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Psychological Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film
In 1997, Rachel Singer is honoured by her daughter Sarah during a release party in Tel Aviv for Sarah's book, based on the account Rachel, Stefan, and David gave of the events in 1965. Concurrently, David is escorted from his apartment by …
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Biographical picture, Justice Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, satanic film
In 1993, in the working class and deeply religious community of West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore – go missing from their neighborhood. After an extensive search, their …
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Military Film, Psychodrama, War Film, action film, drama film, flashback film, mystery film, thriller film, war film
While serving in the Persian Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling fires on and destroys one of his own tanks during a confusing nighttime battle, killing his friend, Lieutenant Tom Boylar. The United States Army covers up the fri…
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Horror, biographical film, crime film, horror film, satanic film
In Iraq in 2010, a four-man Marine team is closing in on a firefight across an open desert area. One of the Marines takes a round to the head. The other three close in on the firefight.
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Political Drama, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Henry Burton, a young political idealist and grandson of a civil rights leader, is recruited to join the campaign of Jack Stanton, a charismatic Southern governor trying to win the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United St…
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Crime, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film, neo-noir
In 1999, Tommy "Buns" Bundy and Sincere ("Sin"), two young street criminals from Queens, New York, murder five people during a violent nightclub robbery along with two associates, Mark and Black. After celebrating with the gang, Sincere re…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, romance film
Barry is a private with the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army, stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, while Calpernia works as a showgirl at a transgender revue in Nashville, Tennessee. Barry's roommate Justin Fisher brings …
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Cartoon, Crime, Drama, adult animated film, blaxploitation film, comedy film, live-action/animated film
Sampson and the "Preacher" rush to help their friend, Randy, escape from prison, but are stopped by a roadblock and a shootout with the police begins. While waiting for them, Randy converses with an escapee named Pappy, who claims to know …
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Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, satanic film
In the Summer of 1948 in Los Angeles, Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins is laid off from his job at Champion Aircraft and needs money to pay his mortgage. Easy's bartender friend Joppy introduces him to DeWitt Albright, a white private investigator l…
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Crime, crime film
Gilbert Galvan Jr, a charming career criminal, escapes from a Michigan prison and crosses the border into Ontario, Canada where he assumes a new identity as Robert Whiteman. After falling in love with a woman he cannot provide for, he turn…
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Detective Film, Komödie, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Los Angeles Times undercover reporter Irwin M. "Fletch" Fletcher (who writes as "Jane Doe") is writing an article exposing drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles. While posing as an addict, he is approached by Boyd Aviation executi…
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Buddy Cop, Gangster Film, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film, thriller film
A week before LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh's retirement, he and Sergeant Martin Riggs are demoted to uniform duties after failing to defuse an office building bomb. While on street patrol they witness the theft of an armored car, and help …
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Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1986, on Orcas Island in Washington, Lou is a loner living with her dog Jax, who goes to the village to buy some supplies. The sheriff talks to her about a copper bracelet that could help her arthritis, as it helped him. A mother, Hanna…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Weeks after her assignment at the Miss United States beauty pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart's cover is blown when her newfound fame results in her being recognized while undercover trying to prevent a bank heist. With Gracie too recognizabl…
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Action, Drama, action film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
On leaving prison Jimmy Cullen known as "Driver" retrieves his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, a gun, and a list of names before heading to a telemarketing office in Bakersfield, California and killing a man named Prescott Ashton. He then visits …
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Action, Sitcom, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
In Los Angeles, Franklin Maurice Hatchett is a fast-talking, foul-mouthed, small-time car wash hustler and ticket scalper who owes money to a local mobster named Carmine. The police are informed of his crimes by investigating news reporter…
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Heist, Road Movie, black comedy film, crime film, drama film
In 1971 Portland, Oregon, 26-year-old Bob Hughes leads a nomadic group of drug addicts—his wife Dianne, his best friend Rick, and Rick's teenage girlfriend Nadine—who travel across the Pacific Northwest robbing pharmacies and hospitals to …
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Action, Thriller, action film, comedy film, romance film, spy film, thriller film
At the Saint Ignatius Orphanage, a rebellious boy named John Rossi refers to himself as "Simon Templar" and leads fellow orphans in an attempt to run away. He tries to bid farewell to a girl named Agnes with a kiss, but they are caught and…
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Crime, Film Noir, Melodrama, Romance Film, drama film, film noir, gambling film, romance film, thriller film
Johnny Farrell, an American newly arrived in Buenos Aires, Argentina, wins money from sailors at the city's docks by playing craps with weighted dice. He is rescued from a robbery attempt by a stranger, Ballin Mundson. Mundson tells Farrel…
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Action, Crime, Cyberpunk, Thriller, action film, cyberpunk, science fiction film, superhero film
Following the events of the first two films, the conglomerate Omni Consumer Products (OCP) have succeeded in their plan of acquiring the city of Detroit via bankruptcy but are now struggling. The Kanemitsu Corporation, which bought a contr…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Political Thriller, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Mark Whitacre, a rising star at the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) office in Decatur, Illinois, during the early 1990s, blows the whistle on the company's price-fixing tactics at the urging of his wife Ginger. One night in November 1992, Whi…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, crime film, thriller film, time-travel film
In 1988 in Philadelphia, several people are found dead whose brains hemorrhage out of their facial orifices. Police officer Thomas Lockhart and his partner, Maddox, investigate with Lockhart's brother-in-law, Detective Holt. They are conne…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, romance film
Drifter Harry Madox takes a job as a used car salesman in a small Texas town. In the summer heat, he develops an interest in Gloria Harper, a young demure woman who works at the car dealership in the loan office. He notices Gloria's legs, …
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Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film
In 1956, 12-year-old Alabama native Lewellen lives in poverty with her stern, religious grandmother, who has taken it upon herself to raise the girl, as Lewellen's father, Lou, cannot provide her stability. Lou struggles with alcoholism, t…
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