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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film
Joe Moran, an American living in France, must face his past when his wife Fabienne Martin and daughter Michèle are kidnapped by former fellow convicts turned narco-dealers he once double-crossed.
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
When several women are murdered and their forefingers severed, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called into action by Inspector Gregson, but Holmes is baffled by the crimes at the start. Wealthy widower Sir George Fenwick has a romantic …
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Crime, Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
Paleontologist Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to give them an address book that belongs to Jack Argyle. He is told that Jack was executed for the murder of his adoptive mother two years previously.
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film
David Burke is a former policeman who was ruined when he refused to cooperate with state crime investigators. He asks Earle Slater, a tough ex-con and racist, to help him rob a bank, promising him $50,000 if the robbery is successful. Burk…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
A young Polish sailor, Bronislav "Bronek" Korchinsky, arrives in Cardiff, planning to propose to his girlfriend Anya, a Polish exile. However, he discovers Anya gone and finds a harbor hooker living in the flat. The landlord reveals that A…
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Thriller, crime film, horror film
Two men recover the body of a young woman inside a Swiss lake. Robert, the family chauffeur, transports Penny Appleby, a wheelchair-using heiress, to her estranged father's estate on the French Riviera. For the past ten years, Penny lived …
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Thriller, drama film, romance film, thriller film
Jess is a sweet-natured but driven lawyer who puts her career ahead of her personal life and marriage to her artist husband, Ryan. The couple is on the verge of their first wedding anniversary and, though they are happy, the thorn in the s…
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Crime
Heist 88 is a crime drama inspired by the real life events of Armand Moore. The story follows Jeremy Horne (played by Courtney B. Vance), a charismatic criminal mastermind in Chicago.
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Action, Drama, Thriller, crime film, spy film
Following the events of Page Eight, ex-MI5 officer Johnny Worricker is in hiding on the Turks and Caicos Islands under the alias of Tom Eliot. A seemingly chance encounter with Curtis Pelissier leads Worricker to a dinner with several shad…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, War Film, drama film
Sammy Rice is a British scientist in a London "back room" team evaluating new weapons during the Second World War. Their work is constantly frustrated by bureaucrats and poor management. Disabled and in constant pain from his prosthetic fo…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, Thriller, comedy film
As Credit International bank teller Kaitlin Nest prepares to end her shift, a customer, Tripp Kennedy, approaches her and requests to have a $100 bill broken up into a specific configuration of coins. As he flirts with her, the bank is sim…
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Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
In 1938, the Dutch mystery writer Cornelius Leyden is visiting Istanbul. At an evening soiree, a fan, Colonel Haki of the Turkish police, believes he would be interested in the story of international intriguer and master criminal Dimitrios…
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Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Chloe, a single mother living with her daughter Sophia, operates a motel. Topo is a blind man traveling cross country in a Jeep with his associate Quincy. They stop by Chloe's motel, when Quincy hires prostitute Gwen, and convinces Topo to…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
In the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts, Chief of police Jesse Stone and his men investigate the death of teenage girl found floating in a lake. Officer Luther "Suitcase" Simpson discovers a high school ring bearing the initials "HR".…
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Crime, Drama, drama film
Gilda Karlson is a prostitute in New Orleans, accused of murdering Piet Van Saal, the man responsible for ending her former job as a secretary and leading her into prostitution. Her old boyfriend, sailor Carl Erickson, smuggles her to safe…
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Horror, crime film, horror film, thriller film
Billy Hughes, a special effects make-up artist who is mute, is in Moscow working on a low-budget slasher film directed by Andy Clarke, the boyfriend of her elder sister, Karen. On one particular night, Billy returns to the set to fetch a p…
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Crime Comedy, Raunchy comedy, comedy film, erotic film
When private eye Judd Blake goes away he leaves his novice assistant Bob West to look after the business. Suspecting beautiful client Laura Sutton is being blackmailed, Bob goes after the villain – with hilarious results.
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crime film, horror film, thriller film
Harry is an auto mechanic going through a nasty divorce. When he gets fired from his job, he begins to lose his mind and walks into a church nude. Harry is subsequently committed to a mental hospital.
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
John Michael ("Chip") Hardesty is delivering a lecture to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He begins to recount his history as an agent of the bureau, which is shown as a series of flashbacks. The first details a plane crash due …
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Crime, Horror, crime film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Michael Rogers is a wistful and aimless young aspiring photographer working as a chauffeur and living with his mother in London. From a working class background, Michael aspires to a life of luxury and is obsessed with the fine arts. Throu…
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Drama, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
Three young confidence tricksters— Vinnie, Carter and Rosie — pull off a racing scam, substituting winners for plodders and winning big money on long odds. When an official uncovers the scam, they set him up for blackmail. Twenty years lat…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
A woman and child, Kelly and Joanne, burst into a London toilet stall. Joanne is crying and Kelly has a black eye. Eventually Kelly gets them on a train to Brighton, and it is clear they are running from someone.
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Dark Comedy, Thriller, crime thriller film, thriller film
Dennis Pitt is a disturbed young man on parole from a mental institution who becomes attracted to teenager Sue Ann Stepanek. He tells her that he is a secret agent, and takes her along on a series of "missions". Things, however, turn out d…
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Biographical picture, Historie
The film begins in Nanjing during late 1937, where German businessman John Rabe, director of the local Siemens subsidiary, and his wife Dora have resided for almost thirty years. The thought of transferring management to his successor Flie…
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