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Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, prison film, sexploitation film, thriller film
The film takes place in the California women's prison in which naïve teenager Carol Henderson is sentenced to serve 18 months for accidentally killing a man. Warden Ernie Backman has a hot tub in his office; his assistant, Captain Taylor c…
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Crime, Secret Agent, Thriller, crime film, political thriller film, war film
On July 29, 1939, renowned British big-game hunter Captain Alan Thorndike slips through the forest undetected near the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's Bavarian retreat. With Hitler in his telescopic sight, he pulls the trigger on his unloaded rifl…
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Crime, Thriller, film noir, heist film, spy film
On a crowded New York City subway train pickpocket Skip McCoy steals Candy's wallet. Unbeknownst to either it contains microfilm of top-secret government information. Candy was delivering an envelope as a final favor to her ex-boyfriend Jo…
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Action, black comedy film, crime thriller film, neo-noir
On Monday night, Nick, Dallas, and Billy Hill argue with a Los Angeles convenience store cashier, resulting in Dallas shooting her dead. They conceal the killing from a police officer until he sees blood on the floor, at which point they k…
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Drama, Erotic Thriller, drama film, erotic film, thriller film
Unmarried English couple Colin and Mary are vacationing in Venice for a second time. As they meander through the city visiting landmarks, they are surreptitiously photographed by a stranger. Over dinner, Mary questions Colin as to whether …
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drama film, prison film
Randy (Pitt), a 20-year-old convict, is taken to his cell by a Correctional Officer (David Zayas). He is greeted by his new cellmate, Jake (Guirgis), a veteran prisoner serving a life sentence. Randy explains that he is serving 25 years fo…
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Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, crime film, drama film
After breaking up with her husband, 19-year-old single mother Linda Kasabian seeks refuge with the Manson Family at Spahn Ranch and witnesses their indoctrination techniques. After attending the killings at the Sharon Tate house she flees …
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Crime, Drama
Action, Crime, Mysterie, Western, Western film, action film, drama film
In the 1870s, residents of the garrison at the Fort Humboldt frontier outpost of the United States Army are reported to be suffering from a diphtheria epidemic. A special express train is heading up into the remote mountain ranges towards …
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Crime, Drama, Horror, Splatter Film, Thriller
Living in Hong Kong in 1986, Kai San works for Kwan. Kai has sex with Kwan's wife. Kwan catches them, and the wife accuses Kai of assaulting her.
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Drama, Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hou…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
Freebie and Bean are a pair of maverick detectives with the San Francisco Police Department Intelligence Squad. The volatile, gratuity-seeking Freebie is trying to get promoted to the vice squad to garner perks for his retirement while the…
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Action, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
During the 2008 financial crisis, a portfolio-manager instructs his employees to neglect the best interests of clients in order to increase company profits. Meanwhile, Jim Baxford (Dominic Purcell), an armored car driver and former soldier…
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Biographical picture, Gangster Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
The story is of the rise and fall of Chicago mob boss Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during Prohibition, all the way through to his conviction, imprisonment, and final years. On the evening of May 6, 1918, in Brooklyn…
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Crime, mystery film, psychological thriller, thriller film
American single mother Ann Lake, who recently moved to London from New York, arrives at the Little People's Garden preschool to collect her daughter, Bunny. The child has mysteriously disappeared. An administrator recalls meeting Ann but c…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
In Dublin in 1922, Gypo Nolan has been kicked out of the outlaw Irish Republican Army (IRA) for not killing a Black and Tan who killed an IRA man. He becomes angry when he sees his streetwalker girlfriend Katie Madden trying to pick up a c…
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Crime, Thriller, comedy drama, neo-noir
Louise works as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal where she lives. She has become obsessed with the story of a recent spate of serial murders/rapes, committed in the area, and scours ne…
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action film, crime thriller film, drama film
In the early 1990s, Nick, a tractor mechanic nicknamed Steelhead (Jackie Chan) illegally enters Japan from Hong Kong in search of his fiancée, Xiu-Xiu (Xu Jinglei) with the help of his "friend" Jie (Daniel Wu). Jie has taught Steelhead how…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
A narrator states that when asked years later about the JFK assassination and the Warren Commission report, former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson "expressed misgivings" that the commission's lone-gunman conclusion was correct.
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crime film
John Watson is in his first meeting with his therapist after eighteen months. Struggling to explain the reason for his visit, he eventually chokes out the words, "My best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is dead". The episode flashes back to three…
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Romantic Drama, Social Drama, Thriller, crime film, melodrama
Izzy (Tim Roth) is found dead outside the dilapidated Million Dollar Hotel in Los Angeles. He appears to have fallen from the hotel's roof. FBI Agent Skinner (Mel Gibson) suspects murder.
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Crime, alternate history film, drama film, mystery film
In 1928, two years after her divorce and her 11-day disappearance, Agatha Christie travels to Baghdad, Iraq seeking culture and peace. Instead she is caught in a web of murder, intrigue and love. Agatha is unwillingly drawn into the invest…
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Psychodrama, crime film, drama film
Dwight Arno is an attorney going through a divorce from his wife Ruth. As part of the divorce agreement, Ruth has custody of their son Lucas while Dwight has visitation rights. Dwight takes Lucas to a baseball game.
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Crime, Thriller, thriller film
Three years after exposing the corruption in his hometown of Winton, Queensland, the Indigenous detective Jay Swan is sent to the small mining town of Goldstone to find a missing Asian tourist. He is pulled over for driving under the influ…
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