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Drama, crime film, drama film, independent film, prison film, romance film
Ruth Guthrie walks across a field and is followed by Bob Muldoon, who tries to dissuade Ruth from leaving him to return to her mother's. Ruth is adamant and reveals that she is angry because Bob told Freddy that he was going to 'strike out…
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Action, Drama, action film, exploitation film
Billy Jack is introduced as an enigmatic, half-Native American Vietnam veteran who shuns society, taking refuge in the peaceful solitude of the California Central Coast mountains. His troubles begin when he descends from this unspoiled set…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, mystery film
A series of couples are in Monte Carlo, Monaco and their lives get intertwined during a murder investigation. Augie Morosco is a reformed gambler whose wife Elena is concluding a business deal, while Neil Schwary is a gambler looking to st…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
When NYPD Detective Eddie Santos surprises drug dealer Tino Zapatti on a Brooklyn street corner, Tino opens fire; the two men gun each other down, and a stray bullet from Zapatti kills a 6-year-old boy. As Mayor John Pappas responds to the…
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, thriller film
Jack Cole was once a CIA operative known as "the Glimmer Man", because he could move so quickly and quietly through the jungle that his victims would only see a glimmer before they died. Having retired from the CIA, Cole versed in Buddhism…
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Horror, Mysterie, crime film, horror film
Law student Martin Bells is hired as a night watchman at a hospital morgue. A string of gruesome prostitute murders committed by a necrophiliac serial killer quickly point to him as the lead suspect in the investigation carried out by Insp…
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
left|thumb|Full film Police Lieutenant Leonard Diamond is on a personal crusade to bring down the sadistic gangster Mr. Brown. He is also dangerously obsessed with Susan Lowell; she is Mr.
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Crime, Drama, action thriller
Three years after his second killing spree at WK7 TV station in Washington D.C. (following which he was presumed dead in a massive explosion), Bill Williamson returns from hiding and, using a sniper rifle, assassinates the President of the…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Confronting the driver of a hit-and-run van in Monroe, Georgia, Detective Ray Archer notices a gothic pendant dangling from the rear-view mirror. One year later, reporter Christi Davies accompanies Detective Will Ruiney to the scene of a m…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, thriller film, trial film
Rick Magruder is a successful attorney in Savannah, Georgia, with a reputation for underhanded dealings and a tense relationship with his ex-wife, Leeanne. After a party hosted by his firm, waitress Mallory Doss has her car stolen and Rick…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, comedy film
Three years after the events of the second film, Big and Little Enos Burdette offer retiring Sheriff Buford T. Justice a wager, betting $250,000 against his badge on his ability to transport a large statue shark from Miami to Austin, Texas…
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Action, action film, comedy drama, comedy film
The Trans-America Grand Prix is an illegal race held every year between Los Angeles (Santa Monica Pier) and New York City. Recently released from jail, where he was serving a sentence for killing a girl while driving drunk, racing driver C…
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Drama, Komödie, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, independent film
Rose Lorkowski is a 30-something single mother and full-time house cleaner. Her underachieving and unreliable sister, Norah, lives with their father, Joe, and is fired from her most current job. Rose's hyperactive and disruptive 8-year-old…
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Detective Film, crime film, neo-noir
In 1970s England, private detective Philip Marlowe is asked to the stately home of General Sternwood, who hires Marlowe to learn who is blackmailing him. While at the mansion, he meets the general's spoiled and inquisitive daughter, Charlo…
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Heist, Thriller, action film, heist film
In New York, veteran thief Keith Ripley recruits younger crook Gabriel Martin to help him pull off one final job in order to repay his debt to the Russian mafia, who had killed his previous partner, Victor Korolenko, before they could comp…
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Destiny, Justice Drama, drama film, prison film, romance film, thriller film
Three friends, Lewis McBride, Sheriff and Tony, are vacationing in Malaysia. Their adventures include being almost run over by a car while riding a bicycle, and being pressured into buying some rhinoceros horn from Malaysian locals. They a…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film
Following the murder of Diana Floss in a restaurant in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in 1972, her fiancé, Joe Nast, elects to stay with her parents. Her father, Ben, is a realtor whose business partner has recently left. Ben and Joe go into bus…
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Action, Thriller, action film, hood film, thriller film, treasure hunt film
Two Fort Smith, Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, meet a hysterical old man in a burning building. The old man hands them an envelope, telling them that he stole from Jesus Christ. The old man tells them that he stole some things and stashe…
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Action Comedy, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, prison film
The film opens with a getaway driver and his wounded accomplice dressed as clowns fleeing from American Border Patrol toward the Mexican border. The driver crashes through the border fence, whereupon he is arrested by corrupt Mexican polic…
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biographical film, horror film
In 1974, Theodore "Ted" Robert Bundy is a student at the Seattle University School of Law who has a long-term girlfriend, Lee, and works part-time at a crisis center nearing campus. Unbeknown to his family and friends, however, Ted is a sa…
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Action, Western film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
At the airport in El Paso, Texas, five U.S. Army sergeants meet up with Major Paul Hackett, the leader of the clandestine Zombie Unit, composed of soldiers reported to be killed in action and on temporary assignment under Hackett for the d…
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Action, Drama, action film, coming-of-age film, drama film
The undefeated champion of underground motorcycle drag racing is Smoke, the "King of Cali". A biker, Chu-Chu, eventually issues a challenge to Smoke, who accepts. Smoke wins the race while the challenger crashes into parked bikes.
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mystery film
Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi), a seasoned cop accustomed to the city ways of Phoenix, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque, has returned to the Navajo reservation. His wife Emma (Sheila Tousey) is recovering from cancer and feels rejuvenated by the landsc…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
John LeTour, a 40-year-old New Yorker, is one of two delivery men for Ann, who supplies an exclusive clientele in the banking and financing sector with drugs. While Ann contemplates switching to the cosmetics business, LeTour, who suffers …
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