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Crime Dramas, Vol. IX
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Another playlist dedicated to Crime Dramas (both Film and TV shows) that I like


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Movie: Youth of the Beast ( 1963 )
Joe Shishido plays a tough guy with a secret agenda. His violent behavior comes to the attention of a yakuza boss who immediately recruits him. He soon tries to make a deal with a rival gang a starts a gang war. His real motivations are gradually revealed as we find out how this all ties in with the murder of a policeman shown at the beginning of the film.
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Movie: Young Adam ( 2003 )
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
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Movie: Yakuza tai G-men ( 1973 )
Ise, a Yakuza mid-level drug dealer, is captured during a police sting operation. The Yakusa criminal breaks down under interrogation and agrees to become a police informant.
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Movie: Xtreme ( 2021 )
Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.
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Movie: Wildland ( 2021 )
Ida moves in with her aunt and cousins after the tragic death of her mother in a car accident. The home is filled with love, but outside of the home, the family leads a violent and criminal life.
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Movie: Wild Horses ( 2015 )
A detective opens up a fifteen-year-old missing persons case, and begins to suspect that the missing boy was murdered, and that a local rancher was involved.
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Movie: Wild at Heart ( 1990 )
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
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Movie: White Collar Hooligan 3 ( 2014 )
Mike and Eddie manage to track down the villain responsible for the death of Katie to exact their revenge, but all does not go according to plan in Rio against the backdrop of the World Cup.
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TV Show: We Hunt Together ( 2020 )
We Hunt Together begins with the collision of two extraordinary people; Baba, a former child soldier desperate to suppress his violent conditioning, and Freddy, a magnetic and disarmingly charming free spirit. When Baba rescues Freddy from an attack following a date that has turned sour, something dark is ignited in them both. 

In this bold new take on the classic cat and mouse story, two star-crossed killers are on the loose with two dysfunctional detectives in hot pursuit. DS Lola Franks and DI Jackson Mendy have to come to terms with their mismatched partnership and polar opposite outlooks on the culpability of the criminal mind as they try to outsmart the killers.
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Movie: Vengeance: A Love Story ( 2017 )
A group of strangers come to the aid of a single mother seeking to bring her rapists to justice.
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TV Show: Vendetta: Guerra nell'antimafia ( 2021 )
Sicily boasts a bold "Anti-Mafia" coalition. But what happens when those trying to bring down organized crime are accused of being criminals themselves?
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Movie: True Confessions ( 1981 )
A worldly ambitious monsignor clashes with his older brother, a cynical Los Angeles homicide detective who is investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.
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Movie: Trespass ( 2011 )
Kyle and Sarah Miller have it all: a huge gated house on the water, fancy cars, and the potential for romance in their relationship. He's just back from a business trip (he brokers diamonds) and their teen daughter Avery is sneaking out to a party, when four thugs in security uniforms and ski masks stage a home invasion. They want what's in the safe: cash and diamonds. Kyle stalls them, trying to negotiate for Sarah's freedom. Over the next few hours, the back stories of the four robbers (two brothers, a girlfriend, and the representative of a local drug kingpin) as well as the fault lines in Kyle and Sarah's marriage come into play. Is there room here for heroism?
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Movie: Trap for Cinderella ( 2013 )
A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
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TV Show: Touching Evil ( 1997 )
Touching Evil follows the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC). Maverick Detective Inspector Dave Creegan is the newest member of the unit, an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society. Along with his stalwart partner DI Susan Taylor, Creegan squares off against some of England's most dangerous criminals – a serial murderer of children, a killer intent on murdering hospital patients, and a cyber-criminal who lures young Web-surfers with a gothic fantasy game and manipulates them into committing violent crimes.
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Movie: Thursday ( 1998 )
The movie opens in a Los Angeles convenience store one late Monday night, where a smalltime drug dealer named Nick (Aaron Eckhart) is trying to decide what coffee brand to buy. His ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) and fellow hitman Billy Hill (James LeGros) are getting impatient and tell him to hurry up. Conflicts between Nick and the cashier (Luck Hari) ensue, resulting in Dallas shooting the cashier dead. Though the three attempt to cover up the crime, they are forced to also shoot a police officer (Bari K. Willerford) when he discovers blood on the ground.
