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Fantasy, Historie, Mysterie, Romance Film, Thriller, drama film, fantasy film, melodrama, mystery film, mysticism, romance film, thriller film
In 1889 Vienna, Austria-Hungary, a magician named Eisenheim is arrested by Chief Inspector Walter Uhl of the Vienna Police during a magic show involving necromancy. Later, Uhl explains the story of Eisenheim's life to Crown Prince Leopold.…
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Film Noir, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, flashback film
thumb|300px|left|Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff and Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis Dietrichson Wounded from a gunshot, insurance salesman Walter Neff stumbles late at night into his empty Los Angeles office. He records a dictaphone confession …
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, spy film, thriller film
A joint operation between the FBI and the MVD in Moscow leads to the demise of the younger brother of Azerbaijani mafia kingpin Terek Murad. Intending to retaliate, Murad hires an ex-KGB asset, an international hitman operating under the c…
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Heist, Splatstick, comedy film, heist film
As a child in Lugash, Princess Dala receives a gift from her father, the Maharajah: the "Pink Panther", the largest diamond in the world. This huge pink gem has an unusual flaw: by looking deeply into the stone, one perceives a tiny discol…
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Thriller, Western, Western film, crime film, drama film
In 1884 Arizona Territory, Dan Evans is a poor rancher and Civil War veteran who owes money to Glen Hollander, a local banker in the town of Bisbee. Hollander's men burn down his barn and scatter his cattle as a warning to pay his debts. T…
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Crime, Drama, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
On the evening of February 3, 1971, NYPD Detective Frank Serpico is rushed to the hospital, having been shot in the face. Police Chief Sidney Green fears that Serpico was shot by another cop. Serpico's story is shown in a flashback.
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Action, Animation, Crime, Fantasy, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, children's film, comedy film
Frank DeTorre (Murray) is an unkempt zookeeper at the Sucat Memorial Zoo in Rhode Island who copes with his late wife's death by overeating and foregoing basic hygiene, much to the concern of his 10-year-old daughter Shane (Elena Franklin)…
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Social Drama, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
Now living in Amsterdam, 46-year-old Mark Renton suffers a heart attack in a gym. Though two decades sober from heroin, he is now undergoing divorce and facing imminent redundancy. He decides to take a nostalgic trip back to Edinburgh.
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
In an unnamed city, the mayor orders the Metropolitan Police to accept all willing applicants for training, regardless of suitability. Hundreds apply, including rich girl Karen Thompson, reformed criminal and human beatbox Larvell Jones, g…
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Action, Crime
Rugged loner, Bowdrie "Bo", lives a quiet life in the remote woods of Oklahoma with his quick-witted teenage daughter, Tag, who was raised off the grid following her mother's death when she was three. One morning while out fishing, Tag dis…
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Crime, Thriller, thriller film
Widowed single father and retired police officer Tom Cutler runs his own crime scene cleaning service. Eight years earlier, Tom's wife was murdered during a home invasion and robbery, which their young daughter Rose witnessed. Tom receives…
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Mysterie, crime film, drama film, romance film
In the 1970s New York City, David Marks, the son of a powerful real estate tycoon Sanford Marks, marries Katie McCarthy, a working-class student. Together they try to establish a new life in Vermont, setting up a health food store called A…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
In 1982, 10-year-old Gracie Hart breaks up a school fight between two boys, one of whom is a bully and the other, her crush. The boy she likes feels humiliated, as he was saved by a girl and he rudely rejects her, so she punches him and ca…
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Girls with Guns, Secret Agent, action film, girls with guns, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
Evelyn Salt is in prison in North Korea, suspected of being a U.S. spy. The CIA arranges a prisoner exchange to stifle the publicity her boyfriend, arachnologist Mike Krause, is bringing to her case.
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, rape and revenge film, vigilante film
Paul Kersey is a middle-aged architect who lives in Manhattan with his wife, Joanna. Their adult daughter, Carol, and her husband, Jack Toby, live nearby. One day, Joanna and Carol are followed home from the grocery store by three muggers …
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Buddy Cop, Crime, Komödie, Martial-Arts, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, martial arts film
Three years after the events of Rush Hour 2, Chinese Ambassador Solon Han, with Hong Kong Police Force Chief Inspector Lee as his bodyguard, addresses the importance of fighting the Triads at the World Criminal Court in Los Angeles, while …
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Dance Film, Musical, crime film, fantasy film, musical film, science fiction film, superhero film
Classical Western, Western film, revisionist Western
In Hadleyville, a small town in New Mexico Territory, Marshal Will Kane, newly married to Amy Fowler, prepares to retire. The happy couple will soon depart to raise a family and run a store in another town. However, word arrives that Frank…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, hood film, teen film
Teenage filmmaker Eric attempts to document the wannabe lifestyle of Allison Lang and her boyfriend Toby's gang of white upper-class teenagers living in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. Later that night, Toby's gang goes …
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Washington D.C. Detective and forensic psychologist Dr Alex Cross is devastated to learn that his niece, Naomi, a college student in Durham, North Carolina, has been missing for four days, and he travels to Durham to investigate. Upon arri…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
In Stillwater, Oklahoma, Bill Baker is a laid-off roughneck scraping by with odd construction jobs. Working disaster cleanup after a tornado in Shawnee, he struggles to find another oil rig position. Bill meets with Sharon, his late wife's…
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Mysterie, erotic film, erotic thriller, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, satanic film
In 1955 New York City, a man named Louis Cyphre contacts private investigator Harry Angel to track down crooner John Liebling, known professionally as Johnny Favorite. Favorite suffered neurological trauma resulting from injuries received …
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Christmas film, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Gangster Film, comedy film, crime film
Willie T. Soke and his dwarf assistant Marcus Skidmore are professional thieves. Every year, Willie gets a job as a department store Santa Claus and Marcus as an elf to rob shopping malls on the night of Christmas Eve, with Marcus' wife Lo…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, political thriller film, thriller film
Former Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan learns, in a routine investigation, that a mysterious man, who calls himself "Booth", is planning to assassinate the President of the United States (unnamed in the film). Booth soon makes a phone …
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