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Dark Comedy, black comedy film, comedy thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
The quirky but down-to-earth residents of the small hamlet of Highwater, Vermont, encounter the freshly dead body of Harry Worp, which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town. The problem of who the deceased is, who was …
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Action, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
During Prohibition, a drifter calling himself John Smith drives into the desolate border town of Jericho, Texas. He stops to let a Mexican woman named Felina cross the street, causing several Irish mobsters to surround and vandalize his ca…
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Crime, action film, crime film
Youngblood Priest is a young cocaine kingpin from Atlanta, Georgia, working the streets since he was brought in by his mentor Scatter at age eleven. He lives with his two girlfriends, Georgia and Cynthia. Juju, a member of rival gang Snow …
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Detective Film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1950s New York City, Lionel Essrog works at a detective agency alongside Gilbert Coney, Danny Fantl, and Tony Vermonte. Their boss, Frank Minna, rescued them as children from an abusive orphanage. Nicknamed "Motherless Brooklyn" by Fran…
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Adventure, Drama, drama film
A young pregnant woman limps through a thunderstorm to Parish Workhouse, giving birth before dying. Her nurse, "Old Sally", covetously eyes her gold locket. The delivering doctor sighs, "The old story.
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Drama, Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, drama film
The film consists of three stories that take place on the same night in downtown Memphis. The three stories are linked together by the Arcade Hotel, a run-down flophouse presided over by a night clerk and a bellboy, where the principal cha…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, girls with guns, vigilante film
An emergency room nurse named Flower Child Coffin—usually referred to as "Coffy"—seeks revenge against the people responsible for her younger sister Lubelle's heroin addiction and the widespread violence in her city. Under the guise of a p…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, biographical film, crime film, trial film
Throughout the Second World War, aristocrats in the Kenya Colony's Happy Valley region often led hedonistic lifestyles of indulgence in alcohol, drugs, and extramarital relationships. On 24 January 1941, Josslyn Hay, the philandering Earl …
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Crime, Drama, art film, crime film, drama film
Cosmo Vittelli owns and operates a strip club, Crazy Horse West, on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. Though Cosmo spends a great deal of time and effort designing and choreographing the venue's artistic burlesque act, he fears his customer…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, crime film
College dropout Ross is a customer of Spider Mike, a methamphetamine dealer. Spider Mike and his girlfriend Cookie argue in their apartment while Ross strikes up a conversation with Nikki, a fellow addict, in the living room. Nikki takes R…
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Action, Justice Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film
A prison bus flips on the road when it's cut off by a car driven by Billy, who frees prisoner and partner-in-crime Sam Gillen. They escape in the car but Billy is fatally shot by a guard. Sam buys some food from a roadside store and camps …
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crime film, drama film
Crime, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, thriller film
Copenhagen police officers Christian Toft and Lars Hansen are sent to check out a reported domestic disturbance in an apartment. When they arrive, they find a man trying to leave the building with blood on his shoes. Toft assumes he's the …
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller
In 1997, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm testifies at the trial of suspected serial killer Jon Forster. Gramm's testimony and expert psychiatric opinion are crucial in Forster's conviction for the attempted killing of Janie Cates and …
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Al Roberts, an unemployed pianist, arrives at a roadside diner in Reno, Nevada after hitching a ride. He becomes upset at a customer for playing a song on the jukebox, as it reminds him of his time squandering his talent at a cheap nightcl…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Immigration enforcement agent Charlie Smith lives in California with his wife, Marcy, in a trailer. She persuades him to move to a duplex in El Paso, Texas, shared by her friend and border agent Cat. Marcy longs for a life of luxury and se…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
On a one-week Mediterranean pleasure cruise aboard the "Sheila," the yacht of movie producer Clinton Greene, the guests include: actress Alice Wood; her talent-manager husband Anthony Wood (né Blondin but he took her last name instead); ta…
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Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, war film
On a rainy London night in 1946, Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of Maurice's former mistress, Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs…
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Action, Justice Drama, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
The film opens in Los Angeles, 1992. LAPD Sergeant Eldon Perry, who is pacing in a motel room with a shotgun and pistol. Five days earlier, four people are killed and one wounded when two men, Darryl Orchard and Gary Sidwell, rob a conveni…
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Political Drama, Social Drama, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Seventeen-year-old Colombian girl Maria Álvarez works in sweatshop-like conditions at a flower plantation. Her income helps support her family, including an unemployed sister who is a single mother, but after unjust treatment from her boss…
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Dance Film, crime film, drama film, musical film, romance film, teen film
Moose and Camille go to NYC to attend NYU. He is majoring in electrical engineering after promising his father that he would not dance anymore. While touring the campus, Moose sees a pair of Limited Edition Gun Metal Nike Dunks worn by Luk…
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Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1944, John Christie murders an acquaintance called Muriel Eady. He lures her to his West London flat at 10 Rillington Place by promising to cure her bronchitis with a "special mixture", then incapacitates her with town gas, strangles he…
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
In Chicago's Uptown, Police Sergeant Eddie Cusack leads a sting operation to bust Colombian cocaine traffickers led by Luis Comacho. The plan is derailed when gunmen disguised as painters, led by mafioso "Crazy" Tony Luna, ambush the excha…
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Crime, Drama, crime film
Susan Smith is a drug addict who lives with her abusive boyfriend Cash and two young children in a run-down trailer in Pikeville, Kentucky. She meets an ambitious rookie agent assigned to an FBI field office who recruits Susan as his infor…
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