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Coming Of Age, Found Footage, Sci-Fi, coming-of-age film, drama film, fantasy film, found footage film, pseudo-documentary, superhero film, teen film, thriller film
In Seattle, teenager Andrew Detmer is bullied in school, abused by his alcoholic father Richard, and his mother Karen has cancer. The family struggles with medical debt after Richard loses his firefighter job. Andrew’s only friend is his c…
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Horror, Monster Film, Occult Horror, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, neo-noir, psychological drama film, psychological horror film, psychological thriller film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, thriller film
John Trent is delivered by ambulance to an insane asylum, violently agitated and restrained. He is confined to a padded room, where he experiences disturbing hallucinations. He begins telling his story to a doctor.
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Crime Comedy, Heist, comedy film, detective film, drama film, heist film, melodrama, mystery film
thumb|San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk (1908), the Claude Monet painting stolen in the film thumb|A close copy of Poker Sympathy from Cassius Marcellus Coolidge's Dogs Playing Poker series is used as a plot point in the film. Thieves infiltrat…
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Criminal Comedy Film, comedy film, crime film, road movie
In Denver, low-level marijuana dealer David Clark is robbed of his money and stash, some of which he owes to his supplier and college acquaintance Brad Gurdlinger. Gurdlinger forces him to smuggle marijuana from Mexico to clear his debt. R…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Romance Film, Satire On Media, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, melodrama, mystery film, prison film, rape and revenge film, satire
Mickey Knox and his wife Mallory stop at a diner in the New Mexico desert. A duo of rednecks arrive and begin sexually harassing Mallory as she dances by a jukebox. She initially encourages it before beating one of the men viciously.
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Action, Conspiracy Thriller, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, action film, action thriller, spy film, thriller film
Two years after the incident in Paris, Jason Bourne and his girlfriend Marie Kreutz are living in exile in Goa. Still suffering from amnesia, he documents flashbacks about his life as a CIA assassin in a notebook. In Berlin, a CIA agent wo…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Drama, Police Film, Political Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1964, three civil rights workers – two Jewish and one black – went missing while they were in fictional Jessup County, Mississippi (the actual events took place in Neshoba County), organizing a voter registry for African Americans. The …
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Action, action film, crime film, thriller film
Ex-LAPD officer Brian O'Conner has escaped to Miami and is in hiding, after aiding wanted felon Dominic Toretto in Los Angeles escape from authorities. He makes a living by street racing, driving his 1999 Nissan R34 Skyline GT-R in events …
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Action, Detective Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, buddy cop film, chase film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, detective film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
In Marseille, a man is shadowing Alain Charnier, who runs a heroin-smuggling syndicate. Charnier's hitman, Pierre Nicoli, murders the man. Charnier plans to smuggle million (equivalent to $million in ) worth of 89% pure heroin into the Uni…
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Action, Action Comedy, Buddy Film, Detective Film, Komödie, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
Axel Foley is a plainclothes Detroit police detective whose latest unauthorized sting operation goes sour when two uniformed officers intervene, resulting in a high-speed chase through the city that causes widespread damage. Axel's superio…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, buddy cop film, dystopian film, science fiction film
The future United States is a dystopic irradiated wasteland known as the Cursed Earth. On the east coast lies Mega-City One, a violent metropolis with 800 million residents and 17,000 serious crimes reported daily. The only force for order…
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Action, Buddy Cop, Thriller, action film, action thriller, buddy cop film, buddy film, heist film
The Bonwit Teller department store in New York City is blown up by a bomb during the morning commute. A man identifying himself as "Simon" telephones the New York Police Department (NYPD) and claims responsibility. Making demands in the fo…
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Adventure, Komödie, adventure film, romantic comedy film
Sue Charlton is a feature writer for her father's newspaper, Newsday, and is dating the editor, Richard Mason. She travels to Walkabout Creek, a small township in the Northern Territory of Australia, to meet Michael J. "Mick" or "Crocodile…
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Action, Buddy Cop, Komödie, action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
After mistakenly shooting Derek Jeter at the World Series, hot-tempered NYPD detective Terry Hoitz is partnered with mild-mannered forensic accountant Allen Gamble. Both are ridiculed by their peers, who idolize detectives Chris Danson and…
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Destiny, Drama, Police Film, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, romance film
Recently retired tennis pro Chris Wilton is hired as an instructor at an upscale London club. He becomes friendly with wealthy club member, Tom Hewett. Tom's sister, Chloe, is smitten with Chris, and they begin dating.
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, crime film, drama film, political thriller film
Mexico story line In Mexico, police officers Javier Rodriguez and Manolo Sanchez stop a drug transport. General Salazar, a high-ranking Mexican official, interrupts their arrest to offer Javier a special assignment: apprehending Francisco …
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Police Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, crime thriller film, vigilante film
A psychopathic sniper, later referred to as "Scorpio", shoots a woman while she swims in a San Francisco skyscraper rooftop pool. He leaves behind a threatening letter demanding he be paid $100,000 or he will kill more people. The note is …
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Action, Aliens, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, speculative fiction film, suspense film, thriller film
In 1997, Los Angeles is experiencing a heat wave and a turf war between heavily armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. A Predator watches a shootout between the gangs and the LAPD, observing as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan charges into the…
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Action, Utopia & Dystopia
A dystopian near-future Australia is facing a breakdown of civil order primarily owing to widespread oil shortages and ecocide. The berserk motorbike gang member Crawford "Nightrider" Montazano kills a rookie officer of the poorly funded M…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Mysterie, Obsession, Occult Horror, horror film, supernatural film, thriller film
Philadelphia detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) visits convicted serial killer Edgar Reese (Elias Koteas) on death row shortly before his execution. Reese appears strangely cheerful, grips Hobbes' hand, and delivers what seems to be…
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Biographical picture, Blaxploitation, Justice Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
One night shortly before Malcolm Little is born, a party of Klansmen surround the Little family home in Omaha, Nebraska, break all the windows, and ride off into the night. Malcolm has a Grenadian mother and African-American father. His fa…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Crime, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In mid June 2006, in Dorchester, Boston, private investigator Patrick Kenzie and his partner and girlfriend Angie Gennaro witness a televised plea by Helene McCready for the return of her abducted four-year-old daughter Amanda, who was las…
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Crime, Drama, Road Movie, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film
In 1959, Holly Sargis narrates the film as a 15-year-old living in Fort Dupree, a dead-end South Dakota town. She has a strained relationship with her father, a sign painter, since her mother's death from pneumonia years earlier. Holly mee…
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Parodie, Silly Movie, comedy film
Police Squad Lieutenant Frank Drebin is on vacation in Beirut when he disrupts a conference of the United States' greatest enemies (Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev) who are …
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