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Drama, Horror, crime film, drama film
In the days leading up to the Iraq War, Robert Carmichael is an introverted middle-class youth and talented cello player who is bored by his existence in the coastal town of Newhaven. He becomes associated with the unsavory teenagers Joe a…
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Drama, Psychodrama, coming-of-age film, drama film, prison film
In a flashback, Leland P. Fitzgerald, an emotionally detached teenage boy, explains that he cannot remember the details of the day he killed Ryan Pollard, an intellectually disabled boy. The murder shocks Leland's quiet Arizona community, …
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Christmas film, Crime, Drama, Komödie, children's film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, science fiction film
Damian, a 9-year-old Catholic boy, and his family move to the suburbs of Widnes after the death of his mother. One day, while playing in a cardboard box by the train tracks, Damian is disturbed by a bag of money flung from a passing train.…
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
Retired detective Harry Kilmer is called upon by an old friend, George Tanner. Tanner has been doing business with a yakuza gangster, Tono, who has kidnapped Tanner's daughter Louise to apply pressure in a business deal involving the sale …
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Crime Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, detective film
At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, Ponce, a male student is experiencing sexual frustration, surrounded by a seemingly unending stream of beautiful and sexually provocative…
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Crime, Thriller, mystery film
Lew Harper, a private investigator from Los Angeles, flies to Louisiana to do a job for Iris Devereaux, with whom he'd had a memorable six-day fling, six years earlier. She believes her family's ex-chauffeur, Pat Reavis, is blackmailing he…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Komödie, comedy film, drama film
The film opens with Lehiff (Colin Farrell) charming a cashier. After flirting with the girl, he punches her in the face and steals from the till. It quickly moves to John (Cillian Murphy) and Deirdre (Kelly Macdonald), a recently separated…
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Military Film, Political Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
At the Presidio Army base in San Francisco, US Military Police soldier Patti Jean Lynch is shot dead while investigating a break-in and two San Francisco Police Department officers are killed in the getaway. Jay Austin, an SFPD Detective a…
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Detective Film, Gangster Film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
With his eyes bandaged, private detective Philip Marlowe is interrogated by police lieutenant Randall about two murders. Marlowe tells how he was hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to locate Malloy's former girlfriend Velma Valento. They go to F…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, crime film
Texas Rangers Roland Sharp and Maggie Swanson question Percy Stevens about the whereabouts of his former prison cellmate Morgan Ball, needed to testify against organized crime boss John Cortland. Tracking down Ball to a warehouse, Ball tri…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
After the murder of her estranged son, journalist Marissa Bennings forms an unusual alliance with his pregnant girlfriend to track down those responsible for his death. Together, they confront a realm of narcotics and dishonesty within the…
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Thriller, crime film, horror film, thriller film
In 1984, in Kyiv, schoolteacher Andrej Romanovich Evilenko is dismissed from his position after attempting to rape a pupil. Driven by his psychopathic urges and embittered by the collapse of the Soviet Union, Evilenko begins to rape, kill,…
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Action, action film, crime film
J.D. Dawes (Chuck Norris), a trucker from California, returns from the road to learn that an old friend was assaulted and paralyzed by Sergeant Strode (Don Gentry), a policeman in Texas City, California. He makes inquiries and learns that …
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Heist, crime film, drama film
Brian Reader is a former thief who is now retired. At the funeral ceremony for his wife Lyn, Brian sees old friends from his days as a criminal. They briefly discuss their interest in pulling off one more heist, targeting the Hatton Garden…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film
In 1965 Alabama, Peter Joseph "Peejoe" Bullis is an orphan living in a small town during the Civil Rights Movement. His eccentric aunt, Lucille Vinson, kills her husband Chester with poison, after suffering years of domestic violence. She …
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Crime Comedy, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, parody film
Ned Ravine, who is both a police officer and lawyer (who often defends the people he arrests), believes that he knows everything about women, and says that he will throw away his badge if anyone ever proves him wrong. While on a stakeout, …
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Crime, Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, erotic film, hood film, romance film
As children, brothers Jason and Joshua Alexander witnessed the fatal shooting of their abusive father, Mad Dog (Forest Whitaker), one night when he came home drunk and attacked their mother. Said tragedy leaves deep scars and prompts them …
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
A beloved rabbi in a high desert town becomes an unlikely gunfighter after his community is violently attacked.
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Fantasy, Komödie, comedy film, crime film, fantasy film, romantic comedy
Advertising man Steve Brooks (Perry King) — a womanizer and chauvinist — is invited to a surprise party by three former lovers: Margo Bronfman (JoBeth Williams), Liz (Lysette Anthony), and Felicia (Victoria Mahoney), who attempt to drown h…
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Drama, Social Drama, crime film, drama film
After immigrant Mireya Sanchez is deported, ICE / HSI Special Agent Max Brogan takes care of her son and takes him to the boy's grandparents in Mexico. Later, Mireya is found dead near the border. Brogan returns to the grandparents to tell…
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Drama, Romance Film, crime film, drama film
Jewelry store owner Freddy Gale has been tormented for five years following the death of his daughter, Emily. Once a devoted husband and father, he is now an alcoholic who spends his nights in strip clubs, sleeping with strippers. When Joh…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, hood film, musical film
Rich Bower (Power) is a mover and shaker in the world of rap music (he's involved with a number of other licit and illicit business ventures as well), and his apartment is a favored meeting place for musicians, hangers-on, and hipsters who…
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Heist, Thriller, action film, heist film
Zed, a professional safe-cracker, comes to Paris to help a childhood friend, Eric, with a bank heist. While in the taxi on his way to the hotel, the cab driver offers to procure a sex worker for him in the evening. As Zed emerges from the …
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Secret Agent, action film, comedy film, fantasy film, spy film
Sam Makin is a tough Brooklyn, New York City street cop and Vietnam-era Marine Corps veteran. He is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization, CURE. The recruitment is through a bizarre method: his death …
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