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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1972 Northern Ireland, eight-year-old Frankie McGuire witnesses his father gunned down for portraying republican sympathies. Twenty years later in Belfast, Frankie and three fellow IRA members are ambushed by the British Army and Specia…
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Crime Comedy, action film, comedy film, mystery film
Nick Spitz is an NYPD officer married to Audrey, a hairdresser. She wants to visit Europe, as he had promised at their wedding, but thinks they never will. After their 15th-anniversary dinner, Audrey confronts Nick, who tells her he has in…
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Since faking his own death, Arthur Bishop has been living quietly in Rio de Janeiro under the name Santos. He is approached by a courier, Renee Tran, who has tracked him down, and explains that her employer wants Bishop to kill three targe…
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Film Noir, Historie, Romance Film, Thriller, War Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, political thriller film, romance film, spy film, thriller film, war film
In April 1946, Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German spy, is recruited by government agent T. R. Devlin to infiltrate a group of German émigrés who escaped to Brazil after World War II.
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Military Film, Satire On War, action film, comedy drama, heist film, treasure hunt film, war film
Following the end of the Gulf War, U.S. soldiers remaining in theatre are bored from the lack of action and throw parties at night. Major Archie Gates, a U.S.
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Action Comedy, Super Hero, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, fantasy film, science fiction film, superhero film
When James Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel, dies, his estranged son Britt takes over the newspaper and fires most of his father's personal staff. Britt later rehires Kato, a mechanic skilled in martial arts and coffee brewing, as his…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, comedy film, crime film
In London, mob boss Lenny Cole rules the ever-growing real estate business, using a corrupt councillor for bureaucratic fixing, and his right-hand man Archy for the dirty side of things. A billionaire Russian businessman, Uri Omovich, plan…
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Crime, Horror, drama film, film noir, horror film
Kenneth and Christine Penmark dote on their eight-year-old daughter, Rhoda, pristine and proper in her pinafore dress and blonde pigtails. Kenneth leaves on military duty. Neighbor and landlady Monica Breedlove is fond of Rhoda.
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Action, Political Thriller, action film, crime film, political thriller film, thriller film
FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard and his Lebanese-American partner Frank Haddad intervene at the hijacking of a bus fully loaded with passengers, which contains an explosive device. The bomb turns out to be a paint bomb and the terrorists…
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Justice Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
David Gale is a former professor on death row in Texas. With only a few days until his execution, his lawyer negotiates a half-million-dollar fee to tell his story to Bitsey Bloom, a journalist from a major news network. She has a reputati…
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Dance Film, crime film, drama film, musical film, romance film
Brothers Mac and Skinny Carter and their best friend Tyler Gage attend a party where they have a fight with their nemesis, PJ. He is involved in car thefts around the city, and Tyler, Mac, and Skinny have also gotten involved in the crimes…
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Thriller, crime thriller film
The film opens with three men burying a burning body in a secluded field. Bull, a mysterious and seemingly unstoppable man, returns to exact vengeance on the people who tried to kill him. In flashback, Bull is shown murdering an unidentifi…
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Hard Science Fiction, Space Opera, action film, adventure film, science fiction film
On Romulus, members of the Romulan Senate debate terms of peace and alliance with the Reman rebel leader Shinzon. The Remans are a slave race of the Romulan Empire from the neighboring planet Remus, used as miners and cannon fodder. While …
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, drama film, hood film
Ace is a young man living with his mom and sister in Harlem working at a dry cleaning shop. His sister Dora's boyfriend, Calvin, is a successful cocaine dealer while Ace's close friend Mitch is a flashy, popular drug dealer. Despite both o…
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Christmas film, Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film, thriller film
Around Christmas, Ronna, working overtime at her supermarket job to avoid being evicted, is approached by Adam and Zack to buy 20 ecstasy pills, which they had hoped to buy from her absent co-worker, Simon. After work, Ronna visits Simon's…
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Destiny, Family Drama, Forensic, Melodrama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In 1949 Santa Rosa, California, Ed Crane is a quiet barber working in his brother-in-law Frank’s barbershop. His wife Doris, a bookkeeper, struggles with a drinking problem, and their marriage is strained. One day, a customer named Creight…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Cyberpunk, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, neo-noir, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In the future, the Earth has become a deadly wasteland called the Cursed Earth. The few survivors live in overcrowded "Mega-Cities" plagued by rampant crime. To combat this, a new order of law enforcement has emerged: Judges, officers who …
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy film
Donovan Donaly, a TV soap opera producer, walks in on his wife Bonnie being intimate with an ex-boyfriend. He files for divorce, and she hires Miles Massey, a top divorce attorney and the inventor of the "Massey pre-nup", a completely fool…
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Drama, Horror, Thriller, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, ghost film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Millionaire Frederick Loren invites five people to a party he is throwing for his fourth wife, Annabelle, in an allegedly haunted house he has rented. He promises to give each guest $10,000 with the stipulation that they stay the entire ni…
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir, flashback film, mystery film
thumb|left|upright=.75|thumbtime=2:27|Film trailer New York City Police Department Detective Mark McPherson investigates the murder of successful advertising executive Laura Hunt, who was killed by a shotgun blast to the face just inside h…
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Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
In Brooklyn, Robert "Bob" Saginowski tends a neighborhood bar run by his cousin Marvin Stipler, which the Chechen mafia uses as a "drop" for illegal money. Marv ridicules Bob for commemorating the tenth anniversary of Richie "Glory Days" W…
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, Romance Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1941, gangster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, who had partnered in crime since childhood with Meyer Lansky and Charlie Luciano, goes to Los Angeles and instantly falls in love with Virginia Hill, a tough-talking Hollywood starlet. The two mee…
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Action, Adventure, Crime, Fantasy, Girls with Guns, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, fantasy film, ninja film, superhero film
After being killed, Elektra Natchios is revived by blind martial arts master Stick. He teaches her the ancient art of Kimagure, which provides its practitioners with precognition as well as the ability to resurrect the dead. Elektra is exp…
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Action, Drama, Martial-Arts, action film, drama film, martial arts film, romance film
Po Sing is the youngest son of Chinese Triad boss Ch'u Sing, who is accosted by African-Americans in a nightclub owned by Silk in Oakland, California. Po is rescued and admonished by Kai, Ch'u's chief lieutenant. Po leaves the club, but is…
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