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Action, Adventure, Detective Film, Drama, Mysterie, action film, adventure film, buddy cop film, crime thriller film, mystery film
In 1890 London, private detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. John Watson prevent the ritualistic murder of a woman by Lord Henry Blackwood, a noble who has killed five women previously and claims to have supernatural powers. Inspe…
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Caper-Movie, Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, action film, comedy film, detective film, heist film, mystery film
Terry Benedict locates all eleven members of Danny Ocean's crew, demanding they return the $160 million they stole from his casinos plus $38 million in interest. He gives them a two-week deadline to return the money, under the threat that …
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Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Treasure Hunting, action film, adventure film, heist film, thriller film, treasure hunt film
In 1974, a child named Benjamin Franklin Gates is told by his grandfather about a fabled treasure hidden in America. The treasure, passed down from ancient times to the Knights Templar, Founding Fathers, and Freemasons, has long been the o…
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Family Drama, Road Movie, drama film
Travis Henderson is wandering through the West Texas desert holding an empty gallon water jug. He wanders into a convenience store, opens a freezer, starts eating ice, and faints. A doctor examines Travis and believes that he is mute.
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Action, Mysterie, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Ethan Kopek, a TSA officer at LAX, has become cynical after being rejected from the police academy for concealing his father's criminal history. On Christmas Eve, his pregnant girlfriend Nora encourages him to reapply to pursue his dream. …
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Komödie, Mysterie, action film, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
A waiter pages George Kaplan at the Oak Room restaurant at the Plaza Hotel in New York City at the request of two well-dressed men. While summoning the same waiter, advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for Kaplan, kidnapped by…
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Erotic Thriller, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, erotic thriller, mystery film, neo-noir, teen film
In the upscale Miami suburb of Blue Bay, handsome high school guidance counselor Sam Lombardo, who is known for his popularity among the female students as well as some of the older women in the area due to his sex appeal, holds a school a…
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Horror, Sci-Fi, detective film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2028, Earth is suffering from a global energy crisis. As a result, worldwide agencies prepare to test the Shepard particle accelerator aboard the Cloverfield space station, which would provide Earth with infinite energy. The crew consis…
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Horror, Mysterie, psychological horror fiction, psychological thriller
Eloise "Ellie" Turner, a sweet and naive teenager with troubled mental health, loves the music and fashion of the Swinging Sixties and dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Her mother, who was a fashion designer, died by suicide when Elli…
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Forensic, Thriller, crime film, thriller film, trial film
Theodore "Ted" Crawford, a wealthy Irish aeronautical engineer living in Los Angeles, confirms that his wife, Jennifer, is having an affair with police detective Robert Nunally. Confronting his wife, Crawford shoots her. He calls the polic…
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, drama film, psychological thriller
Trevor Reznik is a machinist whose insomnia has led to him becoming emaciated and a loner. His coworkers eventually turn against him when he is involved in an accident that causes his coworker to lose his left arm; Trevor was distracted by…
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Crime, Komödie, Thriller, comedy film, crime film, mystery film, thriller film
In Warfield, Connecticut, widowed single mother Stephanie Smothers runs a vlog featuring crafts and recipes for mothers. She becomes friends with Emily Nelson, the mother of her son Miles' best friend and classmate Nicky and a PR director …
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, teen film, thriller film
In 1957, on an automobile production line in Detroit, a newly-built red 1958 Plymouth Fury slams its hood shut by itself onto a worker's hand, while another worker is found dead inside the car after dropping cigar ash on its seats. In 1978…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, slasher film, supernatural film, teen film, thriller film
High school student Alex Browning boards Volée Airlines Flight 180, a Boeing 747-200B, with his classmates for their senior trip to Paris from John F. Kennedy Airport. Before take-off, Alex has a premonition that the plane will explode in …
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Animalhorror, Drama, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, melodrama, mystery film, natural horror film, suspense film, thriller film
At a San Francisco pet store, socialite Melanie Daniels meets lawyer Mitch Brenner, who wants to buy lovebirds for his sister Cathy's 11th birthday. Mitch recognizes Melanie from her court appearance regarding a practical joke gone awry an…
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Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Jack Lamb of Lillian, Ohio and his 14-year-old son Joe mourn the death of wife and mother Elizabeth in a workplace accident. Jack blames Elizabeth's co-worker Louis Dainard for the accident, as Dainard had a hangove…
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Horror, Monster Film, Occult Horror, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
John Trent is delivered by ambulance to an insane asylum, violently agitated and restrained. He is confined to a padded room, where he experiences disturbing hallucinations. He begins telling his story to a doctor.
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Action, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, Road Movie, action film, road movie, thriller film
David Mann is a middle-aged salesman driving on a business trip. He encounters a dilapidated tanker truck in the Mojave Desert. Mann passes the truck, but the truck roars past him.
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Crime Comedy, Heist, comedy film, detective film, drama film, heist film, melodrama, mystery film
thumb|San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk (1908), the Claude Monet painting stolen in the film thumb|A close copy of Poker Sympathy from Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's Dogs Playing Poker series is used as a plot point in the film. Thieves infiltrat…
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, Forensic, crime film, drama film, trial film
The story is set during the Great Depression in the fictional segregated town of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout, aged six, lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus, a white middle-aged lawyer. Guided by a strong social co…
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American football film, Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, action film, comedy film
Ace Ventura, an eccentric private investigator in Miami, specializes in rescuing animals and is frequently mocked by the Miami Police Department. After the Miami Dolphins' mascot, a bottlenose dolphin named Snowflake, is stolen from the te…
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Horror, Mysterie, drama film, fantasy film, horror film
Following the apparent suicide of her husband James, Harper Marlowe decides to spend a holiday alone in the Herefordshire village of Cotson. Flashbacks reveal that Harper, tired of James's emotional abuse and manipulation, intended to divo…
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Drama, comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1932, Sir William McCordle, his wife Lady Sylvia, and their daughter Isobel host a shooting party at their country estate, Gosford Park. Among the guests are Sylvia's sisters Louisa and Lavinia and their husbands Lord Stockbridge and Co…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film
Joe Turner is a bookish CIA analyst, codenamed "Condor", who works at the American Literary Historical Society in New York City, in reality a clandestine CIA office. The staff analyzes print media from around the world. Turner files a repo…
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