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Crime, comedy film, detective fiction, mystery film
After punching a fellow deacon, former boxer-turned-Catholic priest Jud Duplenticy is reassigned to Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude, an upstate New York parish led by Monsignor Jefferson Wicks, the grandson of Reverend Prentice Wicks. Dupl…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
The family of wealthy mystery novelist Harlan Thrombey attends his birthday party at his estate. The next morning, Harlan's housekeeper Fran discovers him dead with a slit throat. Police detectives Lieutenant Elliot and Trooper Wagner beli…
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Horror, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, horror film, independent film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, suspense film, thriller film
In Phoenix, Arizona, real estate secretary Marion Crane embezzles $40,000 in cash from her employer after hearing her boyfriend, Sam Loomis, complain that his debts are delaying their marriage. She sets off to drive to Sam's home in the to…
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Action, Detective Film, Super Hero, action film, crime film, detective film, drama film, superhero film, thriller film
On Halloween, Gotham City mayor Don Mitchell Jr. is murdered by a masked serial killer, the Riddler. Reclusive billionaire Bruce Wayne, who has operated for two years as the vigilante Batman, investigates the murder alongside Lieutenant Ji…
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Action, Hard Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, detective film, dystopian film, neo-noir, science fiction film
In the year 2035, humanoid robots serve humanity, which is protected by the Three Laws of Robotics. Del Spooner is a homicide detective in the Chicago Police Department who hates and distrusts robots after one rescued him from a car crash …
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Buddy Cop, Computeranimation, Crime Comedy, Political Drama, action comedy film, adventure film, buddy cop film, comedy film, detective film, family film
In a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals, Judy Hopps, a rabbit from rural Bunnyburrow, fulfills her childhood dream of becoming the first rabbit police officer in the city of Zootopia. On her first day at the Zootopia Police Departm…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Heist, Thriller, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Neil McCauley, a Los Angeles professional thief, and his crew—Chris Shiherlis, Michael Cheritto, Gilbert Trejo, and new recruit Waingro—rob $1.6 million in bearer bonds from an armored car. Waingro, who unbeknownst to McCauley is an active…
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Crime, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, police film, thriller film
thumb|upright|Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th century painting, Mona Lisa, is featured as a major plot point in the film. During the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Miles Bron, the co-founder of technology company Alpha, hosts a murder myste…
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Drama, Psychological Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
On their fifth anniversary, writing teacher Nick Dunne returns home to find that his wife, Amy, is missing. Amy's fame as the inspiration for her parents' Amazing Amy children's books ensures widespread press coverage. The media finds Nick…
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Horror, Police Film, Psychological Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, chase film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In an unnamed city overcome with violent crime and corruption, disillusioned police Detective Lieutenant William Somerset is one week from retirement. He is partnered with David Mills, a young, short-tempered, idealistic detective who rece…
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Crime, detective film, mystery film, thriller film
Enola Holmes and Tewkesbury have arrived in Malta for their wedding. The ceremony is being held there because Tewkesbury's late father, Lord Peter, served in Malta during the British occupation, and his mother believes it is the most meani…
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Gangster Film, Mysterie, action film, crime drama film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, flashback film, gangster film, heist film, mystery film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
While lying badly wounded on a ship docked in San Pedro Bay, career criminal Dean Keaton is shot dead by a shadowy figure whom he calls "Keyser." The police recover 27 bodies and two survivors from the ship: Arkosh Kovash ("Ákos Kovács"), …
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Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, comedy film, detective film, lesbian-related film, neo-noir
In Bakersfield, California, private investigator Honey O'Donahue learns that Mia Novotny has been found dead in a wrecked car in Antelope Canyon. Mia had phoned Honey, afraid and unable to go to the police, and they were to meet the next d…
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Computeranimation, Family Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, adventure film, comedy film, detective film, drama film, family film, fantasy film, ghost film, melodrama, musical film
In the Mexican town of Santa Cecilia, a young woman named Imelda marries a man who eventually leaves her and their daughter Coco to pursue a music career. When he never returns, Imelda bans music from her family and opens a shoemaking busi…
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Adventure, Crime, mystery film
Enola Holmes is the youngest child in the Holmes family, she is extremely intelligent, observant, and insightful. Her mother Eudoria has taught her everything from chess to jujitsu and encouraged her to be strong-willed and independent, to…
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Animation, Komödie, Romance Film, Satire On Media, buddy film, comedy film, crossover fiction, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, neo-noir
In 1947 Los Angeles, animated cartoon characters, or "toons", co-exist with humans. Private detective Eddie Valiant, once a staunch ally of the toons, has become a depressed alcoholic following his brother Teddy's murder by an unknown toon…
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Crime Comedy, Detective Film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime film, drama film, romantic comedy film
In 1970, Shasta Fay Hepworth visits the home of her ex-boyfriend, Larry "Doc" Sportello, a private investigator and hippie in Gordita Beach, Los Angeles County. She tells him about her new lover, Michael Z. "Mickey" Wolfmann, a wealthy rea…
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Detective Film, crime film, detective film, drama film, mystery film
Flashback to Belgium at the Yser Bridge on October 31, 1914, in the front lines of World War I. Hercule Poirot's captain has been given a mission considered certain death for all of his men. Poirot suggests his captain follow a strategy th…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Melodrama, Mysterie, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, melodrama, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film
San Francisco detective John "Scottie" Ferguson and a fellow policeman chase a crook on the roofs of several houses; Scottie slips and nearly falls. His colleague attempts to rescue Scottie, but falls to his death. Some time later, Scottie…
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Family Drama, Gangster Film, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
Tom Stall is a diner owner who lives in the rural town of Millbrook, Indiana, with wife Edie, teenage son Jack, and daughter Sarah. One night, two spree killers attempt to rob the restaurant. When a waitress is threatened, Tom deftly kills…
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Gothic film, Horror, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Thriller, detective film, fantasy film, ghost film, gothic horror film, horror film, mystery film, slasher film, supernatural film
In the fall of 1799, pragmatic New York City constable Ichabod Crane is sent to the upstate Dutch village of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of brutal decapitations of its residents, which included landowner Peter Van Garrett, his so…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy horror, fantasy film, ghost film, live-action/animated film, mystery film
After Mystery, Inc. solve their latest mystery and unmask a would-be criminal known as "The Luna Ghost", long-brewing tensions erupt between Fred Jones, who has become a self-obsessed glory hog, Daphne Blake, who is tired of being the dams…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir
In 1937 Los Angeles, a woman identifying herself as Evelyn Mulwray hires private investigator J. J. "Jake" Gittes to trail her husband, Hollis, the chief engineer at the Department of Water and Power.
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Occult Horror, detective film, ghost film, horror film, thriller film
In 1952 Romania, two Roman Catholic nuns living at the Saint Cartha's monastery are attacked by an unseen evil force. The surviving nun, Sister Victoria, flees the attacker, a demon appearing as a nun, and hangs herself to avoid being used…
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