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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Starr Carter is a 16-year-old African-American girl who lives in the predominantly black neighborhood of Garden Heights and attends a predominantly white private school called Williamson Prep. After a firearm is discharged at a party Starr…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, action-adventure film, heist film, screwball comedy film, treasure hunt film
thumb|270px|Left to right: Edie Adams, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, and Buddy Hackett Smiler Grogan, a recently released convict, crashes his car on California State Route 74. With his dying brea…
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Crime, Satire, Satire On Media, biographical film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film
Rupert Pupkin is a delusional stand-up comedian unsuccessfully trying to launch his career. After meeting Jerry Langford, a successful comedian and talk-show host, Rupert believes that his "big break" has finally come. He attempts to book …
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Drama, Drama Documentary, Gangster Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, teen film
In 1999, Johnny Truelove works as a young drug dealer while making a living in the San Gabriel Valley. Johnny's father, Sonny, supplies him with marijuana, which he distributes with his gang of friends: Frankie Ballenbacher, Johnny's right…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
Lounge singer Deloris Wilson, performing as Deloris Van Cartier in a club in Reno, Nevada, struggles with her career as she engages in an affair with the club's married owner, gangster Vince LaRocca. After receiving a shallow gift she reco…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Caleb Faulkner (Garrett Hedlund), a working-class man with a violent past, is struggling to rebuild his life while working for his uncle Benji (Stephen Lang) in a questionable construction supply business. His life spirals after his young …
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Drama, Heist, Thriller, crime film, film noir, heist film, neo-noir
Frank is a jewel thief and ex-convict who was released from Joliet Correctional Center in Joliet, Illinois. With a pair of Chicago businesses, including a car lot, as fronts for his criminal enterprise, he sets out to fulfill the missing p…
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Action Comedy, Western, Western film, action film, buddy film, comedy film, treasure hunt film
In 1933, at a San Francisco funfair, a boy named Will who idolizes the legendary Lone Ranger encounters Tonto, an elderly Comanche man who starts recounting his experiences with the Old West adventurer, 64 years ago. In 1869, lawyer John R…
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Action, Romance Film, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, crime thriller film, science fiction film, spy film, thriller film, time-travel film
In New Orleans, a ferry carrying U.S. Navy sailors and their families across the Mississippi River for Mardi Gras explodes, killing 543 people. ATF Special Agent Doug Carlin discovers evidence of a bomb planted by a domestic terrorist, and…
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Action, Heist, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In Antwerp, Belgium, Donnie Wilson joins the Panther Crew, led by Jovanna, to steal a red diamond and files from an airport hangar. They flee disguised as SWAT. Back in Long Beach, California, Deputy Sheriff Nick O'Brien is recently divorc…
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Crime, Drama, crime film
In August 2002 in Cleveland, Ohio, 21-year-old single mother Michelle Knight has lost custody of her son, Joey. One morning while walking to court, she accepts a ride from Ariel Castro who abducts her and holds her captive in his home, reg…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, heist film, spy film, thriller film
At a bistro in Montmartre, IRA operative Deirdre meets with two Americans, Sam and Larry, and a Frenchman, Vincent. She takes them to a warehouse where Englishman Spence and German Gregor are waiting. Conversations among the men reveal tha…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
George Jung and his parents Fred and Ermine live in Weymouth, Massachusetts. When George is 10 years old, Fred files for bankruptcy but tries to make George realize that money is not important. In the late 1960s, an adult George moves to L…
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Melodrama, Romance Film, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
alt=San Miniato al Monte, Florence|left|thumb|200px|Facade of the basilica San Miniato al Monte in Florence, one of the primary settings of the film. In 1959, Michael Courtland, a New Orleans real estate developer, has his life shattered w…
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Destiny, Komödie, Political Drama, Satire On War, comedy drama, comedy film, war film
In 1965, Airman First Class Adrian Cronauer arrives in Saigon to work as a DJ for the Armed Forces Radio Service. Private Edward Garlick takes him to the radio station, where his attitude and demeanor contrast sharply with those of many st…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, prison film
On January 18, 1960, Frank Lee Morris, a burglar and escape artist, is transferred to the maximum security prison on Alcatraz Island. In the dining hall, Morris makes the acquaintance of the eccentric Litmus, who is fond of desserts. Morri…
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Dramedy, crime film, drama film, independent film, road movie, romantic comedy film
Having just served five years in the Gowanda Correctional Facility, Billy Brown returns home to Buffalo, New York, and is preparing to meet with his parents, who do not know he has been in prison. He kidnaps Layla, a tap dancer, and forces…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, teen film, thriller film
Jonathan Shale is a Vietnam War veteran and mercenary. After a botched covert operation in Cuba in which three men from his platoon were killed, he returns home to Miami. He surprises his girlfriend, Jane Hetzko, at her apartment; she welc…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
Child psychologist Catherine Deane is hired to conduct an experimental virtual reality treatment for coma patients: a "Neurological Cartography and Synaptic Transfer System" device managed by doctors Henry West and Miriam Kent that allows …
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
"Just Another Saturday Night" Marv regains consciousness on a highway overlooking The Projects, surrounded by several dead young men and a crashed police car, with no memory of how he got there. He retraces his steps, recalling that since …
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Crime Comedy, action comedy film, crime comedy film
Axel Foley remains a Detroit police detective under his friend, Deputy Chief Jeffrey Friedman. In pursuit of thieves, Axel's ensuing chase causes costly damage to the city. Jeffrey retires to protect Axel from being punished and encourages…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film
Taylor, a prison cook who has been incarcerated for 13 years, is informed he is eligible for early release on the basis he maintains good behaviour. Taylor regularly does haircuts for fellow prisoners Gaz and Paul, from whom he buys drugs …
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
14-year-old Hayley Stark and 32-year-old photographer Jeff Kohlver engage in a sexually charged flirtatious online chat. They then meet at a coffeehouse before going to Jeff's home. When they arrive, Jeff makes them drinks, but Hayley refu…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, trial film
In 1965, a pair of professional carnival workers named Lester and Betty Likens have two children, sixteen-year-old Sylvia Likens and Jenny, her disabled fifteen-year-old sister. Lester and Betty need to go on tour so they ask Gertrude Bani…
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