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Thriller, crime film, horror film
Douglas Breen, a deranged young New York City record store clerk, writes a rambling letter to stage and film star Sally Ross, reading: "Dear Miss Ross, I am your greatest fan, because unlike the others, I want nothing from you. The only th…
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Horror, horror film
Russell Logan, a hotshot Los Angeles police detective who specializes in catching serial killers, is hunting the Pentagram Killer, a murderer nicknamed after his habit of carving a pentagram in his victims before killing them. Logan receiv…
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Crime, Western, Western film, trial film
In 1881, Sergeant Braxton Rutledge of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, one of four colored regiments in the U.S. Army, is on trial for rape and murder.
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Action, Romance Film, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film, thriller film
Eddie Jilette is a Chicago cop on the vengeance trail as he follows his partner's killers to New Orleans to settle his own personal score. Eddie flees through the Louisiana bayous with Michel Duval, the beautiful Cajun mistress of a murder…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, police film, political thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Ray Dolezal, a bored Torrance County, New Mexico deputy sheriff, investigates an apparent suicide in the desert. Alongside the body of Bob Spencer is a suitcase containing $500,000. During the autopsy, authorities find a digested piece of …
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
David and Jason Staebler are brothers, the former a depressive living with his grandfather in Philadelphia, where he runs a late-night radio talk show, and the latter an extrovert con man working for gang boss Lewis in Atlantic City, where…
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Psychodrama, Thriller, biographical film, crime film, drama film, prison film
On March 11, 2005, Brian Nichols escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, during his trial involving a rape case. In the process of the escape he murders the judge presiding over his trial, Rowland Barnes, as well as court rep…
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biographical film, crime film, thriller film
At St. John's Orphanage in 1877, children, including a young Albert Fish, are being paddled as punishment for their sins. Albert Fish as an adult (Patrick Bauchau) then tells of a horse that some older boys at the orphanage set on fire, co…
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Family Drama, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
Raymond Cutter, a second-generation criminal, cuts a deal with an underworld art dealer to get released early from prison to spend time with his son who has an inoperable brain tumor. He must forge a copy of Monet's Woman with a Parasol - …
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime film, horror film
In August 1892, Fall River, Massachusetts Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden comes across the terrible murder scene of her father Andrew, who had been brutally killed with a hatchet. Local law enforcement arrives, also discovering the bod…
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crime film, drama film
Sivadhasan is a Tamil Tiger soldier during the last days of the Sri Lankan Civil War. After the armed conflict resolves, his side loses, and he is forced to move to a refugee camp. There he decides to move to France to take a fresh chance …
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Criminal Comedy Film, crime film, drama film
Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) is working as a postman and becoming increasingly dissatisfied with his life. He asks long-running school friend Jude (Jude Law) to help him into the North London criminal gang run by his uncle Ray (Ray Winstone). …
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Action Comedy, action film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film
John Smith is down on his luck. His girlfriend left him for a doctor. A hooker steals his wallet at an Apache Reservation casino.
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Thriller, crime film, drama film
Mitch, the ex-leader of a London firm known as The Guvnors, has walked away from his life of violence and more than 20 years later is happily married in the suburbs. He becomes concerned when his son starts to show violent tendencies throu…
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Komödie, Secret Agent, action film, comedy film
Jane and Jefferson Blue are a wise-cracking couple of spies for an unnamed U.S. covert organization on maternity leave in New Orleans with their baby daughter whom they dote on (though they are unable to agree on whether her name should be…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Thriller, action film, spy film, thriller film
In 1914, Imperial German spies are everywhere in London. After a spate of mysterious assassinations of important British politicians, a retired British Intelligence officer, Colonel Scudder, realises his life and his mysterious black noteb…
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Film Noir, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir
Harry Powell is a misogynistic serial killer and self-proclaimed preacher traveling along the Ohio River in West Virginia during the Great Depression. He is arrested for driving a stolen car and serves 30 days at Moundsville Penitentiary. …
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Biographical picture, Crime, crime film, drama film
Since 1971, mathematics prodigy Ted Kaczynski has lived a primitive life in a remote cabin near Lincoln, Montana. He hunts for his food and lives without electricity or running water. He strongly believes modern technology is destroying th…
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, action film
Set two years before the pilot episode, the film is narrated by Sam Axe (Bruce Campbell), a US Navy SEAL Commander, who is being questioned by Admiral Lawrence (John Diehl) about a mission in Colombia. Sam reveals that he had unwittingly h…
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Crime, Komödie, Road Movie, Romance Film, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, romantic comedy film
John Buckingham, an introverted, lonely St Albans bank clerk, orders a mail-order bride, Nadia, from Russia on the Internet. John is uncomfortable and shy, but Nadia is sexually bold. Although Nadia cannot speak English and John cannot spe…
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Action Comedy, blaxploitation film, buddy cop film, comedy film, comedy thriller, thriller film
Deke "Reverend" O'Malley, a con man, is selling shares at a Harlem rally, for the purchase of a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. During the rally, several masked gunmen jump out of a meat truck and steal $87,000 …
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Drama, drama film
During one spring in the 1950s the complex relationships of four couples, of black, white and mixed race, play out against the pronounced social inequality dividing the ruling British elite and the slave-descended native population of a sm…
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Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film
In 1954 Macon County, Georgia, brothers Chris (Alan Vint) and Wayne Dixon (Jesse Vint) from Chicago are on a two-week spree of cheap thrills throughout the South before their upcoming stint in the Air Force. Wayne entered the service when …
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Horror, drama film, thriller film
Recently orphaned, Flora and Miles are abandoned by their new guardian and entrusted to the care of housekeeper Mrs. Grose, governess Miss Jessel, and Peter Quint, the former valet and now gardener. With only these three adults for company…
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