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Thriller, crime film, romantic drama film, thriller film
Socialite Claire Gregory attends a party and art show sponsored by one of her oldest friends, Winn Hockings. Accompanying her is her straitlaced boyfriend, Neil Steinhart. In another part of town, there is another party, this one for newly…
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Destiny, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
San Francisco police officer and widowed father Frank Conner is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his leukemia-stricken son, Matt. In desperation, he breaks into FBI headquarters and finds a perfect match. Unfortun…
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Action, Crime, action film, crime film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, vigilante film
Roughly eight years after the events of the first film, Paul Kersey has recovered from his shattered life and moved on, now living in Los Angeles and working as a freelance architect. One of his clients is close friend Elliot Cass, who own…
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Dark Comedy, Secret Agent, crime film, film noir, mystery film
Juliet Forrest, daughter of scientist and cheesemaker John Forrest, asks private investigator Rigby Reardon to investigate her father's death. Searching Dr. Forrest's lab, Rigby finds two lists, "Friends of Carlotta" (FOC) and "Enemies of …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film, neo-noir, thriller film
The Driver steals cars for use as getaway vehicles in robberies around Los Angeles. He is known among criminals for his high skill and his high price, and is notorious among the police, particularly for The Detective who is obsessed with c…
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Buddy Cop, LGBTQ-related film, action film, crime film, thriller film
Three armed assailants attack a woman who turns out to be NYPD Detective Sergeant Deke DaSilva of the Street Crimes Unit in disguise. His partner, Detective Sergeant Matthew Fox, immobilizes two of the assailants; Deke chases the third ups…
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Fake Documentary, Horror, crime film, horror film, thriller film
On the night of June 2, 2011, the border town of Sangre de Cristo, Arizona was besieged by an undisclosed incident resulting in the grisly massacre of the town's population of 57 residents. The bodies of most residents are never found, and…
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Action, action film, crime thriller film
Arthur Bishop is an elite contract killer, known as a "mechanic", who specializes in making his assassinations appear to be accidents and natural causes. He works for a strict, secretive international criminal organization. While his occup…
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Thriller, biographical film, drama film
In 1987, Latif Yahia, an Iraqi soldier fighting in the Iran–Iraq War, is called to become a "fedai" ("body double" or political decoy) for Uday Hussein, the son of president Saddam. Latif comes from an upper-class family and attended schoo…
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Crime, Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In the mid-1950s, Richard Dadier is a new teacher at North Manual Trades High School, an inner-city school of diverse ethnic backgrounds. Led by student Gregory Miller, most engage in anti-social behavior. The school principal, Mr.
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Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Leo Handler visits his mother Val's house in Queens, New York, where she throws a surprise party celebrating his parole. There he meets up with Willie Gutierrez, his cousin Erica Soltz's boyfriend, who thanks him for serving time in prison…
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Action, Romantic Comedy, Thriller, romantic comedy
Three boysBrad, Frank Wheeler, and Kevintravel from the fictional bedroom suburb of Middleton to Pittsburgh, bringing money with hopes of seeing a naked woman. They find a prostitute named V who is willing to show her breasts. However, whe…
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Crime, Horror, Thriller, comedy horror, crime film, horror film
Middle-aged Ezra Cobb helps operate a farm in the rural Midwest with his elderly mother, Amanda, a religious fanatic who has indoctrinated him since childhood to abhor women. She tells him that there is one woman that he should contact upo…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Bart Bromley lives with his mom and has Asperger syndrome. He places hidden cameras in a room at the hotel where he works as a night desk clerk and uses the live feeds and recordings to overcome his social awkwardness by imitating the spee…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
LAPD detective Erin Bell arrives on the scene of a John Doe murder and suggests to the responding officers that she knows the identity of the murderer. At the police station, Erin receives an envelope with a $100 bill stained from a dye pa…
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Action, action film, crime film
In 1973, U.S. Air Force Major Charles Rane returns home to San Antonio with U.S. Army Master Sergeant Johnny Vohden and two other soldiers, having spent seven years as a prisoner-of-war in North Vietnam.
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Drama, Komödie, comedy film, crime film, drama film
The story follows two main characters: Judah Rosenthal, a successful and reputable ophthalmologist, and Clifford Stern, a small-time documentary filmmaker. Judah, an upper class respected family man, is having an affair with flight attenda…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, Police Film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
Veteran NYPD detectives Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges are suspended following a failed robbery intervention that results in a reckless shootout. While under suspension, Jimmy faces financial stress as he attempts to pay for his daughter Ava…
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Psychological Thriller, crime thriller film, mystery film, thriller film
Having solved a high-profile case involving serial killer Edmund Cutler that ended with her being taken hostage by Cutler but managing to overpower and arrest him, officer Jessica Shepard of the San Francisco Police Department is transferr…
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Crime, Drama, biographical film, drama film, thriller film
The film centers on Ted Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, a domestic terrorist who terrorized the United States for nearly 20 years. It alternates between two timelines: Kaczynski's time attending Harvard University and his prolonged…
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Detective Film, Drama, Political Thriller, biographical film, crime film, docudrama, documentary film, drama film, mystery fiction
A body is discovered on a collective farm during harvesting in 1982. A subsequent search of adjacent woods, authorized by the new forensic specialist, Viktor Burakov, turns up seven more bodies in varying stages of decomposition. The film …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action thriller
Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, thriller film
In 1952, Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of his small west Texas community; secretly, he is a sociopath with violent sexual tastes. Years before, Lou was caught raping a little girl by his adopted brother Mike, who pleaded guilty to th…
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Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, crime film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In near-future New Orleans, a mysterious distributor offers a free supply of "Power"—a pill that grants various superpowers for five minutes—to a group of drug dealers, including one named Newt. Newt's teenage cousin Robin is a dealer hers…
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