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Biographical picture, LGBTQ-related film, biographical film, drama film
In late 1959, Truman Capote is a celebrated author who is enormously popular in New York City society for both his writing achievements as well as for his wit and fashion flair. Openly gay and flamboyant, Capote spends much of his time wit…
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Action, Drama, Police Film, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, hood film, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1983, rookie LAPD officer and law student Nick Styles meets Alice and drifts away from childhood friend Odessa, who has become a drug dealer in South Central Los Angeles. Styles and his partner Larry Doyle patrol a carnival, where they …
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, horror film, thriller film
Mysterious Leland Gaunt, claiming to be from Akron, Ohio, arrives in Castle Rock, Maine in a sinister-looking black car. He opens an antique store called "Needful Things". The store sells items of great personal worth to the residents.
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Action, Crime Comedy, action film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, heist film
In an Italian neighborhood of Greenwich Village, cousins Charlie Moran, a maître d'hôtel with aspirations of someday owning his own restaurant, and Paulie Gibonni, a bungling schemer who works as a waiter, have expensive tastes but not muc…
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film
Sgt. Paul Cutler is an ex-military Los Angeles Police Department S.W.A.T. officer and considered to be one of the best, even holding a record of having no civilian casualties for ten years straight.
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Drama, Western film, crime film, thriller film
Ollie Hale is on probation after being caught illegally crossing the border between North Dakota and Canada. She is determined to reinvent her life and with eight days left on probation she has applied to find work in Spokane. Numerous opp…
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Dark Comedy, Mafia Film, Romance Film, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Trying to go straight, ex-gangster Jimmy "The Saint" Tosnia runs Afterlife Advice in Denver, where dying people videotape messages for their loved ones. His business isn't doing well and his former boss, a crime lord known as "The Man With…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Secret Agent, crime film, drama film, spy film
In 2008, CIA agent Peter Devereaux supervises a young operative, David Mason, during a protective mission in Montenegro. Mason disobeys Devereaux's orders not to fire. He shoots and kills an assassin but also kills a child.
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Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Upon his parole from the California Youth Authority in 1982, Hoover Street Deuces gang member Bobby Johnson meets with girlfriend Carole, son Jimmie, and fellow "Deuces" Ray Ray, Loco, and Bear. The gang attends a party thrown by a heroin …
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Crime, Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy film, crime comedy film
Thanks to falsified dental records supplied by his former neighbor Nicholas "Oz" Ozeransky, retired hitman Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski spends his days compulsively cleaning his house and perfecting his culinary skills with his wife, Jill, a …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, crime film, drama film
Set at a U.S. Army post in the South in the late 1940s, the film tells of six central characters: Major Weldon Penderton and his wife, Leonora; Lieutenant Colonel Morris Langdon and his wife Alison; the Langdons' flamboyant houseboy Anacle…
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Biographical picture, Thriller, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, war film
In 2003 in southern Sudan, the LRA attacks a village and forces a young boy to kill his mother. A few years earlier, Sam Childers, an alcoholic drug-using biker from Pennsylvania, is released from prison and finds that his wife, Lynn, has …
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Film Noir, Thriller, drama film, film noir, mystery film
thumb|Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart in Dark Passage Convicted wife-killer Vincent Parry escapes from San Quentin Prison in a metal laundry barrel and evades police by hitching a ride with a passing motorist. Already suspicious of Parry…
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crime film, detective film, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
A young boy steals the organs of slaughtered animals from a local butcher and preserves them in jars underneath his bed. Upon discovering this, his father beats him. After he grows up, he plots & kills his father with a rope used to hang c…
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Daffy Comedy, comedy film, crime film
Near the completion of his sentence in Sing Sing, Paul Vitti's life is threatened by assassins and corrupt guards while incarcerated. He starts singing showtunes from West Side Story to get the attention of Ben Sobel, who previously hung u…
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Yakuza Film, action film, crime film, drama film
In 1954, nine years after the Pacific War, ex-United States Marine Corps Captain Nick Lowell is the only non-Japanese inmate in an Osaka prison. Most of his fellow inmates are yakuza criminals, recognizable by their irezumi tattoos. Nick s…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film
Hollywood A-list actress Honey Whitlock publicly presents herself as a sweet and considerate woman, but is actually a profane, unreasonable, and demanding diva. While in Baltimore to attend a premiere for her latest film, Honey is kidnappe…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Parodie, Silly Movie, Sitcom, comedy film, crime film
In an unnamed city, serious crime is increasing, particularly in the 16th precinct, which is beset by erratic criminal Zed McGlunk and his violent gang, the Scullions. With the citizens turning against the ineffective, outnumbered, and agi…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, neo-noir
Three criminals, Ray, Pluto and Fantasia (Ray's girlfriend), commit six brutal murders over the course of one night in Los Angeles as they seek a cache of money and cocaine. The trio leave for Houston to sell the cocaine to a friend of Plu…
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Gangster Film, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film
George, a low-level working-class gangster recently released after seven years in prison, is given a job in London by his former boss, Denny Mortwell, as the driver and bodyguard for a high-priced prostitute named Simone. Mortwell also wan…
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Heist, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
A man named Joe Walker checks into the Roosevelt Hotel, enters his hotel room on the 21st floor, and climbs on the ledge, apparently ready to commit suicide. The crowd below calls the police. Dante Marcus controls the crowd, while Jack Dou…
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Crime
In 2006, newly promoted Detective Superintendent Steve Wilkins decided to reopen two unsolved 1980s murder cases linked with a string of burglaries. New advances in technology for forensic DNA analysis, witness reports and artists impressi…
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Crime
Jasmeet "Jass" Bhamra, a British-Indian detective, is grieving the death of her son, who was killed by a drug-addicted shooter. She takes a transfer to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, where she is assigned the case of a missing Indian boy…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Youngblood Priest, an African-American cocaine dealer, enjoys a luxurious lifestyle in Harlem. He yearns to go straight, despite the fortune he makes. One day, Priest confronts Fat Freddie, one of his dealers, about money that Freddie owes…
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