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Social Study
Over eighteen months, a documentary crew follows Lowell, Massachusetts natives Dicky Eklund, Gary "Boo-Boo" Giuffrida, and Brenda in their daily exploits to get high on crack cocaine. Once the United States' first planned textile town, Low…
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Drama, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film
Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, hood film
New Jersey Drive opens with Jason heading off to juvenile detention then unfolds in flashback as, chronologically, the incidents leading to his arrest surface one by one. First the audience sees the violent and poverty-ridden project where…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, police procedural film
Based on a true story, the film centers on Dan Saxon, a cop with a troubled childhood. After getting fired following a physical confrontation with his corrupt boss (who secretly works with a biker gang known as the Jackals, led by their pr…
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Action, action film, crime film
Tim Kearney is a prison inmate who is recruited by federal agent Tad Gruzsa to impersonate drug dealer Bobby Z, so that Tim can be exchanged for Tad's colleague held hostage by drug kingpin Don Huertero. But at the exchange, just as Tim wa…
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Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Before dawn in Seattle, Detective Sergeant Stan Boyle drives around town and shoots two police officers on the job. After the killings, he cleans up at a luncheonette and a police badge is visible on his belt. When a car pulls up, Boyle go…
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Action, action film, crime thriller film
Detective Tyler Burke and his two men Gideon and Saul kill drug dealer George Freemont after destroying evidence showing Burke distributing narcotics. Meanwhile, Detective John Shaw returns to active duty at his precinct after the death of…
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Action, Romance Film, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film, thriller film
Eddie Jilette is a Chicago cop on the vengeance trail as he follows his partner's killers to New Orleans to settle his own personal score. Eddie flees through the Louisiana bayous with Michel Duval, the beautiful Cajun mistress of a murder…
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film, police film, political thriller film, suspense film, thriller film
Ray Dolezal, a bored Torrance County, New Mexico deputy sheriff, investigates an apparent suicide in the desert. Alongside the body of Bob Spencer is a suitcase containing $500,000. During the autopsy, authorities find a digested piece of …
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Action
Chan Foh To is a junkyard mechanic and a part-time race car driver who helps the Hong Kong Police Force in their crackdown on illegal street racing in the country. One night, while helping news reporter Amy Yip and Mr. Lam after their Mits…
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Drama, Road Movie, comedy drama
Buddy Red Bow, a member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe of Lame Deer, Montana and a quick-tempered activist, is battling greedy developers. On the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, he tries to persuade the council to vote against a stri…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Drama Documentary, biographical film, drama film
The film tells the story of four young men and the extremes they went to in order to capture their photographs of anti-apartheid protests and the resulting police brutality, while the State President, F.W. de Klerk made negotiations to end…
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
Los Angeles police detective Lieutenant Bill Doyle and his partner, Captain Charlie Alidos, track a female fugitive wanted for murder to San Francisco. Bill meets Kathy Ferguson, a San Francisco newspaper advice columnist, who has helped t…
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Justice Drama, Police Film, Political Thriller, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2054, a "Precrime" pilot program is running in Washington, D.C. in the United States. Three clairvoyant individuals known as "precognitives" or "precogs" receive psychic visions about imminent homicides.
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Crime, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In the town of Edison, a police pursuit by tactical unit F.R.A.T. (First Response Assault and Tactical) ends with a shootout, in which veteran detective Francis Lazerov kills a criminal by shooting him through the sleeve of a hostage. Late…
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Dark Comedy, Groteske, Satire, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film
A new wing at Britannia Hospital is to be opened, and the Queen is due to arrive. The administrator of the hospital, Potter, is confronted with demonstrators protesting against an African dictator who is a VIP patient, striking ancillary w…
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Social Drama, Thriller, action film, biographical film, drama film
In 2002, Jonathan White is a rookie police officer under Captain Marion Mathers in the Queens, New York, neighborhood where he grew up. To provide for his wife Kerry and ailing young daughter, he works hard to keep his life on track, but h…
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film
The film opens as two white nationalists destroy an apartment complex in which most of the residents are minorities. Veteran police officer, Sgt. Lou Swanson, and his police dog, Reno, investigate the crime and realize the explosives are m…
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Crime, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
thumb|right|Garfield and Pearson in Force of Evil Joe Morse is a lawyer working with powerful gangster Ben Tucker. Tucker plans to consolidate and gain control over the numbers racket in New York City. He plans to rig the winning number to…
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Film Noir, Thriller, drama film, film noir
Webb Garwood, a single and disgruntled cop, is called to investigate a report of a peeping tom by Susan Gilvray, whose husband works nights as a radio personality. Webb falls in love and becomes obsessed with Susan, and they begin an adult…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, biographical film, crime film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
San Francisco-based Dashiell Hammett, trying to put his Pinkerton detective days behind him while establishing himself as a writer, finds himself drawn back into his old life one last time by the irresistible call of friendship and to hono…
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Family Drama, Marital Tragedy, drama film
Through a series of flashbacks, Donna tries to tell her son, Denny, why she murdered her husband Dennis. When she returns to her hometown in Colorado from California for the summer, Donna is set up on a date with former aerobics instructor…
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Drama, Police Film
Film Noir, Romance Film, drama film, film noir
Lane Bellamy is a carnival dancer who tires of the life, decides to quit and effectively strands herself in the small town of Boldon City in the Southern United States. She becomes romantically involved with Fielding Carlisle, a deputy she…
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