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Drama, crime film, drama film
On 19 May 1983, at approximately 10:48 p.m, Diane Downs drives to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital in Springfield, Oregon with a gunshot wound to her arm. She claims that an unknown assailant attempted to carjack her and shot her three childre…
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Social Drama, crime film, drama film
In London, a boy named Timmy starts secondary school in Peckham, Southwark, despite living in Deptford, Lewisham. His mother wants him to go to this school because of its good curriculum and so Timmy cannot be with his old friend Kiron, a …
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Truman Gates, a former US Army Airborne Ranger raised in Appalachia, migrates to Chicago to become a detective for the Chicago Police Department. Married to Jessie, who is pregnant, he has made the transition from hillbilly to lawman. When…
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Thriller, crime film, thriller film
1964. The US is in political turmoil due to the war and serial killers are on the road. Jim Goodwin, an animal trainer accompanied by his famous pet chimpanzee, Spanky, picks up a hitchhiker named Bobby Falls at a gas station en route to C…
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Action, Crime, action film, drama film, thriller film
U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Johnny Gallagher is part of a unit patrolling outside a chalet in West Berlin, where the U.S. president and the Soviet General Secretary are beginning talks for mutual nuclear disarmament.
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Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, Psychodrama, crime film, drama film, film noir
New York, 1934 – Christopher "Chris" Cross, a late middle-aged cashier for a clothing retailer, is fêted by his employer for 25 years of service. After presenting Chris with a gold watch and kind words, company owner J.J. Hogarth leaves th…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film, trial film
Elizabeth Quinn, a law clerk, stumbles onto something while working on the transcripts of a 17-year old case. She approaches the trial judge, who gives her a cassette tape before committing suicide. The clerk is found murdered shortly ther…
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Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Armand Degas, a hitman known as "Blackbird", accidentally shoots his younger brother during a job. Years later, he is hired by a Mafia boss to assassinate the man's father-in-law at a hotel. In the process, he also kills a witness.
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Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Splatstick, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Philippe Douvier, a major French businessman and secretly the head of the French Connection, is suspected by his New York Mafia associates of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier…
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Documentation, documentary film
The film begins with a profile of Kenneth Lay, who founded Enron in 1985. In 1987, the company becomes embroiled in scandal after two traders begin betting on the oil markets, resulting in suspiciously consistent profits. One of the trader…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Aging private detective Harry Ross, an ex-cop, is working on a case to return 17-year-old runaway Mel Ames to her parents' home. He tracks down Mel and her sleazy boyfriend, Jeff Willis, at a Mexican resort. During a struggle, Mel accident…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film
Near the rural town of Winton, Queensland, a truck driver finds the body of a teenage Aboriginal girl named Julie Mason inside one of the drainage culverts under the road. Newly promoted Aboriginal Detective Jay Swan, recently returned fro…
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Drama, Western, Western film, crime film
On the Texas border, in 1887, Texas Ranger David Kingston is sent by Governor “Sul” Ross to the isolated town of Mount Hermon. Kingston is to investigate a series of murders and disappearances of Mexican citizens, in particular to search f…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film, trial film
In 1950 San Francisco, petty criminal and prostitute Barbara Graham faces a misdemeanor charge for soliciting sex. She returns to her native San Diego, but is soon charged with perjury after she provides two criminal friends a false alibi.…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, heist film
Seattle PD Detective Quentin Conners and his partner Jason York are implicated in the death of a hostage taken by a carjacker named John Curtis. After a fellow police officer, Callo, testifies against them, Conners is suspended, and York i…
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Thriller, crime film, horror film, thriller film
In 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, several policemen discover a murdered woman sprawled on the floor of her apartment, which was locked from the inside. While police search for the killer's means of escape, they discover a second corpse …
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Caper-Movie, Crime Comedy, drama film, heist film
In 1855, Edward Pierce, a member of London's high society, is secretly a master thief. He plans to steal a monthly shipment of gold from the London-to-Folkestone train that is meant as payment for British troops fighting in the Crimean War…
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Drama, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, political thriller film, thriller film
In Copenhagen in 1962, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, Boris Kusenov, defects to the West. During debriefing, CIA agent Mike Nordstrom learns that Soviet missiles with nuclear warheads will be placed in Cuba. Needing physical e…
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Cartoon, action film, superhero film, thriller film
Bruce Wayne returns home to Gotham City from training abroad in martial arts, man-hunting, and science for the past 12 years, and James Gordon moves to Gotham with his pregnant wife, Barbara, after a transfer from Chicago. Both are swiftly…
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Police Film, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, hood film, mystery film
Undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis chases a drug dealer through the streets of Detroit. Tellis shoots and kills the dealer when he holds a child hostage, but a stray bullet hits the child's pregnant mother, causing her to miscarry. 1…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, heist film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
After resigning from Nova Robotics after the events of the first movie, Benjamin Jahrvi (né Jabituya) starts up his own business, "Titanic Toy Corporation", which specializes in making sophisticated toy robots that he builds by hand from t…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, mystery film, political thriller film, thriller film
Gene Watson, a mild-mannered accountant, arrives with his daughter Lynn at Union Station in Los Angeles. As Gene is using a payphone, two mysterious strangers in suits, known only as Mr. Smith and Ms.
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
Laura Mars is a glamorous New York City fashion photographer who specializes in photographs featuring stylized violence, which attract controversy from the press and feminists who feel her work is exploitative. The night before the release…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir
On a rainy night in 1928 in the Pennsylvania factory town of Iverstown, thirteen-year-old Martha Ivers tries to run away from her wealthy aunt and guardian, Mrs. Ivers, with her street-smart friend, Sam Masterson. She is caught and taken h…
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