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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, mystery film, neo-noir, superhero film
Following the First World War, Lamont Cranston sets himself up as a opium drug kingpin and warlord in Tibet. The Tulku, a mysterious holy man who exhibits psychic abilities, abducts Cranston and offers him a chance to become a force for go…
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Action, Komödie, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film
Veteran LAPD detective Nick Pulovski and his partner Powell attempt to bust a car theft ring loading a trailer with stolen luxury vehicles. In the ensuing shootout, Powell is killed. Pulovski pursues the fleeing truck, but the trailer is d…
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Social Drama, drama film, prison film
Butch, Davis and Angel are teenagers who have been sentenced to Enola Vale juvenile detention center in Montana. Correctional officer Sands does their initial intake, focusing on Butch, who has been imprisoned for attacking and blinding a …
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Action Comedy, Crime Comedy, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
After a successful sting-operation-turned-shootout, Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant Joe Bomowski tries to call his elderly mother, Tutti, at home in Newark, New Jersey. He is dating his superior, Lieutenant Gwen Harper, who accuses …
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Action, Erotic Thriller, Thriller, action film, thriller film
In 1984, Captain Ray Quick and Colonel Ned Trent, explosives experts working for the CIA, are on a mission to blow up a car transporting a South American cocaine dealer. However, when the car appears, a little girl is inside with the deale…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, crime film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
thumb|left|Carl Boehm as Mark Lewis In London, Mark Lewis picks up Dora, a prostitute, covertly filming her with a camera hidden under his coat. Shown from the point of view of the camera viewfinder, he follows her into her flat, murders h…
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Crime, Drama, Horror, horror film, rape and revenge film
Desperate for funds, surgical student Mary applies for work at a strip club. Billy Barker, the club's owner, is in need of a medical professional to patch up a man bleeding in his club's basement, the obvious victim of illegal dealings, an…
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Action, Drama, Historie, drama film
Mann is a mysterious World War I veteran who is scouting out land to buy. He comes to the town of Rosewood, a small and predominantly black town in Florida. Rosewood is home to the Carriers, an upwardly mobile black family, led by a matria…
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Crime, Mysterie, Thriller, Western, Western film, crime film, mystery film
Set in the late 1970s or possibly 1980, Leo Fast Elk, a tribal council member of a Native American reservation in South Dakota, is murdered. FBI Agent Ray Levoi is assigned on the case for his mixed Sioux heritage, which might assist in th…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Assassin Robert Rath plans to retire, haunted by the memory of murdering his mentor Nicolai several years ago. While Rath is on an assignment to dispatch tycoon Alan Branch at the memorial service of his brother Samuel, the strategy backfi…
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Martial-Arts, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, crime film, martial arts film
Nicolo "Nico" Toscani is an expert martial artist, who is recruited by the CIA during the Vietnam War. While serving in covert operations on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border, he became disgusted with agent Kurt Zagon, who tortured prisoners…
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Crime, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Former RAF squadron leader Richard Blaney is fired from his job as a barman in a pub near Covent Garden. He laments his loss with his friend Bob Rusk, who runs a fruit and vegetable stall in Covent Garden. Rusk consoles him and gives a tip…
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Sci-Fi, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, spy film
Spanish industrialist-turned-anarchist Xavier Heimdahl arranges for his associate Jan Strook—a hacker known as "the Dutchman"—to create a wormhole program that would allow the owner to bypass all computer codes protecting the world's nucle…
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Dark Comedy, Detective Film, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, crime film, mystery film, romantic comedy
Following the memorial service for investigative reporter Joe Strombel, his spirit finds himself on the barge of death with several others, including Jane Cook, a woman who believes she was poisoned by her employer, Peter Lyman. Jane think…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1927, young Southern belle Charlotte Hollis and her married lover John Mayhew plan to elope during a party at the Hollis family's antebellum mansion in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Charlotte's father, Sam, confronts John over the affair…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film
Before starting college, DJ spends the holidays with his mother Sandy and elderly stepfather Vincent at their vacation home in rural Maine. Vincent confides to DJ that his birth father, who died before DJ was born, had been cheating on his…
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Political Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
The film opens with a bank robbery hostage crisis in South Dakota. Undercover as one of the criminals, FBI agent Art Jeffries guards fourteen-year-old James while trying to convince the gang’s leader, Edgar Halstrom, to surrender. Despite …
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Frank Martin has relocated from southern France to Miami, Florida, where, as a favor to a friend, he becomes the temporary chauffeur for wealthy Audrey and Jefferson Billings. Frank bonds with their son Jack, picking him up from elementary…
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Biographical picture, Mafia Film, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film highlights John Gotti's association with three fellow mobsters: a father-son like relationship with Gambino underboss Aniello "Neil" Dellacroce, his deep but rocky friendship with Gotti crew member and longtime friend Angelo Ruggi…
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Road Movie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film
In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Brian Kessler is a graduate student and journalist whose article about serial killers has gotten him an offer for a book deal. He and his girlfriend Carrie Laughlin, an avant garde photographer, decide to reloc…
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Crime, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, horror film, slasher film
Nine years after the events of Seed of Chucky, A mysterious package arrives at the home of Sarah Pierce and her paraplegic daughter Nica. Inside, they find a "Good Guys" doll. Confused, Sarah throws the doll away.
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Coming Of Age, biographical film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film
The film switches back and forth between the present and flashbacks of Dito's memories in the summer of 1986. Present Day (2005): Dito is a successful writer in Los Angeles. One day, after being urged by his mother Flori and his friend Ner…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, exploitation film, propaganda film
Mae Coleman and Jack Perry are an unmarried couple who live together (in the jargon of the times, they live in sin) and sell marijuana. The unscrupulous Jack sells the drug to teenagers over Mae's objections; she would rather stick to an a…
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Gangster Film, Melodrama, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
As youngsters in 1900s Chicago, Irish-Americans Tom Powers and his lifelong friend Matt Doyle engage in petty theft, selling stolen items to "Putty Nose". Putty Nose persuades them to join his gang on a fur warehouse robbery, assuring them…
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