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Detective Film, crime film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, police film, thriller film
In 1947, Hercule Poirot lives in retirement in post-war Venice, employing ex-police officer Vitale as a bodyguard. On Halloween, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver convinces Poirot to attend a séance at the palazzo of opera singer Rowena and ex…
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Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, thriller film
In 1978 New York City, Lefty Ruggiero, an aging enforcer in the Bonanno crime family, meets Joseph D. Pistone, a young undercover FBI agent posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco. Donnie insists that a diamond that Lefty has acquired from str…
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Action, Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, Komödie, Police Film, action film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, parody film
Nicholas Angel, a recently promoted Metropolitan Police Sergeant, is reassigned to the rural town of Sandford, Gloucestershire for being too exceptional, despite his desire to continue in London. On his first night in town, Angel arrests D…
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Gross Out Film, Komödie, female buddy film, romantic comedy film
Annie Walker (Kristen Wiig) is a young, single woman living in Milwaukee. Following the Great Recession, her bakery went out of business. She now works a stressful, underpaid job at a jewelry store and shares an apartment with obnoxious ro…
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Drama, crime film, drama film
In 1994, Luke Glanton is a motorcycle stuntman with a traveling carnival. In Schenectady, he meets his ex-lover Romina Gutierrez, who is now with a man named Kofi Kancam and has a son, Jason. When Romina tells Luke that he is Jason's real …
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Terry Richmond, a Marine veteran, cycles into Shelby Springs, Louisiana to bail out his cousin Mike Simmons and to buy a work pickup truck. He is rammed by police officers Evan Marston and Steve Lann, who seize his in cash via civil forfei…
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Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, historical film, political thriller film
On June 17, 1972, Frank Wills, a security guard at the Watergate complex finds a door's bolt taped over to prevent it from locking. He calls the police, who find and arrest five burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters wi…
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Caper-Movie, Drama, Police Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
In August 2005, inside a small, dimly-lit cell, Dalton Russell proclaims he has committed the perfect bank robbery. Some time prior, in New York City, masked robbers, dressed in painter coveralls and using variants of the name "Steve" as a…
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Historie, Mafia Film, Police Film, action film, biographical film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film, trial film
In 1930, during Prohibition, the notorious gangland boss Al Capone supplies illegal liquor and controls most of Chicago. Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness has been tasked with halting Capone's activities by hitting a warehouse with cr…
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Sci-Fi, Thriller, action film, crime film, dystopian film, fantasy film, postcyberpunk, science fiction film, thriller film
In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal fiat cu…
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Destiny, Marital Tragedy, Psychodrama, Psychological Thriller, Social Drama, action film, action thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
William Foster is stuck in Los Angeles traffic on a hot day. After his air conditioning fails, he abandons his car and begins walking, carrying his briefcase. At a convenience store, the Korean owner refuses to give change for a telephone …
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Christmas film, Dark Comedy, Retro Science Fiction, Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, comedy film, dystopian film, fantasy film, neo-noir, retrofuturism, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
In a dystopian, polluted, hyper-consumerist, overbearing, bureaucratic, totalitarian future based on elements of the 20th century, Sam Lowry is a low-level government employee who frequently dreams of himself as a winged warrior saving a d…
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Crime, Komödie, Political Drama, Social Drama, comedy film, drama film, hood film, independent film
Twenty-five-year-old Mookie lives in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, with his sister Jade. He has a toddler son named Hector with his Latina girlfriend Tina, and works as a delivery man at a pizzeria owned by Italian-American Salvatore "Sal"…
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film, teen film
In 2005, unpopular-yet-scholarly student Morton Schmidt and popular-yet-underachieving athlete Greg Jenko miss their school prom, Schmidt being rejected by the girl he was trying to ask to be his date and Jenko being barred from attending …
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Animalhorror, Horror comedy, action film, black comedy film, police film, thriller film
In 1985, drug smuggler Andrew C. Thornton II drops a shipment of cocaine from his plane. He attempts to parachute out with the last drug-filled duffel bag, but knocks himself unconscious on the doorframe and falls to his death.
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, spy film
DEA agents collect MI6 agent James Bond and his friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, on their way to Leiter's wedding in Key West, to have them assist in capturing drug lord Franz Sanchez. Bond and Leiter capture Sanchez by attaching a hook and…
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Mysterie, Super Hero, action film, fantasy film, horror film, superhero film
The demon Mephisto sends his bounty hunter, the Ghost Rider, to retrieve the contract of San Venganza for control of a thousand dark souls. Seeing that the agreement would give Mephistopheles the power to bring hell to Earth, the Rider ref…
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Fake Documentary, Horror, crime film, found footage film, horror film
The film is presented as a documentary, featuring interviews with police and FBI officials. Police officers raid a house in Poughkeepsie, New York, where they discover over 800 videotapes created by serial killer Edward Carver, which prese…
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Drama, Film Noir, Romance Film, Satire, drama film, film noir, flashback film
At a mansion on Sunset Boulevard, police officers and photographers discover the body of Joe Gillis floating face down in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the events leading to his death. Six months earlier, Joe, a down-on-hi…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, martial arts film, thriller film
Patrick Walker is a homicide detective, estranged from his family and on the payroll of Lawrence Beaumont, a real estate tycoon, mayoral candidate, and father of Charlie. Charlie is part of a gang of thieves, alongside his girlfriend Mia, …
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Mysterie, Psychological Thriller, drama film, psychological thriller
Trevor Reznik is a machinist whose insomnia has led to him becoming emaciated and a loner. His coworkers eventually turn against him when he is involved in an accident that causes his coworker to lose his left arm; Trevor was distracted by…
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Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime film, thriller film
A successful action thriller starring Nicolas Cage as an infamous criminal and John Travolta as the cop trying to bring him down. In an attempt to get information on criminal Castor Troy, police officer Sean Archer switches faces with him …
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Dark Comedy, Parodie, Silly Movie, adventure film, comedy film, fantasy film, knight film, parody film, period drama film
thumb|King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and Patsy (Terry Gilliam) In AD 932, King Arthur and his squire Patsy, who bangs coconut shells together as Arthur mimes riding a horse, travel Britain searching for men to join the Knights of the Round T…
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Sci-Fi, action film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, science fiction film, thriller film
In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Jack Lamb of Lillian, Ohio and his 14-year-old son Joe mourn the death of wife and mother Elizabeth in a workplace accident. Jack blames Elizabeth's co-worker Louis Dainard for the accident, as Dainard had a hangove…
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