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Crime, Drama, Mysterie, Thriller, thriller
Millionaire adult magazine publisher Richard Trainor (Robert Culp) is celebrating the success of his new calendar, featuring twelve beautiful nude women. However, the party is ruined when Miss January is pushed off a high-rise hotel. Later…
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Crime, crime film, drama film
Gangsters free one of their colleagues Frank Nash being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men respon…
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Social Drama
Three different directors tell the intertwining stories of different groups of people all travelling together on a train to Rome. There is an elderly professor, trying to work on the packed train, an old woman travelling to her husband's f…
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Crime, biographical film, crime film, police procedural
Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, also known as "Clark Rockefeller," was a master imposter who successfully posed as various individuals, including a television host and a Pentagon advisor, before claiming to be a member of the famous Rockefe…
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Crime, Komödie
It stars Dustin Hoffman in his first movie role, as Jason Fister, a young U.S. Treasury Dept. official sent to Rome to recover a large sum of money owed to the United States government by a deceased mobster.
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Zombiefilm, comedy horror, zombie comedy
Satan has created a human-like race called zombies. When the zombies begin taking over the world, dirty cops Jeff and Cage find themselves in the unenviable position of stopping them before it's too late. Jeff soon learns that he alone has…
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Drama, drama film, mystery film
Against the backdrop of a child abduction case the film follows five days in the life of a variety of people living in Los Angeles. Kate is a lawyer arguing in a custody battle on behalf of Drew, who cares for her completely disabled broth…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
The film is set in London and follows Mike Beresford, a 28-year-old songwriter who is charged with statutory rape after having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
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Anti-War Film, Drama, drama film, war film
In the present day, a widow mourns the death of her husband. She covers up the TV set and all the mirrors in the house. Her grown children are baffled by this behavior, asking why their mother has suddenly become Orthodox Jewish.
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Heroic Bloodshed
This Hong Kong crime thriller stars Chow Yun-Fat and Ti Lung as two cops who must hunt down Chu, a crime boss who has just been released from prison and is out for revenge against the mismatched partners. Dick Lee (Chow Yun-fat) and Ken Ch…
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Police Film, Thriller
thumb|left|The Mojave Desert A successful Los Angeles lawyer and hunter, Horton Madec (Andy Griffith), receives a rare permit to hunt bighorn sheep in the nearby Mojave Desert. He hires a timid college student currently working as a fillin…
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crime film, police procedural
During an intense summer heat wave in New York City, two cops are murdered and the detectives of the 87th Precinct must find the killer. Steve Carella and Mike Maguire are the lead investigators on the case, but they cannot make any progre…
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Action, Crime, action film, exploitation film
Drifter Eddie Moore arrives in the small oil town of Rockfield, where he is picked up and harassed by the town's corrupt sheriff Leroy Rankin and deputy Tylor for violation of town ordinance against hitch-hiking. They dump him at the oil f…
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Fugitive Drama, drama film
The film tells the story of Simon Calmat (Vincent Lindon), a French swimming coach who is divorcing his wife Marion (Audrey Dana). Simon tries to help a young Iraqi-Kurd immigrant, Bilal Kayani (Firat Ayverdi), whose dream is to cross the …
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Action, martial arts film, thriller film
John Nguyen is a veteran suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Despite his status as a war hero, he has difficulty adjusting to civilian life. When he hears a woman scream, he investigates and gets into a fight with several Aryan N…
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Road Movie, Thriller, crime film
A wife's husband is cheating on her. She decides to go on a road trip with her husband's other woman. While driving the two women pick up a hitchhiker.
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Crime, thriller film
Thirteen years after her father was slain and the only evidence left at the crime scene was a pamphlet for a secret shrouded religious order known as “The Ministers from DATAPREV”, a New York City homicide detective sets out to discover th…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, crime film, film noir
Clara Calhoun is a beautician with a shop in New York. Her shop is in fact a front for a bookmaking operation. One evening when she closes up for the night, she gives a silent signal to two masked gunmen lurking outside.
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Crime, Drama, Musical, crime film, drama film
The action starts at a nightclub where The Platters sing two songs. A bitter man called Shorty is kicked out of the club after arguing with a couple. He goes to a nearby bar owned by Al, who is wary about Shorty.
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Police Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film
Maria Quinn (Smith) has only recently begun working as a detective in Manhattan, but is already assigned to investigate a horrendous murder involving a drug lord who is given an overdose of heroin at a party. The case takes a personal turn…
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Event Documentary, drama film
The film focuses on the storming of the Diaz school in Genoa by the police after the 2001 G8 summit. In that building were protesters against the international summit on the night between 21 and 22 July 2001. It is based on the testimonies…
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Action, Buddy Cop, Komödie, Police Film, action film
Detective Sgt. Ben “Benny” Avalon (Bubba Smith) is a tough but good-natured cop who is well-known around his inner city neighborhood and an active mentor to youth while off-duty. Avalon is unmarried but has a cat named Beatrice, and a pret…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, martial arts film
During Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Hong Kong in 1975, a group of criminals plan her assassination.
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Action, Crime, Detective Film, Drama, Girls with Guns, Heist, Mysterie, Police Film, Road Movie, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Time Travel, action film, crime film, crime thriller film, dystopian film, heist film, thriller film
San Diego in the 2040s has unemployment and crime at an all-time high. Government surveillance, mass poverty and drought has decimated much of the population. Revolutionary groups and economic divide has caused society to be on the brink o…
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