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Shooter(2007)

R
| 2h 4min | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 2,154 votes)

A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua - With Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Ned Beatty, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, ...
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The Last Boy Scout(1991)

R
| 1h 45min | Action, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 817 votes)

When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.

Directed by Tony Scott - With Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron, Danielle Harris, ...
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Above the Law(1988)

R
| 1h 39min | Action, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 293 votes)

Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.

Directed by Andrew Davis - With Sharon Stone, Steven Seagal, Pam Grier, Henry Silva, Ron Dean, Michael Rooker, ...
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Black Mass(2015)

R
| 2h 3min | Drama, Crime, History
3.3/5 (with 1,569 votes)

The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

Directed by Scott Cooper - With Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Jesse Plemons, Kevin Bacon, ...
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The Adjustment Bureau(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 46min | Science Fiction, Thriller, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 2,013 votes)

A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.

Directed by George Nolfi - With Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Terence Stamp, Michael Kelly, ...
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Giant(1956)

NR
| 3h 21min | Drama, Western
3.8/5 (with 286 votes)

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

Directed by George Stevens - With Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Mercedes McCambridge, ...
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The Manchurian Candidate(2004)

R
| 2h 9min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 664 votes)

Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

Directed by Jonathan Demme - With Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Kimberly Elise, Vera Farmiga, ...
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The Birdcage(1996)

R
| 1h 57min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 479 votes)

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's conservative moralistic parents.

Directed by Mike Nichols - With Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart, ...
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The Front Runner(2018)

R
| 1h 53min | Drama, History
3.0/5 (with 153 votes)

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.

Directed by Jason Reitman - With Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J. K. Simmons, Alfred Molina, Sara Paxton, Mamoudou Athie, ...
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Miss Sloane(2016)

R
| 2h 12min | Thriller, Drama
3.7/5 (with 777 votes)

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Directed by John Madden - With Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Christine Baranski, Jake Lacy, Alison Pill, ...
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Edge of Darkness(2010)

R
| 1h 57min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 668 votes)

As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.

Directed by Martin Campbell - With Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston, Bojana Novakovic, Jay O. Sanders, Denis O'Hare, ...
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Death Rides a Horse(1967)

R
| 1h 54min | Western
3.5/5 (with 79 votes)

Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.

Directed by Giulio Petroni - With Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law, Mario Brega, Luigi Pistilli, Anthony Dawson, José Torres, ...
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The Parallax View(1974)

R
| 1h 42min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 119 votes)

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Jim Davis, Earl Hindman, ...
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Bobby(2006)

R
| 2h | Drama
3.2/5 (with 161 votes)

In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Directed by Emilio Estevez - With Harry Belafonte, Nick Cannon, Emilio Estevez, Laurence Fishburne, Heather Graham, Anthony Hopkins, ...

Cat Run(2011)

R
| 1h 42min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 62 votes)

When a sexy, high-end escort holds the key evidence to a scandalous government cover-up, two bumbling young detectives become her unlikely protectors from a ruthless assassin hired to silence her.

Directed by John Stockwell - With Paz Vega, Janet McTeer, Alphonso McAuley, Scott Mechlowicz, Christopher McDonald, Karel Roden, ...
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Chappaquiddick(2018)

PG-13
| 1h 47min | History, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 119 votes)

Ted Kennedy's life and political career become derailed in the aftermath of a fatal car accident in 1969 that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.

Directed by John Curran - With Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Jim Gaffigan, Clancy Brown, Olivia Thirlby, ...
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The Walker(2007)

R
| 1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 37 votes)

An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.

Directed by Paul Schrader - With Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin, Willem Dafoe, ...

Live Wire(1992)

1h 25min | Action
2.7/5 (with 34 votes)

Danny O'Neill is a bomb disposal expert assigned to a case where terrorists have developed an "invisible" liquid explosive which is activated within the human body.

Directed by Christian Duguay - With Pierce Brosnan, Ron Silver, Ben Cross, Lisa Eilbacher, Al Waxman, Norman Burton, ...
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Advise & Consent(1962)

2h 19min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 41 votes)

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffingwell appears before a Senate committee, chaired by the idealistic Senator Brig Anderson, which must decide whether he is the right person for the job.

