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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, documentary film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
On a hot New York summer night, two men chloroform ex-model Jean Dexter and drown her in her bathtub. When one of them gets conscience-stricken while drunk, the other kills him and throws his body into the East River. Experienced New York …
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Komödie, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romantic comedy
Ex-stripper Freddie is marrying Sam Clayton to repay a debt owed to nightclub owner Red. At the wedding, Freddie meets Jjaks, Sam's brother, and they instantly fall in love. Jjaks and Freddie decide to run off together, eventually staying …
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Action, action film, drama film, prison film, thriller film
While working overseas in Magnitogorsk, Russia, Kyle LeBlanc finds his wife dead after hearing her being attacked over the phone. The culprit, Sergio Kovic, bribes the judge and is not convicted. Enraged, Kyle steals a gun from the bailiff…
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Action, Crime, Drama, spy film
The story takes place in the early 1970s in Chicago. A white U.S. Senator facing re-election is told that his speech on law and order has led to a decline in his popularity among his African-American constituents.
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Action, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, drama film, heist film
SFPD Inspector Scott Roper is the best hostage negotiator in his department. He is called in to deal with a bank robber, Earl, demanding a getaway vehicle and police escort. He manages to defuse the situation, shooting Earl non-fatally in …
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Drama, association football film, crime film, drama film
Bex is the leader of the West Ham United football firm, that travels up and down the country, to places such as Portsmouth, to fight other firms. Dom is a normal young lad who hangs around with his mates, and one night they go to a nightcl…
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Crime, Drama, Horror, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Myra Savage is a medium who holds séances in her home. Her husband Billy, unable to work because of asthma and cowed by Myra's domineering personality, assists in her séances. Myra's life and psychic work are dominated by her relationship …
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Erotic Thriller, erotic film, erotic thriller, teen film
In 1985, Ivan and Catherine Greer live with their 9-year-old daughter Joy, their housekeeper Rebecca (whom Ivan is having an affair with), and her two daughters Ivy (9) and Violet (8). The three young girls live as sisters, but Ivy has got…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
The movie begins with a vision – on a dark, windy day, a man stands naked on a beach. He then walks into the sea and drowns. In Los Angeles, several days before Christmas, Charlie, a suicidal priest, is driving around the city with a loade…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, horror film, mystery film, slasher film
Samantha Sherwood, a beautiful actress and muse for director Jonathan Stryker, feigns mental illness and has herself committed to an asylum to prepare for the titular role of a mentally unstable woman in a film called Audra. Once inside, s…
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Gangster Film, Komödie, comedy drama, drama film, neo-noir
Mini Drogues is a clever and adventurous high school senior who is bored with her life. She prizes her "unique experiences" (she calls them "firsts"). For excitement, and to add to her list of firsts, Mini decides to try being a call girl.
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Action, Drama, crime film, drama film, teen film
Billy is a thrill-seeking teen, who along with his friends Jo, Be Bop and Monkey - engage in stealing cars and occasional petty theft by crashing cars into shops, also known as ram-raiding. The film begins with Billy being released from ja…
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Drama, Thriller, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film
The film follows the personal relationship between Arkady Shapira, his terminally ill wife Irina, and their two sons, Joshua and Reuben. Joshua, the elder brother, is a hit-man for the Russian-Jewish mafia in Brooklyn and estranged from hi…
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Action, Natural Disaster, action film, crime film, heist film
In 1992, a category 5 hurricane named "Andrew" hits the town of Gulfport, Alabama. Will and Breeze Rutledge are evacuating from the destructive hurricane with their dad. However, their truck becomes stuck after avoiding the toppling tree i…
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Adventure, Biographical picture, Crime, Komödie, Romance Film, drama film
Bradley Morahan (played by Mason) is an Australian artist who feels he has become jaded by success and life in New York City. He decides that he needs to regain the edge he had as a young artist and returns to Australia. He sets up in a sh…
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Action, Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime thriller film
Dr. Rachel Jane is a rogue plastic surgeon with a twisted vision of a better world. After losing her medical license, she began an illegal practice and performed unwanted surgical experiments on impoverished homeless people.
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film
Frank is a low-level cocaine dealer in London, conducting business with his partner Tony and would-be-girlfriend Flo. When a former cellmate contacts him for a large drug deal, Frank borrows £45,000 of cocaine from Milo, a dangerous Serbia…
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Thriller, comedy thriller, mystery film, neo-noir, romantic comedy
British newlywed Regina Lambert lives in Paris with her husband Charles. She returns home following a short vacation, determined to divorce Charles only to discover their apartment has been stripped bare and that her husband has been murde…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
In California, two friends, Roy Collins and Gilbert Bowen, leave one evening on a planned fishing trip to San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico. They cross the Mexico–United States border at Calexico-Mexicali and continue on through the nigh…
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Action, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film
D.D. is in a Las Vegas bar waiting on her milquetoast date, Osgood. Shortly before Osgood arrives, a tough-looking drunk flirts with her, then turns mean.
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action film, buddy film, comedy film, heist film, martial arts film
James (Leslie Cheung), Red Bean Pudding (Chow Yun-Fat) and Red Bean (Cherie Chung) are three orphans raised by crime lord Boss Chow (Kenneth Tsang), and grow up to become high-end art thieves. Boss Chow directs the three to steal a cursed …
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Crime, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, spy film
Major Sloane murders Professor Ragheeb, an expert in ancient hieroglyphs at Oxford University, and steals a hieroglyph-encrypted message. Sloane then asks American professor David Pollock, who has taken over Ragheeb's class, to meet with s…
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Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, rape and revenge film, vigilante film
Will Gerard is a humble high school English teacher in New Orleans. His wife Laura is a cellist who plays in a local orchestra. After a performance one evening, Laura is beaten and brutally raped by a stranger named Hodge.
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Detective Film, crime film, horror film, thriller film
In order to discover the killer of her mentor, a young investigator forms an alliance with a serial killer.
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