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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Detective Virgil Tibbs, now a lieutenant with the San Francisco police, is assigned to investigate the murder of a prostitute. A prime suspect is Reverend Logan Sharpe, a street preacher who is leading one of the sides in a city referendum…
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Action, Drama, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, detective film, drama film, martial arts film, thriller film
U.S. version Billy Wong is a Hong Kong-born officer with the New York Police Department. During a bar robbery gone awry, Billy kills the perpetrators but loses his partner Michael Alexander, drawing the ire of his superiors.
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Conspiracy Thriller, Justice Drama, action film, drama film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1859, a meteorite streaks across the sky and crashes into the Gela Alta glacier in western Greenland, causing a massive explosion that kills an Inuk fisherman. In present-day Copenhagen, Smilla Jaspersen, a transplanted Greenlander, is …
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Mysterie, Romantic Drama, drama film, erotic thriller, romance film
In Cold War Vienna, Milena Flaherty, a young American woman, is rushed to the emergency room after apparently overdosing in a suicide attempt. With her is Alex Linden, an American psychoanalyst who lives in the city working as a university…
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Crime, Drama, drama television series
In Gloucester in February 1994, social worker Janet Leach is an appropriate adult, someone present during police interviews with children or vulnerable adults. She attends a police interview with Fred West, who confesses to the 1987 murder…
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comedy film, hood film
Shawn, a low level employee at a beeper shop, is on parole. Following the death of his mother, Shawn declines an offer by his friend Burtie to participate in burglaries, but when his low income prevents him paying his bills, he decides to …
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Action, Drama, Romance Film, Thriller, drama film
Set in the American Midwest, the film begins with the murder of a Jewish radio host in Chicago. FBI undercover agent Catherine Weaver, alias Katie Phillips, sets out to infiltrate a farming community, suspected of harboring those responsib…
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Western, Western film, adventure film, mystery film
Distraught but skillful bounty hunter Lewis Gates is accompanied by his horse and faithful companion Zip, an Australian Cattle Dog. Gates tracks three armed escaped convicts into Montana's isolated Oxbow Quadrangle, at the persistence of h…
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Action, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Sean Boyd, a former cop, aligns with Maria, a street smart young clerk from the New York City dog pound, on a search for his daughter, who is kidnapped by Gus Soltic, a psychopath, after being mistaken for the daughter of a wealthy real es…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Peter Denver, a renowned Broadway producer, is attending a cocktail party hosted by the viciously haughty and celebrated actress Carlotta "Lottie" Marin and her quiet husband Brian Mullen when he meets Nancy "Nanny" Ordway. The seemingly n…
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Adventure, Family Comedy, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, heist film, teen film
Madeline Rose "Maddy" Phillips is a 12-year-old girl who loves to climb, often ascending the nearby water tower. Her father Tom shares her passion, but fell more than 100 feet during a climb years earlier. Tom and his wife Molly are afraid…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In the 1970s Midwest, teenaged Bobbie, a methamphetamine addict, attempts to rob several vending machines at a local college, but is confronted by a night guard who brutally attacks and beats him. The fight ends with Bobbie stabbing the gu…
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Komödie, Thriller, comedy thriller, crime film
In 1939, a new radio network based at station WBN in Chicago, Illinois, begins its inaugural night. The station's owner, General Walt Whalen, depends on his employees to impress main sponsor Bernie King. This includes writer Roger Henderso…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Komödie, comedy film, heist film
Ray Winkler, an ex-convict who lives in a small apartment with his wife, Frances ("Frenchy"), and works as a dishwasher, comes up with a plan to rob a bank by leasing a building that used to house a pizzeria and, with his cronies, digging …
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Blaxploitation, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
After returning home from a five-year prison sentence, John "Goldie" Mickens has a plan to achieve money and power in Oakland, California, by becoming a pimp. Goldie's criminal ways contrast with his brother Olinga's Black Nationalist effo…
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Action, Crime, action film, adventure film, mystery film, suspense film
Scarlett is a low-level thief who, while working as a pickpocket in a nightclub, falls for the suave Rob. Rob, it turns out, is a diamond smuggler working with Danny and Baraka, selling a massive diamond to queen-fence Charlie. Following R…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1912 the wealthy Birling family live in the industrial town of Brumley in the North Midlands. The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to Gerald Croft, the son of a factory owner who is even more successful t…
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Fantasy, Mysterie, Occult Horror, Psychological Thriller
Alex Bernier is a disillusioned priest and a member of the fictional Carolingian Order – an ancient sect that specializes in exorcisms and combatting demonic forces. The narrative begins with the mysterious death of Father Dominic – the he…
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Super Hero, crime film, science fiction, science fiction film
Still on the run, David Bruce Banner makes his way toward a large city with the hopes of staying incognito under the name David Belson. Unbeknownst to him, the city is under the control of a crime boss named Wilson Fisk and protected by a …
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
In Kansas City, 1933, police lieutenant Speer goes to a diner for coffee. Two men arrive, looking for a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Speer and Murphy were good friends until the latter left the force.
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film
Small-time Boston crook Tony Pino tries to make a name for himself. He and his five associates pull off a robbery whenever they can. Tony stumbles across the fact that the Brink's security procedures are incredibly lax.
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Crime, crime film
The movie is told in non-chronological order, with present scenes intercut with flashbacks that slowly reveal the details of the past as the movie progresses. 18-year-old Ronnie Fuller and Alice Manning have just been released from Juvenil…
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Silly Movie, comedy film
Bullmastiff Agent 11 works in the FBI canine unit in Seattle, Washington. With his human partner, Murdoch, Agent 11 goes on a raid of the hideout of Mafia boss Sonny Talia, who escapes but not before the dog bites off one of his testicles.…
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Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film
Jack Stanfield is chief of security of Landrock Pacific Bank in downtown Seattle. He is visited by a collection agency, claiming he owes $95,000 to their online gambling site. Believing the incident is due to an identity theft, Jack entrus…
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