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Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, drama film
Gloria has just gotten out of prison, where she has served three years to save her boyfriend, Kevin. During her stay in prison, she thinks about how Kevin never once visited her. She tells Kevin that the relationship is over and that all s…
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Romantic Drama, Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, romance film, thriller film
Psychiatrist Isaac Barr treats Diana Baylor for obsessive–compulsive disorder. Diana suggests Isaac meet her sister, Heather Evans, who may be able to shed light on her neuroses. Heather tells him that Diana was sexually abused by their fa…
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Drama, drama film, teen film
Fleeing various hardships, a group of young people form a protective family of their own on the streets of Los Angeles, led by King. In his early twenties, King has lived on the street for several years. After being released after two mont…
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Detective Film, Thriller, adventure film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Dr John H. Watson becomes convinced that his friend Sherlock Holmes, the famous private detective, is delusional—particularly in his belief that the renowned mathematician Professor James Moriarty is a criminal mastermind—as a result of hi…
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Crime, Horror, thriller
Reporter Carl Kolchak of Seattle, Washington is assigned by his editor, Tony Vincenzo, to cover a series of killings in which the victims, all belly dancers, are strangled. Kolchak learns from the coroner's report that the victims' necks w…
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Action, Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, heist film
During the Great Depression, various bank robbers and other outlaws have become folk heroes due to public distrust of financial institutions and the law. Following the Kansas City Massacre in June 1933 in which several law enforcement offe…
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Gangster Film, action film, buddy film, crime film, drama film
Biggs (Errol) (Ky-Mani Marley) and Wayne (Spragga Benz), are two young men who grow up together in the tough and dangerous streets of Kingston. They rob a soda truck and shoot the truck driver while they are still children. The robbery mon…
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Crime, Mysterie, crime film, psychological thriller
Megan Paige, an investigator for the Rochester Police Department, is investigating the murder of a young girl named Carla Castillo. Her body was found in the nearby village of Churchville, New York, along with traces of white cat hair. Opp…
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Thriller, crime film, neo-noir
Chapter One: Boredom is Beautiful Drug dealer Kyle Ribb is "promoted" to move product wholesale in Arkansas, part of a loose criminal organization run by a man named Frog. Kyle and his new partner, Swin Horn, meet Bright, a park ranger wor…
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Action, Crime, Crime Comedy, Western film, buddy film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, mystery film
In Hollywood in the late 1920s, during the waning days of the industry's transition to sound film, producer and studio head Alfie Alperin wants to produce an epic Western film about Wyatt Earp. Tom Mix is cast as the great United States Ma…
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Erotic Thriller, Film Noir, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, erotic film, thriller
Brittney Havers, a South Florida high school senior, lives with her wealthy but cruel stepfather, Niles Dunlap, after her mother ran her car off the road in "Gator Alley" and was presumably eaten by alligators a year earlier. When Dunlap i…
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Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Corrupt sheriff Kretzer removes his uniform's shirt and leaves his handgun in the back seat of his police car. He removes a body from his car's trunk, drags and drops it in a covered pit in the woods, and pours a bag of quicklime on it. Me…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film
Tom, a successful Hollywood film director, is recovering from an all-night partying affair. He is still suffering from his heavy drinking and his "girlfriend" is still sleeping it off in bed as the sun rises. Tom decides to get away from i…
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Drama, biographical film, buddy film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, teen film
In 1974, college-educated Jim Ellis is having a hard time finding employment. While struggling to find something better, Jim, a former competitive swimmer, works at the decrepit Marcus Foster Recreation Center in a poor neighborhood of Phi…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Frank Jessup is an ambulance driver who dreams of running his own repair shop for sportscars. One evening, while responding to an emergency call at a posh estate, he meets beautiful heiress Diane Tremayne. Intrigued, Diane devises a series…
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True Crime, documentary film
Action, Biographical picture, Crime, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Part 1 Part 1 depicts Mesrine's life from 1959 to 1972, beginning with his time as a member of the French Army during the Algerian War, where he was forced to shoot and kill prisoners and bomb-makers. On his return to France, he moves into…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Detective Sergeant Johnson has been a police officer for twenty years and is deeply affected by the murders, rapes and other violent crimes he has investigated. He is plagued by images of violence, and he appears to be losing his mind unde…
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Action, Drama, crime film
Jacob King, who lives in Cape Town receives a message from his estranged sister Bianca, who lives in Los Angeles with her husband and stepson, that she is in trouble and has something "they" want. King flies to Los Angeles with a return ti…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, thriller film
Guy Van Stratten, a small-time American smuggler working in Europe, seeks out a Munich resident named Jakob Zouk to warn him about a plot against his life. Zouk is terminally ill and receives the news with apathy, so Stratten explains his …
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Christmas film, Crime Comedy, black comedy film
Young man Eric Norris seeks out his lifetime estranged father in the fictitious El Camino, Nevada. El Camino County Sheriff Bob Fuller reprimands local Deputy Carl Hooker for not preventing a meth lab explosion, although being forewarned, …
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Biographical picture, Crime
Elizabeth Smart recaps the time in which she was kidnapped and tells her perspective of it. It starts on June 5, 2002 with the kidnapping of 14-year old Elizabeth Smart (Alana Boden) in the middle of the night by a religious fanatic named …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In Rillow Valley, Tennessee, Lucas "Luke" Doolin works in the family moonshine business, running illegal liquor his father distills to clandestine distribution points throughout the South in his hot rod. However, Lucas has more problems th…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
An American couple, Roy and Jessie, take the train from Beijing to Moscow on their return home from a Christian mission in China. Roy befriends their cabin mates, a Spanish man, Carlos, and his Seattle-born girlfriend, Abby. Jessie is wari…
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