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Buddy Cop, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, martial arts film, thriller film
Lorna Cole is pregnant with LAPD Sergeant Martin Riggs's baby; they are not married, but both are thinking about it. LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh's daughter Rianne is also pregnant but will not reveal who the father is. The officers and Le…
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Drama, Thriller, psychological thriller
Richard returns to his home town of Matlock, Derbyshire, after serving in the British Army. Richard vows to take revenge on a group of drug dealers who horrifically abused his younger, mentally impaired brother Anthony. Richard antagonizes…
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Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, drama film, film noir
thumb|200px|left|From the trailer for the film Monte Beragon, the second husband of Mildred Pierce, is murdered. The police tell Mildred her first husband, Bert Pierce, is guilty of the murder, because he owned the gun, had a motive, and d…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, thriller film
In South-Central Los Angeles, a local gang, Street Thunder, steals a cache of assault rifles and pistols. At 3:00 am on a Saturday in Anderson, a crime-infested ghetto, a team of heavily armed LAPD officers ambush and kill six members of t…
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Action, Ninja Film, action film, drama film, ninja film, thriller film
The Ozunu Clan, led by the ruthless Lord Ozunu, trains orphans from around the world to become the ultimate ninja assassins to offer assassin services to rich clients. The clan charges 100 pounds worth of gold for their services and always…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, comedy film, detective film, heist film
In 2000, Dick Harper gets promoted to Vice President of Communications for the major media corporation Globodyne. He convinces his wife Jane to quit her job as a travel agent to spend more time with their son Billy, as Dick's salary would …
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
In Cape Town, South Africa, junior CIA officer Matt Weston is serving as a "housekeeper", an operative in charge of securing and maintaining a local CIA safe house in case of an operation. He calls his mentor and immediate superior David B…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, gangster film
A man, Colin, delivers a large sum of cash to an unknown recipient in Belfast, by suitcase, in the process helping himself to some of the cash. Colin then goes to a bar with his driver Phil, where he picks up a young man. As the recipients…
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Dark Comedy, biographical film, black comedy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
In small-town Carthage, Texas, local assistant mortician Bernie Tiede is a beloved member of the community, known for his charismatic demeanor, extreme charity, and heavy community involvement. Hired as a mortician at the Leggett Funeral H…
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crime film, drama film, thriller film
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist, co-owner of the magazine Millennium, loses a high-profile libel case against billionaire Hans-Erik Wennerström, resulting in a looming prison sentence. Meanwhile, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but troubled hack…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film
Annabelle Fritton unwillingly transfers to St Trinian's from the distinguished Cheltenham Ladies' College at the request of her father, Carnaby Fritton. She is taken around the school by Kelly Jones, the head girl, who introduces her to th…
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Dance Film, Komödie, comedy film, crime film, musical film
During the prohibition era, a mobster named Roxy Robinson is "splurged" by members of a rival gang, using rapid-fire cream-shooting "splurge guns". Once splurged, a gangster is "all washed up... finished".
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Action, Gangster Film, LGBTQ-related film, action film, crime film, crime thriller film
Las Vegas magician and wannabe gangster Buddy "Aces" Israel is in hiding at a Lake Tahoe hotel while his agent negotiates a potential immunity deal with FBI Deputy Director Stanley Locke. Special Agents Richard Messner and Donald Carruther…
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Erotic Thriller, comedy drama, drama film, erotic film, sex comedy
Former FBI secretary Erin Grant loses custody of her seven-year-old daughter Angela to her ex-husband Darrell. She had lost her job due to his arrest record as a drug addict and dealer. To obtain the $15,000 needed to afford an appeal to r…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crime film, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2022, a young Charlie Roan is forced to watch as her family is killed on Purge night. Eighteen years later, Roan is a U.S. Senator running for president and promising to end the Purge nights.
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Erotic Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, satirical film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, struggling actor Jake Scully has recently lost his role as a vampire in a low-budget horror film after his claustrophobia thwarts shooting. Upon returning home to discover his girlfriend Carol cheating on him, Scully splits…
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In New York City, four men wearing similar disguises and carrying concealed weapons board the same downtown 6 train, "Pelham 1-2-3," at different stations. Using their code names Mr. Blue, Mr.
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Crime, Mysterie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, crime film, crime thriller film, mystery film, romantic comedy film, thriller film
thumb|right|upright=1.2|thumbtime=2:04|Trailer for To Catch a Thief Police suspect retired jewel thief John "The Cat" Robie may be responsible for a string of burglaries on the French Riviera. When they arrive at his hilltop villa to quest…
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Crime, Mysterie, Psychodrama, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
thumb|Vanessa Redgrave and David Hemmings 1966 After spending the night at a doss house, where he has taken pictures for a book of art photographs, photographer Thomas is late for a photo shoot with model Veruschka at his studio, which in …
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Crime, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1949, Los Angeles, crime boss Mickey Cohen has become the most powerful figure in the underworld in California and intends to expand his criminal enterprise to encompass the entire West Coast. The LAPD has not been able to stop his ruth…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, disaster film, docudrama, drama film
At dawn on September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda members Ziad Jarrah, Saeed al-Ghamdi, Ahmed al-Nami, and Ahmed al-Haznawi pray in a Newark, New Jersey hotel before boarding United Airlines Flight 93, bound for San Francisco. Among the passengers a…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime film, heist film, thriller film
Robert "Bobby" Trench and Michael "Stig" Stigman are two criminals working together. Unbeknownst to each other, Bobby is an undercover DEA Special Agent and Stig is an undercover US Navy SEAL and Petty Officer 1st Class with the United Sta…
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American football film, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Brandon Lang is a former college football star based in Las Vegas who, after sustaining a career-ending knee injury, takes a job handicapping football games to support his mother and younger brother. His success at selecting winners catche…
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Mafia Film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Irish-American Terry Noonan returns to Hell's Kitchen in New York City after a long absence, where his unpredictable childhood friend Jackie Flannery is involved in an Irish crime organization run by older brother Frank. Terry rekindles an…
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