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Komödie, comedy film
After high school graduation, skateboarder friends, Eric Rivers, Dustin Knight, and, Matt Jensen, take one last Summer road trip together, with the goal of getting noticed by pro skater legend, Jimmy Wilson, on his demo tour. Following the…
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Action Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film, Dark Comedy, action comedy film
In the Chicago offices of Promethium Pharmaceuticals, co-presidents Richard Rusk and Elaine Markinson receive a call from a company employee, Harold Soyinka, who claims he has been kidnapped in Mexico and that his abductors are demanding a…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, spy film, thriller film
In 1968, an East-West agreement is established to halt nuclear proliferation. One of its clauses, the Fourth Protocol, forbids the non-conventional delivery of a nuclear weapon to a target. MI5 officer John Preston breaks into the residenc…
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Adventure, Romance Film, drama film
thumb|left|upright|Jean Arthur as Bonnie Lee Geoff Carter is the chief pilot and manager of Barranca Airways, a small, barely solvent company owned by "Dutchy" Van Ruyter carrying airmail from the fictional South American port town of Barr…
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Crime, Drama, Gangster Film, Thriller, action film, neo-noir
At a diner in Quincy, Massachusetts, low-level gunrunner Eddie Coyle meets with Jackie Brown, a younger gunrunner, in order to obtain guns for a bank robbery crew led by Jimmy Scalise and Artie Van. The crew successfully robs the South Sho…
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Action, Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
The Norwegian resistance sabotage the Vemork Norsk Hydro plant in the town of Rjukan in the county of Telemark, Norway, which the Nazis are using to produce heavy water, which could be used in the manufacture of an atomic bomb. Rolf Peders…
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Dramedy, Thriller, action film, comedy film, comedy thriller, teen film
In Grandsboro, California, Leigh Ann Watson is a high school student living with her single mother, Faye, who works as a waitress. Leigh Ann's goals are to get top grades, become valedictorian, and leave town. However, her grade in history…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, exploitation film
When a renegade Japanese gang known as the Katana takes control of the cocaine trade in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Police Department transfers in Joe Marshall, a "samurai" policeman from the San Diego Police Department who has been "trai…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, thriller film, war film
In 1973, United States Senator Conrad Morgan, the chief delegate diplomat in negotiating the terms of the end of the Vietnam War, made a deal in Paris with Kuong Yen, a North Vietnamese negotiator. The deal called for Yen to release certai…
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action film, biographical film, martial arts film
Wing Chun master Ip Man and his family move to Hong Kong in 1949 after escaping from Japanese-occupied Foshan. In 1950, Ip attempts to open a school to propagate his art, as well as make a living during the difficult times, but struggles t…
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Action, Adventure, Fantasy, action film, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
King Titus Cromwell of Aragon lands with his men on Tomb Island. They have come in search of Xusia of Delos, a long-dead sorcerer who may help overthrow Cromwell's rival, King Richard of Ehdan, the richest kingdom in the known world. Using…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Bobby "Gator" McKlusky is incarcerated in an Arkansas state prison for running "white lightning." When he learns that his younger brother, Donny, was killed by Bogan County Sheriff J. C. Connors, he attempts to escape but is quickly re-cap…
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High School Comedy Film, comedy film, heist film, teen film
Abraham Lincoln High School's head B-Squad cheerleader Lisa Janusch, who recalls about how Diane Weston, the kindhearted popular head cheerleader of Abraham Lincoln High School's A-squad, became pregnant by the well-known football quarterb…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Cop, action comedy film
Two undercover agents—an FBI agent (Sprouse) and a DEA agent (Gooding)—separately infiltrate a Mexican drug cartel. When they mutually reveal their identities at a remote border meet-up, they become trapped in a sniper-led ambush. Realizin…
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Martial-Arts, action film, biographical film, drama film, martial arts film
In 1959, Ip Man lives a low-profile life in Hong Kong. His elder son, Ip Chun, has returned to Foshan to study, leaving Ip with his younger son, Ip Ching, and his wife, Cheung Wing-sing, in Hong Kong. Bruce Lee visits Ip and asks to become…
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, action film, martial arts film
Kham is the last of a family line of guards who once watched over the King of Thailand's war elephants. Following the tradition, Kham takes great care in raising the animals and grows up forming close relations with his elephant, Por Yai, …
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thriller film
One night in Beantown, Shadow Agency agent Killer Bean calls a DJ at a nearby warehouse party to lower the music's volume as it's disturbing his sleep. The DJ ignores his request, prompting Killer Bean to kill everyone at the warehouse. Th…
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Historie, Horror, action film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, horror film
In 1348, during the Black Death in Medieval England, novice monk Osmund has a secret relationship with a young woman named Averill who has taken sanctuary in his monastery. When the disease strikes the monastery, Averill departs at Osmund'…
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Komödie, action comedy film, action film
Sonny Hooper is the stunt coordinator on the action film The Spy Who Laughed at Danger, directed by Roger Deal and starring Adam West. Sonny's antics and wisecracks are a trial for the egotistical director and his officious but cowardly as…
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Cartoon, adult animated film, blaxploitation film, comedy drama, live-action/animated film
The film begins in live-action, introducing Michael Corleone, a twenty-two year-old virgin who plays pinball in New York City while asking himself philosophical questions before envisioning an animated and dangerous New York neighborhood. …
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Action, Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film, war film
In 1883 Sudan, an army of 10,000 poorly trained but well-armed Egyptian troops is lured into the desert. Commanding the force is former Bombay Army soldier Colonel William "Billy" Hicks (Edward Underdown), now a private individual paid by …
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Action, Detective Film, Komödie, Musical, action film, comedy film, mystery film
Private investigator Ford Fairlane is sitting on a beach smoking. A flashback shows a roaring crowd at a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado, given by heavy metal band The Black Plague. Lead singer Bobby Black makes a…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
International arms dealer and terrorist Miles Jackson is on the run in New Orleans from the FBI, led by agents George Aiken and Ray Santiago. Concurrently, police officer Danny Fisher and his partner Hank Carver are riding around the city …
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Komödie, Western, Western film, comedy film, parody film
The Old West town of Calendar in the Colorado Territory springs up almost overnight when clumsy, hotheaded Prudy Perkins notices gold in a freshly dug grave during a funeral. Her father, bumbling farmer Olly, becomes the first mayor, but s…
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