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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, crime film, drama film
In the small Kansas town of Fair Oaks, diner waitress Betty Sizemore is a fan of the soap opera A Reason to Love. She has no idea that her husband Del, a car salesman, is having a sexual affair with another woman, his secretary. She also d…
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Film Noir, film noir, mystery film
Leaving a church, Father Logan, a well-known ex-paratrooper padre, is approached by Captain "Rip" Murdock. Murdock needs to tell someone what has happened to him in the past few days before his enemies can kill him. A flashback follows: Ju…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Frank Carden is a professional assassin who has been hired to kill a reclusive billionaire named Lydell Hammond Sr., a vocal opponent of stem cell research. Frank's plan goes awry when he gets injured in a car accident and ends up in the h…
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action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
Bucum Jackson, a maverick bounty hunter, is out to capture a petty drug dealer, Lil J. Bucum confronts Lil J in his trailer home and nearly handcuffs him, but Lil J's girlfriend, who wields a shotgun, recklessly shoots at Bucum. Bucum mana…
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crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, exploitation film, giallo, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, romance film, romantic horror film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
Sam Dalmas is an American writer vacationing in Rome with his English model girlfriend, Julia, while trying to overcome his writer's block. They are preparing to return to the United States in two days. While walking home one evening, Sam …
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Drama, crime thriller film, drama film
One rainy night in Santa Barbara, California, after leaving the El Encanto Hotel, Richard Bone's car breaks down on a side road. He sees a large car draw up a little way behind him. A man throws something into a garbage can.
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Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Western, Western film, action film, comedy film, female buddy film, heist film
In 1880 Mexico, María Álvarez is an uneducated, poor farm girl whose caring father is being forced off his land by a cruel U.S. land baron named Tyler Jackson. Sara Sandoval is the highly educated, wealthy daughter of the arrogant owner of…
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Crime Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film
Buddy Ackerman, an influential movie mogul, hires Guy, a naïve young writer, as his assistant. Guy, who had just graduated from film school, believes that his new job is a golden opportunity. Despite warnings from Rex, the outgoing assista…
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Western, Western film, rape and revenge film
Hannie Caulder is a frontier wife, living with her husband at a horse station between towns in the American West. After a disastrous failed bank robbery raid, the inept Clemens gang, three brothers, arrive at the horse station. After actin…
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Super Hero, Thriller, action film, crime film, fantasy film
In Salt Lake City, Alexander "Alex" Frederick Corvis is framed for the murder of his girlfriend, Lauren Randall, and sentenced to death. Three years later, he is executed in the electric chair, suffering a painful death due to lightning ov…
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Drama, Heist, crime film, drama film, heist film
Chris Potamitis lives with his parents and younger sister in Astoria, Queens, New York in the early 1980s. His immigrant father is fired from his job after 10 years of cleaning a shady Greek social club. Chris fails to get into the police …
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Christmas film, Drama, crime film, drama film
The film is set shortly before Christmas in the North Country of Upstate New York, near the Akwesasne ('Where the Partridge Drums') St. Regis Mohawk Reservation and the border crossing to Cornwall, Ontario. Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is a disc…
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Fantasy, Horror, ghost film, horror film
On Halloween 1962, nine-year-old Frankie Scarlatti is locked inside his classroom coatroom by schoolmates Donald and Louie at the end of the day. Trapped well after dark, he witnesses the apparition of a young girl being murdered in the co…
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Crime, Drama, comedy film, heist film
Lieutenant Colonel Norman Hyde prepares seven envelopes, each containing an American crime paperback titled The Golden Fleece, one half of each of ten £5-notes, and an invitation to a lunch at the Cafe Royal hosted by "Co-Operative Removal…
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Horror, Thriller, drama film, ghost film, horror film, romance film
thumb|thumbtime=1:50|Full movie In 1806, André Duvalier, a French soldier lost in the Confederation of the Rhine, is saved by Helene, a young woman who bears a resemblance to Ilsa von Leppe, the late wife of Baron von Leppe who had died 20…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Charles Reece is a serial killer who commits a number of brutal mutilation-slayings in order to drink blood as a result of paranoid delusions. Reece is soon captured. Most of the film revolves around the trial and the prosecutor's attempts…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film
In the peaceful Appalachian hills of eastern Kentucky, toxins are being dumped into abandoned mines, causing environmental havoc, but the locals, mindful of their jobs and the power of the mine owners, can do nothing. EPA CID agent Jack Ta…
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Thriller, crime thriller film, horror film
Byron Orlok, an aged, embittered horror movie actor, abruptly announces his decision to retire from Hollywood and return to his native England to live out his final days. Orlok considers himself outdated because he believes that people are…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, neo-noir, psychological thriller
"Danny Parker" is a Los Angeles speed freak (meth addict) who hangs out with junkie friends while indulging in drugs. He also moonlights as an informant for two corrupt cops, Gus Morgan and Al Garcetti. Danny is trying to set up a large me…
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Film Noir, film noir
Myra Hudson is a successful Broadway playwright who rejects Lester Blaine as the leading man in her new play. She subsequently meets him on a train bound for San Francisco and is swept off her feet. After a brief courtship they marry.
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Forensic, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, trial film
Close friends Judd Steiner and Artie Straus each believe they fit Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of a "superman" (Übermensch), and thus are above the law. From wealthy, socially prominent families, both are graduate law students under ag…
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Conspiracy Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Wealthy tax attorney Henry Hearst is about to give a speech at an exclusive fundraising party in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as the city celebrates the San Sebastián Festival. He is called to the Puerto Rico Police station to be questioned abou…
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Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Spoon, Stretch, and Cookie are bandmates in the spoken word genre living in Detroit. When Cookie overdoses on her first hit of heroin, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their habit. Throughout a disastrous day, the two addicts dodge police …
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Crime, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, film noir, flashback film, thriller film
thumb|Montgomery Clift in the I Confess film trailer Father Logan is a devout Catholic priest in Ste. Marie's Church in Quebec City. He employs German immigrant married couple Otto and Alma Keller as caretaker and housekeeper, respectively.
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