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Crime, Thriller, crime film, film noir
At a police station, Marilyn Gregor meets Inspector Johns and Lieutenant Bob Lawrence, as her brother Don Gregor had been arrested for carrying an unlicensed handgun. After she posts bail for him, he is released, but the police refuse Don'…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action film, crime film
After a crime scene cleanup crew discovers a briefcase full of money, they inadvertently enter into a war with a corrupt ruthless crime lord, hitmen, gangsters, and corrupt government agents, all of whom are intent on getting the money bac…
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Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, crime film
In 1983 Melbourne, television repairman Ray Jenkins and his football team celebrate the end of their season by spending the weekend in Thailand. Ray's best friend Gavin , a small-time criminal working for local property owner/crime lord Pa…
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Action, action film
A former New Orleans cop Jack Robideaux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) arrives with his pet rabbit in Columbus, New Mexico to take a job with the border patrol, and working with Captain Ramona García (Natalie J. Robb). At the moment, the border p…
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Crime, Drama, action film, crime thriller film, drama film
Jonas Maldonado, the son of a slain NYPD officer, joins the police academy with his two best friends. After graduating, he is taken under the wing of his father's former partner Captain Joe Sarcone, who invites him to join the Street Vice …
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film
In the Paddington area of west London in July 1949, PC George Dixon, a long-serving traditional policeman who is due to retire shortly, supervises new recruit Andy Mitchell, introducing him to the night beat. Dixon is unprepared when he is…
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Action, Drama, action film, drama film
Drug boss Mel sends his associates Tes, Dawn, and Kara to intercept a truck driver bringing rival drugs to a diner at night. The women wait for the driver at the diner, but when they fail to identify him, they draw guns on the diner's othe…
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Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Chloe, a single mother living with her daughter Sophia, operates a motel. Topo is a blind man traveling cross country in a Jeep with his associate Quincy. They stop by Chloe's motel, when Quincy hires prostitute Gwen, and convinces Topo to…
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Action, action film
A sheriff is put in charge of taking down a gang of thieves who have taken a wealthy doctor hostage.
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, police procedural film, thriller film
Detective John Prudhomme, a Cajun transferred to Chicago, and his partner Hollinsworth are assigned to investigate the savage murder of a man whose left arm has been sawed off and taken. A message, "He Is Coming", is found written in lamb'…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy film, drama film, superhero film
Dr. Park, a psychiatrist, is interviewing Arthur Poppington, a vigilante known as "Defendor", about his assault of a dry cleaning business owner. The story flashes back to Arthur's encounter with Dooney, a corrupt detective that Arthur bel…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, crime film, drama film, heist film
Barry Wirth is a retired small-time criminal who is released on parole following the death of his mother, so that he can care for his younger brother, Joey. Wirth was falsely convicted for murder by corrupt police detective Arnie DeViers, …
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Action, Bad Cop, Crime, Justice Drama, Police Film, action film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, thriller film
Roland Dalton is a burned-out, mild-mannered Manhattan public defender, and his last case before leaving legal aid is crack dealer Michael Jones, accused of shooting to death police officer Patrick O'Leary in Central Park. According to Jon…
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Horror, Psychological Thriller, comedy film, horror film
Holly Gooding (Drew Barrymore) moves from New York City to Los Angeles after being implicated in a murder. She is followed by what appears to be her evil twin. While in Los Angeles, she finds a room for rent by a writer named Patrick Highs…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Heist, comedy film, drama film, heist film
Professional thief Henry Manning is in an Oregon nursing home's care. Having apparently had a massive stroke, he is immobile and mute. Henry is in the care of Carol Ann McKay, a high school prom queen who married her boyfriend Wayne, the p…
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Action, Crime
In Los Angeles, the city and neighborhoods are constructed from corporate emblems: Bentley and Aston Martin logos soar overhead like birds in flight, while MSN's butterflies flutter nearby; the AOL Man appears as pedestrians strolling alon…
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Action, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, buddy film, comedy film, thriller film
An interrogator prepares a man to take the stand against mob boss Frank Matajano on an Air Force base. A driver delivers takeout, which is taken to the interrogation room. Once opened, it explodes, killing the witness.
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Action, action film
U.S. Marshal Mason Pollard specializes in "erasing" people – faking the deaths of high-risk witnesses. With the technological advances of the last 25 years, the game has upgraded, and it's just another day at the office when he's assigned …
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Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Thriller, crime film, police film
Mike Brennan, a tough, crude, decorated New York City Police Department detective lieutenant, has a dark side and a partnership with certain organized crime figures. Brennan executes a small-time Puerto Rican criminal and then threatens wi…
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Detective Film, crime film, mystery film
John Davidson, a convicted thief in Dartmoor prison, embeds code revealing the hidden location of extremely valuable stolen Bank of England currency printing plates in the melody notes of three music boxes that he crafts to be sold at auct…
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Destiny, Drama, Romance Film, Social Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, prison film, romance film
thumb|left|thumbtime=15|The Big House (1930) Kent (Robert Montgomery), a drunk driver who carelessly kills a man, is sentenced to ten years for manslaughter. In an overcrowded prison designed for 1800 and actually holding 3000, he is place…
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Film Noir, Police Film, crime film, film noir
On a Los Angeles street, Officer Rob Rawlins, a patrolman on his way home from work, stops a man whom he suspects of being a burglar and is shot and mortally wounded. The minor clues lead nowhere. Two police detectives, Marty Brennan and C…
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Drama, Mysterie, drama film, film noir
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett hopes to uncover the facts behind the unsolved murder of Sloan, an inmate at a psychiatric hospital. He convinces an expert psychiatrist, Dr. Fong, to coach him to appea…
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Action, Komödie, Police Film, action comedy film, crime film, mystery film, romantic comedy
Victoria Iphigenia "V.I" Warshawski (Kathleen Turner) is a Chicago-based, freelance private investigator who lives the part of the hard-boiled detective, but below the surface, she is a softy. One night, while she is drinking at her favori…
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