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LGBTQ-related film, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, detective film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, thriller film
Amidst a hot summer in New York City, the dismembered body parts of men begin appearing in the Hudson River. Police suspect a serial killer is targeting gay men at West Village bars such as the Eagle's Nest, the Ramrod and the Cock Pit, lu…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1999, Seth Davis runs a successful casino from his apartment, catering to college students. His father, federal judge Marty Davis, views him as a disappointment for his illegal activities and dropping out of Queens College. Cousin Adam …
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Thriller, action film, crime film, psychological thriller
When the body of a young woman is found on a lumber truck in Minnesota, Detective Walter Marshall suspects that the victim leapt to her death to escape from a captor. A breakthrough is inadvertently made in the case when former judge Micha…
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Psychological Thriller, Slasher Horror, Splatter Film, crime film, slasher film, splatter film
Police informant Michael Marks awakens in a room with a spike-filled mask locked around his neck. Billy the Puppet on a screen says that the key to open the death mask has been surgically inserted behind his eye. He cannot bring himself to…
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Action Comedy, Silly Movie, action film, comedy film, crime film
Assassins named the "Allentown Brothers" enter a Mexican cartel's drug-processing facility and kill everyone, including the boss, King Diaz. They try to take Diaz's kitten, Iglesias, but the kitten escapes. Recently dumped Rell Williams fi…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Aging Reno, Nevada, police detective Jerry Black attends a retirement party hosted by his department during which Captain Pollack presents tickets to Jerry for a fishing trip in Mexico as a gift. The celebration is interrupted by the disco…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1930, toddler Daisy Armstrong, daughter of British Army Colonel Hamish Armstrong and his American wife Sonia, is kidnapped and murdered. In December 1935, Hercule Poirot travels from Istanbul to London on the Orient Express. His old fri…
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Satire On War, War Film, action film, heist film, war film
In 1944 France, during World War II, United States Army Private Kelly—a former lieutenant scapegoated for a failed infantry assault—captures Colonel Dankhopf of Wehrmacht Intelligence. Kelly realizes that Dankhopf is carrying several gold …
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, mystery film, thriller film
In Chicago, Harry Rawlings and his criminal gang's getaway van is blown up during a police standoff after stealing $2 million from crime boss Jamal Manning. Jamal threatens Veronica, Harry's widow, demanding compensation, needing the money…
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Social Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1994, in Long Beach, California, Erin Gruwell has been hired to teach Freshman English for at-risk students at Woodrow Wilson High School, a formerly prestigious school that has declined since voluntary integration had been enforced and…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Jeff and Amy Taylor are driving from Boston to San Diego in a new Jeep Grand Cherokee. In the Arizona desert, they nearly collide with a battered pickup. At a gas station, the pickup's driver, Earl, angrily confronts Jeff before departing.
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Crime, Komödie, comedy drama, crime film, romantic comedy
Nicholas "Oz" Oseransky, a likeable Chicago-born dentist from Montreal, is despised by his wife Sophie and mother-in-law. His assistant Jill jokingly asks him to name a price to have Sophie disappear. Oz meets a new neighbor and realizes h…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Detective Film, Historie, Horror, Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, thriller film
In 1888, Mary Kelly and a small group of London prostitutes trudge through unrelenting daily misery. Their friend Ann Crook is a former prostitute now married to a wealthy painter named Albert, and she has recently given birth to a daughte…
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Family Drama, Mafia Film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
After his mother overdoses, 18-year-old Joshua "J" Cody asks his estranged grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody, for help, and she invites him to move in with her. Smurf is the affectionate matriarch of a Melbourne crime family that uses her h…
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1944, eight-year-old Hannibal Lecter lives in Lecter Castle in Lithuania. The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union turns the Baltic region into part of the bloodiest front line of World War II. Lecter, his younger sister Mischa, and their …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Marty is an alcoholic writer in Los Angeles stuck on his new screenplay, Seven Psychopaths—he has the title, but not the title characters. His best friend Billy is a struggling actor who makes a living kidnapping dogs and collecting reward…
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Justice Drama, Late Western, Western film
In the Old West, outside LaHood, California, in Carbon Canyon, mining baron Coy LaHood is waging a war of intimidation against independent prospectors and their families — including Hull Barret, who is courting Sarah Wheeler. Sarah's teena…
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Detective Film, Monumental Film, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir
Down-on-his-luck private eye Philip Marlowe leaves his Los Angeles apartment to buy cat food. After he returns, his close friend Terry Lennox arrives and asks Marlowe for a ride to Tijuana, Mexico. Marlowe notices scratches on Terry's face…
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Justice Drama, Political Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film, war film
In County Cork in Ireland, in 1920, Damien O'Donovan is about to leave his native village to practice medicine in a London hospital. Meanwhile, his brother Teddy commands the local flying column of the Irish Republican Army. After a hurlin…
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Action, Crime, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film
The small town of Garrison, New Jersey, is home to a cadre of corrupt police officers from the NYPD's 37th Precinct, including Lieutenant Ray Donlan, Detective Leo Crasky, and officers Gary Figgis, Jack Rucker, Frank Lagonda and Joey Rando…
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Action, Christmas film, action film, girls with guns, thriller film
Samantha Caine is a schoolteacher in small-town Honesdale, Pennsylvania, living with her boyfriend Hal and her daughter Caitlin. Eight years earlier, she was found on a New Jersey beach, pregnant with Caitlin, and totally amnesiac. Having …
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Destiny, Thriller, buddy film, drama film, neo-noir
New York City law student and gifted poker player Mike McDermott dreams of winning the World Series of Poker. At an underground Texas hold 'em game run by Russian mobster Teddy "KGB", an overconfident Mike loses his entire $30,000 bankroll…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Romance Film, action film, crime film, heist film, prison film, romantic comedy film
The movie intercuts between flashbacks and the present day. This plot summary follows the true chronology. Career bank robber Jack Foley is incarcerated at Lompoc Penitentiary in California along with his friend and accomplice Buddy, after…
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Destiny, Forensic, crime film, drama film, trial film
On April 18, 1987, 24-year-old waitress Sarah Tobias is gang-raped by three men at a local bar while several patrons watch and cheer. District Attorney Katheryn Murphy is assigned to the case. Although there is strong physical evidence cor…
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