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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Walter Weed, an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI, is informed of an assassination threat against him from a mysterious figure called Hal Leuco. Weed will be assassinated on April 19 at precisely 3:00 am. Several assassins have taken the c…
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Crime Comedy, blaxploitation film, buddy film, parody film
While enjoying themselves at Madame Zenobia's club on Saturday night, Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin are held up by robbers who raid the club and steal Steve's wallet. When they realize that a winning lottery ticket worth $50,000 is in…
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Psychodrama, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Two extremely clever British men are in a game of trickery and deceit. Andrew Wyke, an ageing famous author who lives alone in a high-tech mansion, after his wife Maggie has left him for a younger man; and Milo Tindle, an aspiring actor, e…
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Action, action film, crime film, crime thriller film
Joe is a professional freelance contract killer who works strictly by the rules: never socializing outside his work, staying secluded in quiet spots, never interacting or meeting with his handlers and always leaving on time without a trace…
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Drama, drama film
Frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling, Rick is looking for meaning in his life. Like his testosterone-tweaked buddies, Rick is a stray looking for a traditional family structure and wrestling unconsci…
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Crime, Horror, Thriller, crime film, horror film, slasher film
The film begins with Mexico City policemen banging on the door of what seems to be an abandoned house. Ulises and his partner enter the house and find magical sigils with gruesome remnants of animal and human sacrifice. The two are ambushe…
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Crime Comedy, Komödie, buddy film
Con man Eddie Dash, required to complete community service for past crimes, reluctantly chooses the easiest assignment: accompanying mental patient and reformed pathological liar George as he adjusts to life outside the sanitarium. Althoug…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, heist film, neo-noir, thriller film
Alex Gates is a Miami wine merchant who has distanced himself from his wife Suzanne with his philandering, and from his stepson Jason with his indifference. Suzanne is recovering from breaking her ankle after falling downstairs while drunk…
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Historie, LGBTQ-related film, drama film
Once installed as king, following the death of his father, Edward II summons his friend and lover, Piers Gaveston, back to England from exile abroad, and showers him with gifts, titles, and abiding love. Their relationship is fiery and pas…
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Crime, buddy cop film, crime film, thriller film
Tough lieutenant Jim Brannigan of the Chicago Police Department is sent to London to extradite a notorious American mobster, Ben Larkin. Brannigan is assigned a local officer, Detective-Sergeant Jennifer Thatcher, to help while he is in Lo…
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film
Drama, Gangster Film, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film
The film runs two narratives simultaneously: the preparation for the escape and the escape itself. Frank Perry (Brian Cox) is a lifer and has long accepted that he will never see the outside again. When Perry receives his first letter in f…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Paul, a mechanic, speaks to his daughter Beth on video chat. Though she seems stressed and distracted, she says that she is fine. The two make plans for her coming visit back home after finals.
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Horror, comedy film, comedy horror film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, satirical film, slasher film, vampire film
The film opens and follows a young man, Martin, traveling on an overnight train from Indianapolis to Pittsburgh. Martin sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics, rapes her, slices her forearm with a razor blade, then drinks her blo…
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Drama, drama film
An isolated and lonely farmer named Fentry, in rural Mississippi takes in a pregnant drifter who has been abandoned by the father of her child. Told in flashback, twenty years later, the farmer is on a jury and the film, narrated by the de…
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Mysterie, Romance Film, mystery film
Set in the upscale town of Southampton, Long Island, young yachting captain Tim Whalen is having an affair with Brooke, who is married to Granger Morrison, Tim's boss. Tim is the new captain of Granger's racing sailboat Obsession. Young he…
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Mysterie, mystery film
During a power outage in the Unidyne building, a New York City skyscraper, David Stillwell leaves his colleague Josephson on the 27th floor and begins his descent down the stairs, aided by a penlight. He encounters an attractive young woma…
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Action, Detective Film, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Stanley White is New York City's most decorated police captain and a Vietnam War veteran assigned to New York City's Chinatown. His personal mission to crack down on Chinese organized crime causes him to neglect his wife, Connie. White com…
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Action, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, thriller film
The film is based loosely around events in December 1995 that culminated in the Rettendon murders of three drug dealers in the village of Rettendon in Essex, England.
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
In Chicago in 1932, during Prohibition, policeman John W. Bundy is murdered inside a speakeasy. Frank Wiecek and another man are quickly arrested, and, in November 1933, are each convicted and sentenced to serve 99 years imprisonment for t…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, comedy film, crime comedy film
After their boss is killed during a bank robbery, London gangsters Brian Hope and Charlie McManus desire to lead more peaceful lives in Brazil, disapproving of their new younger and more brash boss, Casey. While planning to rob a local Tri…
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Thriller, rape and revenge film
Adam, a 23-year-old self-employed security technician, is hired by businesswoman Alice Comfort to set up a security system in her flat. After finishing the work, Adam falls asleep on her roof-garden. When Alice arrives home and finds him t…
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Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, thriller film
Kevin “Stretch” Brzyzowski (Wilson) is a failed actor turned limo driver in Los Angeles who is addicted to cocaine, alcohol, and gambling. One day, he is thrown from his car in an accident. Miraculously uninjured, he confronts the other dr…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film
The film establishes Jean-Claude Van Damme playing himself as an out-of-luck actor. He is out of money; his agent cannot find him a decent production; and the judge in a custody battle is inclined to give custody of his daughter over to hi…
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