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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, zombie film
Amateur photographer George LeMoyne arrives in coastal Potters Bluff. Lisa, a beautiful local woman, offers to model for him. When he accepts her invitation to have sex, a mob of townspeople beats and immolates him.
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Criminal Comedy Film, Mafia Film, comedy film, crime film
Like the 1974 film The Godfather Part II, the narrative of Mafia! consists of a series of flashbacks interwoven with the main plot. Tony is the son of a prominent Mafia don, Vincenzo Armani Windbreaker Cortino.
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Action, Thriller, action film, prison film, thriller film
In San Francisco, FBI agent Sasha Petrosevitch goes undercover as a Russian car thief and is brought in by criminal Nick Frazier to work for crime boss Sonny Eckvall, who apparently shot and killed Sasha's wife. After some time, FBI Specia…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, science fiction film
Dr. Larry Roberts, a renowned Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, performs cosmetic procedures on a clientele mainly consisting of female television models. Lisa Convey, one of his patients, falls into a trance state in her apartment after bein…
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Crime, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
A group of ten people, strangers to one another, arrive at a hotel deep in the Iranian desert, located adjacent to the ruins of Persepolis, 200 miles from civilization. The guests quickly discover that their host is mysteriously absent. He…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
Working with his three friends at their new software development company Skullbocks, Stanford graduate Milo Hoffman is recruited by Gary Winston, the CEO of the software corporation NURV. Milo is offered an attractive programming position …
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, in the 1950s, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard. Ballard is a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps." Ballard's life is…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1937, in a small mining town on the Nevada–Arizona border, Jess Tyler is the caretaker of an unused silver mine. His wife, Belle Morgan, deserted him 10 years earlier and took their daughters, Janey and Kady, when she ran off with anoth…
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Drama, Thriller
On 26 April 1929, Scotland Yard Detective Frank Webber escorts his girlfriend Alice White to a tea house. They have an argument and Frank storms out. While reconsidering his action, he sees Alice leave with Mr.
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
In New Orleans, Will Montgomery and Vincent Kinsey are preparing for a heist, aided by Riley, their getaway driver, and Hoyt, a computer security expert. They are watched by FBI agent Tim Harlend, who knows that Will and Vincent have been …
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, monster film
In 1983, a boy named Billy Parks has difficulty falling asleep after waking up from a nightmare. His mother, Mary, assures him that the monster he thinks is in the closet is imaginary. As he tries to fall asleep, a dark apparition emerges …
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Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Ex-convicts Emil Slovák and Oleg Razgul arrive in the United States to claim their part of a bank heist in Eastern Europe. Oleg steals a video camera from an electronics store. At the rundown apartment of their old partner Milos Karlova, t…
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Drama, Mysterie, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir
Corporate engineer Joe Ross has invented a potentially lucrative "process", the precise nature of which is never revealed. While on a retreat on the island of St. Estèphe, he meets wealthy stranger Julian "Jimmy" Dell and attracts the inte…
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Crime Comedy, comedy drama, crime film
As the movie opens in late-1970's Detroit, Louis and his friend Ordell lure the man who just robbed Louis of 27 dollars into the street to run him over and recover the cash. The two plan to kidnap Mickey, wife of corrupt real estate develo…
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Drama, Musical, crime film, drama film, musical film
19-year-old high school student Danny Fisher works before and after school to support his father and sister Mimi. After Danny's mother died, his grieving father lost his job as a pharmacist and moved his impoverished family to the French Q…
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Dramedy, LGBTQ-related film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Retired decorated security guard Walter Koontz lives in a downtown apartment complex, where he is in constant conflict with drag queen Rusty and his friends. He frequents a nightclub at which he is an expert tango dancer, and from which he…
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Christmas film, Drama, Film Noir, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, mystery film, prison film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
On Christmas Eve in New York City, down-on-his-luck ex-convict Nick Bianco and his three colleagues rob a jewelry store. Before they can exit the building, however, the injured proprietor sets off his alarm. While attempting to escape, Nic…
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Crime, Drama, Family Drama, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 1974, Chris Pierzynski is furloughed from prison after serving twelve years for murdering a rapist and killer he caught in the act, and moves in with his brother Frank, who is a New York Police detective. Chris reconnects with his ex-wi…
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Ghost-Movie, Komödie, comedy film, crime film, ghost film, romance film
In 1937, the once successful playwright Charles Condomine is suffering from depression and writer's block that is affecting his five-year marriage to Ruth. After a performance by popular medium Madame Arcati ends in fiasco, as a kind of pu…
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Thriller, horror film, thriller film
Mountaineers Alison, Ed and Rob meet up with friends Jenny and Alex for a climbing and hiking trip in the Scottish Highlands. Whilst taking a break for lunch, they discover Anna, a young girl buried alive in a small chamber in the wilderne…
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Crime, Horror, Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, psycho-biddy, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Irene Trent is unhappily married to a blind, pathologically possessive millionaire inventor, Howard. Howard and Irene's palatial mansion is packed with an assortment of cuckoo clocks, all in perfect synchronization, and Howard tape records…
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Mafia Film, crime film, drama film
Political Thriller, alternate history film, crime film, drama film, science fiction film
Crime, Drama, crime film, detective film, drama film
A trio of Wayne County, Michigan, auto workers, two black—32-year-old Ezekiel "Zeke" Brown from Detroit, Michigan, and two-time ex-convict, 35-year-old Sam "Smokey" James from Mississippi, who spent time in Michigan State Prison—and one 33…
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