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Action, Drama, Motor-Bike Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, outlaw biker film
The Angels first take note of "Poet" (Jack Nicholson) after he is fired from his job for assaulting a customer. Later on, Poet pulls up to a convenience store where the gang are doing motorcycle stunts in the carpark. Here, one of the gang…
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LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
In Marseilles, Henry Scarlett and his daughter, Sylvia, are mourning the death of Sylvia's mother. Henry complains that he has gambling debts and must leave the country. Sylvia reveals that her mother left her a little money and offers to …
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In May 2021, the Moon is in the process of being colonized, and this new frontier is attracting a diverse human population to lunar settlements like Moon City, Farside 5, and others. Two denizens of this rough-and-tumble lunar society are …
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Action, Crime, action film
Sam Hummer is a local truck driver from Tucson, Arizona who works for a Tucson-based produce-shipper called "Red River". His driving partners are Duane Haller and "Pops" Dinwiddie. Eventually Sam's son, Carrol Jo (hereafter known as "CJ"),…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film
Four gunmen emerge from a building in gas masks after a robbery and leave on motorbikes. DI Max Lewinsky sets off in pursuit of the gang in his car. He fails to catch them and suffers an injury after being shot in the leg by Jacob Sternwoo…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film
Jerry Bolanti, a Mafia-connected hoodlum, is released from jail and is looking for a job. During this very uncertain and stressful transitional period, he plays the field to help stay relaxed. He discovers almost by accident that he has a …
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Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller film, thriller film
Lee Winters is the widow of Charlie, the chairman and primary stockholder of Winterchem Enterprises, a chemical company, who is attempting to obtain financing of the purchase of a processing plant in Spain while trying to determine why her…
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Adventure, Crime Comedy, adventure film
An 11-year-old boy from Hinsdale, Illinois, named Obie Dawkins (Ricky Busker) is out fishing with his father (Bill Hudson), who tells him about the birds and the bees. All the while Obie shows interest in his dad's watch, who eventually gi…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
A man has parked his car and is looking into the Grand Canyon with binoculars when someone releases the car's parking brake and pushes the vehicle toward him. He is able to leap out of the way at the last moment, and in a fierce struggle k…
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crime film, trial film
Ellen Harrod appears to have a happy marriage to David, although his frequent work-related absences are beginning to take a toll on her. While taking night school classes with her neighbor and best friend, Marge Bracken, she is introduced …
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Thriller, crime thriller film
The film begins with the meeting of a support group in Los Angeles, during which the unnamed leader of the group, The Man, takes a call asking him to come to London. Once in London, he meets Jade in a bar in broad daylight, asks her why Se…
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Drama, drama film
The story takes place in Upstate New York during the 1970s. Fourteen-year-old Joe Henry has spent his life in an abusive household. His father, Bob, is a raging, violent alcoholic, while his mother, Theresa, feels too stressed to pay atten…
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Film Noir, Police Film, crime film, film noir
On a Los Angeles street, Officer Rob Rawlins, a patrolman on his way home from work, stops a man whom he suspects of being a burglar and is shot and mortally wounded. The minor clues lead nowhere. Two police detectives, Marty Brennan and C…
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, romance film
Still a virgin after 15 years in a convent, the demure Isabelle earns her living in New York City by writing pornography, which she researches by buying magazines and hiring videos. In a café, she befriends Thomas, who has amnesia after fa…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
The film opens with old footage of a young Addison Schacht and his mother playing at the beach. A voiceover reveals that she died of an aneurysm six months before the events of the movie. In the present, teenage Addison is mailing his appl…
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Psychodrama, crime film, thriller film
In 1970s New York, former author June Leigh lives alone in her late grandmother's dilapidated apartment after cutting herself off from the outside world. Riddled with anxiety and agoraphobia, she spends her days watching the derelict neigh…
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Action, action film, crime film
Alexander (Steven Seagal) is the leader of a covert operation on the border of Dagestan. The primary target is Islamic terrorist Abu Alwaki, whereas the secondary target is Mr. Chen (Tzi Ma).
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Detective Film, Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film
Hercule Poirot is travelling on the Orient Express. While on the journey, Poirot meets a very close friend, Wolfgang Bouc, who works for the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The train is stopped when a landslide blocks the line on…
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crime film
After incurring the wrath of the Mafia, a stand-up comic flees Detroit for Chicago. He steals a Social Security card from a homeless man named Miklos Wunejeva. He uses the card to get a job, under the name Mickey One, hauling garbage for a…
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Blaxploitation, Detective Film, Secret Agent, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Queens private detective John Shaft is contacted by his old friend Cal Asby, an insurance salesman and mortician, who tells him he's in trouble and asks him to come immediately. As soon as Shaft arrives, Asby is killed by a bomb planted in…
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Family Drama, drama film
Partygoers gather at a mansion. A man named Bobby also enters the party. A man tries to make him leave, but Bobby claims to have an appointment with Cissy.
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Action, action film, crime film
Ernest "Stick" Stickley, a former carjacker, has just been released from prison after serving seven years for armed robbery. He meets up with an old friend, Rainy, who talks Stick into accompanying him for a "quick stop" near the Florida E…
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Drama, Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film
In 1996, Jack Wilson is producing a crime docuseries segment on the Manson Family murders. Narrated via contemporaneous interviews and flashbacks, several former members of Charles "Charlie" Manson's "family" recount their time spent leadi…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
John Lomax is an ex-Special Forces trainer whose sister is attacked and murdered by serial killer Martin Kagan. Kagan represents himself at trial, calling in testimony from Dr. Alice Barnes that the murders were committed by Martin Mirman,…
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