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Adventure, Sci-Fi, disaster film, science fiction film
The state-of-the-art nuclear submarine, Seaview, is on diving trials in the Arctic Ocean. Seaview is designed by scientist Admiral Harriman Nelson (USN-Ret). Captain Lee Crane is Seaview's Commanding Officer.
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Adventure, Drama, medieval film, swashbuckler film
Richard the Lionheart, the Norman king of England, vanishes while returning from the Crusades. One of his knights, the Saxon Wilfred of Ivanhoe, searches for him, finally finding him held captive by Leopold of Austria for an enormous ranso…
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Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, comedy film, disaster film, fantasy film, horror film, science fiction film, speculative fiction film, thriller film
In the prologue, quotes from the Book of Genesis are shown and narrated, describing God's decision to wipe out humanity. Pilot David Randall flies top-secret photographs from South African astronomer Dr. Emery Bronson to Dr.
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Western, Western film
Just outside of Natchez, Mississippi, during the closing days of the American Civil War, Union Army Colonel John Henry Thomas and company organize one final attack on a small unit of Confederate soldiers, only to be informed after bloodily…
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Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, drama film, fantasy film, mystery film
Batman rescues the Riddler from a black ops assassination ordered by A.R.G.U.S.'s director Amanda Waller and returns him to Arkham Asylum. In response, Waller captures wanted super-criminals Black Spider, Captain Boomerang, Deadshot, Harle…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
Truman Gates, a former US Army Airborne Ranger raised in Appalachia, migrates to Chicago to become a detective for the Chicago Police Department. Married to Jessie, who is pregnant, he has made the transition from hillbilly to lawman. When…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, Silly Movie, buddy cop film, comedy film
FBI agent Malcolm Turner is elated to learn that his stepson, Trent Pierce, has been accepted to attend Duke University. However, Trent, who is a rapper under the alias "Prodi-G", instead wants Malcolm to sign a recording contract for him …
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Aliens, Horror, Monster Film, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
On the planet Morganthus, a monster kills the last survivor of a crashed spaceship. On the world of Xerxes, the Planet Master, someone whose face is obscured by an aura, instructs one of his military commanders to take the spaceship Quest …
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Action, Crime, action film, drama film, thriller film
U.S. Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Johnny Gallagher is part of a unit patrolling outside a chalet in West Berlin, where the U.S. president and the Soviet General Secretary are beginning talks for mutual nuclear disarmament.
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Super Hero, action film, ninja film, samurai cinema, science fiction anime, time-travel film
While battling Gorilla Grodd at Arkham Asylum, Batman is caught in Grodd's time displacement machine, dubbed the "Quake Engine", and sent to feudal Japan. There, he is chased by Ashigaru samurai soldiers working for the Joker. During his e…
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Action, Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
Humans have built climate modification towers to control Earth's warming climate due to climate change. The towers, however, inadvertently cause a new ice age. By 2045, the remnants of human civilization live in underground bunkers to esca…
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Crime, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Armand Degas, a hitman known as "Blackbird", accidentally shoots his younger brother during a job. Years later, he is hired by a Mafia boss to assassinate the man's father-in-law at a hotel. In the process, he also kills a witness.
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Criminal Comedy Film, Detective Film, Splatstick, comedy film, crime film, mystery film
Philippe Douvier, a major French businessman and secretly the head of the French Connection, is suspected by his New York Mafia associates of weak leadership and improperly conducting his criminal affairs. To demonstrate otherwise, Douvier…
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Action, Family Drama, Komödie, Military Film, action film, comedy film
U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major Zack Carey is about to retire from the military from his last post at a major U.S. Army base in rural Clemmons County, Georgia.
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Action, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime thriller film, heist film
Seattle PD Detective Quentin Conners and his partner Jason York are implicated in the death of a hostage taken by a carjacker named John Curtis. After a fellow police officer, Callo, testifies against them, Conners is suspended, and York i…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, drama film, ghost film, martial arts film
Jason Stillwell is a young karate student and Bruce Lee fanatic who trains in his father Tom's dojo in Sherman Oaks, California. One night after a training session, the dojo is visited by members of an organized crime syndicate looking to …
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Cartoon, action film, superhero film, thriller film
Bruce Wayne returns home to Gotham City from training abroad in martial arts, man-hunting, and science for the past 12 years, and James Gordon moves to Gotham with his pregnant wife, Barbara, after a transfer from Chicago. Both are swiftly…
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Police Film, Thriller, crime thriller film, drama film, hood film, mystery film
Undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis chases a drug dealer through the streets of Detroit. Tellis shoots and kills the dealer when he holds a child hostage, but a stray bullet hits the child's pregnant mother, causing her to miscarry. 1…
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Action, Thriller, action film
In 2002, Ava, a 14-year-old girl from Bridgeport, Connecticut, wakes up in the middle of the night and sees her drug lord father murdered by two masked intruders, before grabbing a shotgun and gunning down the two assailants. Twelve years …
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Komödie, Sci-Fi, comedy film, heist film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
After resigning from Nova Robotics after the events of the first movie, Benjamin Jahrvi (né Jabituya) starts up his own business, "Titanic Toy Corporation", which specializes in making sophisticated toy robots that he builds by hand from t…
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Blaxploitation, Vampirfilm, blaxploitation horror film, vampire film
In 1780, African prince Mamuwalde goes to Transylvania to seek the help of Count Dracula in suppressing the slave trade. Dracula refuses, however, and insults Mamuwalde by making a pass at his wife, Luva. After a scuffle with Dracula's min…
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Conspiracy Thriller, Thriller, action film, crime film, mystery film, political thriller film, thriller film
Gene Watson, a mild-mannered accountant, arrives with his daughter Lynn at Union Station in Los Angeles. As Gene is using a payphone, two mysterious strangers in suits, known only as Mr. Smith and Ms.
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Adventure, Fantasy, action film, fantasy film, sword and sorcery film
Kull battles for the right to join Valusia's elite Dragon Legion until being told by General Taligaro that as a barbarian from Atlantis, he will never be allowed to join a legion of 'noble blood'. Taligaro then learns that the Valusian Kin…
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Drama, action thriller
In 2001, Frank Carver, a young gangster for a mob enforcer named Max, witnesses his boss execute a former ally. Frank is asked to take the fall for the crime in return for $450,000 and the promise that his son, Joey, be looked after and ca…
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