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Christmas film, Family Comedy, Komödie, Silly Movie, Splatstick, buddy film, comedy film
Chicago-area resident Clark Griswold intends to have a "Good old fashioned" Christmas with his entire family. He drives his wife Ellen and children Audrey and Rusty out to the country to find a tree, ultimately choosing the largest one the…
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Crime, Drama, Film Noir, Mysterie, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1953, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) aims to improve its public image following decades of corruption. Career-focused sergeant Edmund Exley lives in the shadow of his legendary detective father, whose murderer was never identi…
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Crime, Dark Comedy, Super Hero, action film, neo-noir, superhero film
Newspaper reporter Alexander Knox and photojournalist Vicki Vale investigate sightings of "Batman", a masked vigilante targeting Gotham City's criminals. Both attend a fundraiser hosted by billionaire Bruce Wayne, who is secretly Batman, h…
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Christmas film, Fairy-Tale Film, Melodrama, Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, Social Drama, cinematic fairy tale, drama film, fantasy film, romance film
One snowy evening, an elderly woman tells her granddaughter the story of a young man named Edward, who has scissor blades for hands. Many years earlier, Peg Boggs, a door-to-door Avon saleswoman, drives to the decrepit Gothic mansion where…
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Action, Justice Drama, Thriller, action film, action thriller, drama film, war film
In December 1981, United States Army Vietnam War veteran John Rambo visits the home of his army buddy Delmar Barry and learns that he has died from the effects of Agent Orange exposure. Wandering aimlessly on foot, he arrives at the town o…
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Film Noir, Justice Drama, Late Western, Psychodrama, Western film, crime film, drama film
In 1880, in the fictional town of Big Whiskey, Wyoming, a cowboy named Quick Mike slashes prostitute Delilah Fitzgerald's face with a knife over an insult, permanently disfiguring her. As punishment, Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett orders Mi…
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Komödie, comedy film
Two days before his wedding, bachelor Doug Billings travels to Las Vegas with his best friends Phil Wenneck, a teacher; Stu Price, a dentist; and Alan Garner, his childish future brother-in-law. Sid, the father of Doug's fiancée, Tracy, le…
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Action, Auto Racing, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
At the Los Angeles port, a heist crew driving three heavily modified Honda Civics hijack a semi-truck trailer carrying electronic goods and escape into the night along the Terminal Island Freeway. Meanwhile, LAPD officer Brian O'Conner is …
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, action film, crime film, martial arts film, thriller film
In Pittsburgh, a man drives a van into a rooftop parking garage near the Allegheny River and PNC Park, dropping a 1968 quarter into the parking meter. Using a sniper rifle, he shoots and kills five people on the river's North Shore Trail, …
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Crime, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, neo-noir
In 1937 Los Angeles, a woman identifying herself as Evelyn Mulwray hires private investigator J. J. "Jake" Gittes to trail her husband, Hollis, the chief engineer at the Department of Water and Power.
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Drama, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
At a Los Angeles rail yard, petty thief Louis "Lou" Bloom attacks a guard, taking his watch and stealing manhole covers, fencing, and other materials. While trying to sell the stolen materials at a scrap yard, Lou asks the foreman for a jo…
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Dark Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, action film, action thriller, adventure film, black comedy film, dystopian film, horror film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
"Nada" is a homeless man who comes to Los Angeles, California in pursuit of work, where he spots a preacher warning that "they" have recruited the rich and powerful to control humanity. He finds employment at a construction site and befrie…
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Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, contemporary Western film, crime film, drama film, heist film, police procedural film
In West Texas, brothers Toby and Tanner Howard rob two branches of the Texas Midlands Bank. Though the robberies are well-planned, Tanner's wild nature leads him to take unnecessary risks, frustrating Toby. Their mother has died after a lo…
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Crime, Erotic Thriller, LGBTQ-related film, Psychological Thriller, crime film, drama film, erotic film, erotic thriller, mystery film, thriller film
In San Francisco, a blonde woman ties retired rock star Johnny Boz to a bed with a silk scarf during sex, then stabs him to death with an ice pick. SFPD Detective Nick Curran and his partner, Gus Moran, investigate the murder. The prime su…
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Heist, Mafia Film, Police Film, Road Movie, Romance Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, romance film, thriller film
At a Detroit theater showing kung fu films, Alabama Whitman strikes up a conversation with Elvis Presley fanatic Clarence Worley. They later have sex at his downtown apartment. Alabama tearfully confesses that she is a call girl hired by C…
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Teen Comedy Film, comedy film, coming-of-age film, high school film, sex comedy, teen film
Seth and Evan are unpopular Nevada high school seniors who have been best friends since childhood, and hope to lose their virginities before going to different colleges. Jules, a girl Seth is attracted to, invites him to a party at her hou…
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Action, action film, drama film
Troubled former UFC middleweight fighter Elwood Dalton makes a living scamming fighters on the underground circuit. He is approached by Frankie, the owner of an unruly roadhouse in the Florida Keys community of Glass Key, who offers him a …
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Romance Film, Tragic Comedy Film, drama film, fantasy film, ghost film, romance film
Banker Sam Wheat and his artist girlfriend Molly Jensen move into a Tribeca loft with the help of Sam's best friend and co-worker Carl Bruner. One night, the couple is attacked on the street by a mugger, and though Sam appears to chase him…
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Action, Terrorism, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime film
LAPD SWAT bomb disposal officers Jack Traven and Harry Temple are tasked with preventing a bombing on a city elevator containing 13 people. After narrowly rescuing the passengers, the duo find and confront the bomber, during which, Harry i…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Forensic, Justice Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In 1928 Los Angeles, single mother Christine Collins returns home to find her 9-year-old son, Walter, missing. Reverend Gustav Briegleb publicizes Christine's plight and rails against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for incompeten…
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Blaxploitation, Heist, Thriller, blaxploitation film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, heist film, independent film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
Jackie Brown, a flight attendant, smuggles money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie, a gun runner in Los Angeles. When Beaumont Livingston—Ordell's bagman—is arrested, Ordell hires bail bondsman Max Cherry to bail him out…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Justice Drama, buddy film, comedy film, drama film, heist film
In September 1936, amid the Great Depression, grifter Johnny Hooker and his partners, Luther Coleman and Joe Erie, con $11,000 in cash from an unsuspecting victim in Joliet, Illinois. Hooker loses his share of the con on a rigged roulette …
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Action, Crime, Cyberpunk, Satire, Super Hero, Thriller, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, cyberpunk, dystopian film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, splatter film, superhero film, thriller film
In a near-future dystopia, Detroit is on the brink of social and financial collapse. Overwhelmed by crime and dwindling resources, the city grants the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) control of the Detroit Police Department. …
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Coming Of Age, Komödie, coming-of-age film, drama film, romantic comedy film, teen film
On Sunday, September 2, 1962, the last day of summer vacation, high school graduates Curt Henderson and Steve Bolander meet their friends, confident drag-racing king John Milner and unpopular but well-meaning Terry "The Toad" Fields, at Me…
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