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Action, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, action film, crime film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
In Los Angeles, undercover police officers arrive at a motel where those inside, including Jacqueline Wilson, are trafficking illegal drugs. During the escape, an officer and one of Jacqueline's accomplices are shot, while two of them esca…
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Drama, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, romance film
The film opens as Agatha Christie gets a silver cup engraved for her husband Archie, who receives the gift with utter disdain. The couple walk to a publicity event for Agatha's new novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. They are tailed into t…
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Crime Comedy, Drama, Sport, boxing film, comedy film, drama film
After being released from prison in Winfield, Georgia, con man Gabriel Caine gets to work on his next scam. Caine and his partner, Daniel Patrick O'Shannon "Fitz" Fitzpatrick, travel to a small town near the prison: Diggstown, a city obses…
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Thriller, thriller film
Convinced that his fiancée is cheating on him, a man follows her to a hotel and calls his best friend to help him avoid a calamity.
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Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, hood film
New Jersey Drive opens with Jason heading off to juvenile detention then unfolds in flashback as, chronologically, the incidents leading to his arrest surface one by one. First the audience sees the violent and poverty-ridden project where…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, crime film
Jack Ryan, a surfer and small-time thief, has a fight with the intimidating Lou Harris, involving a baseball bat. Harris is a foreman on a Hawaii construction site run by duplicitous millionaire Ray Ritchie. When Jack is released from jail…
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Accident, Action, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, disaster film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
An unnamed man sneaks into Ocean View Amusement Park and places a small radio-controlled bomb on the tracks of the park's wooden roller coaster, The Rocket. The bomb detonates, causing the ride's train to derail, killing or injuring the ri…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, police procedural film
Based on a true story, the film centers on Dan Saxon, a cop with a troubled childhood. After getting fired following a physical confrontation with his corrupt boss (who secretly works with a biker gang known as the Jackals, led by their pr…
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Western, Western film
The half-Apache Chato is racially abused in a bar by the sheriff. He shoots the sheriff dead in self-defense and rides out of town on his Paso Fino. Former Confederate Captain Quincey Whitmore dons his uniform and gathers a posse of former…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
After surviving a Nazi POW camp where comrades were murdered by guards during an escape attempt, Frank Enley is respected for his fine character and good works in the small California town of Santa Lisa, where he, his young wife Edith and …
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Erotic Thriller, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Best friends Matt Rossi and Nicky Parzeno run a management company for Manhattan’s best exotic dancers, managing and booking their clients into clubs across the borough. Rossi was once in a relationship with their top client Loretta, but t…
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, crime film, drama film, heist film
Frederick J. Frenger Jr. (who asks to be called "Junior"), a violent sociopath and self-described thief who "steals from other thieves", is recently released from a California prison, and starts a new life in Miami.
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LGBT-related television series, LGBTQ-related film
Christine "Chris" Parker is a 14-year-old runaway who, after getting arrested many times, is sentenced to spend time in a girls' juvenile detention center. It is revealed that Chris comes from an abusive home. Her father beats her on a reg…
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Action Comedy, Crime Comedy
Riko and Kane are two friends that live together in an East London flat and dream of being taken seriously as roadmen. They owe a debt of £15,000 to a local Indian crime family, the Patels. Kane failed to get the money when, when unsuccess…
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Action, action film, crime film
Tim Kearney is a prison inmate who is recruited by federal agent Tad Gruzsa to impersonate drug dealer Bobby Z, so that Tim can be exchanged for Tad's colleague held hostage by drug kingpin Don Huertero. But at the exchange, just as Tim wa…
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Thriller, action film, mystery film, thriller film
Border Patrol agents Bobby Logan and Ernie Wyatt are planting motion sensors in a remote area of the Texas desert when they stumble across what appears to be a decades-old Jeep buried in the sand. Upon excavating the vehicle, they find an …
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Coming Of Age, crime film, drama film
In the slums of New York City, on the East River just below the Queensboro Bridge, wealthy people live in opulent and luxurious apartments because of the picturesque views of the river, while the destitute and poor live nearby in crowded, …
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found footage film, hood film
Three college students drive to the Bluff, a westside Atlanta neighborhood, intending to buy some drugs from a dealer. Clearly naive, they joke about flirting in hopes of getting free drugs, and reassure one another that they have nothing …
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Thriller, crime thriller film
Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film
After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union planted a number of long-term, deep-cover sleeper agents all over the United States, who were so thoroughly brainwashed that even they did not know they were agents. They can be activated on…
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Komödie, Road Movie
Mihika Banerjee (Lara Dutta), a successful investment banker living in Mumbai, misses her flight to Delhi and needs to get there anyway possible to meet her husband, Lt. Col. Vikram Rana (Akshay Kumar).
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Action, action film, crime film
Seattle cop Cliff Garret is severely wounded in a drug bust gone bad—shot by his corrupt partner Ronny "Del" Delany. Garret dies momentarily in the emergency room, but is revived with a defibrillator. His police supervisor, Chambers, has t…
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Action, Komödie, action film, comedy film
George Kuffs, an irresponsible 21-year-old high school dropout from San Francisco, has walked out on his pregnant girlfriend Maya. Having lost his job and with no other prospects, George visits his brother, Brad, to ask for money. Brad ser…
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Biographical picture, Crime Comedy, comedy film
In Philadelphia, a cart containing $1.2 million in $100 bills falls out of an armored van as it leaves the Federal Reserve Bank. Joey Coyle, a struggling longshoreman, finds the cart laying on the side of a road, and decides to keep the ba…
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