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Crime, comedy film, crime film
Former cop Joe Denton is released from jail. Six years earlier, while on the mob's payroll, Denton attacked district attorney Phil Coakley, earning him the enmity of the police and the nickname "slash cop". He moves in with his elderly par…
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True Crime, documentary film
Secret Agent, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film
Martin McGartland is a 21-year-old street hustler in Northern Ireland in the late 1980s. The Irish Republican Army wants to recruit him, but he is reluctant because of what he sees as their cruel street justice. Because of his connection t…
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Paramedic Nick Malloy finds himself playing a game called 12 Rounds with his wife Sarah's life on the line. As the game unfolds, Detectives McKenzie and Sykes are investigating an ambulance explosion, and while Sykes immediately blames Nic…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Sally Jones is the sole teacher of a one-room school in the Outback, where she has nine pupils ranging in age from six to sixteen. One ordinary day, the younger children claim to have seen cartoon characters on the edges of the school play…
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crime film, drama film
Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, romance film
The Travellers are a close-knit group of Irish American con artists who travel the American South looking for easy marks. Pat O'Hara, a city-bred young man whose father was a member of the group and has since died, returns home for his fat…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film
Michael Lynch is one of Dublin's most notorious criminals. He has two wives, sisters Christine and Lisa, as well as many children. When he is not spending time with his family, he is plotting heists with his gang.
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Crime, Thriller, mystery film
Michael Taylor is tormented by his sheer lack of memory concerning the night his wife was found brutally killed. Michael's girlfriend Paula helps him attempt to make sense of it all.
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, thriller film
A young man travels from New York to Switzerland to try to persuade acclaimed thriller writer Patricia Highsmith to write one final installment of her Tom Ripley series, with his efforts gradually turning more sinister.
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Action, Crime, drama film, gangster film, thriller film
In 1983 Amsterdam, wannabe gangster friends Willem Holleeder, Cor van Hout, Jan Boellard, Martin Erkamps, and Frans Meijer kidnap Heineken owner Freddy Heineken in an attempt to obtain a high ransom for his return. Heineken's family pays t…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved from San Francisco to New York to escape a troubled past. He blames his former partner Tony Jardine for his problems. Complicating matters, he is hounded by New York police lieutenant Frank Reev…
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Horror, crime film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Paul Toombes is a successful horror actor whose trademark role is Dr. Death, a skull-faced serial killer. During a party in Hollywood marking his fifth Dr.
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller
Philip Markoff (McDorman) prepares for a promising future as a doctor and a life of happiness with his fiancée, Megan McAllister (Bruckner). Seemingly destined for greatness as one of Boston University’s brightest medical students, Markoff…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film
On the way home from visiting her parents' grave, Christy crashes her car into a rock. The impact throws Christy to safety, but her older sister, Vanessa, is trapped inside when the car explodes. Vanessa initially survives, though disfigur…
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documentary film, documentary television film, true crime
Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
John Davidson, a convicted thief in Dartmoor prison, embeds code revealing the hidden location of extremely valuable stolen Bank of England currency printing plates in the melody notes of three music boxes that he crafts to be sold at auct…
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Komödie, comedy film
While on a road trip in the Southwest, Rae (Long) discovers that her man, Michael (Foxx), spent the $15,000 they set aside for a home on a vintage Studebaker. Rae promptly dumps Michael at a convenience store and hops a ride to the airport…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, buddy film, heist film
In Wyoming, wannabe outlaw Butch Cassidy joins forces with sharpshooter Harry Longabaugh (who renames himself the Sundance Kid) and they carry out a series of robberies. However, Butch is stalked by a member of his former gang, O.C. Hanks,…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir, mystery film
A woman wanders through Los Angeles, saying little more than "David". Admitted to a hospital's psychiatric ward in a catatonic stupor, and interrogated by a doctor, she calls herself Louise Howell, and recounts her life in intermittent spu…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, female buddy film, romantic comedy
Connie and Carla are two performers whose lifelong friendship and co-obsession with musical theater have brought nothing but career dead ends. Despite this, they continue their optimism, hosting a variety act at an airport lounge. After ac…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, drama film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Carol "Jeff" Jeffries is set up by her boyfriend, Rudy. Jeff does not realize that Rudy runs a ship-board prostitution, gambling, and drug dealing empire. Rudy sees the heat closing in on him and stashes his illegal goods in Jeff's purse.
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir
Celebrated stage actor Anthony "Tony" John is offered the lead in a new production of William Shakespeare's Othello by theatrical producer Max Lasker, who wants Tony's ex-wife Brita to costar as Desdemona. Tony initially declines the offer…
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