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Crime, Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film
Hector Bloom is a laconic, libidinous college basketball star distracted by obligations and current events: the misadventures of his volatile roommate Gabriel, a potential pro career, the draft, campus unrest, and a turbulent affair with O…
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Crime, Mysterie, horror film, mystery film
The story is set in Southern California in July 1993. Jack Powell is a businessman with a wife and kids who live in San Diego. He's on his way home, when he pulls over to the side of the road to check out a crime scene.
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comedy horror, crime film, horror film
Two bickering brothers, David and Peter, kidnap Tracey, the stepdaughter of Arnie, an underworld crime boss, aided by Andrew, Arnie's dimwitted son. At a secluded country cottage, the two retrieve her from the car boot and tie her to the b…
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Dark Comedy, Komödie, comedy film
Struggling actor William McFly is hired by wealthy eccentric Cecil Fox to play his personal secretary for a "practical joke." Pretending to be on his deathbed, Fox invites three former lovers to his Venetian palazzo for a final visit: penn…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, blaxploitation film, thriller film
Jimmy Lait (Brown) and his girlfriend, Wendy, come across Jimmy's friend, House, wounded and dying. Lait learns from House that he had escaped from a secret medical experimentation facility. Later in the hospital, a delirious House tells L…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
John "J. J." Johnson is a rookie Deputy Sheriff in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Because of his inexperience and race, he experiences tension with his white colleagues as their first black deputy.
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Drama, Thriller, drama film
Cindy Liggett is waiting on death row having been found guilty of the brutal double murder she committed in her teens, 12 years earlier. Rick Hayes is appointed to the Clemency board by his brother John Hayes. Rick meets Sam Burns his boss…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
At London's Newgate Prison in 1890, a man convicted of murder is executed. Scotland Yard Superintendent George Grodman had assembled the case against him based on circumstantial evidence. The defendant had claimed that at the time of the m…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film
Tommy Akhtar, the son of Ugandan immigrants, works as a snoop in London. Melody Chase visits him to ask him to look for her missing roommate Natasha, a Russian prostitute. Tommy steals a keycard from the cleaning staff and sneaks into the …
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crime film, drama film, film noir
In Los Angeles, criminals Al Barkis and Pete Monte attempt to hotwire a car. In a nearby apartment building, Vickie Webb bids farewell to Jack Hartrampf, a much older married undertaker. Patrolman Kellogg attempts to arrest Monte inside th…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Harry Garmes is an aging American career criminal who was once a driver for the Chicago Outfit. He is living in self-imposed exile in Albufeira, a fishing village in southern Portugal, where he owns a fishing boat and seeks occasional comp…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
Jimmy and Johnny are two Brooklyn street toughs who never made it into workaday society. Danger is the hit that gets them out of bed. Jimmy owes a loan shark money and Johnny is wanted by the police.
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Social Drama, Sport, association football film, crime film, drama film
The film begins in 1979 with Paul Carty (Nicky Bell), with his sister Molly, (Holliday Grainger) and father, at his mother's graveside. After his sister escorts her dad away from the grave, Carty, looking at his watch, starts to run off. A…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Anna Marchant (Milla Jovovich) witnesses a murder by a serial killer called Tearjerker Jack (David Atrakchi). Jack chases and attacks her, but she eludes him by falling from a bridge. Anna wakes from a coma one week later and is diagnosed …
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Drama, drama film, erotic thriller, horror film, mystery film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
Erica spends her nights trawling the bars and beds of Austin, Texas. Emotionally withdrawn, her only form of human contact is a series of unprotected one-night stands with strangers, whom she picks up irrespective of age or physical appear…
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Crime Comedy, action comedy film, comedy film
Det. Dooley and his German Shepherd dog companion Jerry Lee set out to find a murderous man who plans to kill Dooley. During the movie, Jerry Lee becomes tired, and begins to fail doing his normal way of life.
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crime film, drama film
The movie begins with Teresa Stamper giving an interview about her ex-husband, Paul Stamper. She recalls that he caught her when she wasn't looking and how she thought that he was a charmer. The story flashes back to November 1982, when 23…
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Crime Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film
Gino, a humble shoe-shiner in Chicago, is approached by Mafia Don "Mr. Green", who offers him a large sum of money to take the blame for a murder committed by another gangster. When he refuses, the don starts to order what may be a hit on …
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Americans Doug and Helen Stilwin and their young son, Bobby, embark on a vacation driving across the border into desolate Baja California in Mexico to a remote fishing spot along the coast that Doug used to frequent with his old military b…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Sonny (Franco) is the son of Jewel (Blethyn), who runs a small brothel in the early 1980s New Orleans, Louisiana. Sonny returns home from the navy, staying with his mother while waiting to start the job a Navy buddy of his promised him. Je…
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Film Noir, Thriller, docudrama, drama film, film noir, spy film, war film
The film begins, and is interspersed with, documentary footage, and is narrated throughout. The opening footage is described as derived from FBI surveillance, showing officials at the German Embassy in Washington, and describing them as ac…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, fantasy film
On a rainy day in London, private investigator Benjamin Browning accepts a ride from his friend, Freddie, who is a dangerous driver. As Freddie drops Benjamin near his office, the investigator collides on the street with writer Jackie Howa…
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Adventure, Crime, adventure film, crime film, thriller film
On a clear day in 1971, the hijacker identified as D.B. Cooper jumps from an airliner by using the rear exit, parachuting into a forest in Washington State. The man is later identified as Jim Meade, a military veteran with big dreams.
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Crime, Mysterie, miniseries
When the first female president of the United States, Sally Sheridan, (Mimi Kuzyk) is killed by a sniper, her assassin narrowly escapes after a shootout involving a shadowy figure named La Mangouste (Val Kilmer) or "The Mongoose". Three mo…
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