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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
15 films tagged cat and mouse
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2008 · Action
Batman, a new district attorney and a straight-arrow cop try to break organised crime in Gotham, and a criminal with no name and no plan starts pulling the city apart. Much of it is about what each of them will agree to do.
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1995 · Crime
A career thief planning one last big score and the detective chasing him circle each other across Los Angeles. It gives both men full lives outside the job, and the two sit down together only once.
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2002 · Crime
A teenager passes himself off as an airline pilot, a doctor and a lawyer while cashing millions in forged cheques, with one FBI agent slowly closing in. Light and quick, and always moving to another city.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2004 · Thriller
A Los Angeles cab driver picks up a smooth passenger who offers good money for a night of stops around the city, and the first stop goes badly. It is one night, mostly the two of them in the car.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2016 · Horror
Three young burglars pick a house on an emptied-out Detroit street belonging to a blind veteran who is supposed to keep cash at home. Almost all of it is one dark house and very little talking.
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2016 · Crime
Two brothers rob small branches of one particular Texas bank, with a Ranger weeks from retirement working out where they will hit next. Wide empty roads, dry jokes, and a lot of waiting.
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2024 · Horror
Two young missionaries knock on the door of a polite man who says he is interested in their church, and he keeps them talking. Almost all of it is three people in one house, arguing about belief.
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2016 · Horror
A deaf writer living alone in the woods sees a masked man at her window, and he works out that she cannot hear him. Almost no dialogue, one house, eighty minutes.
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2002 · Crime
A policeman has spent ten years undercover in a Hong Kong triad while one of the triad's men has spent the same ten years rising inside the police. Both sides find out there is a mole, and it moves fast.
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2003 · Adventure
During the Napoleonic wars a British captain is ordered to chase a faster French warship around the tip of South America, with the ship's doctor as his closest friend. Life aboard one ship, in detail.
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2003 · Thriller
A man is locked in one room for fifteen years without being told why, then let out with a few days to find whoever did it. Violent and strange, and it moves like something is chasing it.
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2014 · Science fiction
A time-travelling agent working his last case sits down in a 1970s bar and listens to a stranger tell the story of their life. Small, talky, and it asks you to keep track.
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2006 · Crime
A young cop goes undercover inside a Boston crime boss's crew while one of the boss's own men rises through the state police, and each side works out there is a rat. It is long, loud and full of swearing.
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2020 · Horror
A woman escapes a controlling partner and starts over at a friend's house, then begins to feel that someone else is in the room with her. Long held shots of empty corners, tense most of the way.
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2010 · Crime
A Boston bank robber starts seeing the woman his crew took hostage on their last job, while the FBI closes in. Straight ahead, with big robberies at either end and a part of town nobody leaves.
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