperate need of a father and arrives at …
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, prison film, trial film
thumb|Spencer Tracy as Joe Wilson En route to meet his fiancée Katherine Grant, gas-station owner Joe Wilson is arrested on flimsy circumstantial evidence for the kidnapping of a child. Gossip soon travels around the small town, growing mo…
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Crime, Romance Film, crime film, drama film, romance film
John Wisdom is a young man just out of high school. On the night of his high school graduation, he gets drunk and steals a car. With a grand theft auto conviction he is branded a felon, and as a result cannot hold down a decent job.
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Drama, Thriller, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film
Following the death of his wife Audrey, John Munn (Dermot Mulroney) moves with his two sons, mid-teen Chris Munn (Jamie Bell) and adolescent Tim Munn (Devon Alan), to a pig farm in rural Drees County, Georgia, where they lead a reclusive l…
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Crime, Drama, Melodrama, drama film
During the hours of darkness, a car crashes. A man, Stephen, goes to it and finds a young man dead and a shocked but uninjured young woman whom he lifts from the car and takes back to his nearby house. The film then goes into flashback.
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Action, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, thriller film
Cam is an NYC bike messenger who rents a garage from a woman named Angie and also struggling to make ends meet. While on a run, Cam wrecks his bike after a stranger named Nikki causes an accident while escaping from police officers. Cam is…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Julie Barnes, Pete Cochran, and Linc Hayes are three young delinquents who choose to work undercover for the police in place of serving their jail terms. While investigating a club suspected of running prostitutes, Linc notices their super…
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Komödie, comedy film, drama film
John Plummer is engaged to Elaine Warner and intends to use their life savings of $30,000 to put a down payment on a house. He works for Elaine's father, Mr. Warner, who dislikes him.
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Horror, Thriller, drama film, giallo, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
Turin, Italy: French flight attendant Linda and Italian-American detective Enzo Avolfi team up to find Linda's younger sister Celine. Celine, a model, has been abducted by a serial killer. Known only as "Yellow" ("Giallo" in Italian), he k…
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Crime, Erotic Film, Mysterie, crime thriller film, drama film
An engaged couple, Tish and David, take a short vacation to Budapest. David is counsel to Tish's father, an ambassador who does not approve of their relationship, although this does not affect the couple's relationship. While in Budapest, …
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