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Adventure, Romance Film, adventure film
The pharmaceutical company Aston Laboratories sends biochemist Dr. Rae Crane into the Amazon rainforest to locate researcher Robert Campbell, after his wife (and research partner) abandons him. Crane is bringing equipment and supplies but …
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Action, Pirate Film, Romance Film, pirate film, swashbuckler film
In England in 1685, Irish doctor Peter Blood is summoned to aid Lord Gildoy, a wounded patron who participated in the Monmouth Rebellion. Arrested while performing his duties as a physician, he is convicted of treason against King James II…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Cash is trying to live an honest and quiet life taking care of his recently orphaned niece Savannah in an Appalachian town in Odim County. When the sadistic kingpin Big Cat, who runs the town, forces him back into her services, Cash learns…
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film, romance film, swashbuckler film
The film begins when a miller, who is poaching deer on lands belonging to the King of England, is detected by a hunting party led by the cruel Norman knight Sir Miles Folcanet. The miller flees the hunting party until he runs into a Saxon …
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Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, war film
In a 1960s working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a teenage boy nicknamed "Birdy" befriends his next-door neighbor Al Columbato, who relates to Birdy’s fascination with birds and their ability to fly. The two begin pursu…
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War Film, action film, drama film, war film
Andrew Briggman is serving in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan in 2009. When Staff Sergeant Wallace is killed in an IED explosion during a raid on a village, Staff Sergeant Deeks replaces him as platoon leader and tells his men they'll find wh…
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Western, Western film, drama film, war film
In 1877 Colorado Territory, a young woman, Cresta Lee, and young Colorado Private Honus Gant are joined together by fate when they are the only two survivors after their group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Gant is devoted to his country an…
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Criminal Comedy Film, action film, black comedy film, buddy film, comedy film, crime comedy film, crime film, crime thriller film, gangster film
Italian American Harry Valentini and his Jewish friend and next-door neighbor Moe Dickstein occupy the bottom rung of Newark Mafia boss Anthony Castelo's gang. Making a living by doing Castelo's lowest jobs, such as looking after his goldf…
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Action
Qin Guoli, a Chinese accountant based in Great Britain, has been forcibly contracted by Maasym, leader of the terrorist organisation Brothers of Vengeance, to finance his projects. After Qin had tipped off Scotland Yard, Maasym was killed …
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War Film, drama film, war film
In December 1944, the Kempeitai massacred prisoners of war on Palawan. By 1945, American forces are closing in on the Japanese-occupied Philippines. The Japanese hold over 500 American prisoners who had survived the Bataan Death March in a…
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Conspiracy Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, crime thriller film
In New Orleans, hitman Jimmy Bobo and his partner Louis Blanchard kill a corrupt former WDCPD policeman, Hank Greely. Decompressing at a bar, Blanchard is murdered by another hitman, Keegan, whose attempt to also kill Bobo fails. WDCPD Det…
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Adventure, Drama, drama film
Tyler, a young and naïve Canadian biologist, is assigned by the government to travel to the isolated Canadian Arctic wilderness and study why the area's caribou population is declining. He has instructions to kill a wolf and examine its st…
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Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film
After losing her mother in an earthquake in Paleolithic Europe, five-year-old Cro-Magnon Ayla is left alone in the woods. She then suffers a severe injury to her legs from a nearby cave lion. After suffering from starvation, exhaustion, an…
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, erotic thriller, neo-noir, slasher film
A young woman walking home from her birthday party is stalked by a man. A man dressed as a police officer offers to escort her to her front door. The policeman, however, is actually the stalker.
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Action, Thriller, thriller film
The movie opens with Judge Charles Coleman Sr. teaching his young son about standing up for justice and principles, using boxer and activist Muhammad Ali as an example. Charles eventually becomes a respected judge and one of the few promin…
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Adventure, action film, drama film, fantasy film, science fiction film
10 years after he was shot down from the WTC and his presumed death, Kong has been kept in a coma at the Atlantic Institute, under the care of surgeon Dr. Amy Franklin. A heart transplant is required to save Kong's life, giving Kong a comp…
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Drama, Historie, biographical film, war film
In 1929, Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is still faced with the 10-year-long war waged by patriots in the Italian colony of Libya to combat Italian colonization and the establishment of "The Fourth Shore"—the rebirth of a Roman …
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action film, drama film, dystopian film, political thriller film, science fiction film
In 2016, the United States is in a sustained economic depression. Industrial disasters, resource shortages, and gasoline prices at $37 per gallon have made railroads the primary mode of transportation, but even they are in disrepair. After…
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Action
The film opens by introducing Evan Shaw, a highly skilled and solitary CIA field operative who has spent over two decades carrying out covert assassinations around the world. He believes he is still an active agent, receiving legitimate mi…
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Action, Drama, Thriller, action film, drama film
44 months after the events of Day Six, a young boy in the African nation of Sangala is kidnapped at night, indoctrinated, and drafted along with other boys into a rebel militia led by General Benjamin Juma (Tony Todd) so they could take pa…
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Bad Cop, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, detective film, drama film, thriller film
Ben Shockley, an alcoholic Phoenix police detective, is assigned to extradite witness Augustina "Gus" Mally from Las Vegas. His superior, Commissioner Edgar Blakelock, remarks that she is a "nothing witness" for a "nothing trial". Upon mee…
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Action, Thriller, action film, horror film, thriller film
Cassidy, an oceanographer, haunted by her father's death by a shark, decides to confront that memory by embarking on a diving expedition for sunken treasure with her new husband, Gregg, in Thailand. Their boat, captained by Gregg's friend …
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Dylan Forrester, a psychopath and former assassin, is suppressing his instincts and taking mood stabiliser medication Lithium (which is incorrectly described on the bottle in the movie), supervised by Dr. Alderwood. He dodges his parole to…
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Classical Western, Western film
In the early 20th century, aging ex-lawman Steve Judd is hired by a bank to transport gold from a high country mining camp to the town of Hornitos. Six miners were recently murdered trying to transport a gold shipment. Judd was once respec…
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