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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Alice Bowman moves to the (fictional) South American country of Tecala because her engineer husband, Peter Bowman, has been hired to help build a new dam for oil company Quad Carbon. While driving one morning through the city, Peter is cau…
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Animation, adventure film, animated film, comedy film, crime film, music-themed film
Beavis and Butt-Head discover that their television has been stolen and set out to find it. After several failed attempts to obtain one, they come across a motel that offers one in every room. They meet Muddy Grimes, who thinks they're hir…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Ben Garvey, a reformed criminal, loses his job because of his criminal background. His brother Ricky comes to visit after being released from jail and convinces him to commit a robbery of gold dust from a laboratory. The heist goes horribl…
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Buddy Cop, Crime, Slasher Horror, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film, zombie film
In New York City, a waitress on her way home is assaulted by two muggers and seeks aid from a police officer, who breaks her neck. Over the next two nights, this "Maniac Cop" commits more murders, prompting Lieutenant McCrae, who was told …
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Richie Furst used to have a lucrative career on Wall Street; this history prevents him from receiving tuition assistance at Princeton, so he funds his master's degree by referring students to online gambling, for which he receives a cut. A…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, horror film
Detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and his teenage daughter kidnapped by an insidious satanic cult. Hightower takes matters into his own hands and infiltrates the secretive cult with the help of the cult's only female victi…
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Action, Justice Drama, Psychodrama, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, girls with guns, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, rape and revenge film, suspense film, thriller film, vigilante film
While walking home from work, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City's Garment District, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a masked attacker. Returning to her apartment, she is raped a second time by a burglar. Thana strikes this seco…
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Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, drama film, film noir, romance film
thumb|left|Bogart as Dixon Steele Dixon "Dix" Steele is a down-on-his-luck Hollywood screenwriter who has not had a successful movie since before World War II. While driving to meet his agent, Mel Lippman, Dix's explosive temper is reveale…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1985 in rural Kinnakee, Kansas, 8-year-old Libby Day is the sole survivor after her mother and older sisters are murdered. Responding to the police's leading questions, she says that her teenage brother, Ben, committed the crime. In the…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
Moscow militsiya officer Arkady Renko is called to a clearing near the Gorky Park ice rink, where three mutilated bodies – two men and one woman – have been discovered. All were shot in the chest and their faces and finger tips removed; th…
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Action, action film, boxing film, drama film, martial arts film, prison film, thriller film
Heavyweight boxing champion George 'The Iceman' Chambers is convicted of rape and sentenced to six to eight years at Sweetwater, a new prison in the Mojave desert. The high-security facility is populated by hardened criminals. Unaware of t…
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Buddy Film, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, Road Movie, Silly Movie, action film, buddy film, comedy film
Advertising executive Nick Beam thinks his life is going very well, until he returns home from work and finds his wife Ann apparently having an affair with another man. He deduces that the man is his boss, Philip Barrow, after finding a pa…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, horror film
An attractive drug mule, Lisa, flies from Montreal to New York City, smuggling heroin inside a stuffed doll. Disembarking, she sees a threatening man staring at her; using a ruse, she gives the doll to a fellow passenger, professional phot…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, heist film
In the fictional country of Lugash, a mysterious thief seizes the Pink Panther diamond and leaves a white glove embroidered with a gold "P." With its national treasure once again missing, the Shah of Lugash requests the assistance of Inspe…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film
Luke Wright, an ex-cop and cage fighter, unintentionally wins a fixed fight. Emile Docheski, the head of the Russian mafia, tells his son Vassily and his men to kill Wright's pregnant wife as punishment, then kill anyone Luke interacts wit…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Wilee is a disenchanted Columbia Law School graduate who has put off taking the bar exam, dreading the humdrum life of the legal profession. He enjoys working as a New York City bicycle messenger, despite arguments with his ex-girlfriend a…
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Thriller, crime film, horror film, science fiction film
Dr. Susan Wheeler, a surgical resident at Boston Memorial Hospital, is devastated when her friend, Nancy Greenly, a young healthy woman, is left brain dead after undergoing a routine procedure there. Her suspicions are aroused when, soon a…
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Horror, Mysterie, fantasy film, horror film
Tom Witzky is a phone lineman living in a working-class neighborhood in Chicago with his pregnant wife Maggie and his son Jake, who possesses the ability to communicate with the dead, although neither Tom nor Maggie yet know about it. At a…
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Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Larry Lipton, an editor at HarperCollins, and his wife Carol have a pleasant encounter in the elevator with older neighbors, Paul and Lillian House. They are invited to an evening with the Houses where the women exchange information on exe…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film
Bridget Cardigan lives a comfortable upper middle-class life until her husband Don Cardigan is "downsized" from his position and sinks into debt. When her check bounces once again, Selina, the Cardigans' housekeeper, confronts Bridget and …
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Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In June 1959, Louis Simo, a sleazy Los Angeles private investigator, is spying on the wife of a man named Chester Sinclair to learn if she is having an affair. On a visit to his own ex-wife Laurie, Simo learns that his son is upset over th…
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Crime, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, mystery film
In a Brooklyn housing project, a group of clockers — street-level drug dealers — work for Rodney Little, a local drug lord. Rodney orders Ronald "Strike" Dunham, one of his lead clockers, to kill Darryl Adams, another dealer who has been s…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Psychological Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film
Luke McNamara is a student aspiring to become a lawyer. An orphaned "townie" who grew up on the "wrong side of the tracks", he did well enough in school to attend college on a scholarship where he is a champion rower. His best friends at c…
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Action, Crime, Komödie, Romantic Drama, action comedy film, buddy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
Book editor George Caldwell rides the Silver Streak train from Los Angeles to Chicago to go to his sister's wedding. During his travel he meets salesman Bob Sweet. Bob hits on a woman named Hilly Burns, who rebuffs him and has dinner with …
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