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Action, Utopia & Dystopia, action film, dystopian film, heist film, prison film, science fiction film
A gang robs a bank on behalf of crime boss Markus Kane. When two police officers unexpectedly enter the building, getaway driver Carl "Luke" Lucas urges his accomplices to abort the robbery, but they refuse. Luke intervenes, resulting in t…
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Action, crime film, drama film
In Utica, New York, a truck driver nicknamed “Clean” works as a garbage collector in a decaying, crime-ridden urban residential neighborhood. He collects usable parts which he salvages, repairs, and sells to a pawn shop owned by his acquai…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, science fiction film, thriller film
Sam Quint is a former thief hired by the FBI to steal a computer disk which contains incriminating evidence against The Lucky Dollar Corporation of Las Vegas. After stealing the disk, Quint is pursued by Marvin Ringer, a former thief and a…
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Western, adventure film
English aristocrat John Morgan is captured, enslaved, and treated like an animal by a Native American tribe. He comes to respect his captors' culture and gain their respect. He is aided in understanding the Sioux by another captive, Batise…
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Action Comedy, action film
Former safecracker Red is released from prison after two years. Red reconnects with his wife Chloe, their daughter "Bea" Beatrice (who now only speaks in her mother's native French after learning it from her nanny Lolita) and his former co…
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Action Comedy, Buddy Film, action film, comedy film
In Hong Kong 2007, detective Bennie Chan has been tracking notorious crime boss Matador, whom he believes to be businessman Victor Wong. While tracking him, Chan's partner Yung Bai is captured. Yung sacrifices himself and gives his watch t…
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Action, action film, thriller film
Near the town of Ennis, Montana, local doctor and former government research immunologist Wesley McClaren who has an interest in herbal medicine and is also a weapons and self-defense expert, is called to a hospital when people start dying…
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Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, black comedy, crime film, drama film, mystery film, trial film
Vice squad detectives Frank Divinci and Jake Rodriguez set up narcotics runner Lionel Hudd in a bogus drug trafficking deal at a motel. They murder Hudd, pocket his money, and recover the cocaine he purchased from them. The detectives retu…
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Computeranimation, Super Hero, action film, adventure film, drama film, science fiction film, superhero film
In Argo City on Krypton, Alura Zor-El has been preparing for a catastrophe her brother-in-law Jor-El has predicted will destroy the planet. The disaster strikes early, and Alura sends her daughter Kara to Earth, where she is supposed to re…
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Crime, Komödie, action film, buddy film, comedy film, comedy thriller
Garbage collectors Carl Taylor and James St. James are infamous mischief makers in their local community, using the garbage as play things and disturbing the peace. Local bike cop Mike harasses them frequently, but they are used to his ant…
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Monster Film, Western, horror film, monster film, science fiction film
In 1879, in the Dakota Territory, the Stewart family are attacked by a mysterious foe. A few corpses are discovered in the morning, but the rest of the family's whereabouts are unknown, including daughter Maryanne. Surrounding the houses a…
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Action, Martial-Arts, action film, buddy film, fantasy film, martial arts film
In 1943 Tibet, a young monk is told that he has fulfilled a series of prophecies that mark him as his master's successor. Forgoing his name, the monk is entrusted with guarding a scroll with the power to keep its owner powerful, young, and…
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Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film
On 27 June 1976, Wilfried Böse and Brigitte Kuhlmann, two members of the ultra-leftist Revolutionary Cells terrorist syndicate, hijack Air France Flight 139, flying from Tel Aviv to Paris, during the flight's initial stopover at Athens. Qu…
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War Film, action film, drama film, war film
thumb|left|PT boats at speed In December 1941, Lieutenant John "Brick" Brickley commands a squadron of unproven U.S. Navy PT boats based at Cavite in the Philippines. He puts on a demonstration of their maneuverability and seakeeping capab…
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Action, Komödie, action film, buddy film, comedy film
The Cowboy Way follows two championship rodeo stars and lifelong best friends, Pepper Lewis and Sonny Gilstrap as they travel from New Mexico to New York City in search of their missing friend, Nacho Salazar, who came to the city to pay fo…
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Thriller, crime film, thriller film
Harry Mitchell is a successful construction magnate living in Los Angeles, whose wife Barbara is running for city council. One day, Harry is confronted by three hooded blackmailers who demand $105,000 per year for a videotape of him and hi…
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Action, Time Travel, action film, adventure film, drama film, post-apocalyptic film, romance film, science fiction film, thriller film, time-travel film
In the year 2055, the Chicago-based Time Safari company offers the opportunity for rich people to hunt dinosaurs in the past via time travel technology. As a precaution against the potential change of the past, the company preys only on th…
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Action, Psychodrama, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film, vigilante film
In a prologue, biker drug distributor "Pomona Joe" receives a shipment in San Pedro and contacts South Central-area dealer Monroe "Overdose" Johnson to arrange a transaction. Sean Vetter and Demetrius Hicks, lifelong friends who grew up to…
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Action, action film, adventure film, drama film, fantasy film, medieval film, war film
A Viking Age expedition arrives in North America, intending to subjugate or slaughter the native "Skræling" population. The party is itself wiped out by another native tribe, the only survivor being the Viking leader's son, who is adopted …
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Komödie, action film, crime comedy film, slapstick
In an unnamed city, the governor announces that, for budgetary reasons, one of the state's two police academies—run by Commandants Eric Lassard and Ernie Mauser, respectively—is to be closed. Mauser, along with his dim-witted captain, Carl…
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action film, drama film
Colonel Suryaveer "Surya" Singh is a bitter man and ex-Army officer, hired by his friend and former comrade Captain Shekhar Verma to protect a little girl, Anamika R. Rathore, who resides in Bangkok, Thailand with her Non-resident Indian (…
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Action, Eastern, action film, martial arts film
Deveraux enlists Payu, ex-Thai Special Forces and Long Fei, ex-Chinese Special Forces, on a humanitarian mission in Thailand to free prisoners. Unbeknownst to Payu and Long, Deveraux and his crew consisting of Mook, Joey, Steiner and Dom a…
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller, disaster film, drama film
Seventeen-year-old Joshua "Josh" McGuire, expedition bank-roller Carl and his girlfriend, Victoria "Vic", travel to the Esa'ala Cave, an underwater cave exploration site in Papua New Guinea. Josh's father, Frank, a master diver, has alread…
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Action
In 1830, Thomas Munro, a lay minister from Britain, arrives in New Zealand on a storm-stricken ship and, during a clash between two Māori tribes, intercedes on behalf of Rangimai, a young daughter of Maianui, the chieftain (rangatira) of t…
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