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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film
Matt Lee Whitlock is the respected chief of police in the small Florida Keys town of Banyan Key. Recently separated, Matt is currently seeing local resident Ann Merai-Harrison, an old flame from high school whose husband Chris, a former pr…
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Buddy Cop, Parodie, buddy cop film, parody film
In Los Angeles, a man known as Mr. Jigsaw murders Billie York because she possesses a microfilm containing a recipe that can turn cocaine into cookies. Her former partner, Wes Luger, who is about to retire, is assigned the case by the relu…
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Action, action comedy film, action film, contemporary Western film, crime film, thriller film
After leading an operation gone terribly wrong, former LAPD narcotics detective Ray Owens moves to the small town of Sommerton Junction, Arizona, where he settles down as sheriff of Sommerton County. Commanding his small force of deputies …
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Western, Western film, drama film
In 1882, the town of Appaloosa, New Mexico, is terrorized by rancher and Englishman Randall Bragg, who kills the town's marshal and his deputies when they attempt to arrest two of Bragg's men for murdering a Chicago businessman and raping …
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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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Buddy Cop, Gangster Film, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film, thriller film
A week before LAPD Sergeant Roger Murtaugh's retirement, he and Sergeant Martin Riggs are demoted to uniform duties after failing to defuse an office building bomb. While on street patrol they witness the theft of an armored car, and help …
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, action film, adventure film, comedy film
Australian bushman Mick Dundee and American journalist Sue Charlton are living together in New York City. Although Mick's ignorance of city life is a hazard when he attempts to continue his former lifestyle by, for example, blast fishing i…
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Buddy Cop, Police Film, Secret Agent, action film, buddy cop film
Moscow City Police officers Ivan Danko and Yuri Ogarkov lead a sting operation against Georgian mafia kingpin Viktor Rostavili, who manages to evade capture and in the ensuing firefight kills Ogarkov, before fleeing to the United States. T…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, mystery film, political thriller film
Louis Salinger, an Interpol detective, and Eleanor Whitman, an Assistant District Attorney from Manhattan, are assigned to investigate the International Bank of Business and Credit (IBBC), which funds criminal activities such as money laun…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film
Growing up, friends Mitch Weaver and Sam McKenna are taught by Sam's no-nonsense father, "Pops" McKenna, not to "take crap from anyone." To that end, the pair plant a bunch of guns in the school bully's desk and have him arrested for gun p…
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Police Film, Social Drama, action film, buddy film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Two policemen, "Uncle" Bob Hodges, a respected LAPD officer and Vietnam veteran, and rookie officer Danny McGavin, have just been teamed together in the C.R.A.S.H. unit that patrols Northwest L.A., East L.A. and South L.A..
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Justice Drama, Marital Tragedy, drama film
Euliss F. "Sonny" Dewey is a charismatic Pentecostal preacher in Texas. His wife Jessie has begun an adulterous relationship with a youth minister named Horace.
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Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Komödie, Musical, children's film, comedy film, female buddy film, musical film
The Spice Girls perform on Top of the Pops (“Too Much”) and then are quickly ushered back to their tour bus by their manager Clifford. They blow right past Piers Cuthbertson-Smyth and his crew, who are trying to make a documentary about th…
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Drama, Romance Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy film, silent film, tragicomedy
thumb|right|The Tramp working on the giant machine in the film's most famous scene thumb|269x269px| During the Great Depression, The Tramp works on an assembly line, where he suffers greatly due to the stress and pace of the repetitive wor…
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Action, Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Police Film, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Seven years after the events from the second film, Detroit Police Department detective Axel Foley plans to arrest a car-theft ring at a chop shop. Unbeknownst to his superior, Inspector G. Douglas Todd, Axel cancels his SWAT backup; planni…
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Anarchic Comedy Film, Gross Out Film, LGBTQ-related film, Z movie, action film, comedy film
Two of the hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 debate the number of virgins they get in heaven as a reward for carrying out the September 11 attacks. They call their leader, Osama Bin Laden, to find out, but when they learn heaven is …
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Crime, biographical film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In 2015, Los Angeles Times investigative reporter Darius "Jack" Jackson is assigned to write about the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), and meets with the retired and disgraced Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) dete…
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Crime, Documentation, Investigative Documentary, documentary film
The film presents a series of interviews about the investigation of the shooting of Dallas police officer Robert Wood and a re-enactment of the crime based on the testimony and recollections of Adams, Harris (the actual murderer), the judg…
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Biographical picture, Crime, crime film, thriller film
In an Anchorage motel room in 1983, 17-year-old Cindy Paulson (Vanessa Hudgens) is handcuffed and screaming for help. She is rescued by an Anchorage Police Department patrol officer. He takes Paulson to the hospital, and her clothes are ke…
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Horror, action film, drama film, horror film, mystery film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Steve Malone, an agent from the Environmental Protection Agency, is sent to a U.S. Army base in Alabama to test possible effects on the surrounding ecological system caused by military actions. With him are Marti, his teenage daughter from…
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Police Film, Psychological Thriller, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Police psychologists review video recordings made by Detective David "Turk" Fisk in which he discusses how much he admires his partner of almost 30 years, Detective Tom "Rooster" Cowan. A serial killer is called The Poetry Boy for his modu…
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Horror, Thriller, horror film
In New York City during the early 1900s, talented sculptor Professor Henry Jarrod runs a wax museum that features historical figures who have met grisly ends. His business partner, Matthew Burke, wants to end their partnership due to Jarro…
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Social Drama, drama film
Vera Drake is devoted to her family, looking after her husband and children, her elderly mother, and a sick neighbour. Her shy daughter, Ethel, works in a lightbulb factory, and her son, Sid, tailors men's suits. Her husband, Stanley, is a…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film
Following a North American pandemic from a space-borne disease that wiped out all dogs and cats in 1983, the government has become a series of Schutzstaffel-patterned police states that took chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans as pets be…
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