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Crime Comedy, Heist, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In the upcoming night of Boston's mayoral election, corrupt incumbent Joseph Miccelli is organizing a celebration at the Wharf, expecting a massive influx of cash bribes. Local mobsters Besegai and Dechico plan to steal the money before it…
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
When a man insults Richard Kuklinski's girlfriend during a game of pool, he follows the man to his car and murders him by slashing his throat. Kuklinski marries Deborah in 1964 and the couple have two daughters. Kuklinski presents himself …
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Drama, Film Noir, Heist, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, flashback film, gangster film, heist film, mystery film, thriller film, war drama, war film
Johnny Clay, a career criminal recently released from prison, plans a heist at a thoroughbred racetrack, with an estimated take of two million dollars (equivalent to twenty-four million in 2025). His associate Marvin Unger provides financi…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime comedy film, mystery film
In 1953 London, Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap celebrates its 100th performance, and sleazy American director Leo Köpernick has been hired by producer John Woolf to direct a film adaptation. After his drunken behaviour towards the fe…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, crime film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Ten-year-old Justin Whitter is abducted by an unknown force while riding his bike. Greg Harper is made the lead detective on the case, assisted by Detective Spitzky. A green pocket knife is found at the scene, connecting the crime to a ser…
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Cartoon, Fantasy, Komödie, action film, comedy film, crime film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film
In 1945 Las Vegas, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother and invites her to a ride on his motorcycle. The duo are involved in a traffic collision where Frank's mother is killed. Afterwards, Frank is inadvertently transpor…
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Crime, Social Drama, crime film, drama film
After dropping off his two young sons at Catholic school, an unnamed NYPD police lieutenant snorts cocaine before driving to the scene of a double homicide in Union Square. The lieutenant then tracks down a drug dealer and gives him a bag …
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Biographical picture, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film, flashback film
The film uses a nonlinear narrative, alternating between J. Edgar Hoover's role in establishing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and his later years trying to safeguard it against perceived threats. As a frame story, the aging Hoo…
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Action, Drama, Sport, action film, boxing film, drama film, teen film
Tommy Riley and his father John have just moved to start a new life. John has accumulated many gambling debts, but has found a new job that requires him to travel extensively, leaving Tommy alone at home. Tommy also has a hard time fitting…
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime drama film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
thumb|A still from Rope (1948) Two brilliant young aesthetes, Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan, strangle to death their former classmate from prep school, David Kentley, in their Manhattan penthouse apartment. They commit the crime as an in…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Brad Whitewood Sr. is a career criminal and leader of his family's gang of rural backwoods criminals. His son, Brad Whitewood Jr., a floundering, out-of-work teenager living in poverty with his mother Julie, grandmother, brother Tommy and …
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Crime, Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, heist film
In Arizona, Dignan "rescues" his friend Anthony from a voluntary psychiatric unit, where he has been staying for self-described exhaustion. Dignan has developed a 75-year plan that he shows to Anthony. The plan is to pull off several heist…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, prison film, romantic comedy
Steven Jay Russell is on his deathbed, recalling the events of his life that led him to this point. He spent his early adult years in Virginia Beach as a police officer. He plays the organ at church, has unenthusiastic sex with his wife, D…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Wall Street trader Steven Taylor is married to the much younger Emily. Meanwhile, a smitten Emily is having an affair with artist David Shaw, for whom she considers leaving Steven. One day, Steven arrives at David's art studio.
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Action Comedy, Crime Comedy, action comedy film, heist film
Russell Pierce, a veteran armored car driver nearing retirement, and Travis Stolly, a rookie who aspires to be a police officer, team up for the first time on duty. While on duty, criminal mastermind Zoe ambushes them with Banner and Migue…
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Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, heist film, police film
In 1954 Detroit, Michigan, gangster Curt Goynes, in need of cash to leave town, is recruited to threaten a family as part of a blackmail scheme, along with gangsters Ronald Russo and Charley. The recruiter, Doug Jones, sends them to the ho…
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Coming Of Age, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film, female buddy film, teen film
In 1995, four women who were once childhood friends reunite in their hometown of Shelby, Indiana. They include science-fiction author Samantha Albertson, Hollywood actress Tina "Teeny" Tercell, gynecologist Dr. Roberta Martin, and homemake…
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Action, Heist, action film, crime thriller film, heist film, prison film
Four years into his 10-year-sentence for armed robbery, Carter "Doc" McCoy is denied parole from a Texas prison. When his wife Carol visits him, he tells her to make a deal to free him with Jack Beynon, a parole board member and corrupt bu…
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Crime, Drama, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film
A car pulls up at night on a New York City street. Monty Brogan and his friend Kostya get out to look at an injured dog lying in the road. Monty intends to perform a mercy kill but changes his mind after looking the dog in the eye.
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LGBTQ-related film, Monster Film, Teen Horror Film, crime film, crime thriller film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, slasher film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
Five years after Freddy Krueger's apparent defeat, the Walsh family has moved into Nancy Thompson's former home. Their teenage son, Jesse, has a nightmare about Freddy. Jesse and his friend Lisa Webber discover Nancy's diary in his room, d…
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Horror, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
On January 26, 2007, Leena Klammer, a 30-year-old Estonian psychiatric patient with the appearance of a 10-year-old, escapes the Saarne by seducing and killing a guard, then hiding in the car of art therapist Anna. After killing Anna in he…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In 1989 Laborde, Texas, Ann Dane, startled by the sound of a door window breaking, wakes her husband, Richard. He accidentally shoots the intruder, identified as Freddy Russel, a wanted felon. Richard is shaken by the experience.
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Adventure, Komödie, comedy film, family film
In Chicago, Bennington Austin "Bink" Cotwell IV is a nine-month-old baby who lives in a mansion with his socialite parents, Laraine and Bennington Austin "Bing" Cotwell III. Just as Bink is about to appear in the social pages of the local …
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Romantic Drama, crime thriller film, neo-noir
After Pennsylvania chemical company executive Tom Gruneman disappears, the police find an obscene letter in his office addressed to a New York City call girl named Bree Daniels, who had received several such letters. After six months of fr…
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