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crime film
Sherlock Holmes is bored without stimulating cases. Mycroft Holmes urges Sherlock to investigate the death of Secret Intelligence Service clerk Andrew West and the disappearance of a flash drive containing missile plans. Sherlock refuses a…
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Crime Comedy
In a run-down train station café, a detective interrogates Jack, a talking capuchin monkey. They engage in a battle of wits, speaking almost entirely in animal-based puns and noirish one-liners, as the detective presses Jack to confess to …
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Crime, Drama Documentary, biographical film, drama film
The film provides a look at inconsistencies in the death of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the American grunge band Nirvana, as seen through the perspective of former private investigator Tom Grant. In addition to the dramatization of Cob…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
A DEA agent travels to London to apprehend a gangster who has formed a gang of sociopathic teenagers trying to imitate American culture.
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film
Stella Black attends a memorial service for her husband Rex, who "died" in a gliding accident, but whose body was never recovered. In reality, he and Stella are perpetrating insurance fraud to collect £50,000 life insurance as revenge agai…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Buck Enderley lives in an area of lower socio-economic housing in Los Angeles with his elderly and frail mother. Their home consists of a cabin for his mother and a stationary RV parked adjacent to the cabin, which Buck sleeps in. Buck is …
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Crime
In Hong Kong, the Hongmen-descendant and 50,000-strong triad Wo Lin Shing elects a new chairman every two years. The two leading contenders of the current election are Lok and Big D. Lok is calm, patient and even-tempered, while Big D, who…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
After being sacked from his job at a museum, former security guard Sam Baily returns to the place with a shotgun and dynamite and takes his former boss Mrs. Banks and a number of children (at the museum on a school field trip) as hostages.…
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir
Brothers Joe and Paul Fabrini are independent truck drivers who make a meager living transporting goods. Joe convinces Paul to start their own small, one-truck business, staying one step ahead of loan shark Farnsworth, who is trying to rep…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, crime film
Danny O'Brien is a Los Angeles cop who likes to work alone, and who never waits for backup. O'Brien determines to apprehend the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror, who kills women by snapping their necks and then takes their bo…
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Action, action film, thriller film
Marine Veteran Nick Prescott returns to his hometown. His father, who is the sheriff, tries to stand up against a brutal gang of ruthless criminals who intimidate and blackmail the people to sell them their business. He is then killed by t…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Malcolm Anderson is a reporter for a Miami newspaper, who is burned out from years of covering the worst crimes in the city. He promises his girlfriend Christine that they will move away from the city, but he ends up covering a series of g…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, neo-noir
In Newcastle upon Tyne, Irishman Brendan finds an ad for a janitorial position at the Key Club owned by Mr. Finney. En route to his interview, Brendan stops at a local shopping centre, where he crosses paths with an American woman, Kate.
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Action, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Mikey and his younger brother JP grow up in their teens on the streets with crime, baseball and brothers looking out for one another. Mikey protects JP when he walks in on his Uncle Rich who's committed suicide with a shotgun. Mikey witnes…
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Action, Drama, action film, drama film
Just released from prison, Vietnam War veteran Buck Matthews returns to his small town to start his life over with his wife Christie and their five-year-old daughter Jennifer, but soon learns that it has fallen into the clutches of a motor…
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Crime, Drama, alternate history film, drama film
Agatha Christie is having trouble collecting the American royalties on her published works. In a bid to make a private cash sale of a manuscript she decides to kill off her most famous character, Hercule Poirot. She hires a low-life man to…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Murder! (1930)|left Diana Baring, a young actress in a travelling theatre troupe, is found in a daze with blood on her clothes, sitting by the murdered body of another young actress, Edna Druce. The poker used to commit …
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Christmas film, Film Noir, heist film
thumb|Peter Cushing as Harry Fordyce Two days before Christmas, a bogus insurance auditor, "Colonel Gore Hepburn", appears at a provincial bank. Bank manager Harry Fordyce is a cold, officious man who treats his employees with disdain, but…
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Action, Action Comedy, action film, comedy thriller
LAPD detective Rita Rizzoli stages an undercover buy of a new strain of cocaine called "Fatal Beauty" with dealer Tito Delgadillo, but ruins it by leaving to save her informant Charlene from a beating by her pimp. Delgadillo steals her mon…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Roseanne Skolnick is outwardly a perfect and popular high school senior in Southern California, but she suffers from a dysfunctional home life: Her mother Maggie is unsatisfied in her marriage to Roseanne's alcoholic stepfather, Fred, who …
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir
George Stroud, editor-in-chief of Crimeways magazine, hides from building security inside the "big clock" which dominates the lobby of the Janoth Publications building where he works. It is the largest and most sophisticated clock ever bui…
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Social Drama, Thriller, crime thriller film
A troubled but dedicated social worker, assisting a working and struggling single mother and her daughter, intervenes when the father returns from prison and drags his family back to his habitual world of crime.
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, historical drama, neo-noir
In the 1940s, Leon "Bernzy" Bernstein is a freelance crime and street photographer for the New York City tabloids, dedicated to his vivid and realistic work and his unique ability to capture shots that nobody else can. He is very confident…
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LGBTQ-related film, action thriller, crime film, sexploitation film
Molly Stewart (Betsy Russell) is off the streets and studying to become a lawyer. Molly learns that Lt. Andrews (Robert F.
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