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Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, comedy film
Two dimwitted friends try to get rich through small crimes, including an unsuccessful attempt to mug two elderly women. They agree to get married, the women scheme to kill them off and collect on a life insurance policy, the men think the …
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Telephone technician Mal Granger, with knowledge of telephones and electronics, is hired by gangster Vince Walters to expand Walters' legitimate business that is a front for an illegal bookmaking operation. The expansion is a great success…
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Crime Comedy, Romantic Comedy, crime film, romantic comedy
Charlie Mayough is an undercover DEA agent suffering from anxiety and gastrointestinal problems after a bust goes wrong. During the aforementioned incident, his partner was killed and he found himself with a gun shoved in his face just bef…
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crime film, horror film
Based on the true story of serial murderer Gary Ridgway, the film depicts how he would approach prostitutes in bars, take them to his homes, brutally kill them and throw the corpses into the Green River, a pattern of behavior which explain…
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Horror, crime film, horror film, mystery film
In 1845 in Paris, mad scientist Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood to create a mate for Erik, his talking sideshow ape. Pierre Dupin, a young, naive medical student and detective, Pierre's fiancée Camille L'Esp…
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Crime, Musical, crime film, drama film, musical film, mystery film
political thriller film, trial film
Cray Fowler, a young New Orleans lawyer running for congress, is filmed with a prostitute as blackmail. As he investigates, Fowler discovers some shocking secrets involving his father, his family's fortune and his own political advisors.
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Thriller, neo-noir
In Seattle, former CIA officer Nelson Crowe (Fishburne) is hired by Vic Grimes (Langella) for a position with his company nicknamed "The Toolshed." Grimes' firm employs people with intelligence service backgrounds to sell their talents wit…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
In a cemetery, the Weird Sisters, three school girl witches, are destroying and defacing headstones and statues, while close by Lady Macbeth weeps beside a headstone marked "beloved son" and Macbeth stands by. The three witches plan to mee…
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film, thriller film
Ray Shane is an ex-vice cop trying to turn his life around after spending five years in prison on corruption charges. He works as the head of security for "The House of the Rising Sun", a strip club that secretly houses an illegal gambling…
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Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
Artie Lewis is a New York City Police Department detective who believes in his work, loves his wife Rita, and is close to his partner of eight years, Stevie Diroma, a widower with three young daughters. After a hard, violent encounter in a…
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Crime, Drama, Horror, crime film, drama film, film noir
Rich Victorian-era novelist Stephen Byrne, who lives and works by a river, accidentally kills his attractive maid Emily Gaunt after she resists his drunken advances. Stephen coaxes his crippled brother John to help him dispose of the body.…
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Action, Adventure, Martial-Arts
Dragon (Jackie Chan), the son of a Chinese aristocrat, is always getting in trouble, and likes to skip his lessons. Dragon tries to send a love note to the girl he likes via a kite, but the kite gets away. Dragon tries to get the kite and …
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LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, drama film
David Weinberg (Alan Rickman), a lawyer in his 50s, and his much younger wife Alexis (Polly Walker), drive through a torrential rainstorm to get the last ferry to their private island. They catch sight of an injured young man (Norman Reedu…
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Western, Western film
When hired gun John Gant arrives in Lordsburg, the locals are terrified. The sheriff would like to arrest Gant, but the gunman always kills legally, in "self-defense." While the town speculates on Gant's target, Luke Canfield, a young doct…
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, Sergeant First Class Buck McGriff and Sergeant First Class Albaby Perkins are two joint services Criminal Investigation Division (CID) agents on duty in war torn Saigon. When a prostitute is found murdered they discover that the p…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film
In 1957, J. C. Cullen is a small-town crapshooter who heads to Chicago, Illinois, to seek his fortune.
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Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Dr. Peter Carey is the new pathologist at a Boston hospital. He befriends his colleagues and falls in love with dietitian Georgia Hightower.
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime film, film noir, horror film, mystery film, psycho-biddy, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
When teenage friends Libby Mannering and Kit Austin are home alone with Libby's younger sister Tess, they amuse themselves by randomly dialing telephone numbers and telling whoever answers: "I saw what you did, and I know who you are." Lib…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir
Pete Morgan manages Jefty's Road House for his longtime friend, Jefferson "Jefty" Robbins, who inherited the place from his father. Jefty is attracted to Lily Stevens, his new singer from Chicago, but Pete thinks she is just another in a l…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Along a beachfront boardwalk in Galveston, Texas, a prostitute named Loretta Akers is attacked by an unseen assailant and has her throat slit, making her the latest victim in a string of serial killings. Mike Seaver, a former Minor League …
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
When several members of the GraveDiggers outlaw motorcycle club are murdered, Sydney detective Stone (Ken Shorter) is sent to investigate. Led by the Undertaker (Sandy Harbutt), a Vietnam war veteran, the GraveDiggers allow Stone to pose a…
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Horror, Komödie, comedy horror
thumb|Arthur Askey (right) with Richard Murdoch (left) and Carole Lynne (centre) Tommy Gander, a music hall comedian, pulls the communication cord on a GWR express train, bringing it to a stop so he can retrieve his hat. Returning to the t…
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Action, Komödie, Police Film, action comedy film, crime film, mystery film, romantic comedy
Victoria Iphigenia "V.I" Warshawski (Kathleen Turner) is a Chicago-based, freelance private investigator who lives the part of the hard-boiled detective, but below the surface, she is a softy. One night, while she is drinking at her favori…
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