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Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film recounts the rise of four infamous gangsters: Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel and Frank Costello. The four begin as members of youth gangs on the streets of New York, fighting and hustling as they learn the rules of the …
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Buddy Cop, Parodie, Police Film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime film
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday's nephew and namesake, whose anachronistic views reflect those of his deceased uncle, is involuntarily assigned a cocky, streetwise new partner, Pep Streebek, as Friday's previous longtime partner in the Robbery-Ho…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
Jack Mosley is an alcoholic, burned-out NYPD detective. Despite a grueling late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Eddie Bunker, from local custody to the courthouse sixteen blocks away to testify on a p…
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Slasher Horror, crime film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
A drive-in theater in the city of Texarkana, Arkansas hosts the Halloween annual showing of The Town That Dreaded Sundown, the 1976 film based on the Phantom Killer responsible for several murders in Texarkana in 1946. After lovers Corey H…
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Action, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, comedy thriller, heist film
Foster brothers John and Charlie Robinson are decoy transit cops patrolling the New York City Subway. Chasing muggers into a subway tunnel, John and Charlie are furious when one of the teenage thieves is gunned down by officers guarding th…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
One night, in the late 1950s in the Southern United States, a truck loaded with prisoners swerves to avoid another truck and crashes through a fence. The rescuers clear up the debris and discover two prisoners have escaped, an African-Amer…
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Action, Sitcom, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Cynical NYPD Lieutenant John Moss pursues a serial killer known as the "Party Crasher" through a local nightclub, but fails to prevent the murder of a local drug dealer. During an interview with the press, Moss vents his frustration at the…
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Action, Sport, action film, drama film, martial arts film, prison film, thriller film
Years after his defeat by George "Iceman" Chambers, Yuri Boyka, now a prison janitor, hears about the Prison Spetz Competition (PSC), an inter-prison fighting tournament offering a chance at early release. Boyka trains privately to recover…
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Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Former L.A. SWAT officer Jeff Talley is a hostage negotiator in Los Angeles. One day, Talley negotiates with an abusive man who has taken his own wife and son hostage after learning his wife was cheating on him.
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film
John Henry Irons is a weapons designer who invents high-tech laser guns, protective armor, and sonic sound cannons for the United States military. One soldier, Nathaniel Burke, decides to show just what Irons' weapons can do and sets one o…
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Crime, Documentation, Event Documentary, documentary film
Cocaine Cowboys chronicles the development of the illegal drug trade in Miami during the 1970s and 1980s with interviews of both law enforcement and organized crime leaders, in addition to news footage from the era. The film reveals that i…
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Romantic Drama, comedy film, drama film, neo-noir, romance film
In Las Vegas, unlucky Bernie Lootz works at the Shangri-La casino as a "cooler" – a man with near-professional bad luck whose presence at a casino is designed to stop people from winning. A cocktail waitress, Natalie, takes no real notice …
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Eight people, all strangers to each other, are invited to a small isolated island off the coast of Devon, England, by a Mr and Mrs Owen. They settle in at a mansion tended by two newly hired servants, Thomas and Ethel Rogers (a married cou…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film, rape and revenge film, science fiction film, thriller film
Andrew Norris is the new music teacher at Lincoln High School, a troubled inner city school. As he arrives on his first day, he meets fellow teacher Terry Corrigan, who is carrying a gun. When Andrew asks about the firearm, Terry assures h…
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Erotic Thriller, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, thriller film
Sarah Morton, a middle-aged English mystery author based in London, who has written a successful series of detective novels, is experiencing writer's block that is impeding her next book. Her publisher, John Bosload, offers her his country…
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Action Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, action comedy film
In the Chicago offices of Promethium Pharmaceuticals, co-presidents Richard Rusk and Elaine Markinson receive a call from a company employee, Harold Soyinka, who claims he has been kidnapped in Mexico and that his abductors are demanding a…
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Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, neo-noir
At a diner in Quincy, Massachusetts, low-level gunrunner Eddie Coyle meets with Jackie Brown, a younger gunrunner, in order to obtain guns for a bank robbery crew led by Jimmy Scalise and Artie Van. The crew successfully robs the South Sho…
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crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Danila Bagrov (Sergei Bodrov Jr.), recently discharged after serving in the First Chechen War, returns to his hometown. His mother insists that he travel to Saint Petersburg to seek out his successful older brother Viktor (Viktor Sukhoruko…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, exploitation film
When a renegade Japanese gang known as the Katana takes control of the cocaine trade in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department transfers in Joe Marshall, a "samurai" policeman from the San Diego Police Department who has been "trai…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy drama, crime film
In Los Angeles, Bobby is an amateur boxer with ties to local mob boss Max. Between his lackluster boxing career and working as a mason on Max's construction projects, Bobby struggles to support his girlfriend Jessica, a stripper in Max’s e…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Bobby "Gator" McKlusky is incarcerated in an Arkansas state prison for running "white lightning." When he learns that his younger brother, Donny, was killed by Bogan County Sheriff J. C. Connors, he attempts to escape but is quickly re-cap…
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Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The film depicts events that occurred after Amanda Knox moved to Perugia, Italy, in September 2007, as a foreign exchange student attending language classes at the University for Foreigners. Knox shares a flat in a cottage with Meredith Ke…
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High School Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film, teen film
Abraham Lincoln High School's head B-Squad cheerleader Lisa Janusch, who recalls about how Diane Weston, the kindhearted popular head cheerleader of Abraham Lincoln High School's A-squad, became pregnant by the well-known football quarterb…
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Psychodrama
While being gutted alive by a fishmonger, a dying fish chooses to share a story that took place in Quebec during the autumn of 1999. A 25-year-old businesswoman named Bibiane Champagne, head of three clothing boutiques, has an abortion. Sh…
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