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Action, Anti-War Film, Gangster Film, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, heist film, hood film, neo-noir
In 1968, Anthony Curtis, a soon-to-be high school graduate in The Bronx, chooses to enlist in the United States Marine Corps rather than go to college. He deploys to Vietnam, leaving behind his middle-class family, his girlfriend Juanita, …
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Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
In Beverly Hills, an organised criminal gang led by the ruthless Karla Fry carries out a precision robbery of a jewellery store, leaving behind an envelope marked "A" containing a cryptic code. Captain Andrew Bogomil investigates the robbe…
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Komödie, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime film, drama film, heist film
Roy Waller is a con artist from Los Angeles with severe Tourette syndrome and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Alongside his partner and protégé Frank Mercer, Roy runs short cons, selling overpriced water filtration systems to unsuspec…
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Criminal Comedy Film, heist film
In March 1997, Loomis Fargo & Company suffered a staggering theft of approximately $18 million, carried out by an insider—security guard Philip Johnson. This audacious act inspires Steve Eugene Chambers (Owen Wilson) and Kelly Campbell (Kr…
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Action, Thriller, action film, heist film, thriller film
Parker is a professional thief who is asked by his mentor Hurley to take charge of a job with a crew he does not know, consisting of Melander, Carlson, Ross, and Hardwicke. They succeed in robbing the Ohio State Fair, but Hardwicke alters …
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Action, Thriller, action thriller, heist film
Matt Turner works as a financier at Nanite Capital under his friend and CEO Anders Muller and lives with his wife, Heather, and two children, Emily and Zach, in Berlin. While driving his children to school, Matt receives a call from an unk…
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, screwball comedy film, thriller film
Bicycle courier Belle Williams earns her taxi license and installs a supercharger in her custom-built 1999 Ford Crown Victoria taxicab. Her first customer offers her a $100 tip if she can make it to the airport in fifteen minutes. She does…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, comedy film, comedy thriller, heist film
Mrs. Marva Munson, a strict, religious and elderly widow, meets "Professor" Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr, a classics professor who expresses interest in the room she has for rent and asks to use her root cellar for rehearsals of an early mus…
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Animation, Komödie, comedy film, fantasy film, heist film, musical film, mystery film, science fiction film
Following their last adventure, the Muppets are unsure of their next move. Their new tour manager, Dominic Badguy, suggests a world tour. Unknown to them, Dominic is secretly working for Constantine, the world's number one criminal who bea…
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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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Crime, action film, rape and revenge film
In 1973, artist Jennifer Spencer and her sister, Beth, are gang raped; the attack leaves Beth in a catatonic state. Ten years later, Spencer uses a .38 Special to kill George Wilburn, one of the rapists, in San Francisco and returns to her…
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Heist, action film, crime film, drama film, heist film, romance film
left|upright|thumb|The Petronas Twin Towers, where the final heist scene takes place. In December 1999, insurance investigator Virginia "Gin" Baker assesses the theft of a valuable Rembrandt painting from a New York City apartment. Gin inf…
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Action, Heist, Komödie, Road Movie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, heist film
A young ne'er-do-well who goes by the name Lightfoot cheerfully steals a car from an enraged dealer's lot. Elsewhere, an assassin attempts to shoot a preacher, who is delivering a sermon at his pulpit. The preacher escapes on foot.
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Action, Thriller, action film
An ex–black ops team reunites to pull off a desperate heist and save the life of the leader's eight-year-old daughter.
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Drama, Fairy-Tale Film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, family film, fantasy film, romantic comedy film
In narration, the very beautiful but wicked enchantress, the Evil Queen, insists that this is her story: she had married the widower king, who one day left to fight a great evil that had invaded the land, but never returned. The Queen rule…
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Drama, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film
A reporter arrives at a restaurant to interview Laura Quinn, the only woman ever to serve as a manager at the London Diamond Corporation, for a puff piece on early female professionals. Quinn places a box on the table, opens it to reveal a…
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Heist, Justice Drama, Political Thriller, political thriller film
In Washington, D.C., master thief Luther Whitney breaks into the mansion of billionaire Walter Sullivan. He is forced to hide upon the arrival of Sullivan's wife Christy, on a drunken rendezvous with Alan Richmond, the President of the Uni…
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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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Heist, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Lynn Kang is a gifted Thai American high school student who receives a scholarship to an elite private school. After helping her classmate Grace cheat on a test, Lynn is approached by other students who offer to pay her for answers. Using …
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Action, Drama, action film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
On leaving prison Jimmy Cullen known as "Driver" retrieves his 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, a gun, and a list of names before heading to a telemarketing office in Bakersfield, California and killing a man named Prescott Ashton. He then visits …
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Action, Sitcom, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
In Los Angeles, Franklin Maurice Hatchett is a fast-talking, foul-mouthed, small-time car wash hustler and ticket scalper who owes money to a local mobster named Carmine. The police are informed of his crimes by investigating news reporter…
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Heist, Road Movie, black comedy film, crime film, drama film
In 1971 Portland, Oregon, 26-year-old Bob Hughes leads a nomadic group of drug addicts—his wife Dianne, his best friend Rick, and Rick's teenage girlfriend Nadine—who travel across the Pacific Northwest robbing pharmacies and hospitals to …
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Drama Documentary, Heist, crime film, docufiction, drama film
Spencer Reinhard, an art student seeking excitement or tragedy for inspiration, is given a tour of Transylvania University library's rare-book collection; his eye is drawn to a rare first edition of John James Audubon's Birds of America. H…
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Animation, Crime, action film, science fiction film
A new faction of the Jokerz gang—consisting of Bonk, Woof, Ghoul, Chucko, and the Dee-Dee twins—attempts to steal high-tech electronic equipment but is intercepted by Batman (Terry McGinnis), protégé of the original Batman, Bruce Wayne. Th…
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