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Political Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film
In apartheid-era South Africa, Shack Twala, a black revolutionary who had served time on Robben Island, is freed by Rina van Niekerk, his Afrikaner defence attorney, because he would be a victim of retroactive legislation. Rina, estranged …
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Crime, Drama, Police Film, crime film, drama film
Beauregard "Bo" Lockley, long-haired and thoughtful, is a new type of undercover detective in the New York City Police Department. He is assigned to find a missing young woman, but he is not told she is actually an undercover officer whose…
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Action, Thriller, thriller film
Police detective Vickie Stewart goes undercover as a prostitute for a drug operation. Her police sidekick and boyfriend Al searches for drugs along with her. But then the drug operation goes sour, the thugs begin shooting at the police and…
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Mysterie, Thriller, crime film, drama film, mystery film
Philip Hannon is a blind playwright who lives in a London flat with a spectacular view over the River Thames between Waterloo Bridge and Charing Cross Station. One day, he overhears part of a conversation in a pub that possibly involves a …
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Biographical picture, Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
A veteran of World War II, Edwin Boyd (Scott Speedman) is disillusioned and barely getting by as a Toronto bus driver. With his wife Doreen (Kelly Reilly), whom he met in England during the war, and two young children to support, he finds …
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Police Film, Thriller, crime film, thriller film
FBI agent Kevin Cole goes undercover as Jimmy Vaughn, an organized crime enforcer. When he is ordered to undertake the week-long torture of accountant Archie Green, Kevin begins to question his role in government service, where often he mu…
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Super Hero, action film, martial arts film
Tsui Chik (or Simon in the American version) tries to lead a quiet life as a librarian. However, he is really a former test subject for a highly secretive supersoldier project and the instructor of a special commando unit dubbed "701". The…
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Crime, Thriller, mystery film
Crime Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime comedy film, crime film
Chris Mankowski worked in the bomb squad, but when he transferred out, he got caught up in an elaborate plot by former hippies, who have turned bomb making into a business.
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Action, Adventure, Drama, Western, action film, adventure film, drama film
In 1885, Métis leader Dan Duroc and whiskey runner Jacques Courbeau visit politician Louis Riel, exiled in the Montana Territory, and persuade him to return to lead a North-West Rebellion being planned against the Canadian government. Texa…
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Action, action film, drama film
Teenager Ray Trueblood (Fahey) is wrongfully accused of murdering a police officer after his fellow gang member Billy Masters (Drago) does the deed. Hoping to elude the police, he flees Brooklyn, NY and joins the U.S. Marines.
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
While trying to solve a vicious murder in a small town, two detectives Joe (Paul Bettany) and Chrissie (Stephen Graham) wind up murdering the suspected perpetrator. What follows brings them on a journey through fear and drives them to turn…
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Action Comedy, action film, drama film
Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, adventure film
Pauline Stanton, a mother, travels to Hollywood to find her daughter, Lori, working in the porn industry.
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Horror, Thriller, horror film, vampire film
A suburban family harbors a dark secret: When their parents are killed in a tragic accident, eldest Hamilton sibling David (Samuel Child) relocates the surviving family members to a quiet California suburb and assumes the responsibility of…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Jake Peterson (Charlie Sheen) is a dedicated vice unit detective, whose strong-will and dedication to duty begins to take a toll on his marriage to wife Rebecca (Meredith Salenger). Jake's father, Bill Peterson (Martin Sheen) is a veteran …
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Action, action film, martial arts film
Terrorists hold a bank hostage with police surrounding the building. CIA agent Casey Alexander eventually saves the hostages, but is shot in the arm in the process. Meanwhile, Casey's father John, a retired CIA agent, learns that he is on …
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Action, action film, martial arts film
St. Jude Square is a neighborhood living in fear and despair. The dueling gangs of local kingpins, Dash and Antoine, terrorize the streets, and the citizens live without a shred of hope until mysterious stranger Ryan Hong arrives.
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Silly Movie, teen film
The police force of the somewhat-quiet town of Amity decide to get crime off the streets and decide that the prostitutes are better off working out of the police station. The ladies take over several police duties to ensure their cover.
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Action Comedy, Komödie, action film, comedy film
After retiring, Detective Dooley and Jerry Lee have a retirement party with all of their friends. After the party, Dooley and Jerry Lee are both drunk. They enter LA Micro Labs and find a dead security guard apparently shot by criminals wh…
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Horror, horror film
After a small town nuclear power plant dumps hazardous waste into a forest surrounding the town, people begin dying in increasingly gruesome ways. No one can pinpoint the source of the deaths until the EPA investigates; the forests' roots …
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Action, action film, crime film, drama film
Small town Cop Michael Savion (Luke Goss) gets stone-walled by big city detectives led by Hardwick (50 Cent) when he asks them to investigate his younger brother's death. After his brother's death he swears vengeance in a flashback where h…
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Crime, Film Noir, Thriller, crime film, drama film, film noir
Cheryl Draper looks out of her bedroom window, and witnesses a young woman being strangled to death and reports it to the police, but when the killer, Albert Richter, sees detectives arriving downstairs, he moves the body. When the police …
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Political Thriller, drama film
In 1978, Kate Melendez is a television news reporter who investigates the mysterious deaths of two radical Puerto Rican activists. The government claims they were terrorists while others claim the two were merely student activists. Despite…
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