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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 848 films · Page 20.
Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Dark Comedy, action film, comedy film, crime film, drama film
Terry Monroe and Bob Bolaño, two corrupt cops, return to the Albuquerque police force after being suspended for assaulting a racist coworker. Bolaño and Monroe regularly assault, rob and extort criminals, accept bribes, and take drugs. Whi…
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Mysterie, crime film, crime thriller film, spy film, thriller film
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane wrongly falls under suspicion of setting fire to his Glendale, California manufacturing plant during World War II, an act of domestic sabotage. Kane believes the actual culprit to be an apparent employee,…
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Drama, Horror, Komödie, comedy film, drama film, horror film
After being humiliated by members of the London Theatre Critics Guild at an awards ceremony, Shakespearean actor Edward Kendal Sheridan Lionheart is seen apparently committing suicide by diving into the Thames from a great height. He actua…
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Buddy Cop, Police Film, Zombiefilm, action film, zombie comedy, zombie film
Detectives Roger Mortis and Doug Bigelow are called to the scene of a rather violent jewelry store robbery. The robbers take on a squadron of police in a messy shootout, but neither seems affected when they are riddled with bullets. Thanks…
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Action, Drama, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film, detective film, drama film, martial arts film, thriller film
U.S. version Billy Wong is a Hong Kong-born officer with the New York Police Department. During a bar robbery gone awry, Billy kills the perpetrators but loses his partner Michael Alexander, drawing the ire of his superiors.
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Animated Film, action film
The supervillain Atomic Skull attacks Metropolis, killing several people before Superman arrives and defeats him. When questioned about the property damage and lives lost in the fight and why he doesn't try to "fix the world" with his powe…
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Coming Of Age, Social Drama, drama film, independent film, sport film, thriller film
Alex, a 16-year-old skateboarder, rides a freight train clandestinely with a man named Scratch whom he has just met at the Eastside Skatepark, known as "Paranoid Park". While the train is moving a security guard notices the pair, chases af…
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Action, Biographical picture, Drama, Gangster Film, crime film, heist film
During the Great Depression, various bank robbers and other outlaws have become folk heroes due to public distrust of financial institutions and the law. Following the Kansas City Massacre in June 1933 in which several law enforcement offe…
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Erotic Thriller, Film Noir, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, erotic film, thriller
Brittney Havers, a South Florida high school senior, lives with her wealthy but cruel stepfather, Niles Dunlap, after her mother ran her car off the road in "Gator Alley" and was presumably eaten by alligators a year earlier. When Dunlap i…
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Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Corrupt sheriff Kretzer removes his uniform's shirt and leaves his handgun in the back seat of his police car. He removes a body from his car's trunk, drags and drops it in a covered pit in the woods, and pours a bag of quicklime on it. Me…
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Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Detective Sergeant Johnson has been a police officer for twenty years and is deeply affected by the murders, rapes and other violent crimes he has investigated. He is plagued by images of violence, and he appears to be losing his mind unde…
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Drama, Police Film, action film, crime film, drama film
Set in New York City, First Shift follows a lone, veteran NYPD officer from Brooklyn who reluctantly agrees to team up with a new female recruit from Atlanta. They spend the next 12 hours patrolling the city's dangerous streets dealing wit…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
Thomas J. Watts is released from prison and assassinates the mayor. Police officer Shawn McCormick confronts the masked Watts holding the next mayor at gunpoint.
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Crime
A TV crime drama in which a top chef helps solve the poisoning of a journalist. The lead investigator, however, isn't too thrilled about it...
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Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, fantasy film, horror film, psychological thriller, science fiction film
Sam Reide witnesses a woman being killed, then awakens in an ice-filled bathtub, while his vital signs are monitored by his sister Jenna. Sam can travel back to any moment during his lifetime, with his consciousness inhabiting his younger …
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Horror, horror film, slasher film
Years after the events of the second film in 1995, a Candyman-themed gallery event hosted by artist Miguel Velasco in Los Angeles is attended by Caroline McKeever, daughter of Annie Tarrant and Paul McKeever from the second film and a dire…
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Destiny, Melodrama, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, neo-noir
Kelly is a prostitute who arrives by bus in the small town of Grantville after being chased out of the big city by her former pimp. She engages in a quick tryst with local police captain Griff, who then commands her to leave town and refer…
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Romantic Drama, drama film
In the San Fernando Valley, rebellious teenager October "Tobe" takes a walk with her younger brother, Lonnie. The next day, Tobe goes to the beach with friends, and when they stop for gas, they are assisted by Harlan, a man who affects a f…
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Komödie, buddy film, children's film, comedy film
Devon Butler is an eight-year-old boy who lives in Tampa, Florida with his grandmother Rachel in a small apartment. Devon dreams of being a cop. He watches police TV shows, knows police procedures and plays cops and robbers with his friend…
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Action, Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Vincent LaMarca is a veteran New York City Police Department detective. When Vincent was 8 years old, his father was executed for murder because a child whom his father (also a cop but desperate for money) had kidnapped for ransom died whi…
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Action, Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, police film
NYPD Detective Buddy Manucci has been under pressure from the senior officers in the New York City police force because his team of renegade policemen, known as the "seven-ups" (so called because most criminals they arrest receive sentence…
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Crime, Drama, Horror, Splatter Film, Thriller
Living in Hong Kong in 1986, Kai San works for Kwan. Kai has sex with Kwan's wife. Kwan catches them, and the wife accuses Kai of assaulting her.
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Action, Fantasy, Komödie, Sci-Fi
Coming fresh from the police academy, Dave Speed is sent to deliver a parking ticket to a member of a tiny Native American village in the Florida Everglades. Unbeknownst to him, the U.S. government and NASA are preparing to conduct a secre…
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Documentation
thumb|right|The 75th Precinct today, located on Sutter Ave., East New York, Brooklyn. In the 1980s, Brooklyn, New York was suffering from a crack epidemic. Michael Dowd worked in the NYPD's 75th Precinct in the East New York neighborhood o…
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