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Film Noir, crime film, film noir
Clive Riordan, a wealthy London psychiatrist, learns that his wife Storm is romantically involved with Bill Kronin, an American. He resolves to exact revenge on both by committing the perfect murder of Kronin. After kidnapping Kronin at gu…
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Thriller, crime film, drama fiction, thriller
Dempsey Cain is a top detective in San Sebastian, California. His brother, Nick, is also a cop but is generally viewed as a screw-up despite Dempsey's attempts to help him. Nick is having an affair with Dempsey's wife, Gail.
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Action Comedy, Crime Comedy, action film, comedy film, spy film
Jake wakes up in a hotel room next to a dead body along with a suitcase full of money. He has a bruise on his head and can't remember anything. He leaves the hotel with the suitcase and sees a lady (Diane) downstairs who drives him out of …
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
Safecracker Dom Hemingway (Jude Law) is released after spending 12 years in prison and seeks payment for refusing to rat out his boss Ivan Fontaine (Demián Bichir). He reunites with his best friend Dickie (Richard E. Grant) and they travel…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
In the small town of Paradise, Massachusetts, chief of police Jesse Stone is on the phone with his ex-wife Jenn in Los Angeles, who tells him not to call her that night. She's started seeing someone, who finds it strange that the two still…
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Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, crime film
Years ago, a mob boss named Lucio Malatesta (George Touliatos) pinned the murder of rival Sammy Carboni (Gino Marrocco) on another rival named Angelo Allieghieri (Anthony Quinn), which led to Sammy's son Gianni vowing revenge. Frankie Dela…
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erotic film, erotic thriller
It is summer, and obsessed Ralph Gordon stalks a high-school teacher, 28-year-old Diane Marshall. He watches her from an old warehouse while she is relaxing in her swimsuit on one of the boats. One of Diane's students, 18-year-old Sean Rob…
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crime film, drama film
Using the internet and old-school mafia traditions, a crew of young gangsters led by Nicholas "Nicky" Santini attempt to pull off the biggest heist in the history of the mafia. Nicky must first convince his uncle Danny Santini, a respected…
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Family Drama, crime film, drama film
Sandra Andersen, her younger sister by one year, Elizabeth (aka "Beth"), and their younger brother, seven-year-old, Robert (aka "Bobby"), live with their alcoholic 44-year-old mother Linda. Linda, every now and again, has boyfriends who ar…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Jacob, who is the son of a deceased police officer, is employed as a bank manager. He is married to Christina, and they have a daughter, Sophia, who is very ill from an extremely aggressive form of Type 1 diabetes. As a result of Sophia's …
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film
Seven years after the events of Henry Fool, Fay Grim (Parker Posey) is contacted by a CIA agent (Jeff Goldblum) who, believing her husband Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan) to be deceased, coerces her to try to locate Henry's confession notebooks. F…
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LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller
Alex Lee is a bank employee struggling to pay the mortgage on her beachfront home in Los Angeles. As a result, she secretly moonlights at night as a high-class call girl under the alias 'Joanna'. Her most frequent client is Bruno Buckingha…
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comedy film, hood film
Working out of their van, Black (Master P) and Blue (Johnson) deal in TV sets and boomboxes, but then a driver mistakenly drops off a cell phone shipment. Business is on the upswing, but then the local crime boss, Roscoe, and his enforcer,…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, police procedural film, thriller film
Detective John Prudhomme, a Cajun transferred to Chicago, and his partner Hollinsworth are assigned to investigate the savage murder of a man whose left arm has been sawed off and taken. A message, "He Is Coming", is found written in lamb'…
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Crime, drama film
Sam Bloom (Peter Dinklage) and his brother Dash (Matt Ellis) are driving in the night when their car collides with another, causing his brother’s death. After a year, scientific pioneer Gordon Dunn (Martin Donovan) mysteriously dies. He ha…
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Drama, drama film
The film opens in a Christchurch courtroom, where testimony prompts Barbara Leslie to flashback to the events that led to the trial. She and her sisters Anne, Evelyn, and Delia live in Christchurch, where most of the male residents, includ…
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Thriller, Western film
Shane Cooper, a young police officer, relocates to the small town of Red Hill with his pregnant wife Alice. On his first day on the job, he is shown hostility from William "Old Bill" Jones, the head of the police force, for being unable to…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
While her husband is away on business, Lucia Harper leaves her home in Balboa Island and drives to Los Angeles to confront Darby, a low-life L.A. criminal, and demands he stop seeing her 17-year-old daughter, Bea. He agrees, but with the c…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, psychological thriller
John Moon's wife recently took their son and left. Before John's father died, he was unable to pay the mortgage on the farm, and it was sold. John is depressed and an emotional wreck.
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Romance Film, Thriller, War Film, drama film, romance film
In present-day London, Michael Walton visits his older cousins, Walter and Oliver Page. Interested in family history, he asks them about his great-aunt, Anne Keyes, the sister of his grandmother, Celia. Anne, an actress, was the eldest of …
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, superhero film
Dr. Park, a psychiatrist, is interviewing Arthur Poppington, a vigilante known as "Defendor", about his assault of a dry cleaning business owner. The story flashes back to Arthur's encounter with Dooney, a corrupt detective that Arthur bel…
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Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film
Dennis "D" Campbell lives with his peace-loving brother Jerry Dread in 1973 West Kingston, Jamaica. D loves a local schoolgirl named Yvonne but their relationship is hindered by an ongoing gang war between the Tappas, led by Skeeter, and t…
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comedy drama, crime film, hood film
The story follows Kenneth (Adam Deacon) who likes to call himself "K". He has an ambition of becoming a grime MC, and has already created his debut mixtape, Feel The Pain. However, nobody has bought a single copy and Kenneth works, for now…
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Crime Comedy, crime film, romantic comedy
Penelope Elcott is married to wealthy banker James Elcott. Donning a white wig, prosthetic mask, and baggy clothes, she robs her husband's bank posing as an elderly woman. While the police, including Lieutenant Horatio Bixbee, rush to get …
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