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Adventure, Animation, Family Comedy, Komödie, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film, thriller film
Mystery Inc. visits their old friend and college student, Eric Staufer, who has invited them to see a prize-winning computer game he made based on their adventures and a high-tech laser, both of which he intends to enter at a campus scienc…
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Komödie, comedy film, comedy thriller, mystery film
In Beverly Hills, fashion model Jennifer Downing is kidnapped. Her father, multimillionaire P. J.
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Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1947, the long-retired Sherlock Holmes, aged 93, lives in a rural Sussex farmhouse with his widowed housekeeper Mrs Munro and her young son Roger. Having just returned from a trip to Hiroshima, Holmes starts to use a prickly ash plant h…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Daffy Comedy, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Jan Morrow is an interior decorator in New York City. She lives alone and claims to be happy when questioned on that subject by her drunken housekeeper, Alma. The only irritant in her life is the party line that she shares with Brad Allen,…
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Crime Comedy, comedy film, comedy thriller, drama film, romantic comedy, thriller film
Elliot Slater is a young, attractive, Australian professional photographer living in Southern California. Having always been uncomfortable with his sexual proclivities, which tend toward the BDSM realm, he signs up for a dominatrix-themed …
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Horror comedy, comedy horror film, cosmic horror film
Slacker David Wong recalls confronting a zombie skinhead he beheaded a year earlier and wonders if an axe that had its handle and head replaced over time is still the same axe. In the present day, he meets with a reporter, Arnie Blondeston…
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Detective Film, Fantasy, Mysterie, Occult Horror, Romantic Drama, fantasy film, horror film, neo-noir
In the Mojave Desert in 1982, a man named William Nix, also calling himself "The Puritan", has gathered a cult of disciples in an old house. Nix wields real magic and plans to sacrifice a girl, telling his followers he will save the world …
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Action, Detective Film, Komödie, Musical, action film, comedy film, mystery film
Private investigator Ford Fairlane is sitting on a beach smoking. A flashback shows a roaring crowd at a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado, given by heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black makes a…
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir, science fiction film
Mike Hammer is a tough private investigator who, with the assistance of his associate and lover Velda, typically works on "penny-ante divorce cases." One evening, Hammer is forced to suddenly stop his sports car by Christina, an escapee fr…
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Action, Martial-Arts, Thriller
Five youths rob a bank with the intention of shooting police officers. Chief Inspector Chan Kwok-wing and his squad chase the gang and the entire squad is wiped out, including Hong, the younger brother of Chan's girlfriend Ho Yee. Chan is …
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Crime, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
When the famous Pink Panther diamond is stolen again from Lugash, Chief Inspector Clouseau is called on the case despite protests by Chief Inspector Dreyfus. While on the case, Clouseau is pursued by the Mafia. Clouseau first goes to Londo…
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Detective Film, action film, crime film, drama film
FBI Special Agent Terry McCaleb, a veteran criminal profiler, leads a joint FBI-LAPD task force to capture the "Code Killer", a serial murderer who leaves taunting messages for McCaleb. While addressing reporters at the latest crime scene,…
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Psychological Thriller, neo-noir, thriller film
Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by glamorous, enigmatic Brooke Reynolds, who works at Crispin's (a fictitious New York auction house modeled after Christie's). Brooke was having an affair with one of Rice's patients, George …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Splatstick, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Philippe Douvier, a major French businessman and secretly the head of the French Connection, is suspected by his New York Mafia associates of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
Aging private detective Harry Ross, an ex-cop, is working on a case to return 17-year-old runaway Mel Ames to her parents' home. He tracks down Mel and her sleazy boyfriend, Jeff Willis, at a Mexican resort. During a struggle, Mel accident…
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Komödie, comedy drama, detective fiction
As shown in the series finale, Shawn, Gus, and Juliet relocated to San Francisco, where they remain three years later. After Juliet's SFPD partner Sam Sloane is shot, Shawn and Gus attempt to find out who was responsible and why it happene…
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Thriller, crime film, horror film, thriller film
In 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, several policemen discover a murdered woman sprawled on the floor of her apartment, which was locked from the inside. While police search for the killer's means of escape, they discover a second corpse …
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, political thriller film
New York Police Department police officer Billy Taggart is arrested for the murder of Mikey Tavarez. Earlier, Tavarez was tried for the rape and murder of 16-year-old Bolton Village resident Yesenia Barea but avoided a conviction due to a …
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Detective Film, action film, crime film, mystery film, teen film
Nancy Drew, an amateur sleuth, and her widowed father, Carson Drew, move from their quaint hometown River Heights to California, where Carson has a temporary job. Carson encourages Nancy to focus on living like a normal teenager, instead o…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, slasher film
A young woman walking home from her birthday party is stalked by a man. A man dressed as a police officer offers to escort her to her front door. The policeman, however, is actually the stalker.
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Bad Cop, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
Ben Shockley, an alcoholic Phoenix police detective, is assigned to extradite witness Augustina "Gus" Mally from Las Vegas. His superior, Commissioner Edgar Blakelock, remarks that she is a "nothing witness" for a "nothing trial". Upon mee…
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Horror, black comedy film, comedy horror, horror film
A news report shows a victim being pulled away on a stretcher. It is revealed that a serial killer, having murdered over thirty people, is on the loose in a Los Angeles suburb. Horace Pinker, a television repairman, is the culprit.
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Crime, Detective Film, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1941 Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by recently paroled felon "Moose" Malloy to find his old girlfriend Velma Valento, whom he has not seen in seven years while he has been in prison. Malloy goes to ground after …
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Komödie, romantic comedy
The New York–based private investigation firm Odyssey Detective Agency employs three agents: the middle-aged, womanizing John Russo, the younger, hippie-ish Arthur Brodsky, and the nervy and anxious Charles Rutledge. Their cantankerous bos…
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