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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 848 films · Page 19.
Black horror, Psychological Thriller, Zombiefilm, blaxploitation film, supernatural horror film
In 1979, Jimmy Bones is a numbers runner who is loved in his neighborhood as its member and protector. He is betrayed and brutally murdered by corrupt cop Lupovich and drug pusher Eddie Mack who then force Jimmy's associates Jeremiah and S…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
When NYPD Detective Eddie Santos surprises drug dealer Tino Zapatti on a Brooklyn street corner, Tino opens fire; the two men gun each other down, and a stray bullet from Zapatti kills a 6-year-old boy. As Mayor John Pappas responds to the…
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, thriller film
Jack Cole was once a CIA operative known as "the Glimmer Man", because he could move so quickly and quietly through the jungle that his victims would only see a glimmer before they died. Having retired from the CIA, Cole versed in Buddhism…
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Romantic Comedy, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy
Timothy "Dildo/Dunph" Dunphy is in the Class of 1974 in his high school senior year living in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, comes from a troubled single parent working-class family, and is friends with those who have aspirations which do not ex…
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Action, Thriller
Eye in the Sky begins with a group of organised burglars successfully robbing a jewelry store. Wet-behind-the-ears new recruit Piggy (Kate Tsui) is plunged at the deep end in her first surveillance assignment working alongside her mentor, …
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Action Comedy, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, prison film
The film opens with a getaway driver and his wounded accomplice dressed as clowns fleeing from American Border Patrol toward the Mexican border. The driver crashes through the border fence, whereupon he is arrested by corrupt Mexican polic…
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Komödie, comedy film
Allyson Field (Sarah Drew) writes an unhappy blog post about her constant stress and feelings of inadequacy. Though happily married with three children, Allyson is beset with anxiety and finds comfort in her best friend Izzy (Andrea Logan …
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Comedy Of Mistaken Identity, Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Sitcom, comedy film, drama film
Bernie LaPlante is a pickpocket and petty criminal who anonymously rescues survivors, including TV reporter Gale Gayley, at an airplane crash. At the same time, he also steals her purse, losing a shoe in the process. After his car breaks d…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Silly Movie, Sitcom, comedy film, crime film
Captain Thaddeus Harris finally finds a way to become Commandant of the Police Academy; the incumbent Commandant Eric Lassard is past due for mandatory retirement. Meanwhile, Lassard is chosen as "Police Officer of the Decade," he brings h…
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Komödie, comedy film, crime film
In the city, the police are investigating a series of robberies along the old 51 bus route in the area of the city known as Wilson Heights. Captain Thaddeus Harris and Lt. Carl Proctor stake out a jewellery store, but the Wilson Heights ga…
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Drama, crime film, docudrama, drama film
Police officers face many challenges in the impoverished, high-crime South Bronx region of New York City. Among these officers are NYPD officers Murphy and Corelli, who work from the 41st Precinct, nicknamed "Fort Apache" because, to those…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film
Daniel Lucas, a criminal convicted for armed robbery 5 years prior, is released from prison. Lucas hitches a ride with Detective Marvin Dugan, who drops him off at a bank Lucas sarcastically claims he will rob. As Lucas is opening an accou…
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Criminal Comedy Film
Henry "Dutch" Holland lives the life of luxury in Rio de Janeiro, and spends an evening dining out with a British visitor. During their meal, he narrates a story concerning how he changed his life by instigating an intricate gold bullion r…
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Drama, Police Film
Nick Holland is a newly minted officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. On his first night shift, he is assigned to patrol the city with experienced policeman Ray Mandel. Ray and Nick are completely different personalities; while Ni…
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Crime Comedy, Detective Film, comedy film, crime film, police film, thriller film
After spending three years without human contact in a remote trailer, former Detective Charlie Waldo returns to Los Angeles to investigate the murder of actor Alistair Pinch‘s wife. Initially unwilling to take the case, he agrees to stay f…
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Gangster Film, Police Film, Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, crime film, romantic comedy
Wayne Dobie is a shy Chicago Police Department crime scene photographer who has spent years on the job without drawing his gun; his colleagues jokingly call him "Mad Dog". Wayne saves the life of mob boss Frank Milo during a hold-up in a c…
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Political Drama, Social Drama, biographical film, crime film, drama film
Veronica Guerin, a neophyte crime reporter for the Sunday Independent, becomes aware of how much Dublin's illegal drug trade is encroaching upon the lives of its working class, especially the children, and vows to expose the men responsibl…
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Crime, Thriller, action film, drama film, mystery film
On a live fire exercise in the jungles of Panama, a team of Army Rangers trainees is led by instructor and Master Sergeant Nathan West, tasked with traversing the jungle in hurricane weather, attacking pop-up metal targets with live ammuni…
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Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Ex-convicts Emil Slovák and Oleg Razgul arrive in the United States to claim their part of a bank heist in Eastern Europe. Oleg steals a video camera from an electronics store. At the rundown apartment of their old partner Milos Karlova, t…
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Action, Thriller, action film
While in South Sudan on a routine mission, close protection officer Sam Carlson saves two journalists she is protecting when their vehicle is attacked by local insurgents. Zoe Tanner, the troubled child and heir of recently deceased busine…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In Las Vegas, LVMPD policemen Vincent Downs and his partner Sean Cass rob a shipment of cocaine belonging to entrepreneur Stanley Rubino, who intended to sell it to mobster Rob Novak, the son of a powerful mob boss. The two cops volunteer …
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Action, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, drama film, heist film
SFPD Inspector Scott Roper is the best hostage negotiator in his department. He is called in to deal with a bank robber, Earl, demanding a getaway vehicle and police escort. He manages to defuse the situation, shooting Earl non-fatally in …
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Gangster Film
In 1991 Hong Kong Police Force Senior Inspector Wong Chi-Shing meets his Triad informant, Hon Sam. Meanwhile, Lau Kin-Ming, who is due to become Hon's prospective mole within the Hong Kong Police Force, assassinates Hon's Triad boss, Ngai …
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film
Frank is a low-level cocaine dealer in London, conducting business with his partner Tony and would-be-girlfriend Flo. When a former cellmate contacts him for a large drug deal, Frank borrows £45,000 of cocaine from Milo, a dangerous Serbia…
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