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American football film, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy
In 1925, Jimmy "Dodge" Connelly is captain of the Duluth Bulldogs, a struggling professional American football team. With pro football on the brink of collapse, Dodge convinces Princeton University's football star, Carter "the Bullet" Ruth…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Parodie, Silly Movie, Sitcom, comedy film, crime film
In an unnamed city, serious crime is increasing, particularly in the 16th precinct, which is beset by erratic criminal Zed McGlunk and his violent gang, the Scullions. With the citizens turning against the ineffective, outnumbered, and agi…
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Heist, Thriller, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, heist film
A man named Joe Walker checks into the Roosevelt Hotel, enters his hotel room on the 21st floor, and climbs on the ledge, apparently ready to commit suicide. The crowd below calls the police. Dante Marcus controls the crowd, while Jack Dou…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Youngblood Priest, an African-American cocaine dealer, enjoys a luxurious lifestyle in Harlem. He yearns to go straight, despite the fortune he makes. One day, Priest confronts Fat Freddie, one of his dealers, about money that Freddie owes…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, martial arts film
Gino Felino is a NYPD detective from Dyker Heights in Brooklyn, who has strong ties within his neighborhood. Gino's partner Bobby Lupo is murdered by Richie Madano, who shoots him multiple times in broad daylight in front of his wife and c…
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Drama, Military Film, Police Film, Political Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, war film
On November 1, 2004, Hank Deerfield, a gravel trucker and retired military police sergeant living in Monroe, Tennessee with his wife Joan, is notified that his son Mike, a soldier recently returned from Iraq, has gone missing. Hank drives …
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Dark Comedy, Parodie, Silly Movie, Splatstick, comedy film, crime film
Commandant Eric Lassard decides the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side by side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP). Carey Ma…
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Komödie, action film, buddy film, comedy film
Dogs and cats are secretly highly intelligent, capable of speech, and maintain spy agencies to protect the world. In Germany, a bloodhound named Rex discovers a Cocker Spaniel puppy stealing secret codes. The thief reveals herself to be Ki…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film
Grimm is a burned out New Yorker who's down on his luck. He longs to escape his miserable life in New York City - and the country - but is lacking the means to do so. Desperate, he dresses up as a clown and robs a bank in midtown Manhattan.
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, hood film
Dave Brown, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), patrols the Rampart Division. While training a new officer, he roughs up a suspect to find the location of a meth lab. After work, he goes home to his two daughters…
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Action, Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
During Prohibition, a drifter calling himself John Smith drives into the desolate border town of Jericho, Texas. He stops to let a Mexican woman named Felina cross the street, causing several Irish mobsters to surround and vandalize his ca…
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Teen Horror Film, horror film, slasher film, thriller film
College students, Jim Halsey and Grace Andrews are driving across New Mexico to meet their friends for spring break. On their first night of driving, they nearly hit a hitchhiker, who was standing in the middle of the road. Jim swerves, an…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, thriller film
Copenhagen police officers Christian Toft and Lars Hansen are sent to check out a reported domestic disturbance in an apartment. When they arrive, they find a man trying to leave the building with blood on his shoes. Toft assumes he's the …
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Thriller, thriller film
Sixteen months after an on-the-job accident leaves him with deteriorating hearing loss, Boston police detective, Frank Shaw, is drawn into a life-threatening conflict. Two drug dealers have been killed, and the only witness is a deaf photo…
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Action, Justice Drama, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
The film opens in Los Angeles, 1992. LAPD Sergeant Eldon Perry, who is pacing in a motel room with a shotgun and pistol. Five days earlier, four people are killed and one wounded when two men, Darryl Orchard and Gary Sidwell, rob a conveni…
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Action, Komödie, Police Film, action film, blaxploitation film, comedy film
Detroit Police Department Detective Sergeant Jericho Jackson, known locally as "Action" Jackson, was a celebrated lieutenant in the police force. He had been demoted nearly two years prior, because of a case he headed involving the crimina…
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, martial arts film, science fiction film
A gigantic earthquake destroys southern California, greatly altering its landscape and leaving Los Angeles and dystopia area of renamed "New Angeles", in shambles after the federal government fails to help restore order or rebuild. Seven y…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, Silly Movie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
In Los Angeles, longtime friends Justin Miller, a struggling video game designer, and Ryan O'Malley, an unemployed former college quarterback, recall a pact they once made: if they had not achieved success by age thirty, they would move ba…
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Buddy Cop, Parodie, Police Film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime film
LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday's nephew and namesake, whose anachronistic views reflect those of his deceased uncle, is involuntarily assigned a cocky, streetwise new partner, Pep Streebek, as Friday's previous longtime partner in the Robbery-Ho…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film
Jack Mosley is an alcoholic, burned-out NYPD detective. Despite a grueling late shift the night before, his lieutenant orders him to escort a witness, Eddie Bunker, from local custody to the courthouse sixteen blocks away to testify on a p…
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Action, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, comedy thriller, heist film
Foster brothers John and Charlie Robinson are decoy transit cops patrolling the New York City Subway. Chasing muggers into a subway tunnel, John and Charlie are furious when one of the teenage thieves is gunned down by officers guarding th…
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Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, romance film, thriller film
Former L.A. SWAT officer Jeff Talley is a hostage negotiator in Los Angeles. One day, Talley negotiates with an abusive man who has taken his own wife and son hostage after learning his wife was cheating on him.
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Crime, Drama, Family Drama, Police Film, crime film, drama film
Assistant Chief Francis Tierney Sr. heads a multi-generational NYPD family: his son Francis "Franny" Jr. is Deputy Inspector and commanding officer of the 31st Precinct, where son-in-law Sergeant Jimmy Egan is a patrol officer, while son R…
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Crime, Drama, Psychodrama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, police procedural film, thriller film
After a successful casino heist, siblings Addison and Liza go on the run in Michigan. They decide to split up when their driver is fatally injured in a car crash and Addison murders a state trooper responding to the scene. They resolve to …
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