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Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, melodrama, neo-noir, thriller film
Chicago advertising executive Charles Schine lives with his wife Deanna and their daughter Amy, who suffers from type 1 diabetes, which requires expensive medical treatment. On a commuter train to work one morning, Charles meets Lucinda Ha…
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, gangster film
Archie Moses is a small-time thief in Los Angeles who smuggles drugs for drug lord Frank Colton, who launders his drug money through a car dealership. Moses is unaware that his best friend, Rock Keats, is actually LAPD undercover cop Jack …
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Crime, Erotic Film, Erotic Thriller, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, trial film
The elderly and wealthy Andrew Marsh dies from complications stemming from an erotic incident involving bondage and homemade pornography. The main suspect is his lover Rebecca Carlson who proclaims her innocence to lawyer Frank Dulaney. In…
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Satanism, Thriller, horror film, mystery film
One week after the events of the first film, archaeologist Carl Bugenhagen learns that Damien Thorn is still alive. In Acre, Israel, Bugenhagen asks his friend Michael Morgan to deliver a box to Damien's new guardian, explaining that Damie…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, mystery film, trial film
In 2001, Christian Longo, an Oregon man whose wife and three children have been discovered murdered, is arrested by police in Mexico, where he had been identifying himself as a reporter for The New York Times named Michael Finkel. Meanwhil…
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High School Comedy Film, Sitcom, comedy film, prison film, teen film
Prison inmate Luther speaks directly to the camera in the opening, telling the story of Dizzy Gillespie Harrison, an 18-year-old nerdy high school senior in Austin, Texas. Dizzy is friends with Nora, Kirk, and Glen, who together started a …
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Romantic Comedy
Zoey Miller, a highly intelligent computer major junior, at Queens University of Charlotte does not believe in the traditional concept of romantic love, but rather that having similar ways of thinking is the key. On Valentine's Day she spe…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Irish Republican Army expert bomb-maker Ryan Gaerity escapes from his cell in Castle Gleigh prison in Northern Ireland after turning a toilet into a bomb, killing a guard and his cellmate. One year and two months later, in Boston, Lieutena…
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Fake Documentary, comedy film, mockumentary
In 2008, while rehearsing for a charity event, actor Joaquin Phoenix, with Casey Affleck's camera filming, tells people he is quitting acting to pursue a career in rap music. Over the next year, Phoenix writes, rehearses, and performs to a…
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Erotic Thriller, Heist, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, erotic thriller, suspense film, thriller film
Mercenary thief Laure Ash is part of a team executing a diamond heist at the Cannes Film Festival. The diamonds are located on a gold ensemble worn by model Veronica, who is accompanying real-life director Régis Wargnier to the premiere of…
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Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In New Orleans, Chris Farraday, a reformed smuggler, enjoys a quiet family life with his wife, Kate, and their two children. Their tranquility is shattered when they discover Kate's brother, Andy, has become entangled in drug smuggling. To…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Secret Agent, crime film, drama film, spy film
In 2008, CIA agent Peter Devereaux supervises a young operative, David Mason, during a protective mission in Montenegro. Mason disobeys Devereaux's orders not to fire. He shoots and kills an assassin but also kills a child.
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, comedy film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Doug Kinney works in construction in Los Angeles, and his job constantly gets in the way of his family. Working on a new wing of a scientific facility, Doug meets Dr. Leeds, a scientist who developed a method for cloning humans.
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Komödie, comedy film
When word reaches Jackie O'Shea and Michael O'Sullivan, two elderly best friends, that someone in Tulaigh Mhór (Tullymore), their tiny Irish village of 52 people, has won the Irish National Lottery, they, along with Jackie's wife Annie, pl…
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Romantic Comedy, Splatstick, romantic comedy
Ogden Mears is a wealthy American diplomat traveling by ocean liner to take up a post in Saudi Arabia. Following a drunken final night in Hong Kong, he discovers Natascha, a White Russian émigré and former dance-hall hostess, hiding in his…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Mysterie, Secret Agent, action film, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
A man is shot twice on the deck of a ship, during a heavy storm at night. The injured man plunges into the Mediterranean Sea, eventually washing ashore in a fishing village off the coast of Southern France. Two fishermen take him to the lo…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, teen film
Anna Foster is the daughter of President of the United States, James Foster. After Secret Service agents ruin a first date, she demands less supervision. For his upcoming trip to Prague, the president agrees to assign only two agents to wa…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, thriller film
In 1899, an Oxford University professor demonstrates a patient with a case of female hysteria, Eliza Graves, before his class, including a young man. Though the patient protests that she is sane, the professor points out that all mental pa…
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Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, comedy film
Dr. R.J. "Roscoe" Stevens (real name Roscoe Jenkins) is a successful talk-show host, who not only has millions of adoring fans but has discarded his awkward Southern roots, and is engaged to Survivor winner Bianca Kittles.
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Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film
Danica (Tika Sumpter) is a successful worker at a marketing firm, and has been in a relationship with "Charlie" (Mehcad Brooks), a man she met online a year ago but has never seen in real life. When she is sent to go pick up her recently p…
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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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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
In 1962, aspiring author Barbara Novak arrives in New York to promote her book, Down with Love, to Banner House publishing. It is about freeing women from love, enjoying sex without commitment, and replacing the need for a man with things …
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, ghost film, mystery film, thriller film
Will Atenton, a successful editor for a New York City publishing house, quits his job to focus on writing a book while spending more time with his wife Libby and their young daughters, Trish and Dee Dee. The family is initially happy to li…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Erotic Thriller, Secret Agent, drama film, war film
Henry Faber is a cold, ruthless German sleeper agent nicknamed the "Needle" due to his preference for killing with a stiletto. While spying in England, he obtains critical intelligence of a massive military deception campaign to disguise t…
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