Directed by Otto Preminger - With Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, ...

Affairs of State(2018)

R
| 1h 37min | Drama, Thriller, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 12 votes)

A young campaign aide gets in way over his head when he sleeps with the wife of a presidential candidate, sending him into a downward spiral of corruption and blackmail. He is left fighting not only for his career, but also his life.

Directed by Eric Bross
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Ferocious Planet(2011)

NR
| 1h 29min | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
2.3/5 (with 20 votes)

A groundbreaking device is designed to glimpse alternate universes. But when the machine malfunctions and transports a group of observers into a nightmarish dimension of alien terrors, the travelers must use ingenuity to survive.

Directed by Billy O'Brien - With Joe Flanigan, John Rhys-Davies, Catherine Walker, Chris Newman

No Contest(1995)

R
| 1h 38min | Drama, Action, Crime
2.5/5 (with 7 votes)

A beauty contest turns into a hostage situation, when the Miss Galaxy competition is taken over by a gang, demanding a ransom of diamonds. Sharon, a kick-boxing actress, is the host of the show, and the thorn in the terrorists side.

Directed by Paul Lynch - With Shannon Tweed, Robert Davi, Roddy Piper
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The Seduction of Joe Tynan(1979)

R
| 1h 48min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 12 votes)

Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family life. But it could be a big boost to his career, so he takes it on. Helping him prepare the case is pretty southern researcher Karen Traynor, and their developing relationship further complicates and compromises his life.

Directed by Jerry Schatzberg - With Barbara Harris, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Melvyn Douglas, Alan Alda, Adam Ross, ...

Killer Image(1992)

1h 34min | Thriller
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

When Max Oliver learns his photographer brother has been killed, he suspects it was no random murder. And when he finds his brothers' last photos of a powerful senator and a prostitute, Max gets a clear picture of a deadly political cover-up. Seeking to expose his brother's killer, Max enters a murderous game of cat and mouse, stalked by a cold-blooded assassin who has Max dead in his sights.

Directed by David Winning - With Michael Ironside, John Pyper-Ferguson, M. Emmet Walsh, Krista Errickson

Harlequin(1980)

PG
| 1h 35min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

In this modern-day version of the Rasputin story, David Hemmings plays an up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, whose young son is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.

Directed by Simon Wincer - With Robert Powell, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan, Broderick Crawford, Gus Mercurio

Lone Star(1952)

PG
| 1h 34min | Western, Action, Adventure, History
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam Houston from establishing Texas as a republic. Burke must fight state senator Thomas Craden, in the process winning the heart of Craden's newspaper-editor girlfriend Martha Ronda.

Directed by Vincent Sherman - With Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Broderick Crawford, Ed Begley, Lionel Barrymore, Beulah Bondi, ...
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Love Letters(1999)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love, TV Movie
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An ambitious U.S. Senator reflects back on his life after the death of a woman whom he loved and kept in contact with only through correspondence.

Directed by Stanley Donen - With Steven Weber, Laura Linney, Emily Hampshire, Aaron Ashmore, Kirsten Storms

The Eroticist(1972)

1h 49min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 9 votes)

Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.

Directed by Lucio Fulci - With Lando Buzzanca, Lionel Stander, Laura Antonelli, Renzo Palmer, Corrado Gaipa, Agostina Belli, ...

Home Town Story(1951)

NR
| 1h 1min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
2.3/5 (with 6 votes)

Blake Washburn blames manufacturer MacFarland for his defeat in the race for re-election to the state legislature. He takes over his uncle's newspaper to take on big business as an enemy of the people. Miss Martin works in the "Herald" newspaper office. When tragedy strikes, Blake must re-examine his views.

Directed by Arthur Pierson - With Jeffrey Lynn, Marilyn Monroe, Alan Hale, Jr., Misstress Barbara, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds, ...
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A Wish for Giants(2018)

NR
| 1h 19min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Science Fiction
4.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Sophie, a young volunteer, meets her kindred spirit in Roxie, a girl with a life threatening medical condition and a unique wish to meet Bigfoot.

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