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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy film
Donovan Donaly, a TV soap opera producer, walks in on his wife Bonnie being intimate with an ex-boyfriend. He files for divorce, and she hires Miles Massey, a top divorce attorney and the inventor of the "Massey pre-nup", a completely fool…
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir, flashback film, mystery film
thumb|left|upright=.75|thumbtime=2:27|Film trailer New York City Police Department Detective Mark McPherson investigates the murder of successful advertising executive Laura Hunt, who was killed by a shotgun blast to the face just inside h…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy
Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are American showgirls and best friends, although the two are very different. Lorelei thinks more of a man's financial wealth, especially men who can give her diamonds, such as her fiancé Gus Esmond Jr. Contrar…
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Drama, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
On Walter Sparrow's birthday (February 3), his wife Agatha gives him The Number 23, a book by Topsy Kretts, as a birthday present. Walter starts reading it and notices similarities between himself and the main character, the detective "Fin…
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Komödie, comedy film
After failing to save a raccoon from falling to its death (a parody of the movie Cliffhanger), private investigator Ace Ventura becomes depressed and joins a monastery in Tibet. Meanwhile African explorer Fulton Greenwall arrives in Tibet …
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Detective Film, Forensic, Komödie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, trial film
In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, small-town lawyer Paul Biegler, a former district attorney who lost his re-election bid, spends most of his time fishing, playing the piano, and hanging out with his alcoholic friend and colleague Parnel…
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Buddy Cop, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, martial arts film, thriller film
Lorna Cole is pregnant with LAPD Sergeant Martin Riggs's baby; they are not married, but both are thinking about it. LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh's daughter Rianne is also pregnant but will not reveal who the father is. The officers and Le…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, comedy film, detective film, heist film
In 2000, Dick Harper gets promoted to Vice President of Communications for the major media corporation Globodyne. He convinces his wife Jane to quit her job as a travel agent to spend more time with their son Billy, as Dick's salary would …
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crime film, drama film, thriller film
Journalist Mikael Blomkvist, co-owner of the magazine Millennium, loses a high-profile libel case against billionaire Hans-Erik Wennerström, resulting in a looming prison sentence. Meanwhile, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant but troubled hack…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, detective film, thriller film
Inspector Harry Callahan's testimony incarcerates criminal kingpin Lou Janero. Now famous, Callahan becomes the target of Janero's men as well as the news media, both of which he dislikes. After Callahan kills four hitmen during an ambush,…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In January 1971, private investigator John Shaft is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. He spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building and ambushes him. At gunpoint, he brings him to his office, where the seco…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
A female hiker finds a dead woman on the North York Moors in England. The strangled victim is identified as Alice Ruber. Four months later, an insurance company asks detective Hercule Poirot to examine an expensive diamond belonging to mil…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, comedy drama, crime film, mystery film
Nine years after the events of the series finale, former teenage sleuth Veronica Mars has left Neptune, California, and moved to New York City, where she is in a relationship with Stosh "Piz" Piznarski and has a job offer from the prestigi…
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Crime, Mysterie, detective film, political thriller film, spy film
A scientist called Radcliffe is kidnapped from a train and his security escort killed. Harry Palmer, a British Army sergeant with a record of insubordination and a criminal past, now working for a Ministry of Defence organisation, is summo…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, Splatstick, comedy film
At the White House, President George H. W. Bush announces that he will base the country's energy policy on the recommendations of Dr.
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Romantic Comedy, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, romantic comedy film
Phil and Claire Foster are a married couple from New Jersey with two children. Over time, their domestic life has become predictable and routine, leaving their relationship feeling stagnant. Phil, a tax lawyer, and Claire, a realtor, lead …
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Historie, Political Drama, biographical film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
The film opens with a paralyzed Iraq War veteran testifying before Congress about his injuries in the war. The film centers on Knight Ridder reporters Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel along with Editor-in-Chief John Walcott and legendary…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Gangster Film, Police Film, Sitcom, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, heist film
Jewel thief Miles Logan and his crew—best friend Eddie, getaway driver Tulley, and new recruit Deacon—steal a $17 million diamond during a heist in Los Angeles. During the escape, Deacon betrays the crew, killing Eddie and trying to take t…
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Daffy Comedy, comedy film, drama film
Young Albert Markovski heads the local chapter of the "Open Spaces Coalition" environmental group. One of their current projects is stopping the building of a new "big-box" department store, Huckabees. Albert is a rival of Brad Stand, a sh…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, cyberpunk, dystopian film, fantasy film, melodrama, mystery film, neo-noir, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1999 Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller owns a multibillion-dollar computer enterprise and is the inventor of a newly completed virtual reality (VR) simulation of 1937 Los Angeles, filled with simulated humans unaware they are computer programs…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
Joe Stefanos drives to the rural mountain town of Bridgeport, California to seek gas station owner Jeff Bailey, and asks him to meet Whit Sterling in Lake Tahoe. Jeff acquiesces and takes his girlfriend Ann Miller to ride along and hear ab…
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Adventure, Christmas film, Detective Film, mystery film, teen film
Following the closure of his old school in the countryside, a young John Watson is transferred to London's Brompton Academy, where Sherlock Holmes befriends him immediately. Holmes's mentors there include Rupert Waxflatter, an eccentric re…
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Action, Thriller, action film, detective film, thriller film
Andre Davis, a successful NYPD Detective like his father (who was murdered on duty when Andre was a child), struggles with his father's legacy and has earned a reputation for killing several criminals over the years, although he claims tha…
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Military Film, Psychodrama, War Film, action film, drama film, flashback film, mystery film, thriller film, war film
While serving in the Persian Gulf War, Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling fires on and destroys one of his own tanks during a confusing nighttime battle, killing his friend, Lieutenant Tom Boylar. The United States Army covers up the fri…
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