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Heist, Romance Film, Romantic Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romantic comedy, spy film, thriller film
Ray Koval, an MI6 agent, meets Claire Stenwick, a CIA officer, at a party in Dubai. Unaware of her identity, he attempts to seduce her, but she drugs him and steals his classified documents. Three years later, Ray confronts Claire in Rome,…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
On a cargo ship, two workers open a container with toxic waste and die from fumes. The captain, knowing the cargo, disposes of their bodies. Meanwhile, Frank Martin, returning from Miami to the French Riviera, unsuccessfully fishes with Ta…
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Crime, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Roy Courtnay is an aging British con artist who manipulates people into giving him access to their finances utilising a string of false identities. In 2009, Roy targets Betty McLeish, a recently widowed woman who has savings in excess of £…
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Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In 1948 Los Angeles, businessman Julius "Jake" Berman hires seasoned private investigator J. J. "Jake" Gittes to catch his wife, Kitty, committing adultery.
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, crime film, romantic comedy film
Chicago police officer Danny Muldoon is a lonely 38-year-old bachelor living with his overbearing mother, Rose. Since his father's death, Danny has carried the responsibility for his family, putting his brother Patrick through law school a…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Science teacher Abigail Brooks lives with her husband Craig and their son Ricky. One morning, after Abigail takes Ricky to the bus stop, intruders break into her house, kill her housekeeper Rosario, kidnap and confine her in an attic, and …
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Crime, Thriller, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
A series of murders has shaken the community of Limehouse in the docklands of Victorian London. Journalists dub the murderer the Golem, after the Jewish legend. When music-hall star Elizabeth Cree is accused of poisoning her husband, John,…
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Drama, Political Drama, War Film, historical film, romance film, war drama
In 1937, Japan invades China, beginning the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army overruns China's capital city, Nanjing, in December and carries out the Nanjing massacre. As the Japanese overrun the Chinese army, desperate …
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Buddy Cop, Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, action film, comedy film, drama film
Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an officer of the Garda Síochána (police) in the Connemara district in the west of Ireland. He is crass and confrontational, regularly indulging in drugs and alcohol even while on duty. He is also shown to be well r…
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
Harold Speck was a traveling salesman, making the rounds in a small town when he encountered an old man in a diner. The man approached him with a strange, uncomfortable question, before abruptly leaving. Shortly after his visit, Harold was…
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Thriller, biographical film, crime film, horror film
Growing up on a farm in rural Wisconsin, Ed Gein is abused by both his Christian fundamentalist mother, Augusta, and his alcoholic father, George. George dies of a heart attack in 1940, and four years later, Ed kills his older brother, Hen…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
thumb|upright=0.9|Michael Caine plays Milo Tindle, who seeks revenge on Andrew Wyke for a game of humiliation. Andrew Wyke, a successful crime fiction author, lives in a country manor house filled with elaborate games and automata. He invi…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Melodrama
Charlie Sharma and Sanjay "Guddu" Kumar Sharma are twins who were raised in Mumbai. Charlie lisps while Guddu stutters. Charlie likes to take shortcuts to fulfill his dream of becoming a bookmaker at the racecourse, where he works for thre…
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Forensic, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Steve Everett, an Oakland journalist recovering from alcoholism, is assigned to cover the execution of convicted murderer Frank Beechum following the death of Everett's colleague, Michelle Ziegler, who had originally been assigned to the s…
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Detective Film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In mid-1950s London, Sophia Leonides, granddaughter of the late Greek-born business tycoon Aristide Leonides, visits private investigator Charles Hayward. She asks Charles to investigate Aristide's death, suspecting that he has been murder…
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Action, Crime, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
A mob informant under FBI protection in a remote wood cabin is ambushed by a hit squad, who slaughter him and his bodyguards. One of the agents killed is Blair Shannon, the son of a senior FBI agent Harry Shannon, who vows to exact revenge…
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Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, crime film, mystery film, psychological drama, superhero film, thriller
While out on patrol one evening, Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) fails to stop a robbery in progress but, with the help of Batman, manages to apprehend one of the criminals involved. The perpetrator is Paris Franz, nephew of a powerful mob boss. …
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Political Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, mystery film, political thriller film, romance film
The story is set in 1952 in Saigon, Vietnam (French Indochina at that time), toward the end of the First Indochina War (1946–1954) in which French forces fought the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. On one level, The Quiet American is a love…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir, mystery film, vigilante film
thumb|The title screen Homicide detective Sergeant Dave Bannion, of the Kenport Police Department, is called on to investigate the suicide of a fellow officer, Tom Duncan. Duncan leaves behind a letter addressed to the district attorney. H…
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Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, romance film
thumb|200px|left|Lana Turner in the trailer for the film Drifter Frank Chambers hitches a ride with District Attorney Kyle Sackett. Kyle drops Frank off at "Twin Oaks", a rural diner/service station on a highway in the hills outside Los An…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, prison film, thriller film
Frank Leone, a mechanic in Hoboken, New Jersey, is a model prisoner nearing the end of his sentence in Norwood, a low-security prison. He occasionally spends time outside prison on furlough fixing cars, playing American football and seeing…
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Crime, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Adrian Monk's obsessive-compulsive habits, which subsided after solving the murder of his wife Trudy, are reignited by the COVID-19 pandemic. After losing a book deal about his career as a private detective—the money from which he had hope…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ruth Edscer (Kalki Koechlin), a British-Indian woman, arrives in Mumbai searching for her father, Arjun Patel, who had abandoned her family when she was a kid. Except for a letter that he had once sent, she has no official documents of his…
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Crime Comedy, Werewolf, werewolf film
Forest ranger Finn Wheeler is assigned to Beaverfield, a small town where the residents are divided over a pipeline proposed by natural gas businessman Sam Parker. Upon arriving, Finn seeks a room from Jeanine Sherman, owner of the motel/h…
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