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Criminal Comedy Film, heist film
Harriet "Harry" and Peter Fox are a British con-artist couple living in London who plan a jewel heist in Los Angeles, after escaping from a notorious female gangster named Irina. Harry was paid handsomely by a nun who she dealt with during…
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Heist, crime film, drama film, heist film
A criminal gang uses a gas canister to knock out the occupant of a car and then bundles him into a stolen ambulance. There, the gang cuts free a briefcase full of jewellery. Shortly afterward, while the criminals change vehicles, they are …
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Thriller
Bella inherits a yacht from her father, who was a mercenary. She wants to take a trip on it with her boyfriend Michael, but the yacht is attacked by Meeser, a colleague of her father's, who wants to get his hands on money they stole togeth…
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Thriller, drama film, neo-noir
In Phoenix, Arizona, Harry Collins is a cop whose compulsive gambling has indebted him to a local gangster, in Chicago. As his losses mount and time count down, Collins resorts to exploiting a young woman, Veronica, whom he has picked up t…
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Komödie, comedy film
A playboy astrologer has to prove an alibi to police for a robbery five years before.
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Crime, Thriller, heist film, neo-noir
Psychiatrist Margaret Ford has achieved success with her recently published book about obsessive-compulsive disorder, but feels unfulfilled. Her patient, Billy Hahn, says his life is in danger because he owes money to a criminal figure nam…
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Gangster Film, Road Movie, crime film, drama film
A young couple in love — Watty Watts (Bellows) and Starlene (Zellweger) — are planning a convenience store robbery. The next day, they are paid a visit by Creepy Cody (Alexander) and Dinosaur Bob (Combs), collectors for a local mobster who…
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Action, Gangster Film, biographical film, heist film
André Stander is an officer for the South African Police, newly married with a rising reputation as the youngest captain on the force. In 1976, he and his partner are assigned along with other officers to a protest duty in the wake of the …
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crime film, drama film, heist film, mystery film
In Paris, robber and murderer Roger Sartet escapes from custody with the help of the Manalese, a small, well-organized Sicilian Mafia clan consisting of patriarch Vittorio, his two sons, and his son-in-law. Sartet pays them with some valua…
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Action, Political Thriller, Thriller, action film, heist film
George Moran is a former Marine and veteran of the Dominican Republic intervention who now runs a small beachfront motel in Miami. While searching for a Dominican woman named Luci Palma who saved his life in 1965 (and gave him the nickname…
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Animalhorror, Criminal Comedy Film, Horror, action film, comedy film, heist film, thriller film
Three bank robbers – Eddie, Jojo and Sammy - plan what they think is a perfect bank heist. As they exit the bank one of them throws the money in the trunk of what looks like their car but is just identical. Dejected, the leader of the crew…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
thumb|The full film In London, Vivian Vedder verifies that a carpenter has completed a coffin for her recently deceased mother's body, which she is transporting to Scotland by train. She boards the train that evening, as do Lady Margaret C…
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Crime, Drama, drama film, heist film, neo-noir
Ex-convict Eddie Pedak tries to lead a normal life in San Francisco with a loving wife Kristine, a daughter, and a steady job. Much to his chagrin, he also has a vengeful police detective and estranged brother complicating his life. The de…
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Animalhorror, heist film, horror film, natural horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
The mastermind behind a precision theft of priceless emeralds decides to hide the jewels at the bottom of a reservoir he has secretly stocked with savage deadly piranha. Retrieving the gems turns out to be a caper in itself since the group…
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Crime Comedy, Heist, heist film
Jane, Elaine, and Louise are suburbanites in Eugene, Oregon. Friends since high school, they are struggling with money due to a turbulent national economy and high inflation. Jane is divorced, trying to cope with the man she is dating, Rob…
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Western, Western film
Three outlaws rob a bank, but one of them is wounded. His two partners kidnap his girlfriend, take his share of the money and run off, leaving him to be captured by the sheriff. One year later, after he gets out of prison, he goes in searc…
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Heist, heist film, mystery film, romantic comedy
Jack Rhodes, a rich American living in London, attends a party and meets Gillian Bromley, an attractive woman who is also a thief. Rhodes observes Gillian stealing diamond jewelry from the house and later discovers Gillian hiding in his ap…
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Family Saga, Gangster Film, Historie, Thriller, biographical film
Sexually abused by her brothers, Kate Barker runs away to become involved in bootlegging. She marries decent George Barker and gives birth to four sons, Herman, Arthur ("Doc"), Lloyd and Freddie. However, when George's law-abiding ways fai…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
On Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, a dispatched LASD Sheriff named Kimble is shot dead by an armed criminal, who robbed a convenience store and also killed its African-American owner minutes earlier. The alcoholic, hard-driven LASD Detective…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, romance film
Richard and Kate Jones are divorcees with two children Sophie and Matt. Soon after Richard's company is sold to the corrupt French businessman Vincent, the company's pension plan is lost, including all of Richard and Kate's investments for…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, film noir, heist film
In New York's Lower East Side, lives young Tommy Woodry, who has a habit of crying wolf. Late one night, while trying to sleep on the building fire escape, he sees his two seemingly normal neighbors, Mr. and Mrs.
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Adventure, Komödie, Parodie, parody film
Spoofing the classic Beau Geste and a number of other desert motion pictures, the film's plotline revolves around the heroic Beau Geste (York) and his "identical twin brother" Digby's (Feldman) misadventures in the French Foreign Legion ou…
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Crime, Drama, drama film, heist film, neo-noir
Bryce is a successful man who returns to his tiny hometown for a visit. While there, he runs into his old friend Nick. The two decide to go out for the night.
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Crime Comedy, heist film
Siblings Tracy and Jay begin their Easter holidays with disappointment as they hear their mother, Carolyn, whom they had expected to pick them up from school, is instead in Hong Kong. Before she left, she made plans that the two children s…
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