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Crime, Heist, drama film, heist film
The film opens with a safe-break that yields unexpectedly low gains for the robbers. Daniels plots the bank robbery, having targeted this institution because he has discovered that the main subterranean vault, thought to be impregnable, li…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
Ty Hackett (Columbus Short), a former armed service veteran is a member of Eagle Shield security in one of their many armored transportation teams. He is the legal guardian of younger brother Jimmy (Andre Kinney) after the death of their p…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, comedy film
Best friends Conor and Jock are two teenagers from Cork who dress the same, act the same, and even have the same weak facial hair. Jock is a notorious bike thief who plays a daily game of cat-and-mouse with the bike-theft-obsessed Garda He…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1912, the prosperous Birling family sit at a dining table at the end of a dinner party with their friend, Gerald Croft, who is engaged to the daughter, Sheila. Mother chastises Eric, the son, for drinking too much. Father discusses the …
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Horror, crime film, horror film, science fiction film
The movie's structure is fragmented, as it alternates between three plot threads. A man jogging through urban London grabs his heart and collapses. He wakes up in a hospital bed.
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film
Sean Haggerty is a pilot who transports cocaine across the United States border. Over the course of his final day on the job, he must successfully navigate both the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Cartel, while simultaneously salva…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
L.B. Jones, a wealthy African-American funeral director in fictional Somerton, Tennessee, seeks legal representation from the local law firm run by Oman Hedgepath and his newlywed nephew Steve Mundine. Jones is seeking a divorce from his c…
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Film Noir, drama film, film noir
In the final weeks of World War II, a severely wounded man awakens with amnesia in a U.S. military field hospital. As he recovers, he learns that he is George W.
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Thriller, mystery film
U.S. government agent Harry Hannan suffers a nervous breakdown after his wife Dorothy is killed, and spends five months in a sanitarium. Upon returning to his apartment in New York City, he finds it is occupied by a doctoral student named …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Gangster Film, comedy film, crime film
Frank Falenczyk is a hit man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. He has a drinking problem, as a result of which he messes up the critical assignment of preventing Eddie O'Leary, from a rival family, getting on a train bound fo…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Lieutenant Barney Nolan, a 16-year veteran of the police force, has had it with the world. He may have been a good detective once, but has become corrupt and vicious. In a secluded alley late one night he fatally shoots a bookmaker in the …
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Action, Thriller, crime film
For years Kevin Mitnick -– the most notorious computer hacker in the nation -- had eluded Federal agents while using the latest electronic gadgetry to break into countless computers and gain access to sensitive and valuable information. Bu…
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Komödie, comedy film, drama film
While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleazy documentary primadonna while the strange hotel staff share meals which consist of human meat. The story expands t…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, thriller film
On Friday, Andy Sikes cleans up in his basement, while his wife, Martha, speaks to his brother, sheriff Zeke Sikes above. When his young daughter, Sally, comes down to the basement, he silences her and makes her promise not to reveal his p…
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Action, Thriller, crime film
drama film
In Jasper, Texas, in June 1998, three self-proclaimed white supremacists chain James Byrd Jr., to the back of their pickup truck and drag him to his death over three miles of country road. When the town is forced to deal with an onslaught …
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, girls with guns, neo-noir
Coco Chavez and Junior Armstrong are two small-time criminals who make money at blackmail and sex scams. They attempt to break into the big time by kidnapping a computer genius and holding him for a $4 million ransom. To help them, they en…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
The film follows two people who are kidnapped by an international sexual slavery gang in Mexico City. Adriana (Gaitán), a 13-year-old local girl, is captured while riding the bike her brother, Jorge, got for her birthday. Veronica (Bachled…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film
In the aftermath of a theft and murder, Martha Radcliffe increasingly suspects her husband George, whose testimony in court convicted the main suspect, of being the real culprit. Businessman Jason Roote is stabbed to death on a night when …
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
In post-Katrina New Orleans, shipping executive Jack Vermillion (Fishburne) finds himself getting more than he bargained for after agreeing to help feds expose smuggler and all-around bad seed Earl Pike (Urban).
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Action, Adventure, Crime, action film, adventure film, crime film, heist film, spy film
Nick Lassiter (Selleck) is a gentleman jewel thief in 1939 London, England. He is arrested by the police after breaking into a London mansion, and after being a member of a phony lineup in which he is positively identified by a law enforce…
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
In rural Missouri, notorious serial killer Garrick Turrell (A. J. Bowen) escapes from police custody.
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
Writer Adrian Messenger believes a series of seemingly unrelated "accidental" deaths are linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, recently retired from MI5, to investigate, and provides a list of the victims' names. Soon after, …
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film
A military train guarded by American soldiers and Japanese police is robbed of its cargo of guns, ammunition, and smoke bombs. During the robbery, a U.S. Army sergeant guarding the train is shot and killed.
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