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Thriller, crime film, drama film, spy film
The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Andrew Craig, who is disrespectful of it, and seems more interested in women and drinking. Arriving in Stockholm for the award ceremony, he is delighted that Inger Lisa Andersson, whom he f…
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Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, gangster film, thriller film
Abe Reles and his accomplice Bug Workman, two cold-blooded killers from Brooklyn's Brownsville district, go to the Garment District to meet with Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, leader of the organized crime mob Murder, Inc., who offers them jobs …
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True Crime, crime film, documentary film
In 2016, Australian filmmaker Emma Sullivan began documenting amateur inventor Peter Madsen. One year in, Madsen murdered Swedish freelance journalist Kim Wall aboard his homemade submarine. The film is based on footage from Madsen's lab i…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Detective Jim McLeod, whose violent criminal father drove his mother to insanity, nurtures a lifelong hatred of lawbreakers and is convinced that he has a flawless instinct for identifying criminals. He maintains a particular contempt for …
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Crime, Crime Comedy, comedy drama, drama film
In 1935, the one-eyed murderer, Mattie Appleyard, who refers to his obviously unmatched glass eye with the persona, "Tighe", bank robber Lee Cottrill, and a young convict named Johnny Jesus are released on the same day from the West Virgin…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, trial film
When call girl Claudia Draper kills client Allen Green in self-defense, her mother Rose and stepfather Arthur Kirk attempt to have her declared mentally incompetent by Dr. Herbert Morrison in order to avoid a public scandal. Claudia knows …
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Mafia Film, biographical film, crime film
The film follows the rise of Sammy "The Bull" Gravano in the ranks of the Gambino crime family, one of the "Five Families" of the New York Cosa Nostra, culminating in his becoming underboss to John Gotti, his decision to betray Gotti by te…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
Set shortly after the end of World War II, the film begins with a voiceover narration by New York socialite Jessie Bourne describing her connection to the city. The film opens on fashionable Gramercy Park, where her mother lives, on the Ea…
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Crime, Drama, neo-noir
Tony Rome is an ex-cop turned private investigator who lives on a powerboat in Miami, Florida, called ‘Straight Pass’. This is a reference to the fact that Tony also has a gambling problem. He is asked by his former partner, Ralph Turpin, …
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Social Drama, crime thriller film, drama film
Brenda walks through a predominantly African American housing project and enters an emergency room in a daze, apparently in shock and with cut and bleeding hands. Police detective Lorenzo Council is sent to take a statement from her. She s…
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Crime, Secret Agent, crime film, detective film, drama film, spy film
Having lost two agents in Berlin, British intelligence chiefs arrange for American agent Quiller to report to the local controller, Pol, and continue the assignment, which is to find the headquarters of Phoenix, a neo-Nazi organization. Qu…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film, prison film, romance film
James, a man with nothing to lose, owes his life to his older brother Frankie, who took the rap for a crime they did together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around: he manages to get a job as a mechanic, and begi…
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Action, Thriller, action film, neo-noir, thriller film
In Los Angeles, divorced editor Carol Hunnicut is on a blind date at a hotel restaurant with widowed lawyer Michael Tarlow, when a waiter delivers a message for him to phone a client. Tarlow goes to his suite to make the call and invites h…
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Action, Christmas film, action film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
Once a celebrated race car driver, Brent Magna returns to a ransacked home and the horrifying discovery that his wife, Leanne, is missing. A chilling phone call soon follows from a mysterious man known only as The Voice, who claims respons…
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Thriller, crime thriller film, thriller film
Claire Marrable, the vainglorious aging widow of a prominent businessman, is distraught upon discovering that her husband's estate has been stripped of all assets, leaving her in medical debt and with nowhere to live. His only personal eff…
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Drama, Martial-Arts, action film, drama film, martial arts film, neo-noir, thriller film
One evening, at his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu studio, martial arts teacher Mike Terry is approached by attorney Laura Black, who accidentally sideswiped his car. Policeman Joe Collins, one of Mike's students, sees that Laura is distressed and tr…
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Drama, comedy film
Cliff Spab and his friend Joe Dice go out one evening to buy beer from a convenience store, where a group of armed, masked terrorists take them and three other people hostage. The terrorists, who call themselves S.P.L.I.T. Image, have a vi…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, trial film
NYPD detectives Liam Casey and Joey Allegretto, assigned to the 74th Precinct, are conducting surveillance against notorious drug dealer Jordan Washington. On a tip from an informant, they venture into an apartment block where Jordan is re…
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Crime, Drama, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film
The story begins in 1992, as Amy Fisher lies in a hospital bed, with her mother sitting by her bedside. Earlier, she had attempted to commit suicide, but her parents caught her and took her to the hospital. As Amy rests in bed, she thinks …
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True Crime
The film is told through Rawson's point of view of the killings of Dennis Rader. Rawson is interviewed about what life with her father was like when she was a child. The documentary shows multiple family media from when Rawson was a child,…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film
Each of the elements of life is portrayed using four different people on the urban streets of Los Angeles, with Fingers (Garcia), a gangster, playing the part that intertwines all four individuals. Happiness Forest Whitaker plays a meek ba…
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Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Tommy Gibbs is an African-American who grew up in Harlem, New York City. As a kid, he was brutally assaulted by a cop named Jack McKinney. As an adult, he joins the New York mafia and becomes the head of a black crime syndicate in Harlem.
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Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
While on a holiday in Mallorca, Lisa, Kim, and Tammi meet four young men, Bluey, Josh, Sean, and Marcus. After spending the day at the resort together, the girls are invited to the men's yacht, where they plan to party out at sea. While ab…
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Action, action film, thriller film
A group of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, who are themselves tied into law enforcement agencies and criminal underworlds alike and who also control the international media with their billions, have devised the ultimate enter…
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