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Risky Business (1983)
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Left alone in the wealthy northern Chicago suburbs with the family house and Porsche at his disposal, Joel, through his scheming friends, finds himself ent... more |
Paul Brickman |
Paul Brickman |
Tom Cruise, Joe Pantoliano, Rebecca De Mornay, Curtis Armstrong, Janet Carroll, Raphael Sbarge, Bronson Pinchot |
Comedy, Crime |
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Pulp Fiction (1994)
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Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are two hitmen on the hunt for a briefcase whose contents were stolen from their boss, Marsellus Wallace. They run into a ... more |
Quentin Tarantino |
Roger Avary |
Bruce Willis, Steve Buscemi, Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Peter Greene, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Amanda Plummer, Phil LaMarr, Maria de Medeiros |
Crime, Drama |
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How to Steal a Million (1966)
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Charles Bonnet, the latest in a long line of master art forgers, loans one of his best works, a faux Cellini Venus, to a Paris museum despite his daughter ... more |
William Wyler |
George Bradshaw, Harry Kurnitz |
Audrey Hepburn, Peter O'Toole, Eli Wallach, Hugh Griffith |
Crime, Romance, Comedy, Drama |
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American Gigolo (1980)
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Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, wit... more |
Paul Schrader |
Paul Schrader |
Richard Gere, Bill Duke, Hector Elizondo, Brian Davies, Nina Van Pallandt, Lauren Hutton |
Drama, Crime, Romance, Thriller |
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Twin Peaks [TV Series] (1990)
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An idiosyncratic FBI Agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. The body of a young girl, Laura Palm... more |
Mark Frost |
David Lynch |
Lara Flynn Boyle, Kyle MacLachlan, Mädchen Amick, Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Sherilyn Fenn, James Vance Marshall, Michael Ontkean, Joan Chen, Richard Beymer, Everett McGill, Dana Ashbrook |
Crime, Drama, Mystery |
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Payback (1999)
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Porter is bad, but his neighbors are worse. Street-wise and tough, an ex-marine, he is betrayed by a one-time partner, and shot in the back by his junkie w... more |
Brian Helgeland |
Donald E. Westlake, Terry Hayes |
Mel Gibson, Maria Bello, Lucy Liu, Kris Kristofferson, Bill Duke, David Paymer, Deborah Kara Unger, Gregg Henry, John Glover, William Devane |
Action, Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller |
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24 [TV series] (2001)
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Jack Bauer is a counterterrorism agent for whom each day is more absurd and terrifying than the last one. In the first season/day, he had to deal with assa... more |
Joel Surnow |
Robert Cochran |
Kiefer Sutherland, Elisha Cuthbert, Mary Lynn Rajskub |
Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
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Suicide Kings (1997)
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Five men born with silver spoons in their mouths and ivy league educations kidnap a former mobster with connections to help rescue a friend's sister. Thing... more |
Peter O'Fallon |
Josh McKinney, Gina Goldman |
Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Sean Patrick Flanery, Nina Siemaszko, Brad Garrett, Frank Medrano |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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Man on Fire (2004)
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In Mexico City, the former CIA assassin and presently an alcoholic decadent man John Creasy is hired by the industrialist Samuel Ramos, with the recommenda... more |
Tony Scott |
Brian Helgeland, A. J. Quinnell |
Mickey Rourke, Dakota Fanning, Denzel Washington, Rachel Ticotin, Giancarlo Giannini, Marc Anthony |
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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Ocean's Twelve (2004)
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Three years after pulling an impossible heist of a three-casino vault Daniel Ocean's Eleven plus wife Tess have been found and fingered by Terry Benedict. ... more |
Steven Soderbergh |
George Nolfi, George Clayton Johnson |
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Casey Affleck, Bernie Mac, Julia Roberts, Scott Caan, Andy Garcia, Mini Anden |
Comedy, Crime, Adventure |
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Taken (2008)
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Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Secret Service to be near Kim in California. K... more |
Pierre Morel |
Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen |
Liam Neeson, Xander Berkeley, Famke Janssen, Maggie Grace, David Warshofsky, Katie Cassidy, Leland Orser, Radivoje Bukvic, Arben Bajraktaraj |
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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The Dark Knight (2008)
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Batman raises the stakes in his bourgeois war on crime. With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to disman... more |
Christopher Nolan |
Jonathan Nolan |
Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Eric Roberts, Aaron Eckhart, Christian Bale, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Anthony Michael Hall |
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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Mr. Brooks (2007)
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Earl Brooks is a highly respected businessman and was recently named Portland's Man of the Year. He hides a terrible secret however: he is a serial killer ... more |
Bruce A. Evans |
Raynold Gideon |
Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, William Hurt, Dane Cook, Marg Helgenberger, Danielle Panabaker |
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
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Wild Things (1998)
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In south Florida, a high school counselor is accused of rape by a manipulative rich girl and her trailer trash classmate. The cop on the case begins to sus... more |
John McNaughton |
Stephen Peters |
Kevin Bacon, Matt Dillon, Neve Campbell, Denise Richards, Theresa Russell |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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Wall Street (1987)
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Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his sp... more |
Oliver Stone |
Stanley Weiser |
Daryl Hannah, Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, John C. McGinley, Martin Sheen, Hal Holbrook, Alexandra Neil, Tamara Tunie, Chuck Pfeiffer |
Crime, Drama |
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The Mask (1994)
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Stanley Ipkiss is a young shy man who works in a bank. One day, he discovers a mask by the sea, which (according to an archaeologist) pictures the Norse go... more |
Chuck Russell |
Michael Fallon, Mark Verheiden |
Cameron Diaz, Jim Carrey, Peter Greene, Peter Riegert, Johnny Williams, Amy Yasbeck, Denis Forest |
Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy |
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Taxi Driver (1976)
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Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a cabbie at night... more |
Martin Scorsese |
Paul Schrader |
Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks |
Crime, Drama, Thriller |
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Scorched (2003)
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Three mischievous employees of a bank in a small deserted town all make plans to rob at the same time, however none of them knows about the others. Meanwhi... more |
Gavin Grazer |
Joe Wein |
Woody Harrelson, John Cleese, Alicia Silverstone, Jeffrey Tambor, David Krumholtz, Rachael Leigh Cook, Nichole Hiltz, Joshua Leonard, Ivan Sergei, Paulo Costanzo |
Comedy, Crime |
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Nikita aka La Femme Nikita (1990)
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Nikita is a young lady who with two Nihilist friends commit robbery and murder while on drugs. After her trial she is not executed or taken to prison, but ... more |
Luc Besson |
Luc Besson |
Jean Reno, Anne Parillaud, Tcheky Karyo |
Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama, Romance |
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
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While returning to England from Istanbul, famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot finds himself traveling on the Orient Express. One of the passengers, Mr. ... more |
Sidney Lumet |
Paul Dehn |
Sean Connery, Jacqueline Bisset, Lauren Bacall, Albert Finney, Ingrid Bergman |
Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller |
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