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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 717 films · Page 9.
Detective Film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe has been hired by Orfamay Quest, a young woman from Kansas, to find her brother, Orrin. Marlowe searches Orrin's former hotel room and interviews the shady hotel guest, Grant Hicks, he finds there. Re…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, mystery film, science fiction film, splatter film
A woman named Becky wakes up in the Cube. She enters another room. The room enters a state of reversed gravity and it is implied that she is killed.
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, action film, comedy film
Former LAPD detective Andre Shame is a wisecracking, gun-toting private investigator who owns A Low Down Dirty Shame Investigations. He runs it with his energetic and talkative assistant Peaches Jordan, whom he arrested shoplifting six yea…
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Animation, Family Comedy, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
While driving the Mystery Inc. gang through the desert amidst a sandstorm, Shaggy Rogers accidentally drives onto government property before a UFO sighting causes him to crash near a small town. Shaggy and his dog Scooby-Doo stay with the …
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Action, Detective Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
Picking up four years after The French Connection left off, New York City police officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle still searches for elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier. The department sends him to Marseille to track down Charnier. Once there,…
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Crime Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, detective film
At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, Ponce, a male student is experiencing sexual frustration, surrounded by a seemingly unending stream of beautiful and sexually provocative…
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Detective Film, Gangster Film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
With his eyes bandaged, private detective Philip Marlowe is interrogated by police lieutenant Randall about two murders. Marlowe tells how he was hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to locate Malloy's former girlfriend Velma Valento. They go to F…
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Mysterie, mystery film, thriller film
While driving at night along the northern California coast, architect Dan Merrick and his wife Judith are involved in a car wreck. Dan suffers major injuries and brain trauma, resulting in psychogenic amnesia. After extensive plastic surge…
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Detective Film, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, Mysterie, Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
Detective Aidan Breslin is a widower who has become emotionally distanced from his two sons, Alex and Sean. Due to his dental forensics expertise, Breslin is called to investigate a crime scene that includes human teeth and a painted messa…
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Drama, teen film
Brian Kelly is an unmotivated high school student in Orange County, California. An avid skateboarder, Brian is frequently at odds with his parents for his increasingly reckless behavior, which has landed him in jail on more than one occasi…
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Crime, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, film noir, flashback film, thriller film
thumb|Montgomery Clift in the I Confess film trailer Father Logan is a devout Catholic priest in Ste. Marie's Church in Quebec City. He employs German immigrant married couple Otto and Alma Keller as caretaker and housekeeper, respectively.
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
left|thumb|Full film Police Lieutenant Leonard Diamond is on a personal crusade to bring down the sadistic gangster Mr. Brown. He is also dangerously obsessed with Susan Lowell; she is Mr.
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Detective Film, crime film, neo-noir
In 1970s England, private detective Philip Marlowe is asked to the stately home of General Sternwood, who hires Marlowe to learn who is blackmailing him. While at the mansion, he meets the general's spoiled and inquisitive daughter, Charlo…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film
Daniel Lucas, a criminal convicted for armed robbery 5 years prior, is released from prison. Lucas hitches a ride with Detective Marvin Dugan, who drops him off at a bank Lucas sarcastically claims he will rob. As Lucas is opening an accou…
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exploitation film, teen film
Blackrock is an Australian beachside working-class suburb in which surfing is popular among youths like Jared. His first serious girlfriend is Rachel, who comes from a much wealthier part of the city. One day, Ricko, a surfer popular among…
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Thriller, crime thriller film
Set in 1978, the plot centers on Los Angeles private investigator Carson Phillips. He is hired to conduct an investigation in his Texas hometown where mental facility patient Barbara Van Poole has been incommunicado for some time, which ha…
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Adventure, Thriller, action film, crime film
An alcoholic Los Angeles Sheriff's Deputy, Matt Scudder, takes part in a drug bust that results in his fatal shooting of a small-time dealer in front of the man's wife and kids. Scudder ends up in a drunk ward, suffering from booze and bla…
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Crime Comedy, Detective Film, comedy film, crime film, police film, thriller film
After spending three years without human contact in a remote trailer, former Detective Charlie Waldo returns to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of actor Alistair Pinch‘s wife. Initially unwilling to take the case, he agrees to stay f…
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Romantic Comedy, Romantic Drama, romantic comedy
Young cello student Ariane Chavasse resides in Paris with her widowed father, Claude, a private detective who specializes in tracking unfaithful spouses. One day, she overhears him provide a client, "Monsieur X", proof of his wife's daily …
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Christmas film, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film
thumb|right|upright=1.2|thumbtime=2:34|Trailer for Lady in the Lake Tired of the low pay of his profession, hard-boiled Los Angeles private detective Phillip Marlowe submits a murder story to Kingsby Publications. He is invited to the publ…
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Crime Comedy, Detective Film, action film, comedy film, thriller film
In Venice, Los Angeles, private investigator Steve Ford gets his assistant John to locate a young woman, Nola, that he was hired to find, only for Ford to have sex with her. This results in him being chased by her brothers, who had hired h…
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Crime, Thriller, action film, drama film, mystery film
On a live fire exercise in the jungles of Panama, a team of Army Rangers trainees is led by instructor and Master Sergeant Nathan West, tasked with traversing the jungle in hurricane weather, attacking pop-up metal targets with live ammuni…
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Crime, Horror, Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, mystery film, psycho-biddy, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, thriller film
Irene Trent is unhappily married to a blind, pathologically possessive millionaire inventor, Howard. Howard and Irene's palatial mansion is packed with an assortment of cuckoo clocks, all in perfect synchronization, and Howard tape records…
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Crime, Drama, crime film, detective film, drama film
A trio of Wayne County, Michigan, auto workers, two black—32-year-old Ezekiel "Zeke" Brown from Detroit, Michigan, and two-time ex-convict, 35-year-old Sam "Smokey" James from Mississippi, who spent time in Michigan State Prison—and one 33…
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