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Ghost-Movie, ghost film, horror film, monster film
In the middle of the 19th century, in the town of Darkness Falls, Maine, elderly widow Matilda Dixon was adored by the town's children. She would give them a gold coin whenever they lost a tooth, earning her the nickname Tooth Fairy. One n…
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Drama, Late Western, Western, Western film, biographical film
During the years following the Civil War, banks and trains become the targets of the James-Younger gang, who terrorize the Midwestern United States. The band of robbers is led by Jesse James and Cole Younger, along with several of their br…
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Social Study, documentary film
Titicut Follies portrays the occupants of Bridgewater State Hospital, who were often kept in barren cells and infrequently bathed. It also depicts inmates/patients forced to strip naked publicly, force feeding, and the indifference and bul…
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Erotic Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, erotic thriller
Assistant District Attorney David Corelli is called to the murder scene of prominent businessman Kyle Medford, found skinned to death in his San Francisco home by an antique hatchet. Police detectives Bob Hargrove and Petey Vesko find phot…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Following a failed sting operation in which two fellow undercover officers are killed months prior, Detroit PD's Sergeant Jake Roenick begins to regularly abuse alcohol and painkillers while clinging to his unambitious assignment as a desk…
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Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, spy film, suspense film, thriller film
Bob and Jill Lawrence, a British couple on a trip to Switzerland with their daughter Betty, befriend Frenchman Louis Bernard, who is staying at their hotel. Jill is participating in a clay pigeon shooting contest. She reaches the final but…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, romantic comedy, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
A glowing orb flies through space, aiming for Earth's ocean, and is knocked off course by a satellite. In a New York City apartment, a boy named Josh Morrison notices the object heading towards him through his telescope and it lands in his…
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Ghost-Movie, Horror, Mysterie, horror film, thriller film
In Swinton, Louisiana, police officer Kevin Ganning pulls over a green van for not having a license plate, but when he points his gun at the driver, an unknown entity pulls him away. Officers Renee Lomito-Smith and rookie Danny Holledge ar…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, Police Film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
Veteran NYPD detectives Jimmy Monroe and Paul Hodges are suspended following a failed robbery intervention that results in a reckless shootout. While under suspension, Jimmy faces financial stress as he attempts to pay for his daughter Ava…
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Psychological Thriller, crime thriller film, mystery film, thriller film
Having solved a high-profile case involving serial killer Edmund Cutler that ended with her being taken hostage by Cutler but managing to overpower and arrest him, officer Jessica Shepard of the San Francisco Police Department is transferr…
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Action Comedy, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
Undercover detective James Payton is on a falsifying passports operation run by "Omar". After a shootout with the smugglers, his lieutenant tells him to drop the case, which he does not. Ben Barber, a jumpy, short high school security guar…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, mystery film, rape and revenge film
One year prior, in Portland, Oregon, Jillian "Jill" Conway was kidnapped by a brutal serial killer who held her captive in a mass grave of his victims. Police refuse to believe her due to Jill previously being institutionalized. In the pre…
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Action, Romance Film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Carter "Doc" McCoy and his wife Carol are taking target practice with pistols when Rudy Travis arrives to propose they break Mexican drug lord Ramon's nephew Luis Mendoza out of jail for a $300,000 payment. The job is successful, but it tu…
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Buddy Cop, Martial-Arts, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime film, martial arts film
Los Angeles cop Chris Kenner (Dolph Lundgren) is an American who was raised in Japan. He is given a new partner, Johnny Murata (Brandon Lee), an American of partial Japanese descent. Kenner does not appreciate American culture, while Johnn…
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Action, Romantic Comedy, action film, romantic comedy
Milo Boyd, a former New York Police Department detective is now a bounty hunter. His ex-wife, Nicole Hurley, is an investigative reporter who was recently arrested for assaulting a police officer. Nicole receives a tip on a story, an appar…
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Komödie, children's film, comedy film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film
In the Capital City Town Hall, a beagle on the police bomb squad sets off a false alarm. Ridiculed and rejected, the beagle leaves and is abducted by Cad Lackey, who takes him to the lab of mad scientist Simon Barsinister. Bitter that his …
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
One night, an intruder enters Michael and Karen Carr's upscale Los Angeles home. Karen is briefly taken hostage at knifepoint before the burglar escapes. Police arrive and one officer, Pete Davis, takes an extra interest in their case due …
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Action, Thriller, police film, thriller film
Beckett, an American tourist, leaves Athens, Greece with his girlfriend April to escape political unrest there. While driving to their hotel, at a mountain village in the region of Epirus, Beckett falls asleep at the wheel and crashes thei…
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Psychodrama, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In the future, a totalitarian government will employ a force known as Firemen to seek out and destroy all literature. They can search anyone, anywhere, at any time, and burn any books they find. One of the firemen, Guy Montag, meets one of…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, Musical, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, musical film
Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin is a young and poor man living in rural Jamaica. After his grandmother dies, he leaves the countryside for the city of Kingston, where he is immediately conned out of all his possessions by a street vendor. Though his…
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Action, Adventure, Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, Western film, action film, adventure film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
After saving a young boy from drowning and being awarded a "hero sash" at the age of ten, Ned Kelly grows up in the colony of Victoria where he was born. The son of a Catholic Irish settler, he lives with his widowed mother Ellen, his youn…
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, dystopian film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Miles Monroe is a jazz musician and owner of the Happy Carrot health-food store in New York City's Greenwich Village. He walks into the hospital in 1973 for a routine ulcer operation that goes wrong, leaving him relegated to 200 years of a…
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Action, Drama, Police Film, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime film, hood film, neo-noir, thriller film
In 1983, rookie LAPD officer and law student Nick Styles meets Alice and drifts away from childhood friend Odessa, who has become a drug dealer in South Central Los Angeles. Styles and his partner Larry Doyle patrol a carnival, where they …
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, thriller film
Sgt. Paul Cutler is an ex-military Los Angeles Police Department S.W.A.T. officer and considered to be one of the best, even holding a record of having no civilian casualties for ten years straight.
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