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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, drama film, heist film
Parker and Longbaugh are petty criminals from Illinois who travel to New Mexico hoping for the proverbial "big score." At a sperm donation clinic, the pair overhear a telephone conversation detailing a $1 million payment to a surrogate mot…
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Documentation, documentary film, drama film, prison film
On October 24, 2001, 50-year-old nurse Sandra Stotler was murdered in her house in a gated community outside of Conroe, Texas, and her body was dumped in a nearby lake. A few days later, Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, both 19 years old, …
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Crime Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
Playwright Sidney Bruhl debuts his latest in a series of flops and returns home. Dejected, he reveals to his wife, Myra, that he has received an excellent manuscript, Deathtrap, from an unlikely former student, Clifford Anderson, asking fo…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film
William Tell is a gambler who taught himself how to count cards during an eight-year stint in military prison. Seeking to avoid attention—either from fame or from casino bouncers—Tell's gambling philosophy is to bet small and win modestly.…
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crime film
In the 19th century, Dr. John Watson has been medically discharged from the Army and moves to London. Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes by a fellow student of Bart's, and becomes interested in his investigative principles.
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film
Chas is a member of an East London gang, led by gangster Harry Flowers; his specialty is intimidation through violence, as he collects pay-offs for Flowers. Chas is very good at his job, and has a reputation for liking it. His sexual liais…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film
Ron Decker, a twenty-one-year-old young man convicted for drug possession, is sent to prison where veteran con Earl Copen takes Decker under his wing and introduces him into his own gang. Copen first helps out Decker when three Puerto Rica…
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Detective Film, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, Splatstick, comedy film
Six years after meeting her during an investigation, FBI agent Malcolm Turner is now married to Sherry Pierce and is the stepfather of her son Trent, and assumes a desk job to be close to her as they await the arrival of their first child.…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, action film, crime film, science fiction film, thriller film
Fourteen-year-old Elijah "Eli" Solinski lives in Detroit with his stern adoptive father Harold "Hal", a widower. While scavenging an abandoned building for copper wiring to sell, Eli discovers the aftermath of a skirmish, with armored corp…
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Dark Comedy, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, horror film
Plumbing fixtures factory worker Jerry Hickfang struggles with schizophrenia and lives above a bowling alley. He experiences vivid hallucinations, often manifesting as his pets - his good-natured dog, Bosco, and his antisocial cat, Mr. Whi…
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Drama, Gangster Film, crime thriller film
A retired ageing mobster and boxer known as Thug works for gangster Charlie Conner alongside the latter's son Kyle who is an amateur at the trade, teaching him the tricks. Thug assists Kyle in dealings involving transfer of goods, the deta…
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LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film
Christine Stanford, an American advertising executive in Germany, is working with her protégé Isabelle James on an ad campaign for a new smartphone. Isabelle, secretly having an affair with Christine's boyfriend Dirk Harriman, comes up wit…
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Detective Film, Family Drama, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film, flashback film, neo-noir
English gangster and career criminal Wilson travels to Los Angeles to investigate the death of his daughter, Jenny, who was reported to have died in a car accident; however, Wilson suspects murder. Recently released from prison after nine …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Family Drama, Super Hero, action film, drama film, gangster film, thriller film
Jack Carter, a mob enforcer living in Las Vegas, returns home to Seattle after hearing that his brother, Ritchie, was killed in a drunk driving crash. His partner, Con McCarty, covers for him with his mob boss, Fletcher – whose girlfriend …
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, hood film, thriller film
Trevor Garfield is a high school science teacher in Brooklyn. Dennis Broadway, a gangster student to whom he had given a failing grade, threatens to murder him, writing the number 187 (the police code for homicide) on every page in a textb…
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Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir
left|thumb|Francisco Goya's Witches in the Air (1798), the painting stolen in the film. In reality, it is part of the collection of the Museo del Prado.During a heist on an auction house, thieves take a package which presumably contains a …
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, martial arts film
Gino Felino is a NYPD detective from Dyker Heights in Brooklyn, who has strong ties within his neighborhood. Gino's partner Bobby Lupo is murdered by Richie Madano, who shoots him multiple times in broad daylight in front of his wife and c…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, hood film, mystery film, neo-noir
In 1972, Russell Stevens Jr. witnesses his drug-addicted, alcoholic father getting shot and killed while robbing a liquor store. Traumatized by his father's death, Stevens swears that he will never end up like him.
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Drama, Military Film, Police Film, Political Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, war film
On November 1, 2004, Hank Deerfield, a gravel trucker and retired military police sergeant living in Monroe, Tennessee with his wife Joan, is notified that his son Mike, a soldier recently returned from Iraq, has gone missing. Hank drives …
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Action, Komödie, Trucker Film, action film, comedy film
Three years after the events of the first film, Big Enos Burdette is in a mudslinging campaign against John Conn for Governor of Texas. After failing to get the outgoing governor's endorsement, Big Enos overhears him on the phone ordering …
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Action, Auto Racing, Crime, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
Maindrian Pace is an insurance investigator who runs an automobile chop shop in Long Beach, California. He is also the leader of a professional car theft ring that steals and resells stolen cars, disguising them using vehicle identificatio…
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crime film, drama film
In 2018, Programmer Pan Sheng is lured overseas by a supposed high-paying job and is trafficked into a Canaan slave-camp-like fraud factory, where he is threatened by violence into committing online fraud on behalf of the controlling syndi…
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Dark Comedy, Parodie, Silly Movie, Splatstick, comedy film, crime film
Commandant Eric Lassard decides the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side by side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). Carey Ma…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
Souder, a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh, track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims' mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call 'The Killing Fields'. T…
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