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Thriller, action film, adventure film, buddy cop film, crime film, thriller film
In San Francisco, a man is discovered breaking into his own jewelry store. The FBI questions him and learns the man's wife is being held hostage at their home by a brutal extortionist, who demands the store's diamonds for her life. During …
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Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller, Thriller, Western film, action film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Teresa, the pregnant teenage daughter of a powerful Mexican crime lord known only as , is summoned before her father and interrogated as to the identity of her unborn child's father. She then identifies the father as Alfredo Garcia, whom E…
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Action, Drama, Komödie, Thriller, action film, comedy film, comedy thriller, crime film, drama film
Upon discovering that his wife Ellen is having an affair, aerospace engineer and depressed insomniac Ed Okin drives to LAX on his friend Herb's suggestion. There, he is surprised by a beautiful jewel smuggler, Diana, who jumps into his car…
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Komödie, action film, romantic comedy
Ted Forrest, who works for the Dynasty Club, is murdered by Keith Heading and his men on the street. They switch a computer tape in Ted's car before police arrive. Johnny Stewart is a lifelong con man who performs scams with his younger br…
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Action, action film, crime film, martial arts film
Undercover San Francisco narcotics cops Sean Kane and Dave Pierce head into a dark alley to meet up with an informant named Tony Montoya, who promises to break their big investigation wide open, by providing the name of the oriental drug r…
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Psychological Thriller, Sci-Fi, action film, crime film, science fiction film
In 1991, robots are commonplace. When they malfunction and become dangerous, they are "runaways" handled by a division of the police trained in robotics. Sgt.
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, Thriller, buddy film, comedy film, drama film
An encounter in the bar of the Mexico City branch of the Camino Real Hotels, between tired businessman Danny Wright, hoping to land a career-saving contract in Mexico, and jaded, falling-apart-at-the-seams assassin Julian Noble, leads them…
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Road Movie, Romantic Comedy, action comedy film, crime film
In the Chambersburg neighborhood of Trenton, New Jersey, Stephanie Plum is divorced and unemployed. Seeking a job at her cousin Vinnie's bail bonds business, she blackmails him into letting her become a bail enforcement agent and tracks do…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, action film, drama film, romance film, war film
In the South Pacific in 1944, U.S. Marine Corporal Allison and his reconnaissance party are disembarking from a U.S. Navy submarine when they are discovered and fired upon by the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA).
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Action, Criminal Comedy Film, Thriller, action comedy film
When fast-talking, petty thief and hustler Alvin Sanders gets arrested for stealing prawns, the worst of his problems would seem to be going to jail. Unfortunately, he ends up sharing a cell with John Delano Jaster, who, while stealing $42…
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Adventure, Drama, action film, drama film
The economic stability of fictional Wakonda, Oregon, is threatened when the local logging union calls a strike against a large lumber conglomerate. When independent logger Hank Stamper and his father Henry are urged to support the strikers…
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Thriller, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Frank Carden is a professional assassin who has been hired to kill a reclusive billionaire named Lydell Hammond Sr., a vocal opponent of stem cell research. Frank's plan goes awry when he gets injured in a car accident and ends up in the h…
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action film, buddy cop film, comedy film
Bucum Jackson, a maverick bounty hunter, is out to capture a petty drug dealer, Lil J. Bucum confronts Lil J in his trailer home and nearly handcuffs him, but Lil J's girlfriend, who wields a shotgun, recklessly shoots at Bucum. Bucum mana…
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Animalhorror, action film, adventure film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, horror film, independent film, monster film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, suspense film, television film, thriller film
Fin Shepard and his former wife, April Wexler, are traveling to New York City to promote How to Survive a Sharknado and Other Unnatural Disasters, a book April has written about the Los Angeles sharknado. As the plane comes in for a landin…
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Classical Western, Western film
Warlock is a small Utah mining town of the early 1880s. Cowboys working for Abe McQuown often come into town, killing on a whim, and beating, humiliating and running out of town any deputy sheriff who tries to stand up to them. The Citizen…
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Action Comedy, Criminal Comedy Film, Western, Western film, action film, comedy film, female buddy film, heist film
In 1880 Mexico, María Álvarez is an uneducated, poor farm girl whose caring father is being forced off his land by a cruel U.S. land baron named Tyler Jackson. Sara Sandoval is the highly educated, wealthy daughter of the arrogant owner of…
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Drama, action film, adventure film, children's film, drama film
Black Beauty narrates his own story. He is born on a farm in the English countryside during the 19th century and remains by his mother's side until he is sent to Birtwick Park to serve Squire Gordon and his family. Lady Gordon, the squire'…
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Computeranimation, action film, adventure film, war film
With World War I looming, young U.S. Army doughboy Robert Conroy has his life forever changed when a Boston Terrier puppy with a stubby tail wanders into camp, as the men of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Division train on the …
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Western, Western film, rape and revenge film
Hannie Caulder is a frontier wife, living with her husband at a horse station between towns in the American West. After a disastrous failed bank robbery raid, the inept Clemens gang, three brothers, arrive at the horse station. After actin…
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Super Hero, Thriller, action film, crime film, fantasy film
In Salt Lake City, Alexander "Alex" Frederick Corvis is framed for the murder of his girlfriend, Lauren Randall, and sentenced to death. Three years later, he is executed in the electric chair, suffering a painful death due to lightning ov…
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Historie, Knights Tale, Komödie, Musical, musical film
King Roderick the Tyrant, having sent Lord Ravenhurst to slaughter the Royal Family of England, usurps the throne. The Black Fox and his band of rebels rescue the true king, an infant with the royal "purple pimpernel" birthmark on his back…
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Action, Adventure, Drama, adventure film, drama film
Bill Markham is an engineer who has moved to Brazil with his family to work on a large hydro-electric dam. The film opens on Markham, his wife Jean, his young son Tommy, and his daughter Heather having a picnic on the edge of the jungle, w…
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Thriller, action film, thriller film
An assassin, Peter, is called to a small mountain community to find a seemingly glamorous real estate agent with a dark secret.
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Criminal Comedy Film, action comedy film
In spring 1974 after his latest movie tanks at the box office, producer Max Barber is in deep debt to mobster Reggie Fontaine. Rival producer James Moore offers to settle his debt, even offering $1 million for a script to a movie called “P…
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