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Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, action film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film
A young Matty Demaret is forced to decide whether to kill or spare the man responsible for his father's arrest by his father's associate Teddy. Unable to pull the trigger, Teddy tells Matty he is unfit for mob work. Years later, Matty is u…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film
In 1985, when a select group of special agents of the FBI's Behavior Science Unit pass on death row inmate Ted Bundy as a case study, newcomer Bill Hagmaier accepts the challenge while knowing Bundy's distrust of the FBI. Through shared le…
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Crime, Erotic Thriller, Komödie, Sexploitation Film, action film, erotic film, sexploitation film
Gas station attendant Clint Ramsey, who works at Martin Bormann's Super Service in the desert, finds himself too irresistible to a series of girls, all of whom have the word "Super" in their given names. In the beginning, he is married to …
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Romantic Comedy, Thriller, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy
At Burger-Matic, Henry Lever orders a milkshake at the drive-thru. At the window, he tells the attendant Sally Jackson that his wife Beatrice knows about their affair. She asks him if he has also told Beatrice about her pregnancy.
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Adventure, Thriller, action film, crime film
An alcoholic Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy, Matt Scudder, takes part in a drug bust that results in his fatal shooting of a small-time dealer in front of the man's wife and kids. Scudder ends up in a drunk ward, suffering from booze and bla…
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
Leon and Bobby Anthony are brothers and members of the Deuces, a street gang who protect their neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Ever since the death of their youngest brother Alphonse "Allie Boy" from a heroin overdose at the hands o…
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Crime Comedy, Detective Film, comedy film, crime film, police film, thriller film
After spending three years without human contact in a remote trailer, former Detective Charlie Waldo returns to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of actor Alistair Pinch‘s wife. Initially unwilling to take the case, he agrees to stay f…
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Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, thriller film
In 1988, New Orleans hitman Roy Cady is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and storms out of his doctor's office. Roy is a heavy-drinking criminal enforcer and contract killer whose boss sets him up in a double-cross scheme. After killing…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film
Hardened criminal and drug dealer King David returns to New York City, where he can find redemption by settling an old score with drug lord Moon. He keeps tape-recorded journals about his life and is always talking about a woman named Edna…
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Drama, alternate history film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1926, Agatha Christie finds herself in a difficult place when her writing is thwarted by predictable plot lines and her unfaithful husband pushes her for a divorce she does not want. As she searches for a way to revive her novel develop…
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Christmas film, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
thumb|right|upright=1.2|thumbtime=2:34|Trailer for Lady in the Lake Tired of the low pay of his profession, hard-boiled Los Angeles private detective Phillip Marlowe submits a murder story to Kingsby Publications. He is invited to the publ…
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Mafia Film, crime film, drama film, heist film
Hawke and Ruffalo play childhood friends Paulie and Brian, who are forced to survive on the tough streets of South Boston through a life of petty thievery. They join a local gang of criminals, but Brian finds it hard to reconcile his work …
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Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
An opening sequence features Frank Bigelow walking through the long hallway of a police station to report his own murder. From here to the end, the story is told in flashback. Bigelow is a hard-driving accountant and notary public in Banni…
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Thriller, action film, crime film
While FBI agent Jake Malloy pursues a serial killer who targets police officers in Seattle, his former partner becomes a victim. While Malloy is at his partner's home, the killer calls him from Malloy's home. The killer says Malloy pursued…
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Family Drama, Forensic, drama film, prison film, thriller film
In April 1967, the office of Marvin Kramer, a Jewish civil rights lawyer in Indianola, Mississippi, is bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, killing Kramer's young twin sons Josh and John and leading to the amputation of Kramer's legs and his later …
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crime film, documentary film, drama film
Splatstick, comedy film, crime film
Princess Yasmin of Lugash is abducted in French territorial waters off the coast of Nice by terrorists led by mercenary Hans in order to force her father King Haroak to abdicate and allow her disgraced stepmother's lover Jaffar, a military…
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Gangster Film, Police Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, crime film, romantic comedy
Wayne Dobie is a shy Chicago Police Department crime scene photographer who has spent years on the job without drawing his gun; his colleagues jokingly call him "Mad Dog". Wayne saves the life of mob boss Frank Milo during a hold-up in a c…
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Justice Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
The film opens with an unnamed veteran British gangster attending a boxing match with friends. Hearing in conversation that another gangster, Freddie Mays, is to be released from prison after thirty years, he falls silent and leaves the ta…
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Action, Crime, action film
In Los Angeles, four masked criminals consisting of Casey, Mercer, Mike, and Sykes rob a courier truck transporting cash. In the ensuing shootout with police, Detective Knight's partner, Fritz, is severely wounded, and the criminals escape…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, fiction film, heist film
Wanda Goronski, an unhappy housewife from rural eastern Pennsylvania, stays on her sister’s couch after leaving her husband. After walking across a coal field and hitching a ride, she arrives late to a divorce court hearing, relinquishes h…
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Crime, Fantasy, Horror, ghost film, horror film
Ariel Wolfe is the younger sister of Sara Wolfe, a survivor of a birthday event eight years ago in the Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane, which at that time had been abandoned and later converted into a private resi…
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Action, action film, comedy thriller, drama film, thriller film
Federal agent Irving Greenfield confers with the Governor of Georgia about the corruption problem in fictional Dunston County and local boss "Bama" McCall. Irving intends to find Gator McKlusky, an old buddy of Bama's just out of prison, t…
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Action, action film, black comedy film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film
While investigating a suspected drug den inside a sporting goods store, two plainclothes police officers are killed by a masked assailant using martial arts techniques. In response, Officer Mandy Rust and Lieutenant Sam Dunne approach full…
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