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Movie: The Yellow Sea ( 2010 )
The attempt to carry out a hit on a professor goes terribly awry, triggering a series of violent events which force a taxi driver to run for his life.
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Movie: The Virgin of Juarez ( 2006 )
While on assignment, Los Angeles based reporter Karina Danes meets Mariela, a rare survivor of one of the vicious attacks taking place in the border town of Cuidad Juarez.
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Movie: The Unforgivable ( 2021 )
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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TV Show: The Tower ( 2021 )
The Tower 2 opens with Lizzie returning to Farlow station. Her boss and former lover, DI Kieran Shaw, partners her with Arif Johar. Their first call is to a domestic violence complaint against Mark Brannon, who is accused of beating up his girlfriend, Georgina Teel and terrorising their young daughter Skye. The antagonistic relationship between the experienced Sarah Collins and the novice cop Lizzie Adama is at the heart of The Tower 2, as they are forced to work together for the first time and begin to get a sense of each other's unique strengths.  
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Movie: The Seven-Ups ( 1973 )
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
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Movie: The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan ( 2012 )
When unemployed soccer hooligan Mike Jacobs encounters an old friend during a bloody pregame brawl, he finds the answer to his problems - credit card fraud. But before long, the fast paced world of easy money and beautiful women descends into a violent struggle for survival.
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Movie: The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan 2 ( 2013 )
Mike Jacobs thinks he's safe in Witness Protection in Spain. However, when he's spotted at an England game, a deadly game of cat and mouse between London, Marbella and New York ensues.
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Movie: The Return of Eliot Ness ( 1991 )
In 1947 when a cop whom Eliot Ness worked with when he was in Chicago is killed, he goes back to Chicago for the funeral. When he arrives, there's a lot of talk that his friend was dirty which Ness doesn't believe. He learns the man's own son also a cop thinks it's true. Ness was about to leave when he decides to stay and try and prove his friend is not dirty. He starts by teaming up with the man's son and investigating the case his friend was working on when he was killed, which involves one of Capone's associates.
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Movie: The Quarry ( 2020 )
A drifter (Shea Whigham) kills a traveling preacher and takes his place at a small-town church, but the police chief (Michael Shannon) suspects foul play.
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Movie: The Oxford Murders ( 2008 )
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.
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TV Show: The Name of the Rose ( 2019 )
Set in Italy in 1327, The Name of the Rose follows the Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his novice Adso von Melk as they arrive at a secluded monastery in the Alps. There they become witnesses to a series of mysterious murders. While Baskerville and Melk investigate and search for the killer, they are hunted themselves by the merciless inquisitor Bernard Gui, who prosecutes those who criticize the pope.
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Movie: The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1956 )
A strung-out junkie deals with a demoralizing drug addiction while his crippled wife and card sharks pull him down.
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Movie: The Man from London ( 2007 )
After witnessing a crime during his night shift as railway switchman near the docks, a man finds a briefcase full of money. While he and his family step up their living standards, others start looking for the disappeared case.
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Movie: The Last Tattoo ( 1995 )
During WW2 small nation of New Zealand is swarmed with U.S. servicemen who mingle with local female population. In such circumstances nurse Kelly Towne has got a difficult task of tracking down venereal diseases. She meets U.S. Marine Captain Michael Starwood who is investigating the murder of one U.S. servicemen.
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Movie: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun ( 2015 )
A woman must find out about a crime she is implicated, to prove her innocence.
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TV Show: The Inside ( 2005 )
When one of the profilers in the FBI's L.A.-based Violent Crimes Unit (VCU) is brutally murdered by a serial killer they've been tracking, rookie FBI Agent Rebecca Locke is recruited to join the team and help find the madman despite her lack of field experience. Unbeknownst to Rebecca, famed Supervisory Special Agent VIRGIL "WEB" WEBSTER has personally selected her to join his rogue division - not for her impressive profiling skills, but because of a secret she's keeping. Web knows that Rebecca was abducted and held captive as a child, and the traumatic experience has afforded her unique insight into the mindset of villain and victim alike.
