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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 126.
Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Donny runs a junk shop in a sparsely populated and decaying neighborhood. Teach, who has no visible means of support, spends many hours a day at the shop, as does Bobby, a young man who is eager to please Donny in any way he can. Teach com…
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Heist, crime film, drama film, heist film
A criminal gang uses a gas canister to knock out the occupant of a car and then bundles him into a stolen ambulance. There, the gang cuts free a briefcase full of jewellery. Shortly afterward, while the criminals change vehicles, they are …
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The movie is told through various points of view in a semi-documentary. Generosa (Poppy Montgomery) is a struggling artist who sells real estate, and one day, when client Ted (David Sutcliffe) fails to show up, she goes over to confront hi…
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film
Abner Procane hires Raymond St. Ives, a crime reporter, novelist, and ex-policeman, to return five journals stolen from his safe. St.
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Coming Of Age, crime film, drama film
Set in a fictional New Jersey city, the film centers on Nick Rinaldi, the aimless son of corrupt property developer Joe Rinaldi. The elder Rinaldi owns a derelict apartment that is blocking the construction of a mixed-use development sough…
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Crime Comedy, Drama, Komödie, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Franklin Franklin is a hairless, overweight, eccentric social misfit and compulsive hoarder obsessed with Switzerland. He walks around in only his underwear and mismatching socks, and lives on a diet consisting of Moxie soda and pickles wi…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who feels he is reformed and deserves a break, but he has doubts that he will get one. Initially, his doubts seem unfounded as his life goes well; he is married to Joan (the woman who waited for him and who ha…
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Dark Comedy, comedy film
Natasha "Nat" O'Brien is a celebrated pastry chef invited to London to assist in preparing a state dinner for Elizabeth II, organized by culinary critic Maximillian "Max" Vandeveer. Natasha's ex-husband, Robert "Robby" Ross, is a fast-food…
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Drama, Police Film, crime film, drama film
Three rookie cops, Roy Fehler, Gus Plebesly, and Sergio Duran, report for duty with the Los Angeles Police Department. Roy is married with a daughter Rebecca and intends to eventually become a law student. Gus is a father of three.
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Crime Comedy, Film Noir, comedy film, crime film, film noir
Sandra Carpenter is an American who came to London in order to perform in a show, but is now working as a taxi dancer. She is upset to find out that her friend and fellow dancer, Lucy Barnard, is missing and believed to be the latest victi…
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crime film, drama film
Action, Crime, action film, crime film
The charismatic criminal Dobermann (Vincent Cassel), who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers with his beautiful, deaf girlfriend Nat the Gypsy (Monica Bellucci). After a complex and violent bank robbery…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, mystery film
The film opens early in the twentieth century, at an English country mansion with the apparent murder of Lord and Lady Morley in their car by a figure in a black cape. Inspector Winship (Knotts) and Dr. Tart (Conway), two American detectiv…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
Crime, film noir, mystery film, psychological thriller
Reporter Michael Ward is the key witness in a murder trial. His evidence – that he saw the accused, Joe Briggs, standing over the body of a man in a diner – is instrumental in having Briggs found guilty. Afterwards, Ward's fiancée Jane beg…
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Thriller, drama film, neo-noir
In Phoenix, Arizona, Harry Collins is a cop whose compulsive gambling has indebted him to a local gangster, in Chicago. As his losses mount and time count down, Collins resorts to exploiting a young woman, Veronica, whom he has picked up t…
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crime film, drama film
Carol Sanders is a happily married housewife living in Arizona with her husband Bill and two daughters, 17-year-old Jill and 12-year-old Wendy. One afternoon, due to being caught up at work, Carol asks Jill to pick Wendy up from school. Ji…
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Komödie, comedy film
Set in Casablanca shortly after World War II, escaped Nazi war criminal Heinrich Stubel has steadily murdered three managers of the Hotel Casablanca. Disguised as a Count Pfefferman, Stubel's goal is to reclaim the stolen art treasures tha…
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Crime, Thriller, heist film, neo-noir
Psychiatrist Margaret Ford has achieved success with her recently published book about obsessive-compulsive disorder, but feels unfulfilled. Her patient, Billy Hahn, says his life is in danger because he owes money to a criminal figure nam…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, blaxploitation film
An inner-city point man is on the run from both the cops and the crooks in this streetwise drama. T (Robert Hooks) is a combination pool shark, private detective, and all-purpose ghetto fixer who operates out of a billiards parlor in South…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film
Sherlock Holmes is given news of the late Sir Charles' death, and the legend of the hound which is said to have killed the evil Sir Hugo Baskerville in retaliation for his brutal and violent rape of a beautiful farm girl. Holmes prepares t…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
FBI agent Joe Devine has been undercover, trying to infiltrate the mob. Deep on assignment, he loses a finger, and on his return home he's told his dog killed herself out of loneliness. Reassigned to Rhode Island, Devine has come up with a…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film
A former CIA agent and ex-Special Forces member Dean Cage (Wesley Snipes), is in a rehab program, haunted by a botched mission in Bosnia which resulted in the execution of his best friend Scott (Cristian Solimeno). While in a restaurant wa…
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Gangster Film, Road Movie, crime film, drama film
A young couple in love — Watty Watts (Bellows) and Starlene (Zellweger) — are planning a convenience store robbery. The next day, they are paid a visit by Creepy Cody (Alexander) and Dinosaur Bob (Combs), collectors for a local mobster who…
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