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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 69.
Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, parody film
In 1935, a pet shop owner catches a young boy shoplifting a puppy. To discourage the kid from a life of crime, the owner tells a story by way of a flashback. In 1910, Johnny Kelly is a poor newsboy in New York City.
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Christmas film, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Three convicts – Joseph, Albert and Jules – escape from prison on Devil's Island in French Guiana just before Christmas and arrive at the nearby French colonial town of Cayenne on Christmas Eve. Joseph is a thief; the other two are murdere…
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Horror, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|A copy of the film without the prologue While out rowing in the middle of a lake after dark, John Haloran and his young wife Louise argue about his rich mother's will. Louise is upset that everything is designated to go to charity in…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
In Lugash, the fabled Pink Panther diamond is stolen. A mysterious woman looking to procure the priceless gem has a tête-à-tête with a man regarding price. Clouseau, who had disappeared inexplicably on a plane flight, bursts in.
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Crime Comedy, Musical, comedy film, crime film, heist film, musical film
In the 1930s "Big" Jim Stevens, undisputed boss of the Chicago underworld, gets an unexpected birthday present from his ambitious lieutenant, Guy Gisborne. Big Jim gets shot by all the guests at his birthday party, and Gisborne takes over.…
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Action, crime film, drama film
In Utica, New York, a truck driver nicknamed “Clean” works as a garbage collector in a decaying, crime-ridden urban residential neighborhood. He collects usable parts which he salvages, repairs, and sells to a pawn shop owned by his acquai…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, science fiction film, thriller film
Sam Quint is a former thief hired by the FBI to steal a computer disk which contains incriminating evidence against The Lucky Dollar Corporation of Las Vegas. After stealing the disk, Quint is pursued by Marvin Ringer, a former thief and a…
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Dark Comedy, Drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film
In an industrial area of Adelaide, Bubby is a mentally challenged 35-year-old man who lives in a squalid house with his abusive and religious fanatic mother, Florence. He has never left the house, due to his mother convincing him that the …
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1963, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives Karl Hettinger and Ian Campbell are kidnapped by criminals Gregory Powell and Jimmy "Youngblood" Smith after pulling over the criminals for an illegal U-turn. They are driven to an o…
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Crime, Detective Film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1941 Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by recently paroled felon "Moose" Malloy to find his old girlfriend Velma Valento, whom he has not seen in seven years while he has been in prison. Malloy goes to ground after …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, black comedy, crime film, drama film, mystery film, trial film
Vice squad detectives Frank Divinci and Jake Rodriguez set up narcotics runner Lionel Hudd in a bogus drug trafficking deal at a motel. They murder Hudd, pocket his money, and recover the cocaine he purchased from them. The detectives retu…
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Komödie, romantic comedy
The New York–based private investigation firm Odyssey Detective Agency employs three agents: the middle-aged, womanizing John Russo, the younger, hippie-ish Arthur Brodsky, and the nervy and anxious Charles Rutledge. Their cantankerous bos…
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Crime, Komödie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, comedy thriller
Garbage collectors Carl Taylor and James St. James are infamous mischief makers in their local community, using the garbage as play things and disturbing the peace. Local bike cop Mike harasses them frequently, but they are used to his ant…
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Detective Film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe has been hired by Orfamay Quest, a young woman from Kansas, to find her brother, Orrin. Marlowe searches Orrin's former hotel room and interviews the shady hotel guest, Grant Hicks, he finds there. Re…
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Crime, Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir
After his wife Lisa dies from an accidental electrocution, psychologist Cal Jamison relocates with his young son, Chris, from Minneapolis to New York City, where Cal begins working as a police psychologist for the New York City Police Depa…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, gangster film
Billy Behan is a poor Irish American teenager from the Bronx in 1935. One day, he catches the attention of wealthy Jewish mobster Dutch Schultz. Changing his last name to Bathgate after a local street, Billy goes to work for Schultz's orga…
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Drama, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, teen film
In 2002, at Ladbroke Grove, local school student Katie suffers intense physical and emotional bullying by a group of girls, as well as by another bully, Sam Peel. When her father picks her up from school that day, Sam quietly threatens to …
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Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
On 27 June 1976, Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann, two members of the ultra-leftist Revolutionary Cells terrorist syndicate, hijack Air France Flight 139, flying from Tel Aviv to Paris, during the flight's initial stopover at Athens. Qu…
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Christmas film, Dark Comedy, comedy film, crime film, drama film
On Christmas Eve in an affluent Connecticut hamlet, Lloyd and Caroline Chasseur are in a marriage counseling session with therapist Dr. Wong. Caroline has had an affair, and Lloyd is miserable and blames the behavioral problems of their 15…
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Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Harry Mitchell is a successful construction magnate living in Los Angeles, whose wife Barbara is running for city council. One day, Harry is confronted by three hooded blackmailers who demand $105,000 per year for a videotape of him and hi…
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Action, Psychodrama, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
In a prologue, biker drug distributor "Pomona Joe" receives a shipment in San Pedro and contacts South Central-area dealer Monroe "Overdose" Johnson to arrange a transaction. Sean Vetter and Demetrius Hicks, lifelong friends who grew up to…
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Komödie, action film, crime comedy film, slapstick
In an unnamed city, the governor announces that, for budgetary reasons, one of the state's two police academies—run by Commandants Eric Lassard and Ernie Mauser, respectively—is to be closed. Mauser, along with his dim-witted captain, Carl…
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action film, drama film
Colonel Suryaveer "Surya" Singh is a bitter man and ex-Army officer, hired by his friend and former comrade Captain Shekhar Verma to protect a little girl, Anamika R. Rathore, who resides in Bangkok, Thailand with her Non-resident Indian (…
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Thriller, crime thriller film
American diamond merchant Lucas Hill travels to Russia to sell rare blue diamonds to gangster Boris Volkov. However, his contact in St. Petersburg, Pyotr who had the diamonds, has gone missing.
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