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Adventure, Computeranimation, Komödie, adventure film, comedy film, live-action/animated film
Marla is a formerly free-spirited girl who has grown up to be responsible yet overprotective in caring for her brother, Charlie. Charlie has grown lonely and disconnected from her after their parents died in a car accident. One night, Char…
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Action, action film
The engineer and hacker Jack Guy has gone into hiding, living off-the-grid in a cabin by a lake in the woods near a sleepy town. He previously invented a miniaturized energy source, which he wanted to realize as a product for the benefit o…
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Action, Detective Film, Justice Drama, Mafia Film, Thriller, action film, action thriller, adventure film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, police procedural film, suspense film, thriller film
Picking up four years after The French Connection left off, New York City police officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle still searches for elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier. The department sends him to Marseille to track down Charnier. Once there,…
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Action, action film, monster film, science fiction film
In the year 2008, global warming and heavy rainfall has left large areas of London flooded. Rookie police officer Dick Durkin is assigned to partner with Harley Stone, a burnt-out and cynical veteran homicide detective. According to his co…
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Martial-Arts, action film, martial arts film
Hong Kong police officer Sun-Jing is investigating Donaka Mark, who is hosting an illegal fighting operation. Donaka attempts to recruit Tiger, a young working-class disciple of Tai Chi at a Wu Lin Wang Competition. Donaka offers large sum…
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Action, Thriller, action film, thriller film
Will Shaw, who owns a consultancy business in San Francisco that is about to go into insolvency, reluctantly visits his family in Spain for a holiday. He is met there by his father, Martin, an adviser for the U.S. government, with whom he …
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Action, Action Comedy, Crime Comedy, Komödie, Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, buddy film, comedy film, crime film
Sergeant Joe Gavilan is a financially strapped homicide detective with the Hollywood Division of the LAPD. He has been moonlighting as a real estate agent for seven years. His current partner is Detective K.C.
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Western, Western film
In pre-Civil War New Orleans, rogue gambler Paul Regret kills Emil Bouvier, the son of a Louisiana judge, in a duel. Regret maintains that he only intended to wound Bouvier (who demanded the duel) in the arm, but Bouvier sidestepped at the…
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Super Hero, action film
Agents of the terrorist organization HYDRA invade an S.H.I.E.L.D. facility, killing Clay Quartermain and reviving a cryogenically preserved Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker. Nick Fury, retired and living in an abandoned mine shaft in the Yukon,…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, war film
In 1945, the United States Army fails to capture the Oberkassel railway bridge in the last weeks of World War II before it is blown up. Lieutenant Phil Hartman is an experienced and war-weary platoon leader in the 9th Armored Division. Aft…
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Action, Komödie, Spaghetti Western, Western, action film, comedy film
Three hitmen, Willy, Norwood, and Simms, are staying in a Los Angeles hotel. After failing a job, they take off in a car with Velma, Norwood's pregnant wife. They flee to Mexico to escape the wrath of their boss, Amos Dade, robbing a bank …
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Action, Horror, Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy horror, horror film, monster film, splatter film
As people are enjoying drinks in a Nevada-located bar, a man covered in blood—identified onscreen as "Hero"—enters through the door and warns them all of impending danger. No one heeds his warning, so he shows the bar patrons the head of a…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime, thriller film
Alcoholic Rayburn Swanson is the owner of the Gwen Swanson Sanctuary in northern Minnesota, named after his missing daughter. The sanctuary is an act of penance, both because Gwen disapproved of his trapper lifestyle and because she had di…
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Sci-Fi, Teen Horror Film, action film, horror film, science fiction film
Park Plaza Mall has just installed a state-of-the-art security system, including shutters across all exits and three high-tech robots programmed to disable and apprehend thieves using tasers and tranquilizer guns. Allison Parks and Suzie L…
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Action, action film
After the events of Redemption, Detective James Knight tries to stop a rogue vigilante and an out-of-control EMT vehicle from putting the city in danger on Independence Day. The detective's race against time also involves saving his own ho…
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Action, Crime, Drama, action film, crime film, drama film
Retired detective Harry Kilmer is called upon by an old friend, George Tanner. Tanner has been doing business with a yakuza gangster, Tono, who has kidnapped Tanner's daughter Louise to apply pressure in a business deal involving the sale …
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Adventure, Romance Film, action film, adventure film, drama film
James Parker and Harry Holt travel in Africa on a quest for the legendary elephant burial grounds and their ivory. They are joined by Parker's daughter Jane. Holt is attracted to Jane, and tries somewhat ineffectively to protect her from t…
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Action, Thriller, action film, biographical film, thriller film
Ralph "Papa" Thorson arrives in a small town in Illinois where, despite being a terrible driver, he captures bail fugitive Tommy Price. Thorson drives to Houston to bring in a dangerous hooligan named Billie Joe, whose kinfolk include Sher…
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Western film, action film
Outlaw Kyle Trask and his men rob a bank in Tipton and are ambushed by U.S. Marshal Butch Hayden and his taskforce when they return to their hotel hideout. Trask's girlfriend manages to break free momentarily and warn them but Trask is the…
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Military Film, Political Thriller, action film, buddy cop film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
At the Presidio Army base in San Francisco, US Military Police soldier Patti Jean Lynch is shot dead while investigating a break-in and two San Francisco Police Department officers are killed in the getaway. Jay Austin, an SFPD Detective a…
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action film, science fiction film
Criminal Comedy Film, action film, comedy film, crime film
Texas Rangers Roland Sharp and Maggie Swanson question Percy Stevens about the whereabouts of his former prison cellmate Morgan Ball, needed to testify against organized crime boss John Cortland. Tracking down Ball to a warehouse, Ball tri…
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Apocalypse & Post-Apocalypse, disaster film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film
First Lieutenant Jake Tanner shares ICBM silo duty at a US Air Force missile base in the Mojave Desert in eastern California with Major Eugene "Sam" Denton. Denton notifies Tanner he's requesting that command reassign him, considering Tann…
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Western, Western film, action film
Confederate guerillas attempt to raid a Union Army camp late in the American Civil War. The guerillas are ambushed, but thanks to the sharp-shooting of Frank James and the distractions of his brother Jesse they survive. The James, along wi…
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