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crime film, drama film, romance film
In a small Georgia town in 1948, Buster Lane (Jan-Michael Vincent) is a handsome, popular high-school senior, who is engaged to be married to his pretty, popular high-school sweetheart Margie Hooks (Pamela Sue Martin). He is the 'big man o…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, vigilante film
Judge Steven Hardin (Michael Douglas) is an idealistic Los Angeles judge who becomes frustrated when the technicalities of the law prevent the prosecution of three criminals. The first is a man who was charged with murdering several elderl…
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Crime, Thriller, art film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
The film opens with Detective Fisher, a European expatriate in Cairo, undergoing hypnosis to process his most recent case, with the remainder of the film narrated by him in a dreamlike state. Expressionistic and surreal, the Europe of Fish…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
New York police detective Mark Dixon is demoted by Inspector Foley because of his frequent use of violence that echoes his father's criminal past. At a hotel, gangster Tommy Scalise's floating crap game becomes the scene of a visiting Texa…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In a warehouse, a handful of amnesiac men regain consciousness. One is bound to a chair, another has been handcuffed and shot, a third has a broken nose, and the other two, one wearing a jean jacket and one wearing a rancher shirt, are als…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, horror film
In 1560, Elizabeth Báthory is born into the Hungarian noble Báthory family, the daughter of general George Báthory of Ecsed. From an early age, Elizabeth's parents raise her to accept hardness and cruelty. As a teenager, Elizabeth is impre…
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Action, Crime Comedy, Komödie, action film, comedy film, comedy thriller
Michael Jordon, an architect, accidentally becomes involved in a web of intrigue and murder when a strange woman, who enters a taxi with him, is later found murdered. As a result, he flees from false murder charges. Kate is a woman out to …
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crime film
DI Lestrade and Sergeant Donovan are on the verge of arresting the criminal Waters family that has evaded the police several times. However, when Lestrade receives a text from Sherlock asking for help, he tells Donovan to make the arrest h…
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Dark Comedy, Heist, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Young police Sergeant David Waters and his older boss and friend Lieutenant Jim Stone both work in the Evidence Management unit of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. Disillusioned and bored with their jobs, they also find it har…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film
Successful mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, who has been separated from her husband, Mr Preston — a man with a criminal past —lives in an isolated home in Northern England. Her nearest neighbour is nosy vet, Dr Henderson. Janet has an aff…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, horror film, science fiction film
Lady Harringay arrives in her chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce at the offices of plastic surgeon, Dr. Philip Ritter, in central London. She is disappointed when he tells her that he can do no more for her, since she has already had too many fa…
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Romance Film, Thriller, crime film
As told by the Narrator, in third person omniscient: In 1864 New York City, Tarleton Rathcart and Theodore Gibbon settle their rivalry through a Gentlemen's Duel. This results in Theodore’s death, initiating a feud between the families. Bo…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
Bobby Gold is a homicide detective on the trail of Robert Randolph, a drug-dealer and cop-killer on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. En route to nab an accomplice of Randolph, Gold and his partner Tim Sullivan happen upon a murder scene: th…
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Dance Film, crime film, drama film, musical film
Chance Harris looks to find a balance between his school, work, relationships and opportunity to perform at the nationally televised step competition during homecoming weekend at Truth University.
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Crime Comedy, High School Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, neo-noir, teen film
Robert "Bobby" Funke is a less than popular high school sophomore with a dream to get into Northwestern University's summer journalism program. Although Funke claims he is a great writer, he has never finished an article for his school new…
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Romantic Comedy, drama film, romantic comedy
The story is set in New York City in the 1890s. A bawdy singer, Lady Lou, works in the Bowery barroom saloon of her boss and benefactor, Gus Jordan, who has given her many diamonds. But Lou is a lady with more men friends than anyone might…
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Dark Comedy, comedy film, crime comedy film, neo-noir
In a field in Montana, Clay Bidwell's best friend Earl, dies by suicide after confronting Clay over the ongoing affair he had been having with Earl's wife Amanda. Earl, having just found out, was distraught and wanted to make it look like …
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Detective Film, comedy film, crime comedy film, mystery film
While travelling by train, Miss Marple witnesses the strangling of a young woman in another train on a parallel track. The police find nothing to support her story, so she conducts her own investigation, and with the aid of her close frien…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Tommy is the son of a Mafia hitman, who, after his father is killed by a rival, moves with his younger brother to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousin in Philadelphia. As the sole member of his family who is not involved in crime, Tommy j…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Rising Hollywood movie star Bo Laramie finally achieves major success with his latest film Adrenaline Force. After the film's premiere, a persistent group of unscrupulous photographers—Kevin Rosner, Leonard Clark, Wendell Stokes and their …
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime thriller film, drama film
Marty Kingston is a veteran detective that works in Narcotic Division alongside his partner Sal Quintana and two other friends, Tyrone Fowler and Jimmy Rogan. Their unit takes down a neo-nazi biker gang called The White Alliance. They then…
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Adventure, Dark Comedy, spy film
In London, in 1908, aspiring journalist and women's rights campaigner Sonia Winter uncovers an organisation that specialises in killing for money, the Assassination Bureau Limited. To bring about its destruction, she meets the bureau's you…
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Action, action film, crime film, drama film
Casey, an American living in Cologne, Germany, works with his friend Matthias for a drug dealer, Geran, as money runners. He meets Juliette, another American, one night while she tends bar at one of Geran's hangouts. Though interested in h…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Thriller, Vampirfilm, action film, buddy film, female buddy film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, rape and revenge film, vampire film
Reporter Sadie Blake has just published a notable article featuring a secret Gothic party scene. The night following the publication, one of Sadie's sources, Tricia Rawlins, is invited by her friend Kaitlyn to an isolated house in which su…
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