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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, comedy film, drama film, heist film
Professional thief Henry Manning is in an Oregon nursing home's care. Having apparently had a massive stroke, he is immobile and mute. Henry is in the care of Carol Ann McKay, a high school prom queen who married her boyfriend Wayne, the p…
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Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film
At the end of the Second World War on Ambon Island, Australian troops liberate a prisoner-of-war camp and are told by the survivors that their Japanese captors had engaged in systemic beatings, torture, and executions. Shortly thereafter, …
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Action, Crime
In Los Angeles, the city and neighborhoods are constructed from corporate emblems: Bentley and Aston Martin logos soar overhead like birds in flight, while MSN's butterflies flutter nearby; the AOL Man appears as pedestrians strolling alon…
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Action, Komödie, action comedy film, comedy film, hood film
Leo works for Next Day Air (NDA), a package delivery company, where his mother happens to be his boss, but is at risk of getting fired for any more mistakes. While delivering a package addressed to Jesus in apartment 303, Leo accidentally …
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, buddy film, comedy film, thriller film
An interrogator prepares a man to take the stand against mob boss Frank Matajano on an Air Force base. A driver delivers takeout, which is taken to the interrogation room. Once opened, it explodes, killing the witness.
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Dance Film, drama film, musical film
Max Washington, just released from prison after serving time for burglary, is a talented tap dancer. His late father owned a dance studio that is now run by Little Mo, whose daughter Amy Simms gives lessons to children. Back on the streets…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Colin Diamond is a successful car salesman who, after discovering his wife Liz is having an affair, has an emotional breakdown. His friends convince him to kidnap his wife's lover and then encourage him to torture and kill him. Diamond's p…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film
Nick and Nora Charles, along with their dog Asta, travel to Nick's small hometown of Sycamore Springs, in New England, to visit his parents and celebrate his birthday. Nora learns of Nick's strained relationship with his father, Dr. Bertra…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, heist film
Con man Eli Kotch charms his way into a parole by playing on the emotions of a pretty psychologist, but drops her at the first opportunity to move around the country, romancing women and then stealing their possessions, or those of their e…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film
In a small Oregon town, a brutal serial killer nicknamed the "Oregon undertaker" has been murdering and mutilating young women. Charlie is an ex-teacher who is fired on his first day as a call center employee. His colleague Gus invites him…
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Crime, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
While diving off the Miami coast seeking one of the 11 fabled Spanish galleons sunk in 1591, private investigator Tony Rome discovers a dead woman, her feet encased in cement (concrete), at the bottom of the ocean. Rome reports this to Lie…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
Set in 1994, the film opens in Las Vegas with Pilot Kelson, a drug dealer, who poses as a valet and takes a customer's Rolls-Royce to give his girlfriend a ride to work. His best friend Jack Hayes is a self-employed pool cleaner, who gets …
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Action, Drama, drama film
A young inexperienced drug dealer and Vice Lords gang member, Greg Yance, is arrested for drug possession in his hometown, Chicago. Because of Yance having five grams of drugs under his belt at the time of arrest, he is facing a five-year …
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Dark Comedy, crime film, drama film, exploitation film, prison film
The film is a satire of the women in prison film genre and deliberately implements many of the tropes commonly found in such films. Such scenes include nude shower scenes, fight scenes, and a suggested romantic relationship between one of …
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film, drama film
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter arrests contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to help the police to destroy the South's most powerful crime ring. When the syndicate orders Carter's death and Weiland is identified a…
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Detective Film, Splatstick, crime film, mystery film
The police raid a premises at night and find a priest at an open safe: he explains he is replacing the money for a parishioner. He is arrested and put in the cells but released when the Monsignor confirms who he is. Outside he meets the er…
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Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, police film
Mike Brennan, a tough, crude, decorated New York City Police Department detective lieutenant, has a dark side and a partnership with certain organized crime figures. Brennan executes a small-time Puerto Rican criminal and then threatens wi…
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Social Drama, comedy film, drama film, romance film
The film begins with Joe Kavanagh at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, relaying an experience from his past. On the way to pick up Liam, a former junkie whom Joe is fond of, for a football match, they are cut off by Sarah, a health visitor …
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Thriller, horror film, rape and revenge film
After the drug-induced death of his teenaged daughter, Christian (Peter Marshall) is sent a video tape, a "snuff film" involving his daughter and several men. Christian then decides to avenge his daughter by killing all those linked to the…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
John "Johnny" Forbes (Dick Powell) is a family man bored with his job at an insurance agency and dreaming of adventure. When private investigator and former policeman J.B. "Mac" MacDonald (Raymond Burr), doing work for the agency, tells hi…
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exploitation film, parody film
Sugar Bear (Shaggy 2 Dope), a streetwise detective from San Francisco, is brought to New York City by its chief of police (John G. Brennan) to take down Big Baby Sweets (Violent J), a notorious crime lord who controls the entirety of the c…
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Mysterie, horror film, mystery film
In London, during a raging thunderstorm one night, Ellen Wheeler frantically tells her husband, John, that from the living-room window, she has seen a man with his throat slit in a chair by the window in the large, old, deserted house acro…
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Erotic Thriller, Film Noir, crime film, detective film, mystery film
The story is narrated in first person by Porter Wren, a columnist and crime reporter for a New York City newspaper with a reputation as a good listener. One night, he attends an after work party hosted by publishing magnate Hobbs, who has …
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Crime, Thriller, crime thriller film
Art critic James Figueras is enlisted by wealthy art dealer Joseph Cassidy to steal a painting from reclusive painter Jerome Debney.
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