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Dark Comedy, Drama, black comedy film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In the fictional town of Ebbing, Missouri, Mildred Hayes is grieving over the rape and murder of her teen daughter, Angela. Angry over the lack of progress in the investigation, she rents three disused billboards near her home and posts on…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Mafia Film, Psychological Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, epic film, gangster film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1980, ex-convict Cuban refugee Tony Montana arrives in Miami as part of the Mariel boatlift with his friend Manny Ribera and their companions, Angel and Chi-Chi. Miami drug lord Frank Lopez arranges green cards for them in exchange for …
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Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime thriller film, docudrama, drama film, mystery film, police procedural film
On July 4, 1969, an unknown man attacks Darlene Ferrin and Mike Mageau with a handgun at a lovers' lane in Vallejo, California. Only Mike survives and later disappears from the public eye. One month later, the San Francisco Chronicle recei…
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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, adventure film, children's film, comedy film, family film, pirate film, treasure hunt film
Facing foreclosure of their homes in the "Goon Docks" neighborhood of Astoria, Oregon to an expanding country club, a group of boys who call themselves "the Goonies"—Michael "Mikey" Walsh, Richard "Data" Wang, Clark "Mouth" Devereaux, and …
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Adventure, Komödie, Musical, Treasure Hunting, buddy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, musical film, road movie, thriller film, treasure hunt film
In the summer of 1937, three convicts – Pete, Delmar, and Everett – escape from a Mississippi chain gang to retrieve a buried treasure hidden by Everett before the area is flooded to make a lake. The three are assisted by a blind man drivi…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, vigilante film
In 2003, former Force Recon Marine and CIA SAD/SOG officer John Creasy travels to Mexico to visit his old friend Paul Rayburn, who convinces him to take a bodyguard position with Samuel Ramos, a wealthy Mexico City automaker. He needs prot…
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Action, Drama, Gangster Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, mystery film
Léon is an Italian-American hitman (or "cleaner", as he refers to himself) working for a mafioso named "Old Tony" in the Little Italy neighborhood of New York City. One day, Léon meets Mathilda Lando, a lonely twelve-year-old who lives wit…
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Action, Adventure, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, tech noir, thriller film
In 2027, total human infertility has led to wars and global depression, pushing civilization to the brink of collapse as humanity faces extinction. The UK has transformed into a totalitarian police state in which asylum seekers are arreste…
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Family Drama, Romance Film, drama film, romance film
In 1991, a young girl named Ally Craig witnesses her mother Helen being mugged and fatally shot on a New York subway station platform. 10 years later, Ally is a student at NYU, and lives with her father Neil, an NYPD detective, in Queens. …
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Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
During a tropical storm, corrupt Atlantic City police detective Rick Santoro attends a boxing match at the soon-to-close local arena between heavyweight champion Lincoln Tyler and challenger Jose Pacifico Ruiz. He meets up with his best fr…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
Robert McCall, a former Marine and retired DIA/DCS officer, lives in Boston and works at a big-box home improvement store. He helps his colleague Ralphie train to become a security guard. Unable to sleep, McCall often spends late nights re…
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Drama, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, hood film, neo-noir, thriller film
Jake Hoyt, a young, ambitious LAPD officer, is assigned to work with Detective Alonzo Harris, a highly decorated narcotics officer for a one-day evaluation to determine if Jake will be invited to join his narcotics squad. Alonzo immediatel…
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Crime, Drama, Mysterie
In October 1986, two women are found raped and murdered on the outskirts of a small town. The local police department, inept and ill-equipped to deal with such a serious case, is quickly overwhelmed. Fabricating evidence and employing viol…
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Heist, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, action film, biographical film, black comedy film, comedy drama, comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, docudrama, drama film, gangster film, heist film, mystery film, suspense film, thriller film
On August 22, 1972, first-time crook Sonny Wortzik and his friends Salvatore "Sal" Naturile and Stevie attempt to rob the First Brooklyn Savings Bank. The plan immediately goes awry when Stevie loses his nerve and flees. Sonny discovers th…
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Drama, Erotic Film, Mysterie, Police Film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller film, horror film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, romance film, thriller film
College student Jeffrey Beaumont returns to his suburban hometown of Lumberton, North Carolina, after his father, Tom, has a near-fatal stroke. Walking home from the hospital, Jeffrey cuts through a vacant lot and discovers a severed human…
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Destiny, Drama, Social Drama, drama film
Ruth Slater is released from prison after serving twenty years for killing a sheriff who came to evict her and her five-year-old sister, Katie, from their home in Snohomish, Washington. Upon her release, she gets two jobs, and begins to se…
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Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, swashbuckler film, thriller film
In 1985 New York, Connor MacLeod encounters an old enemy, Iman Fasil, in the parking garage of Madison Square Garden. After a sword duel, Connor beheads Fasil and absorbs a powerful release of energy from his body, then hides his sword in …
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Action, Drama, Film Noir, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
A man in Los Angeles (billed as "The Driver") works as a mechanic, stunt double, and criminal-for-hire getaway driver. His jobs are all managed by auto shop owner Shannon, who persuades Jewish-American mobster Bernie Rose and his half-Ital…
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Mafia Film, Political Drama, Western film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, documentary film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, thriller film
In the 1930s, three thugs search for a man named "Noodles". Noodles is drugging himself in an opium den with a newspaper next to him featuring the deaths of bootleggers Patrick Goldberg, Philip Stein and Maximilian Bercovicz. He recalls th…
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Crime, Crime Comedy, Drama, Police Film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
In 1972, Ron Stallworth is hired as the first black officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Assigned to work in the records room, he tires of being bullied and applies to be an undercover officer. He is assigned to infiltrate a …
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Dark Comedy, Heist, Thriller, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy drama, crime comedy film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, flashback film, gangster film, heist film, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Eight men planning to rob a jewelry store for a diamond shipment eat breakfast at a diner. To pull off the heist, boss Joe Cabot assembles six experienced robbers who are strangers to each other. Joe and his son, "Nice Guy" Eddie Cabot, ha…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, hood film, neo-noir, period drama film, suspense film, thriller film, war film
In 1968, Frank Lucas is the right-hand man of Harlem mob boss Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson. When Johnson dies of a heart attack, Frank enters the heroin trade, buying directly from producers in Thailand and smuggling it into the U.S. through …
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Levon Cade, an ex-Royal Marine Commando, works as a construction foreman in Chicago and has a close friendship with the Garcia family – Joe, his wife, Carla and their daughter, Jenny – that runs the company. He suffers from PTSD and strugg…
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Romance Film, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, drama film
In the small town of Endora, Iowa, Gilbert Grape is busy caring for Arnie, his mentally disabled younger brother who is about to turn 18. They are watching tourists' trailers pass through town during an annual Airstreamers' Club gathering …
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