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Slasher Horror, horror film, slasher film
Five teenagers — Kate (Margo Harshman), Zack (Greg Cipes), Vicky, Riff, and Ashley — are on their way to pan for gold during Spring Break when they make a wrong turn. They encounter two strange men, Pig and Garth, who warn them to return h…
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LGBTQ-related film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film, neo-noir
A month after his party-obsessed wife Patty Lareine left him, Tim Madden is visited by his father Dougy, who tells Tim that he has stopped chemotherapy because "tough guys don't dance". Tim reveals to Dougy that there are parts of two murd…
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Action, Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Vincent LaMarca is a veteran New York City Police Department detective. When Vincent was 8 years old, his father was executed for murder because a child whom his father (also a cop but desperate for money) had kidnapped for ransom died whi…
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Thriller, mystery film, thriller film
New York City janitor Daryll Deever is an avid fan of television news reporter Toni Sokolow. Another janitor, Aldo, is fired from the same office building Daryll works at after a confrontation with Mr. Long, a wealthy Vietnamese man suspec…
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Crime, association football film, crime film, drama film
Set in 1988, John (Reece Dinsdale), an ambitious young police officer in the Metropolitan Police, is sent undercover along with colleagues Trevor (Richard Graham), Eddie (Perry Fenwick) and Charlie (Philip Glenister) to join a violent foot…
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Thriller, black comedy film, comedy drama, flashback film, thriller film
The film involves a series of interconnected events that converge around two car-related accidents at 11:14 p.m. The connections between the events are not apparent at first, but are gradually revealed by a series of progressively receding…
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Drama, Thriller, horror film
Claire Cooper is a suburban housewife and mother, who in her free time, illustrates children's stories. Her husband, Paul, is an airline pilot, and is frequently away from home due to work (and possibly an affair with an Australian co-work…
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Satire, comedy film, crime film
Eddie Muntz is a small-time American arms dealer who talks his way into a job with a large defense corporation selling high-tech military unmanned aerial vehicles to a mentally unstable South American dictator. Muntz arrives in war-torn an…
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Crime, Drama, crime film
On a late Sunday evening in the Bronx, punks Joe Ferrone and Artie Connors are looking for trouble. After giving a hard time to a pool hall owner for closing early, they briefly harass a passing couple, then mug an old man for his eight do…
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Crime, Western, crime film
Texas Ranger Samantha Payne opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered - and that a local rancher was involved.
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Melodrama, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, historical drama film, historical film
In 1831, Sydney is a frontier town, full of rough ex-convicts from the British Isles. The new Governor, Sir Richard, arrives with his charming and cheery but indolent second cousin, the Honourable Charles Adare. Charles, who is hoping to m…
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Drama, association football film, crime film, drama film, prison film
Dave Bjorno, along with other members of the Green Street Elite, are arrested for participating in the fight at the end of the first film, and end up being sent to a tough prison. In prison, the GSE quickly discover the brutality of life o…
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crime film
John Watson, an army doctor injured in Afghanistan, meets Sherlock Holmes, who is looking for someone to share a flat at 221B Baker Street, owned by landlady Mrs. Hudson. The police, led by Detective Inspector Lestrade, have been baffled b…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Drama, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Travel agent Paul Barnell finds a body in a dumpster that, unbeknownst to him, was left there by professional hitmen. Heavily in debt and attempting to find a cure for his wife Margaret's apparent Tourette syndrome, he stages a disfiguring…
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Action, action film, thriller film
Kate McQuean is a Miami civil attorney who, in the course of a divorce case, attempts to have a freighter moored off the Florida coast seized in lieu of unpaid alimony. The ship, which is owned by criminal Emilio Juantorena, is the current…
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Komödie, buddy film, crime film, screwball comedy film
Joe Waters and Gus Green are bumbling, blue-collar, yet happy best friends and next door neighbors who live modestly in Newark, New Jersey and have known each other since childhood. They share the hobby of fishing and win a stay in the Flo…
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Komödie, action comedy film, blaxploitation film, boxing film, buddy film
Two friends, Billy Foster and Clyde Williams, need to quickly find a way to raise funds for their fraternal lodge, the Sons and Daughters of Shaka. It is incumbent on Billy to find the money because he is the treasurer of the struggling lo…
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Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, thriller film
University student Bud Corliss is wooing fellow student Dorothy Kingship solely for her father's mining fortune. When Bud discovers that Dorothy is pregnant with his child, he realizes that she will be disinherited by her father, Leo Kings…
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Thriller, comedy thriller, crime comedy film
On New Year's Eve, Manhattan socialite Alison Hawkins returns home from the evening's festivities. As she feeds her fish before going to bed, a killer uses a blue ribbon to strangle her to death. It is the latest murder by a serial killer …
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Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, film noir, flashback film, thriller film
Eve Gill is an aspiring actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She is interrupted in rehearsal by her friend and crush, Jonathan Cooper, the secret lover of flamboyant stage actress and singer Charlotte Inwood. Via …
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Action, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Super Hero, action film
Min Lo Chan, the Chinese Minister of Industrial Development, who happens to be an old college friend of J. Jonah Jameson, flees China and comes to the United States to locate three men who during the war approached him and offered him mone…
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Mysterie, crime film
Terry asks his boss's wife Sylvia to his apartment after an office party and the two go to bed. Later, while he is in the bathroom, she hears screams outside and goes naked to the window. Seeing a man attacking a young woman, she opens the…
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Forensic, Political Thriller, crime film, mystery film, thriller film, trial film
Wealthy American businessman Jack Moore (Richard Gere) is on a trip to China attempting to put together a satellite communications deal as part of a joint venture with the Chinese government. Before the deal can be finalized, Moore is fram…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, docudrama, drama film
When two teenagers are gunned down on Lake Helena (in real-life, Herman) Road on December 20, 1968, the small town of Vallejo (Benicia) is thrown into a state of terror. Assigned to the case is Police Detective Matt Parish (Justin Chambers…
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