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Biographical picture, Komödie, biographical film, comedy film, crime film
The film opens at a performance of Jan Lewan's polka band in Pennsylvania. Near the close of the show, he brings his wife, Marla, onstage to model amber jewelry, which they sell at their souvenir store. After the concert, Jan recounts to a…
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Detective Film, Parodie, comedy film, crime film, parody film, thriller film
Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), a bumbling San Francisco private detective, tries to prove himself innocent of his partner's murder while helping a bizarre array of characters recover a lost treasure. A large number of people are murdered in…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film
Steve Thompson returns to Los Angeles after two years of drifting trying to shake off a bad divorce, looking for his ex-wife Anna but tormented over seeing her again. Against all better judgment he continues to, resuming his old job as a d…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film
As he investigates the missing person report of a teenager named Christopher Gant (based on Gacy's final victim, Robert Piest), Des Plaines detective Lt. Joseph R. Kozenczak (Riley) becomes concerned that local businessman John Wayne Gacy …
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Drama, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller film, thriller film
Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
left|thumb| left|thumb| In the midst of the Great Depression, Alan Squier, a failed British writer, now a disillusioned, penniless drifter, wanders into a roadside diner in the remote town of Black Mesa, Arizona, at the edge of the Petrifi…
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crime film, drama film, mystery film
Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) is the police chief of Paradise, Massachusetts—a coastal town north of Boston. A former homicide detective in Los Angeles, Jesse was fired from the LAPD because of a drinking problem. He was hired for the Paradise…
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Action, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Yamamoto (Takeshi Kitano) is a brutal and experienced yakuza enforcer whose boss was killed and whose clan was defeated in a criminal war with a rival family. Surviving clan members have few options: either to join the winners, reconciling…
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Political Thriller, drama film, spy film
Joseph Rearden, a petty criminal-turned-agent for British intelligence, arrives in London. There, MI5 officer Mackintosh and his deputy, Mrs. Smith, inform Rearden of a way to steal diamonds which are transported via the postal service.
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Mysterie, crime film, horror film, monster film, mystery film
In 1889, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson receive a visit from Dr.
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Drama, crime film, drama film, hood film
Six years after being jailed for killing Trevor "Trife" Hector, Sam Peel was released from prison. During the course of the film, it is revealed that Sam, haunted by his crime, has changed dramatically and has learnt from his mistakes. Whi…
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime film
On the morning of February 28, 1997, various residents of Los Angeles go about their morning: LAPD Robbery-Homicide Division Detective Frank McGregor, dissatisfied with the stresses of policing, prepares to retire; Metropolitan Division SW…
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Crime, Thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Los Angeles police detective John Berlin is teetering toward burnout after the collapse of his marriage. At the invitation of an old friend and colleague, Freddy Ross, Berlin heads to rural Northern California for a job with the Eureka pol…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
The night of her birthday, L.A. switchboard operator Norah Larkin opens the latest letter from her fiancé, a soldier serving in the Korean War. The letter ends up revealing his plans to marry someone he met in Tokyo.
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Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Norah Dain, a nightclub disc jockey and aspiring actress living alone in a Manhattan apartment, receives a series of obscene phone calls from someone who seems to be watching her on a daily basis. She also finds a decapitated teddy bear in…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Ryan Weaver, an accused serial killer and rapist, is arrested in New York City despite his claims of innocence. Even though police lieutenant Aldo Hines broke protocol during the arrest by assaulting Weaver, the authorities have enough har…
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Monster Film, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, crime film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
While investigating the murders of a serial killer who mutilates and removes the internal organs of the victims, two present-day New Orleans police detectives, Carson O'Conner and her partner Michael Sloane, learn that Victor Frankenstein,…
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Family Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film
Bill Kincaid is lecturing his class at Brown University about Plato's Socratic dialogues. Meanwhile, Bill's identical twin brother Brady Kincaid is living in Oklahoma, growing and selling hydroponic cannabis. Brady is under pressure from l…
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Heist, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film, heist film, romance film, romantic comedy
Working as a toll collector on a lonely highway in Buffalo, New York, Henry is a man seemingly without ambition, dreams or purpose; a man sleepwalking his way through life. His wife Debbie is not happy with the situation. One morning Eddie…
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Komödie, mystery film
The Mystery Team consisting of "Master of Disguise" Jason Rogers, "Boy Genius" Duncan Wheeler, and the "Strongest Kid in town" Charlie Day began with three children who styled themselves as detectives, solving mostly kid-related mysteries …
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Action, Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, police film
NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci has been under pressure from the senior officers in the New York City police force because his team of renegade policemen, known as the "seven-ups" (so called because most criminals they arrest receive sentence…
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Drama, Political Thriller, Psychodrama, drama film, thriller film, trial film
Hungarian immigrant Michael J. Laszlo faces a trial and having his U.S. citizenship revoked after being accused of war crimes during the Second World War.
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comedy film, heist film
Outside of Cairo, criminal mastermind Okra hijacks $3 million in gold bullion. The thieves now need a way to smuggle the two tons of gold into Europe. Aldo Vanucci, a master of disguise known as The Fox, is one of the few men who can handl…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir, prison film
19-year-old Marie Allen is sent to prison after a botched armed robbery attempt with her husband, Tom, who is killed. While receiving her initial prison physical examination, she learns that she is two months pregnant. Marie has trouble ad…
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