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Movie: The General ( 1998 )
The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
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Movie: The Gangster's Daughter ( 2017 )
When her mom dies unexpectedly, a rebellious teen is reunited with her dad, a small-time Taipei gangster, causing him to question his life of crime -- until a corrupt cop turns their world upside down.
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Movie: The Frozen Ground ( 2013 )
An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
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TV Show: The Following ( 2013 )
The FBI estimates there are currently over 300 active serial killers in the United States. What would happen if these killers had a way of communicating and connecting with each other? What if they were able to work together and form alliances across the country? What if one brilliant psychotic serial killer was able to bring them all together and activate a following? Welcome to The Following, a terrifying new thriller.
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TV Show: The Equalizer ( 1985 )
The Equalizer follows a retired espionage/intelligence officer with a mysterious past, who uses the skills from his former career to exact vigilante justice on behalf of innocent people who are hopelessly trapped in dangerous circumstances.
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Movie: The Deal ( 2005 )
A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
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Movie: The Captive ( 2014 )
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
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Movie: The Brighton Mob ( 2015 )
Ryan is a well-intentioned, but troubled young police officer, just out of training. Senior officer, DCI Guy Sabo, singles Ryan out as a perfect candidate for undercover police work and sets about training him in the art of deception, how to immerse himself in the criminal underworld, and how to become someone else entirely. Ryan transforms into Max, a young criminal with a force-ten temper and soon finds himself crossing the line in order to infiltrate a notorious gang of bank robbers, headed by the enigmatic and elusive master-thief known only as 'the Monopoly Man'. Ryan, as Max, struggles with his own identity and just as he comes to realise his own trappings and tries to restore his former life, he is drawn closer to the gang. He crosses the point of no return when he takes part in their biggest heist yet. The whole gang are caught and locked in a cell together. Max must survive the next hour trapped in the cell with the rest of the gang, whom are now all certain that someone amongst them is a 'snitch'.
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Movie: The Big Operator ( 1960 )
Bill Gibson is Little Joe's nemesis and is one of the men who can testify that he saw the labor boss in an incriminating conversation with a known criminal - something that Little Joe denied under oath. Knowing that Cochran and one other witness can bring him down, the crooked labor boss starts on a campaign of terror.
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Movie: The Alphabet Killer ( 2009 )
Based on the true story of the double initial killings in Rochester, NY.
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Movie: The Accused ( 2018 )
A young student is the only one accused of the brutal murder of her best friend, a case that is excessively reported by the media. Cornered by the evidence, she must face her own doubts about what really happened.
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Movie: Term Life ( 2016 )
A guy wanted around town by various hitmen hopes to stay alive long enough for his life insurance policy to kick in and pay out for his estranged daughter.
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Movie: Tell ( 2014 )
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worse when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his wife, his parole officer, and two corrupt detectives from stealing it from him.
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Movie: Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman ( 2021 )
A specter roams the highways of a gritty 1970s America, his name is Ted Bundy. Hunting him are intrepid FBI agents Kathleen McChesney and Robert Ressler, organizers of the largest manhunt in history to apprehend America's most infamous serial killer.
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Movie: Takers ( 2010 )
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse (Chris Brown) Attica successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life of luxury while planning their next job. When Ghost (Tip T.I. Harris), a former member of their team, is released from prison he convinces the group to strike an armored car carrying $20 million. As the "takers" carefully plot their strategy and draw nearer to exacting the grand heist, a reckless police officer (Matt Dillon) inches closer to apprehending the criminals.
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TV Show: Taken Down ( 2018 )
In this Irish crime drama set in Dublin, Esme, a young Nigerian girl is found dead at a bus stop opening an investigation into her death. This leads Inspector Jen Rooney and her team of detectives to a nearby centre where asylum-seekers are housed and processed. The shaken residents there are reluctant to talk to anyone. Many are terrified of deportation; many are just frightened of the policeWe follow the team of detectives as they discover the world where refugees exist, and we see the unfolding impact their investigation has on fragile lives.
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Movie: Sunset ( 1988 )
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
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Movie: Stick ( 1985 )
Released from prison, Stick meets up with a friend and joins him on a job delivering a bag. His friend gets killed in the setup. Stick gets away and is ready to forget all and see his daughter, but they won't forget.
