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Romance Film, Thriller, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, crime film, teen film
Andrew Morenski and two others, all stockbrokers, have passed bogus bonds for a mobster awaiting trial. After an evening out at a bar, one of them is killed in his home. The next morning, the FBI take the other two into protective custody.
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crime film
Fresh out of jail after serving a ten year stint, former insurance adjuster Don has found that there are few options open to him. None of his former associates are of any help, so Don decides to collect on a debt owed to him by an Armenian…
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Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Harry Barber is serving a prison sentence after being framed in a corruption scandal. Before his arrest, he worked as a reporter for a Florida newspaper and uncovered widespread corruption within the local government. After rejecting a bri…
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Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Young Andy Stannard is the son of wealthy executive father Dave Stannard and mother Edith. Andy's school principal calls to inform the Stannards that the family doctor's nurse has collected Andy from school with an infection. Dave contacts…
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crime film, drama film, thriller film
Mary Giordano is a beautiful and intelligent Catholic-school senior in Burlingame, California. She is addicted to mystery novels (graphic and otherwise), film noir and detective magazines (hence the movie's title). All of this has inspired…
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Biographical picture, Crime, drama film, drama television series
The film begins in 1987 when penal reform campaigner Lord Longford is invited by a radio host to discuss his new book Saints, with the radio host inviting listeners to call in and join in with the conversation about the new book. Instead, …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, heist film
Edward James Olmos plays Detective Anthony Piscotti, a New York City police officer. He is trying to crack the hijacking of a New York City Subway train where the antagonists, led by Vincent D'Onofrio as Mr. Blue, are holding the passenger…
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Drama, drama film
The film begins with pictures and video of the actual victims of Trujillo. During the montage, a title card appears that says: From 1930 to 1961, General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo held absolute control of the Dominican Republic. His secret …
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Drama, crime film, drama film
The story revolves around a war between dirty cops and a biker gang. The king of the bikers has lost his sons and needs his daughter to marry royalty to maintain the bloodline. The new Queen wishes to kill the king and her step-daughter in…
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Crime, Horror, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, horror film, thriller film
The intro shows a camera recording faces of corpses, with their mouths being moved by medical residents. Dr. Teddy Grey graduates at the top of his class from Harvard Medical School and joins one of the nation's most prestigious pathology …
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Arranged Documentary, Documentation, crime film, documentary film, war film
The documentary concerns the death of Dilawar, an Afghan peanut farmer, who gave up farming to become a taxi driver and who died after several days of beating at Bagram detention center. Dilawar left his home of Yakubi in eastern Afghanist…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Holland lives with her mother Katherine, a successful florist. Lisa is beginning to show a keen interest in boys but is not allowed to date due to her mother's strict rule about not dating until she is 16. Lisa's des…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film, heist film, neo-noir
Jack Friar is a police detective who, while doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack finds himself being held hostage while…
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Adventure, crime film, drama film, romance film
Jane Hoyt arrives in Hong Kong, looking for her husband, reckless photojournalist Louis. He entered Communist China without a visa and was imprisoned as a suspected spy. She sees Hong Kong Marine Police Inspector Merryweather, who found Ho…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, crime film, mystery film, science fiction film
During an apparent drug store robbery, a woman is murdered. Seattle Medical Examiner Dr. David Krane finds a matchbook there that reminds him of one found at the scene of his wife Mary's murder.
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Drama, drama film, war film
Confined in an Israeli jail, Howard W. Campbell, Jr. writes a memoir about his career in Nazi Germany.
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Drama, Musical, drama film, musical film
In the barrios of Los Angeles in the early 1940s against the backdrop of the Zoot Suit Riots and World War II, Henry Reyna (inspired by real-life defendant Hank Leyvas) is a pachuco gangster. El Pachuco, an idealized Zoot Suiter, functions…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
As a child in Cape Town, Ali Sokhela (Forest Whitaker) witnesses the murder of his father via necklacing. Fleeing his father's murderers, a police dog hunts down Ali, leading to him being rendered a eunuch. Years later, Ali is a homicide d…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir
A sadistic killer, Garland "Red" Lynch, uses a campaign of terror to force San Francisco bank teller Kelly Sherwood to steal $100,000 from the bank for him. Despite Lynch's threat to kill Sherwood or her teenage sister Toby if she goes to …
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Political Thriller, action film, black comedy film, comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, spy film, suspense film, thriller film
On 10 May 1916, during World War I, British Captain and novelist Edgar Brodie returns home on leave, to discover his obituary in the newspaper. He is brought to a man identifying himself only as "R", who asks him to undertake a secret miss…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film
The film follows two parallel stories, one being about a troubled detective (Molina) who plays a cat-and-mouse game with an unknown killer and the other being about an emotionally disturbed landlady and her relationship with an enigmatic "…
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Crime, Drama, drama film
Boston homicide detective, James Doyle, and his partner/girlfriend, Maggie Wynn, respond to a 911 call made by a woman claiming to be stalked by a man addressing her as Deirdre (the name of Doyle's sister who was murdered weeks earlier). D…
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Gangster Film, drama film, heist film
Five men, criminals Ray, Dave, Stevie, Julian ("Julie" as a nickname), and Jason, plan a robbery to steal a minimum of £2 million. Using a lorry modified as a battering ram, the group break into a security depot in London and steal a large…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
In 1894, Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes verbally spar on the steps outside the Old Bailey, where Moriarty has just been acquitted on a charge of murder owing to lack of evidence. Holmes remarks, "You have a magnificent brain, Moriarty. I adm…
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