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Political Drama, Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller film
The film begins with a quote from British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher insisting that Northern Ireland is part of Britain. It ends with one from a former British intelligence agent, stating, "There are two laws running this country: on…
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drama film, erotic thriller, horror film
A beautiful, troubled teenage girl, Debbie Strand, is being brought up by her previously estranged grandmother in Los Angeles after her mother and her mother's boyfriend die in a suspicious house fire. Her grandmother is an extremely stric…
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Action, action film, thriller film
The film opens in 1099 at the end of the First Crusade, depicting Christian Crusaders sacking Jerusalem and slaughtering the local population. A Flemish Christian knight named Charles Le Vaillant (Jean-Claude Van Damme) becomes demoralized…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Three women who went to the same New York City elementary school (P.S. 62), Mary, Ruth, and Vivian, meet again ten years later. They each light a cigarette from the same match and discuss the superstition that such an act is unlucky, and w…
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Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Kool (Silkk The Shocker) is a good kid from the inner city with ambitions of becoming a successful rap star. He is a black belt in Kenpo karate and is in love with poised and college-bound LaShawna (Shireen Crutchfield). Delores (Pamella D…
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Drama, drama film, rape and revenge film
Michelle Jordan, a former inmate, is granted probation and released to a halfway house. As one of the conditions for her probation, she attends revival services at West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles where Bishop Jakes is p…
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Action, Dark Comedy, action comedy film, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
Nils Dickman is a snow plow driver in the fictional town of Tyos, Norway, just elected citizen of the year. His life, however, is shattered by the death of his son Ingvar, found dead by overdose of heroin. The police do not investigate but…
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exploitation film, horror film, rape and revenge film
Alex is a serial killer driving around NYC at night when he spots a young woman, Susan, moving alongside him. He follows her to a nearby park, where he rapes her before strangling her to death. He then takes her locket as a trophy.
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Brassy blonde B-girl Vivian Heldon phones James Joshua Harkley, the married man she has been dating and tells him she's "in trouble". When he fails to show up at the Boston bar where she works, she picks up drunken Henry Shanway so she can…
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Thriller, crime film, film noir
Married for a year, Edward "Teddy" Bare kills his wealthy older wife Monica after she asks her lawyer Phillip Mortimer to change her will. He stages it to look as if she accidentally asphyxiated while drunkenly trying to light the gas fire…
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Detective Film
Margaret McGinty, a barmaid and former actress, is found hanged in her home. Her lodger, Harold Taylor, is discovered at the scene, appearing guilty. The evidence seems overwhelming, and Taylor is quickly tried.
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, film noir
At a police station, Marilyn Gregor meets Inspector Johns and Lieutenant Bob Lawrence, as her brother Don Gregor had been arrested for carrying an unlicensed handgun. After she posts bail for him, he is released, but the police refuse Don'…
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Crime, Drama, drama film, gangster film, heist film
To give a better future to his son, traveller Chad Cutler tries to get out of the criminal business which his family has run for generations. However, his own father Colby considers doing so a betrayal, making the task of leaving a well-ro…
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Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In 1964, Pinkie Brown, the sociopathic enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders Fred Hale, who had killed the gang leader Kite. Brown befriends Rose, a young waitress who witnessed the gang's activity, to keep an eye on her. She falls in love …
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crime film, drama film, prison film
Steve Davitt is held in a medium security prison and is struggling with a choice between two options: serving his full sentence and returning legitimately to his wife and family, or escaping and ending up on the run. Having received what h…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir
Polish Viktoria Kowalska lost her home and her husband in the German occupation of Poland and is imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She befriends another prisoner, Karin Dernakova, who dreams of reuniting with her young so…
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crime film, drama film
Based in Seattle, Richard Beck is a veteran police detective who has little sympathy for sex crime victims, believing that they are "asking for it". When he lets an accused rapist go free in exchange for information on a murder suspect, he…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Charlie Lupo is a gangster who runs the New York branch of a crime syndicate. He is a widower with a worried mother, a grown daughter, Kathy, and a new lover, Iris. Hit man Nick Magellan of the Chicago mob impresses Lupo, who hires Nick to…
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Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
The film retells events leading up to the night of Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba, and the ensuing investigation in the aftermath. The film does not solve the case, but stages re-creations of various scenarios, based on the test…
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Action, Adventure, action film, thriller film
A wealthy playboy/private investigator named Cody Abilene is hired by a government intelligence operative to investigate a lead into who is selling computer technology to the Russians. While investigating rich socialites, amorous naked vix…
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Horror, Thriller, thriller film
Jane and Cathy are two young nurses from Nottingham who are taking a cycling holiday through rural France. While having lunch at a busy restaurant, Cathy notices a handsome man drinking alone at an adjacent table. Shortly after the women d…
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Action, Martial-Arts, martial arts film
After returning home from South Korea, three members of the U.S. National Team set up a martial arts studio in Las Vegas. Travis Brickley has been secretly competing at "The Coliseum", a brutal underground fighting arena managed by Weldon …
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film
Saying that he has returned from time abroad, Tom Yately seeks work as a truck driver with Hawletts, a haulage company. Mr. Cartley, the depot manager, informs Tom that his drivers convey their ten-ton loads of gravel fast over bad roads.
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film
Mark Taffin, a debt collector in the small town of Ballymoran, uses his smarts and martial arts skills to help locals collect debts they are owed. He beats up a restaurant owner and collects his car to pay the man's debt, and aids a trio o…
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