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Action, Animalhorror, Thriller, action film, adventure film, drama film, horror film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
The film centers around a series of deadly shark attacks in New Jersey. Drilling for a new park attracts rare sharks which slowly devour the tourists. In the middle of the movie, the character "Nookie" is invited over to a yacht party whic…
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Drama, Thriller, drama film, prison film
While the warden (real-life warden Frank A. Eyman) of a state prison is away, the isolation block erupts and 35 of the most violent criminals stage a riot and take over their portion of the prison. Cully Briston, in for five years and awai…
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Buddy Film, Secret Agent, action film
A suicide bomber detonates himself at a party in Java, Indonesia, and a Javanese Sultan's daughter, Sultana (Atiqah Hasiholan), is believed to be one of the unidentified victims. Jake Travers (Kellan Lutz), an American posing as a graduate…
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Crime, Mysterie, Thriller, mystery film, thriller film
Paul Decker kills his wife, Madge, by drugging her and then gassing her in a room in their Italian villa, sealing all the windows and doors but concealing himself under floorboards in the room, covered by a rug and using a snorkel attached…
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Gangster Film, crime film, gangster film
thumb|Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart and George E. Stone in Bullets or Ballots Detective Johnny Blake is a New York City cop who has made his reputation by cracking down on racketeers.
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Drama, drama film
University freshman Lisa Connors has high expectations for a position at the campus newspaper. Her mother pushes her to join Pi Gamma Beta, the most prominent sorority on campus, while her first day. Her plans, however, are derailed when S…
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Action, Komödie, Thriller, comedy film
Set in Los Angeles, the film stars Joey Turks, a car thief who needs money to get out of town. It opens with Joey stealing a television set from the home of drug dealer Mort, who owes him cash, but is caught red-handed. After Joey drops th…
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Drama, Heist, Thriller, crime film, drama film
A thief has just one morning to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career, all while attempting to repair his relationship with his ex-wife.
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Komödie, comedy film
Janitor Sidney L. Pythias is mistaken for a gang member and arrested along with three juvenile delinquents, Artie, Monk and Harry. Police officer Mike Damon believes that he can help a wayward youth as a cop had once done for him.
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Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller, drama film, war film
Terrick (James Faulkner), a British South Africa Police officer in rural Rhodesia, looks forward towards the end of his police service and early retirement to his farm with his fiancée, Sally (Sybil Danning). Terrick's hopes for a peaceful…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film
Scarlett (Tatum O'Neal) is a hardened street kid who supports herself with prostitution and drug dealing. Facing charges of killing a client, Scarlett is brought to court. At court, she briefly encounters Tracy Freeman (Irene Cara).
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Scott Barnes (Travolta) is a former ad executive turned social worker living in Miami. He is also a recovering alcoholic who stopped drinking after killing his son in a drunk-driving crash. One of his cases is Tommy (Joey Lawrence) a stree…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, speculative fiction film
After an event which appears to have been World War III (the cause is not explained in the movie) Commander Eastern becomes the leader of a futuristic society in a post-apocalyptic world. The society is fascist and the citizens have a bar …
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Crime, crime film, drama film
The film follows an escalating vendetta between professional Chicago thief Mackin (Alec Baldwin) and rising Detroit kingpin Pointy Williams (Michael Jai White) after an attempted double cross.
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Crime, Drama, crime film
After a rumble between New York City street gangs, the Hornets and Dukes, a youth is taken captive and threatened with a zip gun by Lenny Daniels, one of the Hornets. The act is witnessed by a neighbor, McAllister, who tells the cops. Lenn…
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Horror, Mysterie, Slasher Horror, crime film, mystery film
After the body of murdered woman Elizabeth Mercer is found, nude and handcuffed, floating down the Hudson River in New York City, two men are murdered by an assailant who handcuffs them before killing them. Paul "Mac" McCormack, an ambitio…
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Drama, Komödie
Crime, Drama, Thriller, drama film
A murder charge is dropped against San Francisco black militant Frankie Steele, who is represented by liberal attorney Joe Ricco. Two police officers are then gunned down. An eyewitness, the young son of a friend of Ricco's, identifies Ste…
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Police Film, action film, crime film, drama film
Two detectives caught in a crossfire between dirty cops and gangland members.
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Action, Drama, drama film
A teenage outcast road movie, Jimmy and Judy follows a pair of outsiders who fall in love and out of control as they travel across an American landscape dotted with hypocrisy, materialism, drugs and violence. The film focuses on themes suc…
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Horror, Torture Porn, slasher film, splatter film
On a beach in Chicago, a couple is murdered by a man dressed like a hippie, with the only witness to the crime being Colonel Peter Wayne, a retired veteran of the Vietnam War. Wayne is questioned by Sergeant Connor, Connor's partner, Detec…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, erotic film, science fiction film
Wade, his girlfiend Marina, and Merrick smuggle bio-cyber microchips in from America to a decadent high tech Russia. On his last job, Wade is double-crossed and murdered by Merrick. Realizing he might have some worth, Wade is resurrected b…
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Horror, Thriller, crime thriller film, horror film
Rocky Carlson, the agent of novelist Bill Palmer, gets assaulted in his Chicago hotel room by an unknown figure. Palmer's best seller Bone Daddy is a heavily fictionalized version of a series of real, unsolved murders that took place in th…
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Drama, Thriller