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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Social Drama, crime film, drama film
Los Angeles Detective Graham Waters and his partner, Ria, are involved in a minor car collision with Kim Lee. Ria and Kim Lee exchange racially charged insults. Later, Waters arrives at a crime scene, where he discovers an unidentified cor…
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Detective Film, crime film, detective film, drama film, mystery film
Flashback to Belgium at the Yser Bridge on October 31, 1914, in the front lines of World War I. Hercule Poirot's captain has been given a mission considered certain death for all of his men. Poirot suggests his captain follow a strategy th…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Melodrama, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, melodrama, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film
San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson and a fellow policeman chase a crook on the roofs of several houses; Scottie slips and nearly falls. His colleague attempts to rescue Scottie, but falls to his death. Some time later, Scottie…
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Crime, Fantasy, Komödie, Splatstick, comedy film, fantasy film, gangster film, speculative fiction film, superhero film
In Edge City, insecure bank teller Stanley Ipkiss is frequently ridiculed by everyone except for his co-worker and best friend, Charlie Schumaker. Meanwhile, gangster Dorian Tyrell plots to overthrow his boss, Niko, who owns the Coco Bongo…
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Psychological Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime fiction, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, romance film, romantic horror film, thriller film
Ten years after the death of serial killer Jame Gumb and the escape of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter, FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling is blamed for a botched drug raid that resulted in five deaths. The event attracts the a…
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Teen Horror Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, splatter film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, teen film, teen horror film, thriller film
Teenager Tina Gray awakens from a terrifying nightmare in which a disfigured man wearing a bladed glove attacks her in a boiler room. Her mother points out the mysterious slashes on her nightgown. The following morning, Tina's best friend …
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Action, Gangster Film, Komödie, Road Movie, Splatter Film, Vampirfilm, Western film, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, horror film, horror western, monster film, splatter film, thriller film, vampire film
At a Texas roadside liquor store, fugitive bank robber Seth Gecko and his deranged brother Richie kill the clerk and a Texas Ranger and destroy the building. Richie nurses a gunshot to his hand as they drive down the highway to a motel and…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
In New York City, Nick Nikas struggles with a court-ordered therapy session in which Peter, a psychiatrist, attempts to determine the extent of his cognitive and social impairment, touching upon a violent incident with his grandmother. Nic…
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Political Thriller, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, alternate history film, drama film, dystopian film, neo-noir, superhero film, vigilante film
In 1985, a man living in a Manhattan apartment watches news about escalating Cold War tensions and the response from five-term President Richard Nixon when an unknown assailant attacks and hurls him to the street below. Throughout the open…
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Action, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
At a secluded winery in Sicily, Robert McCall kills the gangster Lorenzo Vitale and his henchmen to obtain a key to the winery's vault to recoup money stolen in a cyber-heist. While McCall is leaving the winery, Vitale's grandson shoots hi…
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Action, Drama, Psychodrama, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, heist film, sport film, surf film, thriller film
Former Ohio State quarterback and rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah assists senior agent Angelo Pappas in investigating a string of bank robberies by the "Ex-Presidents": robbers who wear rubber masks of former presidents Ronald Reagan, Jimmy C…
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Biographical picture, Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Mafia Film, action film, comedy drama, comedy film, coming-of-age film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, melodrama, mystery film, romance film
In 1960, the nine-year-old Calogero lives in Belmont, a working-class Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx with his father Lorenzo, a Surface Transit (later MTA) bus driver, and his mother Rosina. Calogero becomes enamored of the Maf…
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Drama, Komödie, biographical film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, war film
In 2005, David Packouz, a massage therapist living in Miami, Florida with his girlfriend Iz, spends his life savings on an unsuccessful venture to sell bedsheets to retirement homes. David runs into his old friend Efraim Diveroli, whose co…
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Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, drama film, prison film, rape and revenge film, thriller film, vigilante film
Clyde Shelton lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia when two burglars, Rupert Ames and Clarence Darby, break into their home. Ames ties up and gags Clyde, while Darby stabs him in the stomach before raping and murdering his wife…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
A suicide bombing by ISIS in a Kansas City grocery store kills 15 people. In response, the U.S. government orders CIA officer Matt Graver to apply extreme measures to combat Mexican drug cartels who are suspected of having smuggled the ter…
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Biographical picture, Coming Out, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Psychodrama, Romance Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, female buddy film
In 1989, after moving from Michigan to Daytona Beach, Florida, and on the verge of committing suicide, street prostitute Aileen "Lee" Wuornos meets a young woman, Selby Wall, in a gay bar. Although Aileen is initially hostile and states th…
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Film Noir, Justice Drama, Late Western, Psychodrama, Western film, crime film, drama film
In 1880, in the fictional town of Big Whiskey, Wyoming, a cowboy named Quick Mike slashes prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald's face with a knife over an insult, permanently disfiguring her. As punishment, Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett orders Mi…
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Forensic, Komödie, comedy film, trial film
While driving through Alabama, New York college students Bill Gambini and Stan Rothenstein stop at a convenience store, where Bill absentmindedly pockets a can of tuna. After they leave, the store clerk is found robbed and murdered, and th…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, crime film, female buddy film, heist film, thriller film
Newly paroled con artist Debbie Ocean, the younger sister of Danny Ocean, reunites with her former partner Lou Miller to plan an ambitious new heist. The target is the Toussaint, a $150 million diamond necklace owned by Cartier, which Debb…
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, mystery film, political thriller film, spy film, thriller film
In the Mediterranean Sea, Italian fishermen rescue an American man adrift with two gunshot wounds in his back. Tending to his wounds, they find he has amnesia but shows fluency in several languages. A tiny laser projector found implanted i…
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Adventure, Super Hero, Thriller, action film, fantasy film, neo-noir, superhero film
In Gotham City, Batman defuses a hostage situation orchestrated by the criminal Two-Face, formerly district attorney Harvey Dent, who escapes. Flashbacks reveal that Dent, once one of Batman's biggest supporters, was horribly disfigured wi…
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Action Comedy, Secret Agent, action comedy film, action film, comedy film, crime film, spy film
In 1997, probationary secret agent Lee Unwin sacrifices himself during a mission in the Middle East to save his superior, Harry Hart. Feeling responsible for Lee's death, Harry gives Lee's young son, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, a medal engraved wi…
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Action, Auto Racing, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
At the Los Angeles port, a heist crew driving three heavily modified Honda Civics hijack a semi-truck trailer carrying electronic goods and escape into the night along the Terminal Island Freeway. Meanwhile, LAPD officer Brian O'Conner is …
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Family Drama, Gangster Film, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
Tom Stall is a diner owner who lives in the rural town of Millbrook, Indiana, with wife Edie, teenage son Jack, and daughter Sarah. One night, two spree killers attempt to rob the restaurant. When a waitress is threatened, Tom deftly kills…
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