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Drama, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, drama film
In 1931, the Bondurant brothers — middle brother, Forrest, eldest brother, Howard, and youngest brother, Jack — are running a successful moonshine business in Franklin County, Virginia. The brothers use their gas station and restaurant as …
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Action Comedy, action film, crime film, romantic comedy
Attorney Marianne "Muffie" Graves unexpectedly crosses paths with her hippie ex-fiancé Rick Jarmin while in Detroit for a business deal. Rick is hiding under an assumed identity as part of the Witness Protection Program and claims to be an…
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Action, Heist, heist film
Luke Vaughn is working in a Southern casino ("The Swan") run by Francis "The Pope" Silva. Vaughn has a sick daughter and needs $300,000 for a necessary surgery. He approaches "Pope", who refuses his plea for a loan.
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Horror, Mysterie, drama film, exploitation film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, slasher film, thriller film
Advertising executive Philip Woode wins dinner for two at a Manhattan restaurant on a Candid Camera-style television show. Danielle Breton, a young French Canadian model and aspiring actress who was part of the prank, flirts with Philip an…
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Crime, Political Thriller, Romance Film, drama film, film noir
Irish nationalist 'organisation' member Johnny McQueen has been hiding for six months, since his escape from prison, in a house occupied by Kathleen Sullivan (who has fallen in love with him) and her grandmother. He is ordered to rob a mil…
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Thriller, thriller film
An NYPD police officer, Detective Galban, investigates the circumstances behind the death of his partner, Detective Joey Cullen. The mysterious case leads to an attempted police cover-up and a dangerous secret involving an unlikely young w…
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Action, Martial-Arts, Thriller
Five youths rob a bank with the intention of shooting police officers. Chief Inspector Chan Kwok-wing and his squad chase the gang and the entire squad is wiped out, including Hong, the younger brother of Chan's girlfriend Ho Yee. Chan is …
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Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller film
In North Africa, CIA analyst Douglas Freeman briefs an agent. A suicide attack kills the agent and 18 civilians; the target was high-ranking police official Abbas-i "Abasi" Fawal (Igal Naor), a liaison for the United States who conducts in…
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Gangster Film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, gangster film, melodrama, suspense film, thriller film
thumb|thumbtime=10|Little Caesar (1931)|left Small-time criminals Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello and his friend Joe Massara move to Chicago to seek their fortunes. Rico joins the gang of Sam Vettori, while Joe wants to be a dancer. Olga bec…
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Action
Photojournalist Shannon Mathers embarks on a solo hike to scatter her father's ashes. Along the way, she witnesses a secret drug deal involving corrupt cop Billie Jean Stanhope. Shannon hides and takes pictures of it, but she is discovered…
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Crime, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
When the famous Pink Panther diamond is stolen again from Lugash, Chief Inspector Clouseau is called on the case despite protests by Chief Inspector Dreyfus. While on the case, Clouseau is pursued by the Mafia. Clouseau first goes to Londo…
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Police Film, Sci-Fi, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, science fiction film
In 1988, a spaceship bearing 300,000 enslaved aliens known as "Newcomers" lands in the Mojave Desert. By 1991, they have settled in Los Angeles and some of them have joined the Los Angeles Police Department. Detective Matthew Sykes' partne…
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Animalhorror, Komödie, Sci-Fi, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Tammy is at cheerleader practice, and her new boyfriend Michael Brock walks in from football practice to observe. They meet Byron Black, Tammy's gay friend, who approves of Michael as her new boyfriend. Shortly thereafter, Tammy's violent …
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Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Splatstick, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Philippe Douvier, a major French businessman and secretly the head of the French Connection, is suspected by his New York Mafia associates of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier…
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Dramedy, Social Drama, comedy drama, drama film, hood film
Collin Hoskins, an African-American convicted felon, is struggling to finish the last three days of his probation. Collin, along with his short-tempered white best friend, Miles Turner, works for a moving company located in Oakland, Califo…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, thriller film
Imaginative, impetuous, and wild Diana McFee cannot wait for her adult life to begin. While awaiting the final days of high school in the lush springtime, Diana tests her limits with sex and drugs as her more conservative friend Maureen wa…
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Cartoon, action film, superhero film, thriller film
Bruce Wayne returns home to Gotham City from training abroad in martial arts, man-hunting, and science for the past 12 years, and James Gordon moves to Gotham with his pregnant wife, Barbara, after a transfer from Chicago. Both are swiftly…
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Police Film, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, hood film, mystery film
Undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis chases a drug dealer through the streets of Detroit. Tellis shoots and kills the dealer when he holds a child hostage, but a stray bullet hits the child's pregnant mother, causing her to miscarry. 1…
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Action, Thriller, action film
In 2002, Ava, a 14-year-old girl from Bridgeport, Connecticut, wakes up in the middle of the night and sees her drug lord father murdered by two masked intruders, before grabbing a shotgun and gunning down the two assailants. Twelve years …
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, comedy film, crime film
Russian mafia boss Konstantine Konali is laundering money under the guise of a legitimate business: a highly addictive video game that allows him to bring down almost any security system controlled by a computer on which the game has been …
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Drama
Lincoln Jefferson, a recently divorced U.S. Marine (and Iraqi War veteran), gets a job working as a janitor at a mostly white private school, which enables him to get his son, Kajani Jefferson, into the school so that he does not have to s…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, erotic thriller, neo-noir
Jack Grimaldi is an NYPD homicide detective who seems to have everything: a lavish lifestyle; a beautiful wife, Natalie; and an adoring teenaged mistress, Sheri. However, Jack only affords his lifestyle because he's on the take, doing favo…
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Police Film, Romantic Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
New Orleans police lieutenant Remy McSwain investigates the murder of a local mobster, leading police to suspect a war between two crime families. Anne Osborne, a state district attorney, arrives to investigate alleged police corruption. A…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, action film, comedy film
Vic Manning, an aggressive Los Angeles Police Department detective, is in pursuit of notorious drug lord Oka Tedjo, who six months earlier murdered Vic's partner, Sara Morris, after which Vic's superior, Captain McHenry, places him on leav…
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