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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, action film, crime comedy film
In Miami, FBI Agent Castillo takes down a crew of bank robbers. At the same time, former motocross racer Jon Baker enrolls in the California Highway Patrol Academy. Despite his low aptitude scores, Sgt.
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Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film, teen film
On the Upper East Side, White Mike, once a wealthy, carefree teenager, now struggles to scrape out a living as a marijuana dealer; he deals to his former classmates. His mother died a year earlier, her treatment consuming his family's weal…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, action film, thriller film
During an orchestrated drug bust at a marine loading dock, LAPD detective Stan Zedkov kills Triad lieutenant Peter Wei. Looking to exact revenge for his son's death, Peter's father, Terence, sends for professional assassin John Lee. Paying…
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Drama, Justice Drama, drama film, prison film
In 1969, Henry Brubaker arrives at Wakefield State Prison in Arkansas disguised as an inmate. He witnesses rampant abuse and corruption, including open and endemic sexual assault, torture, worm-ridden food, fraud, and rampant graft. During…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, gangster film
Archie Moses is a small-time thief in Los Angeles who smuggles drugs for drug lord Frank Colton, who launders his drug money through a car dealership. Moses is unaware that his best friend, Rock Keats, is actually LAPD undercover cop Jack …
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Komödie, comedy film, teen film
Bill Gluckman is a wealthy Jewish senator from Malibu, California who is running for the office of the governor of California. His son Brad is a wannabe "Eminem", preferring to go by the nickname "B-Rad" despite leading a rich, sheltered l…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, heist film, romantic comedy
Two friends and convicts, Joe and Terry, break out of Oregon State Penitentiary in a concrete mixing truck and start a bank robbing spree, hoping to fund a dream they share. They become known as the "Sleepover Bandits" because of their mod…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, heist film
Mrs. Wilberforce is a sweet and eccentric old widow who lives alone in a gradually subsiding house, built over the entrance to a railway tunnel in Kings Cross, London. With nothing to occupy her time and an active imagination, she is a fre…
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Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
The story, set in 1960s Nebraska, involves two very different brothers: small-town deputy sheriff Joe and criminal Frank Roberts. Before the events of the film, Joe had tried to farm for a living, but was unable to make ends meet, and the …
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Documentation, documentary film, true crime
Action, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film
Haunted by his past, ex-Irish Mob hitman Jimmy "The Gravedigger" Conlon has become an angry drunk. His son Michael 'Mike' Conlon, a chauffeur and retired professional boxer who mentors at-risk kids at the local gym, is disgusted by his fat…
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Crime, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, trial film
The elderly and wealthy Andrew Marsh dies from complications stemming from an erotic incident involving bondage and homemade pornography. The main suspect is his lover Rebecca Carlson who proclaims her innocence to lawyer Frank Dulaney. In…
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Romantic Drama, War Film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, romance film, war film
In 1805, most of Europe is torn apart by Napoleon Bonaparte's drive to conquer more and more territory. In Moscow, many young men have joined the army, including Nicholas Rostov, the son of Count Ilya Rostov and his wife Nataly, and the br…
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Family Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, horror film, slasher film
In a suburban Utah house, Grady Edwards shaves off his beard, dyes his hair, and removes his brown contact lenses. As he leaves, it is revealed that he has murdered his wife and three children. When the police investigate, it is said that …
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Blaxploitation, action film, blaxploitation film, girls with guns, vigilante film
Foxy Brown is happy to see her lover return from hiding, having thought him dead (which resulted in him having to go under the new identity of Michael Anderson). Her government-agent boyfriend is soon shot down at her doorstep by members o…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film follows former-dolphin-trainer-turned-activist Ric O'Barry's quest to document the dolphin hunting operations in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan. In the 1960s, O'Barry helped capture and train the five wild dolphins who shared the role of …
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Crime, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|George O'Brien and Margaret Livingston in a publicity still for the film. A vacationing woman from the city lingers in a lakeside town for weeks. After dark, she goes to a farmhouse where the Man and the Wife live with their chi…
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Action Comedy, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Ray Hughes and Danny Costanzo are two police officers working on Chicago's North Side, known for their wisecracking demeanors and unorthodox police methods, which get results in their various cases. One such case involves trying to bust up…
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crime film
40 years after the events of the previous film, Jennifer Hills wrote a best-selling memoir based on her rape and has become a successful rape counselor. Her daughter, Christy Hills, is a successful supermodel, having been one since the age…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, neo-noir, science fiction film
On June 21, 2028, a riot breaks out in Los Angeles over the city's water privatization. Taking advantage of the chaos, professional criminal Sherman attempts a bank robbery that leaves half his team dead with his brother Lev and another ac…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy film
Henry Hackett is the metro editor of the tabloid newspaper The New York Sun who loves his job, but has grown weary of the long hours and low pay. He also worries that he could become like his editor-in-chief, Bernie White, who put his work…
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Satanism, Thriller, horror film, mystery film
One week after the events of the first film, archaeologist Carl Bugenhagen learns that Damien Thorn is still alive. In Acre, Israel, Bugenhagen asks his friend Michael Morgan to deliver a box to Damien's new guardian, explaining that Damie…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Tragic Comedy Film, coming-of-age film, crime film
Old Dolio Dyne, an emotionally stunted 26-year-old woman, is in a manipulative relationship with her con artist parents, Robert and Theresa Dyne, who treat her as an accomplice to their petty thefts and scams rather than as a daughter. The…
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Komödie, action film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film
Centering on the events in and around a pawn shop, Pawn Shop Chronicles tells three overlapping stories involving items found within said pawn shop. Part 1 Vernon pawns his shotgun for $20 then meets up with Raw Dog in a field. Raw Dog is …
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