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Crime, Historical drama, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, thriller film
The film's storylines alternate between Rodney Alcala's crimes in different locations from 1971 to 1979 and Sheryl Bradshaw's life in 1978 Los Angeles which leads to the two meeting on The Dating Game. In 1977, Rodney photographs a woman o…
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Coming Of Age, Destiny, Historie, Monumental Film, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film
By 1950, the 44-year-old Puyi, former Emperor of China, has been in custody for five years since his capture by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria. In the recently established People's Republic of China, Puyi arrives as a…
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Computeranimation, Family Comedy, Secret Agent, action film, buddy film, crime film, spy film
British spy Finn McMissile infiltrates an oil rig in the Pacific Ocean owned by criminal lemon cars to rescue fellow spy Leland Turbo. He witnesses the lemons, seemingly led by Professor Zündapp, loading an emitter disguised as a televisio…
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Secret Agent, action film, thriller film
James Reese appears to be an efficient and affable personal aide to the U.S. ambassador in France and after a brief morning chat, Reese quickly leaves, slips into the building's dark parking garage to switch license plates on his vehicle b…
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Biographical picture, Occult Horror, biographical film, drama film, satanic film
In 1634 France, following the aftermath of the Huguenot rebellions, the French Catholic statesman Cardinal Richelieu influences King Louis XIII in an attempt to gain further power. Richelieu seeks to consolidate his authority by systematic…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime film, thriller film
A successful action thriller starring Nicolas Cage as an infamous criminal and John Travolta as the cop trying to bring him down. In an attempt to get information on criminal Castor Troy, police officer Sean Archer switches faces with him …
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Christmas film, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Carrying out his first order, inexperienced hitman Ray shoots a priest during confession, but accidentally kills an altar boy standing in the line of fire. He and his mentor Ken are sent by their boss, Harry, to hide in Bruges, where they …
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Crime Comedy, Heist, comedy film, detective film, drama film, heist film, melodrama, mystery film
thumb|San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk (1908), the Claude Monet painting stolen in the film thumb|A close copy of Poker Sympathy from Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's Dogs Playing Poker series is used as a plot point in the film. Thieves infiltrat…
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Crime, Komödie, Road Movie, Romance Film, Thriller, black comedy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, romance film, thriller film
In Cape Fear, North Carolina, lovers Lula Fortune and Sailor Ripley are separated after he is jailed for killing a man who attacked him with a knife; the assailant, Bobby Ray Lemon, was hired by Lula's mother, Marietta. Upon Sailor's relea…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Forensic, crime film, drama film, trial film
The story is set during the Great Depression in the fictional segregated town of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout, aged six, lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a white middle-aged lawyer. Guided by a strong social co…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, teen film
In Phoenix, Arizona, 18-year-old wrestler Robert "Bobby" Tennison starts talking to 16-year-old classmate Stacy Collins. He eventually invites her and her friends to a late night lake party. There, Bobby and Stacy sneak off, and eventually…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, road movie
In Denver, low-level marijuana dealer David Clark is robbed of his money and stash, some of which he owes to his supplier and college acquaintance Brad Gurdlinger. Gurdlinger forces him to smuggle marijuana from Mexico to clear his debt. R…
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Drama, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1932, Sir William McCordle, his wife Lady Sylvia, and their daughter Isobel host a shooting party at their country estate, Gosford Park. Among the guests are Sylvia's sisters Louisa and Lavinia and their husbands Lord Stockbridge and Co…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film
Joe Turner is a bookish CIA analyst, codenamed "Condor", who works at the American Literary Historical Society in New York City, in reality a clandestine CIA office. The staff analyzes print media from around the world. Turner files a repo…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama fiction, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, psychological thriller, thriller film
The film begins with the sentencing of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, a notorious murderer, with an angry mob demanding he be killed. The story of his life is told in flashback. He is seen born in a French fish market by his mother, believing h…
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Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, independent film, neo-noir, thriller film
Drug lord Frank White strives to control New York City's criminal underground. Shortly after his release from Sing Sing Penitentiary, White and his crew, led by his trigger-happy right-hand man Jimmy Jump, consolidate power by eliminating …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Harry Caul, a surveillance expert in San Francisco, specializes in audio recordings. He and his team are hired by a client known as "the Director" to eavesdrop on a couple, whom they record walking in circles in Union Square. Despite the b…
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Crime, Drama, Gothic film, Musical, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gothic horror film, horror film, musical drama, musical film, romance film, romantic horror film, slasher film, splatter film, thriller film
In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by young sailor Anthony Hope. A flashback reveals that sixteen years prior, Benjamin was falsely convicted and exiled to Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted a…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia Film, Thriller, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film
In the winter of 1931, Michael Sullivan Sr, is an orphaned enforcer of Irish Mob boss John Rooney in Rock Island, Illinois. His wife Annie knows of his work, but his two sons Michael Jr. and Peter do not.
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Action, Crime, Drama, Romance Film, Satire On Media, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, melodrama, mystery film, prison film, rape and revenge film, satire
Mickey Knox and his wife Mallory stop at a diner in the New Mexico desert. A duo of rednecks arrive and begin sexually harassing Mallory as she dances by a jukebox. She initially encourages it before beating one of the men viciously.
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, spy film, thriller film
Two years after the incident in Paris, Jason Bourne and his girlfriend Marie Kreutz are living in exile in Goa. Still suffering from amnesia, he documents flashbacks about his life as a CIA assassin in a notebook. In Berlin, a CIA agent wo…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In 1996 Los Angeles, psychopathic criminal Simon Phoenix kidnaps a busload of passengers. Police officer John Spartan, nicknamed "The Demolition Man" for the collateral damage he often causes in apprehending suspects, mounts an unauthorize…
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Thriller, crime film, neo-noir, psychological thriller
One night in 1990, a teenaged girl drives on a deserted highway, stalked by a motorist. After pulling into a gas station, she finds it closed. A terrifying pursuit on foot begins.
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Gangster Film, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1975 in New York City, after having served five years of a thirty-year prison sentence, career criminal, Carlito Brigante, is freed on a legal technicality that has been exploited by his lawyer, and close friend, Dave Kleinfeld. Carlito…
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