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Drama, Marital Tragedy, Psychological Thriller, drama film
A woman's body is shown in lantana bushes in suburban bushland. Leon, a policeman, and Jane have sex in a motel. They part, and Leon and his wife, Sonja, attend Latin dance classes that the recently separated Jane is also taking.
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Crime, Drama, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Diquan Mitchell is a 19-year old ex-con who is attempting to turn his life around and start legitimate work. Upon arriving home, Mitchell witnesses an argument between two youths, Chucky and Pharaoh, turn into a shooting in the stairwell o…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, heist film
Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, neo-noir, rape and revenge film
Davey Graham arrives at an upper-class party to sell drugs to a woman named Stella. As he leaves, Stella's date watches him and makes a call on his mobile phone. Outside the party, three men are waiting for Davey in a black Range Rover, in…
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Action, Crime, crime film
The film begins by exploring stories involving a number of different characters who live in and around London, all of whom have experiences which lead them to believe that justice in the country is not being handed out fairly. These charac…
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Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film
An immigrant named Sonny (Chon) joined the Chinatown gang "The Green Dragons" when he was a kid, and worked his way up through the gang hierarchy. But as he quickly rose up the ranks and became notorious in the community, his life falls ap…
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Crime, Drama
In 1982, 16-year-old Barry Minkow is an ambitious high school student in Reseda, working at a gym and a carpet-cleaning business. He obtains steroids from a gym member named Victor, who gives him a loan to open his own carpet-cleaning busi…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Thomas Zelda (Tim Allen) has been paroled from prison for being involved in movie piracy. He is picked up by his eccentric sister Viki (Sigourney Weaver) who is revealed to be a habitual liar (she claims it's so people aren't hurt by the t…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
Nineteen Italian-Americans were accused of the murder of David Hennessy, the police chief of New Orleans. After the acquittal of six and mistrial of three, eleven of them were shot or hanged in one of the largest mass lynchings of American…
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Crime Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime comedy film
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr, a former San Francisco burglar, resumes her life of crime when a corrupt police officer named Ray Kirschman blackmails her. A dentist, Dr. Cynthia Sheldrake, hires Bernice to break into her ex-husband Christoph…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
After falling for Janet Henry, the daughter of reform candidate for governor Ralph Henry, shady political boss Paul Madvig is determined to help Henry get elected. Paul's right-hand man, Ed Beaumont, distrusts both Janet and her father, an…
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Action, Drama, association football film, crime film, independent film
Cass is based on the true story of the life of Cass Pennant, adapted from his book. The film tells of how he was adopted by an elderly white couple in 1958 and brought up in Slade Green, an all-white area of London. Cass is forced to endur…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, crime film, science fiction film
The story follows Frank Warren (Hauer), a jewel thief and electronics expert who is betrayed by his accomplices after a successful diamond heist. Frank is sentenced to Camp Holliday, an experimental prison where inmates are fitted with exp…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
While on vacation in Scotland, Sally Morton learns that her lover of two weeks, painter Geoffrey Carroll, is married to an invalid wife, prompting Sally to end their romance. Back in London with his wife and pre-teen daughter, Beatrice ("B…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, thriller film
American FBI agent David Brandt is working undercover under the identity of Nick Davis, a former convict who died in solitary confinement, at a warehouse in Los Angeles that the Tendo crime family owns in order to infiltrate their operatio…
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Biographical picture, Crime, docudrama, trial film
In April 1920, Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged in connection with the murder of a guard and a paymaster during the 15 April 1920, armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massac…
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Blaxploitation, Detective Film, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is tranquilized, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa, assuming the identity of an indigenous…
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Action, crime film
Ex-Special Forces operative Doc Alexander works as a fixer, upholding a secret truce between his old colleague, corrupt Governor of Oklahoma Richard Jeffs, and Mexican drug cartel head Lalo Prado, who helped get Jeffs elected. Jeffs breaks…
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Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Interspersed flashbacks occur of a Perro de Presa Canario, a large mastiff, from a dog fighting ring, as well as his owner Blue (Antonio Banderas), who has abused the dog in order to make it fight. Despite growing large and taking on multi…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film
When the police discover that mob hitman Horace Osborn has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they want to find out what he is up to. So they set up a stakeout in the Robbersons' home. Hard-nosed, tough-as-nails Jake Stone and his young…
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drama film, mystery film
After being replaced as the chief of police in Paradise, Massachusetts by the town council president's son-in-law, William Butler, Jesse Stone is still without a full-time job (though he vows to one day be reinstated). Nevertheless, he con…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Mikey and his stepmother Rose are contract killers and lovers. The two continue with their line of work even though Rose is suffering from cancer. Organized crime kingpin Clayton suspects that his pregnant wife Vicki may have been unfaithf…
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Western, Western film
In 1922, in the Australian outback, an Aboriginal tracker (The Tracker) leads three white men (The Fanatic, The Follower, and The Veteran) in the search for an Aboriginal man (The Fugitive) accused of the murder of a white woman. Along the…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
On 13 November 1990, David Gray, an unemployed man in his 30s lives in his parents' small holiday home in Aramoana. He cycles into town where he has an argument with staff at a bank over a minor issue. Unstable and angry, he returns home w…
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