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Biographical picture, Criminal Comedy Film, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, heist film
In 1969, FBI agent Carl Hanratty arrives in Marseille, France, to pick up prisoner Frank Abagnale Jr., who has fallen ill due to the prison's poor conditions. In a flashback, Frank is living in New Rochelle, New York, with his father, Fran…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia Film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1955, teenager Henry Hill becomes enamored by the criminal life and Mafia presence in East New York, a working class Italian American neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City. He begins working for local caporegime Paulie Cicero and his …
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Romance Film, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime film, spy film, thriller film
MI6 operative James Bond is promoted to 00 agent after assassinating traitorous MI6 section chief Dryden and his contact in Prague. In Uganda, Mr. White introduces Steven Obanno, a commander of the Lord's Resistance Army, to Le Chiffre, an…
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Adventure, Crime, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir, ninja film, superhero film
In Gotham City, young Bruce Wayne falls down a well and develops a fear of bats. One evening, Bruce visits the opera with his parents and is so unsettled by the performers masquerading as bats that he asks to leave. While returning home, a…
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Mysterie, Parodie, Teen Horror Film, comedy film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, teen film
In the small town of Woodsboro, California, high school student Casey Becker is home alone when she receives a phone call from an unknown person. Their conversation about horror films turns sadistic when the caller reveals that her boyfrie…
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Forensic, crime film, drama film, thriller film, trial film
At Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba, United States Marine Private William Santiago dies after being tied up and beaten in the middle of the night. Lance Corporal Harold Dawson and Private First Class Louden Downey face court-martial, accu…
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Drama, Justice Drama, black comedy, crime film, drama film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, vigilante film
Thirty-year-old medical school drop-out Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas lives with her parents and works in a coffee shop. At night, she visits bars pretending to be intoxicated, entrapping men to take her home before revealing her sobriety and …
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Anti-War Film, Drama, Military Film, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
On June 6, 1944, soldiers of the U.S. Army land at Omaha Beach during the Normandy invasion, suffering heavily from artillery and machine gun fire from the fortified German defenders. Initially dazed by the ferocity of the defense, 2nd Ran…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, drama film, flashback film, psychological thriller, thriller film
The unnamed Narrator works an office job as an automobile recall coordinator. He sees a doctor for his disordered sleep, complaining that he falls asleep unexpectedly and wakes up in unfamiliar places. The doctor suggests he attend a testi…
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Action, Anti-War Film, Crime, Political Drama, Social Drama, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, neo-noir, police procedural film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
In New York City, former Marine and Vietnam War veteran Travis Bickle takes a job as a night-shift taxi driver to cope with his chronic insomnia and loneliness, frequently visiting adult movie theaters on his breaks, and keeping a diary in…
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Crime, Thriller, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 2010, Ethiopian Jewish miners retrieve a rare black opal from the Welo mine in Ethiopia. In 2012, gambling addict Howard Ratner runs KMH, a jewelry store in New York City's Diamond District. He struggles to pay off his gambling debts, w…
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Crime, Destiny, Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological thriller film
In 1975, Irish-American neighborhood friends Jimmy Markum, Sean Devine, and Dave Boyle are playing street hockey in Charlestown, Boston. After the boys write their names in a patch of wet concrete on the sidewalk, two predators posing as p…
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Drama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, melodrama, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1973, 14-year-old Susie Salmon dreams of becoming a photographer. One day, Ray, a boy she has a crush on, asks her out. As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey, who coaxes her into an undergrou…
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Action, Destiny, Girls with Guns, Japanese Animation Film, Justice Drama, Martial-Arts, Psychological Thriller, Samurai Film, Yakuza Film, action film, action thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, girls with guns, martial arts film, neo-noir, samurai cinema, splatter film, thriller film, vigilante film, wuxia film
In 1999, the Bride, a former member of the Deadly Viper assassination squad, is rehearsing her marriage at a chapel in rural El Paso, Texas. The Deadly Vipers, led by Bill, attack the chapel, shooting everyone. As the Bride lies wounded, s…
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Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Philadelphia firefighter Cooper Abbott takes his teenage daughter, Riley, to pop star Lady Raven's concert as a reward for her good grades. Noticing the unusually high police presence around the concert venue, Cooper learns from a vendor n…
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Drama, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
In 2005, eccentric hedge fund manager Michael Burry discovers that the U.S. housing market is extremely unstable due to subprime loans. He draws this conclusion after recognizing similarities to the 1930s crisis and calculates that the mar…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, neo-noir, thriller film
David King is a New York City music mogul, considered to have the "best ears in the business", and the founder of Stackin' Hits Records. Having once sold his majority interest in the company, he intends to buy back majority ownership to av…
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Marital Tragedy, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, fantasy film, film noir, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, surrealist film, suspense film, thriller film
Saxophonist Fred Madison receives a cryptic message on his intercom in the Hollywood Hills: "Dick Laurent is dead." Moments later, he hears tires screeching and sirens racing past his house. The next morning, his wife Renee finds a VHS tap…
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Heist, crime film, heist film
Four highly talented magicians—J. Daniel Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves, and Jack Wilder—each receive a flash card leading them to an apartment in New York City. There, they discover holographic instructions from an unknown benefac…
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Crime, detective film, mystery film, thriller film
Enola Holmes and Tewkesbury have arrived in Malta for their wedding. The ceremony is being held there because Tewkesbury's late father, Lord Peter, served in Malta during the British occupation, and his mother believes it is the most meani…
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Political Drama, Political Satire, Social Drama, action film, arthouse science fiction film, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, dystopian film, exploitation film, mystery film, prison film, satirical film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
thumb|right|Human furniture from the Korova milk bar, where the "milk-plus" was served In a futuristic Britain, Alex DeLarge is leader of a gang of "droogs": Georgie, Dim, and Pete. They engage in an intoxicated evening of "ultra-violence"…
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Action, Christmas film, action film, action thriller, heist film
On Christmas Eve, New York City Police Department (NYPD) Detective John McClane arrives in Los Angeles, hoping to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly, at a party held by her employer, the Nakatomi Corporation. He is driven to Nakatomi…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Drama, action film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1987, Jerome "Jerry" Lundegaard is the executive sales manager of a Minneapolis car dealership owned by his father-in-law, Wade Gustafson. Desperate for money, he plans to have his wife, Jean, kidnapped. On the recommendation of dealers…
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Gangster Film, Mysterie, action film, crime drama film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, flashback film, gangster film, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
While lying badly wounded on a ship docked in San Pedro Bay, career criminal Dean Keaton is shot dead by a shadowy figure whom he calls "Keyser." The police recover 27 bodies and two survivors from the ship: Arkosh Kovash ("Ákos Kovács"), …
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