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Super Hero, Thriller, drama film, neo-noir
Two hitmen, Lee Woods and mafioso Dosmo Pizzo, walk into a bedroom where a sleeping couple, Olympic athlete Becky Foxx and her ex-husband Roy Foxx, are in bed. Lee injects Becky with a tranquilizer and then shoots Roy in the head. Lee and …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, heist film, romantic comedy
Prominent Paris art collector Charles Bonnet forges and sells famous artists' paintings. His disapproving daughter, Nicole, constantly fears his being caught. Late one night at their mansion, Nicole encounters a burglar, Simon Dermott, hol…
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Action, action film, crime film, drama film, dystopian film, thriller film
In 2018, in a crime-ridden dystopian Detroit, a particularly notorious neighborhood has grown so dangerous that law enforcement is overwhelmed. Unable to control the crime, city officials build a -tall containment wall around this area, kn…
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Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
While driving at night along the northern California coast, architect Dan Merrick and his wife Judith are involved in a car wreck. Dan suffers major injuries and brain trauma, resulting in psychogenic amnesia. After extensive plastic surge…
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crime film, drama film
July 27, 1981, Hollywood, Florida. John Walsh heads to work while his wife, Revé, and their 6-year-old son Adam head to the Sears store at the Hollywood Mall. Revé lets Adam watch a few other older kids play on an Atari system while she in…
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True Crime
Family Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1996, at the 45th-year reunion of the class of '51 at Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey, writer Nathan Zuckerman meets one of his old friends, Jerry Levov. They talk about Jerry's older brother, former all-state star athlete S…
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Family Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film
Through the course of the film, several flashbacks are shown involving the Skuggs brothers, including (in the beginning of the film) the drug-overdose death of their mother Ella, the non-fatal shooting of their drug-addicted musician fathe…
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Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, crime film, superhero film
Catwoman infiltrates a criminal costume party hosted by Barbara Minerva, the perceived head of Leviathan, to steal a gem called the Cat's Eye Emerald from Gotham City mobster and prospective Leviathan member Black Mask. Catwoman evades man…
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Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film, romance film
Timid Jonathan McQuarry is an accountant in Manhattan. Late one night, while working on an audit at a law firm, he is befriended by a charismatic lawyer, Wyatt Bose. Taking the subway home, Jonathan has a brief encounter with a blonde woma…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film
Lady Divine is the owner and operator of the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling freak show of various perversions and fetish acts and obscenities, such as the "Puke Eater". The show is free, but the various performers must persuade and e…
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Crime Comedy, action film, comedy film, mystery film
Mona Dearly can't unlock her car so, as her keys fit her son's Yugo, she takes that and drives off. On a bend, the brakes fail completely and she drives off a cliff into the Hudson River. Clarence, fishing in the river, sees it happen.
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Criminal Comedy Film, Horror, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime film, fantasy film
Neurotic Guilford housewife Peggy Gravel and her housekeeper Grizelda Brown go on the lam after killing Peggy's husband. After being detained by a cross-dressing police officer, they are given an ultimatum: arrest for murder or exile to Mo…
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, biographical film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
The plot is based on a true story and follows Nate Norman, an eighteen-year-old high school dropout, who lives with his younger brother and single mom in northern Idaho. One day while delivering pizza he encounters a wealthy customer who t…
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, drama film
Wayne Hayes and his wife Eileen are living the American dream in a wealthy Pittsburgh suburb, having raised two children and built up a successful business from scratch. He is looking forward to a peaceful retirement with Eileen. Everythin…
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Crime, Forensic, Horror, Thriller, crime film, crime literature, trial film
William Garretson is arrested following the discovery of the bodies of Sharon Tate and her guests at her home but is released three days later for lack of evidence. The police are unwilling to connect the Tate killings to the Hinman murder…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, buddy cop film, crime film
When a body is found hanging on top of the sign demarcating the Ontario–Quebec border, police officers from both Canadian provinces must join forces to solve the murder. David Bouchard is a rule-bending, francophone detective for the Sûret…
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Drama, drama film
Barry Champlain, a sharp-tongued Jewish radio host in Dallas, is known for his provocative political views and condescending attitude toward his callers. On the night his show is being considered for national syndication, a move that would…
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Buddy Cop, Sitcom, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
San Diego Police Detective Michael Dooley leaves his police car during a stakeout to contact his girlfriend, Tracy, when a helicopter attacks and destroys the car. At the police station, Dooley confides to his lieutenant, Byers, that the a…
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Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
Hitmen Charlie Strom and Lee enter a school for the blind and shoot the nonresistant Johnny North (who goes by the name Jerry Nibbles) several times, killing him. Charlie is bothered that North refused to flee and notes they were paid an u…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
When an undercover detective is shot dead while investigating a string of Porsche 911 thefts, Lieutenant Vincent Bracey assigns 22-year-old San Diego officer Benjamin "Benjy" Taylor to infiltrate a Porsche garage suspected to be a front fo…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah, and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. The previous owner, Dale Massie, convinces Cooper to hire him to help with repairs. Dale, recently relea…
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Action, Romantic Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film
Jesse Lujack is a cocky, hedonistic drifter and small-time car thief in Las Vegas. He’s obsessed with Silver Surfer comic books, the music of Jerry Lee Lewis, and Monica Poiccard, a UCLA architecture student whom he knows only from a weeke…
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Adventure, Military Film, Political Thriller, action film, comedy film, political thriller film, war film
The film begins with a disclaimer: Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true. After years of covering one armed conflict after another, American journalist Simon Hunt is in Bosnia and Herzegovina in early 1994 reporting on the …
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