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Action, Motor-Bike Film, action film, crime film, thriller film
Biker Cary Ford stops at a diner owned by his ex-girlfriend Shane. Later, Ford meets up with his best friends Dalton and Val. En route to a motorcycle party, they encounter the Reapers, a biker gang consisting of leader Trey and his brothe…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, prison film
Detective Louis Burke of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from Quebec confronts the maniac that killed his partner: a psychopathic serial killer who calls himself "The Sandman". Burke searches an abandoned house in Los Angeles, where he c…
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Action
The film opens with Samuel, a self-proclaimed Apex Warrior and pharmaceutical trillionaire, shooting and killing a man. Samuel complains to a computer interface that he is becoming bored with the 'game' and asks the computer to find him a …
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Action, Drama, War Film, war film
In February 1939, Nazi Germany's most powerful battleship, , is launched, beginning a new era of German sea power. In May 1941, British naval intelligence discovers Bismarck and the heavy cruiser are sailing into the North Atlantic to atta…
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Action, Thriller, thriller film
After her father Isaac's murder, Shaun Russell travels with her two children, Jasmine and Glover, to the house where she grew up. Shaun intends to settle Isaac's estate and sell the remotely located house, which has multiple security featu…
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Criminal Comedy Film, Komödie, action film, comedy film
Former LAPD detective Andre Shame is a wisecracking, gun-toting private investigator who owns A Low Down Dirty Shame Investigations. He runs it with his energetic and talkative assistant Peaches Jordan, whom he arrested shoplifting six yea…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, thriller film, vigilante film
Roughly one year after the events of the previous film, Paul Kersey is back in Los Angeles and is living a quiet life as an architect at his own firm, haunted by nightmares of his past as a vigilante. Erica Sheldon, the teenage daughter of…
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Action, Drama, War Film, action film, adventure film, teen film, thriller film, war film
The film begins with a video log by Ellie Linton. She asks the camera how she can tell their story. She suggests to herself "from the beginning." Ellie, a high school student in the fictional rural New South Wales town of Wirrawee sets off…
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Crime, Horror comedy, comedy horror, romantic comedy, vampire film
Marie is a vampire in contemporary Pittsburgh, with a moral code that limits her bloodsucking to the criminal elements of society. After feasting on mafioso Tony Silva, she shoots him in the head with a shotgun to cover up the bite marks o…
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Action, action film, martial arts film, thriller film
While serving in Vietnam, American soldier Nick Parker is blinded by a mortar explosion. Rescued by local villagers, he recovers his health and, though he remains blind, is trained to master his other senses and be an expert swordsman. 20 …
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Action, Fantasy, action film, fantasy film
Mathayus and his partner Drazen (who is under the Akkadian's tutelage) infiltrate the palace of Skizurra to acquire an artifact known as the Urn of Kings for King Zakkour of Al-Moraad. In the process, they are discovered and a fight ensues…
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Auto Racing, action film, sport film
Top flight Le Mans racing driver Michael Delaney spots former rival Piero Belgetti's widow Lisa buying flowers in the days before the race. He drives to the scene of the accident that killed her husband the previous year. He has a flashbac…
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Horror, Monster Film, action film, drama film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, thriller film
Far north of the Arctic Circle, a nuclear bomb test, dubbed "Operation Experiment", is conducted. Prophetically, right after the blast, physicist Thomas Nesbitt muses "What the cumulative effects of all these atomic explosions and tests wi…
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Late Western, Western film, action film, adventure film, female buddy film
Cody, Anita, Eileen and Lily work together in a brothel. When Anita is abused by a customer, Cody kills the man after he opens fire on her. Narrowly escaping from a lynch mob, they are pursued by Pinkerton detectives hired by the widow of …
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Monster Film, Splatter Film, Zombiefilm, action film, drama film, horror film, monster film, mystery film, splatter film, supernatural film, supernatural horror film, suspense film, thriller film, zombie film
On the Berlin U-Bahn, a mysterious man in a metallic mask offers university student Cheryl two tickets to a free screening at the Metropol, an isolated and recently renovated local cinema. Cheryl talks her friend Kathy into going with her;…
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Action
During the US war in Afghanistan, a Marine platoon is ambushed by the Taliban, leaving only Jake Atherton and his commanding officer Captain Tom Mason as survivors. After being discharged, Jake works as a mechanic in an auto-shop owned by …
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Action, Drama, War Film
During the Battle of Mosul, three Iraqi policemen arrest ISIS drug smugglers. However, they are soon overrun by ISIS and run out of ammo while defending themselves inside a café building. One of the police officers, Kawa, a 21 year old Fey…
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Action, Thriller
A mother who works in a munitions factory discovers her son was killed in combat from a bullet made in her own factory.
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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film
Jimmy Kilmartin is a reformed ex-convict living in Astoria, with his wife Bev and their daughter. Both Jimmy and Bev are recovering alcoholics. One day, Bev leaves Jimmy alone to attend an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
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Action, Adventure, Family Comedy, Komödie, Sci-Fi, superhero film
The story opens in Bellwood as a mysterious black figure appears on the town’s main street and immediately starts destroying things around him. Ten-year-old Ben Tennyson, in the form of Heatblast, confronts and obliterates him after a shor…
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Action, Adventure, War Film, war film
In 1943 Colonel Joseph Ryan, a USAAF fighter pilot, is shot down over Italy and taken to a POW camp run by the Fascist camp commander, Major Basilio Battaglia, and his sympathetic second-in-command, Captain Vittorio Oriani. Most prisoners …
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Action, Thriller, action film
Medal of Honor recipient, Lt. Colonel Lee Gunner, returns to his home town after a long career in the U.S. Army Special Forces.
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action film, experimental film, thriller film
A masked gamer sits at his computer and plays a game titled Baby Invaders. Inside the game and from a first-person perspective, a group of "avatars" with AI-generated baby faces loot a house, take selfies, and play a first-person shooter g…
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Action, action film
Rip Thomas is the WWF Heavyweight Champion, and his appearances on network TV have been a thorn in the side of Mr. Tom Brell, the head of the struggling World Television Network. Rip is a huge ratings draw, while WTN is the lowest-rated TV…
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