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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 848 films · Page 6.
Gothic film, Horror, Mysterie, crime film, horror film, mystery film, police film, thriller film
In October 1830, alcoholic retired detective Augustus Landor is asked by the military to investigate the hanging of Cadet Leroy Fry at the United States Military Academy. Landor is a widower whose daughter Mattie ran off two years before. …
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Family Drama, Romance Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
In a quiet Amish community outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania, friends and family attend the funeral of Jacob Lapp, leaving behind his wife, Rachel, and eight-year-old son, Samuel. Rachel and Samuel travel by train to visit Rachel's sister, w…
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LGBTQ-related film, Marital Tragedy, Psychological Thriller, drama film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, psychological thriller
Laura Burney appears to have an idyllic life and a happy marriage to Martin, a successful Boston investment counselor. Beneath Martin's charming, handsome exterior, however, is an obsessive and controlling person who has physically, emotio…
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Dance Film, Drama, Musical, crime film, drama film, musical film, romance film
In New York City in 1957, two teenage gangs compete for control on the Upper West Side. The Jets, a group of whites led by Riff, brawl with the Sharks, Puerto Ricans led by Bernardo. Lieutenant Schrank and Officer Krupke arrive and break i…
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Buddy Cop, Christmas film, Police Film, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, crime film, thriller film
Following the recent death of his wife, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) narcotics Sergeant Martin Riggs, a former Special Forces soldier, has become suicidal and erratic. Despite the protests of police therapist Stephanie Woods, Capta…
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Action, Biographical picture, Drama, biographical film, boxing film, drama film
Micky Ward is an American welterweight boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts. Managed by his mother Alice, Micky is trained by his older half-brother Dicky Eklund, a former boxer whose peak of success was going the distance with Sugar Ray Leona…
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Political Thriller, drama film, political thriller film
The far-right Organisation armée secrète ("Secret Army Organisation") plots to assassinate President de Gaulle. The first attempt on 22 August fails, leaving de Gaulle and his entourage unharmed. Within six months, OAS leader Jean Bastien-…
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Political Drama, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, action film, crime film, drama film
In 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion ends disastrously. Senior CIA officer Edward Wilson is warned of a possible "mole" in his department. Returning home, he finds a photograph of a man and woman in bed, as well as audio tapes that have been …
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Jack Reacher, a drifter and former Major who commanded the US Army's 110th CID Military Police (MP), helps the current commander, Major Susan Turner, bust a corrupt Oklahoma Sheriff who is running a human trafficking ring on Army land. Ret…
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Komödie, Romance Film, Thriller, Werewolf, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror, ghost film, werewolf film
Two American graduate students from New York City, David Kessler and Jack Goodman, are trekking across the North York Moors. As night falls, they stop at the Slaughtered Lamb, a local pub. Jack notices a five-pointed star on the pub's wall.
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High School Comedy Film, Komödie, comedy film, found footage film, teen film
In Pasadena, high-school students Costa and J.B. plan to throw a party for their friend Thomas Kub's 17th birthday, aiming to increase their popularity. Thomas's parents go away for the weekend, leaving him alone in the house, but warn him…
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Police Film, Political Thriller, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, political thriller film, spy film, techno-thriller, thriller film
Former CIA analyst Jack Ryan now teaches history at the United States Naval Academy. In London with his wife Cathy and their young daughter Sally, Ryan witnesses and intervenes in a terrorist kidnapping attempt on Lord William Holmes, the …
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film, mystery film, thriller film, vigilante film
An older woman, Evelyn Mercer, is murdered at a convenience store in Highland Park, Michigan when a robbery occurs that results in the death of the store clerk and her, the sole witness. The incident brings her four adopted sons back home …
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Drama, Fantasy, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
In the year of the city 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed city beneath a cluster of geodesic domes, a utopia run by a computer. The citizens live a hedonistic lifestyle, but when they turn 30 must enter the "Carrous…
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Action, Police Film, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
After foiling an assassination attempt by an Islamic jihadist on President Reagan, Secret Service agents Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart are assigned as counterfeiting investigators in the Los Angeles field office. Days away from retirement,…
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Action, Marital Tragedy, action film, drama film, psychological thriller film
Slim is a waitress in a Los Angeles diner where she meets wealthy family man Mitch Hiller, who wards off a rude man trying to hit on her for a bet. They eventually marry, have a daughter named Gracie, and live happily in an expensive house…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Gangster Film, Road Movie, Romance Film, action film, biographical film, crime film, drama film
During the Great Depression, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker of Texas meet when Clyde tries to steal Bonnie's mother's car. Bored with her job as a waitress, Bonnie becomes intrigued by Clyde and decides to partner with him in crime. They p…
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Detective Film, Fantasy, Gangster Film, Komödie, action film, comedy film, crime film
In 1938, a young street kid witnesses the massacre of a group of mobsters at the hands of Flattop and Itchy, two hoods on the payroll of Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, who leave a bullet-riddled message for police detective Dick Tracy. After …
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Coming Of Age, Family Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, teen film
In Los Angeles during the mid-1950s, teenager Jim Stark is arrested and taken to the juvenile division of a police station for public intoxication. At the station he crosses paths with John "Plato" Crawford, who was brought in for killing …
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Utopia & Dystopia, arthouse science fiction film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
thumb|The film's title card|left In the dystopian future, sexual intercourse and reproduction are prohibited, and mind-altering drugs are mandatory to enforce compliance among the citizens and to ensure their ability to conduct dangerous a…
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Police Film, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, found footage film, hood film
Los Angeles Police Department officers Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala are close friends and partners in the LAPD's Newton Division, assigned to patrol a high crime area of South Central Los Angeles. Taylor, a United States Marine Corps veter…
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Detective Film, Police Film, Social Drama, Thriller, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, mystery film
In September 1966, wealthy industrialist Phillip Colbert and his wife are in Sparta, Mississippi, to oversee the building of a factory. Late one night, police officer Sam Wood discovers Colbert's corpse in the street. Wood finds Virgil Tib…
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Detective Film, Film Noir, Mysterie, crime film, drama film, film noir, mystery film, treasure hunt film
In San Francisco, private investigators Sam Spade and Miles Archer meet prospective client Ruth Wonderly. She claims to be looking for her missing sister, who ran off from their home in New York and came to the city with a man named Floyd …
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Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
In the fictional city of Bulwark, recent parolee Henry Johns chastises his mother for returning to prostitution and taking drugs, before reuniting with his handicapped younger brother Ethan. Three weeks later, police detectives Brett Ridge…
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