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Crime, Satire, comedy film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
The film is divided into two separate, unequal stories. In the first and shorter of the two, in August 1887 Holmes is approached by Rogozhin, on behalf of a famous Russian ballerina, Madame Petrova. Madame Petrova is about to retire, and w…
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Drama, Police Film, action film, crime film, drama film
Set in New York City, First Shift follows a lone, veteran NYPD officer from Brooklyn who reluctantly agrees to team up with a new female recruit from Atlanta. They spend the next 12 hours patrolling the city's dangerous streets dealing wit…
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Action, Adventure, Anti-War Film, Drama, action film, adventure film, boxing film, drama film, war film
Alain Lefèvre is a French boxer in 1925 in Marseille, France. His brother Maxim has asked for him to throw a fight so that both can live on the money. Lucien Galgani, the mobster who forced him to do so, requests him to do it in the second…
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Tim Warden, an autistic boy, has supposedly witnessed his parents' ruthless murder. Jake Rainer, a former child psychiatrist turned therapist, is called on to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case. The psychological drama is pr…
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Drama, Thriller, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film
Connie Wyatt is a restless 15-year-old who is anxious to explore the pleasures of her sexual awakening. Before she enters her sophomore year in high school, she spends the summer moping around her family farmhouse. She suffers from the put…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Komödie, action film, comedy film, crime film
Two LAPD cops, Detective Mitch Preston and Officer Trey Sellars, both from the Central Division, are paired for a television police reality show and run into trouble with a crime lord. Mitch shoots a news camera after a failed confrontatio…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action comedy film, black comedy, crime thriller film
Doc picks up his old friend Val from prison. At Doc's apartment, while Val is in the bathroom, Doc approaches him with a gun but does nothing. They go for coffee, and Val says that he wants to "party".
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Drama, crime film, drama film
In an alternate American society, race relations have developed similar to how they did in real life, but with the races effectively swapped: black people make up the privileged and well-off majority, while white people make up the disadva…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, crime film, spy film, thriller film
Harry Pearce is head of the counter-terrorism department (Section D) at MI5. Harry's team is transporting terrorist Adem Qasim through London when the convoy is attacked, allowing Qasim to escape and a CIA operative to be killed. Realising…
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Thriller
Diane de Monx is an executive trying to negotiate a deal to acquire the rights to the productions of a Japanese anime studio, which will soon include three-dimensional hentai, for the French-based Volf Corporation. To facilitate the acquis…
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Detective Film, Gothic film, Horror, crime film, monster film, mystery film
Dr. Richard Mortimer recounts to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in Baker Street the legend of the Hell hound that killed the devilish Sir Hugo Baskerville in retaliation for his misdeeds, including murdering the daughter of a servant. H…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, comedy film, heist film
Cosimo is arrested when he and Toto try to steal a car. In prison, he meets an old man who mentions a “Bellini” - a perfect heist - that he could not carry out because of a life sentence. Cosimo asks his girlfriend Rosalind to find someone…
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Drama, comedy film, drama film
Between 1980 and 1982, Toronto bank employee Dan Mahowny is given access to bigger accounts with his promotion to assistant branch manager. His boss trusts him, but is unaware that Mahowny is a compulsive gambler. Mahowny is soon skimming …
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Komödie
thumb|left|thumbtime=2|Sherlock, Jr. Buster Keaton stars as Projectionist, who moonlights as an amateur detective. When the cinema is empty, he reads the book How to be a Detective.
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biographical film, crime film
In New York City, hot-tempered gangster Joe Gallo pulls a knife on a man in a theater who complains about Joe's talking during the movie. Joe later enters a car with his brother Richie and cronies Jelly and Mannie. They don masks, pull gun…
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Horror, action film, horror film
Melissa Scott and her fiancé Bobby Lawrence are on a cross country road trip to Las Vegas to get married. Joining them for the ride is Melissa's sister Kayla and Kayla's online boyfriend Nik. During the trip, their car breaks down in the d…
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Mysterie, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1953 Elderstown, Illinois, as the Ralston department stores closes for the night, an unseen man and woman engage in an illicit affair as a silhouetted man closes in on them. Both appear to be shot dead before the man presumably commits …
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Crime, Thriller
Brenda Freeman and her two children, Kelly and Cam, relocate from Los Angeles to Houston after Brenda’s husband passes away from cancer. Brenda’s brother, Reggie, joins them on their move to Houston to live with their mother while they get…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
Candy Morrison is a well-respected member of her church and community. After teaching a children’s Bible study, she leaves to pick up a bathing suit at the home of her friend, Peggy Blankenship, for Peggy’s daughter, Meg, who is staying th…
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Crime
A TV crime drama in which a top chef helps solve the poisoning of a journalist. The lead investigator, however, isn't too thrilled about it...
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Crime, Drama, crime film, prison film
James "Jimmie" Rainwood (Tom Selleck) is an ordinary, model citizen. Happily married to his beautiful wife Kate (Laila Robins), he has a modest home in Long Beach, California. Jimmie works as an expert American Airlines aeronautics enginee…
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Action, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film
Late one night, a woman is killed while babysitting a young boy; the killer then kidnaps the boy. A few months later a man and cleaning woman are killed at a motel in Amarillo, Texas. Amarillo's sheriff, Buck Olmstead, is up for reelection.
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LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, thriller film
In 1957, immediately after co-hosting a 39-hour polio telethon in Miami, entertainers Lanny Morris and Vince Collins fly north to open the new showroom of a New Jersey hotel run by mobster Sally Sanmarco, who has intimidated them into appe…
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Crime Comedy, coming-of-age film, drama film
Set in Port Talbot and Swansea, the Lewis "twins" of the title are not twins but brothers. They live with their parents and sister Adie in a caravan on a mobile home site. Constantly mocking their sister's employment at a local massage par…
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