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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir
In Washington D.C., a former US Army soldier named Joseph Samuels is found dead in a hotel room. Police Captain Finlay suspects that the murderer may be among a group of demobilized servicemen who had been with Samuels and his female compa…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Composer Richard Parker and his wife Priscilla live an ordinary suburban life until they meet their new neighbors Eddy and Kay Otis. The two couples become friends. Kay's talent for blues singing gets Richard's attention, while Eddy is att…
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Thriller, thriller film
In Utah, Nancy Breyers is a defense lawyer who is inexplicably in love with client Michael Bosworth, an intelligent and sociopathic convict. During a break from a courtroom hearing, Nancy sneaks a gun to Bosworth. After Bosworth snaps a gu…
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Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
Middle aged assistant college psychology professor Richard Wanley sends his wife and two children off on vacation. He then heads to his club to meet friends. On the way in, Wanley sees a striking portrait of an alluring dark-haired woman i…
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Crime, crime film, horror film
The film opens with seventeen-year-old Alex Forbes, a privileged and intelligent student, engaging in thrill-seeking behavior with his friends. After the sudden death of his roommate, Nigel Colbie, Alex is arrested and charged with murder.…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Komödie, Thriller, crime film, drama film
The film is narrated by Frankie, a young everyman living in South East London during the Thatcher era of the 1980s specifically 1984, with little hope of ever making anything of himself, yet he dreams of "being somebody" and escaping his l…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In Las Vegas, LVMPD policemen Vincent Downs and his partner Sean Cass rob a shipment of cocaine belonging to entrepreneur Stanley Rubino, who intended to sell it to mobster Rob Novak, the son of a powerful mob boss. The two cops volunteer …
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, a reporter in Los Angeles for the Los Angeles Times, is contacted by the executor of his late aunt Belle's will, attorney Amanda Ray Ross. Ross informs Fletch he has inherited his aunt's plantation, Belle Isle, in …
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Action, Crime, action film, adventure film, crime film, thriller film
In the Yukon Territory in 1931, Albert Johnson (Charles Bronson), a solitary American trapper, comes across an organized dog fight. A white German Shepherd named Sitka is badly injured and Johnson forces $200 on its owner, a vicious trappe…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Two FBI agents are conducting surveillance at a warehouse. As U.S. Senator Dennis Darden walks out of the door, he is approached by an assassin from behind who slits his throat and escapes.
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Action, Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Criminal Comedy Film, Romantic Comedy, action film, comedy film, crime film, road movie
Convict Jack Hammond stops at a gas station in Newport Beach, California, where he encounters two police officers and a young woman. When the officers receive a radio call indicating that the car Jack is driving is stolen, he panics and us…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film
As a child, Virgil Starkwell is a frequent target of bullies, who take his glasses and stamp on them on the floor. In school, he scores well on an IQ test. When he steals a fountain pen, his teacher instructs the class to close their eyes …
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crime film
During a dangerous confrontation, Sherlock Holmes, John Watson and Jim Moriarty are interrupted by a call on Moriarty's phone. He withdraws and dismisses his snipers. Sherlock becomes a celebrity after John blogs about their cases.
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Action, Heist, Thriller
In an unidentified European country, Police oversees the transportation of $10 million from a bank. To prevent the master thief Diabolik from stealing the money, he creates a diversion whereby a truck from the bank transports wastepaper, w…
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime film, drama film, heist film
On August 18, 1994, Martin Cahill leaves his home in Cowper Downs, Rathmines. He is ambushed by an assassin, who escapes on a motorcycle driven by an accomplice. As his family grieve, his Garda nemesis, Inspector Ned Kenny, arrives to see …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
During the 1930s in St. Mathilda's, a strict elite British boarding school, a clique of girls idolise their enigmatic diving instructor, Miss G., who is a former student. Di Radfield has a crush on Miss G., and is the firm favourite and ri…
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Psychological Thriller, Road Movie, action film, comedy film, comedy horror, crime film, romance film
Perdita Durango has gone to Mexico to scatter the ashes of her dead sister. There, she is picked up by bank-robbing drug dealer Romeo Dolorosa. Dolorosa had robbed the bank to pay off his debt to loan shark "Catalina".
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action film, comedy film, crime film, heist film
Yenicall, a cat burglar seduces the owner of Leesung Gallery, and steals a rare artifact with the help of three other partners: Popie, the leader, Zampano, the assistant, and Chewingum, a middle-aged conwoman. They are visited by a detecti…
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Drama, drama film
Harry Stoner lives in high style in a Beverly Hills mansion with a Spanish-speaking maid. Traumatized by combat in WWII, and overwhelmed by his business and life pressures, he is obsessed with his baseball-loving youth. Awakening in a scre…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Danny Ciello is a narcotics detective who works in the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) of the NYPD. He and his fellow investigators are called "Princes of the City" because they are largely unsupervised and are given wide latitude to make…
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Action Comedy, action film, crime film, sport film
After a successful Sydney bank robbery, with the robbers wearing pig masks and wielding shotguns, the man in charge, "The Boss", plans a further and larger payroll robbery for two days later, worth at least $1.5 million. He hopes that he c…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, coming-of-age film, drama film, female buddy film, teen film
Maddie Wirtz is a high school senior living in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Her plans to coast through her last school year before college are waylaid when she meets another teenage girl, "Legs," a drifter who takes shelter from the ra…
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Action, Secret Agent, drama film, thriller film
Adam Cassidy is a low-level inventor who works for a corporation run by Nicholas Wyatt. After being fired for insubordination, Adam uses the company's credit card to pay for bottle service for his friends at a club. Wyatt and his enforcer,…
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Action, Crime, action film
A young man named Chance Wilson falls into a life of corruption moving back into the intercity against the wishes of his father Frank Wilson. Frank Wilson initially hoped to keep his son safe and out of trouble by moving out into the count…
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