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Fake Documentary, Komödie, comedy film
Julian plans to steal money from an automated teller machine. He gets his two best friends, Ricky and Bubbles, to help him succeed in the operation and get rich. However, things do not go according to plan and they are chased by the police.
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Drama, Film Noir, Romance Film, drama film, film noir, heist film
Teenager Barton "Bart" Tare is caught breaking a hardware-store window to steal a gun. He is sent to reform school for four years despite the supportive testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and others. They claim …
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Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, black comedy film, psychological thriller
Fugitive John Taylor flees from an initially unspecified crime scene, with a wounded foot (with flashbacks and news reports revealing that he has robbed a bank, in collusion with a teller). He stops in a convenience store for some disinfec…
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Thriller, drama film, heist film
In an underground mob poker game, a man is revealed to be cheating with a hole card when the game gets robbed. He manages to defend himself as a huge gunfight breaks out, leaving all dead but him and one gangster. They get into a Mexican s…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
Karen McCoy, a renowned bank robber, is released from prison after serving six years and resolves to lead a law-abiding life. Upon returning home, she discovers that her ex-husband has told their young son, Patrick, that she died, further …
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Heist, crime film
Thief Tom Chitling steals an envelope from a safe and escapes guards, but is thrown off a building by an unseen assailant. The envelope is stolen while Tom is left to die. Years before, Molly and her son Oliver live together with their hob…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Family Drama, comedy drama, comedy film, heist film
Jessie McMullen, a Scottish-American widower who emigrated to New York with his Sicilian wife in 1946, is proud of his criminal lifestyle. He is disappointed that his son, Vito, left the life of crime when Vito's son, Adam, was born. Asham…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, crime film
Jack Ryan, a surfer and small-time thief, has a fight with the intimidating Lou Harris, involving a baseball bat. Harris is a foreman on a Hawaii construction site run by duplicitous millionaire Ray Ritchie. When Jack is released from jail…
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, crime film, drama film, heist film
Frederick J. Frenger Jr. (who asks to be called "Junior"), a violent sociopath and self-described thief who "steals from other thieves", is recently released from a California prison, and starts a new life in Miami.
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Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, adventure film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
An investigative reporter meets with Four Horse Casino owner Alana Hart, questioning her about a killer called "Bakwas" who is apparently in her employ. The reporter refuses a $2 million offer to sign a non-disclosure agreement, so Alana k…
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Adventure, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, mystery film, neo-noir
A young English woman named Nikky Ferris and her aunt, Frances, a musicologist, travel to the village of Elounda, on the island of Crete. They rent a room at the Moon-Spinners Inn, though the innkeeper, Sophia, initially refuses them until…
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Family Drama, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
Raymond Cutter, a second-generation criminal, cuts a deal with an underworld art dealer to get released early from prison to spend time with his son who has an inoperable brain tumor. He must forge a copy of Monet's Woman with a Parasol - …
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Criminal Comedy Film, crime film, drama film
Jonny (Jonny Lee Miller) is working as a postman and becoming increasingly dissatisfied with his life. He asks long-running school friend Jude (Jude Law) to help him into the North London criminal gang run by his uncle Ray (Ray Winstone). …
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Dark Comedy, comedy film, heist film
David Walsh is a bank employee whose day begins badly when he gets fired from his dream job and dumped by his fiancée Sara Goodwin the day after their engagement party was crashed by his best friend, Jack. Jack tries to console him by tell…
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Horror, horror film
Gaz, Nathan, and Terry have decided to break into the home of Dr. Richard Huggins and his wife Ellen, as it is in the countryside and is said to have a very large safe full of cash. Nathan's girlfriend, Mary complicates matters when she ar…
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Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film, prison film, romance film
James, a man with nothing to lose, owes his life to his older brother Frankie, who took the rap for a crime they did together. While Frankie served time, James worked to turn his life around: he manages to get a job as a mechanic, and begi…
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Action, Christmas film, action film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
Once a celebrated race car driver, Brent Magna returns to a ransacked home and the horrifying discovery that his wife, Leanne, is missing. A chilling phone call soon follows from a mysterious man known only as The Voice, who claims respons…
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Crime Comedy, Drama, drama film, heist film
Richard Gaddis is a small-time crook with a penchant for con games. To hook marks, he acts and dresses like a well-to-do businessman, believing that one must look like a professional in order to be a successful conman. Gaddis is searching …
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Crime, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In 1970 Framingham, Massachusetts, an unemployed carpenter, James Blaine "JB" Mooney, plots to steal four Arthur Dove paintings from the local art museum. He borrows money from his mother under the pretense of using it for work so he can p…
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comedy film, heist film
Jonathan and Steve, fans of Quentin Tarantino, learn that a screening of Pulp Fiction at Tarantino's theater will use his personal 35 mm print and decide to steal it. They recruit their friend Elizabeth and their therapist, Dr. Mendelbaum,…
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Documentation
Family Saga, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In rural Arkansas during the Depression, middle-aged Kate 'Ma' Barker, disturbed by the childhood incestuous rape that she experienced by her father and brothers, also brutalizes those around her while indulging in her monstrous sexual app…
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Christmas film, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
At Christmas time, New York City convicts Dave and Alvin Firpo are paroled early and placed in the custody of their younger brother Bill, a restaurant manager. Dave and Alvin ask Bill to take them to Paradise, Pennsylvania to do a favor fo…
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Crime, Thriller
Four 19-year-old friends – Joanne, Cassandra, Shannon, and Kerrys from London – all meet one other at a diner, where they see Dillon and Smoothy. As the police turn up, Dillon and Smoothy run off and Dillon accidentally drops a stolen diam…
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