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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 sends James Bond into the field to scout a terrorist arms bazaar on the Russian border. Despite M's insistence on letting 007 finish his mission, Royal Navy Rear Admiral Roebuck orders the frigate HMS Chester to fire a Harpoon missile …
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime film, dystopian film, fantasy film, postcyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal fiat cu…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, action film, action thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
William Foster is stuck in Los Angeles traffic on a hot day. After his air conditioning fails, he abandons his car and begins walking, carrying his briefcase. At a convenience store, the Korean owner refuses to give change for a telephone …
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Action, action film, crime film
Dominic Toretto and Letty Ortiz are on their honeymoon in Havana when Dom's cousin Fernando gets in trouble owing money to local racer Raldo. Sensing Raldo is a loan shark, Dom challenges him to a race, pitting Fernando's 1949 Chevrolet Fl…
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Daffy Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Mafia Film, Romantic Comedy, Splatstick, crime film, drama film, gangster film, musical film, romantic comedy film, screwball comedy film
In Prohibition-era Chicago, Joe is a jazz saxophone player and an irresponsible, impulsive gambler and ladies' man; Jerry, his anxious friend, is a jazz double bass player. They work in a speakeasy owned by local Mafia boss "Spats" Colombo…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, adventure film, anthology film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
"The Customer Is Always Right (Part I)" The Salesman walks onto a penthouse balcony where The Customer looks out over Basin City. He offers her a cigarette and says that she looks like someone who is tired of running and that he will save …
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Horror, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
John Kramer is told he has only months to live due to advanced brain cancer. He attends a cancer support group meeting and befriends Henry Kessler, who later claims he has been cured by an experimental Norwegian cancer treatment conducted …
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Crime, detective film, mystery film, thriller film
Enola Holmes opens her own detective agency, but is not taken seriously unlike her famous detective brother Sherlock Holmes. A factory girl named Bessie asks Enola to help find her missing sister Sarah Chapman. Bessie takes Enola to the ma…
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Detective Film, crime film, detective film, drama film, mystery film
In 1934, famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solves a theft at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Intending to return to London, his friend Bouc arranges accommodations for Poirot aboard the Simplon-route train, the Orient E…
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Crime, Komödie, Political Drama, Social Drama, comedy film, drama film, hood film, independent film
Twenty-five-year-old Mookie lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, with his sister Jade. He has a toddler son named Hector with his Latina girlfriend Tina, and works as a delivery man at a pizzeria owned by Italian-American Salvatore "Sal"…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Historie, Komödie, crime film, drama film, historical film
In 1918, a man named Burt Berendsen is sent by his estranged wife's parents to fight in World War I. While stationed in France, Burt befriends African-American soldier Harold Woodman. After sustaining injuries in battle, Burt and Harold ar…
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, teen film
In 2005, unpopular-yet-scholarly student Morton Schmidt and popular-yet-underachieving athlete Greg Jenko miss their school prom, Schmidt being rejected by the girl he was trying to ask to be his date and Jenko being barred from attending …
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film
thumb|right|Aerial view of the U.S. Gold Bullion Depository at Fort Knox After his latest mission, James Bond relaxes at a hotel in Miami Beach. Bond's superior, M, through CIA agent Felix Leiter, directs him to observe bullion dealer Auri…
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Action Comedy, Computeranimation, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, Modern-Day Fantasy, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, family film
In Los Angeles, where humans and anthropomorphic animals co-exist, master pickpocketer Mr. Wolf leads the Bad Guys, an infamous gang of criminals consisting of his best friend and safecracker Mr. Snake, expert hacker Ms.
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Action, Western, Western film, action film, crime film
In 1879, robber baron and gold-mining tycoon Bartholomew Bogue, accompanied by an army of Blackstone Agents, seizes control of the frontier town of Rose Creek and forces the residents to work as cheap labor for his mine, while polluting th…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Crime, Komödie, Martial-Arts, action film, buddy cop film, martial arts film
On the last day of British rule of Hong Kong on June 30, 1997, Detective Inspector Lee of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force leads a raid at the wharf, hoping to arrest the unidentified, anonymous crime lord Juntao. He finds only Sang, Junta…
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, action film, thriller film
The film opens with a prologue that consists of four segments described by critics as "vignettes". They show the principal characters in different parts of the world and provide their backstories. Nilo, an elegantly dressed man, enters a f…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, spy film, thriller film
After an encounter with knife-throwing twin assassins Mischka and Grishka in East Berlin, mortally wounded British agent 009, dressed as a circus clown and carrying a fake Fabergé egg, crashes into the British ambassador's residence and di…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, horror film, thriller film
Rocky, Alex, and Money are three Detroit delinquents who make a living by breaking into houses and stealing valuables. Rocky longs to move to California with her younger sister, Diddy, and escape from their abusive mother and her alcoholic…
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Drama, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, white savior film
Recently widowed Walt Kowalski is an ill-tempered and racially prejudiced Korean War veteran and retired Ford factory worker. His Rust Belt neighborhood in Metro Detroit has become ridden with gang violence among poor Hmong immigrants, inc…
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Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Drama, comedy film, crime film, drama film, heist film
In 1978, Irving Rosenfeld and Sydney Prosser work together as con artists. Sydney, posing as English aristocrat "Lady Edith Greensly", has improved the scams. Irving loves Sydney but is unwilling to leave his unstable, histrionic wife Rosa…
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Action, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, prison film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1988, amidst war between the United States and an alliance of China and the USSR, Manhattan has been converted into a maximum security prison to address a 400% increase in crime. In 1997, while flying President John Harker to a peace su…
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Action Comedy, Secret Agent, action comedy film, action film, comedy film, crime film, spy film
A year after defeating Richmond Valentine, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin has officially joined the Kingsman intelligence service, taking his late mentor Harry Hart's title of "Galahad", and begun a relationship with Tilde, Crown Princess of Sweden. H…
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Parodie, Super Hero
John Hancock is an alcoholic, reckless superhuman imbued with flight, invulnerability, and super-strength. Acting as a haphazard and unrefined superhero in Los Angeles, he is shunned, ridiculed, and hated by the public for his drunken and …
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