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Crime, Drama, Western, Western film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, epic film, thriller film
Osage Nation elders bury a ceremonial pipe, mourning their descendants' assimilation into White American society. Wandering through their Oklahoma reservation during the annual "flower moon" phenomenon of fields of blooms, several Osage fi…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, biographical film, crime film, detective film, drama film, historical film, mystery film, political thriller film
During his farewell address in 1961, outgoing President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns about the build-up of the military-industrial complex. He is succeeded by John F.
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Family Drama, Psychological Thriller, Southern Gothic film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, horror film, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
In Southeast Georgia, Max Cady is released from prison after serving an eight-year sentence for rape. He promptly tracks down Sam Bowden, an attorney whom he holds personally responsible for his conviction because Bowden interrupted his at…
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Sci-Fi, arthouse science fiction film, dystopian film, film noir, horror film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film
John Murdoch awakens in a hotel bathtub with amnesia. He receives a phone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber, who urges him to flee the hotel to evade a group of men who are after him.
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Animation, Computeranimation, Fantasy, Ghost-House-Movies, Horror comedy, children's film, comedy horror, detective film, family film, fantasy film, ghost film, horror film, independent film, thriller film
On the day before Halloween, young Dustin James "D.J." Walters spies on his elderly neighbor, Horace Nebbercracker, who is known for frightening children off his property and confiscating their belongings. D.J.'s parents leave town for a c…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In mid June 2006, in Dorchester, Boston, private investigator Patrick Kenzie and his partner and girlfriend Angie Gennaro witness a televised plea by Helene McCready for the return of her abducted four-year-old daughter Amanda, who was las…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy film
Police Squad Lieutenant Frank Drebin is on vacation in Beirut when he disrupts a conference of the United States' greatest enemies (Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev) who are …
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, action film, adventure film, crime thriller film, mystery film, steampunk film
In 1891, a series of bombings blamed on political radicals bring France and Germany to the brink of war. Detective Sherlock Holmes narrowly intercepts one such bomb instead intended for expert surgeon Dr. Hoffmanstahl and Holmes' former lo…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Private investigator Tom Welles is contacted by Daniel Longdale, attorney for wealthy widow Mrs. Christian. While clearing out her recently deceased husband's safe, she and Longdale uncovered an 8mm movie which appears to depict the real m…
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Crime Comedy, Fantasy, action comedy film, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, detective film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, mystery film, science fiction film, teen film, urban fantasy
Tim Goodman gave up his dream of being a Pokémon Trainer following the death of his mother and his estrangement from his father Harry, a police detective who moved to Ryme City, where humans and Pokémon live together side by side, while pa…
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Detective Film, Fantasy, Gangster Film, Komödie, action film, comedy film, crime film
In 1938, a young street kid witnesses the massacre of a group of mobsters at the hands of Flattop and Itchy, two hoods on the payroll of Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, who leave a bullet-riddled message for police detective Dick Tracy. After …
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, crime film, ghost film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
The film opens with a home movie depicting a family of three being bound and hung up like scarecrows with sacks over their heads in a cornfield and burned alive three years after the Oswalt family was murdered. It is revealed to be the nig…
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Detective Film, Police Film, Social Drama, Thriller, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In September 1966, wealthy industrialist Phillip Colbert and his wife are in Sparta, Mississippi, to oversee the building of a factory. Late one night, police officer Sam Wood discovers Colbert's corpse in the street. Wood finds Virgil Tib…
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, treasure hunt film
In San Francisco, private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer meet prospective client Ruth Wonderly. She claims to be looking for her missing sister, who ran off from their home in New York and came to the city with a man named Floyd …
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Action Comedy, American football film, Buddy Film, action comedy film, action film, buddy film, crime film
During halftime at a football game, Los Angeles Stallions running back Billy Cole receives a call from Milo, a man who warns him to win the game or he will be killed. Cole ingests PCP and in a drug-induced rage, carries a gun onto the fiel…
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Action, Cyberpunk, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
As 1999 nears its end, Los Angeles has become a dangerous war zone. A Chinese restaurant is robbed by a group of criminals, with one recording the event with a SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device), an illegal electronic devi…
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Heist, crime film, detective film, drama film, heist film, romance film
Multi-millionaire businessman Thomas Crown is a handsome, dashing, cultured adrenaline junkie. Out of boredom, he masterminds a five-man heist of $2.66 million from a Boston bank, with the getaway driver dumping the money in a quiet cemete…
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Fantasy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy horror, ghost film, live-action/animated film, mystery film
A few weeks after their adventure on Spooky Island, Mystery Inc. attends the grand opening of the Coolsonian Criminology Museum, featuring an exhibit of monster costumes from their past cases. However, the celebrations are interrupted by a…
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Crime, Detective Film, Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir, teen film
High school student Brendan Frye discovers a note directing him to a pay phone, where he receives a call from his ex-girlfriend Emily Kostich, begging him for help. She mentions a "bad brick", "the Pin", and "Tug" before abruptly hanging u…
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Heist, Splatstick, comedy film, heist film
As a child in Lugash, Princess Dala receives a gift from her father, the Maharajah: the "Pink Panther", the largest diamond in the world. This huge pink gem has an unusual flaw: by looking deeply into the stone, one perceives a tiny discol…
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Mysterie, crime film, drama film, romance film
In the 1970s New York City, David Marks, the son of a powerful real estate tycoon Sanford Marks, marries Katie McCarthy, a working-class student. Together they try to establish a new life in Vermont, setting up a health food store called A…
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Action, Thriller, action film, detective film, disaster film, mystery film, thriller film
Bill Marks is a U.S. Air Marshal and ex-NYPD officer who boards a British non-stop transatlantic flight, British Aqualantic Airlines Flight 10, from New York City to London. Bill sits next to Jen Summers in business class, who has switched…
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Mysterie, erotic film, erotic thriller, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, satanic film
In 1955 New York City, a man named Louis Cyphre contacts private investigator Harry Angel to track down crooner John Liebling, known professionally as Johnny Favorite. Favorite suffered neurological trauma resulting from injuries received …
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Christmas film, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, Gangster Film, comedy film, crime film
Willie T. Soke and his dwarf assistant Marcus Skidmore are professional thieves. Every year, Willie gets a job as a department store Santa Claus and Marcus as an elf to rob shopping malls on the night of Christmas Eve, with Marcus' wife Lo…
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