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Horror comedy, Komödie, Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, fantasy film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Odd Thomas is a psychic who lives in a small town in California. He can see mysterious creatures he calls "bodachs" which are otherwise invisible to everyone else. He knows they feed on fear and misery, and the greater the number of "bodac…
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Action, Thriller, action film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
A woman is engaged in a brutal fight with a man in a car and finally kills him with a shot to the head. Five years earlier, the woman, Riley North, is working as a banker struggling to make ends meet. Her husband, Chris, owns a failing mec…
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Thriller, action film, police film, thriller film
As Baltimore sets off its New Years Eve fireworks, an unknown marksman shoots and kills 29 different party goers at different locations from a high rise apartment downtown, then detonates explosives to cover his tracks once Baltimore Polic…
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Drama, Military Film, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film, police film, vigilante film
Sergeant Chris Vaughn is a former Green Beret who returns to his small hometown in Kitsap County. Looking for work, Chris finds that the local cedar mill was closed down three years earlier by its owner, Jay Hamilton, who opened a casino t…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
Chicago Police Lieutenant Danny Roman is a top hostage negotiator for the east precinct. His partner, Nate Roenick, warns him that an informant inside the department suspects members of their own unit have embezzled millions from the polic…
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Crime, Forensic, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Radio host Erica Bain and her fiancé Dr. David Kirmani are viciously attacked by three men while walking their dog in Central Park; the men record the assault on their phones and take Erica's engagement ring and her dog. David dies from hi…
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Buddy Cop, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, thriller film
Two years after the events of the first film, LAPD sergeants Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh are pursuing unidentified suspects suspected of drug trafficking. However, they discover they have been transporting an illegal shipment of gold i…
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Police Film, Super Hero, action film, crime film, thriller film
When a mass shooting at a Los Angeles supermarket evolves into a hostage crisis, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) summons Lieutenant Marion "Cobra" Cobretti of their elite "Zombie Squad" to resolve the incident. Cobretti confronts …
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, hood film, thriller film
Los Angeles Police Department SWAT officer Jim Street, his partner Brian Gamble, and their team infiltrate a bank taken hostage by robbers (in a scene loosely based on the North Hollywood shootout), where Gamble disobeys orders and engages…
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Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film, musical film, romantic comedy
Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw are American showgirls and best friends, although the two are very different. Lorelei thinks more of a man's financial wealth, especially men who can give her diamonds, such as her fiancé Gus Esmond Jr. Contrar…
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Crime, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In 1971, British Security Services (MI5) have taken interest in a safety deposit box in a particular Lloyds Bank branch. Belonging to black militant gangster Michael X, it contains compromising photos of Princess Margaret, insurance to kee…
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Action, Late Western, Western film, heist film, vigilante film
In 1913 South Texas, Pike Bishop is the leader of a gang of aging outlaws – most of them disguised as a U.S. Cavalry troop – who hope to retire after a final robbery of silver from a railroad payroll office. But corrupt railroad agent Pat …
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Horror, horror film, science fiction film
A Caribbean coastal resort, Hotel Elysium, is menaced by a series of vicious marine animal attacks from a nearby sunken shipwreck. Diving instructor Anne Kimbrough's student is one of the victims, but her estranged police officer husband S…
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Drama, Komödie, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, mystery film, spy film, thriller film
thumb|Forth Bridge in 2007 At a London music hall theatre, Richard Hannay is watching "Mr. Memory" demonstrate his powers of fact recall by answering trivia questions from the audience, when gunshots are heard. In the ensuing panic, Hannay…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, comedy drama, comedy film, heist film, hood film, romance film
In 1918 Harlem, small-time gambling operator Sugar Ray is nearly killed by a disgruntled customer, but his young errand boy, Vernest Brown, shoots the man dead. Discovering that Vernest is an orphan, Ray takes him in and raises him as his …
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Drama, crime film, drama film, romance film
Walter Vale is a widowed Connecticut College economics professor who lives a fairly solitary existence. He fills his days by sometimes taking piano lessons in an effort to emulate his late wife, a classical concert pianist, and infrequentl…
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Buddy Cop, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, martial arts film, thriller film
Lorna Cole is pregnant with LAPD Sergeant Martin Riggs's baby; they are not married, but both are thinking about it. LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh's daughter Rianne is also pregnant but will not reveal who the father is. The officers and Le…
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Silly Movie, comedy film
Several years after the first film, the officers have been fired from the Spurbury Police Department after they had taken actor Fred Savage on a ride-along that resulted in his death. Farva is now a construction supervisor, with Mac and Ra…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, exploitation film, thriller film
In South-Central Los Angeles, a local gang, Street Thunder, steals a cache of assault rifles and pistols. At 3:00 am on a Saturday in Anderson, a crime-infested ghetto, a team of heavily armed LAPD officers ambush and kill six members of t…
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Erotic Thriller, comedy drama, drama film, erotic film, sex comedy
Former FBI secretary Erin Grant loses custody of her seven-year-old daughter Angela to her ex-husband Darrell. She had lost her job due to his arrest record as a drug addict and dealer. To obtain the $15,000 needed to afford an appeal to r…
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In New York City, four men wearing similar disguises and carrying concealed weapons board the same downtown 6 train, "Pelham 1-2-3," at different stations. Using their code names Mr. Blue, Mr.
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Crime, Mysterie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, crime film, crime thriller film, mystery film, romantic comedy film, thriller film
thumb|right|upright=1.2|thumbtime=2:04|Trailer for To Catch a Thief Police suspect retired jewel thief John "The Cat" Robie may be responsible for a string of burglaries on the French Riviera. When they arrive at his hilltop villa to quest…
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Action, Destiny, Family Drama, Gangster Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Melodrama, Musical
Deep within the secluded island village of Mandwa, the village chief aspires to set up a drug empire by borrowing land from villagers (after lying to them that it will be used to expand the local salt industry). The villagers are warned of…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In January 1971, private investigator John Shaft is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. He spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building and ambushes him. At gunpoint, he brings him to his office, where the seco…
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