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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 848 films · Page 18.
Conspiracy Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, crime thriller film
In New Orleans, hitman Jimmy Bobo and his partner Louis Blanchard kill a corrupt former WDCPD policeman, Hank Greely. Decompressing at a bar, Blanchard is murdered by another hitman, Keegan, whose attempt to also kill Bobo fails. WDCPD Det…
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Bad Cop, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
Ben Shockley, an alcoholic Phoenix police detective, is assigned to extradite witness Augustina "Gus" Mally from Las Vegas. His superior, Commissioner Edgar Blakelock, remarks that she is a "nothing witness" for a "nothing trial". Upon mee…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
In Lugash, the fabled Pink Panther diamond is stolen. A mysterious woman looking to procure the priceless gem has a tête-à-tête with a man regarding price. Clouseau, who had disappeared inexplicably on a plane flight, bursts in.
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Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1963, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives Karl Hettinger and Ian Campbell are kidnapped by criminals Gregory Powell and Jimmy "Youngblood" Smith after pulling over the criminals for an illegal U-turn. They are driven to an o…
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Komödie, action film, crime comedy film, slapstick
In an unnamed city, the governor announces that, for budgetary reasons, one of the state's two police academies—run by Commandants Eric Lassard and Ernie Mauser, respectively—is to be closed. Mauser, along with his dim-witted captain, Carl…
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Drama, drama film
The film begins with the September 11 attacks shown on television when Ali Amir enters a house and begins to perform salah (Islamic prayer) when he is kidnapped and taken to Guantanamo Bay detention camp, specifically Camp Delta. Eight yea…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, action film, comedy film
Former LAPD detective Andre Shame is a wisecracking, gun-toting private investigator who owns A Low Down Dirty Shame Investigations. He runs it with his energetic and talkative assistant Peaches Jordan, whom he arrested shoplifting six yea…
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Action, Drama, War Film
During the Battle of Mosul, three Iraqi policemen arrest ISIS drug smugglers. However, they are soon overrun by ISIS and run out of ammo while defending themselves inside a café building. One of the police officers, Kawa, a 21 year old Fey…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Jimmy Kilmartin is a reformed ex-convict living in Astoria, with his wife Bev and their daughter. Both Jimmy and Bev are recovering alcoholics. One day, Bev leaves Jimmy alone to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
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Action, Detective Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
Picking up four years after The French Connection left off, New York City police officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle still searches for elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier. The department sends him to Marseille to track down Charnier. Once there,…
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Military Film, Political Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
At the Presidio Army base in San Francisco, US Military Police soldier Patti Jean Lynch is shot dead while investigating a break-in and two San Francisco Police Department officers are killed in the getaway. Jay Austin, an SFPD Detective a…
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Heist, Thriller, action film, heist film
Zed, a professional safe-cracker, comes to Paris to help a childhood friend, Eric, with a bank heist. While in the taxi on his way to the hotel, the cab driver offers to procure a sex worker for him in the evening. As Zed emerges from the …
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Thriller
thumb|thumbtime=15|The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) A young blonde woman screams. She is the seventh victim of a serial killer known as the Avenger, who targets young blonde women on Tuesday evenings. That night, blonde model D…
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Buddy Cop, Sitcom, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
San Diego Police Detective Michael Dooley leaves his police car during a stakeout to contact his girlfriend, Tracy, when a helicopter attacks and destroys the car. At the police station, Dooley confides to his lieutenant, Byers, that the a…
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Psychological Thriller, drama film, horror film, mystery film, thriller film
Cooper Tilson, his wife Leah, and their two children, Kristen and Jesse, move from New York to the country after purchasing a mansion. The previous owner, Dale Massie, convinces Cooper to hire him to help with repairs. Dale, recently relea…
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Action, Romantic Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film
Jesse Lujack is a cocky, hedonistic drifter and small-time car thief in Las Vegas. He’s obsessed with Silver Surfer comic books, the music of Jerry Lee Lewis, and Monica Poiccard, a UCLA architecture student whom he knows only from a weeke…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir, heist film
thumb|Humphrey Bogart in High Sierra An aging gangster, Big Mac M'Gann, is planning a robbery at a fashionable resort hotel in the resort town of Tropico Springs in the Sierra Nevada. He wants the heist led by convicted bank robber Roy Ear…
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Occult Horror, horror film
After a haunting reminiscence of the Malum Flock's attack of four young women, officer Will Loren admits to his fellow officers about the guilt he feels for not being able to save one of the girls. In a trance, officer Will Loren shoots an…
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Super Hero, Thriller, action film, crime film, fantasy film
In Salt Lake City, Alexander "Alex" Frederick Corvis is framed for the murder of his girlfriend, Lauren Randall, and sentenced to death. Three years later, he is executed in the electric chair, suffering a painful death due to lightning ov…
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Drama, Heist, crime film, drama film, heist film
Chris Potamitis lives with his parents and younger sister in Astoria, Queens, New York in the early 1980s. His immigrant father is fired from his job after 10 years of cleaning a shady Greek social club. Chris fails to get into the police …
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Christmas film, Drama, crime film, drama film
The film is set shortly before Christmas in the North Country of Upstate New York, near the Akwesasne ('Where the Partridge Drums') St. Regis Mohawk Reservation and the border crossing to Cornwall, Ontario. Ray Eddy (Melissa Leo) is a disc…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film
In the peaceful Appalachian hills of eastern Kentucky, toxins are being dumped into abandoned mines, causing environmental havoc, but the locals, mindful of their jobs and the power of the mine owners, can do nothing. EPA CID agent Jack Ta…
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Social Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Spoon, Stretch, and Cookie are bandmates in the spoken word genre living in Detroit. When Cookie overdoses on her first hit of heroin, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their habit. Throughout a disastrous day, the two addicts dodge police …
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Crime, Thriller, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, film noir, flashback film, thriller film
thumb|Montgomery Clift in the I Confess film trailer Father Logan is a devout Catholic priest in Ste. Marie's Church in Quebec City. He employs German immigrant married couple Otto and Alma Keller as caretaker and housekeeper, respectively.
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