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Animalhorror, adventure film, disaster film, horror film, science fiction film
In south Texas, an unknown force invades and neutralizes a top-security United States Air Force ICBM command bunker. An Air Force unit, led by Major Baker, investigates and finds an unauthorized scientist at the secured base, Dr. Bradford …
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Action, Adventure, adventure film, fantasy film, science fiction film
In 1880 Edinburgh, Professor Sir Oliver Lindenbrook, a geologist at the University of Edinburgh, is given a piece of volcanic rock by his admiring student, Alec McEwan, who is in love with Lindenbrook's niece Jenny. Finding the rock unusua…
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Action, action film, crime film, drama film
Thirty-five-year-old Jewish-American convict and junkie, Butch "Bullet" Stein, is released from prison on parole after serving an 8-year sentence for being an accomplice to a robbery, perpetrated by his friend, Irish-American gangster Padd…
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Western, Western film, action film
thumb|alt=Black and white promotional image of Tommy Rettig and Robert Mitchum in the 1954 film River of No Return|left|Robert Mitchum with Tommy Rettig in a scene from the film Set in the Northwestern United States in 1875, the film focus…
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Action, Adventure, Martial-Arts, action film, martial arts film
Late at night, in an empty bar in the present day (the mid-1990s), an old man enters and awaits service. Not long after, a group of thugs arrives and attempts to rob the till. The old man defeats them easily, one by one, with hand-to-hand …
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Action, War Film, action film, war film
Lieutenant Jake "Cool Hand" Grafton and his bombardier/navigator Lieutenant Morgan "Morg" McPherson are flying a Grumman A-6 Intruder during the Vietnam War over the Gulf of Tonkin. They hit their target in North Vietnam, a 'suspected truc…
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Komödie, Western, Western film, biographical film, comedy film
Outlaw Roy Bean rides into the West Texas border town of Vinegaroon by himself. The customers in the saloon beat him, rob him, toss a noose around him, and let his horse drag him off, though he manages to survive. A young woman from a loca…
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Action, Family Comedy, children's film, comedy drama, fantasy film, teen film
Wendy Wu is a rich and popular Chinese-American teenager whose life is turned upside down by a visit from Shen, a cousin young Buddhist monk. He claims that Wendy is the reincarnation of a mighty female warrior and the only one who can pre…
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Action, action film
When bounty hunter Ian Swan is shot and presumed dead after disappearing in Maui waters, Swan's son Ryan, his ex-partner, and a local detective set out to find his killers. After being threatened by a ruthless power broker, it appears Ryan…
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Vampirfilm, Western film, action comedy film, action film, comedy horror film, crime film, crime thriller film, horror film, horror western, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, vampire film
After escaping from prison, bank robber Luther Heggs (Duane Whitaker) is the subject of a manhunt led by Texas Ranger Otis Lawson. Luther contacts his reformed former accomplice Buck Bowers (Robert Patrick) and tells him to get their old g…
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Adventure, Computeranimation, fantasy film, live-action/animated film
For 20 years, Ivan the gorilla has been the star attraction at the Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, a circus inside a Central Florida shopping mall run by ringmaster Mack. Living in captivity with his fellow animal performers — wise elephant…
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Adventure, Fairy-Tale Film, Monumental Film, adventure film, cinematic fairy tale, family film, fantasy film, flashback film
In ancient Basra, a blind beggar begins telling the film's story in flashback (mimicking the style of the Arabian Nights), revealing that he is really Ahmad, the young, naive king of Baghdad. Wanting to know more about his people, Ahmad is…
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Dark Comedy, Horror comedy, comedy horror, splatter film
The European Sales division of Palisade Defence military arms corporation are en route to a team-building weekend at a lodge in the Mátra Mountains of Hungary. When a fallen tree blocking the road halts their bus's progress, the driver ref…
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Action, action film, crime film, rape and revenge film, vigilante film
Roughly 3–4 years after the events of the previous film, Paul Kersey has been traveling the country as a vigilante in various cities. He returns to New York City for the first time after having been forced to leave for what he did over ten…
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Action, Thriller
Zach is a businessman who, after electing to layoff veteran employees of his company, has one of the dismissed employees, Hans, threaten him with a gun before shooting himself. Unsettled by the incident, Zach goes to a bar and sees a woman…
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Action, action film, drama film, dystopian film, exploitation film, horror film, splatter film, thriller film, vigilante film
An unnamed hobo arrives by boxcar in the city of Hope Town, where its graffitied welcome sign reads "Scum Town". The city is ruled over by a ruthless crime lord named "The Drake" and his sadistic sons Ivan and Slick. The Hobo walks the tow…
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Action, American football film, Drama, Sport, action film, drama film
ESU Timberwolves coach Sam Winters must win this season or be fired. Sophomore quarterback Joe Kane spends Christmas with his alcoholic family while junior Alvin Mack gives his mother a door knocker for the house he will buy when he turns …
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Action, Classical Western, Western film
In Fort Griffin, Texas, Ed Bailey comes looking to avenge the death of his brother at the hands of gunslinger John H. "Doc" Holliday. Seeing him in a bar, Holliday's girl, Kate Fisher, returns to Holliday's room, where the two argue while …
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Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, action film, dystopian film, fantasy film, martial arts film, science fiction film
A gigantic earthquake destroys southern California, greatly altering its landscape and leaving Los Angeles and dystopia area of renamed "New Angeles", in shambles after the federal government fails to help restore order or rebuild. Seven y…
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Action, Eastern, Historie, action film, martial arts film
In northwest China, a security, customs and peacekeeping company under Han China's current government called Silk Road Protection Squad is committed to stopping battles, customs clearing and peacekeeping on the Silk Road. Huo An (Jackie Ch…
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Romantic Drama, Western, Western film, war film
thumb|left|upright=1.1|John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara In the summer of 1879, Lieutenant Colonel Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier in command of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry Regiment to defend settlers against attacks by marauding Apaches.…
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Buddy Cop, Komödie, Silly Movie, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film
In Los Angeles, longtime friends Justin Miller, a struggling video game designer, and Ryan O'Malley, an unemployed former college quarterback, recall a pact they once made: if they had not achieved success by age thirty, they would move ba…
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Action, action film, crime film, disaster film, drama film, heist film, thriller film
During a heavy rainstorm, Tom and his uncle Charlie, two armored truck drivers, are collecting money from banks in the town of Huntingburg, Indiana, which has been evacuated due to flooding. They are ambushed by Jim and his gang of armed r…
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Drama, Thriller, action thriller
Maben, a destitute single mother, is traveling through rural Mississippi with her young daughter Analee. She takes a room in a motel at a truck stop and, desperate for cash, considers soliciting truckers but loses her nerve. A local sherif…
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