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Thriller, action film, crime film, slasher film, thriller film
Warren Stacey is a young office equipment repairman who kills women after they reject his sexual advances. His attempts at flirting are always seen as creepy by women, resulting in frequent rejections. One night, Stacey attends a showing o…
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Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film
A slot machine mobster, Marty "Fats" Murdock, wants his blonde girlfriend, Jerri Jordan, to be a singing star, despite her seeming lack of talent. He hires alcoholic press agent Tom Miller to promote Jordan, both because of his past succes…
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Crime, crime drama film
In a small Australian outback town named Limbo, detective Travis Hurley arrives to investigate a 20-year-old unsolved homicide of a young Aboriginal woman, Charlotte Hayes. The desolate region is pocked with caves, opal mines, and dusty un…
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Action, Crime, Heist, Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film
In 2024, the U.S. government prepares to activate the American Peace Initiative (API) signal, a "synaptic blocker" that will prevent the population from breaking the law. In Detroit, Graham Bricke leads a crew of bank robbers including his…
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Action, Crime, Social Drama, action film, comedy drama, drama film, hood film, teen film
One night, after spotting his ex-wife Kimberly in a bar with her divorce attorney, alcoholic high-school teacher Rick Latimer fights with him, culminating in Rick bashing the hapless man's car with a baseball bat. Rick is arrested for the …
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, biographical film, crime film, docudrama, drama film
After three murders of elderly women, the victims having been strangled and penetrated with foreign objects, the Boston police conclude that they have a serial killer to catch: the Boston Strangler. As the murders stretch over several poli…
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Crime, Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
On New Year's Eve, after Nick and Nora Charles return from New York City to their home in San Francisco, the couple are invited to dinner with Nora's aristocratic family. Nora's distraught cousin Selma Landis tells Nora that her playboy hu…
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Mysterie, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir
College Professor Dexter Cornell staggers into a police station to report his own murder. He recounts the past thirty-six hours. Once a promising writer, Dex made his name and is secure in his tenure, but he has spent the last four years g…
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Super Hero, action film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, superhero film
Sometime after taking down crime-boss Robert G. Durant and his associates, brutally-scarred scientist Peyton Westlake continues to work on perfecting his synthetic skin formula, funding his research by stealing from criminals as the vigila…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Paul Maguire and his buddies Kane and Danny live a life of crime as members of a branch of the Irish mob. One night, they ambush a Russian mobster, intercepting him when he's on his way to drop off money to his boss. The cash is enough for…
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Crime, Drama, War Film, drama film, neo-noir, war film
The murder of a prostitute, who was also a German agent, in German-occupied Warsaw in 1942 causes Heer Major Grau of the Wehrmacht's Abwehr to start an investigation. His evidence soon points to the killer being one of three German general…
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Adventure, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film
Roy Alston and Bo Richards are two outcasts of their high school community. Bo receives $200 as a graduation gift from his grandparents. Facing a lifetime of working blue collar factory jobs in their dead-end hometown, the boys spontaneous…
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Mysterie, drama film, film noir, horror film, mystery film
In a village in 1906 Vermont, Helen, a mute girl, attends a silent film screening in a local inn. During the screening, a lame woman limps out of the theatre to her room. She is strangled by a man who was hiding in her closet.
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Action, crime thriller film
On the morning of Fourth of July, the DEA enlists the help of the Seattle SWAT to storm a drug cartel's waterfront warehouse to capture cartel members and seize a shipment of drugs. A firefight ensues, and when it is over, several DEA agen…
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Horror, Horror comedy, Slasher Horror, Thriller, comedy horror, slasher film, teen film, thriller film
A paperboy delivers a newspaper to the house of District Attorney Bill Carson, who has planned a hunting trip. He warns his teenage daughter Paula to do her homework, not to allow boys in the house, and most importantly not to cut class. P…
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Komödie, Satire, comedy film, comedy thriller, drama film
Gruff American gangster Dickey pushes a broken-down stolen car along a causeway through rising seawater while his increasingly weak accomplice Albie lies inside, bleeding from a gunshot wound after a botched robbery. Cut off by the unexpec…
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Crime, Drama, drama film
Jacob Kanon, a New York detective, investigates the death of his daughter who was murdered while on her honeymoon; he recruits the help of an American journalist working in Sweden, Dessie Lombard, when other couples throughout Europe suffe…
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Drama, crime film, drama film, romance film, thriller film
Stephen Elliott is a successful author with a troubled childhood. His mother died when he was a child and his father Neil was physically and psychologically abusive. From his adolescence, Stephen has lived most of his life behaving very de…
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Crime, Film Noir, Sport, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
Harry Fabian is an ambitious American tout and con man on the make in London. He maintains a fractured relationship with the honest Mary Bristol, nightclub owner and businessman Phil Nosseross and with Nosseross's scheming wife, Helen. Whi…
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, drama film, independent film, sport film, thriller film
Alex, a 16-year-old skateboarder, rides a freight train clandestinely with a man named Scratch whom he has just met at the Eastside Skatepark, known as "Paranoid Park". While the train is moving a security guard notices the pair, chases af…
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Crime, Drama, comedy film, drama film, mystery film
Mr Neville, a young and conceited artist, is contracted by Mrs Virginia Herbert to produce a series of twelve landscape drawings of her country house, its outbuildings and gardens, as a gift for her cold and neglectful husband, who is curr…
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Action, action film, crime film, drama film
During a firefight in Vietnam, U.S. soldiers John Eastland and his best friend, Michael Jefferson, are captured by the Viet Cong. They are tied to wooden stakes with several other men, and tortured for information.
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Thriller, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
An unknown woman enters a maternity ward and, with help from an accomplice, steals a newborn baby. Terry, one of the guards catches them in the act but ends up being stabbed to death. Beth Sohapi is having a birthday party for her husband,…
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crime film
Australian cop, Jerome (Patrick Thompson) works as a cybercrime investigator for Interpol but is left shaken after investigating a case in Hamburg, Germany in which a man consented to having his own penis cut off and eaten by his lover. Je…
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