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Drama, crime film, drama film
The film starts off in a violent crime committed against Reggie (Cannon), who ends up having his head blown off while eating a burger in a fast-food restaurant. After his death, the film unveils why Reggie died in the beginning of the film…
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Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1855, an upper middle-class Victorian family purchases a house in Blythswood Square, Glasgow. Their eldest daughter Madeleine Smith claims the basement bedroom so she will have easy access to the servants' entrance and be able to entert…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, mystery film, neo-noir
Emma Brody, a violinist for a Celtic rock band in Chicago, has been blind for twenty years as the result of an attack by her abusive mother. She volunteers for an experimental surgery where her doctor, Ryan Pierce, equips her with corneal …
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crime film, rape and revenge film
Will Carlson is an around-30 loser who lives in a duplex house apartment in a rundown neighborhood in New Jersey, where he ekes out a living as a birthday party clown in order to pay the rent for his abusive mother's nursing home and the r…
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Crime Comedy, blaxploitation film, buddy film, heist film
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class criminals in Chicago who have never been caught. Dave is shown at the beginning of the film displaying his expert safecracking skills and burglarizing a large firm, obtaining a large sum o…
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Crime, Drama, Historie, biographical film, crime film, drama film, trial film
Derek Bentley is an illiterate, epileptic young adult with developmental disabilities who falls into a gang led by a younger teenager named Christopher Craig. During the course of the robbery of a warehouse in Croydon, in which Bentley is …
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Crime, Thriller, crime thriller film
While driving home in a state of intoxication after celebrating winning a court case, ambitious young Chicago District Attorney Mitch Brockden (Dominic Cooper) is accidentally involved in a fatal hit and run. In an effort to preserve his l…
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crime film, drama film
When she is 16, Laurie meets and falls in love with an older man, 31-year-old Bruce Kellogg. She soon moves in with him, not knowing that her stepfather actually sold her to him for $500. They are happy, at first, but it soon becomes clear…
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Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, heist film
Thieves fall out when more than a half-million dollars goes missing after the daring and carefully planned robbery of the Los Angeles Coliseum during a football game, each one accusing the other of having the money. The heist has been mast…
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LGBTQ-related film, Police Film, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film
La Salle Parish, Louisiana Sheriff Darl Hardwick investigates the controversial local murder of a transgender woman, with the highly sensitive matter being concealed as much as possible by the parish's most influential figures, such figure…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, thriller
Crime, Thriller
Amaia Salazar returns to the Baztán Valley to investigate suicides that have a mysterious and jarring pattern. She believes that the suicide cases are linked to a murder case that she solved in Northern Spain a year before. Salazar, who is…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Romance Film, crime film, drama film
Polly Franklin is a farm girl in the Midwest at the height of the Great Depression. While running into town on errands, she witnesses a bank robbery and is taken hostage. Sleazy journalist Jake Lingle corners her looking for a story, but i…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
A busload of passengers, including off-duty police detective Dave Evans, is gunned down and killed. Evans, on his own time, has been following a man named Gus Niles in search of information linking businessman Henry Camarero to the murder …
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Action, Crime, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Jack Murphy, a hardened, antisocial alcoholic LAPD detective, frequently escapes the harsh reality that his ex-wife has become a stripper and his career is going nowhere by drinking. His world is turned upside down, however, when he is fra…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, romance film
San Francisco socialite Helen Brent has established residence in Reno, Nevada to obtain a divorce decree and is lodging in a boarding house owned by the feisty Mrs. Kraft. Helen meets Laury Palmer, a next-door neighbor, and Mrs.
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Crime, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film
Bent follows Danny Gallagher (Karl Urban), a discredited narcotics detective who, upon his release from prison, makes plans to seek revenge on the accuser who framed him and killed his partner. Through his quest, Gallagher is forced to con…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film chronicles O'Grady's years as a priest in Northern California, where he committed his crimes. After being convicted of child molestation in 1993 and serving seven years in prison, he was deported to his native Ireland, where Berg …
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Exploitation Film, Gruselfilm, crime film, exploitation film, horror film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
During a Growth Opportunity graduation (a parody of Erhard Seminars Training), a couple, Terry and Charlie, are offered a ride by an old woman and driven into the woods. After the old woman's car stalls, two inbred killers appear and attac…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Eric Stanton, a well-dressed but down-on-his-luck drifter, feigns sleep but gets pulled off a bus in the hamlet of Walton because he does not have the fare to continue to San Francisco. He finds a low-budget diner called "Pop's Eats", wher…
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, war film
The film opens in Saigon late in the Vietnam War. John Converse, a disillusioned war correspondent, approaches Ray Hicks, a merchant marine sailor and acquaintance of Converse from the U.S., for help in smuggling a large quantity of heroin…
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
In New York City, special effects expert Rollie Tyler is contacted by his girlfriend Kim Brandon's ex-husband, NYPD detective Mike Brandon, to help apprehend a murderer targeting models who was arrested previously but served a reduced sent…
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, heist film
Cat burglar Henry Clarke checks himself into a Spanish sanatorium for alcoholics under a false pretence. His true motivation is to get closer to a wealthy patient named Salinas and then rob his magnificent house. Clarke is approached by Fé…
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Thriller, crime film
Cliff, who in the past at his work had an affair with the wife of his company's CEO and who was involved in allegations of embezzlement, for which the CEO subsequently took the blame and committed suicide, loses his job as a travelling sal…
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