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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 134.
Biographical picture, crime film
Brian Deneke is a 19-year-old from Amarillo, Texas, who is into punk and the punk rock subculture. He is a local DIY promoter who books touring punk rock bands at a small run down venue. In this conservative town, there are many teenagers who actively follow punk and they routinely clashed with the jocks from one of the local high school's football team: The Tascosa Rebels.
Crime, Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, neo-noir, parody film
British writer Mickey King lives in Malta churning out violent, sexually charged pulp fiction novels under an array of lewd pen names such as "S. Odomy". King is approached to ghostwrite the autobiography of a mystery celebrity.
Drama, crime film, drama film, thriller film
When a robbery goes awry, the bandits end up accidentally killing one of their own. Johnny, one of the robbers, goes to jail for five years. His ex-girlfriend, Gloria, holds him responsible for the death of her brother, the one killed during the robbery.
Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, thriller film
During a bank robbery a bank guard is shot and killed by one of the robbers, Harry Wheeler, who gets away with $250,000. Lona McLane leaves a movie theatre and walks to her car. The car will not start, and Paul Sheridan appears at her window.
Crime, Forensic
In 1944, in Lincoln Bluff, a fictional, small Colorado town, the Second World War is still raging when the town's only doctor, George Hansen, is murdered at local US Army Camp Bremen, which holds German prisoners of war. Harmon Cobb, a local lawyer, is coerced by Judge Stoddard Bell into serving as defense attorney for Sergeant Wilhelm Geiger, the German prisoner accused of killing the doctor. Cobb has no desire for Geiger to be acquitted.
Crime, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Detective Jack Williams, who lost his left arm in the Tet Offensive, is shot dead in his apartment. His estranged friend, detective Mike Hammer (whose life Jack saved while losing his arm), is warned by police detective Pat Chambers to stay out of it–but nevertheless investigates the matter on his own. He speaks with Jack's widow Myrna, who says that they were attending a sex therapy clinic operated by the glamorous Dr.
Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, crime film
A young couple, Havana and Peter, robs a county fair of its daily receipts and escapes to Canada to hide out in the Hutterite community where Peter was raised. While there, they marry to satisfy the conservative elders in the community. Peter hides their loot but then is killed in a car wreck.
Crime, Drama, drama film, heist film, neo-noir
Bryce is a successful man who returns to his tiny hometown for a visit. While there, he runs into his old friend Nick. The two decide to go out for the night.
Drama, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller
Big Al (Angus Macfadyen), and his girlfriend Kat (Milla Jovovich), are small-time crooks dealing in guns and stolen goods in Queens, New York City while also cleverly avoiding the NYPD and ATF. Vic (Sarah Strange), is Kat's friend and ex-lover who still has a crush on her and hates Big Al. Big Al is almost arrested in a police sting, but is released when they realize he is unarmed...as Kat was holding the guns.
crime film
New York City police Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle investigates the case of a murdered model, which leads him on the trail of a gang of terrorists and a drug cartel of international smugglers.
crime film, drama film
The film begins with an unknown person hiding an axe covered with blood in the woods. It then focuses on Brian Hannigan, a teenager who contacts the police after the death of his adoptive parents, a double homicide. The investigators immediately see Brian as a suspect, because he was in the house when the murders occurred, is thought to have been too calm considering the circumstances, while also claiming to have heard nothing during the night his parents were murdered.
drama film
Charlie drifts through life as he and his friends enjoy a lifestyle of house parties, petty crime, fashion, casual sex and drugs. However, after breaking into a house to rob it, Charlie finds a gun (they found the keys and address in a handbag they had recently stolen). During the robbery, three of the friends (Charlie, Justin and Damien) accidentally awaken the owner, a hefty Jamaican man who promptly chases them into the street with a golf club.
Crime Comedy, heist film
Siblings Tracy and Jay begin their Easter holidays with disappointment as they hear their mother, Carolyn, whom they had expected to pick them up from school, is instead in Hong Kong. Before she left, she made plans that the two children spend the vacation with their grandfather, Los Angeles billionaire J.W. Osborne.
