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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 108.
Biographical picture, Crime
The two-part television series is based on the true story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber, sweeps Parker – a young and impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, who is already married – of…
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Documentation, crime film, documentary film
crime film, drama film
Opening with a quotation from Lewis Carroll to suggest that the heroine is like Alice in Wonderland, the film starts on a rainy autumn afternoon in a small resort on the south coast of France. On the Giens Peninsula, Mellie, newly married …
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, comedy thriller, mystery film, neo-noir
Ira Wells, an aging Los Angeles private detective, is writing his memoir at his boarding house when his ex-partner Harry Regan appears, mortally wounded, and dies shortly after. At Harry's funeral, Ira is introduced to Margo Sperling by a …
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Crime, Romance Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, romance film
June 1906, New York City. Arriving nearly two hours late for a dinner reservation, multimillionaire Harry Thaw is indignant that his imagined rival, prominent architect Stanford White, has been given his table. The detested White has a hig…
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Crime, Western, Western film
In a gold-rush boomtown that has gone bust, a prospector strikes gold and is murdered. Sheriff Jim Ambrose (Gabriel Byrne) assumes that the killer is a newcomer, a former slave who calls himself Cicero (Isaiah Mustafa), because "he's the o…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, medieval film, mystery film
In 1380, in England, the priest Nicholas (Bettany) flees his village when found in flagrante delicto with a married woman. During the flight, he witnesses a group euthanise a member to give him relief from his long-recurring internal pain.…
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Drama, Film Noir, film noir
The film opens with a vicious killer attacking an innocent woman in her apartment. It soon becomes apparent this murderer is a serial killer. The scene switches to elderly Amos Kyne, a news media mogul, who is on his deathbed (in his offic…
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, buddy film
The story takes place in a mysterious underworld of swanky nightclubs where armed criminals listen to Rat Pack music and hold shootouts from a seated position, behind desks. Mickey Holliday is the top enforcer for Vic, the mob boss, who is…
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LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
Crystal "White Girl" Van Meter is a 15-year-old prostitute who is sentenced to 25 years for a long list of crimes that include beating up and robbing her customers. Transferred to a minimum security hospital to seek treatment for bulimia, …
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Komödie, action film, comedy film
Daryl Chase is a successful investment banker who handles international accounts for a major New York City firm. On his way to work he notices a man named Freddy Tiffany in a brawl against a thief with a knife. Freddy, able to defend himse…
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Girls with Guns, Heist, LGBTQ-related film, action film, exploitation film, girls with guns, thriller film
Three attractive and voluptuous vixens, a down-and-out stripper named Trixie, a drug-running killer and ex-convict named Camero, and a corporate powerbroker nicknamed Hel, arrive at a remote desert hideaway to extort massive riches from a …
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crime film
Two years after his supposed death (depicted in "The Reichenbach Fall"), Sherlock Holmes has been completely absolved of the slanderous accusations against him originated by Jim Moriarty and secretly returns to London to help his brother M…
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Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, trial film
After the prosecution rests its case in the murder trial of Larry Ballentine, the defendant takes the stand to tell his story. In flashback, Larry recounts how he started seeing magazine writer Janice Bell, innocently enough, but feelings …
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LGBTQ-related film, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, romance film
The story follows relationship between Walt, a gay store clerk, and two younger Mexican boys, Johnny and Roberto Pepper. Walt and his female friend convince them to come over for dinner, but Johnny and Pepper have to return to their cheap …
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Komödie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite playwright, buys a vacation home on a resort island in Massachusetts. Two of his new neighbors, the Gillmans, mistake him for a burglar and call the police, unaware of the previous owners' depar…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
Nick and Nora Charles return to New York City with Asta and their infant son Nickie Jr. when they are invited by Colonel Burr MacFay, a former business partner of Nora's father, to spend the weekend at his country house on Long Island. Als…
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Action, Thriller, action film
Robert Miller, a veteran paratrooper, is returning from the war in Afghanistan to his home in a violent decaying South London Heygate Estate, overrun by gun-toting youth gangs. The gangs are led by a drug lord gangster Jones who is interes…
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Thriller, crime film, mystery film, political thriller film, science fiction film
In the final days of World War II, Soviet forces close in on Berlin, and Panzer Korps General Helmut Kladen is sent with secret documents that could be used to negotiate with the Allies and save Germany from the Soviets. However, he is int…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
After Jimmy Wallace is beaten by Manny Cole and his friends over Carole, Jimmy confronts him and challenges him to a fight outside the café; during a struggle, Jimmy grabs a gun from one of Manny's friends and two gunshots ring out. A near…
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Crime, drama film, heist film, neo-noir
Michael Chambers returns home to celebrate his mother's remarriage. Michael had fled his hometown due to gambling debts and had left his wife Rachel to deal with the mess he created. He now attempts to renew his relationships with his fami…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
When an undercover FBI agent with a secret agenda (Kelly Hu) murders the skinhead son (Ian Ziering) of high-ranking crime boss Frank Serlano (Michael Lerner), the mafioso retaliates by kidnapping the son of Zach Grant (Russell Crowe), the …
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crime film
Tristan (the leader), Simon (the right-hand man), E-Bone (the hot head) and Money (the mediator) are four smart friends growing up in the tough Roxbury section of Boston in the late 1970s. Starting out as small-time dope dealers on Blue Hi…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, crime film, thriller film
Graham Marshall, a long-time executive in a large advertising company, is unexpectedly passed over for promotion in favor of his obnoxious younger rival Bob Benham. While he sympathizes with his friend George Brewster, whose dismissal in t…
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