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Drama, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, trial film
Hank Palmer is a trial lawyer in Chicago, acerbic and notorious for defending powerful clients he knows to be guilty. Before returning to his rural hometown of Carlinville, Indiana to attend his mother's funeral, he argues with his wife, L…
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Destiny, Drama, Police Film, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film
Recently retired tennis pro Chris Wilton is hired as an instructor at an upscale London club. He becomes friendly with wealthy club member, Tom Hewett. Tom's sister, Chloe, is smitten with Chris, and they begin dating.
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Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Margaret, a Manhattan District Attorney, panics after a young man ("the Kid") dies in her hotel room. She calls a number given to her for just such an emergency by someone she trusts, and secures the services of an unnamed professional fix…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Mexico story line In Mexico, police officers Javier Rodriguez and Manolo Sanchez stop a drug transport. General Salazar, a high-ranking Mexican official, interrupts their arrest to offer Javier a special assignment: apprehending Francisco …
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Conspiracy Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Mourning Pope Pius XVI's sudden death, the Catholic Church prepares the papal conclave to elect his successor. Fr. Patrick McKenna, the Camerlengo, temporarily controls the Vatican during the sede vacante.
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Destiny, Family Drama, biographical film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, sport film, teen film
Teenager Jim Carroll is a drug-addicted high school basketball player who regularly gets into mischief with his friends Pedro, Mickey and Neutron on the streets of New York City and at school. Outside of basketball, Jim shows an artistic i…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, action film, black comedy film, crime film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Spencer and Laura Peterson, with their children Luke and Anna, are coping with the loss of their elder son, Caleb, to the war in Afghanistan. They are visited by David Collins, a former U.S. Army sergeant who claims he was Caleb's best fri…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, black comedy film, crime comedy film, heist film
Long-time friends and small-time London criminals Eddie, Tom, Soap, and Bacon put together £100,000 so that Eddie, a card sharp, can participate in one of "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale's high-stakes three-card brag games. The game, however, is …
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Police Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime thriller film, vigilante film
A psychopathic sniper, later referred to as "Scorpio", shoots a woman while she swims in a San Francisco skyscraper rooftop pool. He leaves behind a threatening letter demanding he be paid $100,000 or he will kill more people. The note is …
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Family Drama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, thriller film
Ten-year-old Mark Evans has recently lost his mother, Janice. Before leaving on a business trip to Tokyo, Mark's father, Jack, transports him from Arizona to his Uncle Wallace and Aunt Susan's house in Rock Harbor, Maine, where he will sta…
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Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, crime film, family film
In the Southside Reef, Oscar is a lonely bluestreak cleaner wrasse who, in his childhood, dreamed of being a tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash like his father until he was cruelly mocked for it. Since working at the wash, Oscar now w…
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Action, Mysterie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Some time after helping the Holy See deal with an antimatter threat, Harvard University professor Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital room in Florence, Italy. He has no memory of the last few days but is plagued with hellish visions. Dr.
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Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, Satire On Media, comedy film
Timid Sue Buttons lives in Kentucky with her husband, Karl. She wishes to be more assertive, but others constantly take advantage of her. Unbeknownst to Sue, Karl's ex-convict brother Petey has unwillingly involved him in money laundering.
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Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, Torture Porn, crime film, exploitation film, horror film, rape and revenge film, splatter film, thriller film
Novelist Jennifer Hills travels from New York City to Louisiana to work on her next book in privacy. The gas station attendant, Johnny Miller, gives her directions to her rented cabin when she gets lost. He embarrasses himself by trying to…
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Crime, Thriller, crime thriller film
In 1983, Bruce Pierce and Gary Yarbrough lure Walter West out into the woods at night under the ruse of a hunting trip, and murder him. Veteran FBI agent Terry Husk reopens the long-vacant field office in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, looking for …
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, legal thriller, mystery film, trial film
Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his little brother Ricky are smoking cigarettes in the woods near their Memphis trailer home when they encounter mob lawyer W. Jerome Clifford attempting suicide. Mark sneaks up to the back of Clifford's car t…
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Biographical picture, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Michael Peterson narrates his early life with self-deprecating humour. Initially, he addresses the camera dressed in prison garb. Other times, he tells his tale in a vaudeville-style theatre with a live audience.
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Obsession, Occult Horror, horror film, supernatural film, thriller film
Philadelphia detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) visits convicted serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas) on death row shortly before his execution. Reese appears strangely cheerful, grips Hobbes' hand, and delivers what seems to be…
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Dark Comedy, Gross Out Film, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
A notorious criminal Divine lives under the pseudonym "Babs Johnson" with her mother Edie, delinquent son Crackers, and traveling companion Cotton. They share a trailer on the outskirts of Phoenix, Maryland, next to a gazing ball and a pai…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, rape and revenge film
Karen and Mack McCann are happily married with two daughters, seventeen-year-old Julie (from Karen's previous marriage) and six-year-old Megan. One afternoon while Karen is out shopping, Julie is violently raped and murdered after answerin…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In mid June 2006, in Dorchester, Boston, private investigator Patrick Kenzie and his partner and girlfriend Angie Gennaro witness a televised plea by Helene McCready for the return of her abducted four-year-old daughter Amanda, who was las…
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Crime, Drama, Road Movie, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1959, Holly Sargis narrates the film as a 15-year-old living in Fort Dupree, a dead-end South Dakota town. She has a strained relationship with her father, a sign painter, since her mother's death from pneumonia years earlier. Holly mee…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
Krug Stillo, a notorious killer, is being transported to a max security prison. When he asks the transporting officers for a restroom break, the two refuse knowing he is a flight risk. While stopped at a railroad crossing, the two officers…
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Thriller, crime thriller film
In rural Oklahoma, beekeeper and bluegrass musician Amziah King is called on by OSBI Agent Sunderland to identify a truckload of stolen honey. Amziah's former employee Remmick arrives with his friend Colmar to help, but the honey extractor…
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