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Film Noir, Melodrama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
Johnny Eager masquerades as a taxi driver for his gullible parole officer, A. J. Verne, but in reality, he is the ruthless head of a powerful gambling syndicate.
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Drama, drama film, heist film
Chris (Luke Perry), a young police officer meets the attractive and sexy Pamela (Ashley Judd) and immediately falls in love with her. Even her drug and alcohol problems cannot affect his mad love for her and they decide to marry. As the re…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, action film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy
Steve Grayson is a generous NASCAR race car driver with a heart of gold who feels compelled to bail friends and acquaintances out of financial hardship. However, Steve's manager and best friend Kenny Donford, a compulsive gambler, had been…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Chris Hunter stabs a man in her home one night while her husband Bob is out of town. The dead man's name is Tanner and she claims not to know him and to have acted in self-defense. Art shop owner, Martin Barrow, contacts Chris's lawyer and…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
When his parents' house is destroyed in a tornado, Harvard student Alan Jensen, point guard for the Harvard men's basketball team, is desperate for $100,000 to replace their home. He is approached by his girlfriend Cindy Bandolini, whose f…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Jean is a housewife in the late 1970s, married to Eddie, a professional thief. The couple are unable to have or adopt children, something Jean has long since made her peace with. One day, Eddie mysteriously procures a baby boy for Jean to …
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Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, horror film, science fiction film
Sir Denis Nayland Smith of the British Secret Service warns Egyptologist Sir Lionel Barton that he must beat Fu Manchu in the race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan. Fu Manchu intends to use Khan's sword and mask to proclaim himself the rei…
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Action, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Road Movie, action film, comedy film, crime film
Huey Walker is a hippie and a former New Left radical (in the vein of Abbie Hoffman) who has been on the run from the law for 20 years for something he did not do: disconnecting Spiro Agnew's train car in Spokane, Washington. John Buckner …
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Crime, Fantasy, Thriller, comedy horror, neo-noir
In 1953, Senator Larson Crockett has led a campaign that managed to make the majority of the country afraid of magic and even outlaw its use. In Los Angeles, private investigator H. Philip Lovecraft is hired by film star Kim Hudson to dig …
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Destiny, Drama, Romance Film, Social Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film, romance film
thumb|left|thumbtime=15|The Big House (1930) Kent (Robert Montgomery), a drunk driver who carelessly kills a man, is sentenced to ten years for manslaughter. In an overcrowded prison designed for 1800 and actually holding 3000, he is place…
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Crime, Horror, exploitation film
Hours after his daughter Carla's sixteenth birthday, Hank attempts to run off in the middle of the night, but is caught by his mentally unstable wife, Maggie. The two argue and accuse each other of infidelity, and when Hank threatens to ta…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
The film begins in 2010, with 65-year-old Howard Marks going onto a stage in front of a packed theatre to great applause. Marks asks if there are any plainclothes policemen in the audience, to which the reply is negative. Then, while light…
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Mysterie, crime film, mystery film
Newlyweds Dick and Gina decide to head across the Nevada desert for their honeymoon, driving at night to beat the heat. Before they head off, a stranger warns Dick to be careful, as couples have been known to get lost, and to stick to the …
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Crime, mystery film, thriller film
Tony Randall begins the movie by talking directly to the audience. He explains that he will be starring as the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in a mystery set in London. As the movie begins, Poirot has arrived in London to see his tailor.
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Komödie, comedy film
Prison psychologist Willis Embry reports for work at a New Jersey jail after his apartment has been burgled and his girlfriend has dumped him. In a supposedly private meeting later, a cancer-stricken elderly convict tells Willis about a jo…
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Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
The film opens as the klutzy Valerie Highsmith arrives at an airport in Puerto Vallarta. She calls her father, a wealthy businessman, to let him know that she has arrived. While she is on the phone, she clumsily leans on the railing of her…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, Komödie, heist film
Aspiring Cockney cat burglar Harry Tristan Dean and his sculptor friend Emile Fournier discover exotic Eurasian showgirl Nicole Chang in a crowded Hong Kong nightclub. Nicole bears an uncanny resemblance both to the late wife of the world'…
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Musical, crime film, drama film, film noir, musical film
While playing in a bar in St. Louis, jazz pianist Jigger Pine meets aspiring clarinetist Nickie Haroyen, who tries to convince him to put together a jazz band. After a drunk patron starts a fight, Nickie and Jigger, along with Jigger's dru…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film, war film
The gang of big-shot Broadway gambler Alfred "Gloves" Donahue, at a restaurant, plays with military toys, imagining fighting Hitler. The restaurant gives Gloves a cheesecake not made by Mr. Miller, a baker who makes Gloves' favorite cheese…
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Crime, Drama, comedy film, drama film
Alex lives a double life: he is married with a day job, and is a professional hitman. Trained by his father Michael from youth, Alex is dissatisfied with his work and wishes to leave the business behind. He goes into psychotherapy with Dr.
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Action, action film, crime film, drama film, rape and revenge film
Hiroshi Hada, a Japanese businessman in a troubled marriage, sees a woman being groped in a crowded Tokyo subway. He is fascinated by the fact that she moans silently, involuntarily orgasms, but does not cry out or let people know she is b…
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Film Noir, film noir
Chuck Scott is a World War II veteran who is now a penniless drifter in Miami tormented by bizarre dreams. After finding a wallet and returning it to Eddie Roman, a vicious gangster, he is hired by Roman to be his driver. Roman tests his n…
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Christmas film, Family Comedy, children's film, comedy television program, crime film
The Saunders family has just moved from Los Angeles to Edmonton right before Christmas. They are left with no Christmas spirit, with the exception of the bright eyed 6-year-old Mary. They go to the majestic West Edmonton Mall to do Christm…
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crime film, documentary film