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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Iberia Parish's Sheriff Detective Dave Robicheaux is investigating the murder of a young woman, and has a chance encounter with Hollywood stars Elrod Sykes and his girlfriend Kelly Drummond. They are in the small town to make a Civil War f…
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Action, action film, drama film, heist film
Two NASCAR hopefuls, driver Larry Rayder and his mechanic Deke Sommers, successfully execute a supermarket heist to finance their jump into big-time auto racing. They extort $150,000 in cash from a supermarket manager by holding his wife a…
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Crime Comedy, Detective Film, action film, comedy film, thriller film
In Venice, Los Angeles, private investigator Steve Ford gets his assistant John to locate a young woman, Nola, that he was hired to find, only for Ford to have sex with her. This results in him being chased by her brothers, who had hired h…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, crime film, romantic comedy
On her 18th birthday, Connie Doyle meets lowlife Steve DeCunzo. She moves in with him and winds up pregnant. He kicks her out when she won't abort the baby.
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Crime, Drama, drama film, flashback film
The film begins when Eric Wilson is released from a secure unit or prison under the name Jack Burridge. His past is told through flashbacks. Eric befriends Philip Craig, who is a troublemaker and rescues him from a group of bullies.
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Crime, Thriller
Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film
The story is presented in five parts, each bearing a title: The Stranger: Arden lives with her abusive, invalid mother, in the countryside of Acton, California. One day she discovers the naked body of a dead woman on the property. Arden be…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film, spy film
In 1960s London, Charles Dobbs is a staid MI6 operative investigating Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan, a former Communist who apparently commits suicide. Dobbs becomes suspicious about the cause of Fennan's death while visiting Fenna…
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Komödie, Social Drama, comedy drama, comedy film
Queens car salesman Joey O'Brien must deal with the ever-increasing pressures in his life: his ex-wife Tina is demanding alimony, his daughter Lisa is missing, his married mistress Joy Munchack and his single mistress Lila are both despera…
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Action, action film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
Joe Huff is an Alabama cop who has been suspended for excessive violence. After stopping a supermarket robbery, he is summoned by FBI agent Lance Dockery, who takes him to meet with special agent Frank Cunningham. Cunningham blackmails Joe…
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Crime, crime film
The film concerns the murders committed by Ted Bundy in the 1970s and the subsequent manhunt to apprehend him, led by FBI agents Kathleen McChesney and Robert Ressler. At the first scene, Ted Bundy abducts a woman in Midvale, Utah, on July…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, spy film, thriller film, war film
In London, sand is put into the bearings of an electrical generator, causing a power blackout. At a cinema owned by Karl Verloc (Oscar Homolka), people demand their money back. Verloc enters through a back entrance to the living quarters a…
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Adventure, Crime, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, pirate film, romance film, thriller film
In 1820 the Jamaica Inn houses the clandestine rural headquarters of a gang of cut-throats and thieves, led by innkeeper Joss Merlyn. They have become wreckers who are responsible for shipwrecks in which they extinguish coastal warning bea…
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Dark Comedy, Thriller, black comedy, comedy drama, crime film
Jude, Pete, Paulie, Marc and Luke are graduate school students living together in a house in Iowa. Marc is an aspiring painter, Pete is a law student from a wealthy family, Paulie is studying social work, Jude is studying psychology and Lu…
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Political Drama, Social Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Veronica Guerin, a neophyte crime reporter for the Sunday Independent, becomes aware of how much Dublin's illegal drug trade is encroaching upon the lives of its working class, especially the children, and vows to expose the men responsibl…
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Action, Animated Film, Animation, Crime, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film, science fiction film
Since his last encounter against Batman, Victor Fries has made a home for himself in an Arctic cave with a newly adopted Inuit son, Koonak, and polar bears Notchka and Shaka. His wife, Nora, remains in her cryogenic chamber while he seeks …
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Crime, Thriller, action film, drama film, mystery film
On a live fire exercise in the jungles of Panama, a team of Army Rangers trainees is led by instructor and Master Sergeant Nathan West, tasked with traversing the jungle in hurricane weather, attacking pop-up metal targets with live ammuni…
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Crime, Drama, Historie, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, a young employee of Barings Bank who after a successful spell working for the firm's office in Indonesia is sent to Singapore as General Manager of the Trading Floor on the SIMEX exchange. …
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Action, Komödie, Romance Film, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
A white supremacist group is chasing Lou Ann, whose husband, Roy, is a member. She has inadvertently taken counterfeit money from them by running away with his car (the pink Cadillac), which held the supremacists' stash. Tommy Nowak is a s…
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action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Tom Sharky, a narcotics sergeant for the Atlanta Police Department, is working on a transaction with drug dealer Highball. Smiley, another member of the force, shows up unexpectedly during the sting, causing the drug dealer to run and Shar…
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Action, Eastern, Yakuza Film, action film, crime film, martial arts film
While painting the landscape on a hill in San Francisco, a young woman named Emu O'Hara witnesses the murder of a Japanese Yakuza member. She notices that while the assassin stands emotionless in front of her, his eyes begin to shed tears.…
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Crime, action film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1957, a Russian cargo plane is flying above Antarctica. In the cockpit, the two pilots conspire to kill three men sitting in the hold guarding a padlocked box. The copilot leaves his seat and begins to shoot the other men.
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Russ Richards, the weatherman for a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, television station, is revered as a local celebrity by his viewers, and fame affords him such perks as a reserved parking spot and his own booth at Denny's, where an omelet bear…
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Animation, Gothic film, Horror, Super Hero, Thriller, Vampirfilm, action film, children's film, crime film, crossover fiction, gothic horror film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, supernatural horror film, urban fantasy, vampire film
The Joker and the Penguin break out of Arkham, racing to find money in a crypt at Gotham Cemetery. Joker is quickly intercepted by The Batman and is electrocuted by his super-charged joy buzzers and falls into a river, seemingly killing hi…
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