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Movie: Somewhere ( 2010 )
After withdrawing to the Chateau Marmont, a passionless Hollywood actor reexamines his life when his eleven-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
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Movie: Snakehead ( 2021 )
A Chinese immigrant get caught up in an international crime ring of human smuggling while attempting to make a better life for her family.
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Movie: Small Crimes ( 2017 )
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder - returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.
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Movie: Silent Witness ( 2013 )
In a murder case, where a young rich girl is accused of killing her father's girlfriend, erything seems clear since the beginning. The evidences against her are crushing. But nothing seems to be as it looks, and the plot is constantly overturning when new evidences, witnesses and small details are revealed.
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TV Show: Silent Witness ( 1996 )
Expert forensic pathologists speak on behalf of the voiceless in this compelling crime drama.
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Movie: Silent Witness ( 2011 )
In Silent Witness, Dermot Mulroney (Zodiak, Copycat) plays prominent defense attorney Tony Lord, who returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, played by Michael Cudlitz (TNT's Southland). The friend is a teacher accused of murdering one of his students, and the case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused o...Read all
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Movie: Shade ( 2004 )
A group of hustlers encounter "The Dean" and pull off a successful sting that results in their pursuit by a vengeful gangster.
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Movie: Security ( 2017 )
A security guard protects an eleven year-old girl who is being targeted by a gang for participating as a trial witness.
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Movie: Schutzengel ( 2012 )
A troubled veteran from the war in Afghanistan works to protect an orphaned teenager who witnessed a murder from the killer's henchmen.
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TV Show: Schatten der Mörder - Shadowplay ( 2020 )
Max McLaughlin is an American cop who arrives in Berlin in the summer of 1946 to help create a police force in the chaotic aftermath of the war. Max's goal is to take down "Engelmacher" Gladow, the Capone of post-war Berlin. At the same time, Max undertakes a secret crusade to find his missing brother, who is killing ex-Nazis in hiding. Unbeknownst to Max, he is being used as a pawn in what is the actual beginning of the Cold War.
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Movie: Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins ( 2021 )
Soldier tony tucker returns from the falklands war, a bitter and angry man he soon makes a name for himself in the Essex underworld with his security business and drug dealing, after entering a partnership with gangster Bernard o Mahoney, his life spirals out of control in a cycle of drugs and violence, things get even worse when he meets notorious hard man pat tate and local drug dealer graig Rolfe, culminating in the rettendon Range Rover murders of 1995
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Movie: Revenge ( 1990 )
A retired US Navy pilot comes to Mexico, where he falls in love with the wife of a powerful businessman. The consequences will be cruel and unforeseen.
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Movie: Red Rock West ( 1993 )
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter is mistaken for a hitman, but when the real hitman arrives, complications ensue.
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Movie: Rampart ( 2012 )
Set in 1999 Los Angeles, veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, works to take care of his family, and struggles for his own survival.
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Movie: Rage ( 2014 )
When the daughter of a reformed criminal is kidnapped, he rounds up his old crew and seeks his own brand of justice.
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Movie: Pyromaniac ( 2016 )
A ruthless pyromaniac is on the loose in a southern village of Norway. They don't know he's not a stranger, but one of them. We follow him, the fire brigade chief's own son, spreading fear in secret.
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Movie: Project Gutenberg ( 2018 )
The Hong Kong police are hunting a counterfeiting gang led by a mastermind code-named "Painter". In order to crack the true identity of him, the police recruits gang member Lee Man to unmask "Painter's" secret identity.
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Movie: Priceless ( 2016 )
A widower who loses custody of his daughter finds himself unable to hold down a job. He agrees to drive a truck across the country, no questions asked. But when he discovers what he is delivering, he is faced with a life-changing choice.
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Movie: Papillon ( 1973 )
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
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Movie: Out of Blue ( 2019 )
When Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell, she is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend.
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Movie: On the Arm ( 2020 )
Louis Sareno, a young man born into the Mob, searches for a way out of the only life he's ever known.
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Movie: Onimasa ( 1985 )
A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa, his adopted daughter Matsue, and his biological daughter Hanako.
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Movie: Okinawa Yakuza sensô ( 2017 )
Set in Okinawa 1971, one year before the return of power to the mainland, this film highlights the bloody battle of Okinawa Yakuza gangsters versus mainland system.
