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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In Warsaw, Poland, Tadek is a married detective who takes on a case involving the murder of a businessman, Daniel Sadowsky. To his and everyone's surprise the case is identical to a character's murder in a recently published novel by a man…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Political Thriller, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Dr. Richard Walker is a surgeon visiting Paris with his wife Sondra for a medical conference. At their hotel, she is unable to unlock her suitcase, and Walker determines that she picked up the wrong one at the airport.
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film
One morning in 1991, alcoholic NYPD Detective Matt Scudder is drinking at his usual bar when three criminals kill the bartender in an attempted shakedown. Scudder pursues them and, in a chaotic gun battle, kills two and cripples the third.…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, horror film, slasher film
In Los Angeles, FBI Special Agent Joel Campbell is moments too late to save a young woman from a serial killer he has been investigating, who escapes. Campbell quits his job and moves to Chicago where he is plagued by guilt-induced migrain…
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Erotic Thriller, Heist, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, erotic thriller, suspense film, thriller film
Mercenary thief Laure Ash is part of a team executing a diamond heist at the Cannes Film Festival. The diamonds are located on a gold ensemble worn by model Veronica, who is accompanying real-life director Régis Wargnier to the premiere of…
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Splatstick, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
As LAPD policemen Hank Rafferty and Charlie Reed investigate a warehouse heist by a gang of thieves, Charlie is killed before the thieves escape. Meanwhile, Earl Montgomery's lifelong dream to become a police officer is thwarted when he fl…
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Action, Romance Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Carter "Doc" McCoy and his wife Carol are taking target practice with pistols when Rudy Travis arrives to propose they break Mexican drug lord Ramon's nephew Luis Mendoza out of jail for a $300,000 payment. The job is successful, but it tu…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film
A serial killer is targeting police officers in South East London. After two police constables are shot dead and Chief Inspector Bruce Roberts is bludgeoned to death, the hunt for the killer's identity begins. Sergeant Porter Nash is trans…
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Buddy Cop, Martial-Arts, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime film, martial arts film
Los Angeles cop Chris Kenner (Dolph Lundgren) is an American who was raised in Japan. He is given a new partner, Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee), an American of partial Japanese descent. Kenner does not appreciate American culture, while Johnn…
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Satire, Splatstick, action film, comedy film, spy film
Secret agent WD-40 Dick Steele embarks on a mission, along with the mysterious and lovely Veronique Ukrinsky, Agent 3.14, to rescue the kidnapped Barbara Dahl and stop the evil genius, General Rancor, from seizing control of the planet. Ra…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film explores the lives of the Kray twins from childhood to adulthood. The plot focuses on the relationship between the twins and their doting mother (Whitelaw). Ronald (Gary Kemp) is the dominant one, influencing his brother Reginald …
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Crime, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Holed up in a cheap hotel room in Philadelphia, local gangster Nicky Godolin phones his Jewish-American childhood friend, Mikey Mittner. At the hotel, Nicky tells Mikey that there is a contract for his life because he stole money from his …
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Crime, Drama, Erotic Film, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film, neo-noir
Under the pen name David Shane, reporter Rowena Price investigates a sex scandal involving Senator Sachs alongside her researcher Miles Haley. However, the story is shut down when their source becomes silent and her editor Arvis Narron, a …
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Detective Film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film, whodunit film
Emily Boynton, stepmother to the three Boynton children – Lennox, Raymond, and Carol – and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying her late husband's second will that would split his fortune between…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
One night, an intruder enters Michael and Karen Carr's upscale Los Angeles home. Karen is briefly taken hostage at knifepoint before the burglar escapes. Police arrive and one officer, Pete Davis, takes an extra interest in their case due …
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Biographical picture, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, neo-noir
Jeffrey Dahmer lures attractive young men home, where he conducts experiments on and kills them, trying to create a living zombie who will never leave or judge him. Flashbacks to Dahmer's past reveal that he killed his first victim, a hitc…
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Action, action film, thriller film
In a rough part of town, Smith, a carrot-eating drifter and ex-black-ops soldier, sees a pregnant woman fleeing a hitman. Smith kills the hitman by stabbing his head with a carrot and retrieves the woman's pistol. A few more thugs arrive, …
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Action, action film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film, vigilante film
In 1983, LAPD IA detective Mason Storm investigates a mob meeting held by a pier. He records a shadowy figure who assures the mob they can rely on his political support. Unaware that he is monitored by corrupt cops, he informs his partner,…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, Musical, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, musical film
Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin is a young and poor man living in rural Jamaica. After his grandmother dies, he leaves the countryside for the city of Kingston, where he is immediately conned out of all his possessions by a street vendor. Though his…
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Action, Adventure, Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, Western film, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
After saving a young boy from drowning and being awarded a "hero sash" at the age of ten, Ned Kelly grows up in the colony of Victoria where he was born. The son of a Catholic Irish settler, he lives with his widowed mother Ellen, his youn…
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Crime, LGBTQ-related film, action film, drama film, sexploitation film, thriller film
Fifteen-year-old honor student Molly Stewart attends a private preparatory school in the Los Angeles area in the daytime. At night, she transforms herself into "Angel", a leather mini-skirted, high-heeled street teenage prostitute who work…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In Hoyer, Minnesota, in 1990, Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of John Gray, who admits to sexually abusing his 17-year-old daughter Angela but has no recollection of the abuse. They seek the help of Professor Kenneth Raines to…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
After the war, three demobilized United States Navy aviators, Johnny Morrison, Buzz Wanchek, and George Copeland, members of the same flight crew, arrive in Hollywood, California. Buzz has shell shock and a metal plate in his head above hi…
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Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In New Orleans, Chris Farraday, a reformed smuggler, enjoys a quiet family life with his wife, Kate, and their two children. Their tranquility is shattered when they discover Kate's brother, Andy, has become entangled in drug smuggling. To…
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