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Political Drama, Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Okwe, a doctor in his home country (not initially named) who was forced to flee after being falsely accused of murdering his wife, lives in the United Kingdom as an undocumented immigrant. He drives a cab in London during the day and works…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, gangster film, neo-noir
A pair of hitmen drive to Eddie Macklin's house and kill him as he builds a brick wall in his backyard. Eddie's brother Earl is released from prison in Illinois after a 27-month term for carrying a concealed weapon. His girlfriend Bett pic…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, mystery film
Arthur Brennan, an adjunct physics professor, travels to Aokigahara ("The Suicide Forest") with a sealed package. Once there, he attempts to end his life via drug overdose but encounters a Japanese man named Takumi Nakamura. Takumi entered…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, political thriller film
Pete Garrison is a Secret Service agent and one of the personal bodyguards for the First Lady of the United States Sarah Ballentine, with whom he is having an affair. He is one of the oldest and most experienced agents, having been involve…
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Horror, Mysterie, drama film, horror film, psychological horror fiction
When Edna, an elderly widow who is suffering from dementia, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to look for her. They discover the house locked from the inside, and a strange black mould-…
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Drama, Horror, Mysterie, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
In 1880, in the fictional central European country of Gorslava, prominent London physician Sir Robert Cargrave visits the mysterious Baron Sardonicus at the urgent request of Robert's former love, Maude, now the baron's wife. Sir Robert be…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Drama, Fantasy, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
GNN television journalist Cameron "Buck" Williams reports from Israel about a new technology which will allow food to grow in inhospitable environments. He interviews Israeli scientist Chaim Rosenzweig, and praises him for creating a mirac…
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Adventure, comedy television program, ghost film, live-action/animated film, mystery film
In Coolsville, Ohio, a pet adoption fair is held. A talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo is up for adoption, but nobody is interested in him. Later, on the way back to the pound, Scooby is accidentally left behind when the crate he is in fa…
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Dark Comedy, black comedy film, comedy thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
The quirky but down-to-earth residents of the small hamlet of Highwater, Vermont, encounter the freshly dead body of Harry Worp, which has inconveniently appeared on the hillside above the town. The problem of who the deceased is, who was …
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Detective Film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1950s New York City, Lionel Essrog works at a detective agency alongside Gilbert Coney, Danny Fantl, and Tony Vermonte. Their boss, Frank Minna, rescued them as children from an abusive orphanage. Nicknamed "Motherless Brooklyn" by Fran…
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Horror, drama film, ghost film, horror film, thriller film
During the frigid winter of 1979, in the small New England town of Milburn, four elderly friends—businessman Ricky Hawthorne, lawyer Sears James, physician John Jaffrey, and Mayor Edward Charles Wanderley—form the Chowder Society, an infor…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, musical film, mystery film, romantic comedy
Nikki Finn is a carefree young woman who usually wears a leather jacket and skirt, sports fire-red lips and a platinum bubble cut, and speaks in a high-pitched voice; she is also resourceful and intelligent. One day her boyfriend Johnny se…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, biographical film, crime film, trial film
Throughout the Second World War, aristocrats in the Kenya Colony's Happy Valley region often led hedonistic lifestyles of indulgence in alcohol, drugs, and extramarital relationships. On 24 January 1941, Josslyn Hay, the philandering Earl …
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Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller
In 1997, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm testifies at the trial of suspected serial killer Jon Forster. Gramm's testimony and expert psychiatric opinion are crucial in Forster's conviction for the attempted killing of Janie Cates and …
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Al Roberts, an unemployed pianist, arrives at a roadside diner in Reno, Nevada after hitching a ride. He becomes upset at a customer for playing a song on the jukebox, as it reminds him of his time squandering his talent at a cheap nightcl…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, mystery film
On a one-week Mediterranean pleasure cruise aboard the "Sheila," the yacht of movie producer Clinton Greene, the guests include: actress Alice Wood; her talent-manager husband Anthony Wood (né Blondin but he took her last name instead); ta…
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Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
On March 10, 1935, a revolutionary uprising drives terrified Westerners to the airport in the fictional city of Baskul, in Western China. The evacuation is organized by writer, soldier, and diplomat Robert Conway, before he is to return to…
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Adventure, Animation, Family Comedy, Komödie, Mysterie, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror, detective film, mystery film, thriller film
Mystery Inc. visits their old friend and college student, Eric Staufer, who has invited them to see a prize-winning computer game he made based on their adventures and a high-tech laser, both of which he intends to enter at a campus scienc…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film
Hesther Salomon, a magistrate, asks her platonic friend Martin Dysart, a disillusioned psychiatrist who works with disturbed teenagers at a hospital in Hampshire, England, to treat a 17-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang after he blinde…
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Drama Documentary, Event Documentary, Mysterie, Thriller, documentary film
Young photographer Nev Schulman lives with his brother Ariel in New York City. Abby Pierce, an 8-year-old child prodigy artist in rural Ishpeming, Michigan, sends Nev a painting of one of his photos. They become Facebook friends, which bro…
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Komödie, comedy film, comedy thriller, mystery film
In Beverly Hills, fashion model Jennifer Downing is kidnapped. Her father, multimillionaire P. J.
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Horror, Mysterie, action film, disaster film, exploitation film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
In Evans City, Pennsylvania, a man kills his wife and burns down his farmhouse. Firefighters David and Clank—both Vietnam War veterans—are called to the scene. David's pregnant girlfriend, a nurse named Judy, is called to the office of Dr.
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Horror, Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, horror film
A group of young people are addicted to playing an online computer game called Hellworld which is based on the Hellraiser series. Adam was so obsessed with the game that he ultimately committed suicide after becoming too immersed in it. At…
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Crime, Horror, Mysterie, fantasy film, horror film
Joseph Thorne is a corrupt Denver police detective who regularly indulges in drug use and infidelity during the course of duty. At the scene of what appears to be a ritual murder, Thorne discovers a strange puzzle box, which he takes home …
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