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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, detective film, thriller film
Inspector Harry Callahan's testimony incarcerates criminal kingpin Lou Janero. Now famous, Callahan becomes the target of Janero's men as well as the news media, both of which he dislikes. After Callahan kills four hitmen during an ambush,…
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Crime, Family Drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In April 1969, Lou Jean Poplin visits her incarcerated husband, Clovis Michael Poplin, to tell him that their son will soon be placed in the care of foster parents. Even though he is four months away from being released from prison, she co…
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Secret Agent, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, flashback film, girls with guns, martial arts film, mystery film, spy film
At an Upstate New York diner, Mallory Kane meets her associate Aaron. He demands she get in a car outside. She refuses and he pulls a gun, but she disarms and pistol whips him.
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Gangster Film, Musical, Thriller, crime film, drama film, musical film
A musician named Dixie Dwyer begins working with mobsters to advance his career but falls in love with Vera Cicero, the girlfriend of gangland kingpin Dutch Schultz. Sandman Williams, a dancer from Dixie's neighborhood, and his brother Cla…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Komödie, Romantic Comedy
The story revolves 3 roommates, journalist Tashi Lhatoo, photographer Nitin Berry and cartoonist Arup Rather, leading an unkempt and debt-ridden life in a shady apartment in Delhi. Tashi's ditzy fiancée, Sonia, is a flight attendant who ag…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In January 1971, private investigator John Shaft is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. He spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building and ambushes him. At gunpoint, he brings him to his office, where the seco…
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Crime, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
In 2015, TifAni "Ani" FaNelli, a respected New York women's magazine columnist, appears to have a picture-perfect life. As she prepares to marry her fiancé Luke Harrison, Ani meets with Aaron Wickersham, a documentary director who is makin…
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Secret Agent, Teen Comedy Film, action film, children's film, romantic comedy, spy film
Cody Banks, a 15-year-old high school sophomore, applies for a junior field ops position at the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division after completing a training summer camp. Answering to his handler Ronica Miles, Cody …
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Drama, Secret Agent, Thriller, crime film
Nate Foster is a young FBI Special Agent working to uncover highly classified terrorist plots. After some illegally imported caesium-137 is stolen, Nate is recruited by Angela Zamparo, a fellow FBI Special Agent, who suspects the involveme…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, teen film
The film begins with a girl running towards a motorway bridge. When the girl turns around, the film introduces the audience to Lilya Michailova, an adolescent girl who has recently been badly beaten. The film then reveals her past.
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1947, LAPD detectives Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Lee Blanchard are made partners after engaging in a boxing match to raise public support for the department. Lee introduces Bucky to his girlfriend Kay Lake, and the trio becomes insepa…
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Satire On Media, biographical film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, spy film, thriller film
Tired of being rejected by the beautiful women he lusts after, Chuck Barris moves to Manhattan to become an NBC page with dreams of becoming famous in television but is eventually fired. He moves back to Philadelphia and becomes Dick Clark…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, rape and revenge film, romance film
Joseph, a middle-aged widower living in northern England, kills his dog, Bluey, in a drunken rage following a dispute with a local bookmaker. He immediately regrets the act. He then goes to a local post office, where out of frustration, he…
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Crime, Thriller, drama film, police film, thriller film
David Robey, a wealthy trader and serial killer, blackmails and kidnaps cleaner Callum Aldrich. DCI John Luther is assigned to the case and promises Callum's mother, Corinne, he will find her son. Concerned about his involvement, Robey dig…
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Crime, Gangster Film, Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, neo-noir
Two bookies are separately ambushed and murdered. In a bus terminal, a young man is approached by Goodkat, who tells the story of Max: two decades earlier, Max borrowed money from the Mob to bet on a fixed horse race after eavesdropping on…
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Gangster Film, Mafia Film, action film, crime film, drama film, martial arts film, thriller film
Ghost Dog sees himself as a retainer of Louie, a local mobster, who saved Ghost Dog's life years earlier. While living as a hitman for the American Mafia, he adheres to the code of the samurai, and interprets and applies the wisdom of the …
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crime film, thriller film
Naina Jaiswal, a teacher at the Little Tots play school in Colaba, Mumbai, who had been on leave for three weeks, unexpectedly returns a week early. The school is located in front of the property owned by Rohit Mirchandani, Naina's fiancé,…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, vigilante film
Nick Hume is an insurance company vice president who believes in doing things by the book. He lives with his wife, Helen, and his two sons: the older, charismatic, hockey-playing Brendan and the younger, less charismatic, artistic Lucas. S…
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Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Julian and Billy are brothers and American expatriates, who run a Muay Thai boxing club in Bangkok as a front for their drug dealing operations. One night, Billy goes looking for sex and visits a brothel, saying he wants a 14-year-old girl…
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Action, Action Comedy, Secret Agent, action film, comedy film, crime film, spy film
Three years after the events of the previous film, ex-CIA operative Frank Moses tries to lead a normal life with girlfriend Sarah Ross. He dismisses Marvin Boggs' claims that enemies are still after them; Marvin drives off and his car expl…
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Musical, Social Drama, drama film, hood film, musical film
DJay, a pimp and drug dealer in Memphis, Tennessee, is dissatisfied with his life but feels powerless to change it. After reconnecting with his old friend Key, a sound technician, DJay is inspired to try his hand at hip hop music. Backed b…
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Drama, Thriller, body horror film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Identical twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle are gynecologists, who jointly operate a highly successful clinical practice in Toronto that specializes in treating fertility problems. Elliot, the more confident and cynical of the two, seduces w…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Super Hero, action film, crime thriller film
After being acquitted of mass murder on a legal technicality, Carmine Ricca, the boss of the Italian-American San Francisco Mafia, leaves the courthouse in his limousine. While traveling on a city road, the driver is pulled over by a San F…
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Komödie, action comedy film, comedy film, heist film
Paul Blart lives in West Orange, New Jersey with his young daughter Maya and his mother. Aspiring to join the New Jersey State Police, he trains at the police academy, but his hypoglycemia causes him to collapse before finishing the physic…
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