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Dance Film, Family Comedy, Musical, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, family film, fantasy film, live-action/animated film, musical film
In 1910, Winifred Banks returns to her home in Edwardian London after a suffragette rally and learns that her children, Jane and Michael, have run away, "for the fourth time this week"; this has prompted their nanny, Katie Nanna, to quit h…
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Western, Western film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, mystery film, revisionist Western, suspense film, thriller film
In the 1870s, bounty hunter and Union Army veteran cavalryman Major Marquis Warren heads to Red Rock, Wyoming Territory, with three bounty corpses. His horse gives out and, faced with a blizzard, Warren hitches a ride on a stagecoach drive…
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Super Hero, Time Travel, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, crossover fiction, dystopian film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film, time-travel film
In a dystopian 2023, robots called Sentinels hunt and kill mutants, as well as humans who either possess the genetic potential to have mutant offspring or try to protect them. In Moscow, they attack X-Men survivors Kitty Pryde, Colossus, B…
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Action Comedy, action comedy film, thriller film
Years after making his only feature film, struggling director Dan Burton is reduced to shooting pop-up ads. He is unhappily married to Lisa, an aspiring actress. After visiting his father Michael at a nursing home, Dan sets off with Lisa f…
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Action, Modern-Day Fantasy, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, swashbuckler film, thriller film
In 1985 New York, Connor MacLeod encounters an old enemy, Iman Fasil, in the parking garage of Madison Square Garden. After a sword duel, Connor beheads Fasil and absorbs a powerful release of energy from his body, then hides his sword in …
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, horror film, monster film, science fiction action film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, suspense film, thriller film
A Predator ship crash-lands on Earth. U.S. Army Ranger sniper Quinn McKenna and his team are attacked by the Predator while on a hostage retrieval mission.
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Heist, action film, adventure film, comedy film, crime film, heist film, mystery film, thriller film
Eighteen months after escaping the FBI, the fugitive Four Horsemen—J. Daniel Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Jack Wilder, and new member Lula May—await orders from the Eye, the secret society of magicians. Their handler, FBI Special Agent Dylan S…
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Super Hero, action film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
After being transported to Earth-616 by Doctor Strange's spell, Eddie Brock and the Venom symbiote are drunk in a bar in Mexico. As the bartender fills them in about Thanos and the Infinity Stones, they are forced back to their home univer…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, mystery film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, thriller film
A teenage boy awakens in an underground elevator without memory of his identity. A large group of male youths greets him in a large grassy area, called the "Glade", enclosed by massive stone walls. The "Gladers" have formed a rudimentary s…
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Action, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, drama film, dystopian film, science fiction film
In an alternate 1990, a war between humans and robots has left the world in disarray. With the help of Sentre CEO Ethan Skate, who developed Neurocaster technology that allowed humans to upload their minds into drone robots, humanity manag…
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Action, Adventure, Animalhorror, Thriller, action film, adventure film, horror film, thriller film
On the Amazon River, a poacher hides from an unknown creature in his boat. When it breaks through the boat and corners him, he commits suicide with his Colt Police Positive revolver. A film crew is searching for the Shirishamas, a long-los…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, action film, adventure film, dystopian film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Max Rockatansky is captured by hydraulic despot cult leader Immortan Joe's War Boys and taken to his fortress called the Citadel. Max, a universal donor, is forced to transfuse his blood to Nux, a sick War Boy. Meanwhile, Joe sends his lie…
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Adventure, Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, action thriller, spy film
MI6 agents James Bond and Alec Trevelyan infiltrate a clandestine Soviet chemical weapons lab in Arkhangelsk. After witnessing Trevelyan seemingly being executed by the facility's commanding officer, Colonel Arkady Grigorovich Ourumov, Bon…
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Action, Adventure, Coming Of Age, Fairy-Tale Film, High Fantasy, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
The Trade Federation blockades the planet Naboo in secret preparation for a full-scale invasion, disrupting order in the Galactic Republic. The Republic's leader, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum, dispatches Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and hi…
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Action, crime film
Ulysses begins serving as interim sheriff of Normal, Minnesota, where he is chiefly occupied with nuisance reports from the residents of the prosperous small town. He is introduced to the town's egotistical mayor and bonds with Moira, a wo…
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Action Comedy, action film, comedy film, drama film
Working as the stunt double for action star Tom Ryder, Hollywood stunt performer Colt Seavers breaks his back during a stunt gone wrong and abandons his career and his girlfriend, camerawoman Jody Moreno. Eighteen months later, Colt, now a…
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Action, Drama, Film Noir, Gangster Film, Thriller, crime film, drama film, neo-noir, thriller film
A man in Los Angeles (billed as "The Driver") works as a mechanic, stunt double, and criminal-for-hire getaway driver. His jobs are all managed by auto shop owner Shannon, who persuades Jewish-American mobster Bernie Rose and his half-Ital…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film
At Culver University in Virginia, U.S. military general Thaddeus Ross meets with Dr. Bruce Banner, the colleague and boyfriend of his daughter Betty, regarding an experiment that Ross claims is meant to make humans immune to gamma radiatio…
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Super Hero, action film, adventure film, science fiction film, superhero film, thriller film
In 1995, super soldier Alexei Shostakov and Black Widow assassin Melina Vostokoff work as Russian undercover agents, posing as a family in Ohio with Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova as their daughters. They steal S.H.I.E.L.D. intel and e…
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Computeranimation, Parodie, Super Hero, action film, comedy film, family film, superhero film
During the glory days of superheroes, Bob Parr (alias Mr. Incredible) thwarts a civilian's attempted suicide by tackling him through a skyscraper window. Bob discovers supervillain Bomb Voyage robbing the building, but is interrupted by hi…
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Action, action film, thriller film
A team of agents with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) raids a tunnel used to funnel drugs. The team, led by Agents Ray Seale and Andre Washburn, comes under heavy fire, and an agent is killed. Ray's son, Cody, belongs to a friend group o…
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Mafia Film, Political Drama, Western film, action film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, documentary film, drama film, epic film, flashback film, gangster film, historical drama film, historical film, period drama film, thriller film
In the 1930s, three thugs search for a man named "Noodles". Noodles is drugging himself in an opium den with a newspaper next to him featuring the deaths of bootleggers Patrick Goldberg, Philip Stein and Maximilian Bercovicz. He recalls th…
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Caper-Movie, Komödie, action film, adventure film, comedy film, heist film, mystery film
Professional thief Danny Ocean is paroled after four years in a New Jersey prison. He breaks his parole by traveling to Los Angeles and reunites with friend and colleague Rusty Ryan. They travel to Las Vegas to secure financial backing fro…
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Action, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, War Film, dystopian film, military science fiction, science fiction action film, science fiction film
In 2015, an alien race known as "Mimics" lands in Germany and swiftly conquers much of continental Europe, killing millions. By 2020, humanity has formed a global military alliance, the United Defense Force (UDF), to combat the Mimics. How…
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