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Movie: Odd Man Out ( 1947 )
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
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Movie: November Criminals ( 2017 )
After his friend is murdered, a Washington, D.C. teenager undertakes his own investigation of the crime.
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Movie: No Man of God ( 2021 )
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.
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Movie: Nine Queens ( 2000 )
Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
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Movie: Nightfall ( 2012 )
An old but serious miscarriage of justice clouds a current police investigation looking into the death of a mutilated corpse.
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Movie: New World ( 2013 )
An undercover cop finds it difficult to play both a cop and a goon.
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Movie: Nerve ( 2016 )
A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers."
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Movie: Ned Kelly ( 1970 )
Based on a true story, Ned Kelly is unable to support his family in the Australian outback, he turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.
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Movie: Nash Bridges ( 2021 )
After a year as civilian, old Nash is back in SFPD's SIU to investigate a series of "unrelated" murders.
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Movie: Narrow Margin ( 1990 )
A Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney is sent to protect a woman who accidentally witnessed a Mafia murder.
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TV Show: My Name ( 2021 )
Following her father's murder, a revenge-driven woman puts her trust in a powerful crime boss -- and enters the police force under his direction.
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Movie: Music Box ( 1990 )
A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects.
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Movie: Murder on the Orient Express ( 2017 )
When a murder occurs on the train on which he's travelling, celebrated detective Hercule Poirot is recruited to solve the case.
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Movie: Murder at 1600 ( 1997 )
A young woman is murdered in the White House. Homicide detective Regis/W.Snipes investigates while Secret Service works against him. He's assigned agent Chance/D.Lane. She eventually cooperates after a man's framed.
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Movie: Mumbai Saga ( 2021 )
The plot of the movie is set in the era of the 80s and 90s which were marked as a transformed period of Mumbai.
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Movie: Moonlight Express ( 1999 )
A Japanese woman named Hitomi who lost her fiancé in a car crash meets a Chinese man named Karbo who looks exactly like him who himself is on the run from the police after being framed.
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Movie: Miami Hustle ( 1996 )
Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?
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Movie: Man on a Ledge ( 2012 )
As a police psychologist works to talk down an ex-con who is threatening to jump from a Manhattan hotel rooftop, the biggest diamond heist ever committed is in motion.
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Movie: Made in Britain ( 1982 )
Trevor is a 16 year old, sometimes-violent skinhead with no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. His social worker, Harry Parker, tries to do his best, but Trevor is only interested when there's something that he can get out of it. The authorities within the centre try to make Trevor conform to the norms of society, but he takes no notice, and would rather speak in a torrent of four-letter words and racial abuse.
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Movie: Macon County Jail ( 1997 )
Our heroine isn't having a good time. Having lost her L.A. job and walked out on her unfaithful boyfriend, she finds herself stuck in nowhere Macon County when her car and possessions are stolen by the girl hitch-hiker she picks up on her way to New York. Though innocent, she is thrown in jail for holding up a local store, then kills the sheriff's son when he rapes her. Now she's on the run with a convicted felon, but she still can't quite see that this really isn't her lucky week.
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Movie: London Fields ( 2018 )
Clairvoyant femme fatale Nicola Six has been living with a dark premonition of her impending death by murder. She begins a tangled love affair with three uniquely different men: one of whom she knows will be her murderer.
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Movie: Lipstick ( 1976 )
A top fashion model seeks justice after she is brutally raped by her teenage sister's music teacher.
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Movie: Life of Crime 1984-2020 ( 2021 )
A relentless ride through the streets and prisons of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and desperate fight to survive the deadliest enemy ever to attack America.
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Movie: Laws of Gravity ( 1993 )
The lives of two incompetent young men from Brooklyn spin out of control after a friend returns from Florida with guns to sell.
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Movie: Law of the Land ( 2017 )
In this arctic western on the Finnish-Norwegian border, an illegitimate son of a retiring police officer is released from prison and is terrorizing the area. It soon spirals out of control and turns violent, forcing him to face his past.
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Movie: Laugh Killer Laugh ( 2015 )
A Jewel thief named Frank Stone is a very deeply disturbed, anti social, milquetoast who finds no joy or humor in anything - until he awakens from a deep coma.