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Anti-War Film, Crime, Historie, Melodrama, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, drama film, film noir, flashback film, romance film, war film
In December 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine owns a nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca, then in French Morocco. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele, including Vichy French and German officials, refugees desperate…
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Gangster Film, Political Drama, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, thriller film
In a nursing home, elderly Irish American World War II veteran Frank Sheeran narrates his time as a hitman for the Italian-American Mafia. In 1950s Philadelphia, Sheeran works as a union delivery truck driver, where he starts selling some …
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Dark Comedy, Drama, black comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In the fictional town of Ebbing, Missouri, Mildred Hayes is grieving over the rape and murder of her teen daughter, Angela. Angry over the lack of progress in the investigation, she rents three disused billboards near her home and posts on…
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Drama, Historie, action film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, mystery film, period drama film
In the 1846 slum of the Five Points, two rival gangs, the Anglo-Protestant Confederation of American Natives, led by William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting, and the immigrant Irish Catholic Dead Rabbits, led by "Priest" Vallon, engage in their…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia Film, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1980, ex-convict Cuban refugee Tony Montana arrives in Miami as part of the Mariel boatlift with his friend Manny Ribera and their companions, Angel and Chi-Chi. Miami drug lord Frank Lopez arranges green cards for them in exchange for …
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Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, action film, comedy film, crime film
Michael "Mickey" Pearson is an American born into poverty who won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where he began selling marijuana before dropping out and becoming a narcotics baron, building a criminal empire in blood and growi…
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Family Drama, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1979, Michael Corleone is approaching 60 years of age. Plagued with guilt over his ruthless rise to power, especially for having ordered his brother Fredo Corleone's murder, he donates millions to charitable causes. Michael and Kay Adam…
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Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, comedy film, detective film, lesbian-related film, neo-noir
In Bakersfield, California, private investigator Honey O'Donahue learns that Mia Novotny has been found dead in a wrecked car in Antelope Canyon. Mia had phoned Honey, afraid and unable to go to the police, and they were to meet the next d…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
In Nightmute, Alaska, teenager Kay Connell is found beaten to death, her body scrubbed of forensic evidence and dumped naked in a landfill. At the request of the local chief, LAPD detectives Will Dormer and Hap Eckhart are sent to assist w…
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Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime thriller film, docudrama, drama film, mystery film, police procedural film
On July 4, 1969, an unknown man attacks Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau with a handgun at a lovers' lane in Vallejo, California. Only Mike survives and later disappears from the public eye. One month later, the San Francisco Chronicle recei…
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Crime, Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In 1965 Tulsa, Oklahoma, Darry Curtis is left to raise his younger brothers, Sodapop and Ponyboy, after the deaths of their parents in a car crash eight months earlier. Youth subculture in the city is centered around two gangs — the afflue…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Crime, Crime Comedy, Satire, comedy film, comedy of error, crime film, film noir
In 1991, slacker and bowler Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, is attacked in his Los Angeles home by two enforcers for porn kingpin Jackie Treehorn, to whom a different Jeffrey Lebowski's wife owes money. One enforcer urinates on the Dude's rug…
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Crime Comedy, Drama, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, romance film, tragicomedy
In a cemetery in the former nation of Zubrowka, a young woman visits the shrine of a renowned writer, known simply as "Author", carrying a copy of his bestselling novel The Grand Budapest Hotel. The book, written in 1985, recounts the auth…
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Adventure, Komödie, Musical, Treasure Hunting, buddy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, musical film, road movie, thriller film, treasure hunt film
In the summer of 1937, three convicts – Pete, Delmar, and Everett – escape from a Mississippi chain gang to retrieve a buried treasure hidden by Everett before the area is flooded to make a lake. The three are assisted by a blind man drivi…
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Drama, Mafia Film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1973, sports handicapper Sam "Ace" Rothstein is sent by the Chicago Mafia to Las Vegas to run the Tangiers Casino, with Philip Green serving as its frontman and Ace's childhood friend Nicky Santoro assigned to protect both him and the c…
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Action, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime film, neo-noir
In New York City, John Wick, hiding underground with the Bowery King, recovers after being shot off the roof of the Continental Hotel by Winston. Seeking to exact vengeance against the High Table, he travels to Morocco and kills the Elder,…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, science fiction film, space opera, speculative fiction film, superhero film
At their new headquarters on Knowhere, the Guardians of the Galaxy are attacked by Adam Warlock, a Sovereign warrior created by High Priestess Ayesha who seeks to destroy them for stealing from her. After critically wounding Rocket, Adam i…
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film
Professional thieves Parker and Philly lead a heist at a racetrack count room, but an employee kills one of the thieves and wounds Philly, driving away with the stolen money and his family. Parker pursues him onto the racetrack and shoots …
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Famed novelist Paul Sheldon writes Victorian romance novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain. Though the books are profitable, Paul despises the series and wishes to focus on writing more serious literature. He has just left the…
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Musical, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, musical film, psychological thriller, thriller film
In an animated short titled "Me and My Shadow", the Joker is impersonated by his shadow, who acts violently and takes his place to perform a musical number for a TV show, then merges back together with the Joker before three police officer…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, vigilante film
In 2003, former Force Recon Marine and CIA SAD/SOG officer John Creasy travels to Mexico to visit his old friend Paul Rayburn, who convinces him to take a bodyguard position with Samuel Ramos, a wealthy Mexico City automaker. He needs prot…
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LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
In 1958 New York City, shipbuilding magnate Herbert Greenleaf, believing Tom Ripley attended Princeton with his son, Dickie, pays Tom $1,000 to travel to Italy and persuade him to return to the United States. Taking an ocean liner first-cl…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, mystery film
Léon is an Italian-American hitman (or "cleaner", as he refers to himself) working for a mafioso named "Old Tony" in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City. One day, Léon meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely twelve-year-old who lives wit…
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LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, rape and revenge film
Alex and Marcus, a young couple, wake up together and discuss their relationship, as well as an upcoming party, while in the nude. Marcus voices concern about Alex's ex, Pierre, also being invited because he "stole his girl", to which Alex…
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