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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 8,422 films · Page 83.
Drama, comedy film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
After con artist Joe Donan accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish to recover "the cake". Joe goes in search of his father's look-alike brother, Lou. Uncle Lou is also a con artist and …
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Reporter C.J. Nicholas built his career on an award-winning documentary about a pregnant teenage prostitute in Buffalo, New York, who died of an overdose after the death of her baby. Now a TV reporter in Shreveport, Louisiana, he works to …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, comedy film, crime film
In 1940, the Great Depression is over and World War II has just begun. Fargo Gondorff is released from prison and reassembles his cronies for another con, out to avenge the murder of his lifelong pal and fellow con artist Kid Colors. Gondo…
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Marital Tragedy, drama film, romance film, trial film
Set on the fictional San Piedro Island in the northern Puget Sound region of the Washington state coast in 1950, the plot revolves around the murder case of Kazuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American accused of killing Carl Heine, a white fisherm…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, crime film, gangster film
A slaughterhouse process follows the unloading of cattle to the making of sausages. A wristwatch and a shoe appear on a conveyor line, making it clear that a human cadaver is processed among the cattle. A woman operating the sausage machin…
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Crime Comedy, Drama, drama film, spy film
In pre-revolutionary Cuba, James Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, is recruited by Hawthorne of the British Secret Intelligence Service to be their Havana operative. Instead of recruiting his own agents, Wormold invents agents from men h…
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Crime, Drama, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film, heist film
John Sedley is a man with a disfigured face, mocked by others as "Johnny Handsome." He and a friend are double-crossed by two accomplices in a crime, Sunny Boyd and her partner Rafe, and a Judge sends Johnny to jail, where he vows to get e…
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime film
Flying Squad officers DI Jack Regan (Ray Winstone) and DC George Carter (Ben Drew) arrive at the scene of a warehouse robbery; four armed men are attempting to steal gold bars. After they capture the robbers, Regan takes some of the gold b…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, teen film
In the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, Kevin Lane witnesses Stacy Lockwood, whom he gave a ride home, being stabbed by an unseen girl who quickly flees. Stacy is rushed to the hospital, where she later dies. In a flashback to ten…
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Daffy Comedy, Detective Film, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, crime film
In 1940, C.W. Briggs is a veteran investigator at a Manhattan insurance company with a highly successful track record, owing to his intuition and network of informers. Efficiency expert Betty Ann Fitzgerald, who has been recently hired to …
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Dark Comedy, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Terry Monroe and Bob Bolaño, two corrupt cops, return to the Albuquerque police force after being suspended for assaulting a racist coworker. Bolaño and Monroe regularly assault, rob and extort criminals, accept bribes, and take drugs. Whi…
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Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, spy film, thriller film
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane wrongly falls under suspicion of setting fire to his Glendale, California manufacturing plant during World War II, an act of domestic sabotage. Kane believes the actual culprit to be an apparent employee,…
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Action, Crime, Drama, crime film, mystery film
Xavier Quinn is the chief of police of a small island in the Caribbean. When Donald Pater, the millionaire owner of a luxury resort hotel, is found murdered, everyone assumes that the culprit is Maubee, a petty crook who also is Quinn's be…
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Action, Thriller, drama film, spy film, thriller film
Samir Horn is an Arabic-speaking Sudanese-American and devout Muslim. His Sudanese father was killed by a car bomb when he was a child. As an adult, Samir is first seen operating as an arms dealer.
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Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
In Pimlico, London, Alice Barlow is murdered by an unknown man, who then ransacks her house, ripping her furniture apart as if desperately searching for something. The house remains empty for many years, until newlyweds Paul and Bella Mall…
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Action, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
NYPD Lieutenant Nick Chen is head of the Asian Gang Unit. His job is to keep the peace in Chinatown from a turf war that has broken out between the Tung Fung Benevolent Association tong and the Fukienese Dragons street gang. The problem is…
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Crime, Drama, crime film
Joseph Valachi is an aging prisoner in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, who was imprisoned for smuggling heroin. The boss of his crime family, Vito Genovese, is imprisoned there as well. Genovese is certain that Valachi is an informant, a…
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Thriller, crime film, thriller film
In an Oregon logging community, a man, Blackway, has been harassing Lillian, a woman newly returned to her hometown. Lillian finds her cat decapitated. She reports this to the town's sheriff but he advises her to leave town.
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LGBTQ-related film
The documentary describes the organization and recounts its history by way of outspoken NAMBLA members Leland Stevenson, Renato Corazza, Peter Melzer, and Chuck Dodson, who expound upon and offer justifications for their feelings toward bo…
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Crime, crime film
Detective Mike Logan has been reassigned to the Domestic Disputes Department on Staten Island following an assault on Kevin Crossley after the latter's acquittal, a job he considers to be a "career dead-end". Three years later, a resentful…
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Crime Comedy, buddy film
Willard is an overworked, underpaid chauffeur who works for a mean-spirited pie heiress named Mrs. Crock, just as his father did before him. All Willard wants for Christmas is a new uniform, as the one he currently wears is the one his fat…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film
Kevin Caffery, a skilled thief, meets Amber Belhaven, who is auctioning her father's painting to settle a hotel bill. He discovers her hotel room and surprises her by returning the stolen painting. Kevin reveals his criminal activities to …
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Biographical picture, Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Conman Raymond Fernandez (Jared Leto) defrauds rich women through personal ads, and meets Martha Beck (Salma Hayek) who joins Raymond in his schemes, posing as his sister. They begin traveling the country, murdering over a dozen women who …
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Action, Bad Cop, Christmas film, Crime, Slasher Horror, Thriller, action film, crime film, horror film, prison film, slasher film, thriller film, zombie film
After being impaled by a pipe and plunged into a body of water, the now-undead "Maniac Cop" Matthew Cordell acquires a junked police cruiser and restarts his killing spree through New York City. Finding a convenience store in the middle of…
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