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Dark Comedy, comedy film, crime film
The majority of the film consists of Randy, Carl and Dehling reciting their experiences with Jewel, each narrating over what they consider to be the real version of the recent events. Scenes are often re-enacted twice, with different accou…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, crime thriller film, heist film
A group of grifters rip off their latest mark and celebrate, while de facto group leader, Jake Vig, explains the art of the con. When one of the four, Alphonse "Big Al" Morley, is found shot to death, the other three learn that the latest …
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Action, action film, yakuza film
John "Falcon" Chapman is a United States Marine Corps veteran who suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder. After playing Russian roulette, he enters a convenience store moments before it is robbed. He demands one of the robbers shoot hi…
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Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Martin Rome, a hardened criminal, is in a hospital room awaiting surgery for critical wounds he received in a shootout where he killed a police officer. At the hospital, he is visited by members of his family and his girlfriend, a priest f…
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Forensic, Romantic Drama, crime film, drama film, romance film
The film is set in Turin, Italy. It opens with a prologue sequence showing the young Italian Carabinieri clerk Filippo (Ribisi) learning to fly a helicopter using a flight simulator. When he accidentally crashes the virtual helicopter by a…
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Drama, Film Noir, crime film, drama film, film noir
Police detective Jim Wilson is known for employing physical violence to extract information from suspects and witnesses. After Wilson ignores his chief's warnings, he is relegated to a case upstate. He joins a manhunt pursuing the murderer…
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Action, Gangster Film, action film, crime film, thriller film
Cam is an NYC bike messenger who rents a garage from a woman named Angie and also struggling to make ends meet. While on a run, Cam wrecks his bike after a stranger named Nikki causes an accident while escaping from police officers. Cam is…
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Action, action film
Jake Carter, a former U.S Marine, is now working at Hawthorne Global Security, a private security agency led by Robert Daniels. He and a few other men are waiting at the airport for the arrival of whistleblower Olivia "Liv" Tanis, an IT en…
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Erotic Thriller, Girls with Guns, Martial-Arts
Kitty is a vicious young woman who has no qualms about stabbing girlfriend-bullying men in the genitals. Tinam is a cop who is undergoing a traumatic period: he shot his own brother by accident, and as a result now vomits every time he han…
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LGBTQ-related film, Police Film, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film
La Salle Parish, Louisiana Sheriff Darl Hardwick investigates the controversial local murder of a transgender woman, with the highly sensitive matter being concealed as much as possible by the parish's most influential figures, such figure…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, thriller
Action, Crime Comedy, Komödie, action film, comedy film, comedy thriller
Michael Jordon, an architect, accidentally becomes involved in a web of intrigue and murder when a strange woman, who enters a taxi with him, is later found murdered. As a result, he flees from false murder charges. Kate is a woman out to …
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Action, action film, thriller film
Marine Veteran Nick Prescott returns to his hometown. His father, who is the sheriff, tries to stand up against a brutal gang of ruthless criminals who intimidate and blackmail the people to sell them their business. He is then killed by t…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
After Jimmy Wallace is beaten by Manny Cole and his friends over Carole, Jimmy confronts him and challenges him to a fight outside the café; during a struggle, Jimmy grabs a gun from one of Manny's friends and two gunshots ring out. A near…
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Action, action film
In France, Vincent Brazil (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Roland Flint (Scott Adkins) retired from being a contract killer after an attack by drug kingpin Polo Yakur (Ivan Kaye) …
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Thriller, thriller film
A series of violent deaths and the disappearance of a young woman bring FBI agents Sam Hallaway and Elizabeth Anderson to a town in rural Nebraska. They meet the three survivors of a mysterious bloodbath; the young Stephanie, the cocaine-a…
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, crime film
Nick Barrow plans and sells heists to the highest bidder but is forced to take his daughter Cate, who he hasn't had a relationship with her whole life, on the lam when a job goes bad. Cate has had to fend for herself because her mother Luc…
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Police Film, Psychodrama, Thriller, drama film, film noir
In Los Angeles, a string of child murders terrorizes the populace. The perpetrator stalks and lures his victims, before killing them via strangulation and taking their shoes as mementos. The police start a crackdown on criminal operations,…
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Komödie, comedy drama, drama film
In Venice, California, 15-year-old Michael McPhee awakens his mother, Nora, a widowed high school English schoolteacher, who has fallen asleep grading test papers. They venture from their ramshackle house to school in her dilapidated Volvo…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
The story revolves around a war between dirty cops and a biker gang. The king of the bikers has lost his sons and needs his daughter to marry royalty to maintain the bloodline. The new Queen wishes to kill the king and her step-daughter in…
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Mysterie, Sci-Fi, crime film, mystery film, science fiction film
During an apparent drug store robbery, a woman is murdered. Seattle Medical Examiner Dr. David Krane finds a matchbook there that reminds him of one found at the scene of his wife Mary's murder.
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Drama, Marital Tragedy, Psychological Thriller, drama film
A woman's body is shown in lantana bushes in suburban bushland. Leon, a policeman, and Jane have sex in a motel. They part, and Leon and his wife, Sonja, attend Latin dance classes that the recently separated Jane is also taking.
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Drama, Historie
Frank Crichlow is a Trinidadian immigrant opening a new restaurant, the Mangrove, in Notting Hill in the late 1960s. Notting Hill was then a Caribbean immigrant neighbourhood. On opening night Constable Frank Pulley looks on and comments t…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
On 13 November 1990, David Gray, an unemployed man in his 30s lives in his parents' small holiday home in Aramoana. He cycles into town where he has an argument with staff at a bank over a minor issue. Unstable and angry, he returns home w…
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