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Drama, crime film, drama film
Jim Bennett is a Los Angeles literatures professor who uses gambling as a way of self-destruction. He ends up owing $260,000 to Lee, the proprietor of an exclusive, high-stakes underground gambling ring, and another $50,000 to Neville Bara…
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Following his discovery of the body of his wife Alison in a bathtub after her apparent suicide, Dr. David Callaway, a psychologist, decides to move with his 9-year-old daughter Emily to upstate New York. There, Emily makes an imaginary fri…
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Family Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film, rape and revenge film
After the events of the previous film, an unidentified feral woman is the last remaining member of a cannibalistic tribe that has roamed the Northeast coast for decades. Chris Cleek is a mentally deranged and misogynistic country lawyer, w…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
Buford Pusser, at his wife Pauline's behest, retires from the professional wrestling ring, and moves back to Tennessee to start a logging business with his father Carl Pusser. With a friend, Pusser visits a gambling and prostitution establ…
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Crime, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, teen film
High school junior Ben Manibag is an overachieving Asian American teenager living in an affluent suburb of Orange County, California. For the 2001–02 academic year, he sets goals to make his school's basketball team, date his cheerleader c…
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Action, Anti-War Film, Gangster Film, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, heist film, hood film, neo-noir
In 1968, Anthony Curtis, a soon-to-be high school graduate in The Bronx, chooses to enlist in the United States Marine Corps rather than go to college. He deploys to Vietnam, leaving behind his middle-class family, his girlfriend Juanita, …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Silly Movie, buddy film, comedy film, screwball comedy film
In 1982 Brooklyn, a boy named Charlie Carbone is about to become the stepson of crime boss Salvatore Maggio. The mobster's apprentice Frankie Lombardo tries to drown Charlie, but a boy named Louis Booker saves him, and they become best fri…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
In Beverly Hills, an organised criminal gang led by the ruthless Karla Fry carries out a precision robbery of a jewellery store, leaving behind an envelope marked "A" containing a cryptic code. Captain Andrew Bogomil investigates the robbe…
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Crime, Drama, drama film, trial film
Once-promising attorney Frank Galvin is an alcoholic ambulance chaser. As a favor, his former partner Mickey Morrissey sends him a medical malpractice case which is all but certain to be settled for a significant amount. Deborah Ann Kaye w…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, comedy drama, crime film, mystery film
Nine years after the events of the series finale, former teenage sleuth Veronica Mars has left Neptune, California, and moved to New York City, where she is in a relationship with Stosh "Piz" Piznarski and has a job offer from the prestigi…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film
Barrow Funds hedge fund manager James King is engaged to Alissa, his boss Martin Barrow's daughter. At their engagement party, FBI officers arrive and arrest James for fraud and embezzlement. His lawyer, Peter Penny, urges him to plead gui…
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Crime, Mysterie, detective film, political thriller film, spy film
A scientist called Radcliffe is kidnapped from a train and his security escort killed. Harry Palmer, a British Army sergeant with a record of insubordination and a criminal past, now working for a Ministry of Defence organisation, is summo…
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Dance Film, Drama, Musical, Romantic Drama, crime film, drama film, musical film, romance film, teen film
17-year-old Sara Johnson, a promising ballet dancer in suburban Chicago, hopes to be admitted to the Juilliard School and implores her mother to attend the audition. She fails the audition and soon learns that her mother was killed in a ca…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime film
Ernesto "Chili" Palmer, restless and disenchanted with filmmaking, enters the music industry after witnessing the Russian mob publicly kill his friend Tommy Athens, owner of a small independent record label. Chili offers to help Tommy's wi…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film
In Denver, a man named Sandy Patterson is tricked into buying phony identity theft protection from con artist Diana over the phone and he reveals all of his personal information. At work, after clashing with his boss Harold Cornish, Sandy …
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, prison film
In Los Angeles, Lieutenants Raymond Tango of the Westside and Gabriel Cash of the Eastside are considered the best detectives in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), where they are both assigned to the Narcotics Division and lauded fo…
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crime film, horror film
Ed Gein is a socially awkward farmer who lives alone on the outskirts of Plainfield, Wisconsin. Ed, despondent over the recent death of his overbearing mother, has begun digging up and "borrowing" the bodies of women who remind him of her …
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Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Lara Brennan is sentenced to life in prison for murder. Three years later, her young son Luke ceases to acknowledge her during prison visits, despite the efforts of her husband John. Following the failure of La…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller
The police suspect Henry Teague of the abduction and murder of a young teen but lack proof. They use the Mr. Big procedure to elicit a confession while continuing to search for evidence.
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Family Drama, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film
In the late spring of 1959, the peaceful, all-white neighborhood of Suburbicon is shaken by the arrival of the black Mayers family. Gardner Lodge, a seemingly mild-mannered family man, lives in Suburbicon with his paraplegic wife, Rose, an…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Justice Drama, Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, political thriller film
In the fictional Southern African country of Matobo, rebel leader Ajene Xola drives two men, Simon Broome and Philippe, to an abandoned stadium. They discuss how President Edmond Zuwanie's regime has ruthlessly exterminated most of the pop…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Marital Tragedy, crime film, dystopian film, erotic film, romantic drama film
English gangster Albert Spica has taken over the high-class Le Hollandais restaurant managed by French chef Richard Boarst. Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant with his retinue of thugs. His oafish behaviour causes frequent c…
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Komödie, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, heist film
Roy Waller is a con artist from Los Angeles with severe Tourette syndrome and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Alongside his partner and protégé Frank Mercer, Roy runs short cons, selling overpriced water filtration systems to unsuspec…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
A nameless British ghostwriter is hired by London-based publishing firm Rhinehart, Inc. to complete the autobiography of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang after the original ghost, Lang's aide Mike McAra, dies in an apparent drowning…
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