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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, musical film
Grace Beasley is a content but timid housewife in Chicago. One morning, she wins tickets to a concert for her favorite singer, Victor Fox, just as her husband, Max, tells her he wants a divorce, citing a need for more variety and excitemen…
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Crime, drama film, fantasy film, mystery film
While driving home from his London office, Harold Pelham, a director of the marine technology company Freeman, Pelham & Dawson, seems to undergo a sudden personality change and starts to drive both fast and recklessly, imagining himself in…
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film
Daryl Cage is an Iowa farm boy whose parents send him to Los Angeles to live with his brother following their divorce. At the airport, Daryl's suitcase is switched with a drug kingpin's that is full of heroin. The gangster boss kills Cage'…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, comedy film, heist film
Roger is a security guard at an art museum, where he spends a lot of time staring at his favorite painting, The Lonely Maiden, a beautiful woman staring forlornly out into the distance. Despite the fact he has a wife, Rose, he has become r…
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Crime, drama film, neo-noir
Professional assassin Jeff Heston and his lover Vanessa are holidaying in the Virgin Islands, when they are set upon by thugs led by Jeff's former associate Jerry Coogan. Jeff is shot and left for dead, while Vanessa seemingly runs off wit…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, prison film
On a dark, rainy morning at Westgate Prison, prisoners cram into a small cell to watch through the window as Joe Collins returns from his term in solitary confinement. Joe is angry and talks about escape. The beleaguered warden A.J.
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Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Thriller, crime film, mystery film, spy film
In August 1939, a motley group of travellers find themselves in a small hotel in Bavaria, awaiting a delayed train to Switzerland. They include a "much-married madcap American heiress", Amanda Metcalf-Mdivani-Von Hoffsteader-Kelly, and Rob…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
After serving time in prison for an assault on a liquor store employee, Brett Sprague is released from prison and returns home to his two brothers and their girlfriends, mother and stepfather. Things have changed, and as Brett begins to dr…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film, teen film
Joe Fisk is a juvenile delinquent who falls in love with Lisa Taylor, a beautiful Catholic girls' school student, in an Oregon forest. The two meet by accident when Joe finds her being chased by his peers in a training exercise, and sees L…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
A down-on-her-luck Los Angeles businesswoman-turned-prostitute, known only by her street name Princess, walks the Sunset Boulevard to support herself and her young daughter Lisa. As she prepares Lisa for a trip to see her grandmother in Sa…
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Documentation, crime film, documentary film
Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, crime film, drama film, heist film
Barry Wirth is a retired small-time criminal who is released on parole following the death of his mother, so that he can care for his younger brother, Joey. Wirth was falsely convicted for murder by corrupt police detective Arnie DeViers, …
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Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, thriller film
Freddy is on the run with a bag full of cash after a robbery of his crime boss. Badly wounded and betrayed by his father, Freddy gets on a dirty bus where he meets a mysterious girl and a creepy one.
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Action, Bad Cop, Crime, Justice Drama, Police Film, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Roland Dalton is a burned-out, mild-mannered Manhattan public defender, and his last case before leaving legal aid is crack dealer Michael Jones, accused of shooting to death police officer Patrick O'Leary in Central Park. According to Jon…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, biographical film, drama film
In 2002, Lee moves to the United States from Antigua and Barbuda by himself; his mother cannot come with him due to her job. As a lone teenager, Lee comes in contact with John. John is living with his three children: one daughter and two s…
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Crime, Film Noir, Thriller, drama film, film noir
In the wharf area of New Orleans a man named Kochak, sick with a flulike illness, is killed after a brawl by gangster Blackie and his two flunkies, Kochak's cousin Poldi and a man named Fitch. They leave the body on the docks, and later wh…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
On the afternoon before the 1934 Democratic primary election in Kansas City, petty thief Johnny O'Hara botches a robbery of Sheepshan Red, a wealthy Black gambler on a semi-annual trip to the Hey Hey Club, local Black mob kingpin Seldom Se…
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Crime Comedy, Drama, boxing film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Harry Fabian is a fast-talking New York City lawyer who hangs out at a bar called Boxers, owned by Phil Nasseros and his wife Helen. Harry has been having an affair with Helen, who dreams of setting up her own bar and leaving Phil. At the …
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Action, Crime, Komödie, Thriller, crime film, drama film
A tax investigator chasing a tax evader stumbles upon a series of bloody murders and gets wrapped up in an investigation with a rookie cop despite his boss's orders to stay out of the way.
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crime film, drama film
Paul Hegstrom is a ferociously violent man, and is a top salesman at a car dealership. Paul's wife of 17 years, Judy, is a homemaker. They have three children, Tammy, Jeff, and Heidi.
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, thriller film
Eddie Marino is a factory worker in New York City and has a wife named Vickie and an eight-year-old son named Scott. Eddie's friend and co-worker Nick and two other co-workers Burke and Ramon have formed a secret vigilante group because Ni…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
A pair of detectives attempt to solve a series of grisly murders in a dark, rain soaked New York, in which each victim has the Price equation (wΔz = Cov (w,z) = βwzVz) carved into their chests.
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