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Dark Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime film
In 1960, delinquent high-school student Dawn Davenport is expelled from the Baltimore school system for bad behavior and is very ungrateful when her parents refuse to buy her the cha-cha heels she wanted for Christmas. In a fit of rage, sh…
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erotic film, mystery film
Anu Gaekwad, Sheila Bardez and Rina Kaif are three of India's most successful models. They are participating in a fashion show hosted by a renowned diamonds and jewellery brand. During the show, one of the other models trips Anu, causing h…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, drama film, flashback film, romance film
thumb|left|Gardner as Maria Vargas Down-on-his-luck, washed-up film director and screenwriter Harry Dawes is reduced to working for business tycoon Kirk Edwards, who has decided that he wants to produce a film. Looking for a glamorous lead…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, thriller film
In 1946, professional hitmen Al and Max arrive in Brentwood, New Jersey, to kill Pete Lund, a gas pump attendant known as "The Swede". After being confronted by the pair in a diner, Lund's coworker, Nick Adams, warns him. A despondent Lund…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film
Detroit Police Department's detective Orin Boyd is a cop in Detroit's 21st precinct, who saves the Vice President of the United States from a right-wing militant group trying to kill him. Because he disobeyed orders, however, Captain Frank…
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Crime Comedy, romantic comedy
Jimmy is a nineteen-year-old who lives in a run down block of units in the inner suburbs of Sydney. He earns money by working as a barker outside a strip club in Kings Cross with his friend Les, and by partaking in underground fights. Howe…
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Drama, Film Noir, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, melodrama, prison film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
thumb|right|upright|Newspaper ad in 1939 In 1920, two Irish-American youths, Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly, attempt to rob a railroad car carrying fountain pens. Jerry escapes from the police, while Rocky is caught and sentenced to ref…
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic thriller, film noir, neo-noir
Bridget Gregory works as a telemarketing manager in New York City. Her husband, Clay, a physician in debt to a loan shark, sells pharmaceutical cocaine to drug dealers for $700,000. At home, Clay slaps Bridget after she insults him.
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Crime, mystery film
In 1934, private detective Miranda Green leaves England for Egypt. She must investigate a murder perpetrated in a supposedly inviolable place: the British Embassy in Cairo, where a top secret document was stolen the same night.
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Erotic Film, Melodrama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, romance film
In 1934 Frank Chambers, a drifter, stops for a meal at a diner outside Depression-era Los Angeles and ends up working there. The diner is operated by a young, beautiful woman, Cora Smith, and her much older husband, Nick Papadakis, a hardw…
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Crime, Thriller
Aging career pickpocket Harry is forced into a desperate, high-stakes race against time through the streets of his city.
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Musical, Romantic Drama, comedy film, crime film, musical film
Gambler Nathan Detroit seeks to organize an unlicensed craps game, but the police, led by Lieutenant Brannigan, are "putting on the heat." Nathan's usual locations are turning him away due to Brannigan's intimidating pressure. The Biltmore…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, martial arts film
In Hong Kong in 1966, business partners Paul Wagner and Nigel Griffith open the Victoria Harbour Tunnel. Paul attends with his wife Katherine and their identical twin infant sons, Chad and Alex. After the celebration, the family is followe…
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Drama, Sport, coming-of-age film, drama film, hood film, sport film, teen film
Kyle-Lee Watson is a talented basketball player who is about to graduate from high school. While he waits to find out if he will receive a scholarship to Georgetown University, he finds himself in a difficult dilemma over a playground bask…
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Family Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film is based on the true story of Barbara Daly Baekeland (Moore), her husband Brooks Baekeland (Dillane), heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune, and their only child Antony (Redmayne), who was diagnosed with schizophrenia. The story b…
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Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, police film, thriller film
In November 1988 in Brooklyn, New York, Robert "Bobby" Grusinsky is the manager of the El Caribe nightclub in Brighton Beach, which is owned by his boss, fur importer Marat Buzhayev, whose nephew, drug lord Vadim Nezhinski, is a patron of …
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, crime film, romance film, science fiction film
Due to the 21-century ecological crisis on Earth, for twenty years humankind has been terraforming Mars as its new home by sending algae to its surface. When oxygen levels begin decreasing, Mars-1 is sent to investigate, under Mission Comm…
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Crime, Drama, drama film, mystery film
In 1944 during World War II, Vernon Waters, a master sergeant in a company of Black soldiers, is shot to death with a .45 caliber pistol outside Fort Neal, a segregated Army base in Louisiana. Captain Richard Davenport, a Black officer fro…
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Action, Thriller, crime thriller film
Five years after Dalton Russell's gang stole loot from the bank of Arthur Case, exposing him as a Nazi collaborator, a group of bank robbers led by Ariella Barash take over the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and take everyone in the buil…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama
A freeway police chase results in Madea being pulled over and arrested. Assistant district attorney Joshua Hardaway is set to prosecute prostitute and drug addict Candace "Candy" Washington-Collins. Josh, who already knows Candace, asks hi…
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Drama, Historie, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film
When a naïve young Dorian Gray arrives in Victorian London to inherit an estate left to him by his abusive grandfather, he is swept into a social whirlwind by the charismatic Lord Henry "Harry" Wotton, who introduces Gray to the hedonistic…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
American Jim Terrier is a former Special Forces soldier who has become a black-ops mercenary. He is part of a team deployed by a corporation in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006, under the cover of providing security to local projec…
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Action, Road Movie, action film, buddy film, contemporary Western film, crime film, outlaw biker film
In the near future, a man called Harley Davidson travels from Texas to Burbank, California to reconnect with his old friend Robert Lee "Marlboro Man" Edison at their old haunt; Rock & Roll Bar & Grille. Their mutual friend Jack Daniels hol…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Girls with Guns, Secret Agent, action film, girls with guns, martial arts film, thriller film
In Washington, D.C., Maggie Hayward is a drug addict convicted of murdering a police officer during a robbery shootout, and is about to be executed by lethal injection. Her death is faked and a government agent, "Bob", informs her that she…
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