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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir
While traveling by train in New Mexico, novelist Richard Harland meets Ellen Berent, a beautiful socialite from Boston. She is particularly drawn to him, as he reminds her of her deceased father, to whom she had an obsessive attachment. El…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, action film, comedy film, mystery film
Sherlock Holmes is viewed as a legendary detective. Both he and his partner, Dr. John Watson, are to view the trial of Professor James Moriarty, but are attacked by a swarm of bees, temporarily waylaid by a package sent by Moriarty and bro…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, biographical film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, independent film, psychological horror fiction
Henry is a psychopathic drifter who indiscriminately murders scores of people – men, women, and children – as he travels throughout America. He migrates to Chicago, where he stops at a diner, eats dinner, and later murders several women an…
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Action, Crime, Dark Comedy, action film, black comedy film, crime film, thriller film
Chev Chelios lands in the middle of an intersection after falling out of a helicopter. He is scooped off the street by gangsters and removed from the scene. Three months later, Chev wakes up in a makeshift hospital and sees doctors removin…
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Thriller, thriller film
Grant is an accountant with a bad marriage and a daughter whom he loves. He takes to the road to service his accounts in Las Vegas. While there he meets seductive Marissa.
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Crime
Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film, thriller film
In 1981 New York City, oil company owner Abel Morales has had several delivery trucks hijacked. Driver Julian is severely beaten by two hijackers. Abel's wife Anna begs Abel to fight violence with violence, but he refuses.
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Thriller, crime film, mystery film
In 2002, shortly after 9/11, Ray Kasten, a counterterrorism agent for the FBI, and his friend Jessica "Jess" Cobb, an investigator for the Los Angeles district attorney's office, meet new ADA Claire Sloan. Jess and Ray receive a call about…
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Action, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
U.S. Army veteran Alicia West returns to her hometown of New Orleans, joining the police department. She is partnered with easygoing Kevin Jennings.
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Romantic Comedy, Thriller, action film, comedy thriller, romantic comedy
Martin Blank, a professional assassin based in Los Angeles, is preparing for a job when his assistant Marcella informs him that he has received an invitation to his ten-year high school reunion. Fellow assassin Grocer approaches Martin abo…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
In Northern California, as pre-teen Tim throws his sister's doll into a river, he sees a teenager, John, smoking on the other side, next to the naked corpse of his girlfriend Jamie. Shortly after, Tim is playing an arcade game at a conveni…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his home town of Kiewarra in Victoria to attend the funeral of his childhood friend Luke Hadler, who has allegedly killed his wife Karen and their son Billy before taking his own life. Only their infant …
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, Romance Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, melodrama, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
Dave Garver is a KRML radio disc jockey who broadcasts nightly from a studio in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, often incorporating poetry into his program. After work at his favorite bar, playing a nonsensical game involving corks and bott…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
A female hiker finds a dead woman on the North York Moors in England. The strangled victim is identified as Alice Ruber. Four months later, an insurance company asks detective Hercule Poirot to examine an expensive diamond belonging to mil…
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Action, Auto Racing, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Tobey Marshall is a former race car driver who owns his late father's garage, Marshall Performance Motors, in Mount Kisco, New York, where he and his friends tune performance cars. Struggling to make ends meet, he and his crew participate …
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Sci-Fi, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, teen film
Seven years after the death of Donnie Darko, his sister Samantha struggles with his death and has started sleepwalking. She joins her best friend Corey on a road trip to California. When their car breaks down in Conejo Springs, they get he…
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Action, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, vigilante film
Following a grueling day of work, Long Beach, California firefighter Jeremy Coleman and his coworkers contemplate ending the day with a case of 15-year-old Scotch whisky. Jeremy enters a convenience store to buy snacks, but is interrupted …
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crime film, drama film, splatter film
A man named Ichi spies from a balcony, masturbating as he watches a pimp assault a prostitute. When discovered, he flees. Soon after, the sadistic yakuza boss Anjo is murdered.
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Drama, Thriller, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Mick O'Brien is a 16-year-old Irish-American hoodlum from Chicago. Mick's crimes include snatching purses, shoplifting, vandalism, and fighting, but he aspires to bigger crimes. He subsequently attempts to rip off his Puerto Rican rival, P…
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Film Noir, Gangster Film, Police Film, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
thumb|upright=1.2|Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil thumb|upright=1.2|Orson Welles as Hank Quinlan Along the U.S.–Mexico border, a time bomb placed inside a vehicle explodes, killing two people. Mexican special prosecutor Mi…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, adventure film, crime film, drama film
In 1963 Texas, convicts Robert "Butch" Haynes and Terry Pugh escape from the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. Looking for food, Terry stumbles into a house where eight-year-old Phillip Perry lives with his devout Jehovah's Witness …
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Biographical picture, Crime, Musical, Social Drama, action film, biographical film, blaxploitation film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, thriller film
Marcus is a quiet boy who adores his mother Katrina, and the two live a relatively comfortable life on her drug-dealing income. After Marcus writes a song for his love interest Charlene, her stepfather sends her away to live with her grand…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Romantic Comedy, crime film, screwball comedy film
In 1931, gangster Angelo "Snaps" Provolone promises his dying father Eduardo that he will give up a life of crime and instead "go straight", complete with turning his trusted gang into his house assistants. A month later, Snaps awakens at …
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Erotic Thriller, Romance Film, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, romance film
Original Sin is set in late 19th century Cuba during the Spanish rule, and flashes back and forth from the scene of a woman awaiting her execution while telling her story to a priest to the actual events of that story. Luis Vargas, a Cuban…
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