Drama, crime film
In 1954, Māori teenage girl Nellie is sent by her family to Christchurch to live with a relative after her hometown's meatworks closes down. Unable to find her relative, Nellie befriends another female Māori teenager named Daisy, who has escaped several foster homes after experiencing abuse. After being arrested for shoplifting, the two girls are sent to the Te Motu School for Incorrigible and Delinquent Girls.
biographical film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
Set after the Nazi invasion of Denmark, the film focuses on the Holger Danske resistance group's Bent Faurschou Hviid (known as Flammen) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (known as Citronen). In a bar, Bent flirts with a woman, who identifies herself as Ketty Selmer and disturbs him by saying his real name. Bent follows and confronts her, whereupon she says she is a courier running messages between Stockholm and Copenhagen.
Action, Caper-Movie, Heist, Komödie, Thriller, heist film
Kevin, Sam, and Rob play a game that they call "Foolproof", in which they create working plans to infiltrate and burgle various targets. They do not actually execute these heists, preferring to simply simulate them using necessary technical and physical abilities to carry out the tasks required. They adhere to some rules, such as using identical equipment and infrastructure as the target and using no firearms of any kind.
Action, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, thriller film
A crime lord is torn between his legacy and his desire to leave the life of crime that built his empire. A new villain tries to use the town's anti-hero network to climb to power. The crime lord must rely on his assassin protégé, who has his own troubles.
Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Carolyn Carver is a published author whose husband and daughter believe she is working on a new book, when in fact she is gambling away their life savings. She is befriended by Walter, a has-been magician with a gambling habit who entertains casino guests for tips. Clyde Snow, meanwhile, is deeply in debt to gamblers, to the extent that he must ask his younger brother Godfrey, a college basketball star, to shave points at games.
Drama, blaxploitation film, drama film
In Cleveland, Ohio, at the time of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters riot in the streets. Johnny Wells, a charismatic black revolutionary, leads a group of black men on a mission to steal guns from a warehouse as preparation for violent racial conflict. Johnny's best friend Tank, who formerly worked at the steel mill with several of the men, is supposed to help with the robbery, but when the group goes to his house, they find him drunk and watching the television coverage of King's funeral.
Crime Comedy, buddy film
Sam and Eddie are unsuccessful musicians who are unwittingly recruited as professional safe-crackers by a local mobster. Veal Chop finds them in a bar where two famed ones hang out regularly, and incorrectly assumes they are them. Veal Chop coerces Sam and Eddie into supposedly breaking into an older man's home to crack his safe for easy money.
crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
The film takes place entirely in the bedroom of Casey Jacobs and happens in real time. One evening, Casey is listening to music but finds her Spotify settings are being tampered with. While Skyping with her best friend Megan, who is about to go on a date, Casey learns that her ex-boyfriend, Nathan, has posted a cruel comment on Twitter about her use of anti-depressants.
LGBTQ-related film, romantic comedy
The film is set in Brooklyn in 1957. After the consigliere (assistant) to the Mafia Don dies, crushed by a crate of tuna-fish cans, small-time hood George sees his chance to move up. Together with his dim-witted sidekick, Dip, they celebrate with some prostitutes – George is ecstatic when treated to the oral talents of Glorice, the new girl on the docks.
Crime, Mysterie, mystery film
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are in Canada attending a conference on the occult, when Lord Penrose receives a message that his wife Lady Penrose has been murdered in the small village of La Mort Rouge. Holmes and Watson are about to return home when Holmes receives a telegram from Lady Penrose, sent before her death, asking for help as she fears for her life.
Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, comedy film, crime film
The unseen Grim Reaper examines the life of perpetual waster Michael McCrea, who is threatened by gangsters Ivan and Orlando to pay his €1,000 debt to crime boss Darren Perrier. While his neighbor Brenda has made up with her boyfriend Shamie, Michael visits a snooker bar in search of the Mutt, a loan shark, but only finds his drug-dealing friend Clifford. After an altercation with clampers, he is approached by his estranged father Jim, who reveals that he has terminal cancer.