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Action, Buddy Film, Christmas film, Crime Comedy, Silly Movie, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir
While fleeing from a burglary gone south, Harry Lockhart stumbles into an ongoing audition in New York City. As he pretends to be an actor in order to evade the police, he has an emotional breakdown over his remorse. Casting director Dabne…
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Crime, Heroic Bloodshed, Secret Agent
In a Hong Kong teahouse, Royal Hong Kong Police inspectors "Tequila" Yuen and Benny Mak surveil a group of gun smugglers while they are making a deal. When a rival gang ambushes the deal, a fierce shootout breaks out; the gangsters are def…
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Drama, Musical, crime film, drama film, musical film
At a workhouse in Dunstable, orphans are served their daily gruel. Some boys draw lots, with Oliver drawing the tangled one, forcing him to approach Mr. Bumble and Widow Corney to ask for more gruel.
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film
In 1916, Chicago steelworker Bill accidentally kills his factory foreman during an argument. He flees to the Texas Panhandle with his girlfriend Abby and his young sister Linda. As their train winds its way across the country, an older Lin…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Heist, Romantic Comedy, Secret Agent, comedy thriller, crime thriller film, mystery film, romantic comedy, treasure hunt film
While on holiday in the French Alps, Regina "Reggie" Lampert, an American expatriate working as a simultaneous interpreter, tells her friend Sylvie that she is divorcing her husband Charles. She also meets Peter Joshua, a charming American…
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Crime, Drama, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
In 2014, former New York City-based stripper Dorothy is invited for an interview with Elizabeth, a journalist working on a story involving Dorothy's former friend and mentor, Ramona Vega. Seven years prior, Dorothy, known by her stripper n…
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Social Drama, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, mystery film, romance film, social film, suspense film, thriller film
Rizwan Khan, an Indian Muslim with Asperger's syndrome, grows up in Mumbai with his mother, Razia, and his brother, Zakir. Due to his condition, Rizwan receives specialized tutoring from a reclusive local scholar, earning him extra affecti…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film, vigilante film
Joe is a traumatized hired gun who specializes in rescuing trafficked girls, using brutal methods against their captors. He cares for his elderly mother in his childhood home in New York City. Joe has flashbacks of the abuse he and his mot…
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Detective Film, Drama, Historie, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, horror film, medieval film, mystery film, thriller film
Franciscan friar William of Baskerville and his novice, Adso of Melk, arrive at an early 14th-century Benedictine abbey in Northern Italy. A mysterious death has occurred ahead of an important theological Church conference—a young illumina…
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Gangster Film, Psychodrama, Social Drama, art film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
PROLOGUE (which introduces us to the town and its residents) Set in the isolated Rocky Mountain town of Dogville, near an abandoned silver mine, the film opens with a narrator introducing its 15 residents. Through the perspective of Tom Ed…
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Splatter Film, Western film, action film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, splatter film, suspense film, thriller film
On May 18, 1978, Texas Sheriff John Quincey Wydell and a large posse of state troopers issue a search and destroy mission on the Firefly family, who are responsible for over 75 homicides and disappearances over the past several years. The …
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Adventure, Crime, Super Hero
Based upon the popular DC character, Barbara Gordon dons the guise of Batgirl to fight crime.
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Crime, Destiny, Thriller, biographical film, comedy drama, drama film, prison film, vigilante film
In 1978 Victoria, Mark "Chopper" Read is an inmate at Pentridge Prison. Keithy George, another inmate, points to a line in the yard and tells Mark not to cross the line as it marks the Painters and Dockers territory. The next day, Mark rus…
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Biographical picture, Western, Western film, action film, adventure film, biographical film
During the American Civil War, teenaged Wyatt Earp lives on his family's farm in Pella, Iowa, while his older brothers Virgil and James serve with the Union Army. Wyatt attempts to run away, intending to lie about his age and join his brot…
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Adventure, Cartoon, Crime, adventure film, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, fantasy film, musical film
In an abandoned riverboat in Devil's Bayou, Louisiana, a small orphan girl named Penny drops a message in a bottle, containing a plea for help, into the river. The Rescue Aid Society, an international mouse organization inside the United N…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, crime film, political thriller film, science fiction film, thriller film
Barry Kohler, a young amateur Nazi hunter, spies on a meeting of the fugitive Nazi organization Kameraden in Paraguay. At this meeting, infamous Auschwitz doctor Josef Mengele provides instructions for the assassinations of 94 civil servan…
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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, comedy film, heist film
World War II veterans Danny Ocean and Jimmy Foster recruit nine comrades from their unit in the 82nd Airborne Division to simultaneously rob five Las Vegas casinos: the Sahara, the Riviera, the Desert Inn, the Sands, and the Flamingo. The …
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Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, political thriller film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Thomas Babington "Babe" Levy is a history student and distance runner at Columbia University in New York City who seeks to rehabilitate the memory of his father, who committed suicide during McCarthyism. A fiery car accident kills Klaus Sz…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, crime film, drama film
Ben Campbell, a mathematics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is accepted into Harvard Medical School, but cannot afford the $300,000 tuition. He applies for the prestigious Robinson Scholarship, which would cover the ent…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
In 1991, Pittsburgh homicide detective Thomas Hardy turns in his partner and cousin, Jimmy Detillo, for using excessive force, which in turn causes him to become alienated by the majority of his fellow officers. Tom and his father, Vince, …
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Crime, Film Noir, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, melodrama, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=2:20|right|The original trailer for Strangers on a Train Amateur tennis star Guy Haines wants to divorce his promiscuous wife, Miriam, so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a US Senator. On a train, wealthy smooth-ta…
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Crime, Drama, Erotic Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, thriller film
In the lower echelons of Parisian society in the 1860's, Thérèse Raquin is a beautiful, sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, whom she was forced to marry by her domineering aunt, Mada…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Gangster Film, Sitcom, black comedy film, crime comedy film, heist film
London gangster George Thomason and his right-hand man, Ken Pile, an animal lover with a stutter, plan a jewel heist. They bring in two Americans: con artist Wanda Gershwitz and weapons expert Otto West, a mean-spirited Anglophobe. Wanda a…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1973, 16-year-old John Paul Getty III, grandson of the world's richest private citizen, oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, where he lives, by the 'Ndrangheta, a Mafia-like organized crime group based in Calabria. A ransom o…
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