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Crime, biographical film, crime film, thriller film
After taking hostages in a Stockholm bank, ex-con Lars Nystrom demands the release of his old partner in crime from prison. As the situation escalates, Lars starts to let down his guard as he develops an uneasy bond with one of the female …
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Crime, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, mockumentary
The film opens outside a building where terrorists are holding hostages and a nuclear bomb. The fictitious Reno Sheriff's Department arrives in a helicopter, called in as experts. As the group prepare to deal with the situation, Deputy Tra…
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Christmas film, Crime, Drama, Thriller
On Christmas Eve, suburban housewife Della Myers gets into an argument with her abusive husband Kenneth. After putting her two children to bed, she drives to the mall to buy some wrapping paper and cards. At the mall, she can't find a park…
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Crime, drama film, mystery film, spy film
Coming to the assistance of a nanny who is almost killed during a bungled hit-and-run assassination attempt, Richard Hannay is surprised to find that there is no baby in her pram. Curious, he meets her at the Palace Music Hall where she ha…
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Action, action film, comedy film, crime film
Dealing with his guilt after being forced to kill his assassin coworkers, Mike Fallon moves to the island of Malta to decompress and get away from London, finding work as a hitman-for-hire in nearby countries and keeping martial artist Won…
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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, mystery film, romance film
Homicide detective Nate Burns (Cibrian) once lived a tough life in Baltimore, but decides to move to a small Alaskan town, after being offered the position of chief of police. Burns leaves Baltimore just a few weeks after his partner is sh…
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crime film
John Watson, whose wife Mary is now visibly pregnant, finds an unkempt Sherlock Holmes in a crack house under the influence of drugs. John attempts to force him to rehabilitate, but Sherlock insists that he was undercover for a case. Mycro…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film, romance film
Ex-con Otis Samuel Sr. or "O2" on account of his ability to vanish from a crime scene like oxygen, has done his time and is determined to stay out of trouble and never leave his young son, Otis, Jr. When Otis arrives late to pick up Junior…
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Crime, Thriller, drama film
Vicki Maloney, an intelligent and charismatic teenager inwardly struggling with her parents’ recent separation, spends the weekend at her mother's house in outer suburbia. After a heated argument between them, Vicki defiantly sneaks out to…
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Film Noir, film noir
Detective Sergeant Walter Brown of the LAPD and his partner, Sergeant Gus Forbes, are assigned to protect Frankie Neall, a mob boss's widow, as she rides a train from Chicago to Los Angeles to testify before a grand jury. She also carries …
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Action, Exploitation Film, action film, rape and revenge film, thriller film
Rebellious high-school student Brenda spends an evening on Hollywood Boulevard with her group of friends known as the Satins: Rachel, Stella, Francine Ramirez, Stevie and Maria. Accompanying them is Brenda's younger, innocent deaf-mute sis…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, thriller film
Mack "Truck" Turner (Hayes) is a former professional football player who becomes a Los Angeles–based bounty hunter after an injury. Truck visits his girlfriend, Annie (Annazette Chase), who is in jail and wants to leave LA when released. T…
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Horror, Thriller, crime film, horror film, science fiction film
Daily World newshawk Lee Taylor is investigating a series of pathological murders that have taken place over a series of months in New York City. The murders always take place at night, under the glow of a full moon, and each body has been…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Crime, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
In Detroit, a federal armory of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is robbed of assault rifles, handguns and ammunition. An ATF agent was killed, and he and his partner Agent Derrick Vann are suspected to have be…
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Crime, Erotic Thriller, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, sexploitation film
Carson Wheetly is the son of Ted Wheetly, a wealthy NASCAR racer. Carson suspects his father of murdering his mother to gain her money. After a weekend party at his father's Florida bay house, Carson is arrested for the rape of Brandi Cox.
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
On an ocean liner sailing from New York, John Bowman lifts his bride Ruth over the threshold of cabin B16, where Anna Quinn, a stewardess busy with finishing touches, greets them and withdraws. Ruth has been unsettled by her father's recen…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Harry Morgan is a sport-fishing boat captain whose business is on the skids and whose family is feeling the economic pinch. He begins to work with shady lawyer Duncan, who persuades him to smuggle eight Chinese men from Mexico into Califor…
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Komödie, Romance Film, crime film, mystery film, romantic comedy film
220px|left|thumb|Joanne Woodward and George C. Scott in They Might Be Giants. Justin Playfair is an eminent judge who retreats into fantasy after his wife's death, imagining himself to be Sherlock Holmes, the legendary fictional detective.
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Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Romance Film, coming-of-age film, drama film, romance film, teen film
In 1984, Catherine "Cat" Storm is a teenager attending an elite preparatory school in Manhattan. Her mother seems strict and cold, her father is absent from her life, and her little brother is a hypochondriac. Her best friend is Delilah Mi…
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Family Drama, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt, an elderly dowager in Holly Springs, Mississippi, lives alone in a large house and is helped out daily by Willis Richland, her African American handyman and closest friend. After acting strangely, she commits sui…
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Crime, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional creation, the central character in a series of short stories written by Dr John Watson and published in The Strand Magazine. Watson conceives of Holmes as a way for him to solve crimes incognito, as he views …
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Action, Biographical picture, Crime, Musical, crime film, drama film, hood film
Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, film noir, mystery film, thriller film
A former police detective and Vietnam veteran in New Orleans and a recovering alcoholic, Dave Robicheaux, is living a quiet life in the swamplands of Louisiana with his wife Annie. The couple's tranquility is shattered one day when a drug …
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Psychodrama, drama film
The film begins with abstract images and sounds in the director's interpretation of schizophrenia. Peter Winter has recently been released from a mental institution and upon his release, must try to experience and understand a world that i…
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