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Action Comedy, Buddy Film, action film, buddy film, comedy film
Rose Cooper is a San Antonio Police Department officer whose work ethic is too intense. Following an incident in which Cooper sets the mayor's son on fire by tasering him while he carried an alcoholic drink (after he yelled "shotgun!"), he…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, action film, drama film, horror film
Teenagers Travis, Jarod, and Billy Ray drive to meet a woman named Sarah in response to an invitation for group sex. Along the way, they accidentally sideswipe the parked vehicle of Sheriff Wynan as Wynan is engaged in sex with another man…
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Animalhorror, Horror comedy, Splatter Film, comedy horror, science fiction film
A year after the massacre by prehistoric piranhas in Lake Victoria, Arizona, a massive eradication program has left the lake uninhabitable and the town largely abandoned. At Cross Lake, two farmers search the waters. Piranha eggs laid insi…
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Detective Film, film noir, police film, thriller film
In 1939 Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by glamorous heiress Clare Cavendish to find her missing lover, Nico Peterson, a prop master at Pacific Film Studios. Marlowe discovers that Peterson was killed after being run…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
On a cargo ship, two workers open a container with toxic waste and die from fumes. The captain, knowing the cargo, disposes of their bodies. Meanwhile, Frank Martin, returning from Miami to the French Riviera, unsuccessfully fishes with Ta…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Science teacher Abigail Brooks lives with her husband Craig and their son Ricky. One morning, after Abigail takes Ricky to the bus stop, intruders break into her house, kill her housekeeper Rosario, kidnap and confine her in an attic, and …
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Buddy Cop, Crime Comedy, Dark Comedy, action film, comedy film, drama film
Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an officer of the Garda Síochána (police) in the Connemara district in the west of Ireland. He is crass and confrontational, regularly indulging in drugs and alcohol even while on duty. He is also shown to be well r…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
thumb|upright=0.9|Michael Caine plays Milo Tindle, who seeks revenge on Andrew Wyke for a game of humiliation. Andrew Wyke, a successful crime fiction author, lives in a country manor house filled with elaborate games and automata. He invi…
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Forensic, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Steve Everett, an Oakland journalist recovering from alcoholism, is assigned to cover the execution of convicted murderer Frank Beechum following the death of Everett's colleague, Michelle Ziegler, who had originally been assigned to the s…
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Drama, Film Noir, drama film, film noir, mystery film, vigilante film
thumb|The title screen Homicide detective Sergeant Dave Bannion, of the Kenport Police Department, is called on to investigate the suicide of a fellow officer, Tom Duncan. Duncan leaves behind a letter addressed to the district attorney. H…
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Thriller, police film, thriller film
Bradley Hasling, CEO of a tech corporation called Amygdala, gives an interview about the company's newest product, Kimi. Kimi is a smart speaker which controversially makes use of human monitoring to improve the device's search algorithm. …
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film
Detroit Police Department's detective Orin Boyd is a cop in Detroit's 21st precinct, who saves the Vice President of the United States from a right-wing militant group trying to kill him. Because he disobeyed orders, however, Captain Frank…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, drama film, science fiction film, thriller film
While working with a team from the University of Chicago on a project to convert hydrogen from water into clean energy, student machinist Eddie Kasalivich inadvertently discovers a sound frequency in his home laboratory that perfectly stab…
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Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, police film, thriller film
In November 1988 in Brooklyn, New York, Robert "Bobby" Grusinsky is the manager of the El Caribe nightclub in Brighton Beach, which is owned by his boss, fur importer Marat Buzhayev, whose nephew, drug lord Vadim Nezhinski, is a patron of …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Girls with Guns, Secret Agent, action film, girls with guns, martial arts film, thriller film
In Washington, D.C., Maggie Hayward is a drug addict convicted of murdering a police officer during a robbery shootout, and is about to be executed by lethal injection. Her death is faked and a government agent, "Bob", informs her that she…
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Western, Western film, bushranging film, crime film, drama film
In 1880s Australia, Charlie Burns and his gang of bushrangers engage in a gunfight with the police. All gang members except Charlie and his younger brother Mikey are killed. Captain Morris Stanley tells Charlie that he will have Mikey exec…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, action comedy film, blaxploitation film, drama film, thriller film
A young African-American orphan is sheltered by a Los Angeles brothel in the 1940s. Working as a towel boy, he is seduced by one of the prostitutes. The women name him "Sweet Sweetback" in honor of his sexual prowess and large penis.
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
Notorious womanizer Michael James wants to be faithful to his fiancée Carole Werner, but most women he meets become attracted to him, including neurotic exotic dancer Liz Bien and parachutist Rita, who accidentally lands in his car. His ps…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Several years ago, Peter Koslow was released early from prison on condition that he work as an undercover informant for the FBI's New York City field office. Having worked his way into a Polish crime organisation, he is about to provide hi…
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Ghost-Movie, Mysterie, ghost film, horror film
A paramedic rescues a young girl from the blazing Saint Luke's hospital before unsuccessfully inquiring about her mother's whereabouts. Sometime afterwards, undergraduate Shelley Baum hears her cat meowing near her house's koi pond. After …
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Justice Drama, Police Film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
In the coastal petroleum refinery town of Katterly outside of Houston, Texas, Seasoned undercover narcotics officer Jim Raynor is told by his superior, Captain Dodd, to choose a partner from a group of recent police academy graduates for a…
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Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, teen film, thriller film
Private school student Liz resurfaces, disheveled and bloody, after disappearing 18 days prior, along with her peers Mike, Geoff and Frankie. She appears traumatized and exhibits visible discomfort during her physical examination when doct…
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Action, Thriller, thriller film
Action, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film
Haunted by his past, ex-Irish Mob hitman Jimmy "The Gravedigger" Conlon has become an angry drunk. His son Michael 'Mike' Conlon, a chauffeur and retired professional boxer who mentors at-risk kids at the local gym, is disgusted by his fat…
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